Working with Styles
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Creating a paragraph style
- Applying a paragraph style
- Creating and applying character styles
- Creating a character style
- Applying a character style
- Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
- Creating character styles for nesting
- Creating a nested style
- Creating and applying object styles
- Creating an object style
- Applying an object style
- Creating and applying table and cell styles
- Creating cell styles
- Creating a table style
- Applying a table style
- Globally updating styles
- Loading styles from another document
Creating Tables
- Importing and formatting a table
- Formatting borders and alternating row colors
- Editing cell strokes
- Formatting the heading cells
- Deleting a column
- Using graphics within tables
- Setting fixed column and row dimensions
- Placing graphics in table cells
- Placing multiple graphics in a cell
- Formatting text within a table
- Editing imported paragraph styles in a table
- Creating a new cell style
- Dragging to adjust column size
- Finishing up
Working with Transparency
- Importing and colorizing a black-and-white image
- Applying transparency settings
- About the Effects Panel
- Changing the opacity of solid-color objects
- Applying a blending mode
- Adjusting the transparency settings for EPS images
- Adjusting transparency for Photoshop images
- Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
- Applying transparency settings to text
- Applying transparency settings to text frame fill
- Working with effects
- Applying basic feathering to the margins of an image
- Applying a Gradient feather
- Applying multiple effects to objects
- Editing and removing effects
Working with Long Documents
- Defining a book
- Creating a book file
- Setting the order and pagination
- Working with a table of contents
- Adding the table of contents file
- Generating a table of contents for the book
- Maintaining consistency across book files
- Reassigning the style source
- Synchronizing book documents
- Indexing the book
- Creating index references
- Creating index cross-references
- Generating the index
Working with Typography
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Using a baseline grid to align text
- Viewing the baseline grid
- Changing the spacing above and below paragraphs
- Changing fonts and type style
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Adding a decorative font and special character
- Creating a drop cap
- Applying a fill and stroke to text
- Adjusting the drop cap alignment
- Adjusting letter and word spacing
- Adjusting the kerning and tracking
- Applying the paragraph and single-line composers
- Working with tabs
- Creating a hanging indent
- Adding a rule below a paragraph
Drawing
- Mastering the Pen Tool
- Pen Tool shortcuts
- Compound paths
Advanced Project
- Time to work on your own projects with assistance from instructor and other students, and/or complete a review project from start to finish!
- Additional student initiated topics, as time allows.
This course is for intermediate level content creators who are familiar with the basics of Adobe InDesign . To gain the most from this class, students should:
• Be familiar with Windows or Mac OS X.
• Be familiar with general graphics concepts and terminology.
• Be familiar with the basics of InDesign CS3, or have attended an introductory InDesign class.
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