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InDesign CS2 Training Tutorial

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Mastering Indesign CS2 is a must-have training tutorial simulation for the beginner, as well as a handy reference tool for the professional page designer.

New improved interactivity and full screen display to maximize your learning!

Features:

• Master Adobe InDesign CS2 techniques through real projects
• Clear Step-by-Step guide with Narrated Instructions
• View in full screen (1024 X 768 pixels or higher)
• Work with Dynamic Simulations, not sequential static displays
• Use sample files to practice along in Adobe InDesign CS2 software program
• Learn at your own pace
• Up to 20X faster than learning from a book
• Build you own lessons for classroom or individual use
• Approximately 20 Hours training time
• Naration: Darryl Berk, renowned voice specialist

Lesson1 :

• Launch Adobe InDesign CS2

• Open and close Adobe Photoshop files

• Navigate around your work area

• View your document at different magnifications

• Use some of the basic tools from the Toolbox to edit images

• Select, rearrange, and use various palettes on your workspace

• Customize your workspace

• Use palette menus

• Navigate through your document

• Work with layers

• Use InDesign Help

Lesson 2:

 

• Create and save a custom page size

• Create a new document based on your custom page definitions

• Set up and edit master pages

• Create foot note frames in your master page

• Add text and graphic placeholder frames

• Create text frames with columns

• Apply master pages to document pages

• Add sections in your document to change page numbering

• Add, delete, and rearrange pages in your document

• Place text and graphics on document pages

• Override master page items on your document pages

Lesson 3:

 

• Modify text and graphic frames

• Create new frames

• Duplicate a frame and its contents

• Move and replace contents within its frames

• Convert frame shapes

• Rotate, align, and group objects

• Adjust the text inset in a frame

• Wrap text around an image

Lesson 4:

 

• Create a headline and apply a style

• Use various ways to flow text into your document

• Resize your text frames to fit your text

• Load and apply styles from another document

• Align your text vertically and horizontally

• Work with columns

• Thread text

• Create a page continuation note

• Use the Find/Change function

• Use Check Spelling and other InDesign spell check features

• Create text on a path

Lesson 5:

 

• Use a baseline grid to align your text

• Adjust the spacing above and below a paragraph

• Change fonts and type style

• Change paragraph alignment

• Apply fills, strokes, and gradients to text

• Create a drop cap in your paragraph

   

• Adjust the kerning and tracking between text

• Create a hanging indent

• Create a paragraph rule

Lesson 6:

 

• Add colors to the Swatches palette

• Create tints, spot colors, and gradients

• Apply colors to objects to text

• Create dashed strokes

• Create a gradient with multiple colors

• Apply a gradient across multiple objects

• Set up color management in InDesign

Lesson 7:

 

• Create and apply object styles

• Create and apply character styles

• Create and apply paragraph styles

• Load styles from another document

• Nest character styles inside paragraph styles

• Globally update styles

Lesson 8:

 

• Update revised graphics

• Remove a white background in InDesign

• Import graphics using Adobe Bridge

• Work with alpha channels in Photoshop files

• Import Photoshop files with layers and layer comps

• Import an Illustrator file

• Import an Illustrator file with layers

• Use a library to store commonly used objects

Lesson 9:

 

• Import a table created in Microsoft Word
• Format the borders of the table
• Apply alternating row colors
• Apply strokes to table cells
• Format the heading cells in the table
• Add and delete columns
• Adjust column width and row height
• Place graphics in table cells
• Apply character styles to text in a table
• Work with tables in existing text frames

Lesson 10:

• Adjust the transparency of solid-colored objects
• Apply different blending modes to transparency
• Apply feathering to objects to soften their edges
• Create a drop shadow
• Adjust the transparency of an EPS image
• Adjust the transparency of a Photoshop image
• Adjust the transparency of an Illustrator image
• Apply transparency to text

Lesson 11:

• Create a book project
• Add documents to the book
• Set the order for the documents in the book project
• Set the page numbering in documents for the book
• Generate a table of contents
• Reassign the style source and synchronize the book documents to the styles source to create consistency across the book files
• Create index references and cross-references
• Generate an index for the book

Lesson 12:

• Use Preflight to check for errors
• Package your document and get it ready for printing
• Create an Adobe PDF [?] file for proofing
• Use Separation Preview to see how colors affect your document
• Use the Transparency Flattener preview
• Preview the page
• Set up and print a proof

 Requirements:

• Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP [?]
• Pentium 133 Mhz or higher
• 32MB RAM
• 10MB free disk space
• 24x CD [?]-ROM

Price: $29.95 $19.95

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