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InDesign CS4 Training DVD

Learn how to take your skills to the next level. This InDesign CS4 training DVD is the ultimate in comprehensive learning for the discerning professional.

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Introduction

Welcome
Using the example files
InDesign workflow overview

1. The Workspace

2. Getting to the Features

Using the Tool panel
Learning keyboard shortcuts
Using contextual menus
Customizing menus
Using Quick Apply

3. Creating a Document

Creating new documents
Saving and reverting documents
Using Multiple Undo and Revert
Setting margin and column guides
Making a layout adjustment
Using ruler guides
Finding libraries and snippets
Saving for CS3 with INX
Converting QuarkXPress files

4. Managing Pages

Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
Adding sections and page numbers
Creating and applying master pages
Overriding master page items
Using parent/child master pages
Loading master pages

5. Text

Understanding text frames
Typing and editing text
Filling with placeholder text
Using special characters
Importing text
Threading text frames
Auto-flowing text
Setting text frame options
Using text on a path
Using the Story Editor
Spelling in your document
Using the Auto Correct feature
Using Find/Change
Making text variables

6. Graphics

Importing graphics
Importing InDesign files
Using the Links panel
Embedding links
Editing original graphics
Setting frame-fitting options
Setting transparency and clipping paths
Colorizing images
Turning image layers on and off

7. Formatting Objects

Selecting objects
Using basic strokes and fills
Using advanced strokes
Using transparency
Adding drop shadows
Applying feathering
Using other effects to format objects
Using the Eyedropper tool
Finding and changing object formatting

8. Managing Objects

Stacking objects
Using layers
Nesting objects
Editing frame and path shapes
Understanding corner options
Grouping and locking objects
Aligning and distributing
Understanding text wrap
Editing text wrap
Using anchored objects

9. Transforming Objects

Duplicating objects
Rotating objects
Scaling objects
Skewing objects
Mirroring objects
Transforming objects again

10. Character Formatting

Applying basic character styling
Applying advanced character styling
Changing case
Understanding OpenType features
Using Find/Change for text formatting
Using Find Font

11. Paragraph Formatting

Understanding paragraph formatting
Using drop caps
Applying hyphenation
Understanding justification
Applying tabs
Aligning to baseline grid
Keeping options
Applying paragraph rules
Using automatic bullets
Numbering paragraphs

12. Styles

Applying character styles
Applying paragraph styles
Using nested styles
Using object styles
Cleaning up imported text

13. Tables

Creating a table
Adjusting rows and columns
Adding and deleting rows and columns
Formatting a table
Formatting cells
Adding headers and footers
Applying table styles
Placing graphics in cells
Adding Microsoft Word and Excel tables

14. Color

Creating color swatches
Using unnamed colors
Applying tint swatches
Using gradient swatches
Applying gradients
Using the Separations Preview

15. Exporting

Exporting a PDF
Exporting a TXT file
Exporting a JPEG
Exporting an EPS file

16. Printing

Using preflight options
Packaging for output
Using the Print dialog box

Conclusion

Joining the InDesign community
Goodbye

Adobe InDesign CS4 Training DVD Info

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InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. InDesign CS4 Essential Training presents a thorough explanation of the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application fun and easy to use, providing a foundation upon which advanced skills and workflows can be built. David Blatner shows how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, and much more. Example files accompany the course.. Close »

Instructor : David Blatner

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Publisher:

lynda.com, Inc.

Duration:

11 hours - 126 lessons

Platform:

PC or Mac

Fomat :

Video CD

Price:

$149.95

£98.22

€110.06

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