InDesign CS3: Basic

Course Outline

Duration: 1 Day

Description: Familiar This ILT series course will teach students fundamental concepts and terminology, and the basic features of Adobe InDesign CS3. Students will learn how to create new InDesign documents, place text and graphics, and format text; create custom color swatches; position items using guide; create a bleed; create facing-pages multi-page documents; insert new pages and move page elements; work with master pages; flow text between frames; specify tab and indent settings; create bulleted lists; adjust space between paragraphs; create and apply paragraph rules, paragraph styles, and character styles; work with text and graphics in frames; work with Photoshop files; modify graphics, graphic frame containers, and text wrap; nest frames, group items, and create and user layers; print documents and create print presets; export to PDF; prepare and package documents for commercial printing; and use Adobe Bridge and metadata.

 


Course Content:


Unit 1: Getting started

  • Topic A: The Adobe InDesign environment
  • Topic B: InDesign Help

Unit 2: Basic documents

  • Topic A: New documents
  • Topic B: Custom colors
  • Topic C: Item position

Unit 3: Structuring multi-page documents

  • Topic A: Multi-page documents
  • Topic B: Master pages

Unit 4: Typesetting

  • Topic A: Text frame threading
  • Topic B: Paragraph formatting
  • Topic C: Styles

Unit 5: Modifying items

  • Topic A: Text frames
  • Topic B: Graphics
  • Topic C: Grouped items
  • Topic D: Layers

Unit 6: Finalizing documents and setting defaults

  • Topic A: Outputting documents
    Topic B: Commercial printing preparation
  • Topic C: Adobe Bridge
  • Topic D: Preferences and defaults

 

Appendix A: ACE exam objectives map

  • Topic A: Comprehensive exam objectives