InDesign CS5: Basic

Course Outline

Duration: 1 Day

Description: This course will teach students fundamental concepts, terminology, and the basic features of Adobe InDesign CS5. Students will learn how to create documents, place text and graphics, and create custom color swatches. Students will also learn how to work with master pages and multi-page documents. In addition, students will learn how to format text, apply styles, work with threaded text frames, position and group objects, and work with layers. Finally, students will print documents, create print presets, create a PDF file, and package documents for commercial printing.

Course Content:

Unit 1: Getting started

Topic A: The Adobe InDesign environment

Topic B: Preferences and defaults

Topic C: InDesign Help

Unit 2: Basic documents

Topic A: New documents

Topic B: Text frames

Topic C: Graphics frames

Topic D: Custom colors

Unit 3: Guides and master pages

Topic A: Object positioning

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 frame options

Topic B: Graphics

Topic C: Grouped items

Topic D: Layers

Unit 6: Finalizing documents

Topic A: Printing and exporting documents

Topic B: Preparing for commercial printing