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INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE INDESIGN By Joel Magalnick, The Refined Story
OBJECTIVE
‣ By the end of this course, you will gain a basic understanding of how to use InDesign. That includes how to create and save documents, lay out text and images, and use drawing/shapes to create a brochure using the application's tools.
INTRODUCTIONS
‣ I’m a longtime newspaper editor and publisher, with a longer history in graphic design and layout.
MEET YOUR CLASS‣ We’re all friends here – tell us about yourself!
GEAR CHECKI’m using InDesign CS5.5. You should have version CS4 at a minimum installed.
JOEL MAGALNICK – YOUR INSTRUCTOR
THE INDESIGN-OSPHERE
YOUR BASIC TOOLS
Select Direct Select
Line Tool
Bounding box
Color sample Hand tool
Swatches
Screen view
Page tool Gap tool
Free draw tool
Gradient tools
Notes tool
Zoom
Swatch selector
Scissors tool
Not covered in class To be covered in class
YOUR BASIC WORKSPACE
WORKING WITH COLOR
WORKING WITH TYPE
Font name
Paragraph align
Font size
Leading Space between lines
Kerning Space between letters
Tracking Space between multiple letters Baseline shift Text skew
Left indent Right indent
First line indent
Last line indent
Space above paragraph
Space below paragraph
Drop cap height
Drop cap characters
Bullets & numbering
Font format
WORKING WITH BOXES
Resize box Box anchor position
Flip/rotate box
Box angle
Vertical text position
Column balance
Columns
Gutter width
Text wrap
Corner style
Box position Based on anchor
Box dimensions
Link proportions
Box skew
SAVING AND EXPORTING
WORKING WITH SWATCHES & GRADIENTS
Swatch box
Create color swatch
Create gradient swatch Gradient manipulation
WORKING WITH IMAGES
Original
Cropped Opaqued
Scaled
Photo fitting options
ADVANCED USAGE: FLOWING TEXT
Text flows in Text flows out
Text is missing
ADVANCED USAGE: WORKING WITH MASTER PAGES
The setup box
The layout with masters
ADVANCED USAGE: WORKING WITH STYLE SHEETS
Paragraph styles
Style setup options
Character styles
LET’S DIVE IN!
Placed Image
Two-Column Width
Jumped text
Paragraph styles
Master pages
LET’S DIVE IN!
http://bit.ly/1OEYvSC GO HERE TO ACCESS IMAGES AND FILES:
AND YES, IT’S CASE SENSITIVE!
SCREEN VIEWS
Tool menu View icon Normal view – note gridlines Preview view
THE DEEPER DIVE
Let’s do some practice!
‣ Body Level One ‣ Body Level Two ‣ Body Level Three ‣ Body Level Four ‣ Body Level Five
‣ Body Level One ‣ Body Level Two ‣ Body Level Three ‣ Body Level Four ‣ Body Level Five
THANKS!
‣ Body Level One ‣ Body Level Two ‣ Body Level Three ‣ Body Level Four ‣ Body Level Five
JOEL MAGALNICK ‣ Body Level One ‣ Body Level Two ‣ Body Level Three ‣ Body Level Four ‣ Body Level Five
‣ Contact me: ‣ [email protected] ‣ refinedstory.com ‣ @refinedstory
