Posted Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 11:11 AM
Learn Adobe InDesign at Luminous Works
May 29 & 30 or June 12 & 13 or July 11 + 12 from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM, $525
At Luminous Works in Seattle
To register for this class, and other class dates, please visit: Luminous Works InDesign CS6 Essentials class
A Note About CS6
If you have a previous version of the software, don't worry! Although we're teaching Adobe® Creative Suite® 6, our instructors will point out which features are new and which aren't.
So whether you're using CS6 or its predecessors, our classes will meet your needs.
Class Description
prerequisites
If you are completely new to professional Desktop Publishing software, or if your experience is limited to Microsoft Office products, you should get familiar with the basics as covered in our Desktop Publishing Overview. Helpful for graphic creation, but not required to learn InDesign, is the Digital Drawing Workshop (to gain experience with the Adobe Pen Tool).
If you take both of these half-day classes, we will automatically refund 1/3 of their cost! They're almost always offered on the same day!
what we cover
InDesign is Adobe's premiere desktop publishing design and layout application. With hands-on projects, harness InDesign's powerful tools for layout and design, use colors correctly and create consistent and amazing type. Apply art from Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, and learn to control output to print, Acrobat PDF, and Flash. Learn InDesign through hands-on projects.
(always customized for the students in attendance):
- Best ways to create and configure documents
- create document presets
- understanding slugs, picas, and other "creatures"
- why bleed is good
- margins, guides, grids, and best design practices
- Control your workspace
- controlling the panel/palette glut
- know how and when to pick different units of measurement
- menus vs panels vs keyboard shortcuts
- customizing menus, panels, and shortcuts
- page numbering options
- Placing various graphics formats
- when to use TIFF, EPS, and Photoshop Documents
- know your options and control them
- managing links: editing placed files, deciding on color modes (RGB, CMYK) and more
- Drawing basic shapes
- a touch of Illustrator in InDesign
- efficiency tips
- Control color with swatches; learn how to synchronize color across applications
- spot vs process color
- flat color and gradient swatches
- saving swatches and "stealing" them from other documents
- Working with type and text formatting
- understand and use type features like kerning, leading, and more
- optical margins
- fonts: OpenType, True Type, Postscript
- hyphenation and justification
- working with figures: make numbers pretty
- tabs for power spacing
- Building Character and Paragraph Styles for quick global editing of typography
- understanding why to use styles
- the many ways to build styles, and when to choose each
- nesting styles for quick, complex formatting of text
- Building documents of any size
- how to control your pages and spreads
- numbering rearranging pages
- understand InDesign's page iconography
- how and when to make different page sizes with a document
- Basics of building interactive documents
- how to add animation
- adding and using buttons
- Using master pages
- master pages: templates within a publication
- page numbers, running headers, and other page gear
- mastering the relationship of master pages and the pages that use them
- Using supplied text content
- MS Word
- plain text isn't so simple sometimes
- cleaning up badly formatted text efficiently
- converting well formatted text carefully
- Building and importing basic tables
- Is it like Excel?
- making it easy next time: Table Styles
- headers, fancy fills and strokes and other matters
Class runs from from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM, and is limited to 8 students. Cost: $525
At Luminous Works in Seattle
1406 NW 53rd Street just North of the Ballard Bridge
To register for this class, and alternative class dates, please visit: Luminous Works InDesign Essentials class
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