| Learning Adobe InDesign CS5 & CS5.5 Learning Adobe InDesignCS5 and Learning Adobe InDesign CS5.5 are suitable for use on Windows and Macintosh systems. Support Files are included with the product. These provide all the images, text and prepared publications so that students do not need to search for graphics or enter detailed amounts of text. Prices
Summary of the Chapters Module 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to Adobe InDesign CS5 Demonstrates how to set up a document, insert and format text, spell check text, insert and format graphics and create thumbnail sketches through the creation of simple flyers, such as:
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Next Chapter 2: Creating Greeting Cards Demonstrates how to layout a page into quarters, use column and page guides, adding borders and rotate objects to produce a greeting card such as:
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to create indents, hanging indents, use the Tab Ruler to insert left, right, centre and decimal tabs, add leader characters to tab stops, insert lines and multiple copies of lines to product tables such as:
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4: Creating Newsletters Using Frames Introduces the concept of frames. How to insert text and graphics into frames, how to format frames, use frames options, apply effects such as drop shadow and bevel and emboss, thread text from one frame to another, shade frames, align frames and add leader characters to text to produce newsletters such as:
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 5: Creating Menus Using Frames Extension of the use of frames to create page structures that remain fixed while the content can be updated as required. Publications such as a restaurant menu are created to illustrate this.
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 6: Using Styles in Publications Demonstrates how to use preset styles, create custom styles and applying them, copy styles from one document to another to create advertising publications like:
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 7: Single Page Newsletters Demonstrates the use of columns to quickly produce simple one-page newsletters without the need to set frames and thread text from frame to frame. The span option is used to set text such as headers and footers back to one column. The following newsletter is created:
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 8: Multiple Page Newsletters Multiple pages of different designs are created using wrap text around graphics, adding multiple columns to pages and layering page elements. The following multiple page newsletter is created:
Project 1: The Society of Architects The Multi-user version provides a project that requires students to create a two-page newsletter for a Society of Architects. All the text required in the publication is provided. Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Module 2 Chapter 9: Creating Publicity Pamphlets Demonstrates how to create a 6-sided pamphlet which includes the use of landscape orientation, setting pages into 3 columns, duplicating lines and printing pages back to back.
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 10: Using Table in Publications Demonstrates how to setup and manage tables. This includes adjusting column width and row height, shading cells, setting borders, entering text and graphics in to cells and formatting them, wrapping text around tables and importing Microsoft Word tables. The following publication is created. :
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to produce a Table of Contents from headings set to styles. The document is then exported as a PDF document which creates bookmarks from the Table of Contents items.
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 12: Creating Magazines Demonstrates how to layout and create pages of a magazine. Left and Right master pages are created to contain header and footer details, then the pages are created from those master pages.
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to create a cover for a magazine using an A3 paper size and landscape orientation.
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 14: Creating Interactive SWF Products Using the interactive capabilities of InDesign students build an interactive Flash Player SWF products that that can be exported to web sites. An online catalogue for a sports store is created.
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 15: Animation and Media Using the animation capabilities of InDesign students apply animations to frames, set photos on top of one another and set buttons to display the photos. Also video clips are imported and formatted. The document is then exported as a Flash Player SWF file for viewing on a browser.
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 16: Creating Interactive PDF Products Using the interactive capabilities of InDesign students build an interactive PDF products that plays short movie clips on the click of inserted buttons. Hyerlinks allow the user to move from page to page.
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Using the BOOK command to combine individual documents into a book which is then exported to a PDF document with Bookmark links.
Back to Adobe InDesign | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates some useful features that InDesign provides to make the publishing process easier. These include creating Library items, using the Page tool to set different sized pages within the one document, using Layers, using the Gap tool to maintain the gap between frames whiles resizing images, the EyeDropper tool, drawing text along a path, embedding images and OpenType fonts. Project 2: Home Bodies The Multi-user version provides a project that requires students to create a 6-sided for a home help company. All the text required in the publication is provided.
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