Adobe InDesign CS Tutorials - Online Training Course

Course Title: Adobe InDesign CS

Produce pages quickly and output them more reliably with Adobe® InDesign® CS. By combining extraordinary production power and creative freedom with innovative cross-media support, Adobe® InDesign® CS takes page design to a whole new level. Long time VTC author, Brian White, covers the application’s many tools, page setup, creating and importing tables, text and image manipulation, previewing and printing, and much, much, more. Due to its tight integration with Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, and Acrobat® software, Adobe® InDesign® CS is an essential upgrade from InDesign® 2.0. To begin learning today, simply click on one of the movie topics below.

Course Author/Expert: Brian White

Language: english

Full Online Training Available: Yes

Number of Course Movies: 205

Course Duration: 8.5 hours

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Course Outline:

Straight away, you can go through the first three chapters of this tutorial. If you need all the lessons, then join the Online University - complete access to over five hundred and fifty courses right now for as long as you need them and even get an online university certificate. See below for details.

Selecting and Manipulating

Selecting

Selecting Multiple Objects

Direct Select

Using the Control Pallet

Moving Objects

Moving by Numbers

Nudging

Rotating

Shearing

Scale Tool

Scale - Selection Tool

Free Transform

Duplicating

Paste Into

Removing from Container

Drawing Tools

Intro to Drawing Tools

Line Tool

Rectangle/Oval Frame Tools pt. 1

Rectangle/Oval Frame Tools pt. 2

Sizing Rectangle/Ovals

Creating Polygons

Pencil/Smooth/Erase

Pen Tool

Adding/Deleting Direction Points

Using Direction Lines

Changing Curves

Converting Text to Outlines

Working with Objects

Aligning within a Frame

Aligning Objects

Distribute

Order of Objects

Locking Objects

Adding a Drop Shadow

Feathering

Corner Effects

Intro to Clipping Paths

Clipping Paths - Creating

Clipping Paths - Importing

Clipping Paths - Detect Edges

Grouping

Transparency

Copying Transparency Effects

Flattening

Duplicating Objects

Step and Repeat

Compound Paths

Working with Text

Creating Text Frames

Moving and Resizing Text Frames

Text Frames and Master Pages

Creating Text - Pasting

Importing Text Files

Threading Text Frames pt. 1

Threading Text Frames pt. 2

Automatic Text Flow

Frame Properties - Columns

Frame Properties - Insets/Align

Frame Properties - Baseline Offset

Special Break Characters

Spell Checker

Story Editor

Story Editor Preferences

Find/Change

Finding Meta-Characters

Glyphs

Quotation Marks

Inserting Special Characters

Creating Type on a Path

Type on a Path - Alignment

Type on a Path - Effects

Text Wrap pt. 1

Text Wrap pt. 2

Text Wrap pt. 3

Overriding Text Wrap

Formatting Text

Introduction

Selecting Text

Fonts and Leading

Caps - Super/Subscript

Kerning and Tracking

Scaling Type

Baseline Shift

Skew

Dictionary

Paragraph Formatting

Alignment

Setting Indents

Baseline Alignment

Space Above/Below

Drop Caps

Rules Above/Below

Hyphenation

Setting Tabs

Hanging Indents

Copying Attributes

Paragraph and Character Styles

Intro

Creating Paragraph Styles pt. 1

Creating Paragraph Styles pt. 2

Editing Paragraph Styles

Setting Next Style

Overrides and Clearing Overrides

Basing Styles on Other Styles

Creating a Character Style

Nesting Character Styles pt. 1

Nesting Character Styles pt. 2

Importing Styles

Deleting Styles

Stroke and Fill

Intro to Color pt. 1

Intro to Color pt. 2

Color Modes

Swatches

Coloring Imported Graphics

Creating New Color Swatches

Importing Color Swatches

Creating Tints

Creating Gradient Swatches pt. 1

Creating Gradient Swatches pt. 2

Multi-Colored Gradients

Modifying Gradients

Adding Gradients to Text

Using the Color Picker

Tables

Intro

Creating a Table

Importing a Table

Moving Around a Table

Selecting Cells

Inserting Columns and Rows

Formatting Type

Resizing Columns and Rows

Merging Cells

Adding Graphics

Coloring Cells

Alternating Colors

Strokes

Scaling Tables

Working with Imported Graphics

Types of Graphics

Placing Graphics

Cut and Paste

Dragging from Pasteboard

Intro to Links pt. 1

Intro to Links pt. 2

Updating Links

Editing Links

Replacing Links

Libraries

Creating a Library

Book

Creating a Book

Synchronizing Book Documents pt. 1

Synchronizing Book Documents pt. 2

Table of Contents

Pre-Viewing the Document

Pre-Flighting

Packaging

Viewing Separations

Ink Limit

Flattener Preview

PDF and Printing

Intro

Exporting to PDF

PDF Options pt. 1

PDF Options pt. 2

PDF Presets

Printing Basics

Print Bleeds and Slugs

Printing Separations

Print Presets

Export vs. Print to PDF