Adobe InDesign CS2 Tutorials - Online Training Course

Course Title: Adobe InDesign CS2

Produce pages quickly and output them more reliably with Adobe® InDesign® CS2. 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® CS2 is an essential tool in the CS suite. To begin learning today, simply click on one of the movie topics.

Course Author/Expert: Brian White

Language: English

Full Online Training Available: Yes

Number of Course Movies: 235

Course Duration: 11.5 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.

Layers

Intro to Layers

Creating New Layers

Moving and Copying to Layers

Adjusting Text Wrap

Duplicating / Deleting and Moving

Pasting onto layers

Locking Layers

Layers and Master Pages

Adobe Bridge

Intro to Bridge

Viewing Files

Organizing files

Searching / Labeling and Rating

Adobe Stock Photos

Opening Files

Selecting and Manipulating

Selecting

Selecting Multiple Objects

Direct Select

Position Tool

Toggling Selection Tools

Moving Objects

Positioning by numbers

Nudging

Rotating

Shearing

Scaling Tool

Scaling - other

Free Transform

Transform Again

Duplicating

Step and Repeat

Drawing tools

Intro to Drawing Tools

Line Tool

Frame vs Rectangle tool

Rectangle/Oval Tools

Sizing Rectangle/Ovals

Creating Polygons

Pencil Tool

Smooth/Erase

Pen Tool

Adding/Deleting Direction Points

Using Direction Lines

Changing Curves

Converting text to Outlines

Working with Objects

Aligning Within a Frame

Sizing Objects in 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

Flattening

Duplicating Effects

Compound Paths

Convert Shape

Object Styles I

Object Styles II

Object Styles III

Paste Into

Working with Text

Creating Text Frames

Moving and Resizing Text Frames

Auto Text Frames

Frames on Master Pages

Creating text - Pasting

Importing Text Files

Threading Text Frames I

Threading Text Frames II

Automatic Text Flow

Frames Columns

Frames - Insets/Align

Frames – Text Wrap

Break Characters

Spell Checker

Story Editor

Story Editor Preferences

Find/Change

Finding Meta characters

Glyphs

Quotation Marks

Special Characters

Type on a Path

Type on a Path - Alignment

Type on a Path - Effects

Text Wrap I

Text Wrap II

Text Wrap III

Overriding Text Wrap

Drag and Drop Text

In-line Graphics

Anchored Objects I

Anchored Objects II

Anchored Objects III

Formatting Text

Introduction

Selecting Text

Applying Fonts

Font Size and Leading

Changing Case

Small Caps and Super/Subscript

Kerning

Tracking

Scaling Type

Baseline Shift

Skew

Dictionary

Paragraph Formatting

Alignment

Setting Indents

Space Above/Below

Drop Caps

Baseline Alignment

Hyphenation

Rules Above/Below

Setting Tabs

Hanging Indents

Bullets

Copying Attributes

Setting Defaults

Paragraph and Character Styles

Intro

Paragraph Styles I

Paragraph Styles II

Editing Paragraph Styles I

Editing Paragraph Styles II

Setting Next Style

Overrides and Clearing Overrides

Creating a Character Style

Nesting a crop Cap

Nesting a Character Style

Importing Styles

Deleting Styles

Stroke and Fill

Intro to Color I

Intro to Color II

Color Modes

Intro to Swatches

Applying Color

Coloring Imported Graphics

Adding and Deleting Swatches

Import/Export Swatches

Creating Tints

Creating Gradient Swatches

Spot Color Gradient

Multi Colored Gradients

Modifying Gradients

Using the Color Picker

Tables

Intro

Creating a table

Importing a table

Moving Around a Table

Selecting cells

Inserting Columns and Rows

Formatting Type

Merging Cells

Resizing Columns and Rows

Cell Formatting

Alternating Colors

Strokes

Adding Graphics

Scaling Tables

Working with Imported Graphics

Types of Graphics I

Types of Graphics II

Placing Graphics

Cut and Paste

Dragging from Pasteboard

Intro to Links

Updating Links

Editing Links

Replacing Links

Photoshop Layers

Libraries

Snippets