Adobe InDesign CS3 Tutorials - Online Training Course

Course Title: Adobe InDesign CS3

By combining extraordinary production power and creative freedom with innovative cross-media support, Adobe InDesign CS3 takes page design and layout to new levels. Its advanced typography controls allow users unprecedented control over text and formatting. And with new advanced features that allow non-destructive effects (such as drop shadow, bevel and emboss), to be added to both text and graphic frames, users will find endless creative design possibilities. In this VTC tutorial, long time Author and Graphics Guru, Brian White, teaches the fundamentals of InDesign before moving on to show professional hands-on document creation and manipulation. From novice to Pro, this course covers it all! Work Files are included. 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: 244

Course Duration: 13 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.

Page Setup

New Documents

Bleeds

Slugs

Document Preset

Document Measurements

Document Window

Pasteboard

Margins and Columns

Ruler Guides pt. 1

Ruler Guides pt. 2

Ruler Options

Baseline Grid

Templates

Pages and Masters

Intro Pages

Pages Pallet

Adding Pages

Duplicating Pages

Deleting Pages

Re-organizing Pages

Multiple Page Spreads

Master Pages Intro

Page Numbering

Advanced Page Numbering

Prefix and Section Markers

Multiple Master Pages

Overriding Masters

Layers

Intro to Layers

Creating New Layers

Moving and Copying to Layers

Adjusting Text Wrap

Duplicating and Deleting

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

Drawing Tools

Intro To Drawing Tools

Line Tool

Rectangle vs Frame Tool

Rectangles and Ovals

Resizing Rectangles and Ovals

Polygon Tool

Pencil Tool

Smooth / Erase

Pen Tool

Adding and Deleting Direction Points

Converting Text to Outlines

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 Technique

Free Transform

Transform Again

Duplicating

Step and Repeat

Working with Objects

Aligning Within a Frame

Aligning Objects

Distribute

Order of Objects

Locking Objects

Grouping

Corner Effects

Intro to Clipping Paths

Paths - Creating

Paths - Imported

Paths - Detect Edges

Compound Paths

Convert Shape

Working with Frames

Creating Text Frames

Moving and Resizing Text Frames

Auto Text Frames

Frames on Master Pages

Importing Text Files

Threading Text Frames pt. 1

Threading Text Frames pt. 2

Automatic Text Flow

Frames Columns

Frames - Insets / Align

Frames - Text Wrap

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 Alignment

Setting Indents

Space Above and Below

Drop Caps

Baseline Alignment

Hyphenation

Rules Above and Below

Setting Tabs

Hanging Indents

Bullets

Copying Attributes

Setting Defaults

Other Text Features

Special Characters

Section Markers

Footnotes

Break Characters

Spell Checker

Story Editor

Story Editor Preferences

Glyphs

Type on a Path

Type on a Path - Alignment

Type on a Path - Effects

Text Wrap pt. 1

Text Wrap pt. 2

Overriding Text Wrap

In-line Graphics

Anchored Objects pt. 1

Anchored Objects pt. 2

Anchored Objects pt. 3

Find / Change Text

Find / Change GREP

Find / Change Glyphs

Find / Change Objects

Stroke and Fill

Intro

Intro to Color

Color Modes

Color Picker

Intro to Swatches

Creating Swatches

Creating Tints

Coloring Imported Graphics

Creating Gradient Swatches

Multi Colored Gradients

Modifying Gradients

Swatches Options

Special Effects

Introduction

Applying Special Effects

Special Effects pt. 1

Special Effects pt. 2

Special Effects pt. 3

Special Effects pt 4

Flattening

Duplicating Effects

Tables

Intro

Creating a Table

Importing Tables

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

Styles

Intro

Paragraph Styles pt. 1

Paragraph Styles pt. 2

Editing Paragraph Styles

Basing Styles

Creating a Character Style

Nesting Styles pt. 1

Nesting Styles pt. 2

Nesting a Drop Cap

Setting Next Style

Bullet Color

Bullet Levels

Overriding and Deleting

Object Styles pt. 1

Object Styles pt. 2

Object Styles pt. 3

Table Styles

Style Groups

Managing Graphics

Types of Graphics

Graphic Displays

Placing Graphics

Cut and Paste

Links

Updating Links

Creative Suite at Work

Quick Start Overview

Introduction

ID & Bridge

ID & Photoshop

ID & Illustrator

ID & Export

Previewing the Document

Viewing Separations

Ink Limit

Flattener Preview

Pre-flighting

Packaging

Printing and PDF

Basic Printing

Advanced Print Options

Exporting to PDF

Create High Resolution PDF File

PDF Presets

Create Normal Print Presets

Printing Oversized Documents (Booklets)