InDesign Course Outline

1. The Work Area
   • InDesign's Work Area, Tools, and Palettes
     • The Work Area
     • The Menu Bar
     • The Control Palette, Part 1
     • The Control Palette, Part 2
     • The Other Palettes, Part 1
     • The Other Palettes, Part 2
     • The Tools Palette
     • The Tools Palette Swatches, Part 1
     • The Tools Palette Swatches, Part 2
     • A Few Words on Contextural Menus

2. How to Set Up a Document
   1. The Document Area
      • Slugs, Bleeds, and the Pasteboard
      • Rulers
      • Binding Spine
   2. Setting Up the Page
      • New Document and Page Settings
      • Master Text Frames
      • More Options
   3. Setting Margins, Columns, and Grids
      • Simple Margin Setup
      • Perfect Margin Setup
      • Changing Margins
      • Setting up Columns and Grids, The Use of Guides
   4. Master Pages in InDesign
      • Using the Pages Palette
      • More Ways to Add Master Pages
      • Changing Items on Master Pages

3. Working With Colour
   1. Colour Palette
      • Colour Modes
      • Using the Colour Palette
      • No CMYK Equivalent
      • When to Use RGB or CMYK
   2. Swatches Palette
      • Record Frequently Used Colours
      • None and Paper Swatches
      • Black and Registration Swatches
      • CMYK, RGB, and Gradient Swatches
      • Buttons in the Swatches Palette
      • Creating New Swatches
      • Editing Swatches
      • Relationship Between Colour and Swatches Palettes
   3. Gradient Palette
      • Create Gradients
      • Remove, Move, and Edit Gradients
      • Gradients in the Swatches Palette

4. The Tools, Part 1
   1. The Tools: Selection, Type, Line Drawing Tools
      • Selection Tools
      • Selecting Objects in a Group
      • Selecting Objects Under Other Objects
      • Selecting Some or All Objects
      • Pen Tool
        • Use the Pen Tool to Draw Straight Lines (Animation)
        • Use the Pen Tool to Draw Curves (Animation)
        • Use the Pen Tool to Draw Shapes (Animation)
      • Type Tool
      • Pencil Tool
      • The (Hidden) Smooth Tool
      • The (Hidden) Erase Tool
      • Line Tool
   2. The Tools: Frame and Shape Tools
      • Frame Tools Flyout
      • Placing Image in a Frame
      • Selecting and Resizing Objects
      • Resizing Graphics with the Control Palette
      • Resizing Graphics with the Context Menu
      • Shape Tools Flyout
      • Convert Shapes to Frames

5. The Tools, Part 2
   1. The Tools: Transform Tools
      • Rotate Tool
      • Scale Tool
      • Shear Tool
      • Free Transform Tool
   2. The Tools: Eyedropper and Measure Tool
      • Eyedropper Tool - Copy Colors
      • Eyedropper Tool - Copy Character Attributes
      • Measure Tool
   3. The Tools: Gradient Tool and Gradient Palette
      • Gradient Tool - Basic Use
      • Gradient Palette vs.

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        Tool: Angle Precision
      • Gradient Palette vs. Tool: Linear, Radial, and Reverse
      • Gradient Palette vs. Tool: Location (Middle Points)
      • Gradient Tool: Applying Gradients to Multiple Objects
      • Gradient Palette: Applying Gradients to Multiple Objects
   4. The Tools: Button Tool
   5. The Tools: Scissors Tool
      • Cut Straight Across a Shape
      • Cut a Piece Out of a Shape
      • Cut a Curved Piece Out of a Shape
      • Cutting or Modifying Paths or Frames
   6. The Tools: Hand Tool
   7. The Tools: Zoom Tool

6. Text & Paragraphs, Part 1
   • Placeholder Text
   • Text Frames and Text Threads
     • Automatic & Not-Really-Automatic Threading
     • The Not-Really-Automatic Method
     • The Automatic Method
   • Control Palette & Type Tool, Good Co-Workers
     • Let's Study Some Typography
   • The Character Palette
   • The Paragraph Palette
     • Text Composition
     • The Paragraph Palette – Hands On!
     • Paragraph Rules

7. Text & Paragraphs, Part 2
   • An overview of InDesign's Typography Capabilities
   • Style Sheets
     • Character Styles
     • Paragraph Styles
       • Nested Styles

8. Text & Paragraph, Part 3
   • Embellishment and Fine-Tuning
   • Text Acquisition
     • Importing Text from Word Documents
     • Importing Excel Documents
   • Useful Typographical Tricks and Aids
     • Spell Check
     • Changing Case
     • Find and Change Option
     • Glyphs
     • Creating Outlines from Text
   • Handling Missing Fonts

9. Graphics and Images
   • More on resizing
   • Text and Graphics (text wrap)
   • Graphics Formats that Can Be Imported in InDesign
   • Handling of Adobe Illustrator (.ai) and Photoshop (.psd) Files in InDesign
   • How to Add Colour to Grayscale TIF images
   • Previews of Images in InDesign
   • Clipping Paths
   • Frames and Borders
   • The Transparency Palette

10. Prepress, Preflight, and Printing
    • Definition of Pre-flight and Pre-press
    • Preflight
      • What the Printer Wants - Difference Between Desktop and Outsourced Printing
      • The Preflight Option
      • Convert Graphics and Swatches to CMYK
      • Output Preview Palettes: Flattener and Separations Palettes
        • The Flattener Palette
        • The Separations Palette
        • View Modes (bleed)
      • The Links Palette
    • Prepress
      • Packaging Files
      • The Print Window
        • Printing with a Desktop Printer
        • Printing to PostScript File
      • Making Press Ready PDFs
        • PDFs Made Directly with InDesign
        • Using Third Party Applications to Make PDFs
    • Transparency and Tints

11. More InDesign Features
    • PDFs, Not Only Ready for Press
    • Exporting Options
    • Layers
    • Tables
    • Automatic Page Numbering
      • Numbering and Section Options
    • Setting up Preferences
    • Features from the Menu Bar
    • The Lock Option
    • Shortcuts