Course
Description

Writers, artists, designers and publishers can communicate to a broader audience than ever before, because InDesign is a powerful design and production tool that offers precision, control and seamless integration with other Adobe professional graphics software.  Learn to set preferences for the application, create application and document defaults, and use the application's powerful tools. Discover how to prepare professional documents, including placement of Photoshop and Illustrator images, word processing documents and export the document in various formats.

Emphasis

Through hands-on lessons and projects, students will be introduced to InDesign's powerful typesetting and layout tools. Design and technical issues relating to print production will also be covered.

No prior InDesign knowledge is required, although familiarity with personal computers and browsers will be helpful.

Topics

Using hands-on lessons, we will focus on the following basic skills:

• Importing text and images
• Formatting text
• Formatting tables
• Working with layers
• Working with colors (CMYK and spot)
• Using style sheets
• Using master pages
• Printing and prepress

Etiquette

It is expected that all students respect the following workshop guidelines:

• Courtesy (treat others as you would like to be treated)
• Be helpful (interaction and collaboration among students is encouraged)
• Ask questions (don't don't be embarrassed if you don't know something)
• All cell phones and beepers turned off
• Have fun (graphic design is a very creative endeavor!)

Materials

The following materials are recommended to succeed in the workshop:

• Paper or notebook, pen or pencil (to take notes)
• USB flash drives(to copy files between the lab and your personal computer)
• Textbook: Element K Adobe InDesign CS3

Macs vs. PCs

All Adobe programs are cross-platform. Macintosh and Windows computers are almost identical once you are inside an Adobe application. However pay attention to the following keyboard equivalents:

Windows	alt	ctrl	(example: ctrl+S)
Mac	opt	cmd	(example: cmd+S)