InDesign CS5 Introduction

Day one

1. The InDesign Interface

Creating, saving and navigating documents

Understanding the work area

2. Importing Text

How to import text and flow it through a document

3. Styles

Object, paragraph and character styles

How they work and how to use them

4. Transparency

Learn how to colourise images and add transparency to imported graphics

5. Transforming Objects

Learn how to scale and transform objects in InDesign

6. Setting up

Understand how to set up your document with guides

7. Typography

Learn how to work with type and add special features

How to use tracking and kerning, drop caps and pull quotes

Day 2

1. Graphics

Using Photoshop and InDesign and Illustrator

How to import graphics

2. Master Pages

Learn how to use master pages to speed up your workflow

3. Table of Contents

Create a TOC complete with hyperlinks

4. Frames

Learn about frames and how they work for images and text

5. Colour

How to use the swatches palette and how to apply colours to objects, learn about the stroke and fill of text

6. Tables

Creation of tables and how to format them and insert graphics and text

7. PDF Exporting

Export a PDF for the web or for print, complete with password protection for security, learn about preflighting

8. Further techniques

Keyboard shortcuts, file formats, Q and A