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Adobe InDesign, Level 2
Learn to incorporate Vector Graphics into your InDesign creation. Sharpen your Typography skills by adding special font features, special characters, and decorative fonts. You'll work with Transparency, and you'll create and use graphics within a table. Learn to import and edit text, employ text threading, and apply character styles to imported text.
Presenter(s): Barbara Ash, Adobe certified trainer
Prerequisite: InDesign Level 1 or equivalent experience
Enrollment: Use our Online
Registration Form,
or call 459-5565.
Additional Information: This class is intended for users on either PC or Mac. The software, class, materials and user interface are interchangeable in both labs. The class will be based on the CS5 version of the software; participants should let the instructor know at the beginning of class which version they are using.
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Time |
Fee |
Location |
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April 14, 2011
April 17, 2012
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9am - 4pm |
$47 |
Kerr Hall Room 159
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Course Outline
- Drawing Vector Graphics
- Setting up the document grid
- Drawing straight segments
- Drawing with the pencil tool
- Drawing curved segments with the pen tool
- Drawing combinations of curved and straight segments
- Creating a compound path
- Creating a perfect semicircle
- Adding an end shape to an open path
- Creating a texture effect using a colorized image
- Creating and adding an inline graphic
- Reflecting objects
- Working with Typography
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Changing fonts and type style
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Adding a decorative font and special character
- Applying special font features
- Adjusting letter and word spacing
- Working with tabs
- Creating a hanging indent
- Adding a rule below a paragraph
- Working with Transparency
- Importing and colorizing a black-and-white image
- Applying transparency settings
- Exporting to Adobe Acrobat PDF files
- Creating Tables
- Importing and formatting a table
- Using graphics within tables
- Formatting text within a table
- Finishing up
- Importing and Editing Text
- Flowing text
- Working with styles
- Aligning text vertically
- Threading text
- Changing the number of columns on a page
- Adding a page continuation note
- Creating and applying a character style
- Finding and changing
- Spell-checking a story
- Creating text on a path
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