ABC Level 3 Award in Desktop Publishing Skills - enrol on T7790

24 Thursday evenings from 6.30pm - 9.00pm (with a break for coffee & chocolate)
running from 21st Sep 2006 - 19th April 2007 (projected)

Lecturer Jed Gibbs - email jednet@mac.com or mobile 07970 821877

We are using the most up-to-date version 4 of InDesign as bundled with Adobe Creative Suite 2,
together with other software including Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2

ABC Award course criteria

Booklist

Week by week course guide

Online video training by Lynda.com, VTC.com & Total Training

Layout design examples

Official Adobe InDesign site

Student prices on InDesign and the Adobe Creative Suite 2 from Adobe

Education priced software from Pugh

Creativepro.com InDesign page  Tips of the week archive  Creativepro booklist

Questionnaire - previous experience, desired learning...

Tool Box Menus and Palettes -

InDesign CS introduces the Control Palette which improves on the QuarkXPress Measurements Palette and makes InDesign a comfortable replacement for seasoned QuarkXPress users.

InDesign CS2 review at CreativePro.com

New to InDesign 2 were transparency, tables, toc and index, preview, Open Type, Adobe Core Technologies colour management, Mac OS X support

Tabs and Indents

Type classifications and letterforms Adobe pdfs

Fonts links including free fonts   Fontographer

Trapping

Style Sheets

Master Pages and Page numbering

Multiple windows open for the same document - compare two or more pages, get immediate feedback on a change on to master page and its consequences on actual pages, or two different magnifications of the same spread.

Flip an image

Converting from QuarkXPress handouts

First look at QuarkXPress 7

Clipping paths using the pentool in Adobe Photoshop

Creating graphics in the right formats in Adobe Photoshop

http://www.computer-training-software.com/adobe-indesign.htm