Book description
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe
InDesign CC
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on
software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training
program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems
Incorporated, developed with the support
of Adobe product experts.
Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book contains 16 lessons
that cover the basics, providing countless tips and techniques to
help you become more productive with the program. You can follow
the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that
interest you.
Purchasing this book gives you access to the downloadable lesson
files you need to work through the projects in the book, and to
electronic book updates covering new features that Adobe releases
for Creative Cloud customers. For access, go to
www.peachpit.com/redeem and redeem the unique code provided inside
this book.
“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training
material on the market. Everything you need to master the software
is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-bystep
instructions, and the project files for the students.”
Barbara Binder,
Adobe Certified Instructor
Rocky Mountain Training
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Where are the Lesson Files?
- Contents
- Getting Started
- 1. Introducing the Workspace
- 2. Getting to Know InDesign
-
3. Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages
- Getting started
- Creating and saving custom document settings
- Creating a new document
- Switching between open InDesign documents
- Working with master pages
- Applying master pages to document pages
- Adding new document pages
- Rearranging and deleting document pages
- Changing the size of pages
- Adding sections to change page numbering
- Overriding master page items on document pages and placing text and graphics
- Viewing the completed spread
- Exploring on your own
- Review questions
- Review answers
-
4. Working with Objects
- Getting started
- Working with layers
- Creating and modifying text frames
- Creating and modifying graphics frames
- Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
- Placing and linking graphics frames
- Changing the shape of a frame
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Modifying the shape of frames
- Transforming and aligning objects
- Selecting and modifying grouped objects
- Creating a QR code
- Finishing up
- Exploring on your own
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 5. Flowing Text
- 6. Editing Text
- 7. Working with Typography
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8. Working with Color
- Getting started
- Managing color
- Synchronizing color settings in Adobe Bridge
- Specifying color settings in InDesign
- Displaying images at full resolution
- Proofing colors onscreen
- Defining printing requirements
- Creating and applying colors
- Working with gradients
- Creating a tint
- Creating a spot color
- Applying colors to text and objects
- Using advanced gradient techniques
- Exploring on your own
- Review questions
- Review answers
-
9. Working with Styles
- Getting started
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Creating and applying character styles
- Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
- Creating and applying object styles
- Creating and applying table and cell styles
- Globally updating styles
- Loading styles from another document
- Exploring on your own
- Review questions
- Review answers
-
10. Importing and Modifying Graphics
- Getting started
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Updating revised graphics
- Adjusting display quality
- Working with clipping paths
- Working with alpha channels
- Importing native Adobe graphics files
- Using a library to manage objects
- Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
- Exploring on your own
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 11. Creating Tables
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12. Working with Transparency
- Getting started
- Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
- Applying transparency settings
- Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
- Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
- Applying transparency settings to text
- Working with effects
- Exploring on your own
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 13. Printing and Exporting
- 14. Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields
- 15. Creating and Exporting an ebook
- 16. Working with Long Documents
- Index
- Contributors
- Production Notes
- Where are the Lesson Files?
Product information
- Title: Adobe® InDesign® CC Classroom in a Book®
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2013
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780133416305
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