InDesign CC Digital Classroom Book 2015 Edition
The Adobe InDesign CC Digital Classroom Book 2015 edition is like having a personal instructor guiding you through each lesson, while you work at your own pace. This InDesign CC book with video training includes 14 self-paced lessons helping you learn essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe InDesign CC 2015 and updated to include 2016 InDesign CC revisions.
- Full color lessons with easy to follow step-by-step instructions view sample lesson
- Video tutorials highlight key topics in each lesson
- Covers all essential InDesign skills.
- Update for InDesign CC 2015 including the mid-year 2016 InDesign CC update.
- Gets you up-and-running quickly with InDesign CC lesson files and video training
- Written by expert InDesign instructors who regularly teach InDesign courses – it's like having your own personal tutor
- Used by hundreds of schools and more than 100,000 readers
This book is available to schools and training centers directly from American Graphics Institute in either print or digital format. Contact American Graphics Institute for details.
Download the InDesign CC Digital Classroom 2015 edition table of contents (PDF).
InDesign CC Digital Classroom Book 2015 Edition Contents
Download the InDesign CC Digital Classroom 2015 edition table of contents (PDF).
Starting Up
- About InDesign CC 2015 Digital Classroom
- Prerequisites
- System requirements
- Starting Adobe InDesign CC
- Fonts used in this book
- Resetting the InDesign workspace and preferences
- Loading lesson files
- Working with the video tutorials
- Setting up the video
tutorials for viewing - Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash Player
- Additional resources
Lesson 1: InDesign CC Essential Skills
- Starting up
- InDesign tools
- The InDesign workspace
- The document window
- Using guides
- Viewing modes
- Working with panels
- The Tools panel
- Managing panels
- Saving your workspace
- Working with the Control panel
- Navigating through an InDesign document
- Using the Pages panel
- Changing the magnification of your document
- Working with type
- Entering and formatting type
- Placing and formatting type
- Flowing type
- Using styles
- Applying paragraph styles
- Applying character styles
- Apply styles across a story using Find/Change
- Applying object styles
- Working with graphics
- Placing graphics
- Positioning graphics within a frame
- Applying text wrap
- Understanding layers
- Applying effects
- Resources for additional help
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 2: Working Smarter with Master Pages
- Starting up
- Planning your document
- Creating custom page sizes
- Creating a new custom-sized document
- Creating and formatting master pages
- Formatting master pages
- Adding automatic page numbering
- Using text variables
- Basing master pages on other master pages
- Overriding master page items
- Adding layout pages
- Placing formatted text
- Creating the classified page
- Adding images and text to the master frames
- Applying master pages to multiple pages
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 3: Working with and Formatting Text
- Starting Up
- Starting up
- Adding text to your document
- Creating a text frame
- Changing character attributes
- Changing font and type styles using
the new font search feature - Setting a font favorite
- Adjusting size
- Adjusting leading
- Adjusting character spacing: kerning and tracking
- Using a baseline shift
- Changing paragraph attributes
- Horizontally aligning text
- Changing the spacing before and after paragraphs
- Using tabs
- Adding rules above or below paragraphs
- Changing text color
- Creating drop caps
- Finding and changing text and text attributes
- Finding and changing text using GREP
- Checking and correcting spelling
- Checking spelling
- Adding words to the dictionary
- Checking spelling as you type
- Automatically correcting spelling
- Editing text using the Story Editor
- Drag-and-drop text editing
- Special characters and glyphs
- Using the Glyphs panel and glyph sets
- Text frame options
- Adjusting text inset
- Vertically aligning text
- Importing text
- Flowing text manually
- Threading text between frames
- Using semi-autoflow to link several text frames
- Changing the number of columns in a text frame
- Baseline grid
- Viewing and changing the baseline grid
- Adding story jumps
- Using styles to format text
- Creating a headline and applying a style
- Importing styles from other documents
- Redefining styles
- Placing text on a path
- Importing text from Microsoft Word
- Missing fonts
- Finding and fixing missing fonts
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 4: Using Styles to Save Time
- Starting up
- Style types
- Paragraph styles
- Defining paragraph styles
- Applying paragraph styles
- Character styles
- Defining character styles
- Applying character styles
- Using nested styles
- Updating styles
- Loading styles from another InDesign document
- Quick Apply
- Organizing styles into groups
- Object styles
- Creating object styles
- Applying an object style
- Changing an object style
- Finishing up
- GREP Styles
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 5: Designing with Graphics
- Starting up
- Understanding how InDesign handles graphics
- Locating missing images
- Working with the Links panel and the Link badge
- Customizing the Links panel
- Adding graphics to your layout
- Fitting an image within an existing frame
- Auto Fitting
- Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
- Placing multiple graphics using Mini Bridge
- Using object styles for images
- Wrapping text around images
- Wrapping text around the bounding box
- Using graphics with clipping paths and alpha channels
- Removing an image background using InDesign
- Using anchored objects
- Advanced importing
- Importing layered Photoshop files
- Importing InDesign layouts as graphics
- Adding a QR Code to a layout
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 6: Organizing Information Using Tables
- Starting up
- Creating a table
- Creating new tables
- Copying and pasting table information
- Converting text to a table and
a table to text - Importing a table
- Editing tables and table options
- Changing row height
- Editing the border
- Formatting rows and columns
- Using fills
- Formatting cells and text
- Resetting the cell styles within a table
- Text alignment and inset within a cell
- Formatting text within a cell and
saving paragraph styles - Formatting text in tables by column
- Working with tables in Story Editor
- Merging cells
- Defining a header cell
- Setting column and row dimensions
- Setting a fixed row height
- Setting column width
- Using graphics in tables
- Placing graphics in cells
- Cell styles and table styles
- Cell styles
- Applying cell styles
- Creating table styles
- Applying table styles
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 7: Designing with Color
- Starting up
- Applying colors to frames and text
- Applying color to text
- Applying color to frames
- Applying Live Corner Effects
- Creating and saving a new swatch
- Applying strokes to text
- Creating a tint reduction
- Making a dashed stroke
- Creating and saving gradients
- Linear gradients
- Saving a gradient
- Adjusting fill opacity
- Radial gradient
- Adjusting the direction of a radial gradient
- One-click edits
- Using the Eyedropper tool to
copy frame attributes - Applying colors to multiple objects
- Updating and editing colors
- Using and saving spot colors
- Colorizing a grayscale image
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 8: Getting Creative with Effects
- Starting up
- Creative effects
- Applying opacity to objects
- Apply effects to stroke or fill only
- Drop shadow
- Adjusting effects for objects
- Bevel and Emboss
- Object styles with effects
- Using Find/Change to
apply object styles - Basic Feather
- The Gradient Feather tool
- Converting text to a path
- Applying blending modes to objects
- The Screen blending mode
- The Multiply blending mode
- Working with imported files
that use transparency - Applying an alpha channel selection
- Applying a path selection
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 9: Working Efficiently with Advanced Document Features
- Starting up
- Adding text variables
- Creating a book from multiple files
- Defining pagination and document order
- Synchronizing attributes across a book file
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Building an index
- Adding topics
- Adding cross-references
- Generating the index
- Creating PDFs and printing from
the Book panel - Creating PDFs
- Printing
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 10: Preparing Files for Output from InDesign
- Starting up
- Packaging
- Preflight checks
- Packaging your document
- Creating an Adobe PDF
- Separation preview
- Printing a proof
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 11: Getting Started with Digital Documents
- Starting up
- InDesign as your Digital Publication Hub
- Interactive design considerations
- Importing multimedia content
- Adding a Hyperlink
- Creating a Multi-State object
- Creating buttons to control multimedia content
- Adding buttons to control a multi-state object
- Creating page transitions
- Creating animations
- Previewing your document
- Exporting your document
- Creating an interactive PDF
- Creating a SWF file
- New layout features
- Auto-Size text frames
- Flexible width text frames
- Layout adjustments
- Liquid layout
- Alternate layouts
- Linked content
- The Content tools
- Creating PDF forms
- Adding a combo box
- Creating a Submit button
- Creating the PDF form
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 12: Creating an ePub in InDesign
- Starting up
- Preparing your InDesign document for ePub conversion
- Using styles
- Controlling Object Export Settings
- Adding interactive links
- Adding hyperlinks
- Creating an interactive Table of Contents
- Adding document metadata
- Creating an ePub
- Specifying Object Export Order
- Using anchored objects to control object placement
- Controlling object properties using Object Styles
- Specifying the cover
- ePub export settings
- ePub viewers
- Distributing ePub files
- Self study
- Review
Lesson 13: Adobe InDesign CC New Features
- Starting up
- About the new features in InDesign CC
- Updated user interface
- 64-bit support
- Improved Font menu
- Font favorites
- Native QR code generation
- The New Document dialog box
- ePub enhancements
- Object Style additions
- Emit CSS
- Index support
- Table of contents
- Improved CSS naming