Program 1:
Chapter 1: Quick Start Tour of Adobe InDesign CS2 (34 min)
1. Creating Guides Using the Line Tool
2. Using Photoshop® Files in InDesign
3. Using Illustrator® Files in InDesign
4. Creating a Shadow & Adding a Logo
5. Placing & Stylizing Text
6. Entering Text & Images into a Table
7. Changing Display Quality & Multiple Text Layers
8. Exporting an InDesign File as a PDF
Chapter 2: Letting InDesign Work for you (41 min)
1. Introducing Document Preferences
2. General, Type & Advanced Type Preferences
3. Units, Increments & Grids Preferences
4. Guides, Pasteboards, Spelling & Story Editor Preferences
5. Display Performance & Appearance of Black Preferences
6. File Handling Preferences & Type Tool Options
7. Grouping Palettes into Clusters
8. Setting Palette Options & Sliding Palettes
9. Showing/Hiding Palettes with Keyboard Shortcuts
10. Creating & Modifying Keyboard Shortcuts
Lesson T11 Creating New Layer & Workspace Shortcuts
Chapter 3: Documents, Presets & Dependencies (21 min)
1. Creating a New Document
2. Saving & Editing Document Presets
3. Working with File Types & Extensions
4. Opening Files
5. Fixing Dependencies Automatically
6. Fixing Dependencies Manually
Chapter 4: Navigation & Adobe Bridge (28 min)
1. Adjusting Page Size
2. Using the Zoom Tool
3. Scrolling the Page & Changing View Size
4. Using the Navigator Palette
5. Introducing Adobe Bridge
6. Viewing Files in Bridge
7. Saving a Workspace, Rating & Labeling
8. Filtering, Reordering & Sorting Files in Bridge
9. Viewing Images in a Slideshow
Chapter 5: Letting InDesign Guide you (29 min)
1. Creating Margins & Columns
2. Understanding Master Pages
3. Setting Up Rulers
4. Creating Guides
5. Understanding Guides as Objects
6. Using Control Palette Calculations
7. Customizing Guide Colors
8. Placing Guides on Layers
9. Placing Guides on Multiple Pages
10. Using Preview Modes
Chapter 6: Beginning your Layout Design (17 min)
1. Saving a Document
2. When Not to Turn on Allow Pages to Shuffle
3. The Rectangle Tool vs. the Rectangle Frame Tool
4. Creating Frames for Text & Graphics
5. Organizing Elements in the Layers Palette
6. Changing the Basic Paragraph Style
7. Selecting, Adjusting & Filling Text Frames
Chapter 7: Importing, Pouring, Flowing & Automation (27 min)
1. Setting up Microsoft Word Import Options
2. Setting Options for Placing Imported Text
3. Placing & Directing Overflow Text
4. Adding Pages to the Document
5. Creating a Layout & Duplicating Text Frames
6. Setting up Text Links Across Multiple Frames
7. Pre-Linking & Adjusting Text Frame Options
8. Using Autoflow for Automatic Documents
Chapter 8: Type Formatting (21 min)
1. Selecting a Font
2. Adjusting Type Size & Leading
3. Exploring More Character Options
4. Adjusting Tracking
5. Introducing Kerning & the Eyedropper Tool
6. Adjusting Kerning & Baseline Shift
Chapter 9: Paragraph Formatting & Design (15 min)
1. Hyphenating Text
2. Adjusting Paragraph Spacing
3. Creating a Bulleted List
4. Indenting Paragraphs Manually
5. Using Drop Caps
Chapter 10: The Basics of Typography (18 min)
1. Inserting Special Characters
2. Inserting White Spaces
3. Using Notes
4. Applying Optical Margin Alignment to Linked Frames
5. Applying Optical Margin Alignment to an Object Style
Chapter 11: Opentype® & Typography (31 min)
1. Using Ligatures
2. Exploring OpenType Fonts
3. Using Discretionary Ligatures & Fractions
4. Using Proportional Oldstyle & Ordinals
5. Using Small Caps & Force Line Break
6. Exploring Glyphs
7. Glyph Palette Options & Applying Glyphs
Chapter 12: Basic Paragraph Style Sheets (22 min)
1. Creating a New Style Sheet
2. Linking Style Sheets
3. The Advantages of Linked Style Sheets
4. Importing Style Sheets from Other Documents
5. Redefining a Style
13. Graphic Frames & Object Styles (30 min)
1. Creating Basic Graphic Frames
2. Adding & Aligning a Stroke to a Graphic Frame
3. Saving a New Object Style
4. Saving a Thin Line as a New Object Style
5. Arranging & Aligning Objects
6. Copying Shapes & Applying Rich Black
7. Editing the Shape & Size of Objects in Sequence
8. Transform Again Individually to Duplicate Frames
9. Converting Shapes
14. Importing Vector Graphics (26 min)
1. Importing Illustrator Files
2. The Main Selection Tool vs. the Direct Selection Tool
3. Scaling an Image Numerically
4. Moving an Anchor Point, Rotating, Scaling & Moving
5. Fitting Content Proportionally
6. Using Shortcuts to Scale a Graphic
7. Importing an Illustrator File from Bridge
8. Importing an Image & Changing Its Transparency
15. Adobe Photoshop® Import & Creativity (32 min)
1. Importing & Adjusting Photoshop Images
2. Utilizing the Links Palette
3. Drag & Drop from Bridge & Fill Frame Proportionally
4. Adjusting Display Performance
5. Placing a Background Image
6. Drawing a Line & Adding an Illustrator Title
7. Nudging an Image with the Arrow Keys
8. Accessing Layers Using Object Layer Options
9. Cropping & Viewing Layers
16. Layered Design & Text Wrap (30 min)
1. Bringing in Separate Images Defined by One Image
2. Placing a Background Image & Changing Text Color
3. Organizing Layers & Placing a Title
4. Customizing a Title Layout Design
5. Creating an Advanced Layered Design
6. Using Photoshop Clipping Paths
7. Using Text Wrap
17. Creating & Storing Color (26 min)
1. Introducing the Swatches & Color Palettes
2. Creating Color & Tint Swatches
3. Working with Spot Colors
4. Creating Mixed Ink Swatches & Groups
5. Using Gradients & Making a New Gradient Swatch
6. Adding Small Color Reference Frames to Images
18. Intelligent Type Styles (22 min)
1. Adding & Positioning a Text Frame
2. Formatting & Aligning Text
3. Creating Paragraph Styles
4. Editing Style Sheets for Automation Using Next Styles
5. Duplicating a Text Frame & Replacing the Text
6. Creating a Tint Swatch to Change Text Color
19. Baseline Grid Control (21 min)
1. Creating an Image Box & Placing the Image
2. Importing & Placing a Layered PDF File
3. Using the Paste In Place Command
4. Dragging & Dropping Images from Bridge
5. Introducing Document & Baseline Grids
6. Setting Grid Preferences & Snapping into Alignment
20. Powerful Nested Styles & Snippets (31 min)
1. Importing Style Sheets
2. Snapping to Baseline Grid
3. Creating Character Style Sheets
4. Creating Nested Style Sheets
5. Adjusting the Optical Margin Alignment
6. Introducing Snippets
7. Working with Snippets
21. Compounds, Shadows & Transparency (24 min)
1. Setting Transparency Options
2. Applying a Drop Shadow
3. Using the Redefine Object Style Command
4. Working with Compound Paths
5. Using the Pathfinder Palette
6. Final Comments & Credits