Class 6

Adobe InDesign CS2
CLASS VI

Sample Files will be Provided in Class Placing Images Without drawing a frame Drawing a frame Into and existing frame Using Bridge Exercise One Create a new document Place any of the sample images Without drawing a frame Drawing a frame Into an existing frame Using Bridge Position Tool Review Selection Tool Exercise One B Arrange your images so they can all be seen on one page using the position tool and selection tools. More Placing Moving between frames Replacing Exercise Two Replace images with other images using the 'place' menu item Move some images into a new frame. Import Options JPEG, TIFF PSD PDF Exercise Three Open a new document. Place red-apple.jpg with and without the clipping mask. Place 5thAvenue.tiff with and without the alpha channel. Place the desert-scene.psd image several times with different layers showing. Place several pages of the file "multi-page.pdf" Fit Frame to Content Content to frame To frame proportionally Center Exercise Four Create a new document. Import several images. Try all the Fiting commands. Access from the menu and the control bar. Adjusting Placed Images Object Layer Options Image Color Settings More Clipping Path Editing Direct Select Menu Creating Path on knockout image. Exercise Five Place the desert-scene.psd image and show different layers using Object Layer Options. Open Image Color Setting for that file and review the profile options. Place Ducky.tiff Make a gradient the size of the duck and place it behind the duck. Create a clipping path around the duck. Place red-apple.jpg. Invert the clipping path. Adjust the path using the direct select tool. Transparency Exercise Six Create a new document and ad a small polygon with a fill color. Place the tomato.psd image above that area, zoom in to see the transparency effects. Specialty Frames Compound Paths Text Frames Exercise Six Create a new document and add several frames. Combine them using Compound Paths and place Fiona.pct inside them. Make a text frame from your name. Place an image inside it. Style as you like. Links Relinking Embedding Exercise Seven Create a new document and add several images. Save the file. Go out to the finder and change several image names. Notice That InDesign indicates the linking problem. Relink the files under their new name. Open SF_brochure. Embed and Unembed several images. Don't save your changes. Updating Photoshop Images inside InDesign Exercise Eight Open a new document. Place desert-scene.psd Choose 'Edit Original' from the links palette menu. Make changes in Photoshop. Save the file in Photoshop. Switch back to InDesign. The change is made. Switch to Photoshop. Step Backward to undo. Save again. Switch back to InDesign. Update link to see the change.

Class 5

InDesign CS2
CLASS V

Pencil Tool Preferences (double click) Smooth Erase Hiding / Showing Frame Edges Exercise One Write out the word "FAST" Choose a font and style that portrays the typography. Use the pencil tool to add action lines. Use the smooth tool and erase tool to adjust the lines to the desired style. Pencil Closing a circle (option) Reshaping a pencil path Stroke Weight Swapping stroke and fill. Affecting the fill and stroke of text and objects. Exercise Two Draw a simple sun with the pencil tool. Close the circle with option. Reshape the suns rays. Swape stroke and fill to color the sun. Use color and swatches to fill the sun in color. Add a logo like name: "Sunny Day Camp" or one you choose. Change the color, fill and stroke of the text. Pen Tool Drawing Add Anchor Points Deleting Anchor Points Converting Points Bezier Curves Handles Direct Select Tool Exercise Three Draw a speeding car near your word "FAST". Practice using all the pen tools. Color the car and text. Use varying stroke weights. Stroke Options Cap Butt Round Projected Miter Limit Join Miter Round Bevel Exercise Four Create a zig zag line under the Fast car you have created. Affect the stroke to enhance the look. Experiment with the Miter, Cap and Join options. Stroke Options Type Arrowheads Gap Color Tint Dashed Gaps Eye Dropper Loading Applying Exercise Five Create a text frame with the text "DiReCtiOnS" Add several arrows all around it to create a logo look. Vary the stroke options on each arrow. Use the Eye Dropper to load and apply styles. BONUS: Use large, thick lines with arrowheads to create a background. Corner Effects Drop Shadow Exercise Six Add a frame to all three logos that you have in your document. Add a different corner effect and drop shadow to each frame. Type on a path. Custom Stroke Styles Defining Naming, editing Exercise Seven Make a slight curve using the pen tool. Apply the text 'Horizons' to the curve. Adjust the font, size, position and color of the text. Apply a custom stroke style and color to compliment the text. Feather Exercise Eight Create a New Document. Add three frames to your page. Apply the three types of feather, one to each frame. Attributes Overprint Nonprinting Viewing Overprint Preview Exercise Nine Create several shapes and color them pure ink colors, C, M, Y. Turn overprint on for each object and overlap the shapes. Change the arrangement of the objects using the hot keys and observe the change. Add a designer note and designate its attribute as non printing. Display Performance Object Level Overall Exercise Ten Open SF Brochure Change between the display performance settings. Select one object and change its display performance individually. Colors White vs. Paper Registration Color Gradient Stroke Exercise Eleven Add title sized text to each of your feathered shapes. Apply a gradient to the stroke of each title. Draw Registration marks on your page. Exporting PDFs Settings Defining presets

Class 4

InDesign CS2
CLASS IV

Align Palette Align Distribute Exercise One Creat a new document Align Add 2 different shapes. Fill them with a color. Try all the alignment commands. Between each command, move the objects out of alignment. Distribute Add a 3rd shape. Try all of the distribute commands. Between each command, move objects out of even distribution. Locking Position Exercise One - Part II Repeat Exercise One Lock the position of one object and repeat Exercise One. Align & Distribute Also available in Options - Control Bar Color Types CMYK Tints RGB LAB Spot Colors Color Palette Spectrum Options Color Options CMYK RGB LAB Out of Gamut Symbol Converting to Safe Applying Colors Drag and Drop Select + Choose Color Exercise Two Create 5 text frames naming the differing color options. CMYK, RGB, LAB, Tint and Spot. Use the align and distribute commands to space them evenly at the top of the page. Create 10 frames 0.5" square. Align to the first column CMYK and distribute evenly. Use all the copying methods to create a grid. Copy - Paste Duplicate Menu Option Drag Step and Repeat Use Align and Distribute to adjust to a perfect grid. Fill each square frame with a color corresponding to the column headings CMYK, RGB, LAB. Swatches Palette Types Color Gradient Defining & Storing Applying Making Naming Color Value User Defined Renaming Deleting Organizing / Moving Exercise Three Apply several swatch colors in place of your existing colors. Drag and drop. Click and apply. Create several new swatches. Define a color and create a new swatch in every different color space. Use drag and drop. Use palette menu. Rename the swatches. Rearrange the swatches . Tints Defining Adding Naming Name is linked to original. Renaming Spot Colors Defining Rearranging Libraries Naming Exercise Five Define and add several Tint and Spot colors. Make sure to add some Spot colors from libraries. Fill in the remaining columns with Tint and Spot colors. Gradients Creating Swatch Gradient Ramp Color Stop Midpoint Control Location Linear Radial Separate Organization Exercise Six Define and add several gradients. Switch between Color, Gradient and All Swatches on the Palette. Locking / Unlocking Grouping / Ungrouping Aligning and distributing groups Exercise Six Part II Make a new column for Gradient with all frames below it. Use Align and Distribute to rearrange the you will have to unlock and group. Fill in the remaining frames with gradients. Gradient Palette Reverse Controls Angle Gradient Tool (G) Exercise Seven Use the zoom and view commands to focus on the gradient column. Use the Gradient tool and gradient palette to change the type and direction of your gradients. Apply Color Text Frame Stroke Exercise Eight Apply a different color to each column heading both the frame and text. Apply a color to the stroke of several other frames. More with Swatches Importing (Loading) Exporting (Saving) You must highlight first. Merging (merge to first selection) Shift Click Command Click Selecting All Unused Exercise Nine Load swatches from the sample files. Save 5 swatches to the desktop. Select several swatches and merge them. Delete all unused swatches. Arrange Forward Back Front Back Exercise Ten Create a new file. Add several colored shapes and at least one text frame. Stack the content. Use the arrange commands to change the stacking order. Selecting Above Below Container Content Next Previous Control Bar Exercise Eleven Add several more colored shapes. Practice the select commands. Group objects into at least three groups. Use the Container/Content and Next/Previous options to select objects. Repeat using the control bar.

Class 3

InDesign CS2
CLASS III

Text Flow Linking between frames View>Show Text Threads Creating frames right from the overflow symbol Exercise One PART A Make several text frames. Fill one with placeholder text. Shrink the frame to half its original size so the text overflows. Link it to another frame. Thread the text through several other frames. Show the text thread. Resize the frames and watch what happens with the text. Delete all the frames. PART B Repeat the exercise starting with one text frame and creating all other necessary frames just from the overlow symbol. Text Frame Options Object>Text Frame Options General Columns Inset Spacing Vertical Justification Paragraph Spacing Limit (for vertically justified text only) Exercise Two Create 4 text frames. Fill each with placholder text. Give each a different column and inset setup. Give each a different vertical justification. Using additional text boxes label each type of paragraph justification. Text Frames Options Available in Options (Control) Bar From Select Tool From Text Tool More Paragraph Controls Space Before Space After Bringing up Palettes related to what is selected (Option bar button) Exercise Three Create a letter sized document. Add several text frames. Fill them with placeholder text and break into several paragraphs. Create several different paragraph spaces variations for each frame. Adjust the text frame options for each frame from the control bar (options bar). More with Manipulating Shapes Tranform Moving Scaling Rotate Shear Duplicate Step & Repeat Exercise Four Open SF sample file. Move Palm Tree -100 mm horizontally. Step and repeat the Palm Tree image 6 times every 25 mm. Scale up the bottom two photos by 15% and stagger the placement. Readjust the text frame to restore balance. Rotate the title "san francisco" 5 degrees. Adjust the placement. Shear the bridge picture frame by -10 degrees but not the content. Select vs. Direct Select Content vs. Frame Direct Select then switch to select tool to get scale and control handles. Transform Palette Adjustments with palette controls Direct select transforms (frame or content) Select transforms (frame and content) Exercise Five Go to pages 2 and 3 of the SF Brochure. Don't adjust the oval picture. Change the size of several rectangular pictures by shrinking them. Try shrinking the frame and the content together. Try shrinking just the content and then adjust the frame. Rotate, scale and shear the images to "loosen" up the layout. Adjust text as needed. Transform Palette More Options Flipping Content Reference Point Options Bar Exercise Six Navigate to Page 4 PART A Flip several images horizontally. Loosen up the layout rotating and scaling with the free transform tool. Try changing the reference point. Now try shearing with a change of reference point. PART B Use direct select to reshape the frames and further loosen up the layout. Duplicate and flip the title vertically, change the color and shear so it appears to be reflection or shadow.

Class 2

InDesign CS2
CLASS II

Guides & Pasteboard Preferences Changing Colors Vertical Offset Baseline Grid Grid Preferences Exercise One Make a new document with the specifications: 8.5" x 11" 0.325" margins all around 3 column with 0.125" gutter 0.125" bleed 2" lower slug 6 pages Turn on Document grid Use preferences to change colors. Turn off document grid. Turn on Baseline grid. Use preferences to adjust the grid. Controlling Windows Viewing New Windows Cascade Tile Exercise Two Open several sample documents. Create at least one New Window for each open file. Cascade windows. You may need to 'make a mess' of the windows. Tile the windows. Drawing Shapes Numerically Constraining From Center (option) Using guides to draw circle, where you want it. Polygon Sides Star inset Exercise Three Create a letter sized document. Add several perfect circles. Add several perfect squares. Add 2 rectangles that are 5x3. Add 4 polygons with differnt numbers of sides. Use guides to place a circle right where you want it. Frames Explained (containers) Text Frames Drawing rules apply (shift, option) Selecting word line paragraph frame shift arrow right, left Exercise Four Create a text frame. Fill with placeholder text. Use the various selection methods by clicking with text tool. Text Menu Font Size Text Palette Font Size Line Height Tracking Kerning Vertical & Horizontal Scale Baseline Skew Exercise Five Create several text frames with placeholder text. Change the font and size using the menu bar method. Experiment with text palette controls. Type out the name of each palette option and exmplify its degree of control. Character size: each letter a different size. Line height: repeat on several lines with different heights. Etc... Paragraph Palette (simple justification) Text Styles Character Palette Menu Caps Super - Sub Underline Strikethrough Exercise Six Create a new document that is one page and a landscape orientation. PART A Create a single line of text that exemplifies each text style. PART B Create a city out of text frames and placeholder text. Use the paragraph justifications to create square structures. Experiment with case and text options. Give your city a headline all caps and by line small caps. Bonus: Include shapes. Customizing Underline Strikethrough Effect Tricks Highlight "Framing" Exercise Seven Create 4 text frames Add underline to 1 and adjust with customizing options. Add strikethrough to 1 and adjust with customizing options. Add underline and strikethrough to 1 so that it appears framed by the styles on top and bottom. Add underline to 1 so that it appears highlighted by a color of your choice. Glyphs Inserting (double-click) Creating Set Editing Viewing Deleting Exercise Eight Add several glyphs to your page. Create your own Glyph set. View and edit the set. Add at least 5 glyphs. Delete your set. Tool Bar Tools Scale Rotate Shear Free Distort Exercise Nine Add several objects to your page. Scale, rotate and shear the objects. Try the free distort feature. Selection Tools Select Direct Select Exercise Ten Create several objects. Move the objects with the select tool. Reshape the objects with the direct select tool.