InDesign CC Digital Classroom E-Book

Christopher Smith

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Digital Classroom
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 541

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Learn the newest version of Adobe's premiere page designsoftware--InDesign CC-- with this completepackage Written by a team of expert instructors, this completebook-and-DVD package teaches even the most inexperienced beginnerhow to design eye-popping layouts for brochures, magazines,e-books, and flyers. Step-by-step instructions in the full-colorbook are enhanced by video tutorials on the companion DVD. Thirteenself-paced lessons let you learn Adobe InDesign CC (Creative Cloud)at your own speed; it's like having your own personal tutorteaching you the hottest new version of this leading page layoutsoftware. * Includes 13 self-paced lessons that take you fromInDesign basics through intermediate-level skills, allowing you tolearn at your own speed * Explores the new features and capabilities ofInDesign CC, the leading Adobe page design software * Features members of the AGI Creative Team who walk youthrough the latest version of Adobe InDesign * Contains step-by-step instructions in thefull-color book and video tutorials on the DVD, which work togetherto provide a clear understanding of the topic InDesign CC Digital Classroom is the ideal book-and-DVDtraining package to get you up to speed on InDesign so you cancreate designs that dazzle. Note: DVD and other supplementary materials are notincluded as part of the e-book file, but are available for downloadafter purchase.

Leseprobe

Adobe® InDesign® CC

Digital Classroom®

Christopher Smith and the AGI Creative Team

Contents

Starting up

Lesson 1: InDesign CC Essential Skills

Lesson 2: Working Smarter with Master Pages

Lesson 3: Working with and Formatting Text

Lesson 4: Using Styles to Save Time

Lesson 5: Designing with Graphics

Lesson 6: Organizing Information Using Tables

Lesson 7: Designing with Color

Lesson 8: Getting Creative with Effects

Lesson 9: Working Efficiently with Advanced Document Features

Lesson 10: Preparing Files for Output from InDesign

Lesson 11: Getting Started with Digital Documents

Lesson 12: Creating an ePub in InDesign

Lesson 13: Adobe InDesign CC New Features

Starting up

About InDesign Digital Classroom

Adobe® InDesign® CC lets you create print and digital layouts for brochures, magazines, books, flyers, marketing, and sales sheets. InDesign was originally conceived for creating print and PDF documents, but it is evolving into a tool for creating interactive and digital documents. With the Adobe InDesign CC Digital Classroom you will discover how to integrate InDesign with other Adobe Creative Cloud products and how you can create InDesign projects and export them for use on the nook, Kindle, or iPad®. The Adobe InDesign CC Digital Classroom helps you to understand all the essential capabilities of Adobe InDesign and to get the most out of InDesign. The goal of the Adobe InDesign CC Digital Classroom is to get you up-and-running right away, creating documents for print and digital environments. You can work through all the lessons in this book, or complete only specific lessons. Each lesson includes detailed, step-by-step instructions, along with lesson files, useful background information, and video tutorials.

Adobe InDesign CC Digital Classroom is like having your own expert instructor guiding you through each lesson while you work at your own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let you discover essential skills, explore new ones, and pick up tips that will save you time. You’ll be productive right away, with real-world exercises and simple explanations. Each lesson includes step-by-step instructions, lesson files, and video tutorials, all of which are available on the Digital Classroom website: www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/indesigncc. The Adobe InDesign CC Digital Classroom lessons are developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems, participated in development of Adobe Certified Expert exams, and have more than a decade of experience teaching InDesign so you can be confident that you will discover useful skills quickly and easily.

Prerequisites

Before you start the Adobe InDesign CC Digital Classroom lessons, you should have a working knowledge of your computer and its operating system. You should know how to use the directory system of your computer so that you can navigate through folders. You also need to understand how to locate, save, and open files, and you should also know how to use your mouse to access menus and commands.

Make sure that you have installed Adobe InDesign CC. The software is sold separately and is not included with this book. You can use the free 30-day trial version of Adobe InDesign CC available at the adobe.com website, subject to the terms of its license agreement.

System requirements

Before starting the lessons in the Adobe InDesign CC Digital Classroom, make sure that your computer is equipped for running Adobe InDesign CC, which you must purchase separately. The minimum system requirements for your computer to effectively use the software are listed on the following page.

System requirements for Adobe InDesign CC

These are the minimum system requirements for using the InDesign CC software. Your computer will need to meet these requirements to use the software and the lessons in this book:

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor • Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1 or Windows 8 • 2 GB of RAM (with 8 GB or more recommended) • 2.6 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; although additional free space is required during installation. The software cannot be installed on removable flash storage devices • 1024 × 768 display (1280 × 800 recommended) with 32-bit video card • Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software required to export SWF files • InDesign CC requires activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor• Mac OS X v10.6.8, v10.7, or v10.8• 2 GB of RAM (with 8 GB or more recommended)• 2.6 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation. The software cannot be installed on removable flash storage devices and cannot be installed on a hard drive volume that uses a case-sensitive file system.• 1024 × 768 display (1280 × 800 recommended) with 16-bit video card• Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files• InDesign CC requires activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation

Menus and commands are identified throughout the book by using the greater-than symbol (>). For example, the command to print a document appears as File > Print. This indicates that you should click the File menu at the top of your screen and choose Print from the resulting menu.

Starting Adobe InDesign CC

As with most software, Adobe InDesign CC is launched by locating the application in your Programs folder (Windows) or Applications folder (Mac OS). If you are not familiar with starting the program, follow these steps to start the Adobe InDesign CC application:

Windows

1 Choose Start > All Programs > Adobe InDesign CC.

Mac OS

1 Open the Applications folder, and then open the Adobe InDesign CC folder.

2 Double-click the Adobe InDesign CC application icon.

Fonts used in this book

Adobe InDesign CCDigital Classroom includes lessons that refer to fonts that were installed with your copy of Adobe InDesign CC. If you did not install the fonts, or have removed them from your computer, you can substitute different fonts for the exercises or reinstall the software to access the fonts.

If you receive a Missing Font warning, replace the font with one available on your computer and proceed with the lesson.

Access lesson files & videos any time

Register your book at www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/indesignccto download the lesson files onto any computer, or watch the videos on your Internet connected tablet, smartphone, or computer. You’ll be able to watch the Digital Classroom videos anywhere you have an Internet connection.

Resetting the InDesign workspace and preferences

To make certain that your panels and working environment are consistent, you should reset your workspace at the start of each lesson. To reset your workspace, choose Window > Workspace > Typography. The selected workspace determines the menu items to display, the panels to display, and the options to display within the panels. If menu items that are identified in the book are not displaying, choose Show All Menu Items from the menu in which you are working to locate them, or choose Window > Workspace > Advanced to show all panel options.

You can reset the settings for InDesign at the start of each lesson to make certain you match the instructions used in this book. To reset the InDesign preferences, start Adobe InDesign, and immediately press Shift+Alt+Ctrl (Windows) or Shift+Option+Command+Control (Mac OS). In the dialog box that appears, click OK to reset the preferences.

Loading lesson files

The InDesign CC Digital Classroom book includes files that accompany the exercises for each of the lessons. These files are available for download at www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/indesigncc. You can download all the lessons at one time or you may choose to download and work with specific lessons.

For each lesson in the book, the files are referenced by the name of each file. The exact location of each file on your computer is not used, since you might have placed the files in a unique location on your hard drive. We suggest placing the lesson files in the My Documents folder (Windows) or in the Documents folder (Mac OS).

Downloading and copying the lesson files to your hard drive:

1 Use your web browser, navigate to www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/indesigncc. Follow the instructions on the web page to download the lesson files to your computer.

2 On your computer desktop, navigate to the location where you downloaded the files and right-click (Windows) the .zip file you downloaded, then choose Extract All or double-click on the .zip file (Mac OS).

Working with the video tutorials

The www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/indesigncc site provides Adobe InDesign CC Digital Classroom book readers with video tutorials that enhance the content of this book. The videos use the popular Silverlight player for viewing on your desktop or notebook computer, or use iPad-compatible video if you are using an iPad to read an electronic version of this book. Most other ePub devices are not optimized for playing video, and you should use a notebook, desktop, or tablet computer for viewing the video tutorials if you are using a dedicated e-reader such as a nook, Kindle, kobo, or Sony e-reader. An internet connection is necessary for viewing the supplemental video files.

The videos enhance your learning as key concepts and instructions are discussed by the book’s authors. The video tutorials supplement the book’s contents, and do not replace the book. They are not intended to cover every item discussed in the book, but will help you gain a better or more clear understanding of topics discussed in many lessons of the book.

Additional resources

The Digital Classroom series goes beyond the training books. You can continue your learning online, with training videos, at seminars and conferences, and in-person training events.

On-demand video training from the authors

Comprehensive video training from the authors are available at DigitalClassroom.com. Find complete video training along with thousands of video tutorials covering InDesign and related Creative Cloud apps along with digital versions of the Digital Classroom book series. Learn more at DigitalClassroom.com.

Training from the authors

The authors are available for professional development training workshops for schools and companies. They also teach classes at American Graphics Institute, including training classes and online workshops. Visit agitraining.com for more information about Digital Classroom author-led training classes or workshops.

Additional Adobe Creative Cloud books

Expand your knowledge of creative software applications with the Digital Classroom book series. Books are available for most creative software applications as well as web design and development tools and technologies. Learn more at DigitalClassroomBooks.com.

Seminars and conferences

The authors of the Digital Classroom seminar series frequently conduct in-person seminars and speak at conferences, including the annual CRE8 Conference. Learn more at agitraining.com and CRE8summit.com.

Resources for educators

Visit digitalclassroombooks.com to access resources for educators, including instructors’ guides for incorporating Digital Classroom into your curriculum.

Lesson 1: InDesign CC Essential Skills

This lesson gets you started with InDesign CC, covering essential skills necessary for working efficiently with InDesign documents. It provides a high-level overview of key concepts associated with creating layouts using InDesign. You’ll work with an existing document to understand how to navigate, place graphics, and add formatting to text, creating a finished newsletter that can be printed or distributed as a digital document.

What you’ll learn in this lesson:

• Understanding the InDesign CC Workspace• Working with panels and tools• Navigating through InDesign documents• Importing text and images• Using styles to quickly format text and objects

Starting up

Before you begin, make sure that your tools and panels are consistent by resetting your preferences. (For more information, see “Resetting the InDesign workspace and preferences” in the Starting up section of this book.)

In this lesson, you will work with several files from the id01lessons folder. Make sure that you have copied the idlessons folder onto your hard drive from www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/indesigncc. For more information, see “Loading lesson files” in the Starting up section of this book. If you are completely new to InDesign and don’t have much computer experience, it might be easier to follow the lesson if the id01lessons folder is placed on the desktop of your computer. This lesson provides an overview of InDesign concepts. After completing this lesson, you’ll examine individual capabilities and features in more details in each of the remaining lessons. It might be helpful to view this lesson as a broad survey, providing you with a general understanding of the InDesign landscape, while the remaining lessons provide much more detail about specific InDesign capabilities.

InDesign tools

You’ll use InDesign’s tools for creating or modifying everything that appears in your documents, including text, images, and multimedia elements for digital documents. You’ll also use InDesign’s tools for navigating around the document. All tools are found in the Tools panel, located along the left side of your screen.

Many tools displayed in the tools panel have related tools that provide additional functionality, and you can select these related tools by clicking and holding the tool that is displayed in the tools panel. You can identify the tools with additional functionality by the small arrow in the lower-right corner. You can also right-click (Windows) or Ctrl+click (Mac OS) any tool to access related tools.

If you place your cursor over any tool in the Tools panel without clicking, a tooltip appears displaying the tool’s name and a keyboard shortcut in parentheses. You can use the keyboard shortcut to access a tool from your keyboard, instead of clicking it with your mouse.

Use the InDesign CC Tools panel to create objects, make selections, and modify objects and pages.

The InDesign workspace

InDesign documents are displayed in the center of the work area, while panels that let you control objects or perform specific tasks are displayed along the right side of the workspace in the panel docking area. InDesign uses many panels, and many are critical for editing and design work you perform. InDesign includes various workspaces that provide easy access to the panels and tools you’ll use for specific tasks. Let’s take a closer look at the InDesign workspace, including the document window and panels.

The document window

InDesign pages are displayed within a black border. Anything positioned within this area appears in the final product. The area outside of the black border is referred to as the pasteboard. Anything that is placed completely outside this black border on the pasteboard is generally not visible when the final document is distributed.

You can use the pasteboard to temporarily hold elements while designing your project. You can move design elements such as images from the pasteboard to the page, trying different layout variations. The pasteboard can also be useful for placing notes to colleagues (or to yourself) regarding the project. To get a better understanding of the InDesign workspace, you’ll open up the completed project, reset the workspace, and look at the work area.

1 Choose File > Open. In the Open a File dialog box, navigate to the id01lessons folder and select the id01_done.indd file. Click Open.