CreativeLIVE - Mastering Indesign CS6 with Jason Hoppe_Sin

Course description:

Once you begin to use the powerful tools that InDesign CS6 offers youll find that there are tips and tricks at every turn that will help elevate your skills to the next level of design and production. Moving along to a more advanced level of understanding paragraph and character styles to assembling multi-chapter books you will find that InDesign is much more capable and powerful than most people ever discover. This Master Class will bring you beyond what most people know about InDesign and show how to create interactive files with audio video rollovers forms and many new features that have been added in CS6. Creating your vision across multiple formats from traditional print to newly added tablet and phone app creation capabilities. This course is not just a quick once-over. This course offers techniques and industry insights that will raise your productivity to new heights and allow you to design like never before.

Jason will teach tips and tricks to elevate your skills to the next level of design and production. Jason will start with the basics of quality typography, strong page layout, and smart color choices. You’ll develop a more advanced understanding of paragraph and character styles and you’ll learn about assembling multi-chapter books. Jason will also show you how to create interactive files with audio, video, rollovers, forms and more!

Day 1 5h39m35s

Interface Overview
Document Setup
Preferences and Customization
Type and Text Basics
Text Flow
Text Wrap
Glyphs and Text Utilities
Containers and Shapes
Modifying and Positioning Containers
The Pen Tool
Day 1 Wrap-Up


Day 2 5h45m37s

Working with Color
Color Q&A
The Effects Panel
Images and the Links Panel
Contact Sheet: Grids, Captions & Options
Importing and Displaying Images
Layers
The Pages Panel
Page View and Transitions
Printing
Exporting to PDF
Preflight
General Q&A
Day 2 Wrap-Up


Day 3 5h38m54s

Master Pages: Layout & Style
Advanced Paragraph Styles
Creating Tables
Table of Contents, Indexing, Book Features