CS 72.11A InDesign 1 (Live classroom lecture)
WEEK 1 Course Introduction
Class introduction | Introduction to desktop publishing | Working with the CATE student management system
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Note: Stepping Out With InDesign is available in the SRJC bookstore -- use the optional excerpts below if you have not yet purchased the book -- Lecture p 1-2 (PDF: 369K) and Exercise 1 (PDF: 519K)
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WEEK 2 Getting Started
Getting started skills | The document window | InDesign basics
- HANDOUTS
SOWI Errata (PDF: 108K) Typos in the first edition of Stepping Out With InDesign
- OPTIONAL READING
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, 35, 59, 61, 62, 76, 94
- WEBCAST
Setting up Elluminate for watching webcasts
InDesign basics, toolbox and color: page 6-7 recorded Spring 09
Webcast of Cyndi's "live" noontime office hour where she talks about Lab 2, fill/stroke color, the Color vs Swatches panel and Kuler
- WORK ASSIGNED
Learning Styles Quiz
Lab 2 Student Profile (PDF: 177K)
Lab2.indt (860K) -- for CS3 users substitute Lab2cs3.inx
Use cookie1.jpg (150K) or cookie2.jpg (314K) if you don't have a digital graphic of yourself
PC: right-click /Mac: control-click to download the above InDesign templates and graphics
- TURN IN
Due September 3/4: submit Lab 2 (PDF) at CATE
Due September 3/4: submit Student Survey at CATE
Due September 3/4: submit Private CATE Message
Due September 3: submit Quiz 1 at CATE
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WEEK 3 InDesign Workspace
Customizing InDesign | Setting up the document | Introduction to master pages
Student Profile Catalog (PDF: 2.7MB) Meet the Thursday Santa Rosa class
Student Profile Catalog (PDF: 2.2MB) Meet the Friday Petaluma class
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WEEK 4 Workflow
The File Menu | Two InDesign workflows | Workflow options for printed output
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WEEK 5 Text wrap
Frame basics | More frame skills
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WEEK 6 Manipulating Objects
Manipulating objects
- OPTIONAL RESOURCES
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #60, 67-70
- Webcast of Cyndi's "live" noontime office hour where she reviews Quiz 1 and Quiz 2 to prepare for the test
- WORK ASSIGNED
Brochure Setup (optional) -- look at the 3-Fold Brochure Set-up on page 73 of Stepping Out With InDesign
- TURN IN
Test 1 screen shot (PDF: 390K) -- download and print before you go to CATE to take the test (choose the Acrobat/Reader Page Scaling option in the File..Print menu to shrink the document to the fitable area)
Due October 1: submit Test 1 at CATE
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WEEK 7 Transformations
Transformations
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WEEK 8 Text Basics
Intro to layers | Text basics
- OPTIONAL READING
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #30-32, 81
- WORK ASSIGNED
Lab 7 Tabloid Trash (PDF:660K)
Webcasts: (1 hour) Test review from Elluminate office hour (there is a 5-minute gap in the middle where I lost my audio)
- TURN IN
Due October 15: submit Quiz 3 at CATE
Due October 15/16: print and submit Lab 7 in class
Midterm survey results (PDF: 60K)
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WEEK 9 Text Formatting
Text formatting principles
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WEEK 10 Text Styles
Text styles
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WEEK 11 Color Theory
Intro to color theory | Swatches, tints and gradients
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WEEK 12 Graphics
Graphics theory | Working with imported graphics
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WEEK 13 Graphics and Special Effects
Working with imported graphics | Special effects for graphics and objects
- OPTIONAL READING
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #55-58, 65
- WORK ASSIGNED
Lab 12 Magazine Title Page (PDF: 168K)
At the height of the boom in 1879-1880, Bodie was so rough and wicked that shootings, stabbings, and thefts took place nearly every day. But the local badmen who gave the town such a violent reputation did not bother the gold-crazed crowd, because the mines were the center of attention throughout the West. Perhaps to make Bodie a synonym for violence and toughness, a rival mining camp newspaper quoted a young girl in 1879, on learning that her family was moving to the camp, as reportedly saying, “Goodbye, God! We’re going to Bodie!”
Bodie1 (671K) Bodie2 (640K)
- TURN IN
Due November 19/20: print and submit Lab 12 in class
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WEEK 14 Pages
Special effects for type | Managing multiple page documents
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THANKSGIVING
WEEK 15 Threading Text
Importing and threading text | More on master pages
- OPTIONAL READING
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #18, 20
- WORK ASSIGNED
Lab 14 Magazine Master Pages (PDF: 90K)
- TURN IN
Due December 10/11: print and submit Lab 14 in class
Due December 10/11: submit official Adobe survey at Metrics That Matter
Due December 10: submit Quiz 6 at CATE (no studying is necessary as this is a class survey)
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WEEK 16 Review
Looking at topics in CIS 73.41B and class review
- WORK ASSIGNED
Layout for 3-fold brochure from AJ Printing (934K) -- right-click to download this InDesign document
Final exam brochure (to be printed and brought to the final exam PDF: 142K) -- use this instead of SOWI pg 92-93
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FINAL EXAM
Santa Rosa: Thursday December 17th 5-7pm
Petaluma: Friday December 18th 7am Petaluma Call Bldg Rm 656
Online:
Saturday December 12th 9am Santa Rosa Maggini Hall Rm 2928
Prior arrangements can be made to attend one of my other "live" final exams
Cumulative True/False Multiple Choice exam
Bring a Scantron and #2 pencil
Bring Stepping Out With InDesign for reference
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Previous Student Work
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