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CS 72.11A InDesign 1 (Online) FALL 2009

CATE Gradebook Messages | Elluminate Virtual Office Hour Thursday 12pm | Best of Class Labs | Previous Student Work
WEEK 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | FINAL

WEEK 1 Course Introduction

Class introduction | Introduction to desktop publishing | Working with the CATE student management system

Note: some browsers have problems displaying PDFs, including Firefox on the PC. It's best to view/print my PDFs using either the free Adobe Reader or Acrobat program. Web browsers can be customized as to what helper application is used with PDFs.

Note: Stepping Out With InDesign is sold at the bookstore and can be ordered online at www.santarosa.edu/bookstore -- if you do not have your book yet, use these excerpts below to complete Lab 1
Lecture p 1-2 (PDF: 566K) and Exercise 1 (PDF: 234K).

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WEEK 2 Getting Started

Getting started skills | The document window | InDesign basics

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WEEK 3 InDesign Workspace

Customizing InDesign | Setting up the document | Introduction to master pages

Student Profile Catalog (PDF: 2.1MB) Meet the 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 Frames and text wrap

Frame basics | More frame skills

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WEEK 6 Manipulating Objects

Manipulating objects

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WEEK 7 Transformations

Transformations | Intro to layers

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WEEK 8 Layers and Text Basics

Text basics

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
  • WEBCASTS
    Bodie and special effects basics: page 46 (15 minutes)
    Drop shadows, feathering and transparency: page 46-47 (30 minutes)
  • WORK ASSIGNED
    Lab 12 Magazine Title Page
    (PDF: 171K)
    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: submit Lab 12 at CATE

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WEEK 14 Pages

Special effects for type | Managing multiple page documents

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THANKSGIVING (no classes)


WEEK 15 Threading Text

Importing and threading text | More on master pages

  • OPTIONAL READING
    InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #18, 20
  • RESOURCES
    California State Parks: Bodie (you have copyright permission to use materials from this site)
  • WEBCASTS
    Importing and threading text: page 50-52
    Sadly, this was recorded as the Elluminate server went down and all that could be retrieved is one big webcast
    The section on managing text frames starts at minute 58
    Cyndi's "live" Elluminate webcast on master pages: page 53
  • WORK ASSIGNED
    Lab 14 Magazine Master Pages (PDF: 92K)
  • TURN IN
    Due December 10: submit Lab 14 at CATE
    Due December 10: 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

December 12 (Saturday) 9am Maggini Hall Rm 2928 Santa Rosa campus -- the final exam is to be taken in person

Prior arrangements can be made to attend one of my other "live" final exams
Santa Rosa: Thursday December 17th 5-7pm Santa Rosa Maggini Hall Rm 2907
Petaluma: Friday December 18th 7am Petaluma Call Bldg Rm 656

Cumulative True/False Multiple Choice exam
Bring a Scantron and #2 pencil
Bring Stepping Out With InDesign for reference

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Best of Class Labs Fall 09

Pagosa Springs (2 pages PDF: 1.55MB)
Sonoma County Text Wrap (3 pages PDF: 1.7MB)
Tabloid Trash (2 pages PDF: 1.6MB)
Variations on a Theme (7 pages PDF: 2.2MB)
Styles (3 pages PDF: 1MB)
Postcards (6 pages PDF: 1.6MB)

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Previous Student Work

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