CS 72.11A InDesign 1 (Online) SPRING 2010
Class files: Spring 2010
Students are to check this site weekly for class and lab handouts. You will need Acrobat 9 or the free Adobe Reader 9 to access handouts in PDF (Portable Document File) format. You can configure your computer to watch Elluminate webcasts at the CCC Confer website.
Join the North Bay Adobe User Group (NBAUG) -- membership is free and monthly meetings are held at the Santa Rosa Junior College campus. Information on how to join, re-join, and get emails about meeetings (PDF: 95K)
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
- RESOURCES
SOWI Errata
(PDF: 108K) Typos in the first printed edition of Stepping Out With InDesign (no CS 72.11A on front cover)
- OPTIONAL READING
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, 35, 59, 61, 62, 76, 94
- RECORDED WEBCASTS
Cross-platform skills and getting started skills (30 minutes): page vi, 3
InDesign workspace, panels, context help (45 minutes): page 3-4
Document window, navigation and page skills (20 minutes): page 5, 7
InDesign basics, toolbox and color (50 minutes) page 6-7
Optional: Cyndi's Elluminate Office Hour introducing PDF workflow tricks for InDesign users
- WORK ASSIGNED
Learning Styles Quiz
Lab 2 Student Profile (PDF: 186K)
Sample of Cyndi's Profile (PDF: 49K)
Lab2.indt (928K) -- for CS3 users Lab2cs3.inx (153K)
cookie1.jpg (150K) cookie2.jpg (314K) -- optional cookie graphics if you do not have a digital picture of yourself
PC: right-click /Mac: control-click to download all of the above files
- TURN IN
Due January 28: submit Lab 2 at CATE
Due January 28: submit Student Survey at CATE
Due January 28: submit Private CATE message
Due January 28: 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: 3.4MB) -- meet the online students of Spring 2010
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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
- OPTIONAL READING
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #16, 17, 21, 37, 47, 49, 52, 53
- RECORDED WEBCASTS
Looking at PostScript and Adobe's history www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/history/
Paths, frames, text frames (80 minutes with index): page 17-18
Graphic frames (20 min): page 19
More frame skills (20 min): page 20
Text wrapping (25 min): page 21
- WORK ASSIGNED
Lab 5 Sonoma County Promo (PDF: 87K)
PC: right-click /Mac: control-click to download the files (graphics are from the Adobe clipart collection)
Lab5.txt (2K)
Preview of Adobe clipart below (PDF: 444K) -- pick out one vector graphic and one image and download below
0000150.ai (160K) 0000904.ai (136K) 0000920.ai (148K) 0001256.ai (122K)
0951000062.jpg (212K) 4641.jpg (346K) 15630.jpg (118K) 11002013217.jpg (266K) 29010002657.jpg (283K)
Note: if the vector graphics download with a ".ps" extension on the PC, it still should work OK to import into InDesign
- TURN IN
Due February 18: submit Lab 5 at CATE
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WEEK 6 Manipulating Objects
Manipulating objects
- OPTIONAL READING
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #60, 67-70
- RECORDED WEBCASTS
Webcasts are now closed captioned -- click on the CC button when watching a webcast to view a transcript
Manipulating objects - selecting, stacking, grouping (60 minutes): page 23-24
Manipulating objects - aligning and copying (30 minutes): page 24-25
Info and Links panels (30 minutes): page 22
- WORK ASSIGNED
Brochure Setup (optional) -- look at the 3-Fold Brochure Set-up on page 73 of Stepping Out With InDesign
Test 1 screen shot (PDF: 845K) -- view, download and print both pages 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
Page 1 is the screen shot and Page 2 is the finished product
- TURN IN
Due February 25: submit Test 1 at CATE (print out screen shot above)
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WEEK 7 Transformations
Transformations | Intro to layers
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WEEK 8 Text Basics
Text basics
Midterm survey results (PDF: 129K)
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SPRING BREAK (no classes March 15-20)
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
- OPTIONAL READING
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #73, 74, 95
- RECORDED WEBCASTS
Color theory, color issues and workflow solutions: page 36-37 (60 minutes)
Spot colors and workflow summary: page 38 (20 minutes)
Swatches tints and gradients: page 39-40 (40 minutes)
Applying colors and gradients and the Eyedropper tool: page 41 (25 minutes)
- WORK ASSIGNED
Lab 10 Postcard with CMYK and Spot Color (PDF: 136K)
- TURN IN
Due April 7: submit Lab 10 at CATE
- EXTRA
Color shift sample (RGB PDF: 573K)-- follow the instructions on page 1 of this PDF to compare the color shift of some problematic (out of gamut) RGB colors when printed
Cyndi's color workflow diagram (PDF: 299K)
Adobe's color workflow whitepaper (PDF: 4.5MB)
Adobe Swatch Exchange swatches from http://kuler.adobe.com -- right mouse click (PC)/control-click (Mac) to download and save
Cherry Cheesecake.ase (1K)
Brown Trout.ase (1K)
Paleta.ase (1K)
Mona Lisa (1K)
Burning Halloween (1K)
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WEEK 12 Graphics
Graphics theory | Working with imported graphics
- OPTIONAL RESOURCES
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #56-58
- RECORDED WEBCASTS
Graphics theory of vector vs images: page 44
Images and measurement of image/monitor/printer quality: page 45
Vector and image filetypes: page 45
Links panel and fitting a graphic in a frame: page 45
- WORK ASSIGNED
Lab 11 Importing Graphics (PDF: 151K)
Lab11questions (PDF: 724K) -- save and click on the Submit Form button in the upper right corner when finished
Lab11.zip (5MB) -- download and extract the contents of this zipped file as instructed
- TURN IN
Due April 8: follow instructions to submit the Lab 11 form (do this lab before taking the test)
Due April 8: submit Test 2 at CATE
Test 2 sample document (PDF: 767K)
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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
- RECORDED 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 April 15: submit Lab 12 at CATE
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WEEK 14 Pages
Special effects for type | Managing multiple page documents
- OPTIONAL READING
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #19, 82
- RECORDED WEBCASTS
Type on a path: page 47-48 (50 minutes)
Paragraph rules: page 48 (30 minutes)
Multiple page documents: page 49 (30 minutes)
- WORK ASSIGNED
Lab 13 Magazine Pictures and Quotes (PDF: 330K)
Cyndi's Bodie Demo (PDF: 998K)
Right-mouse (PC) or control-click (Mac) to download these files to your hard drive:
BodieBoomTown.doc (28K) WelcomeToBodie.doc (28K)
BodieGraphics.zip (5.9MB) Remember to extract/expand the graphics and read the text file of caption descriptions
- TURN IN
Due April 22: submit Quiz 5 at CATE
Due April 22: submit Lab 13 at CATE
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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)
- RECORDED WEBCASTS
Importing and threading text: page 50-52 (1 hour 50 minutes)
Sadly, this was recorded last Fall 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
- WORK ASSIGNED
Lab 14 Magazine Master Pages (PDF: 92K)
- TURN IN
Due April 29: submit Lab 14 at CATE
Due April 29: submit official Adobe survey at Metrics That Matter
Due April 29: submit Quiz 6 at CATE (no studying is necessary as this is a class survey)
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WEEK 16 Review
Looking at what's next in CS 72.11B InDesign 2 and InDesign 1 class review
- RESOURCES
TBD
- RECORDED WEBCASTS
TBD
- WORK ASSIGNED
Layout for 3-fold brochure from AJ Printing (934K) -- right-click to download this InDesign document
Final exam brochure (PDF: 228K) -- use this instead of SOWI pg 92-93
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WEEK 17 Special Topics in InDesign
Topics to be announced
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FINAL EXAM
May 15 (Saturday) 9am Maggini Hall Santa Rosa campus -- the final exam is to be taken in person
Special arrangements must be made with Cyndi to take the final exam at a different location
with a proctor
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 Spring 10
Pagosa Springs Flier (PDF: 2.5MB)
Sonoma County Text Wrap (PDF: 2.2MB)
Business Card Imposition (PDF: 1.7MB)
Tabloid Trash (PDF: 3.7MB)
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Previous Student Work
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