CS 72.11A InDesign 1 (Online) FALL 2009
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
- 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
- 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: 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: 232K)
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 September 3: submit Lab 2 at CATE
Due September 3: submit Student Survey at CATE
Due September 3: 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: 2.1MB) 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
- OPTIONAL READING
InDesign CS4 How Tos: Technique #16, 17, 21, 37, 47, 49, 52, 53
- WEBCASTS
Looking at PostScript and Adobe's history www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/history/
Paths, frames, text frames: page 17-18 (80 minutes with index)
Graphic frames: page 19 (20 min)
More frame skills: page 20 (20 min)
Text wrapping: page 21 (25 min)
Webcast of Cyndi's "live" noontime office hour where she does more work with fonts, workflows, and pesky vector text wrapping (optional)
- WORK ASSIGNED
Lab 5 Sonoma County Promo (PDF: 87K)
PC: right-click /Mac: control-click to download all 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
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 September 24: submit Lab 5 at CATE
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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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