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Lesson 2 - How to Set Up Documents in InDesign CS

The Document area is where you'll set up your document and start creating your knock-out publications. Get an overview of the parts in this lesson of the Adobe InDesign Basics class and find out what you assignment is.

Lesson 1 - InDesign Work Area, Tools, Palettes

In the first lesson of the Adobe InDesign Basics class, Elisabetta reviews the Work Area, Tools, and Palettes that make up the main screen. Learn how to navigate the lessons and how to get the most out of this lesson and the entire course.

Lesson 4 - InDesign CS Tools, Part 1

In Lesson 4 of the Adobe InDesign Basics Class learn the basics of using the selection, type, drawing, frame, and shape tools. Select objects. Draw lines with the pen, pencil, and line tools. Create image and text frames.

Lesson 3 - Working With Colour in InDesign CS

The Colour, Swatches, and Gradient Palettes are the three areas of Adobe InDesign where you specify the colours to use in your document. Learn how to use each of these palettes as well as the basics of using color in desktop publishing.

Lesson 5 - InDesign CS Tools, Part 2

In this lesson of the Adobe InDesign Basics class we'll explore the basics of the rotate, scale, shear, freehand transform, eyedropper, measurement, gradient, button, scissor, hand, and zoom tools.

Adobe InDesign

InDesign is the successor to PageMaker, the original desktop publishing software program. It is a page layout software program available as a standalone package or in some of the editions of the Adobe Creative Suite.

Getting Started with InDesign CS 2

This is an overview of InDesign CS 2 designed to help you get started with Adobe's top layout program. It mainly referrs you to different pages of the Adobe site, but it will save you from doing some time consuming searches in your quest to get up and running with InDesign CS 2..

Brown

Explore the symbolism and meaning of the color brown and various shades of this neutral color.

Free Fonts Library

This free fonts library offers free fonts organized by style or look. So if you're looking for just the right font with slab serifs or something with fun, girlish curls here's where to start your search.

Adobe Desktop Publishing

Adobe is the leading producer of graphics and desktop publishing software used in professional desktop publishing. Explore the key software associated with Adobe desktop publishing and learn more about what it offers.

White

Explore more of the nature, culture, and meaning of the color white.

Yellow

Explore the meaning of the color yellow and yellow colour names and yellow color palettes.

Gray

What does the neutral color of gray mean and what colors work best with gray in design and publishing? Find out the color symbolism of gray and other terms such as slate and silver that represent grey colors.

Orange

Orange is a vibrant combination of red and yellow so it shares some common attributes with those colors. Explore the meaning of the color orange.

Black

Black can be serious and conventional or sexy and rebellious. Discover the symbolism of black and how it is used in design and other fields.

Pink

Is pink your favorite color? Explore what pink means in nature, culturally, and even in language.

Word Processing and Resumé Design

Resumes and Word Processing are often the starting points for some new desktop publishers just getting started. Others make this field their long-term speciality.

Web and Electronic Publishing

Web and electronic publishing may one day replace print publishing, or so some claim. Until that time it remains simply one facet (a big one) of desktop publishing.

Signage

Signage can be big business. Some designers may specialize in this field while others offer it in conjunction with other related desktop publishing services.

Self Publishing

Self publishing is the for-profit publication (hopefully) of books, newsletters, booklets, or other publications by-passing traditional publishing avenues.

Presentation Graphics

Presentation Graphics is more than just Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. This includes any type of slide presentation, charts, graphs, and multimedia presentations.

Publication Art

Publication Art includes magazine cover or book jacket designs, custom illustrations and photography for books or periodicals, and technical illustration.

Publications

Publications, for our purposes here, refers primarily to books and other non-periodical publications such as booklets, workbooks, manuals.

Purple

Explore purple color meanings.

Green

Explore green color meanings.