InDesign LOCN Level 1 LOCN Unit: Computer Aided Publications Design Level 1

Tutor: Kristina Alexander Email: kris@kccmultimedia.org.uk Web: kccmultimedia.org.uk Password: graphic88

Session 1 • January 16th
- Page Setup: rulers , guides, grids, margins, and columns
- InDesign Tools and Palettes
- Basic Text Attributes: Text Boxes, Font, Size, Leading
- Typography Basics: Character & Paragraph options (spacing and indents),
Tabs and Hidden Characters, Rules Exercises
- Importing text: Place and copy/paste Explore Layout: Text Styling using rules, all caps, image/
text, align
- Importing Images: Placing

Session 2 • January 23rd

- Typography Essentials: hanging bullets, hyphenation, kerning/tracking,
soft return, space before/after, glyphs
- Rotating Text/Objects, Flipping Horizontal/Vertical, Transform and Align
- Importing Images: Links Palette, file formats
Exercises
• Car Inspection: Typesetting Techniques including
hanging bullets, space before and after, glyphs
• Travel Ad: image, white text and kerning

Session 3 • January 30th Exercise

- Layers Surfing Article: pages palette, colour palette, layers,
- Multiple Page Documents: Spreads and Multiple Document Views rotating images, shapes, importing text/images
Session 4 • February 6th Exercise
- Colour: Colour Palette, Swatches, CMYK, Pantone Movie Poster: rotating text, colour, layers, importing
- Transparency text/images

Session 5 • February 13th

- Bezier Drawing Tools
- Shapes and Type as a Shape
- Stroke attributes and Corner Effects Exercise
- Drop Shadow and Feather (objects and text) • Drawing With Bezier Tools: The Wave
- Type on a Path • Recipe Layout: Type on a path, Drop Shadow, Feather

Session 6 • February 20th

- Multiple Text Columns Exercise
- Linking Text Frames • Toy Magazine Article: runaround, text wrap, multiple
- Baseline Grid text columns, baseline grid, importing images/text
- Text Wrap and Anchoring Images in Text • Anchoring Images in Text

Session 7 • February 27th Exercises

- Tables: Formatting Turtle Magazine Article: baseline grid, character and
- Style Sheets: Paragraph Styles, Character Styles paragraph styles

Session 8 • March 6th

- Multiple Page Documents: Section Starts, Auto Page Numbering, Exercise
Manual Linking of Text Frames Publication Exercise: Using skills learned in the
- Master Pages previous sessions
Session 9 • March 13th Exercise
- Tutorials • Publication Exercise: continue
- Working Session: Exercises • Any previous exercises that need to be completed
Session 10 • March 20th
- Libraries Exercise
- Find/Change • Publication Exercise: continue
- Spell Checking • Any previous exercises that need to be completed

Session 11 • March 27th Exercise

- Package and Preflight Printing: Print 3 exercises on the laser printer using marks
- Printing Methods and Media and appropriate settings

Session 12 • April 3rd

- Quiz and Assessment