Adobe InDesign CS3
Project-Based Training
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lesson highlights
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Working
with Transparency
Jeff explores the Effects Panel, which has replaced
CS2’s Transparency Palette, and how work
in this single panel makes controlling effects
and transparency easier and more efficient. |
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Working
with Text
Jeff demonstrates the versatility of the Wrap
To option in the Wraps Panel and explores the
enhancements to the Glyph Panel. |
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Fast Frame
Fitting
In addition to placing multiple images, the Frame
Fitting options allow you to decide the scale
and positioning of files to be placed in a grid.
Jeff then shows how these preferences can be
saved as preferred object styles. |
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top 5 things you will learn:
- Efficiency of working with the new interface
- Expanded creativity of more effects
- Greater control of transparency
- Faster placing of images
- Faster fitting of images
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table of contents
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InDesign CS3
- Introduction to InDesign CS3
- The New Workspace
- The New Control Panel
- Working with Transparency
- New Effects
- Working with Text
- Table & Cell Styles
- Bullets & Numbering
- Placing Files
- Fast Frame Fitting
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| about the instructors |
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Jeff Witchel
Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.
Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.
Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 20 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the "go to" guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.
As an Adobe Certified Expert, he's provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
Jeff is the author and instructor for two training DVDs produced by Magnet Media Films in New York - "Inside Adobe Illustrator CS2" and "Inside Adobe InDesign CS2." He also writes tutorials for Layers magazine's website, authors Layers Magazine's "Tips of the Day," which are delivered daily to subscribers by email, and is a regular contributor to Adobe Illustrator Techniques magazine.
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