Our InDesign Part 3 will cover importing and modifying graphics, creating clipping paths, working with transparency and enhancing graphics with special effects, working with advanced text techniques, adding interactive elements for creating E-books, creating animation, setting page transitions, adding sound and movies, adding hyperlinks and advanced navigation techniques, working with form fields, and more.
Class Outline
Importing and Modifying Graphics:
- Getting started
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Updating revised graphics
- Adjusting display quality
- Importing and sizing graphics
- Editing placed pictures
- Working with dropped backgrounds
- Importing native Adobe graphic files
- Filling type with a graphic
- Using an InDesign library to manage objects
- Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
- Applying transparency settings
- Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
- Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
- Applying transparency settings to text
- Working with effects
Creating Adobe PDF Files with form Fields:
- Setting up a workspace for forms
- Adding form fields
- Setting the tab order of the fields
- Adding a button to submit the form
- Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file
- Testing your form in Acrobat Reader
Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB:
- Creating a new document for fixed-layout export
- EPUB: Reflowable versus fixed-layout
- Adding animation
- Buttons
- Adding multimedia and interactive elements such as movies, sound, animations, hyperlinks
- Exporting an EPUB file
- InDesign Publish Online
