InDesign Interactivity

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When working with images for a portfolio, you will invariably need to create a portfolio of your work. Chances are you will look at InDesign to make this work. Did you know that InDesign can also create an Interactive Portfolio? RC Concepcion goes over how to use InDesign CS5 and its newest features of interactivity to create an interactive portfolio.

Work with Preferences and Setting Up a Document (05:02) In this lesson RC goes over how to setup some basic layout properties in InDesign CS5 as well as how to make your work easier using presets.
Creating a Master Page and Character Styles (05:03) Part of speeding up your layouts in InDesign is working with Master Pages and Styles. RC will go over how to setup Master Pages for his layout in addition to setting up character styles
Placing Text and Images (07:27) Go over some techniques on how to place images inside of am InDesign CS5 layout.
Placing Multiple Images and Using Static Caption (09:49) Learn some cool tricks for placing multiple images and InDesign Cs5&amp;acirc;s new use of Live and Static Captions.
Exporting the Document as a SWF File (09:49) RC goes over how to create Character Style and Export the InDesign CS5 document to SWF.
Creating Hyperlinks (05:14) RC goes over how to add hyperlinks to your interactive document as well as how to create Duplicate Character Styles.
Adding Video in a Document (04:54) RC goes over how to add video into an InDesign interactive document as well as how to add ply controllers and poster frames.
Adding a Button (07:46) Take your interactive design in InDesign and give it even more functionality by including buttons in your document.
Rolling Your Own Button (05:02) Sometimes adding the standard buttons wont do. In this case, RC goes over how to create buttons from simple text layers.
Creating and Linking to Destinations (09:46) Destinations allow you to place markers at key points in your document. Combined with buttons, this gives you great control inside of an InDesign CS5 document.
Animating Your Elements (09:25) Once all of your elements are in place you can add another level of interactivity by animating these elements into appearance. RC goes over how to add and remove animations as well as how to change their order using the timing panel.
Uploading to a Website (05:05) Once the SWF file is created in InDesign, RC goes over some basics on how to upload the information to a website.

Course Time: 01 Hours 24 Minutes

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RC Concepcion

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Rafael Concepcion (RC) is an education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and the co-host of Layers TV - The How To Podcast For Everything Adobe. An...VIEW FULL BIO»

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