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Topic	Objects/Projects
Chapter 1-InDesign: Exploring the InDesign Workspace	Explore the InDesign Workspace Change Document Views Navigate Through a Document Use InDesign Help Chapter 1-PowerPoint
Chapter 1-InDesign: Projects	The Skills Review covers all of the objectives covered in the chapter in a step-by-step progression. Two project builders, a design project, and a group project. These projects include content from sidebars and marginal information within lessons. Project Builder 1 gives you additional practice with grouping and docking palettes. Project Builder 2 gives you additional practice using navigation and zoom tools in InDesign. Design Project lets you critique the design of a Web page layout . Group Project lets you critique an InDesign layout of a menu, specifically commenting on text and graphic elements.
Chapter 2-InDesign: Working with Text	Format Text Format Paragraphs Create and Apply Styles Edit Text
Chapter 2-InDesign: Projects	The Skills Review covers all of the objectives covered in the chapter in a step-by-step progression. Two project builders, a design project, and a group project. These projects include content from sidebars and marginal information within lessons. Project Builder 1 gives you additional practice working with drop caps. Project Builder 2 gives you additional practice with hanging indents and formatting paragraphs. Design Project lets you practice kerning. Group Project allows your group to evaluate the effectiveness of a headline. You are asked to discuss topics such as the choice of font, and then you practice with formatting the text using the Character palette.
Chapter 3-InDesign: Setting Up a Document	Create a New Document Create Master Pages Apply Master Pages to Document Pages Place Text and Thread Text Modify Master Pages and Document Pages Create New Sections and Wrap Text
Chapter 3-InDesign: Projects	The Skills Review covers all of the objectives covered in the chapter in a step-by-step progression. Two project builders, a design project, and a group project. These projects include content from sidebars and marginal information within lessons. Project Builder 1 gives you additional practice working with master pages and adding automatic page numbering. Project Builder 2 gives you additional practice applying master pages and placing and threading text. Design Project lets you practice sizing and aligning background elements for document pages. Group Project tests your group's problem-solving skills when working with X and Y locations for objects on a page.
Chapter 4-InDesign: Working with Frames	Align and Distribute Objects on a Page Stack and Layer Objects Work with Graphics Frames Work with Text Frames
Chapter 4-InDesign: Projects	The Skills Review covers all of the objectives covered in the chapter in a step-by-step progression. Two project builders, a design project, and a group project. These projects include content from sidebars and marginal information within lessons. Project Builder 1 gives you additional practice using the step and repeat command. Project Builder 2 you students additional practice using the Layers palette to organize layout elements. Design Project lets you practice working with graphic frames and text wrap options. Group Project tests your group's familiarity with alignment. Students will use the Move command and the Align palette.
Chapter 5-InDesign: Working with Colors	Work with Process Colors Apply Color Work with Spot Colors Work with Gradients
Chapter 5-InDesign: Projects	The Skills Review covers all of the objectives covered in the chapter in a step-by-step progression. Two project builders, a design project, and a group project. These projects include content from sidebars and marginal information within lessons. Project Builder 1 gives you additional practice creating process colors and tints. Project Builder 2 gives you additional practice working with spot colors. Design Project lets you practice working with the gradient ramp to produce a gradient color effect. Group Project tests the group’s familiarity with and understanding of process colors.
Chapter 1-Photoshop: Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop CS2	Start Adobe Photoshop CS2 Learn how to open and save an image Use organizational and management features Examine the Photoshop window Use the Layer and History palettes Learn about Photoshop by using Help View and print an image Close a file and exit Photoshop
Chapter 1-Photoshop: Projects	The Skills Review covers all of the objectives covered in the chapter in a step-by-step progression. Two project builders, a design project, and a group project follow. These projects also include content from sidebars and marginal information within lessons. Project Builder 1 gives you additional practice using Help in the form of a printout of the Help topic relating to understanding image size and resolution. Project Builder 2 has you opening and renaming a file, then moving layers within that file. Design Project makes use of the Web and gives experience using research skills to find information about using layers and critiquing the work of others. Group Project gives additional opportunities to hone research skills by becoming familiar with the Help system and the Adobe Photoshop Web site.
Chapter 2-Photoshop: Working with Layers	Examine and convert layers Add and delete layers Add a selection from one image to another Organize layers with layer groups and colors
Chapter 2-Photoshop: Projects	The Skills Review covers all of the objectives covered in the chapter in a step-by-step progression. Two project builders, a design project, and a group project follow. These projects also include content from sidebars and marginal information within lessons. Project Builder 1 gives you additional practice moving imagery from one file into another. Project Builder 2 has you opening and renaming a file, then moving an image from one file into another and changing an opacity setting. Design Project gives additional practice in moving and renaming layers, creating a layer set, and deleting and converting layers. Group Project gives open files and use imagery from one file in another. Opacity is changed, a layer is deleted, and an existing layer is converted to a Background layer. Layers are rearranged and a layer set is created.
Chapter 3-Photoshop: Making Selections	Make a selection using shapes Modify a marquee Select using color and modify a selection Add a vignette effect to a selection
Chapter 3-Photoshop: Projects	The Skills Review covers all of the objectives covered in the chapter in a step-by-step progression. Two project builders, a design project, and a group project follow. These projects also include content from sidebars and marginal information within lessons. Project Builder 1 gives you additional practice using the Healing Brush Tool. Project Builder 2 has you opening and renaming a file, then finding imagery and moving it from one file into another. A vignette effect is added and layers are defringed, if necessary. Design Project gives additional experience using the Web to research a design concept. An image is created using various sources for artwork, then various skills are tested to create a composite image. Group Project gives open files and use imagery from one file in another.
Chapter 4-Photoshop: Incorporating Color Techniques	Work with color to transform an image Use the Color Picker and the Swatches palette Place a border around an image Blend colors using the Gradient Tool Add color to a grayscale image Use filters, opacity, and blending modes Match colors
Chapter 4-Photoshop: Projects	The Skills Review covers all of the objectives covered in the chapter in a step-by-step progression. Two project builders, a design project, and a group project follow. These projects also include content from sidebars and marginal information within lessons. Project Builder 1 gives you additional practice moving objects, sampling colors, and creating a gradient. Project Builder 2 has you opening and renaming a file, then applying new foreground and background colors, creating a gradient, and using the Sharpen filter. Design Project makes use of additional images, perhaps from a digital camera or scanner. Colors are sampled, and a gradient is created. Group Project gives additional practice converting the image mode and colorizing an image, adjusting color settings, sampling, and applying a gradient.
Chapter 5-Photoshop: Placing Type in an Image	Learn about type and how it is created Change spacing and adjust baseline shift Use the Drop Shadow style Apply anti-aliasing to type Modify type with the Bevel and Emboss style Apply special effects to type using filters Create text on a path
Chapter 5-Photoshop: Projects	The Skills Review covers all of the objectives covered in the chapter in a step-by-step progression. Two project builders, a design project, and a group project follow. These projects also include content from sidebars and marginal information within lessons. Project Builder 1 gives you additional practice using type layers and styles. Project Builder 2 has you opening and renaming a file, creating a shape that will be used for type, sampling a color within the image, creating type, then applying a style to the type layer. Design Project gives additional experience using the Web to research type. An image is modified using the existing type. Group Project gives a group the opportunity to create and modify an image using type layers and styles.