InDesign Essentials

Adobe InDesign Essentials

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Duration: 20 hours

Teaching Methodology: Hands-on

OVERVIEW

InDesign is page layout software. It is widely used to prepare publications and compositions that contain images and text. Participants who take this course will be able to use it to design short and long documents such as leaflets, brochures, posters, bill boards, reports, magazines, books, etc.

AUDIENCE

Graphic designers, desktop publishers, and anyone wishing to prepare short or long documents that contain text, artworks, and images.

PREREQUISITES

Basic computers skills are usually enough, but since this is layout software, a good knowledge with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator are highly recommended. Photoshop is a powerful tool for scanning, editing, and compositing images while Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for preparing art graphics such as logos, illustrations, and word arts. Usually final pre-press layouts are prepared with InDesign.

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COURSE CONTENTS

01 - INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKSPACE

  • Looking at the workspace
  • Working with panels
  • Customizing the workspace
  • Changing the magnification of a document
  • Navigation through a document
  • Using context menus
  • Modifying interface preferences

02 - GETTING TO KNOW INDESIGN

  • Viewing guides
  • Preflighting as you work
  • Adding text
  • Working with styles
  • Working with graphics
  • Working with objects
  • Working with object styles
  • Viewing the document in Presentation mode

03 - SETTING UP A DOCUMENT AND WORKING WITH PAGES

  • Creating and saving custom document settings
  • Creating a new document
  • Switching between open InDesign documents
  • Working with master pages
  • Applying master pages to document pages
  • Adding new document pages
  • Rearranging and deleting document pages
  • Changing the size of pages
  • Adding sections to change page numbering
  • Overriding master page items on document pages and placing text and graphics
  • Viewing the completed spread

04 - WORKING WITH OBJECTS

  • Working with layers
  • Creating and modifying text frames
  • Creating and modifying graphics frames
  • Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
  • Placing and linking graphics frames
  • Changing the shape of a frame
  • Wrapping text around a graphic
  • Modifying the shape of frames
  • Transforming and aligning objects
  • Selecting and modifying grouped objects
  • Creating QR code
  • Finishing up

05 - FLOWING TEXT

  • Flowing text into an existing frame
  • Flowing text manually
  • Creating text frames while flowing text
  • Creating threaded frames automatically
  • Flowing text automatically
  • Applying paragraph styles to text
  • Adjusting columns
  • Adding a jump line page number

06 - EDITING TEXT

  • Finding and changing a missing font
  • Entering and importing text
  • Finding and changing text and formatting
  • Checking spelling
  • Editing text by dragging and dropping
  • Using the Story Editor
  • Tracking changes

07 - WORKING WITH TYPOGRAPHY

  • Adjusting vertical spacing
  • Working with fonts, type styles, and glyphs
  • Fine-tuning columns
  • Changing paragraph alignment
  • Creating a drop cap
  • Adjusting letter and word spacing
  • Adjusting line breaks
  • Setting tabs
  • Adding a rule above a paragraph
  • Working with paragraph shading

08 - WORKING WITH COLOR

  • Managing color
  • Defining printing requirements
  • Creating colors
  • Applying colors
  • Working with tint Swatches
  • Working with gradients
  • Working with color groups

09 - WORKING WITH STYLES

  • Creating and applying paragraph styles
  • Creating and applying character styles
  • Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
  • Creating and applying object styles
  • Creating and applying table and cell styles
  • Globally updating styles
  • Loading styles from another document

10 - IMPORTING AND MODIFYING GRAPHICS

  • Adding graphics from other programs
  • Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
  • Managing links to imported files
  • Updating revised graphics quality
  • Working with clipping paths
  • Working with alpha channels
  • Importing native Adobe graphic files
  • Using an InDesign library to manage objects
  • Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

11 - CREATING TABLES

  • Creating a table
  • Converting text to a table
  • Changing rows and columns
  • Formatting a table
  • Adding graphics to table cells
  • Creating a header row
  • Creating and applying table and cell styles

12 - WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY

  • 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

13 - PRINTING AND EXPORTING

  • Preflighting files
  • Packaging files
  • Creating and Adobe PDF proof
  • Previewing separations
  • Previewing how transparency effects will be flattened
  • Previewing the page
  • Printing a laser or inkjet proof
  • Using the Ink Manager

14 - CREATING ADOBE PDF FILES WITH FORM FIELDS

  • Adding form fields
  • Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file

15 - CREATING A FIXED-LAYOUT EPUB

  • Creating a new document for fixed-layout export
  • Adding animation
  • Adjusting the timing of animations
  • Adding multimedia and interactive elements
  • Exporting an EPUB file