Description

If you’ve tried to make a document in InDesign and just don’t know where to start, this class is for you! InDesign is a page layout program to bring together text, photos, logos, and other objects to create a brochure, flyer, business card, catalog or other printed or interactive documents.

Course Objectives

Get familiar with the InDesign interface and create a multipage document. Learn to place text and graphics. Format text and photos. Use Styles and Parent pages. Export the document to popular formats.

Target Audience

Beginning InDesign users. No experience necessary, but even if you’ve created a few documents in InDesign, you’ll come away from this class with new tips, shortcuts, and explanations of not only HOW to do something in InDesign, but WHY it works the way it does. 

Basic Understanding

Computer skills, using a mouse, some Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, or other layout program is helpful

Course Content

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Beginning to Intermediate Adobe InDesign - Essential Adobe InDesign Skills

Session 1: Workspace

  1. Get familiar with InDesign menus, tools, panels, and workspaces
  2. Save a workspace for later use
  3. Create a New Document

Session 2: Explore a finished document

  1. Learn about non-printing items, guides, margins, page edges, pasteboard, and hidden characters.
  2. Zoom in and out of a document
  3. Navigate around a document

Session 3: Multiple page documents in InDesign

  1. Move from one page to another, rearrange pages
  2. Add new pages using the pages panel
  3. Add a page number on a Parent page to repeat on all pages

Session 4: Text Frames

  1. Create text frames – Type text
  2. Place text, auto create frames
  3. Thread Text frames, learn the handles to resize and in/out ports to thread
  4. Typing custom characters

Session 5: Graphic Frames

  1. Create and place photos and graphics into frames
  2. Fill and stroke frames with color

Session 6: Color

  1. Use the default colors
  2. Customize colors, mix and save new colors
  3. Apply colors to text, objects and lines
  4. Load colors from other documents

Session 7: Format text

  1. Character Formats: Font, bold, italic, color, size, caps, etc.
  2. Paragraph Formats: Align, indent, spacing etc.
  3. Use the eyedropper to copy formatting

Session 8: Format and customize graphics

  1. Place photos, resize, crop photos, rotate and delete
  2. Learn to resize manually and with the control panel and shortcut keys
  3. Intro to special effects with photos - transparency, drop shadows, borders
  4. Text wrap around photos

Session 9: Work with objects

  1. Group, ungroup
  2. Arrange, bring to front and send to back
  3. Stacking order on Layers
  4. Text Frame Options

Session 10: Styles in InDesign

  1. Why you should be using Paragraph and Character Styles in InDesign
  2. Paragraph Styles: create, apply, edit for global changes in your document
  3. Character Styles: when to use character vs. paragraph styles
  4. Paragraph formatting, tricks tips and cool effects
  5. Re-use Styles in another document

Session 11: Save and Export InDesign documents

  1. Save, Export and Package an InDesign file
  2. Export to PDF and JPG

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