Adobe & Design Private On-Demand

InDesign Training (IND.CERT)

3 days
InDesignAdobe & Design

Learn to create polished, professional layouts with Adobe InDesign while building practical skills for print and digital publishing.

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  • Readings, Video Presentations, Exercises
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Course Overview

Learn to create polished, professional layouts with Adobe InDesign while building practical skills for print and digital publishing. This course introduces the InDesign interface and essential document workflows, then develops your ability to work with pages, frames, text, styles, images, colors, layers, tables, and reusable design components through hands-on projects such as invitations, book chapters, newsletters, and interactive forms.

You will also explore advanced production features including parent pages, Creative Cloud Libraries, typography controls, text wrap, object styles, QR codes, preflight profiles, PDF accessibility and tagging, packaging, and interactive PDF forms. Along the way, you will use Adobe Firefly-powered generative features such as Generative Expand and Text to Image, while also learning design-industry fundamentals related to client goals, visual composition, typography, copyright, and project management.

Course Benefits

  • Navigate the InDesign interface and configure documents, workspaces, preferences, pages, spreads, guides, and grids.
  • Create structured page layouts using text frames, image frames, parent pages, columns, headers, footers, and page numbering.
  • Place, format, edit, and manage text using paragraph styles, character styles, fonts, glyphs, lists, columns, and other typography tools.
  • Place and manipulate images, colors, gradients, layers, QR codes, captions, and linked design assets.
  • Use styles, templates, Creative Cloud Libraries, and reusable components to create consistent and efficient document workflows.
  • Create and format tables with headers, borders, backgrounds, images, cell formatting, and table styles.
  • Use Adobe Firefly and generative features such as Generative Expand and Text to Image within InDesign projects.
  • Prepare documents for delivery using preflight checks, export settings, PDF accessibility and tagging, and document packaging.
  • Create interactive PDF forms with text fields, radio buttons, checkboxes, and form buttons.
  • Apply design-industry fundamentals including audience considerations, visual composition, typography, copyright, licensing, and basic project management.

Delivery Methods

Private Class
Delivered for your team at your site or online.
On-Demand
Learn at your own pace with 24/7 access.

Course Outline

  1. Crash Course
    1. InDesign Home Screen
    2. Opening a File in InDesign
    3. Creating and Opening Files (Exercise)
    4. The InDesign Interface
    5. The Contextual Task Bar
    6. Cloud Documents
    7. Firefly and Generative AI in InDesign
    8. Properties Panel
    9. Workspaces in InDesign
    10. Spreads and Pages
    11. Zooming
    12. Panning
    13. Setting Preferences
    14. Installing Adobe Fonts
    15. Creative Cloud Libraries (Exercise)
  2. Creating An Invitation
    1. A Tea Party Invitation Postcard
    2. Hidden Characters
    3. Navigating a Document
    4. Types of Frames
    5. Adding Text to the Invitation (Exercise)
    6. Adding an Image to the Invitation (Exercise)
    7. Resizing Content
    8. Repositioning an Image in a Frame (Exercise)
    9. Character and Paragraph Styles in InDesign
    10. Styling and Formatting Text in the Invitation (Exercise)
    11. Highlighting and Styling Specific Text (Exercise)
    12. Finalizing the Postcard Invitation (Exercise)
  3. Creating A Book Chapter
    1. Creating a New Document (Exercise)
    2. Rulers, Guides, and Grids
    3. Add Guides to the Book Chapter (Exercise)
    4. Parent Pages
    5. Adding Guides to a Parent Page (Exercise)
    6. Headers and Footers
    7. Adding Headers (Exercise)
    8. Adding Page Numbers (Exercise)
    9. Adding Parents and Pages with Columns (Exercise)
    10. Share for Review
  4. Text
    1. Placing Text
    2. Placing Text for Chapter 1 (Exercise)
    3. Creating and Styling a Poem with Text Frames (Exercise)
    4. Understanding Text Encoding
    5. Managing Text Placement (Exercise)
    6. Auto-size Text Boxes (Exercise)
    7. Find / Change
    8. Spell Check
    9. Understanding the Story Editor
    10. Endnotes
    11. Three-Column Layout (Exercise)
  5. Styles
    1. Styles Overview
    2. Character Properties
    3. Paragraph Properties
    4. All About Fonts
    5. Creating Paragraph Styles (Exercise)
    6. Creating a Style for the Heading (Exercise)
    7. Creating a Bold Character Style (Exercise)
    8. Span and Split Columns
    9. Creating Text Box Columns (Exercise)
    10. Glyphs and Alternative Characters (Exercise)
    11. More Styling (Exercise)
    12. Creating Numbered lists (Exercise)
    13. Drop Cap and Nested Styles (Exercise)
    14. Object Styles (Exercise)
    15. Saving and Importing Styles and Creating Templates (Exercise)
  6. Images and Colors
    1. Placing Images
    2. Adding an Image to the Host Party Document (Exercise)
    3. Capture and Colors
    4. Fading an Image into a Background (Exercise)
    5. Gradients (Exercise)
    6. Text as a Frame (Exercise)
    7. Crop and Resize Frames (Exercise)
    8. Layers
    9. Organizing Objects in Layers (Exercise)
    10. Adding a QR Code (Exercise)
    11. Placing an Illustrator Image (Exercise)
    12. Gridify
    13. Using Gridify (Exercise)
    14. The Gap Tool
    15. Using the Gap Tool (Exercise)
    16. Adding Captions (Exercise)
    17. Align, Distribute, and Change Shapes (Exercise)
    18. Text Wrap (Exercise)
    19. Generative Expand
    20. Text to Image
  7. Completing Documents
    1. Reshaping Text Boxes
    2. Reshape a Text Box (Exercise)
    3. Inset Spacing and Indent Tabs
    4. Setting Indent Tabs (Exercise)
    5. Balance Columns and Baseline Grid (Exercise)
    6. Creating Text on a Path (Exercise)
    7. Import Tricks
    8. Object Styles (Exercise)
    9. Updating Styles (Exercise)
    10. Anchored and Inline Images
    11. Placing Images (Exercise)
  8. Tables
    1. Inserting Tables
    2. Adding a Table to the Newsletter (Exercise)
    3. Adding a Table Header (Exercise)
    4. Table Options
    5. Cell Options
    6. Adding Borders and Backgrounds (Exercise)
    7. Formatting the Cells (Exercise)
    8. Add Images in Cells (Exercise)
    9. Table Styles (Exercise)
  9. Preflight And Export
    1. Preflight Profiles
    2. Performing a Preflight Check
    3. Export Options
    4. PDF Accessibility and Tagging
    5. Packaging Documents
    6. Opening a PDF as an InDesign Document
  10. Forms
    1. The Buttons and Forms Panel
    2. Text Fields (Exercise)
    3. Radio Buttons (Exercise)
    4. Checkboxes (Exercise)
    5. Form Button (Exercise)
    6. Interactive PDF Form (Exercise)
  11. Working in the Design Industry
    1. Client Goals and Audience
    2. Communicating about Design Plans
    3. Basic Project Management Concepts for Designers
    4. Copyright, Permissions, and Licensing
    5. Digital Image Terminology
    6. Typography
    7. Visual Composition

Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

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