InDesign

Introduction to InDesign Creative Cloud (CC) Training (INDCC.1)

Course Length: 3 days

Adobe InDesign is a robust desktop publishing program designed for laying out posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations, books, and eBooks.

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Course Overview

Adobe InDesign is a robust desktop publishing program designed for laying out posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, presentations, books, and eBooks. In this course, students learn to work with the many tools and utilities available in InDesign and to understand the workflow principles needed to make the most of the software.

Course Benefits

  • Understand the InDesign workspace.
  • Create basic page elements.
  • Place images and text.
  • Learn about typography and formatting text.
  • Learn to manage fonts.
  • Understand and work with InDesign templates.
  • Learn about styles, and how they impact productivity.
  • Use Parent Pages to create design consistency.
  • Learn how to work with tables.
  • Learn about color management.
  • Learn to define bulleted and numbered lists.
  • Learn to control hyphenation.
  • Learn to preflight files before output.
  • Understand PDF options.
  • Learn to package an InDesign file for hand-off.

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Course Outline

  1. Getting to Know the Environment
    1. Menus and Navigation
    2. Panels
    3. Navigation and Panels
    4. Tools
    5. Workspaces
    6. Rulers and Guides
    7. Workspaces and Guides
    8. File Management
    9. Display Performance
    10. Display
    11. InDesign Environment
  2. Creating a Project
    1. Creating a Project
    2. New Document
    3. Adding Page Elements
    4. Edit Elements with Control Panel
    5. Add and Edit Objects
    6. Create a New Project
    7. Duplication
    8. Arrange Objects
    9. Duplicate and Arrange
    10. Arrange Objects
    11. Complex Objects
    12. Edit Complex Objects
    13. Working with Complex Objects
    14. Complex Objects
    15. Text Objects
    16. Placing Text
    17. Text
    18. Working with Text
    19. Print Preview
    20. Working with Multiple Pages
    21. Pages
  3. Working with Graphics
    1. Workplace Setup
    2. Working with Color
    3. Color
    4. New Color Project
    5. Working with Gradients
    6. Gradients
    7. Abstract Frames
    8. Pencil Tool
    9. Anchored Objects
    10. Anchors
    11. Gradients and Frames
    12. Organizing with Layers
    13. Layers
    14. Working with Effects
    15. Object Styles
    16. Object Styles and Effects
    17. Special Features
    18. Working with Video
    19. Video
  4. Working with Text
    1. Text Placeholders
    2. Import Text from Word
    3. Text Threading
    4. Keyboard Shortcuts
    5. Place Text in Frames
    6. Place Text
    7. Missing Fonts
    8. Typography
    9. Character Formatting
    10. Paragraph Formatting
    11. Fonts and Formatting
    12. Text Wrap
    13. Text Alignment
    14. Text Wrap and Alignment
    15. Building a Page Layout
    16. Type on a Path
    17. Typing on a Path
    18. Glyphs Panel
    19. Advanced Text
    20. Frame Breaks
  5. Parent Pages
    1. Working with Parent Pages
    2. Creating Parent Pages
    3. Working with Position
    4. Parent Pages
    5. New Parent Pages
    6. Import/Export Parent Pages
    7. Setting Defaults
    8. Parent Page Tools
    9. Working with Parent Page Options
    10. Flow of Text on Parent Pages
    11. Set Defaults for Text Frames
    12. Set Page Numbers
    13. Frames and Page Numbers
    14. Edit Parent Pages
  6. Working with Templates
    1. Create a Project from a Template
    2. Replace and Fix Missing Objects
    3. Using the Links Panel
    4. Templates and Links
    5. New Project from a Template
    6. Create Structure Using Parent Pages
    7. Place Files
    8. Parent Pages and Place Files
    9. Add Content and Parent Pages
    10. Working with Styles
    11. Bullet and Number Lists
    12. Styles
    13. Place and Create Tables
    14. Tables
    15. Work with Styles and Objects
    16. Save as a Template
  7. Advanced Techniques
    1. Types of Variables
    2. Variables
    3. Hyperlinks
    4. Using Hyperlinks
    5. Variables and Hyperlinks
    6. Object Stacking Order
    7. Find/Change Options
    8. Stacking Order and Find Options
    9. InDesign Libraries
    10. Create a Library
    11. Libraries
    12. Forms
    13. Working with Forms
    14. Forms
  8. Printing and Proofing a Project
    1. Spell Check
    2. Convert Text to Outline
    3. Text to Outline
    4. Save and Package
    5. PDF Bookmarks
    6. Using PDF Bookmarks
    7. Proof and Send
    8. Table of Contents
    9. Using a Table of Contents
    10. Table of Contents
    11. Printing
    12. Save as PDF
    13. Printing and PDF
    14. Printing Variations
    15. Save as EPUB
  9. Layouts
    1. Alternate Layouts
    2. Terminology
    3. Design Principles in InDesign
  10. Creating eBooks
    1. Create Buttons with Actions
    2. Buttons with Actions
    3. Adding Animation
    4. Animation
    5. Export to EPUB
    6. Designing for the Web with InDesign
    7. Export to HTML
    8. New Web Document
    9. New Document Setup

Class Materials

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

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