InDesign: Create Beautiful Page Layouts Efficiently
Class Details
Length of class: three days
Price per person: $995
Version covered: CC 2023
Description
This three-day class, taught by an Adobe Certified Instructor, teaches you all the essential features of Adobe InDesign. After learning to navigate the application’s interface, you will master the tools necessary to build single and multi-page print documents, including graphic objects, threaded text, styles, and master pages. You will learn to use layers, select and export color, add book features like page numbering and tables of contents, export files to PDF, and prepare documents for output by a service bureau.
Prerequisites
This class is ideally suited for people with at least good computer skills. Word processing or page layout experience is helpful, but not required.
Outline
Application Overview
- workspaces
- best practices for panel management
- tools overview
- understand the control panel & properties panel
Working With Objects
- understand frames
- object positioning and aligning
- scale, resize, and rotate
- selection vs. direct selection tool
- guides and smart guides
- stroke and corner options
- layers and transparency
- anchored objects
Working With Text
- place and import text
- paragraph vs. character formatting
- text wrap
- text threading
- type on a path
- QR codes
- paragraph styles & character styles
- nested styles
- next style
- smart text reflow
Working With Graphics
- import images
- the Links panel
- understand image file formats
- understand image resolution
- image transformation
Color
- understand color separation
- fill vs. stroke
- swatches panel vs. color panel
- tint swatches
- gradient swatches
- CMYK vs. RGB
- spot color vs. process color
Multiple Page Documents
- pages panel
- parent pages
- add & delete pages
- automatic page numbering
Preflight
- live preflight
- the Preflight panel
- packaging
Printing & Exporting
- print options
- PDF export
- JPEG export
Book
- numbering and sections
- footers
- text variables
- cross references
- footnotes
- table of contents
Advanced Content
- tables
- data merge
- GREP
- scripts
Upcoming Dates
Wed-Fri, December 4-6, 2024
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM