Design

Adobe InDesign

Design professional layouts for print and digital publishing.

Course Syllabus

1

Looking at the Work Area

  • Using the tools
  • Using palettes
  • Workspaces
  • Using context menus
  • Opening and closing documents
  • Changing the view
  • Selecting objects
  • Saving a document
  • Recovering a document after a failure
  • Undoing mistakes
  • Working with preferences and defaults
2

Setting Up Pages

  • Setting up basic layout options
  • Using rulers, grids, and guides
  • Working with pages and spreads
  • Numbering pages
  • Changing Numbering and Section Options
  • Using master pages
  • Laying out pages with frames
  • Adjusting layout objects automatically
  • Working with layers
3

Working with Text

  • About text frames
  • About threading text frames
  • Adding text to frames
  • Setting text frame properties
  • Editing text
  • Finding and changing text
  • Finding and changing fonts
  • Combining text and graphics
  • Creating path type
4

Setting Type

  • Formatting characters
  • Formatting paragraphs
  • Working with tabs
  • Copying type attributes with the eyedropper tool
  • Working with the type composition engines
  • Controlling hyphenation and justification
  • Paragraph and character style sheets
  • Creating nested styles
  • OpenType
  • Glyphs palette
5

Arranging and Combining Objects

  • Modifying objects using graphics frames
  • Grouping and ungrouping objects
  • Stacking objects
  • Aligning and distributing objects
  • Locking object position
  • Moving objects
  • Changing size, proportions, or orientation
  • Duplicating objects
6

Applying Color

  • About spot and process color types
  • Working with swatches and unnamed colors
  • Applying color
  • Using the Swatches palette
  • Mixed inks
  • Mixed ink groups
  • Using swatch libraries
  • Using the Color palette
  • Applying colors by dragging and dropping
  • Creating gradients
7

Creating Tables

  • Creating and editing tables
  • Importing spreadsheets from Word or Excel
  • Advanced table techniques
  • Placing graphics into tables
8

Adobe Product Integration

  • Working with Acrobat, Photoshop, and Illustrator files
  • Using Photoshop layer masks instead of clipping paths
  • Using Photoshop's file browser
  • Copy and Paste from Illustrator to InDesign CS
9

PDF, Print, Preflight, and Package

  • PDF styles
  • Export options
  • PDF in detail
  • Other export formats (ID Interchange)
  • Pre-flighting your files
  • Using the Package command
  • Printing and transparency
  • Flattener settings
  • The Separations palette

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