Course Description
This 3-day, in-depth Adobe InDesign Essentials training course provides a basic through advanced overview of the interface, tools, features, and tips for page layout and design using InDesign. This course is an ideal combination of live instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice. Upon completion of the Adobe Indesign Essentials training course, you will understand the correct use of different color modes, how to apply color to design elements, create custom colors, and work with swatches and gradients. Other important core skills include how to find and change missing fonts, check spelling and work with graphic objects.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of the Adobe InDesign Essentials Training Course, you will be able to:
• Navigate the InDesign interface.
• Create a new document.
• Customize a document using color, swatches, gradients, and styles.
• Manage page elements.
• Add tables.
• Prepare documents for deployment.
Agenda
Introducing the Workspace
• Getting started
• Looking at the workspace
• Working with panels
• Customizing the workspace
• Navigating through a document
• Using context menus
• Using panel menus
• Modifying interface preferences
• Exploring on your own
Getting to Know InDesign
• Getting started
• Viewing guides
• Preflighting as you work
• Adding text
• Working with styles
• Working with graphics
• Working with objects
• Working with object styles
• Viewing the document in Presentation mode
• Exploring on your own
Setting up a Document and Working with Pages
• Getting started
• Creating and saving custom document settings
• Creating a new document
• Switching between open InDesign documents
• Working with master pages
• Applying master pages to document pages
• Adding new document pages
• Rearranging and deleting document pages
• Changing the size of pages
• Adding sections to change page numbering
• Overriding master page items and placing text and graphics
• Printing to the edge of the paper: using the bleed guides
• Viewing the completed spread
• Exploring on your own
Working with Objects
• Getting started
• Working with layers
• Creating and modifying text frames
• Creating and modifying graphics frames
• Wrapping text around a graphic
• Transforming and aligning objects
• Selecting and modifying grouped objects
• Drawing lines and modifying arrowheads
• Finishing up
• Exploring on your own
Flowing Text
• Getting started
• Flowing text into an existing frame
• Flowing text manually
• Applying paragraph styles to text
• Adjusting columns
• Adding a jump line page number
• Exploring on your own
Editing Text
• Getting started
• Entering and importing text
• Finding and changing text and formatting
• Checking spelling
• Exploring on your own
Working with Typography
• Getting started
• Adjusting vertical spacing
• Working with fonts, type styles, and glyphs
• Fine-tuning columns
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Creating a drop cap
• Adjusting letter and word spacing
• Adjusting line breaks
• Exploring on your own
Getting Started
• Managing color
• Defining printing requirements
• Creating colors
• Applying colors
• Exploring on your own
Working with Styles
• Getting started
• Creating and applying paragraph styles
• Creating and applying character styles
• Globally updating styles
• Loading styles from another document
• Exploring on your own
Printing and Exporting
• Getting started
• Previewing the page
• Creating an Adobe PDF proof
• Creating a Press-Ready PDF and saving a PDF preset
• Packaging files
• Exploring on your own