Description

If you’ve tried to make a document in InDesign and just don’t know where to start, this class is for you! InDesign is a page layout program to bring together text, photos, logos and other objects to create a brochure, flyer, business card, catalog or other printed or interactive documents.

Course Objectives

Get familiar with the InDesign interface and create a multipage document. Learn to customize text and graphics. Export the document to popular formats.

Target Audience

Beginning InDesign users. No experience necessary, but even if you’ve created a few documents in InDesign, you’ll come away from this class with new tips, shortcuts and explanations of not only HOW to do something in InDesign, but WHY it works the way it does. 

Basic Understanding

Computer skills, using a mouse, some Word, PowerPoint, Publisher or other layout program is helpful

Course Content

No sessions available.

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Beginning Adobe InDesign - Skills for Success

Session 1: Get familiar with InDesign menus, tools, panels, and workspaces

No lectures available

Session 2: Create a New Document

No lectures available

Session 3: Explore a finished document

  1. Learn about non-printing items, guides, margins, page edges, pasteboard, and hidden characters.

Session 4: Text Frames

  1. Create a text frame – Type text
  2. Place text, auto create frames
  3. Thread Text frames, learn the handles to resize and in/out ports to thread

Session 5: Graphic Frames

  1. Create and place photos/graphics into frames
  2. Fill and stroke frames with color

Session 6: Format text

  1. Character Formats: Font, bold, italic, color, size, caps, etc.
  2. Paragraph Formats: Align, indent, spacing etc.
  3. Use the eyedropper to copy formatting
  4. Intro to Paragraph and Character Styles (take the next class for in-depth Styles)

Session 7: Format and customize graphics

  1. Crop photos, resize and rotate frames and content

Session 8: Multiple page documents in InDesign

  1. Move from one page to another, rearrange pages
  2. Add new pages using the pages panel
  3. Add a page number on a Parent page to repeat on all pages

Session 9: Save and Export InDesign documents

  1. Save and package an InDesign file
  2. Export to PDF and JPG

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