Beginning to Intermediate Adobe InDesign - Essential Adobe InDesign Skills
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Training TypeLive Training
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CategoryAdobe
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Duration4 Hours
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Rating4.8/5
Adobe InDesign Essential Training Introduction
About Adobe InDesign Essential Training
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.
Adobe InDesign Essential Training Objective
Get familiar with the InDesign interface and create a multipage document. Learn to place text and graphics. Format text and photos. Use Styles and Parent pages. Export the document to popular formats.
Who is the Adobe InDesign Essential Training 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.
What Basic Knowledge Required to Learn What Basic Knowledge Required to Learn?
Computer skills, using a mouse, some Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, or other layout program is helpful
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Get familiar with InDesign menus, tools, panels, and workspaces
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Save a workspace for later use
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Create a New Document
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Learn about non-printing items, guides, margins, page edges, pasteboard, and hidden characters.
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Zoom in and out of a document
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Navigate around a document
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Move from one page to another, rearrange pages
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Add new pages using the pages panel
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Add a page number on a Parent page to repeat on all pages
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Create text frames – Type text
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Place text, auto create frames
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Thread Text frames, learn the handles to resize and in/out ports to thread
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Typing custom characters
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Create and place photos and graphics into frames
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Fill and stroke frames with color
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Use the default colors
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Customize colors, mix and save new colors
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Apply colors to text, objects and lines
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Load colors from other documents
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Character Formats: Font, bold, italic, color, size, caps, etc.
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Paragraph Formats: Align, indent, spacing etc.
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Use the eyedropper to copy formatting
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Place photos, resize, crop photos, rotate and delete
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Learn to resize manually and with the control panel and shortcut keys
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Intro to special effects with photos - transparency, drop shadows, borders
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Text wrap around photos
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Group, ungroup
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Arrange, bring to front and send to back
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Stacking order on Layers
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Text Frame Options
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Why you should be using Paragraph and Character Styles in InDesign
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Paragraph Styles: create, apply, edit for global changes in your document
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Character Styles: when to use character vs. paragraph styles
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Paragraph formatting, tricks tips and cool effects
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Re-use Styles in another document
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Save, Export and Package an InDesign file
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Export to PDF and JPG