Beginning to Intermediate Adobe InDesign - Essential Adobe InDesign Skills

BY
Simpliv Learning

Mode

Online

Duration

5 Hours

Quick Facts

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Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study, Virtual Classroom
Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based
Frequency of Classes Weekdays

Course and certificate fees

certificate availability

Yes

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Simpliv Learning

The syllabus

Workspace

  • Get familiar with InDesign menus, tools, panels, and workspaces  
  • Save a workspace for later use  
  • Create a New Document  

Explore a finished document

  • Learn about non-printing items, guides, margins, page edges, pasteboard, and hidden characters.  
  • Zoom in and out of a document  
  • Navigate around a document  

Multiple page documents in InDesign

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

Text Frames

  • Create text frames – Type text  
  • Place text, auto create frames  
  • Thread Text frames, learn the handles to resize and in/out ports to thread  
  • Typing custom characters

Graphic Frames

  • Create and place photos and graphics into frames  
  • Fill and stroke frames with color  

Color

  • Use the default colors  
  • Customize colors, mix and save new colors  
  • Apply colors to text, objects and lines  
  • Load colors from other documents  

Format text

  • Character Formats: Font, bold, italic, color, size, caps, etc.  
  • Paragraph Formats: Align, indent, spacing etc.  
  • Use the eyedropper to copy formatting  

Format and customize graphics

  • Place photos, resize, crop photos, rotate and delete  
  • Learn to resize manually and with the control panel and shortcut keys  
  • Intro to special effects with photos - transparency, drop shadows, borders  
  • Text wrap around photos  

Work with objects

  • Group, ungroup  
  • Arrange, bring to front and send to back  
  • Stacking order on Layers  
  • Text Frame Options

Styles in InDesign

  • Why you should be using Paragraph and Character Styles in InDesign  
  • Paragraph Styles: create, apply, edit for global changes in your document  
  • Character Styles: when to use character vs. paragraph styles  
  • Paragraph formatting, tricks tips and cool effects  
  • Re-use Styles in another document  

Save and Export InDesign documents

  • Save, Export and Package an InDesign file  
  • Export to PDF and JPG  

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