Description
This two-day, instructor-led Adobe InDesign training class helps graphic designers learn the program to create superior and stylish documents for print and web media. You will learn the basic and advanced productivity tools in InDesign, such as objects, layers, text, and typography.
Introducing the Workspace
- Getting started
- Looking at the workspace
- Introduction to panels
- Customizing a workspace
- Changing the zoom of a document
- Navigating a document
- Using context menus
- Using panel menus
- Modifying interface preferences
Getting to Know InDesign
- Viewing various guides
- Adding text
- Working with styles
- Working with graphics
- Working with objects
- Preflight while you work
- Viewing the document in Presentation mode
Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages
- Creating a new document
- Creating new and saving custom document settings
- Creating a new document from a preset
- Working with master pages
- Applying master pages to document pages
- Adding new document pages
- Rearranging and deleting document pages
- Changing page size within one InDesign file
- Adding sections to change page numbering
- Overriding master page items on document pages and placing text and graphics
- Printing to the edge of the paper
- Viewing the completed spread
Working with Objects
- Working with layers
- Creating and modifying text and graphic frames
- Adding metadata captions to graphics
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Transforming the shape of frames and aligning objects
- Selectin and modifying grouped objects
- Flowing type along a path
- Drawing lines and modifying arrowheads
Flowing Text
- Flowing text into an existing frame
- Flowing text manually
- Creating threaded frames automatically
- Flowing text automatically
- Applying paragraph styles to text
- Adjusting columns
- Using the baseline grid to align text
- Adding a jump line page number
Editing Text
- Entering and importing text
- Finding and changing text and formatting
- Checking spelling
- Editing text by dragging and dropping
- Using the Story Editor
- Tracking changes
Working with Typography
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Working with fonts, type styles and glyphs
- Working with columns
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Creating a drop cap
- Adjusting letter and word spacing
- Adjusting line breaks
- Setting tabs
- Working with paragraph shading and rules