Adobe InDesign Essentials

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Course Overview

Adobe InDesign is the industry standard page-layout program that works with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop seamlessly. InDesign allows you to create simple to complex multi-page documents such as brochures, flyers, books and magazines. This course is a comprehensive exploration of InDesign tools and capabilities to create professional documents. You will learn how to manage the InDesign environment, create, setup, design, enhance and finalize multi-page documents.

*Access to Adobe InDesign software required.

Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Layout a multi-page print document in Adobe InDesign and create a print-ready PDF file
• Work with font, character, paragraph and typography basics in InDesign
• Insert and edit text, objects and picture frames
• Draw shapes
• Work with color panels to create and apply colors and gradients

Course Objectives

• To learn about Adobe InDesign CC interface and work with menus, tools and panels
• To setup and modify multi-page documents
• To work with page settings and layout options and apply automatic pagination
• To insert images and illustrations in a multi-page document
• To work with color panels to create, manage, edit and apply color
• To work with type tools to create and apply character and paragraph styles
• To create print-ready PDF files

Agenda

Unit One – Getting to Know the Interface and Setting up a Document

• Interface menus
• Tools
• Panels
• Starting and setting up a multi-page document in InDesign

Unit Two – Working with Objects and Color

• Learning to work with color panels
• Creating, managing and applying color to elements
• Inserting and managing images and illustrations into an InDesign document

Unit Three – Working with Text

• Learning about insert and flow text to multiple pages
• Managing long text documents
• Text editing in InDesign documents

Unit Four – Typography

• Advance typography tools and menus
• Character and paragraph settings and styles
• Creating print-ready PDF files