This course will teach you how to create professional layouts for business cards, magazines, pamplets, books & more. You'll learn how to flow text around images, style and format text, add multpiple pages, page numbers, titles, and learn several color and typography concepts for use in your InDesign workflow. Work with master pages, paragraph and character styles to build layouts fast and effectively.
Audience
Our Adobe InDesign CC course is a beginning course for InDesign for students who want to learn how to put together newsletters, brochures, magazine layouts, and multiple page PDF presentations.
Prerequisites
Basic Computer Skills & File Management on Windows or Mac
Course Outline
Introduction to InDesign
- What is InDesign?
- Navigating in InDesign
- Zooming a document
- Place and flow text in frames
- Working with styles
- Placing graphics
- Working with master pages
Working with Frames
- Modifying text frames
- Modifying graphics frames
- Fitting the content to the frame
- Modifying the stroke of a frame
- Transforming a frame Wrapping text around an object
Creating and Applying Colors
- Adding colors to the Swatches palette
- Applying colors to objects
- Creating a spot color
- Applying color to text
- Working with gradients
- Creating a tint
Importing and Editing Text
- Flowing text
- Working with styles
- Showing hidden characters
- Threading text
- Changing he number of columns
- Creating and applying a character style
- Finding and changing
- Spell-checking a story
Working with Typography
- Preparing and using a baseline grid
- Changing type spacing and appearance
- Adding special characters
- Creating a table using tabs
Creating a PDF
- Importing and Linking Graphics
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Using a library to manage objects
Note:
ALL of our classes come with a CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION.
School Notes: Important - Students must bring their own laptop with the Adobe application loaded to be prepared for class. We do not supply computers. It's Bring Your Own
Computer.