InDesign CC | Level 1

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.

Our Adobe InDesign CC course is a beginning course for students who want to learn how to put together newsletters, brochures, magazine layouts, and multiple page PDF presentations.

Prerequisite: Basic Computer Skills 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 textWorking with gradientsCreating 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.