Adobe InDesign Core Skills: Level 1

Course Description:

  The Adobe InDesign CC Core Skills: Level 1 course is designed for intro level and self-taught InDesign users, and will teach them how to create, edit and manage documents and artwork in InDesign CC. Students will learn about the InDesign Interface, how to create text frames and graphic frames, how to customize and save workspaces, how to set up documents and document presets, and use zoom and navigation tools to work effectively with their layouts.

Students will build complex documents using master pages, guides, grids and placeholders. They will also learn about managing Pages, editing and formatting text, applying and working with colors, and exporting PDFs.

The course is always upgraded to latest version of CC as soon as Adobe published new training materials for that version. This normally happens 2-4 months after the version release.

The course will cover the following topics:

• Introducing the Workspace
• Getting to Know InDesign
• Setting up a Document and Working with Pages
• Working with Objects
• Flowing Text
• Editing Text
• Working with Typography
• Working with Color
• Working with Styles
• Printing and Exporting

Introducing the Workspace
Getting started
Looking at the workspace
Using panels
Customizing the workspace
Navigating through a document
Using context menus
Using panel menus
Modifying interface preferences
Exploring on your own

Getting to Know InDesign CC
Getting started
Viewing guides
Preflighting as you work
Adding text
Using styles
Using graphics
Using objects
Using object styles
Viewing the document in Presentation mode
Exploring on your own

Setting up a Document and Using Pages
Getting started
Create and saving custom document settings
Create a new document
Switching between open InDesign documents
Using master pages
Applying master pages to document pages
Adding new document pages
Rearranging and deleting document pages
Changing the size of pages
Adding sections to change page numbering
Overriding master page items and placing text and graphics
Printing to the edge of the paper: using the bleed guides
Viewing the completed spread
Exploring on your own

Using Objects
Getting started
Using layers
Create and modify text frames
Create and modify graphics frames
Wrapping text around a graphic
Transforming and aligning objects
Selecting and modify grouped objects
Drawing lines and modify arrowheads
Finishing up
Exploring on your own

Flowing Text
Getting started
Flowing text into an existing frame
Flowing text manually
Applying paragraph styles to text
Adjust columns
Adding a jump line page number
Exploring on your own

Editing Text
Getting started
Entering and importing text
Finding and changing text and formatting
Checking spelling
Exploring on your own

Using Typography
Getting started
Adjust vertical spacing
Using fonts, type styles, and glyphs
Fine-tuning columns
Changing paragraph alignment
Create a drop cap
Adjust letter and word spacing
Adjust line breaks
Exploring on your own

Getting Started
Managing color
Defining printing requirements
Create colors
Applying colors
Exploring on your own

Using Styles
Getting started
Create and apply paragraph styles
Create and apply character styles
Globally updating styles
Loading styles from another document
Exploring on your own

Printing and Exporting
Getting started
Previewing the page
Create a Adobe PDF proof
Create a Press-Ready PDF and saving a PDF preset
Packaging files
Exploring on your own

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