Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is the industry-leading page and layout design software used by aspiring and professional designers around the world for both digital and print media.

Our customized InDesign courses will teach why this software is the best tool to create any graphics you can imagine, including books, eBooks, digital magazines of any kind, interactive PDFs, and more.

InDesign trainings in Toronto with JFL Media Training are completely customized to your goals, skills, and projects, so you can learn skills taught by professional designers and become an InDesign expert at your own pace. No need to rush! We adapt to you on your way to becoming the best designer.

Essential InDesign skills

• The InDesign workspace
• Viewing modes
• The document window
• Usingguides
• Saving your workspace
• Working with the Control panel
• Navigating through a document

Mastering Pages, Text and Type

• Planning your document
• Creating a custom-sized document
• Formatting master pages
• Using text variables
• Adding layout pages
• Placing formatted text
• Adding images and text to master pages
• Creating a text frame
• Changing character attributes
• Changing paragraph attributes
• Finding and changing text
• Checking and correcting spelling
• Using the Glyphs panel
• Creating Glyph sets
• Flowing text and threading text between frames

Working With Tables

• Creating a table
• Copying and pasting table content
• Adding text to tables
• Converting tables and text
• Importing a table
• Editing table options
• Using cells
• Merging cells
• Defining columns and rows

Learning Styles

• Defining and applying paragraph styles
• Defining and applying character styles
• Updating and loading styles from another document
• Organizing styles into groups
• Creating and applying object styles

Using Color

• Applying color to text and frames
• Creating and saving a new swatch
• Applying Live Corner Effects
• Applying strokes to text
• Creating a tint reduction
• Working with gradients

How To Use Graphics

• How InDesign handles graphics
• Locating missing images
• The Links panel and Link badge
• Creating a graphic frame
• Adding graphics

Pre-flight, Printing And PDF's

• Package inventory
• Actual vs. effective resolution
• Preflight checks
• Packaging your document
• Package options
• Creating a PDF