Adobe Indesign

This course is professional training in Adobe InDesign, which is an industry-leading layout and page design software for print and digital media.

InDesign has everything you need to create and publish books, digital magazines, eBooks, posters, interactive PDFs, and more.

This course covers complete Adobe InDesign.

• Tools: Drawing and type tools, transformation tools, selection tools, magnification and navigation tools.
• Working: Adding text, working with character and paragraph styles, graphics, objects, and object styles.
• Pages: Custom document settings, master pages, adding pages, rearranging and deleting pages, sections for page numbering, spread.
• Objects: Layers, creating and modifying text frames, creating and modifying graphic frames, adding metadata captions, placing and linking graphic frames, wrapping text, transforming the shape of frames, transforming and aligning objects, selecting and modifying grouped objects, lines, and arrowheads, QR code.
• Flowing Text: Flowing text into an existing frame, flowing text manually, threaded frames, flowing text automatically, applying paragraph styles, adjusting columns, baseline grid, and page number.
• Editing: Finding and changing a missing font, importing text, finding and changing text and formatting, checking spelling, story editor, tracking changes.
• Typography : adjusting vertical spacing, working with fonts, type styles and glyphs, working with columns, changing paragraph alignment, drop cap, letter and word spacing, line breaks, setting tabs, working with paragraph shading and rules.
• Colour : Managing colour, defining printing requirements, creating colours, applying colours, tint swatches, gradients, colour groups.
• Styles : Creating and applying paragraph styles, creating and applying character styles, nesting character styles inside paragraph styles, creating and applying object styles, globally updating styles, and loading styles from another document.
• Importing and Modifying Graphics: Adding graphics from other programs, managing links to imported files, updating revised graphics, adjusting display quality, importing and sizing graphics, editing placed pictures, working with dropped backgrounds, importing native Adobe graphic files, using InDesign library.
• Tables: Creating a table, converting text to a table, changing rows and columns, formatting a table, adding graphics to table cells, and header row, and creating and applying table and cell styles.
• Transparency: Importing and coloring a grayscale image, transparency settings, Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics, importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency, transparency setting for text, working with effects.
• Printing and Exporting: Preflighting files, previewing separations, managing colors, previewing transparency effects, previewing pages, Adobe PDF, PDF presets, printing and saving a print preset, and packaging files.
• Form Fields: Adding form fields, tab order, submit button, exporting interactive PDF, and testing.
• Fixed Layout EPUB: Creating a new document for fixed layout export, EPUB – reflowable versus fixed layout, adding animation, buttons, adding multimedia and interactive elements, exporting an EPUB.