Adobe Indesign CC Essentials (Course ID10)

Adobe indesign is the premiere page layout tool for both electronic and print publishing. Designed for seamless integration with other adobe products, indesign is changing the standards for magazine catalogue and advertisement publishing. In this hands on course, students will learn the fundamentals of producing high quality content for print and the web. 

Marketing content creators, graphic designers, business writers, copy creators, architects and engineers.

Software Required Adobe InDesign CC
In order to participate in the class, participants require Adobe InDesign CC to be loaded on their computer and download and install the trial version of Adobe InDesign CC. It is good for 7 days so install a day before your scheduled class.

This class is fully interactive, as you will be able to speak with and hear from the instructor and other students as you work in real time to complete activities within the software.

Introducing the Workspace

• Looking at the workspace
• Working with panels
• Customizing the workspace
• Changing the magnification of a document
• Navigating through a document
• Using context menus
• Exploring on your own
• Finding resources for using InDesign

Getting to Know InDesign

• Preflighting as you work
• Viewing guides
• Adding text
• Working with styles
• Working with graphics
• Working with objects
• Working with object styles

Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages

• Creating and saving custom document settings
• Creating a new document
• Switching between open InDesign documents
• Working with 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
• Placing text and graphics on the document pages
• Overriding master page items on document pages
• Viewing the completed spread

Working with Objects

• Working with layers
• Creating and modifying text frames
• Creating and modifying graphics frames
• Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
• Placing and linking graphics frame
• Changing the shape of a frame
• Wrapping text around a graphic
• Transforming and aligning objects
• Modifying the shape of frames
• Transforming and aligning objects
• Selecting and modifying grouped objects

Flowing Text

• Flowing text into an existing frame
• Flowing text manually
• Creating text frames while flowing text
• Flowing text automatically
• Creating threaded frames automatically
• Resizing text frames automatically
• Adding a jump line page number

Editing Text

• Finding and changing a missing font
• Entering and importing text
• Finding and changing text and formatting
• Checking spelling
• Editing text by dragging and dropping
• Using the Story Editor
• Tracking changes
• Basic Typography with Paragraphs
• Importing Word documents

Working with Color

• Managing color
• Synchronizing color settings in Adobe Bridge
• Specifying color settings in InDesign
• Displaying images at full resolution
• Proofing colors onscreen
• Defining printing requirements
• Creating and applying colors
• Working with gradients
• Creating a tint
• Creating a spot color
• Applying colors to text and objects
• Using advanced gradient techniques

Exporting for Print and Web

• Creating an Adobe PDF