Adobe InDesign Masterclass

Adobe InDesign became the industry standard desktop publishing application for designing presentations, brochures, business proposals, newsletters and flyers.

It became the priority of the professionals for creating brochures, posters, magazines, e-books and apps. With the help of this course, you will gain an expertise in InDesign training to create documents and prepare them for print as a PDF.

All topics like professional color management, effects, typography and advanced graphics are covered in this training course.

Course Outline

Introduction to Adobe InDesign

• InDesign Interface
• Overview of the toolbox
• Create and save workspaces
• Specify page attributes
• Document setup
• Adjust document setup
• Create Shapes
• Use ruler guides
• Set Margins and columns
• Use x and y references
• Show hidden characters
• Rotate, resize and reposition
• Lock a point in the proxy box

Using Text Frames

• Inflowing and introducing texts
• Text frames connection
• Auto flowing
• Character and paragraph formatting
• Controlling of InDesign typography
• Notes preparation
• Simple table generation
• Verification and insertion of special characters

Functioning of Multiple Frames

• Grouping and alienation of different objects
• Objects distribution
• Loading objects
• Conversion and transformation of shapes
• Use of various layer panels
• Using objects in layers

InDesign Master Pages

• Creation and editing Master Pages
• A number of Master Pages
• Locking/ unlocking of Master pages
• Master page section and page numbering

InDesign long Documents

• Creating and editing TOC’s
• Applying independent styles to TOC’s
• Books and Chapters
• Indexing, creating/Editing/updating
• Indexing working with cross reference

InDesign pen Tool

• Use pen tool
• Use of pen tool to create angles and curves
• Work with compound path
• Freehand shapes
• Know the Bezier Pen
• Bezier Curves

Type and Images

• Work with Text and images
• Work with the text wrap
• Remove backgrounds from the text wrap and text insets

InDesign Interactive Panels

• Interactive media
• Use of multi-media for digital devices
• Transitions of page
• Object states
• Rich media

InDesign art Tools

• Colours dropping or colour matching
• Type on a path
• Transparency panel
• Objects, styles, 3D
• Working with External artwork

InDesign and Photoshop Roundtripping

• To work with Photoshop images
• To combine Photoshop with InDesign
• Photoshop and InDesign techniques

InDesign Advanced image Handling

• Clipping paths
• Alpha channels from Photoshop
• Image formatting
• Dynamic text wrapping

InDesign Print

• Preview
• Preflight and package
• Export to .PDF
• PDF options including security
• Exportation from one format to other format options