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What you'll learn?
- Learn how to create posters, brochures, books and more in InDesign
- Understand layout principles and processing including text boxes, columns, inset padding, text threading
- Learn how to place images, work with frames, add strokes, corner radius options, and text wrapping
- Create and modify Master/Parent pages, pagination, placeholders
- Understanding typography principles including leading, tracking, kerning and more.
- Learn how to draw and edit shapes, and use color including color theory, strokes, fill and gradients, pen tool, direct selection tool
- Exporting, packaging, PDF creation, zip files, ready for print
- Working with layers, layer management, visibility, locking, color coding
- Working with Styles: Paragraph styles, Character styles, Object styles, Nested styles
- Creating a Table of Contents, creating Bookmarks, Cross-referencing
- Working with hyperlinks and buttons and other interactive tools
- Creating interactive Forms
- Creating, editing and formatting Tables
- Working with the Data Merge tools
- And so much more!
Course Overview
InDesign is such an amazing program and is used across industries and job roles!
In this class, we cover everything you need to learn in InDesign. All levels, and all topics for all project types.
Here is a list of topics we cover in this class:
· The InDesign Workspace including understanding Panels and customizing
· Working with the Pages panel
· Keyboard shortcuts
· Packaging and Preflight options
· Master/Parent Pages
· Understanding Margins, Bleeds, Slugs and Page settings
· Saving Presets
· Overview of InDesign Templates
· Drawing basic shapes
· Understanding Fill and Stroke
· Stroke color, width and style settings
· Color overview (CMYK, RGB, HSB, Hexadecimal)
· Creating Swatches
· Corner options
· Resizing, rotating and moving shapes
· Using the Properties Panel for Shapes
· Placing images
· Image placement options
· Image Frames
· Fitting options for images
· Using the Properties Panel for Images
· Autofit options for image resizing
· Stroke color, width and style settings
· Text wrapping
· Cloning images
· Cropping
· Creating Table of Contents
· Data Merge
· Buttons and Hyperlinks
· Creating Buttons
· Creating interactive Forms
· Object Effects including Drop Shadow, Glow, Feathering
· Object Transparency
· Intro to Object Styles
· Overview of Object Styles panel
· Overview of object settings
· Drop Shadow, Corner Options, Stroke, Columns, Text Wrapping
· Creating an Object Style
· Applying an Object Style
· Overriding and updating Object Styles
· Using the Control Panel
· Using the Properties Panel
· Basic Formatting
· Overview of basic typographic settings (Kerning, Tracking, Leading)
· Paragraph properties settings
· Placing text from Word Document
· Bullets and Numbering
· Paragraph Margins
· Paragraph Rules
· Paragraph and Cell Style introduction
· Why do we use Paragraph Styles?
· Examples of Paragraph Styles
· Intro to Paragraph Style Panel
· Creating a Paragraph Style
· Applying a Paragraph Style
· Nesting a Paragraph Style inside an Text Object Style
· Managing Links
· Preflighting Documents for Printing
· Creating a Custom Preflight Profile
· Previewing Transparency
· Exporting PDF Files for Printing & Proofs
Pre-requisites
- InDesign CC
- No experience necessary
Target Audience
- All industries
- All levels
- No experience necessary.
- Graphic designers
- Administrative
- All professions
Curriculum 50 Lectures 06:35:04
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Section 1 : Introduction to InDesign
- Lecture 2 :
- Navigating the InDesign Workspace
- Lecture 3 :
- What is InDesign
- Lecture 4 :
- Welcome - Meet your Instructor
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Section 2 : Creating Document
- Lecture 1 :
- Creating a New Document
- Lecture 2 :
- Creating a Poster
- Lecture 3 :
- The Page Panel Overview
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Section 3 : Working with Images
- Lecture 1 :
- Creating an Image Grid
- Lecture 2 :
- Aligning Objects
- Lecture 3 :
- Object Styles Overview
- Lecture 4 :
- Placing Images & Adding Text Copy
- Lecture 5 :
- Intro to Working with Images - Part 1
- Lecture 6 :
- Working with Images - Part 2
- Lecture 7 :
- Working with (Image) Links
- Lecture 8 :
- Adding and Editing Object Effects
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Section 4 : Typography, Types & Test Boxes
- Lecture 1 :
- Typographical Settings
- Lecture 2 :
- Placing Text from a Microsoft Word Document
- Lecture 3 :
- Text Frames & Setting Text Frame Options
- Lecture 4 :
- Text Threads & Hidden Characters
- Lecture 5 :
- Paragraph Styles Overview
- Lecture 6 :
- Bullets & Numbering
- Lecture 7 :
- Character Styles Overview
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Section 5 : Working with Color Swatches & Swatches
- Lecture 1 :
- Colors & Swatches
- Lecture 2 :
- Gradients
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Section 6 : Parent (Master) Pages
- Lecture 1 :
- Parent (Master) Pages Overview & Intro
- Lecture 2 :
- Parent (Master) Pages - Part 2
- Lecture 3 :
- Parent (Master) Pages - Inserting Sections, Footer Sections
- Lecture 4 :
- Parent (Master) Pages - Creating Placeholders
- Lecture 5 :
- Parent (Master) Pages - Loading Masters from other Documents
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Section 7 : InDesign Styles - Next Level
- Lecture 1 :
- InDesign Styles Overview
- Lecture 2 :
- Nested Character Styles
- Lecture 3 :
- Nested Object Styles
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Section 8 : Borders & Shading
- Lecture 1 :
- How to Create Borders on Text Paragraphs and Headings
- Lecture 2 :
- How to Apply Shading to Paragraphs
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Section 9 : Creative Tools & Productivity - Illustrations and Drawing
- Lecture 1 :
- Advanced Layer Management - Part 2
- Lecture 2 :
- How to use the Pen Tool to Draw
- Lecture 3 :
- Creating Custom Strokes
- Lecture 4 :
- Using the Pathfinder Panel for Illustration
- Lecture 5 :
- Creating Outlines and Shapes from Text
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Section 10 : Advanced Documents Organizational Tools
- Lecture 1 :
- How to Create Table of Contents
- Lecture 2 :
- Cross Referencing from Paragraph Styles
- Lecture 3 :
- Cross Referencing using Text Anchors
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Section 11 : Interactive Forms & Working with Hyperlinks
- Lecture 1 :
- Creating Interactive Forms
- Lecture 2 :
- Working with Hyperlinks
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Section 12 : Tables & Data Merge
- Lecture 1 :
- How to Create, Edit and Format Tables
- Lecture 2 :
- How to Merge External Data into InDesign (Data Merge)
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Section 13 : CC Libraries & Adobe Stock
- Lecture 1 :
- How to use CC (Creative Cloud) Libraries
- Lecture 2 :
- Using Adobe Stock
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Section 14 : Finalizing your files
- Lecture 1 :
- InDesign Preference Settings
- Lecture 2 :
- Preflight, Exporting & Packaging your documents for Printing and PDF's
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