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Learn InDesign to create professional page layouts for print and digital publishing. Use it to design, preflight, and publis a broad range of content in print, online, and for tablet apps.
You can create simple or complex layouts quickly and efficiently with precise control over typography, built-in creative tools, and an intuitive design environment.
Learn the industry standard layout program that allows you to create a diverse range of print and digital materials with the only limitations being your knowledge.
Through hands-on exercises you will learn to navigate the application and use the tools to create layouts from single pages to complex multi-page documents.
Take your InDesign skills to the next level. Building on your essential skills, you will create more complex documents and work with a variety of palettes and tools to further understand the capabilities of this high-end design application.
You will discover the pitfalls and best practices to follow so that you are creating rich layouts with the latest design standards and properly previewing these files with separations and transparency previews to create high and low resolution PDF files.
Learn the most advanced techniques in Adobe InDesign such as how to integrate Photoshop and Illustrator artwork into your InDesign documents, creating interactive PDFs with table of contents.

Course Outline

Getting Started

Letter Creation

Simple Magazine Ad

Pyramid Pets Article

2-Page Simple Magazine Ad

Setting up the Document as a 2-Page Spread
Working with Facing Pages
Understanding & Working with Bleed
Working with and formatting Bulleted Lists
Working with FX to solve object issues
Simple Paragraph Formatting
Working with Decorative Fonts
Printing as a Spread
Simple Web Export
Working with the Pages Panel

Creating Basic Shape Elements

More About Vector vs Raster
Understanding the Pen Tool
Pen Tool Exercises
Segments, Anchor Points, Curves
Creating Custom Shapes & Page Elements
Use Shape Tools more efficiently
Working with Gradients for lighting
Working with Effects to enhance graphics
Simple Perspective graphic creation

One-page recipe

Setup one-page document for web distribution
Layout a one-page recipe with images
Working with Image Content within Frames
Create custom graphics elements
Combine images with frames with FX
Learn how to use the Direct Selection Tool
Understanding Text Import Options
Working with Swatches
Saving Custom Swatches
Streamline for Online Web Distribution with an option to print

Tours Map

High Quality vector map creation
Manipulating vector maps
Using the Ellipse Frame Tool
Grouping Elements
Working with Multiple FX on single object
Output your map as a downloadable and Printable PDF

Postcard Promotional

Retro Fashion Magazine Cover

The parts of a magazine cover
Creating a rough layout
Creating & Applying Paragraph Styles
Style Modifications
Anatomy of the Paragraph Styles Panel
Importing vector graphics
Previewing your Layout in various ways
Saving as an InDesign Project vs Template

The Newspaper – Design & Layout

Understanding the parts of a Newspaper
Popular Newspaper sizes
Roughing out the layout
Create and manage a multi-page document
Working with multiple spreads repetitive content using the Pages Panel
Working with spanned content
Turning on and modifying the Baseline Grid
Stylizing Text with Paragraph Styles
Managing multiple columns
Spell checking
Adding simple graphics to add color

The Newspaper – Graphics & Images

Using Adobe Bridge to “tag” media
Adding Metadata to media
Adding Multiple images to multiple frames
Working with image Captions
Live vs Static Captions
Manipulating Master Pages
Creating Page Numbers
Creating Repetitive Page Graphics

Multi-Panel Brochure

Understanding the various brochure folds
Learn about 3rd party plugins for InDesign
Creating a bi-fold, four panel brochures
Start Page Numbers
Managing your panels in Pages
Spreads vs Pages
Duplicating and Deleting Spreads
Enhancing Logos
Adding graphics to text elements for contrast
Design and add text for Front and Back Panels
Casually recording Paragraph Styles & Swatches

Brochure Graphics

Use the Direct Selection Tool to modify Frames
Use the Direct Selection Tool to modify shapes
Converting points to Bezier Curves
Re-create a Polaroid-style frame to display your travel images
Sharing graphics and text between Spreads
Working with FX to create shadows
Layering Graphics for visual impact
Working with Slugs
Previewing your project

Fundamental Publishing & Export

Understanding PDF Options for Print InDepth
PDF/X Version Breakdown
Creating your own PDF Presets
Understanding the various options for Web Export (JPG, PNG, other) and why you would use one over another
What happens to your color on export
What is the EPUB standard?
Notes on Sending your work to an Inkjet or Laserjet
Exporting Marks for the Printer
Understanding Color Conversion
Packaging your Project for Archive or Transfer

Movie Poster Design

Reasons use Illustrator with InDesign
A quick introduction to text in Illustrator
Working with Decorative Type Titles
Multi-Frame Title Treatments
Getting vector art into InDesign from AI
Troubleshooting AI to ID Graphics Transfers
Working with Simple Tables
Formatting film poster credits
The Color Theme Tool
Working with SVG Graphics
Simple Graphic Edits in Illustrator
Flattening Graphics in Illustrator

Menu – Intro to Tables

Ghost Toys – Intro to GREP

What is GREP
Tips on Learning GREP
Two Ways of Adding GREP in your Projects
Composing a GREP Phrase
Creating conditions for conditional text
Using GREP to apply conditions
Creating sets to manage conditions
Using conditional images
GREP in Paragraph and Character Styles

Fiction Novel – Formatting a Book

Documents & Book Project contrasts
The Anatomy of a Book
Classic Trade book sizes
Setting up a standard paperback book
Creating Book Styles for easy formatting
Formatting Master Pages
Defining Sections
Numbering and Organizing Sections
Importing and Stylizing book text
Auto-flow text
Placeholder text for pre-formatting
GREP for eliminating “Runts”
Fixing and Eliminating Forced Line Breaks

Fiction Novel – Indexes, TOCs & Beyond

Fiction Novel – Creating a Cover

Setup for 6” x 9” Trade Book with 200 Pages
Creating a document with a Spine
Manipulating multiple pages as one document
Working with Photoshop and InDesign
Working with Importing layered content
Working with InDesign’s Layers Panel
Naming and Arranging Layers
Creating a Title for a Book Cover

Working with Book Projects

More details about Documents vs Book Projects
When a Book Project might be useful
Creating a Book Project from scratch
INDB File Formats
Anatomy of the Book Panel
Synchronizing Projects
Preflighting your Book
Error Reporting Details
Status Symbols Meaning
Page Numbering and Conversion
Exporting your book to a PDF

Deck Design & Layout

Deck Design – Style & Graphics

Working with Object Styles
Color Continuity
Enhancing Titles using Blend Modes
Formatting Text using Styles and Next Style
Creating a Gallery-Style TOC
Understanding Clippings Masks
Creating a Clipping Mask
Pitch Deck Tweaks
Exporting Deck to Preview

Deck Design – Interactive Documents

Switching to the Interactive Workspace
So many interactive features, so little time
Exploring Interactive PDFs
Create and manage Hyperlinks
Understanding Text Anchors
Interactive In-Document Navigation
How to embed Video and Audio
Buttons and Forms menu
Exporting an Interactive PDF
Testing your Interactive PDF

What you will learn

Explore interface and workspaces
Setup Documents
Learn to work with text
Explore the use of Typography and related panels
Incorporate images, Word documents and Excel documents
Manipulate and manage images
Format type to create well-crafted documents
Learn about the different color panels and resources
Incorporate Tables and related Styles
Learn to export, reuse and share projects
Become familiar with related Creative Cloud apps and tools
Create complex documents for a range screen and print
Create and apply advanced text formatting techniques
Create advanced numbering schemes and running header/footers
Build and managed table of contents, indexes and bookmarks
Import and format tables
Build interactive projects for mobile devices
Learn advanced page layout & document features
Explore image techniques
Understand element of publishing PDFs
Use color management
Use advanced text formatting techniques
Learn troubleshooting techniques
Learn workflow optimization

Audience profile

Anyone Interested in Mastering Real World publishing projects including an advertisement, a magazine, a corporate brochure, a novel, a movie poster, a receipe book, a restaurant menu, a travel guide, pitch deck, and much more.

This course introduces you to the newest techniques and tools used in Adobe InDesign CC.