Indesign

Indesign

Module 1: Essential skills
• Working with InDesign tools and panels
• The InDesign workspace
• The document window
• Using guides
• Viewing modes
• Saving your workspace
• Working with the Control panel
• Navigating through a document

Module 2: Master pages

• Planning your document
• Creating a custom-sized document
• Formatting master pages
• Using text variables
• Adding layout pages
• Placing formatted text
• Adding images & text to master pages

Module 3: Text and type

• Creating a text frame
• Changing character attributes
• Changing paragraph attributes
• Finding and changing text
• Checking and correcting spelling
• Using the Glyphs panel
• Creating Glyph sets
• Flowing text and threading text between frames

Module 4: Styles

• Defining and applying paragraph styles
• Defining and applying character styles
• Updating and loading styles from another document
• Organizing styles into groups
• Creating and applying object styles

Module 5: Graphics

• How InDesign handles graphics
• Locating missing images
• The Links panel and Link badge
• Creating a graphic frame
• Adding graphics
• Repositioning graphics
• Fitting graphics to frames
• Placing multiple graphics
• Wrapping text around graphics
• Importing layered Photoshop files

Module 6: Tables

• Creating a table
• Copying and pasting table content
• Adding text to tables
• Converting tables and text
• Importing a table
• Editing table options
• Using cells
• Merging cells
• Defining columns and rows
• Using graphics in cells

Module 7: Using color

• Applying color to text and frames
• Creating and saving a new swatch
• Applying Live Corner Effects
• Applying strokes to text
• Creating a tint reduction
• Working with gradients
• Using the Eyedropper
• Updating and editing colors
• Using and saving spot colors

Module 8: Pre-flight, printing and pdfs

• Package inventory
• Actual vs. effective resolution
• Preflight checks
• Packaging your document
• Package options
• Creating a PDF
• Adobe PDF Presets
• PDF Export Options
• Separation preview
• Printing a proof

Module 9: Additional features

• About the new features
• Content Collector
• Linked content
• Liquid Layouts
• Alternate layouts
• PDF forms
• Primary text frame
• ePub enha