Class Description

InDesign keeps getting better and better! InDesign has continued to improve and evolve its unparalleled page-layout features, seamless integration with Photoshop and Illustrator, and overall ease of use. In this 3-day intensive hands-on InDesign training you will maximize InDesign’s rich feature set to create stellar documents. Whether a designer, prepress professional, or even a beginner, this class will give you the skills to use InDesign effectively and efficiently. Topics include:

Course Curriculum

Introducing the workspace

• Working with panels
• Customizing the workspace
• Navigating through a document
• Using context menus
• Using panel menus
• Modifying interface preferences

Getting to know InDesign

• Viewing guides
• Preflighting as you work
• Adding text
• Working with styles
• Working with graphics
• Working with objects
• Working with object styles
• Viewing the document in Presentation mode

Setting up a document and working with pages

• Creating and saving 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
• Overriding master page items and placing text and graphics
• 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 frames
• Changing the shape of a frame
• Wrapping text around a graphic
• Modifying the shape of frames
• Transforming and aligning objects
• Selecting and modifying grouped objects
• Creating a QR code
• Drawing lines and modifying arrowheads

Flowing text

• Flowing text into an existing frame
• Flowing text manually
• Creating text frames while flowing text
• Creating threaded frames automatically
• Flowing text automatically
• Applying paragraph styles to text
• Adjusting columns
• 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

Working with Typography

• Adjusting vertical spacing
• Working with fonts, type styles and glyphs
• Fine-tuning columns
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Creating a drop cap
• Adjusting letter and word spacing
• Adjusting line breaks
• Setting tabs
• Adding a rule above a paragraph
• Working with paragraph shading

Working with color

• Managing color
• Defining printing requirements
• Creating colors
• Applying colors
• Working with tint swatches
• Working with gradients
• Working with color groups

Working with styles

• Creating and applying paragraph styles
• Creating and applying character styles
• Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
• Creating and applying object styles
• Creating and applying table and cell styles
• Globally updating styles
• Loading styles from another document

Importing and modifying graphics

• Adding graphics from other programs
• Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
• Managing links to imported files
• Updating revised graphics
• Adjusting display quality
• Working with clipping paths
• Working with alpha channels
• Importing native Adobe graphic files
• Using an InDesign library to manage objects
• Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

Creating tables

• Creating a table
• Converting text to a table
• Changing rows and columns
• Formatting a table
• Adding graphics to table cells
• Creating a header row
• Creating and applying table and cell styles

Working with transparency

• Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
• Applying transparency settings
• Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
• Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
• Applying transparency settings to text
• Working with effects

Printing and exporting

• Packaging files
• Creating an Adobe PDF proof
• Previewing separations
• Previewing how transparency effects will be flattened
• Previewing the page
• Printing a proof and saving a print preset
• Using the Ink Manager

Creating Adobe PDF files with Form Fields

• Adding form fields
• Adding a description to a form field
• Setting the tab order of the fields
• Adding a button to submit the form
• Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file

Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB

• Creating a new document for fixed-layout export
• Adding animation
• Adding multimedia and interactive elements
• Exporting an EPUB file

Creating a Reflowable EPUB

• Completing the booklet before export
• Choosing the content of an ebook
• Adding metadata
• Exporting an EPUB file