Adobe InDesign Essentials

Adobe InDesign is the industry standard page-layout program that works with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop seamlessly. InDesign allows you to create simple to complex multi-page documents such as brochures, flyers, books and magazines. This course is a comprehensive exploration of InDesign tools and capabilities to create professional documents. You will learn how to manage the InDesign environment, create, setup, design, enhance and finalize multi-page documents. Access to Adobe InDesign software required. One-month course. 

Agenda

Unit 1:  Getting to Know the Interface and Setting up a Document

• Interface menus
• Tools
• Panels
• Starting and setting up a multi-page document in InDesign

Unit 2:  Working with Objects and Color

• Learning to work with color panels
• Creating, managing and applying color to elements
• Inserting and managing images and illustrations into an InDesign document

Unit 3:  Working with Text

• Learning about insert and flow text to multiple pages
• Managing long text documents
• Text editing in InDesign documents

Unit 4:  Typography

• Advance typography tools and menus
• Character and paragraph settings and styles
• Creating print-ready PDF files.