InDesign

Adobe InDesign is the world­wide gold stan­dard tool for pro­duc­ing print and dig­i­tal pub­li­ca­tions, and Adobe InDesign Training with world-renowned InDesign guru and author Pariah Burke is an essen­tial part of mak­ing suc­cess­ful, pro­fes­sion­al lay­outs in InDesign.

Adobe InDesign is the world’s stan­dard page lay­out appli­ca­tion. InDesign dri­ves the world of print and elec­tron­ic pub­lish­ing by pow­er­ing every­thing from dai­ly news­pa­pers to occa­sion­al updates to the neigh­bor­hood deli’s menu, from print and ebook pro­duc­tion for the largest pub­lish­ing hous­es and most famous authors to the first-time self pub­lish­er to the hob­by­ist who wants to make a one-off pic­ture book. In an intu­itive, stream­lined inter­face InDesign pro­vides pro­fes­sion­al and ama­teur pub­lish­ers unpar­al­lelled lay­out abil­i­ties, typo­graph­ic con­trol, image place­ment fea­tures, and out­put chan­nels. With InDesign you can send your projects to print, PDF, EPUB ebook, and to iPad and oth­er tablets.

In this class you will be intro­duced to InDesign, learn­ing your way around it before cre­at­ing dif­fer­ent types of doc­u­ments, adding text and images, for­mat­ting text and images, and then out­putting to print, PDF, EPUB ebook, and online.

What You Will Learn

  • Creating doc­u­ments for dif­fer­ent types of publications
  • Creating and Formatting Text
  • Importing Text from Microsoft Word and Other Programs
  • Importing Images
  • Creating and Editing Tables
  • Working with Layers
  • Working with Color
  • Working with Master Pages
  • Formatting with Styles
  • Output and PDF Exporting
  • Working with Long Documents
  • Converting Quark Documents
  • Preflighting and Packaging

Lesson Outline

The fol­low­ing is a list of pos­si­ble top­ics for you to use as a guide. Your course will be ful­ly cus­tomized to your unique goals, work­flow, and learn­ing pace. Because every course we teach is ful­ly cus­tomized to each group, the fol­low­ing list of top­ics to be learned should be con­sid­ered a guide­line, one that will be expand­ed or altered as required to fit your needs.

Introducing the Workspace

  • Working with panels
  • Learning the Tools Panel
  • Customizing your Workspace
  • Changing the Magnification
  • Navigating the Document
  • Using Context Menus
  • Finding resources for using InDesign

Getting to know InDesign

  • Viewing the les­son document
  • Preflighing as you work
  • Viewing guides
  • Adding Text
  • Working with styles
  • Working with graphics
  • Working with objects
  • Placing Graphics and Text
  • Working with object syles

Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages

  • Creating and sav­ing cus­tom page settings
  • Creating a new document
  • Switching between open InDesign Documents
  • Working with Master Pages
  • Applying mas­ter pages to doc­u­ment pages
  • Adding sec­tions to change page numbers
  • Adding new pages
  • Arranging and delet­ing pages
  • Placing text and graph­ics on the doc­u­ment pages
  • Overriding mas­ter page items on doc­u­ment pages
  • Changing the size of the pages
  • Viewing the com­plet­ed spread

Working with Objects

  • Working with Layers
  • Creating and Editing Text Frames
  • Creating and Editing Graphics Frames
  • Adding meta­da­ta cap­tions to 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
  • Finishing up

Flowing Text

  • Flowing text into an exist­ing frame
  • Flowing text manually
  • Creating text frames while flow­ing text
  • Flowing text automatically
  • Creating thread­ed frames automatically
  • Adding a jump line page number

Editing Text

  • Finding and chang­ing a miss­ing font
  • Entering and import­ing text
  • Finding and chang­ing text and formatting
  • Check spelling
  • Editing text by drag­ging and dropping
  • Using Story Editor
  • Tracking changes

Working with Typography

  • Adjusting Vertical Spacing
  • Changing Fonts and Type Style
  • Fine-tuning columns
  • Changing para­graph alignment
  • Creating a drop cap
  • Adjusting let­ter and word spacing
  • Setting tabs
  • Adding rule above a paragraph

Working with Color

  • Defining print­ing requirements
  • Creating and apply­ing colors
  • Working with Gradients
  • Creating a tint
  • Creating a spot color
  • Applying col­ors to text and objects
  • Using advanced gra­di­ents techniques

Working with Styles

  • Creating and apply­ing para­graph styles
  • Creating and apply­ing char­ac­ter styles
  • Nesting char­ac­ter styles inside para­graph styles
  • Creating and apply­ing object 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 graph­ics files
  • Using a library to man­age objects
  • Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

Creating Tables

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

Working with Transparency

  • Importing and col­oriz­ing grayscale images
  • Applying trans­paren­cy settings
  • Adjusting trans­paren­cy to set­tings for EPS images
  • Adding trans­paren­cy effects
  • Importing and adjust­ing Illustrator files
  • Applying trans­paren­cy set­tings to text
  • Working with Effects

Printing and Exporting

  • Preflighting files
  • Packaging files
  • Creating an Adobe PDF proof
  • Previewing sep­a­ra­tions
  • Previewing How trans­paren­cy will be flattened
  • Previewing the Page
  • Printing a laser or inkjet proof
  • Using the Ink Manager

Creating Adobe PDF Files

  • Adding form fields
  • Exporting an inter­ac­tive Adobe PDF file

Creating and exporting an ebook

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

Working with long Documents

  • Starting a book
  • Creating a run­ning footer
  • Adding a footnote
  • Adding a cross-reference
  • Synchronizing a book
  • Generating a table of contents
  • Indexing a book

Schedule your Adobe InDesign train­ing class now!