InDesign Class - Introduction

Introduction to Adobe InDesign Class: Complete Topics

InDesign Essential Skills

• InDesign tools
• The InDesign workspace
• The document window
• Using guides
• Viewing modes
• Working with panels
• Managing panels
• Saving your workspace
• Working with the Control panel
• Navigating through a document

Building InDesign Documents with Master Pages

• Planning your document
• Creating a custom-sized document
• Formatting master pages
• Using text variables
• Basing master pages on other masters
• Overriding master page items
• Adding layout pages
• Placing formatted text
• Adding images and text to master pages
• Applying masters to pages

Working with Text and Type in InDesign

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

Working with InDesign's Styles

• Style types
• Defining paragraph styles
• Applying paragraph styles
• Defining character styles
• Applying character styles
• Updating styles
• Loading styles from another document
• Organizing styles into groups
• Creating object styles
• Applying object styles

Working with Graphics in InDesign

• 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

Creating and Using InDesign Tables

• Creating a table
• Copying and pasting table information
• 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

Using Color in Your InDesign Documents

• Applying color to text
• Applying color to 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

Preflighting, Printing and PDF creation from InDesign

• 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