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InDesign Course Online July 14, 2025 Introduction
InDesign Course - Introduction
$695.00
In this introductory InDesign course, learn to create professional designs such as flyers, brochures, and marketing sheets that can be shared in print or PDF. In this InDesign course, you'll discover how to create documents efficiently using advanced typographic controls and intuitive graphic features. You will also discover techniques that will help to make your InDesign publications look polished and professional. This course is suitable for those working in marketing, communication, graphic design, publishing, and other roles where there is a need to create professional publications.
InDesign essential skills
- Using the InDesign workspace
- Changing the viewing modes
- Working with panels
- Changing and saving your workspace
- Working with the Properties 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, and paragraph attributes
- Finding and changing text
- Checking and correcting spelling
- Using the Glyphs panel
- Flowing text from one textbox to another
- 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
- Introduction to AI. Text to Image, Text to fill, and Generative expand
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
Applying colors to 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
The course topics serve as an outline for the course. Instructors may adjust content based on the specific needs of each class, such as to answer your InDesign questions.
Why InDesign classes at AGI are the best option for you
- Hands-on learning: Learn InDesign quickly with our proven teaching methods.
- Exceptional curriculum: AGI has delivered InDesign training to thousands over 25 years.
- Expert instructors: Our instructors are InDesign experts and skilled educators.
- Small class sizes: Receive personalized attention with 10 or fewer participants per class.
- Repeat for Free: If you need a refresher or miss a class day, retake the InDesign class at no cost.