HRDF Course- Adobe InDesign CC Essential Training
Details
InDesign is an powerful page layout tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. This course will teach the core features of InDesign—how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents, create flexible master pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, create interactive PDFs, and much more Topics include:
- Getting started in just 30 minutes
- Becoming familiar with the user interface
- Setting up a new document
- Placing graphics such as QR codes and barcodes
- Formatting objects
- Creating color and gradient swatches
- Organizing projects with layers
- Transforming objects
- Incorporating drop caps, bullets, and numbering
- Applying character and object styles
- Building a multidocument book
- Creating an interactive PDF and exporting to EPUB
- Proofing a document with the Preflight panel
- Printing and exporting a document
Outline
Module 1 Get Started
- Adding and editing text
- Adding and replacing graphics
- Moving objects
- Printing and creating a PDF
Module 2. Understanding Your Workspace
- Exploring the application window
- Navigating and magnifying pages and objects
- Setting rulers and measurements
- Working with panels
- Setting the view quality of artwork
- Adjusting view and preview settings
Module 3. Creating a Document
- Creating a new document
- Saving and reverting documents
- Saving for CS4, CS5, or CS6 with IDML
- Setting margin and column guides
- Putting ruler guides on your page
- Bleeding colors or images off the side of the page
Module 4. Managing Pages
- Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
- Changing page size
- Creating and applying master pages
- Overriding master page items
- Adding page numbering
- Changing page numbering with sections
Module 5. Text
- Understanding text frames
- Selecting and editing text
- Inserting special characters
- Importing text
- Threading text frames
- Setting text frame columns
- Setting text inset and vertical justification
- Allowing text frames to grow and shrink
- Putting text on a path
- Using the Story Editor
- Checking spelling
- Using Find/Change
Module 6. Graphics
- Importing graphics
- Using the Links panel
- Editing graphics in their original application
- Fitting graphics to the frame
- Taking advantage of transparency and clipping paths
- Inserting QR codes and barcodes
Module 7. Formatting Objects
- Selecting objects
- Applying basic strokes and fills
- Colorizing images
- Adjusting transparency
- Adding drop shadows
- Using other transparency effects
- Copying formatting with the Eyedropper tool
- Finding and changing object formatting
Module 8. Color
- Creating color swatches
- Understanding the danger (and power) of unnamed colors
- Creating gradient swatches
- Applying gradients
Module 9. Frames and Paths
- Editing frame and path shapes
- Adding rounded corners and other corner options
- Making polygons and starbursts
- Creating text outlines
Module 10. Managing Objects
- Stacking objects
- Creating and controlling layers
- Managing objects in the Layers panel
- Grouping and locking objects
- Nesting objects
- Aligning and distributing
- Understanding text wrap
- Using anchored objects
Module 11. Transforming Objects
- Duplicating objects
- Rotating objects
- Scaling objects
- Skewing objects
- Mirroring objects
Module 12. Character Formatting
- Applying basic character styling
- Applying advanced character formatting
- Changing case
- Using Find/Change for text formatting
- Using Find Font
Module 13. Paragraph Formatting
- Applying formatting to a paragraph
- Spanning a paragraph across multiple columns
- Splitting a paragraph into multiple columns
- Using drop caps
- Setting tabs
- Adding rules (lines) above or below a paragraph
- Adding automatic bullets
- Numbering paragraphs
Module 14. Styles
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Using character styles
- Editing and redefining styles
- Using object styles
- Applying styles with Quick Apply
Module 15. Tables
- Creating a table
- Adjusting rows and columns
- Adding and deleting rows and columns
- Formatting a table
- Formatting cells
- Applying table styles
Module 16. Long Documents
- Building a multidocument book
- Creating a "Continued on..." jump line
- Constructing a table of contents (TOC)
Module 17. Interactive Documents
- Adding hyperlinks and bookmarks
- Creating an interactive PDF
- Making form fields in PDF files
- Exporting an EPUB
Module 18. Packaging, Printing, and Exporting
- Checking your document with the Preflight panel
- Packaging for output
- Using the Print dialog
- Printing a small booklet
- Exporting a PDF
- Exporting text
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