InDesign Beginner Information

InDesign Beginner course is designed for curious beginners to advanced creatives working in any industry.

For curious beginners to advanced creatives working in any industry.

Who it’s for: Curious beginners to advanced creatives working in any industry.

What it is: A multifaceted content layout program that allows for the creation of posters, brochures, newsletters, books, basic illustration, special effects, and interactivity.

What You’ll Learn In InDesign Beginner?

We begin with learning the interface and workspace to drawing and manipulating shapes, applying color, and understanding and implementing typography. Then, we get into a fun series of lessons on placing images, editing images, and text wrapping. Next, we do a deep dive into paragraph, character, and object styles.

We explore the valuable Master pages, and learn about exporting and packaging our documents for publishing. In our advanced course, we cover data merging and how to create a Table of Contents and interactive form. We also go deeper into nested styles including Character, Paragraph, and Object styles. Finally, we get creating with some of our favorite vector and shape manipulation tools, and explore how to use the Creative Cloud Libraries more effectively to share and utilize all of your new assets and tools.

Course

1. Introduction
2. Overview
3. Customizing the Interface
4. Navigation
5. Creating New Documents
6. Overview of the Pages Panel
7. Creating Posters
8. Placing Images and Adding Text
9. Working with Images – Part 1
10. Working with Images – Part 2
11. Creating an Image Grid
12. Aligning Objects
13. Working with Links
14. Image Effects and Eyedropper
15. Object Styles
16. Typographical Settings
17. Placing Text from Word
18. Text Frame Options
19. Text Threads and Hidden Characters
20. Paragraph Styles
21. Bullets, Numbering, and Paragraph Styles
22. Character Styles
23. Working with Color and Swatches
24. Working Gradients
25. Master Pages
26. Preferences, Spellcheck, and Display Performance
27. Exporting and Packaging
28. Conclusion

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