This course is intended for students who want to use the basic tools and features of InDesign to create professional page layouts and designs. In this course, students will use Adobe InDesign to create and deliver professional looking printed and interactive documents.
Students will learn to navigate the InDesign interface, create a new document, customize a document using color, swatches, gradients, and styles as well as manage page elements, add tables and finally prepare documents for deployment.
Class Outline
Lesson 1: Getting Started with InDesign
- Topic A: Identify Components of the InDesign Interface
- Topic B: Customize the InDesign Interface
- Topic C: Apply the Navigation Controls and Set Preferences
Lesson 2: Designing a Document
- Topic A: Establish Project Requirements
- Topic B: Apply Design Principles
- Topic C: Create a New Document
- Topic D: Add Text to a Document
- Topic E: Add Graphics to a Document
Lesson 3: Customizing a Document
- Topic A: Format Characters and Paragraphs
- Topic B: Apply Colors, Swatches, and Gradients
- Topic C: Create and Apply Styles
Lesson 4: Working with Page Elements
- Topic A: Arrange and Align Objects
- Topic B: Apply Layers
- Topic C: Transform and Manipulate Objects
- Topic D: Thread Text Frames
- Topic E: Edit Text
Lesson 5: Building Tables
- Topic A: Create and Modify a New Table
- Topic B: Format a Table
Lesson 6: Preparing a Document for Delivery
- Topic A: Resolve Errors in a Document
- Topic B: Export Files for Printing and for the Web
