Adobe InDesign

Section 1

Business Card: Setting Up a File & Adding the Logo

• Setting Default Preferences
• Setting Up a File
• Importing & Sizing a Vector Graphic (the Logo)

Business Card: Adding Text

• Creating Text Frames
• Basic Text Styling
• Loading Adobe Fonts

Business Card: Colors

• Removing the Default Color Swatches
• Creating & Editing Color Swatches
• Swapping Out Graphics

Business Card: Adding a 2nd Page (the Back) with QR Code

• Creating the Back of the Business Card (a Second Page)
• Creating QR Codes
• Navigating Documents (Zooming and Panning)
• Copying Appearance With the Eyedropper Tool

Business Card: OpenType Settings

• Setting up a Document Bleed
• Placing Images
• Combining Text & Images
• White Type on a Black Background

Section 2

Brochure: Creating 2-Page Spreads & Cropping Photos

• Setting Up Spreads (Facing Pages)
• Importing Pixel-Based Photos
• Cropping & Scaling Photos
• Checking Image Resolution to Ensure Good Print Quality

Brochure: Layers, Visual Effects, & Blending Modes

• Creating & Locking Layers
• Rotating Objects
• Drop Shadows
• Gradient Feather
• Blending Modes

Brochure: Fine-Tuning Type: Kerning/Tracking & More

• Paragraph Spacing
• Working in Picas (Instead of Inches)
• Metrics vs. Optical Kerning
• Kerning vs. Tracking
• Variable Fonts

Brochure: Working with Tabbed Text

• Setting Tab Marker Positions
• Adding & Styling Leader Characters

Preparing for Professional Printing: PDFs & Packaging Files

• Exporting PDFs for printing or emailing to clients
• Packaging InDesign Files

Section 3

Restaurant Menu: Paragraph Styles

• Creating & Editing Paragraph Styles
• Using the Eyedropper to Apply Paragraph Styles
• Using Find/Change to Apply Paragraph Styles
• Paragraph Rules

Restaurant Menu: Character Styles & Nested Styles

• Creating & Editing Character Styles
• Using the Eyedropper to Apply Character Styles
• Using Nested Styles to Automatically Apply Character Styles
• Disabling Hyphenation

Restaurant Menu: Keep With Next & Spanning Columns

• Keep with Next Paragraph
• Spanning Columns

Section 4

Restaurant Menu: Bulleted Lists

• Styling Bulleted Lists
• Forced Line Breaks

Magazine: Laying Out a Page & Threading Text Frames

• Creating a Magazine Page Layout with Text & Images
• Threading Text Frames

Magazine: Paragraph Styles & Baseline Grid

• Creating Paragraph Styles
• Setting Up the Baseline Grid
• Making Paragraph Styles Use the Baseline Grid

Magazine: Color Themes & Custom Shapes

• Removing the Default Color Swatches
• Using the Color Theme Tool to Create Swatches
• Using the Direction Selection Tool to Alter a Shape
• Using Pathfinder to Create a Custom Shaped Photo Frame

Section 5

Magazine: Text Wrap

• Using Text Wrap
• Wrap Around Object Shape vs Jump Object
• Creating a Circle Photo with Text Wrap
• Using an Invisible Shape to Wrap Text

Magazine: Parent Pages

• Adding Page Numbers
• Creating a Layer for Parent Page Content
• Creating More Parent Pages

Magazine: Adding Pages & Controlling Page Order

• Adding a New Page at a Specific Location
• Allow Document Pages to Shuffle
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• Adding a Spread Between Other Pages
• Applying a Parent Page to Multiple Pages at Once

Book: File Setup & Parent Pages

• Setting Up the Document
• Importing the Text
• Setting Up the Parent Page
• Adding Page Numbers
• Adding a Chapter Title to All Left Pages

Section 6

Book: Paragraph & Character Styles

• Creating Paragraph Styles
• Apply Styles Quickly Using Keystrokes & Find/Change
• Drop Caps

Book: Hyphenation & Keep Options

• Turning Off Hyphenation
• Setting Custom Hyphenation & Keep Options
• Using Discretionary Hyphens to Control or Prevent Hyphenation

Book: Setting Up & Using a Baseline Grid

• Baseline Grid Settings & Making Paragraph Styles Use It

Book: Running Heads & Chapter Opener Pages

• Setting Up & Inserting a Running Header Text Variable
• Setting Roman Numeral Page Numbers for Frontmatter
• Adding a Section Start to Set the True Page 1
• Applying a Different Parent Page for Chapter Opener Pages
• Applying a [None] Parent Page