InDesign Essentials & Beyond : Beginning & Advance combined

What you'll learn
Learn how to create posters, brochures, books and more in InDesign
Understand layout principles and processing including text boxes, columns, inset padding, text threading
Learn how to place images, work with frames, add strokes, corner radius options, and text wrapping
Create and modify Master/Parent pages, pagination, placeholders
Understanding typography principles including leading, tracking, kerning and more.
Learn how to draw and edit shapes, and use color including color theory, strokes, fill and gradients, pen tool, direct selection tool
Exporting, packaging, PDF creation, zip files, ready for print
Working with layers, layer management, visibility, locking, color coding
Working with Styles: Paragraph styles, Character styles, Object styles, Nested styles
Creating a Table of Contents, creating Bookmarks, Cross-referencing
Working with hyperlinks and buttons and other interactive tools
Creating interactive Forms
Creating, editing and formatting Tables
Working with the Data Merge tools
Creating custom strokes

Requirements
No InDesign or graphic design experience necessary

Description
InDesign is such an amazing program and is used across industries and job roles!

In this class, we cover everything you need to learn in InDesign. All levels, and all topics for all project types.

Here is a list of topics we cover in this class

· The InDesign Workspace including understanding Panels and customizing

· Working with the Pages panel

· Keyboard shortcuts

· Packaging and Preflight options

· Master/Parent Pages

· Understanding Margins, Bleeds, Slugs and Page settings

· Saving Presets

· Overview of InDesign Templates

· Drawing basic shapes

· Understanding Fill and Stroke

· Stroke color, width and style settings

· Color overview (CMYK, RGB, HSB, Hexadecimal)

· Creating Swatches

· Corner options

· Resizing, rotating and moving shapes

· Using the Properties Panel for Shapes

· Placing images

· Image placement options

· Image Frames

· Fitting options for images

· Using the Properties Panel for Images

· Autofit options for image resizing

· Stroke color, width and style settings

· Text wrapping

· Cloning images

· Cropping

· Creating Table of Contents

· Data Merge

· Buttons and Hyperlinks

· Creating Buttons

· Creating interactive Forms

· Object Effects including Drop Shadow, Glow, Feathering

· Object Transparency

· Intro to Object Styles

· Overview of Object Styles panel

· Overview of object settings

· Drop Shadow, Corner Options, Stroke, Columns, Text Wrapping

· Creating an Object Style

· Applying an Object Style

· Overriding and updating Object Styles

· Using the Control Panel

· Using the Properties Panel

· Basic Formatting

· Overview of basic typographic settings (Kerning, Tracking, Leading)

· Paragraph properties settings

· Placing text from Word Document

· Bullets and Numbering

· Paragraph Margins

· Paragraph Rules

· Paragraph and Cell Style introduction

· Why do we use Paragraph Styles?

· Examples of Paragraph Styles

· Intro to Paragraph Style Panel

· Creating a Paragraph Style

· Applying a Paragraph Style

· Nesting a Paragraph Style inside an Text Object Style

· Managing Links

· Preflighting Documents for Printing

· Creating a Custom Preflight Profile

· Previewing Transparency

· Exporting PDF Files for Printing & Proofs

Who this course is for
Anyone who would like to expand their skillset for word processing, graphic design and layout publishing