Adobe Indesign
Course Information
Duration: 20 Hours
Fee: $1000
Description
This course will get you started with Adobe InDesign software and will help you to create your own designs, documents, add and modify graphics in the
documents, and modify text as per your requirement. On doing this course, you will be able to design high quality books, brochures, flyers, magazine layouts, business cards, interactive PDFs, pages for digital publishing, and much more. In a nut shell, this course is quite useful for all the professionals working in
publishing and marketing industries, graphic designers as well as artists. By doing this course, you will not only be able to use the basic tools and
concepts of this software for publishing format but you will also be able to use the essentials of interactive forms and digital publishing formats such as EPUB.
Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Adobe InDesign
- Creating a New Document
- Saving a File
- Arranging Palettes
- Customizing Workspace
- UsingPaletteMenus
- Working with Layers
- Using Context Menus
2. Understanding Your Workspace
- Starting New Documents and Adjusting Page Size
- Working with Master Pages
- Using Footers
- Using Placeholder Master
- Applying and Overriding Master
- Editing Master Pages
3. Working with Text
- Modifying and Resizing Text Frames
- Working with Styles
- Changing Text Alignment
- Aligning Paragraph
- Using Baseline Grid
- Special Font Features and DropCap
- Changing Number of Columns
- Writing Text on a Path
- Using Kerning and Tracking
4. Working with Graphics
- Adding Graphics
- Modifying and Resizing Graphic Frames
- Managing Links to Imported Graphics
- Updating Graphics
- Wrapping Graphics
- Rotating and Aligning Objects
- Using Library to Manage Objects
5. Creating Tables
- Importing and Formatting a Table
- Formatting Borders and Alternating Row Colors
- Adding Graphics within Tables
- Formatting Text in Table
- Adjusting Size of Columns
6. Working with Color
- Adding Color to Swatch Palette
- Applying Color to Objects
- Using Dash Stroke
- Using Gradient
- Using Tint
- working with Spot Color
- Applying Color to Text
- Selecting Clips
- Moving Clips
- Extracting and Deleting Segments
7. Working with Transparency
- Setting Transparency
- Setting Opacity of Objects
- Working with Blending Modes
- Using Feathering
- Using the Transparency Settings for EPS Images
- Adding Drop Shadow
8. Creating Interactive Document
- Creating Bookmarks
- Creating Hyperlinks
- Creating Navigation Divs
- Adding a Movie
- Adding an Action
- Exporting File to PDF
- Regular Trimming
- Advanced Trimming
- Trimming in the Program Monitor Panel
10. Portfolio Development
- After the completion of this course, the students will be required to develop portfolio of their work done in Adobe InDesign.