Adobe InDesign Master Class – Beginner to Pro, ALL LEVELS

Adobe InDesign Master Class – Beginner to Pro, ALL LEVELS, available at $84.99, has an average rating of 4.74, with 51 lectures, 33 quizzes, based on 373 reviews, and has 6521 subscribers.

You will learn about 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 This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who would like to expand their skillset for word processing, graphic design and layout publishing It is particularly useful for Anyone who would like to expand their skillset for word processing, graphic design and layout publishing.

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Summary

Title: Adobe InDesign Master Class – Beginner to Pro, ALL LEVELS

Price: $84.99

Average Rating: 4.74

Number of Lectures: 51

Number of Quizzes: 33

Number of Published Lectures: 51

Number of Published Quizzes: 33

Number of Curriculum Items: 84

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 84

Original Price: $69.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will 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

Who Should Attend

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

Target Audiences

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

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

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: WELCOME!

Lecture 1: Welcome – What will you learn?

Lecture 2: Download class files here!

Chapter 2: Introduction to InDesign

Lecture 1: What is InDesign?

Lecture 2: Customizing the InDesign Workspace and Panels

Lecture 3: Navigating InDesign

Chapter 3: Creating Documents

Lecture 1: Creating a New Document

Lecture 2: The Page Panel Overview

Lecture 3: Creating a Poster

Chapter 4: Working with Images

Lecture 1: Placing Images & Adding Text (intro)

Lecture 2: Intro to Working with Images – Part 1

Lecture 3: Creating an Image Grid

Lecture 4: Working with Images – Part 2

Lecture 5: Aligning Objects

Lecture 6: Working with (Image) Links

Lecture 7: Adding and Editing Object Effects

Lecture 8: Object Styles Overview

Chapter 5: Typography, Type & Text Boxes

Lecture 1: Typographical Settings

Lecture 2: Placing Text from a Microsoft Word Document

Lecture 3: Text Frames & Setting Text Frame Options

Lecture 4: Text Threads & Hidden Characters

Lecture 5: Paragraph Styles Overview

Lecture 6: Bullets & Numbering

Lecture 7: Character Styles Overview

Chapter 6: Working with Color, Swatches & Gradients

Lecture 1: Colors & Swatches

Lecture 2: Gradients

Chapter 7: Parent (Master) Pages

Lecture 1: Parent (Master) Pages Overview & Intro

Lecture 2: Parent (Master) Pages – Part 2

Lecture 3: Parent (Master) Pages – Inserting Sections, Footer Sections

Lecture 4: Parent (Master) Pages – Creating Placeholders

Lecture 5: Parent (Master) Pages – Loading Masters from other Documents

Chapter 8: InDesign Styles – Next Level

Lecture 1: InDesign Styles Overview

Lecture 2: Nested Character Styles

Lecture 3: Nested Object Styles

Chapter 9: Borders & Shading

Lecture 1: How to Create Borders on Text Paragraphs and Headings

Lecture 2: How to Apply Shading to Paragraphs

Chapter 10: Creative Tools & Productivity – Illustrations and Drawing

Lecture 1: Advanced Layer Management – Part 2

Lecture 2: How to use the Pen Tool to Draw

Lecture 3: Creating Custom Strokes

Lecture 4: Using the Pathfinder Panel for Illustration

Lecture 5: Creating Outlines and Shapes from Text

Chapter 11: Advanced Documents Organizational Tools

Lecture 1: How to Create Table of Contents

Lecture 2: Cross Referencing from Paragraph Styles

Lecture 3: Cross Referencing using Text Anchors

Chapter 12: Interactive Forms and Work with Hyperlinks

Lecture 1: Creating Interactive Forms

Lecture 2: Working with Hyperlinks

Chapter 13: Tables and Data Merge

Lecture 1: How to Create, Edit and Format Tables

Lecture 2: How to Merge External Data into InDesign (Data Merge)

Chapter 14: CC Libraries & Adobe Stock

Lecture 1: How to use CC (Creative Cloud) Libraries

Lecture 2: Using Adobe Stock

Chapter 15: Finalizing Your Files

Lecture 1: InDesign Preference Settings

Lecture 2: Preflight, Exporting & Packaging your documents for Printing and PDF's

Instructors

David Casuto
Adobe Certified Instructor – 20 Years Training Experience

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 2 votes
2 stars: 1 votes
3 stars: 15 votes
4 stars: 92 votes
5 stars: 263 votes

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