Adobe InDesign for Absolute Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction and Contents

Lecture 2: InDesign Overview

Chapter 2: Setting up Your First Document

Lecture 1: Creating a New Document

Lecture 2: Fine-tuning the document Margins and Columns

Lecture 3: Adding simple Text Elements

Lecture 4: Using the Spellchecker

Lecture 5: Adding a picture

Lecture 6: Saving the Document

Lecture 7: Packaging the Document

Lecture 8: Exporting the document to a PDF

Chapter 3: InDesign Features in Detail

Lecture 1: Selection & Direct Selection Tools

Lecture 2: Control Panel explained (1)

Lecture 3: Control Panel explained (2)

Lecture 4: Pages Panel

Lecture 5: Controlling colour with the Swatches Panel

Lecture 6: Editing text using the Character Panel

Lecture 7: Formatting text using the Paragraph Panel

Lecture 8: Connecting assets with the Links Panel

Lecture 9: Text Wrapping

Chapter 4: Productivity Helpers

Lecture 1: Fit to Frame Function

Lecture 2: How to Add Page Numbers

Lecture 3: Adjusting Page View Performance

Lecture 4: Grids and Guides

Lecture 5: Flowing Text

Lecture 6: Text Layout Options

Lecture 7: InDesign Preferences

Lecture 8: Editing images for import to InDesign

Lecture 9: Document Export Options

Lecture 10: Backwards Compatability: IDML Files

Chapter 5: Advanced Features

Lecture 1: Using the Preflight Checker

Lecture 2: Adding Special Effects

Lecture 3: Adding Special Characters – Glyphs

Lecture 4: Sourcing InDesign Templates

Lecture 5: Blurb Book Plug-In

Lecture 6: Using the Content Collector

Chapter 6: Advanced Output

Lecture 1: Creating Multimedia PDF Files

Lecture 2: Working with Bridge and Stock Photos