Adobe InDesign
 
 
    Students will learn how to create new InDesign documents, place text and graphics, and format text; create custom color swatches; position items using guide; create a bleed; create facing-pages multi-page documents; insert new pages and move page elements; work with master pages; flow text between frames; specify tab and indent settings; create bulleted lists; adjust space between paragraphs; create and apply paragraph rules, paragraph styles, and character styles; work with text and graphics in frames; work with Photoshop files; modify graphics, graphic frame containers, and text wrap; nest frames, group items, and create and user layers; print documents and create print presets; export to PDF; prepare and package documents for commercial printing; and use Adobe Bridge and metadata.
 

Topics:

    Getting started
      The Adobe InDesign environment
      InDesign Help

    Basic documents
      New documents
      Custom colors
      Item position

    Structuring multi-page documents
      Multi-page documents
      Master pages

    Typesetting
      Text frame threading
      Paragraph formatting
      Styles

    Modifying items
      Text frames
      Graphics
      Grouped items
      Layers

    Finalizing documents and setting defaults
      Outputting documents
      Commercial printing preparation
      Adobe Bridge
      Preferences and defaults