This 1-day beginner class is designed to get you up and running quickly in InDesign. You will learn to layout pages with text and graphics. In no time at all you will be able to control typography, add photos, create/use colors, and more!
Live face-to-face instructor. No minimum class size - all classes guaranteed to run!
No prior experience of InDesign is needed. Training available on Mac and PC.
Course Outline
Getting Started
This exercise will introduce you the InDesign Interface before creating a Presidential Letter.
- Welcome to InDesign 2019
- New Document Settings
- Understanding Units
- Creating a document
- Layout and Navigation
- Understanding Workspaces
- Accessing Panels
- Creating a Text Frame
- Frame vs Content
- Anatomy of a Frame
- Adding placeholder text
- Where to turn on Grids and Guides
- The Properties Panel
- The Character Panel (basic overview)
- The Paragraph Panel (basic overview)
- Basic Text Spacing & Alignment
- All about Adobe Fonts
Top Secret! Letter Creation
This exercise will introduce you to the basics of creating a document, by having you re-create a de-classified UFO letter.
- Creating a Print Document
- Understanding the Parts of a Letter
- Working with and Re-sizing Text Frames
- Importing and Managing Graphics
- Working with Bullets
- Saving an InDesign Project
- Multi-Frame Document
- More Text Attributes
- Position Text with Baseline Shift
- Paragraph Spacing
- Control Leading in Character Options
- Using Tabs
- Hanging Bullets and Check Marks
- Adding Hyphenation/Discretionary
Simple Magazine Ad
In this exercise, you will create an entire magazine ad, pulling in a photo, graphic logo and laying out text.
- Creating Document for Print
- Setting the Bleed
- The Rectangle Frame Tool
- Working with Headlines
- Placing Images
- Combining Text and Images
- Auto Drop Caps vs Manual Drop Caps
- Layout Adjustments
Pyramid Pets Article
In this lesson, you will learn the basics of page layouts along with more text manipulation. You will master paragraph spacing, leading, and use tabs to complete the layout.
- Creating a 1-Page article for web
- Simple Layout Sketching
- Creating a Document based on Sketch
- Working with a Multi-Column Document
- Rectangle Frame Tool Again!
- Adding Graphics Elements
- Placing and formatting images
- Text Wrapping
- Working with Loaded Cursors
Pure Elegance: 2-Page Simple Magazine Ad
Learn how to create and layout a 2-Page Magazine Ad for Print.
- Setting up the Document as a 2-Page Spread
- Working with Facing Pages
- Understanding & Working with Bleed
- Working with and formatting Bulleted Lists
- Working with FX to solve object issues
- Simple Paragraph Formatting
- Working with Decorative Fonts
- Printing as a Spread
- Simple Web Export
- Working with the Pages Panel