Course Description
What You'll Learn
- Set up multipage documents in Adobe InDesign, including new documents, pages, layers, rulers, and guides
- Create text and graphic documents combining typeset headings, text, and graphic images
- Apply professional typography and typesetting techniques using paragraph and character styles, glyphs, tabs, columns, and paragraph rules
- Work with text frames and graphic frames, including importing and linking text and transforming, aligning, and grouping objects
- Refine documents using spell check and find/change tools
- Prepare finished work to be sent to a service bureau or production house
Key Takeaways
- The course teaches Adobe InDesign, a desktop publishing program used by publishing professionals.
- It covers InDesign from the basics of setting up multipage documents through producing sophisticated layouts with typeset headings, text, and graphic images.
- It includes professional graphic design, layout, typography, and typesetting techniques.
- It explains how to properly prepare work to be sent to a service bureau or production house.
- It addresses style sheets, covering applying, editing, paragraph, and character styles.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
It is designed for those who want to learn Adobe InDesign, the publishing program used by publishing professionals, from cover to cover, starting with the basics.
What does this InDesign course cover?
It covers setting up multipage documents, creating text and graphic documents, producing layouts with typeset headings, text, and graphic images, and using professional graphic design, layout, typography, and typesetting techniques. It also discusses preparing work to be sent to a service bureau or production house.
What skills will I gain from this course?
Skills associated with this course include Adobe InDesign, Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Adobe PageMaker, graphic design, and preparation toward Adobe Certified Professional and Adobe InDesign Certification.
Do I need prior InDesign experience to take this course?
The course begins with the basics, including setting up documents, pages, layers, rulers, and guides, and teaches InDesign from cover to cover.
What topics are taught around text and styles?
The course covers importing and linking text, text and graphic frames, paragraph and character styles, spell check, find/change, glyphs, tabs, columns, and applying and editing style sheets.
