Adobe InDesign Essentials

Adobe InDesign is the industry standard page-layout program that works with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop seamlessly. InDesign allows you to create simple to complex multi-page documents such as brochures, flyers, books and magazines. This course is a comprehensive exploration of InDesign tools and capabilities to create professional documents. You will learn how to manage the InDesign environment, create, setup, design, enhance and finalize multi-page documents. Access to Adobe InDesign software required. One-month course. Agenda Unit 1: Getting to Know the Interface and Setting up a Document -Interface menus -Tools -Panels -Starting and setting up a multi-page document in InDesign Unit 2: Working with Objects and Color -Learning to work with color panels -Creating, managing and applying color to elements -Inserting and managing images and illustrations into an InDesign document Unit 3: Working with Text -Learning about insert and flow text to multiple pages -Managing long text documents -Text editing in InDesign documents. Unit 4: Typography -Advance typography tools and menus -Character and paragraph settings and styles - Creating print-ready PDF files.