Adobe InDesign CC: Part 1
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What you'll learn
Build professional page layouts from scratch with precise text frame threading, custom margins, and automated visual hierarchies.
Apply unified styles, custom color swatches, process or spot colors, and subject-aware text wraps to your document elements.
Scan layouts with the Preflight panel to resolve errors before packaging your assets or publishing interactive files online.
Learn by doing. Perform guided, step-by-step hands-on activities on your own computer.
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There are 7 modules in this course
Giving your documents a well-designed, professional look will put you a step ahead in the marketplace cluttered with all kinds of communications. Paragraph and character styles that allow you to format pages of text uniformly, layout features that help you to build alternate size configurations of your document, and various panels that enable you to easily customize both text and graphics; Adobe® InDesign® has all the tools you need to elevate the look of your document and get it out to the people who need to see it, whether it be in print or on the web.
This course is a great component of your preparation for the Adobe Certified Professional Print & Digital Media Publication Using Adobe InDesign exam. This course is intended for students who want to use the basic tools and features of InDesign for creating professional page layouts and designs. It's also for anyone interested in working toward the Print & Digital Media Publication Using Adobe InDesign certification. In this course, you will: navigate the InDesign interface; create a new document; customize a document using color, swatches, gradients, and styles; manage page elements; add tables; and prepare documents for deployment. This course requires that you have Adobe InDesign installed on a Windows PC. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of the course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.
There's a lot to discover in a design tool this robust. It's best to get familiar with the basic interface and configure Adobe® InDesign® to your needs before you dive in to creating documents.
What's included
7 plugins
7 plugins•Total 80 minutes
- Getting Started with This Course•15 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Identify Components of the InDesign Interface•15 minutes
- Customize the InDesign Interface•15 minutes
- Apply the Navigation Controls and Set Preferences•15 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Exploring the InDesign Interface•10 minutes
- Lesson Summary•5 minutes
The tools are in front of you. It's time to start building a document and adding text and graphics. In this lesson, you will design a document.
What's included
8 plugins
8 plugins•Total 120 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Establish Project Requirements•20 minutes
- Apply Design Principles•20 minutes
- Create a New Document•20 minutes
- Add Text to a Document•20 minutes
- Add Graphics to a Document•20 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Creating a Brochure•10 minutes
- Lesson Summary•5 minutes
You've created the basic elements of a document by adding text and graphics, but there are so many more details you can add to really set your document apart. In this lesson, you will customize a document.
What's included
6 plugins
6 plugins•Total 80 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Format Characters and Paragraphs•20 minutes
- Apply Colors, Swatches, and Gradients•20 minutes
- Create and Apply Styles•20 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Customizing a Document•10 minutes
- Lesson Summary•5 minutes
You've learned to create a document that contains formatted text and graphics. You've also introduced colors and gradients for visual interest and developed styles to apply throughout the document. Now it's time to investigate the other tools that Adobe® InDesign® offers to further enhance documents and aid in your work flow.
What's included
8 plugins
8 plugins•Total 120 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Arrange and Align Objects•20 minutes
- Apply Layers•20 minutes
- Transform and Manipulate Objects•20 minutes
- Thread Text Frames•20 minutes
- Edit Text•20 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Working with Page Elements•10 minutes
- Lesson Summary•5 minutes
When working with documents that contain large amounts of text, consider using tables to organize and properly display the information. Adobe® InDesign® provides a robust table feature that enables you to configure and customize just about any type of table. In this lesson, you will build a table.
What's included
5 plugins
5 plugins•Total 70 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Create and Modify a New Table•25 minutes
- Format a Table•25 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Inserting a Table•10 minutes
- Lesson Summary•5 minutes
Creating a good looking document is not enough. Now you need to make the final preparations for delivering it to its intended audience. There are many things to consider in making these preparations, and Adobe® InDesign® has you covered for every scenario. In this lesson, you will prepare a document for delivery.
What's included
5 plugins
5 plugins•Total 70 minutes
- Lesson Introduction•5 minutes
- Resolve Errors in a Document•25 minutes
- Export Files for Printing and for the Web•25 minutes
- Mastery Builder: Exporting Documents•10 minutes
- Lesson Summary•5 minutes
You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
What's included
1 assignment2 plugins
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Course Assessment•30 minutes
2 plugins•Total 15 minutes
- Appendices•10 minutes
- Course Summary•5 minutes
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