Adobe InDesign Training by Experts

Introduction to

• InDesign tools
• The InDesign workspace
• The document window
• Using guides
• Viewing modes
• Working with panels
• The Tools panel
• Managing panels
• Working with the Control panel
• Saving your workspace
• Navigating through an InDesign document
• Using the Pages panel
• Changing the magnification of your document
• Working with type
• Entering and formatting type
• Placing and formatting type
• Flowing type
• Using styles
• Applying paragraph styles
• Applying character styles
• Applying object styles
• Working with graphics
• Placing graphics
• Positioning graphics within a frame
• Applying text wrap
• Understanding layers
• Applying effects

Building Documents with Master Pages

• Creating custom page sizes
• Creating a new custom-sized document
• Creating and formatting master pages
• Adding automatic page numbering
• Basing master pages on other master pages
• Overriding master page items
• Adding layout pages
• Adding images and text to the master frames
• Applying master pages to multiple pages

Working with Text and Type

• Adding text to your document
• Creating a text frame
• Changing character attributes
• Changing font and type styles
• Adjusting size
• Adjusting line spacing
• Adjusting character spacing:
• kerning and tracking
• Using a baseline shift
• Changing paragraph attributes
• Horizontally aligning text
• Changing the spacing before and after paragraphs
• Using tabs
• Adding rules above or below paragraphs
• Changing text color
• Creating drop caps
• Checking and correcting spelling
• Finding and changing text and text attributes
• Adding words to the dictionary
• Checking spelling as you type
• Automatically correcting spelling
• Editing text using the Story Editor
• Drag-and-drop text editing
• Special characters and glyphs
• Using the Glyphs panel and glyph sets
• Text frame options
• Adjusting text inset
• Vertically aligning text
• Importing text
• Flowing text manually
• Threading text between frames
• Using semi-autoflow to link several text frames
• Changing the number of columns in a text frame
• Baseline grid
• Viewing and changing the baseline grid
• Adding story jumps
• Using styles to format text
• Creating a headline and applying a style
• Redefining styles
• Type on a path
• Importing text from Microsoft Word
• Missing fonts
• Finding and fixing missing fonts

Working with Styles

• Style types
• Paragraph styles
Applying a paragraph style
• Character styles
• Defining a character style
• Applying a character style
• Using nested styles
• Globally updating styles
• Loading styles from another document
• Quick Apply
• Organizing styles into groups
• Object styles
• Defining an object style
• Applying an object style
• Changing an object style

Working with Graphics

• Understanding how InDesign handles graphics
• Locating missing images
• Working with the Links panel
• Customizing the Links panel
• Adding graphics to your layout
• Fitting an image within an existing frame
• Auto Fitting
• Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
• Placing multiple graphics using Mini Bridge
• Using object styles for images
• Wrapping text around images
• Wrapping text around the bounding box
• Using graphics with clipping paths and alpha channels
• Removing an image background using InDesign
• Using anchored objects
• Advanced importing
• Importing layered Photoshop files
• Importing InDesign layouts as graphics

Working with Tables

• Creating a table
• Creating new tables
• Copying and pasting table information
• Converting text to a table and a table to text
• Importing a table
• Editing tables and table options
• Changing row height
• Editing the border
• Formatting rows and columns
• Using fills
• Formatting cells and text
• Resetting the cell styles within a table
• Text alignment and inset within a cell
• Formatting text within a cell and saving paragraph styles
• Formatting text in tables by column
• Working with tables in Story Editor
• Merging cells
• Defining a header cell
• Setting column and row dimensions
• Setting a fixed row height
• Setting column width
• Using graphics in tables
• Placing graphics in cells
• Cell styles and table styles
• Cell styles
• Applying cell styles
• Creating table styles
• Applying table styles

Using Color in Your Documents

• Applying colors to frames and text
• Applying color to text
• Applying color to frames
• Applying Live Corner Effects
Creating and saving a new swatch
• Applying strokes to text
• Creating a tint reduction
• Making a dashed stroke
• Creating and saving gradients
• Linear gradients
• Saving a gradient
• Adjusting fill opacity
• Radial gradient
• Adjusting the direction of a radial gradient
• One-click edits
• Using the Eyedropper tool to copy frame attributes

Applying colors to multiple objects

• Updating and editing colors
• Using and saving spot colors
• Colorizing a grayscale image

Using Effects

• Creative effects
• Applying opacity to objects
• Apply effects to stroke or fill only
• Drop shadow
• Adjusting effects for objects
• Bevel and Emboss
• Object styles with effects
• Using Find/Change to apply object styles
• Basic Feather
• The Gradient Feather tool
• Converting text to a path
• Applying blending modes to objects
• Working with imported files that use transparency
• Applying an alpha channel selection
• Applying a path selection