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Duration: 9h 35m
Video: mp4 1280 x 720
InDesign is an essential tool for designers, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelancers around the world. It's used to build everything from traditional print publications to interactive PDFs, digital magazines, and ebooks. This course presents a thorough explanation of the core features and techniques that make this page layout application so powerful, fun, and easy to use.
Want to learn InDesign in just 20 minutes? Watch the first chapter, which concentrates on the most essential skills: editing text, adding graphics, moving objects, and creating PDFs. Once you're ready to move on, InDesign insider David Blatner will show you the rest of what InDesign has to offer. Learn how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, format text and graphics, experiment with color and gradients, draw and transform shapes, create interactive documents, package your designs for print, and much more.
Topics include:
Getting started with InDesign in just 30 minutes
Setting up a new document
Inserting text
Placing graphics
Formatting objects
Creating color and gradient swatches
Organizing InDesign projects with layers
Transforming objects
Incorporating drop caps, bullets, and numbering
Applying character and object styles
Building tables
Creating an interactive PDF and exporting to EPUB
Printing and exporting
Contents:
Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files
How this course is updated
Adjusting the interface: Dark and light
InDesign Launch Screen update (2015.1) NEW
1. Learn InDesign in 30 Minutes
Getting started
Adding or editing text
Adding or replacing graphics
Moving objects around
Printing and creating a PDF
2. Working with InDesign Documents
Exploring the application window
Navigating and zooming
Selecting objects
Working with panels
Setting rulers and measurements
Adjusting view and preview settings
Saving and reverting documents
Saving for CS4, CS5, or CS6 with IDML
3. Creating a Document
New documents
Putting ruler guides on your page
Adding text frames
Typing and editing text
Applying basic text formatting
Importing graphics
Bleeding colors or images off the side of the page
4. Managing Pages
Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
Creating and applying master pages
Overriding master page items
Setting margin and column guides
Changing page size
Adding page numbering
Changing page numbering with sections
5. Text
Inserting special characters
Importing text
Threading text frames
Setting text frame columns
Setting text inset and vertical justification
Allowing text frames to grow and shrink
Putting text on a path
Using the Story Editor
Checking spelling
Using Find/Change
6. Graphics
Setting the view quality of artwork
Using the Links panel
Editing graphics in their original app
Fitting graphics to the frame
Taking advantage of image transparency and clipping paths
Inserting QR codes
7. Formatting Objects
Stroking and filling frames and paths
Colorizing images
Adjusting transparency
Adding drop shadows
Using other transparency effects
Copying formatting with the Eyedropper tool
Finding and changing object formatting
8. Color
Creating color swatches
Understanding the danger (and power) of unnamed colors
Creating gradient swatches
Applying gradients
9. Frames and Paths
Drawing and editing path and frame shapes
Adding rounded corners and other corner options
Making polygons and starbursts
Creating text outlines
10. Managing Objects
Stacking objects
Creating and controlling layers
Managing objects in the Layers panel
Grouping and locking objects
Nesting objects
Aligning and distributing
Understanding text wrap
Using anchored objects
11. Transforming Objects
Duplicating objects
Rotating objects
Scaling objects
Skewing objects
Mirroring objects
12. Character Formatting
Applying advanced character formatting
Changing case
Using Find/Change for text formatting
Using Find Font
13. Paragraph Formatting
Applying formatting to a paragraph
Using drop caps
Adding rules (lines) above or below a paragraph
Spanning a paragraph across multiple columns
Splitting a paragraph into multiple columns
Shading paragraphs and boxes
Setting tabs
Adding automatic bullets
Numbering paragraphs
14. Styles
Creating and applying paragraph styles
Using character styles
Editing and redefining styles
Using object styles
15. Tables
Creating a table
Adjusting rows and columns
Adding, moving, and deleting rows and columns
Formatting a table
Formatting cells
Placing graphics in cells
16. Interactive Documents
Adding hyperlinks
Creating an interactive PDF
Exporting a reflowable EPUB
Exporting a fixed-layout EPUB
17. Packaging, Printing, and Exporting
Packaging for output
Using the Print dialog box
Exporting a PDF
Exporting text
Conclusion
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