InDesign 2020 Essential Training

Adobe InDesign is the most important tool in publishing today. It’s an essential for magazines, newspapers, print and ebook publishers, and freelance designers around the world. This course teaches the tools and techniques that make the 2020 version of this powerful page-layout application so fun and easy to use. Instructor David Blatner gets you up to speed fast, with a quick start chapter that teaches you the basics in just 30 minutes. Then he dives into the details, including managing documents and pages, editing text and graphics, creating interactive documents and forms, and much more. Take the entire course, or focus on just the features you need to learn. Every lesson brings you one step closer to InDesign proficiency—an essential skill for any career in design or publishing.

Topics include:

Creating a new InDesign document
Adding text frames
Importing graphics
Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
Overriding master page items
Importing text
Threading text frames
Placing and linking graphics
Adjusting color and transparency
Drawing path and frame shapes
Managing objects
Controlling layers
Creating and applying text and object styles
Creating tables
Building interactive PDFs and web documents
Packaging, printing, and exporting your InDesign project