Adobe Indesign Cc For Beginners 2023

Master the basics of Adobe InDesign CC with this beginner-level course.

What you'll learn

Navigate and customize the InDesign workspace

Create new documents and work with basic shapes

Work with images and layers

Work with object effects, object styles, and nested styles

Work with typography and text elements

Understand color, swatches, and gradients

Establish parent pages and export InDesign documents

Requirements

A working copy of Adobe InDesign CC

This course is suitable for complete beginners, no prior knowledge is required.

Description

This course includes downloadable instructor files to work with and follow along.InDesign CC is Adobe’s popular subscription-based page layout, design, and publishing application. In this introduction to InDesign class, we cover all the features you can use to create professional-quality posters, newsletters, brochures, reports, and more.We begin with an overview of the InDesign interface and how to navigate the workspace and customize it to best suit the way you work. We quickly get into creating shapes and text boxes, applying color, and understanding the links panel. Then we do a deep-dive series of lessons on placing and editing images, special effects, and text wrapping; we will create a poster to put all these skills to practical use.The course also covers important organizational tools like layer management, guides, and grids. One comprehensive section is dedicated to mastering text and typographical elements, including a series of lessons on paragraph, character, object, and nested styles.We then bring it all together and discuss how to define and use parent pages, which are useful templates for repeated design elements. We’ll also look at ways to personalize your InDesign preferences so you can work efficiently with the features and styles you favor most often.Finally, you will learn how to export and package your documents for publishing and printing.By the end of this course, you will confidently:Navigate and customize the InDesign workspace.Create new documents and work with basic shapes.Work with images and layers.Work with object effects, object styles, and nested styles.Work with typography and text elements.Understand color, swatches, and gradients.Establish parent pages and export InDesign documents.This course includes:4+ hours of video tutorials37 individual video lecturesCourse files to follow alongCertificate of completion

Overview

Section 1: InDesign Workspace Navigation and Customization

Lecture 1 Welcome to InDesign Fundamentals

Lecture 2 WATCH ME: Essential Information for a Successful Training Experience

Lecture 3 DOWNLOAD ME: Course Files

Lecture 4 Downloadable Transcript

Lecture 5 Overview and Customization of the InDesign Workspace

Lecture 6 Navigating the InDesign Workspace

Section 2: Creating New Documents

Lecture 7 Creating New Documents

Lecture 8 Pages Panel Overview

Lecture 9 Placing Images

Lecture 10 Intro to Text and Text Boxes

Lecture 11 Working with Basic Shapes

Section 3: Working with Images

Lecture 12 Working with Images: Part 1

Lecture 13 Working with Images: Part 2

Lecture 14 Working with the Links Panel

Lecture 15 Aligning Objects

Lecture 16 Intro to Layers

Lecture 17 Project: Creating a Poster: Part 1

Lecture 18 Project: Creating a Poster: Part 2

Section 4: Object Effects and Object Styles

Lecture 19 Working with Object Effects

Lecture 20 Intro to Object Styles

Section 5: Working with Typography and Text Elements

Lecture 21 Intro to Typographical Settings

Lecture 22 Importing Text from Word

Lecture 23 Text Frame Options

Lecture 24 Text Threads and Hidden Characters

Lecture 25 Bullets and Numbering

Lecture 26 Adding Drop Caps to Paragraphs

Lecture 27 Paragraph Styles

Lecture 28 Character Styles

Lecture 29 Text Wrapping

Section 6: Nested Styles

Lecture 30 Nesting Character and Paragraph Styles

Lecture 31 Nesting Paragraph and Object Styles

Section 7: Color, Swatches and Gradients

Lecture 32 Colors and Swatches

Lecture 33 Gradients

Section 8: Working with Parent (Master) Pages

Lecture 34 Intro to Parent Pages

Lecture 35 Adding Content to Parent Pages

Section 9: InDesign Preferences

Lecture 36 InDesign Preferences

Section 10: Exporting InDesign Documents

Lecture 37 Pre-flight Set up

Lecture 38 Exporting to PDF

Lecture 39 Packaging for Printing

Section 11: Course Close

Lecture 40 Course Close

Graphic designers and illustrators,Those who are brand new to Adobe InDesign and want to learn more,Those who are looking to design and publish pages using the leading software package