InDesign 2023 Essential Training

Course details

InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. In this course, InDesign expert David Blatner presents a thorough explanation of the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application fun and easy to use. He provides a foundation upon which advanced skills and workflows can be built. David shows you how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, explore creating interactive documents, and much more. You can also use the example files and challenges that accompany the course to practice what David explains.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - InDesign - Learn the fundamentals
02 - Using the exercise files
03 - A note about Adobe InDesign's user interface
04 - What's new in Adobe InDesign 2023

1. Learning InDesign in 30 Minutes

05 - Getting started
06 - Adding or editing text
07 - Adding or replacing graphics
08 - Moving objects around
09 - Printing and exporting a PDF

2. Creating a Document

10 - New documents
11 - Guides and measurements
12 - Adding text frames
13 - Typing and editing text
14 - Choose a better workspace for editing
15 - Applying basic text formatting
16 - Importing graphics
17 - Saving and reverting documents

3. Managing Pages

18 - Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
19 - Creating and applying parent pages
20 - Overriding parent page items
21 - Changing page size and margins
22 - Setting bleed and slug guides
23 - Adding page numbering

4. Text

24 - Importing text
25 - Threading text frames
26 - Setting text frame attributes
27 - Inserting special characters
28 - Using the Story Editor
29 - Checking spelling
30 - Using Find Change
31 - Putting text on a path

5. Graphics

32 - Options when placing images
33 - Using the Links panel
34 - Editing graphics in the original app
35 - Cropping and fitting graphics

6. Color and Transparency

36 - Stroking and filling frames and paths
37 - Transparency, drop shadows, and effects
38 - Creating color swatches
39 - The danger and power of unnamed colors
40 - Creating and applying gradient swatches

7. Frames and Paths

41 - Drawing path and frame shapes
42 - Adjusting corner options
43 - Creating text outlines

8. Managing Objects

44 - Resizing and rotating objects
45 - Duplicating objects and making grids
46 - Moving objects above or below each other
47 - Creating and controlling layers
48 - Aligning and distributing
49 - Understanding Text Wrap
50 - Using anchored objects

9. Text Formatting

51 - Applying advanced character formatting
52 - Using Find Font
53 - Applying formatting to a paragraph
54 - Using drop caps
55 - Adding rules and lines above or below
56 - Setting tabs and tab stops
57 - Spanning and splitting paragraphs
58 - Adding automatic bullets and numbers
59 - Using Find Change for text formatting
60 - Highlighting paragraphs with boxes

10. Styles

61 - Creating and applying paragraph styles
62 - Using character styles
63 - Editing, clearing, and redefining styles
64 - Using object styles

11. Tables

65 - Creating a table
66 - Adjusting rows and columns
67 - Formatting a table
68 - Formatting cells

12. Interactive Documents

69 - Adding hyperlinks
70 - Creating an interactive PDF
71 - Exporting to the web with Publish Online

13. Package, Print, and Exporting

72 - Packaging and preflight for output
73 - Using the Print dialog box
74 - Exporting a PDF

Conclusion

75 - Next steps