InDesign Quick Tips

22mBeginner2019-09-24

Authors

Chad Chelius

Adobe Certified Instructor, Conference Speaker, Published Author

Course details

This collection of quick Adobe InDesign videos is designed to show you workarounds, demonstrate helpful tricks, and explain useful features. Discover ways to create swatches of color, add page numbers to your document, and precisely align and distribute a series of objects such as photos or paragraphs. Explore how to place graphics in a layout, how to export your document as a PDF, and more.

Learning objectives
Drawing and coloring basic shapes
Copying objects
Creating and formatting headline text
Placing graphics
Cropping images
Placing paragraph text from Word
Formatting paragraph text
Applying gradients
Inserting special characters
Creating tables

Skills covered

Quick TipsDigital PublishingInDesignGraphic DesignAdobe

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Minute tips for working efficiently in InDesign
02 - Activating Adobe Fonts

1. InDesign Quick Tips

03 - Create a new document
04 - Panning and zooming
05 - Creating swatches
06 - Drawing basic shapes
07 - Applying color
08 - Duplicating objects
09 - Placing graphics using a frame
10 - Placing graphics without a frame
11 - Creating and formatting headline text
12 - Applying kerning and tracking to text
13 - Placing text from Word
14 - Formatting text
15 - Creating a paragraph style
16 - Applying a paragraph style
17 - Creating and applying character styles
18 - Creating type on a path
19 - Aligning objects
20 - Understanding screen modes
21 - Exporting a PDF file