Learn how to design professional page layouts with text & graphics in Adobe InDesign. this course covers styling, importing, packaging, and advanced techniques like styles, master pages, and tables. Perfect for creating books, magazines, and ads.
Overview
Syllabus
Section 1
Letter Creation
- Setting preferences
- The Control panel
- Text frames
- Basic text attributes
- Basic keyboard shortcuts
Large Type Letter
- More text attributes
More Text Styling
- Baseline shift
- Small caps
- The Line tool
- Making proper fractions
Magazine Ad
- Setting up a document bleed
- Placing images
- Combining text & images
- White type on a black background
Advanced Word Processing/Formatting
- Paragraph spacing
- Tabs
Section 2
Kerning/Tracking
- Optical vs. metric kerning
- Kerning vs. tracking
- Manual kerning
2-Page Magazine Ad
- Facing pages
- Color swatches
- Defining colors
Sporktown Brochure
- Placing text, photos, & illustrations
- Gradient swatches
- Drop shadows
- Alignment
- Text wrap
Section 3
Professional Typesetting Techniques
- Bulleted lists
- Hanging bullets
- Hyphenation
- Discretionary hyphens
- Special break characters
Drawing Bézier Curves
- The Pen tool
- Segments, anchor points, & curves
Multiple Column Ad with Text Wrap
- Multiple text columns
- Drop caps
- The baseline grid
- Text wrap
Magazine Cover
- Placing transparent art
- Defining & using color swatches
- Type on a path
Section 4
Style Sheets in a Magazine Article
- Paragraph styles
- Character styles
- Nested styles
Tables
- Placing Excel tables (with their formatting)
- Table headers
- Formatting tables (fills, strokes, etc.)
- Reordering table cells
Anchored Frames
- Anchoring frames so they reflow with text
- Positioning anchored objects
Section 5
Leaders Magazine: Master Pages & 1st Article
- Master pages
- Spanning columns
- Step & repeat
- Paragraph & character styles
Leaders Magazine—Libraries & More
- Libraries
Leaders Magazine: Searches & Spell Check
- Spell checking
- Find/change
Section 6
The Lawyer Joke Book: Setup
- Master pages
- Automatic page numbering
- Automatic text flow
- Running heads
The Lawyer Joke Book: Styling the Text
- Paragraph rules
- The baseline grid
- Find/change with paragraph formatting
Creating a Table of Contents
- Defining & building a table of contents
- Formatting & updating a table of contents
Books: Creating
- Using multiple files to create a book
- Synchronizing files
Books: Auto Page Numbering
- Auto page numbering across files
Taught by
Eugenio Solis de Ovando and Dan Rodney
