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$1495
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$1000
With expert instruction, hands-on learning, and a focus on best practices, you'll be able to create everything from business cards and brochures to e-books and interactive PDFs. And with a focus on preparing you for the Adobe Certified Professional Exam, you'll have the opportunity to take a practice exam and be thoroughly prepared to become a certified professional in Adobe InDesign. Enroll in our Adobe InDesign course today and take the first step towards creating beautiful and functional designs that will stand out in today's competitive market.
This course explores the graphic design software, Adobe InDesign, commonly used by professionals in document design and production for both print and online formats. Students will be introduced to both basic and more advanced functions through class discussion, readings and specific design projects customized to utilize one or more tools found in the software program. Students will also be prepared to take the Adobe Certified Professional Exam by completing a practice exam.
Participant Benefits
With Adobe Illustrator, students will learn the fundamentals of the interface, learn how to create and export files that are compatible with web video and print, create basic to advanced shapes, learn and master the pen tool, work with color, create masks and work with transparencies, create and format text, create graphs and charts with real-world data.
- Build documents with Master Pages
- Understand how to format and work with text, type, and styles
- Explore working with graphics and colors
- Create informational documents using imported tables and tabular data
- Prepare documents for print or export including packaging, pre-flight, separation, proofs, and PDFs
- Understanding of digital documents
- Build templates to quickly and easily create documents
- Ability to create interactive documents using InDesign
- Develop vocabulary pertaining to design production and client interaction
Curriculum
Each session is three hours long and offered once per week.
Explore InDesign Workspace
Students begin to explore the InDesign interface. Discussion will include the importance of understanding in the design community. They will be introduced to many of the tools, palettes, menu selections, and techniques we will be using in class. Students will use this new knowledge to put together a small advertisement using these skills.
Working with Type in InDesign
Students will discuss type styles and classifications. They wil learn to use the basics of the Text tool as well as the Character and Paragraph windows.
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Use the Character window for basic font style, size, alignment, color and Character styles window, tracking, kerning and leading
- Use the paragraph window to select alignment, hyphenation, rules, drop caps
- Text Frame Options
Discovering Master Pages
Students will discover how to set up and use basic Master Pages, discuss design process, and learn basic design vocabulary.
Working with InDesign's Styles
Defining Character and Paragraph Styles
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Create and use multiple character styles using the Character styles window
- Create and utilize basic Paragraph styles
- Use typographic terminology as it pertains to page layout
- Text Frame Options
Working with Graphics in InDesign
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Use the Shape tools
- Pathfinder window
- Links panel
- Importing Graphics, Photos, or other imagery
- Object styles
- Text Wrap window
- Copyright issues will be discussed
Using Color Panels
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Use the color panels
- Basic Color Theory
- Color relationships
- Color space- RGB, CMYK, Grayscale
- Applying color to type, shapes, objects
- Gradients
- Swatch Libraries
- Package and Export files
Review of Previous Lessons
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Review typography
- Page Layout
Discussion: Design Process
- Specifications, Creative Brief
- Ideation, Sketches
- Feedback loop
- Wireframes, prototype iterations
- Change orders
Project Management
- Project scope
- Scope Creep
- Cloud collaboration
- File Management
Creating and Using InDesign Tables
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Create and modify tables
- Applying table cells and styles
- Edit tables
Advanced InDesign Styles
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Using nested styles
- Import a table
- Edit tables
- Bulleted and numbered lists
- Pull Quotes
- Headers and Footers
- Variable text
Using InDesign's Effects
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Use Effects Window
- Apply opacity to objects
- Apply effects to strokes or fills
- Importing object styles
- Page number and document order
- Create a table of contents
- Build an index
Interactive Design Considerations
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Add hyperlinks and buttons
- Link content
- Export interactive files
- Create a form
- Understand interactive design terminology
Legal Considerations
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Copyright
- Permissions
- Attribution
- Licensing
- Stock images
Building InDesign Templates
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Build and use Templates
- Import a Template
- Libraries and snippets
- Loading imported swatches, styles
- Use color and transparency
- Blend modes
- Print troubleshooting
Working with Multiple Formats and Page Sizes in InDesign
In this lesson, you will learn how to do the following:
- Adjust the appearance of objects and type
- Troubleshoot documents
- Manage documents from other designer(s)
- Explore new features in InDesign