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Adobe InDesign - The Complete course for Professionals

Name: Adobe InDesign - The Complete course for Professionals
Rating: 4.7 (26 reviews)

Enhance your InDesign designing skills, and work like a professional

Created byMohammed Sajid Rahman

Last updated 10/2021

English

What you'll learn

You will learn to design professional publications and graphics in InDesign.
You will create a postcard design.
You will create a fashion magazine cover.
You will create a book cover.
You will create a CV / Resume.
You will create a poster.
You will create a business card.
You will create a letter head.
You will create a postcard.
You will create a trifold restaurant menu card.
You will create a trifold brochure.
You will create a wall calendar.
You will learn how to pick complimentary fonts for you design.
You will learn how to create PDF files ready for printing.
You will be able to start earning from your InDesign Skills.
You will learn to enhance your workflow and shortcuts used by professionals.
You will learn how to design professional publications and graphics.
You will be able to build a skill set that can set you up to be employable in the creative industry.
You will learn how to efficiently package and export files.
You will learn how to lay out graphics and text while designing an eBook.

Course content

16 sections • 70 lectures • 7h 48m total length

Introduction1:35
Explore the latest InDesign 2021 features and master desktop publishing for single and multi-page documents. Discover how this user-friendly, industry-standard software powers projects from business cards to magazines and pdfs.

Placement & Resizing of Images11:34
Place images into frames, resize with the anchor points and content grabber, then use fitting options like fill frame proportionally and content-aware fit to control display.
Placement and Formatting of Text9:31
Adobe Stock & Other Resources5:43
Explore Adobe Stock and two other excellent sites like Pexels and Pixabay to download images, videos, and 3D assets for InDesign projects; learn licensing, watermarks, and access via CC libraries.
Pre-flighting5:49
Gridify Feature5:30
Discover InDesign's gridify feature, a hidden tool that splits rectangles into grids with right and up arrows, merges with left and down arrows, and adjusts gaps via the gap tool.

Master Pages10:32
Use master pages in Adobe InDesign as templates to apply elements across document pages, then learn to apply, override, create alternate masters, and import master settings from other documents.
How to Insert Page Numbers to your Document?3:05
PRACTICE: Open the 4.2_Practice File.indd, and insert page numbers to it.
Master Text Frame2:12
Threading Text4:49
PRACTICE: Open 4.4_Practice_Threading text.indd, and practice the various options you've learnt in this video.
Hyperlinks5:27
PRACTICE: Open 4.5_Practice_hyperlinks.indd, and practice adding hyperlinks.
Layers Panel8:17

Paragraph Styles9:19
PRACTICE: Open 5.1_Practice paragraph styles.indd, and create a few paragraph styles. You. can first style your texts, and then add them to the styles, or straight away create paragraph styles, and then apply them to your text.
Character Styles3:25
PRACTICE: Open 5.2_Practice character styles.indd, and practice the character styles you've learnt in this video.
GREP Styles8:53
PRACTICE: Open 5.3_Practice GREP styles.indd, and practice the GREP styles you've learnt in this video.
Next Styles4:57
PRACTICE: Open 5.4_Next Style.indd, and go to page 2, and practice the Next style you've learnt in this video.
Object Styles4:11
PRACTICE: Open 5.5_Object styles.indd, and to practice add more images much like you've learnt in this video. You can get free images from www.pexels.com
Nested Styles5:14
PRACTICE: Open 5.6_Nested styles.indd, and practice adding Nested styles to the document.
Map Word Styles5:06
PRACTICE: Practice placing a word document in InDesign, much like you've learnt in this vide.

Primary Text Frame7:01
Learn how the primary text frame on master pages controls the main text flow across A and B masters, enabling seamless auto-flow and efficient page design.
Text-wrap4:34
PRACTICE: Import the text from Lorem_500.docx, and practice text wrapping as demonstrated in this video.
Text on a Path5:23
PRACTICE: Create a path, and add text to it as illustrated in this video.
Faking Italics on Text2:24
Faking Bold on Text1:26
Typing Chemical Formulae3:33
Learn to type chemical formulae in InDesign by creating superscript and subscript styles, and applying GREP rules to format charges and valences.
Typing Algebraic Formula2:59
Learn to type algebraic formulae in InDesign by creating a superscript character style and a GREP style to automatically apply superscript to numbers in formulas.
Filling Text, or Shape with Image4:17
PRACTICE: Download images from pexels.com, and using a thick font type in your text in InDesign, and fill the downloaded images to your your text, or shape as you've learnt in this lesson.
Cross-references4:24
Creating an Index5:19

Keyboard Shortcuts6:51
Master InDesign keyboard shortcuts to accelerate workflow, from text selection and page navigation to fill, stroke, typography, kerning, leading, and outlines.
Optimizing Preferences6:57
Workflow Speed Tips8:03
Boost your InDesign workflow with practical speed tips: use quick apply and autocorrect, measure tool for exact dimensions, manage units and pages with the pages tool, and quick navigation.

Requirements

Students DO NOT need a design background, before taking this course.
Students should have access to Adobe InDesign to follow along with the course. A free trial or any Creative Cloud version will be fine. Previous versions will be fine for most lessons.
Anyone who wants to learn desktop publishing.

Description

Adobe InDesign 2021 is a page design program that allows you to design high quality brochures, flyers, business cards, postcards, books and even pages for digital publishing such as those for the iPad and Kindle. InDesign gives you the power to do everything you need, from inserting and sizing graphics, adding text, creating interactive forms, and even packaging your work for a commercial printer.

Adobe InDesign 2021 is the latest version to the Adobe InDesign software. Along with new features that improve function and increase ease-of-use, it still contains the same features that made other versions so popular.

This course was designed to walk you through the program step-by-step, teaching you what you need to know to gain a working knowledge of InDesign. Those who have never used InDesign before will walk away being able to create anything from a simple page to a book. Those who are new to the latest version, but have enjoyed InDesign in the past will learn the new features and how they incorporate and work with the other features they love and depend on.

You’ll learn:

· How to create pages for books and documents.

· How to create interactive forms.

· How to add, place, and resize graphics.

· How to create text, import text, and work with text within a document.

· How to use the new Alternate Layout feature to create several layouts for your document with just a click of a mouse.

· How to draw shapes and use those shapes in your document.

· How to use the new Content Collector tool to easily place multiple instances of the same content within a document – or within several documents. This is easier than copy and paste!

· How to use the state-of-the-art gridify feature of InDesign, to place multiple images, and other elements in one go.

· How to create actual designs in real-life situation; quite a few design creations are demonstrated that can give you an edge in the professional world.

· How to package your work for a commercial printer.

· And much, much more!

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to learn Adobe InDesign.
Entrepreneurs, online businesses, artists, graphic designers, or anyone who wants to learn this versatile application.

Adobe InDesign - The Complete course for Professionals

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 2min

Getting Started3 lectures • 37min

Assets Management5 lectures • 38min

All about Pages6 lectures • 34min

Styles7 lectures • 41min

Text10 lectures • 41min

Color3 lectures • 8min

Fonts3 lectures • 15min

Tables2 lectures • 17min

Workflow3 lectures • 22min

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