Indesign Introduction

Indesign Introduction

The Interface
• Using tools, panels and contextual menus
• Changing view sizes and navigating through a document

Creating documents
• Creating a new document
• Bleeds and Slugs
• Opening and saving documents and templates
• Using guides, rules and grids
• Opening and creating master pages
• Understanding Document Presets and Preferences

Creating objects
• Drawing shapes and lines
• Selecting moving and duplicating objects
• The Selection and Direct selection tools
• Info panel
• Shape to Shape conversion
• Changing the size, proportions or orientation of an object
• Anchored Objects

Working with text
• How text frames work
• Importing text
• Text frame options
• Threading text frames
• Character and Paragraph formatting
• Basic hyphenation and justification
• Using the eyedropper tool
• Creating and applying paragraph and character styles
Tables
• Working with indents and tabs
• Creating, editing and formatting tables
• Adding images to tables

Graphics
• Understanding graphic formats
• Placing vector and bitmapped graphics
• Fitting graphics in frames

Placing PDF files
• Managing links
• Wrapping text around graphics


Colour
• Understanding spot and process colour
• The swatches panel
using swatch libraries
• Creating tints and gradients
• Applying colour to fills and stokes
• Using the gradient tools on fills, strokes and text
• Copying attributes between objects
• Moving colours between documents.
• Sampling colours from imported graphics

Working with objects
• Using layers
• Stacking objects
• Duplicating objects
• Aligning and distributing objects

Pages
• Moving and re-ordering Pages

Paths
• Drawing with the pen tool
• Adjusting points and segments
• Placing text on paths
• Creating paths from text outlines

Master pages
• Creating masters and based on masters
• Adding automatic page numbering and other
• Working with master page objects

Automating text
• Find/Change
• Defining Styles
• Headers and Footers

Libraries
• Creating, indexing and using InDesign libraries

Transparency
• Selecting blending modes
• Adding drop shadows and feathering edges
• Flattener Preview panel

Outputting documents
• Setting up documents for printing
• Printing options and styles
• Exporting PDFs
• Snippets

File Management with Adobe Bridge
• Using Adobe Bridge in conjunction with InDesign