LRN0182 - Adobe InDesign Essentials

Course Description

Adobe InDesign is the industry standard page-layout program that works with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop seamlessly. InDesign allows you to create simple to complex multi-page documents such as brochures, flyers, books and magazines. This course is a comprehensive exploration of InDesign tools and capabilities to create professional documents. You will learn how to manage the InDesign environment, create, setup, design, enhance and finalize multi-page documents. Access to Adobe InDesign software required.

Course Outline

Unit 1

Getting to Know the Interface and Setting up a Document

Interface menus

Tools

Panels

Starting and setting up a multi-page document in InDesign

Unit 2

Working with Objects and Color

Learning to work with color panels

Creating, managing and applying color to elements

Inserting and managing images and illustrations into an InDesign document

Unit 3

Working with Text

Learning about insert and flow text to multiple pages

Managing long text documents

Text editing in InDesign documents

Unit 4

Typography

Advance typography tools and menus

Character and paragraph settings and styles

Creating print-ready PDF files.

About Your Instructor:

Andy Helmi is a graphic and website designer, technical consultant and an online marketing specialist located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. His education background includes over ten years  of academic training in electronic/computer engineering, graphic and web design, music and digital photography. Andy’s professional experience in digital media started in 1996. He has worked for a few companies and also has been running his own freelance design business ever since.

Andy also has passion for teaching. He is an Adobe certified instructor and has completed “BC Instructional Skills” certification. He has been developing courses/programs and teaching at several local colleges and universities including Vancouver School Board, Vancouver Community College, Langara College and Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Learner Outcomes

Software Requirements:

For all online Adobe classes, students are responsible for purchasing their own software for their course. Trial versions of Adobe software are sometimes available on the Adobe company website.

If you're taking the entire “Graphic Design certificate” you'll need Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. Otherwise you may sign up for a single software.

More information on Adobe Creative Cloud software can be found at adobe.com.

Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this workshop students should be able to:

Layout a multi-page print document in Adobe InDesign and create a print-ready PDF file.

Work with font, character, paragraph and typography basics in InDesign

Insert and edit text, objects and picture frames

Draw shapes

Work with color panels to create and apply colors and gradients

Notes

Course Objectives

To learn about Adobe InDesign CC interface and work with menus, tools and panels.

To setup and modify multi-page documents

To work with page settings and layout options and apply automatic pagination

To insert images and illustrations in a multi-page document

To work with color panels to create, manage, edit and apply color

To work with type tools to create and apply character and paragraph styles

To create print-ready PDF files

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Applies Towards the Following Digital Badges

• Graphic Design Software Essentials Digital Badge : Graphic Design Software Essentials Digital Badge