Adobe InDesign Essentials
SESSION OPTIONS:
August 4 through August 29, 2025, OR
November 3 through November 28, 2025
Price: $225
Course Overview
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 Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will 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
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
Agenda
Unit One – 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 Two – 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 Three – Working with Text
- Learning about insert and flow text to multiple pages
- Managing long text documents
- Text editing in InDesign documents
Unit Four – Typography
- Advance typography tools and menus
- Character and paragraph settings and styles
- Creating print-ready PDF files