In this class, you’ll learn InDesign comprehensively: creating page layouts with text, graphics, and multiple pages. Learn to style text, import photos, and graphics, define/use colors, add multiple pages, thread text frames, and much more.
Throughout this course, you’ll work on a variety of projects such as books, magazines, and advertisements. Learn paragraph/character styles, master pages, baseline grid, hyphenation, libraries, tables, and more. You’ll be able to package your files to send them to be printed and generate PDFs for print or web. You’ll even learn essential techniques for professional typesetting.
What You’ll Learn at a Glance
- Create layouts with text, color, & graphics Import and style text & graphics
- Create & apply color
- Create short or long documents such as brochures, advertisements, magazines, books, etc.
- Prepare your files for final output: printing or PDF
- Create and edit paragraph/character styles to easily format and change text throughout a design
- Use Master Pages to control the layout of multi-page documents
- Work with Anchored Objects, Tables, Libraries, Find/Change, and more
Course Syllabus
Section 1
- Letter Creation
- Large Type Letter
- More Text Styling
- Magazine Ad
- Advanced Word Processing/Formatting
Section 2
- Kerning/Tracking
- 2-Page Magazine Ad
- Sporktown Brochure
Section 3
- Professional Typesetting Techniques
- Drawing Bézier Curves
- Multiple Column Ad with Text Wrap
- Magazine Cover
Section 4
- Style Sheets in a Magazine Article
- Tables
- Anchored Frames
Section 5
- Leaders Magazine: Master Pages & 1st Article
- Leaders Magazine—Libraries & More
- Leaders Magazine: Searches & Spell Check
Section 6
- The Lawyer Joke Book: Setup
- The Lawyer Joke Book: Styling the Text
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Books: Creating
- Books: Auto Page Numbering
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
Also available in-person in NYC