InDesign is an essential tool for designers, ad agencies, magazines,
newspapers, book publishers, and freelancers around the world. It's used
to build everything from traditional print publications to interactive
PDFs, digital magazines, and ebooks. This course presents a thorough
explanation of the core features and techniques that make this page
layout application so powerful, fun, and easy to use.
Want to learn InDesign in just 20 minutes? Watch the first chapter,
which concentrates on the most essential skills: editing text, adding
graphics, moving objects, and creating PDFs. Once you're ready to move
on, InDesign insider David Blatner will show you the rest of what
InDesign has to offer. Learn how to navigate and customize the
workspace, manage documents and pages, format text and graphics,
experiment with color and gradients, draw and transform shapes, create
interactive documents, package your designs for print, and much more.
Topics include:
- Getting started with InDesign in just 30 minutes
- Setting up a new document
- Inserting text
- Placing graphics
- Formatting objects
- Creating color and gradient swatches
- Organizing InDesign projects with layers
- Transforming objects
- Incorporating drop caps, bullets, and numbering
- Applying character and object styles
- Building tables
- Creating an interactive PDF and exporting to EPUB
- Printing and exporting