InDesign

Design Creative Print Materials Professionally

Graphic Design4.9(69)7h 30m19 lectures3 sections

What you'll learn

  • Understand the InDesign interface and create documents
  • Work with pages and master pages
  • Enter and format text
  • Use special characters and paragraph numbering
  • Work with images and text wrap around them
  • Use styles and effects
  • Create tables and format books
  • Create an index and add footnotes
  • Save, export and print

About this course

This course teaches Adobe InDesign for designing printed material such as books, magazines and newspapers. It starts with downloading and installing the program, creating a new document and working with pages, then entering text, the basics of formatting it, special characters, paragraph numbering and advanced formatting commands. After that you learn master pages, working with images and text wrap around images, then styles, adding effects and creating tables. You move on to formatting books, creating an index and adding footnotes, then saving, exporting, printing and imposition. The course adds a lesson on the new commands and tools. It suits designers, print shop owners, authors and anyone who wants to design book and magazine pages, and needs no previous experience, as knowing how to use a computer is enough. The lessons go from preparing the document to producing the final file, so you understand the whole workflow. After finishing, you will be able to lay out text and images in professional pages, design a book or a magazine and get it ready for print.

Expected outcomes

  • Ability to design professional and diverse documents.
  • Master text and image formatting effectively.
  • Create books and magazines ready for print and digital publishing.
  • Utilize the latest 2021 release tools to enhance performance.
  • Produce integrated projects that meet client or personal needs.

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Course content

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Adobe InDesign from Beginner to Pro

16 lectures
  1. Download and Install the ProgramExplains downloading and installing Adobe programs from the company's site through Creative Cloud, choosing a plan, signing in, enabling Arabic language support, and running the trial version.9:05
  2. Create a New DocumentExplains creating a new InDesign document: choosing the page count, facing pages and reading direction, setting margins and the bleed area, and editing document settings after creation.21:58
  3. Working with PagesExplains working with InDesign document pages: creating an A4 document, adding, arranging and moving pages to another document, the Pages panel and page masters, and the document view modes.23:18
  4. Entering TextsExplains entering text in InDesign: the Arabic and English type tools and Type on a Path, selecting text, overset text and threading text frames, showing hidden characters, and path text options.26:30
  5. Basics of Text FormattingExplains formatting text and paragraphs in InDesign with the Character and Paragraph panels: font size and shift, paragraph spacing and indents, paragraph borders, and saving formatting as character and paragraph styles.25:56
  6. Special Characters and Paragraph NumberingExplains adding special characters and bullets or numbering to paragraphs in InDesign: changing the bullet symbol, picking symbols from different fonts, creating a character style for bullets, and inserting symbols inside text.19:21
  7. Advanced Formatting CommandsExplains advanced formatting in InDesign: the Tabs ruler for aligning text, spanning text across columns, adding pages for overflow text, and placing a Word file without its original formatting.24:45
  8. Home PagesExplains Master Pages in InDesign: anything placed on them appears on the other pages, applying them to chosen pages, and creating a header, footer and automatic page numbering.23:10
  9. Working with ImagesExplains adding images to a document with the Place command, working with the image frame and resizing, the Fit Content and Center Content commands, placing several images at once, and empty frames.26:53
  10. Text Wrapping Around ImagesExplains wrapping text around images and overlapping objects in InDesign: wrapping around the frame or the image's path shape, adjusting offsets, ignoring tight spaces, and anchoring an image in text like a character.36:44
  11. Styles and Adding EffectsExplains adding effects to elements in InDesign: fill color for text, corners, Drop Shadow and light direction, applying it to the frame or the text, and saving the formatting as an object style to reuse quickly.29:08
  12. Creating TablesExplains creating and designing tables in InDesign by building an invoice: creating a table, selecting rows and cells, formatting text inside, adding and deleting rows, and using layers to lock elements.55:17
  13. Book FormattingIntroduces formatting a whole book in InDesign for the printer: placing text from Word, spell-checking inside the program, page numbering and sections, and formatting the header, footer and chapter titles.39:13
  14. Creating an Index and Adding FootnotesExplains creating footnotes and a table of contents from chapter titles and inner headings, updating the table of contents, and combining chapter files into a single book with the Book command.25:45
  15. Saving and ExportingExplains saving and exporting files in InDesign: the save formats including IDML, setting a page range when exporting to JPG, and fixing the unlicensed font problem by converting text to outlines.24:34
  16. Printing and EditingExplains printing and imposition in InDesign: printing to a desktop printer or PDF, replacing a problem font, and preparing imposition for the printer with saddle stitch and crop and registration marks.22:25
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Add-ons

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What's New in InDesign 2021

2 lectures
  1. New Commands and ToolsReviews the new commands and tools in the 2021 version, including text wrap around an object in an image, the color wheel and color library, HSB mode, changing a repeated color across a document, and link-based review.16:10
  2. Download Indezian 2021 Lesson Add-ons

Instructor

Ahmed Hassan Khamis

Ahmed Hassan Khamis

He has developed computer science curricula for various Arab universities and taught at Alexandria University. He has authored over 120 educational books in computer science.
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