Adobe InDesign – Introduction

Getting Started

• Introducing menus, tools, and panels.
• Selecting and creating a Workspace.
• Open, Close and Save files.
• Save to the Cloud (.INDC).
• Change zoom magnification

Preferences

• Set the interface colour and user interface scaling.
• File and clipboard handling.

Setting up a Document

• Create a new document.
• Add a document bleed and slug.
• Use Document Set-up to amend existing settings.
• Work with the Pages panel to add, delete, and reorganise pages.
• Swap between Normal and Preview mode.
• Create and edit Guides.
• Show/hide, lock and unlock guides.

Drawing

• Create basic shapes.
• Adjusting the stroke width.
• Apply a fill and stroke colour using default swatches and unnamed colours.
• Apply a gradient to a fill or stroke.
• Use the gradient tool to adjust the gradient angle.

Swatches

• Create custom swatches.
• Display swatches by type.
• Create swatch groups.
• Delete unused swatches.
• Use the colour theme tool to add to your swatches.

Working with Objects

• Align and Distribute objects with each other and across the page/spread.
• Use the Arrange command to change the stacking order.
• Apply Effects such as rounded corners, drop-shadows, and adjust opacity.
• Transform and rotate objects.

Working with Text

• Copy and paste text.
• Place a text file.
• Quick selection techniques.
• Display hidden characters.
• Essential character formatting, font family, style, size, leading, and language.
• Working with Adobe fonts.
• Simple paragraph formatting, alignment, indents, paragraph spacing, hyphenation.
• Run the spelling checker.
• Use find and change.
• Use GREP to find extra spaces and returns.
• Insert special characters and glyphs.

Manipulating Text Frames

• Vertically align text within a frame.
• Inset text.
• Insert column rules.
• Split a frame into multiple columns.
• Thread and unthread text frames.

Working with Images

• Create and edit graphic frames.
• Place and fit images within frames.
• Change the Display Performance.
• Work with the Links panel to update modified and fix broken links.
• Replace an existing image.
• Place multiple images.
• Apply text wrap.
• Anchor objects to text.
• Set Image import options for Photoshop and Illustrator files.

Working with Text Styles

• Apply existing paragraph and character styles.
• Edit and update styles.
• Create text styles by example and from scratch.
• Set and apply next paragraph style.

Creative Cloud Basics

• Manage Adobe Fonts in the Creative Cloud application.
• Create a Library to add reusable assets such as colours, text styles and images.
• Use Extract from image.

Parent Pages

• Understand the role of a parent page.
• Insert a page number.
• Add design elements to a parent page.
• Create a new parent page.
• Apply a parent page.

Tables

• Insert a new blank table.
• Insert a heading row.
• Add and delete columns and rows.
• Merge and split cells.
• Apply text formatting to cell contents.
• Format the table with fill and stroke options.
• Copy and paste a table from Word.
• Convert tabulated text into a table.
• Adjust table options.

New Features

• Use Text to image to create AI generated images.
• Convert a PDF file to InDesign (Beta)

Output

• Run the basic pre-flight setting.
• Package a file.
• Output to PDF