Your First Day with InDesign CC
Pluralsight
Course Summary
If you are opening InDesign for the very first time, the application can be quite intimidating. Software required: InDesign CC v9.0.
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Course Description
If you are opening InDesign for the very first time, the application can be quite intimidating. Where do you start? What do you learn first? This InDesign tutorial was specifically designed to answer just those questions for you. We will be focused here on getting you up and running in the application quickly, teaching you about tools and workflows that you will need to understand from day one. To begin this course, we will start out slow, introducing you to some important terminology. From here we will spend some time focusing on InDesign objects and frames and how to add and manage their attributes and contents. Moving on, we will learn about a variety of topics to help make you successful including color, effects, rulers and guides, layers and object organization as well as some of the really powerful styles that InDesign uses. By the end of this training, you will have accumulated a solid foundation of knowledge and be ready to move deeper into the powerful application. Software required: InDesign CC v9.0.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 15s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 15sYour First Day with InDesign CC- 5h 26m
—Creating, Opening and Saving Files 12m 5s
—Interface and UI Overview 11m 8s
—Zooming, Panning and Document Navigation 9m 13s
—Managing Pages in the Pages Panel 8m 56s
—Understanding Master Pages 10m 58s
—Vector Basics 14m 35s
—Understanding and Selecting Indesign Objects 9m 42s
—Object Attribute Basics 12m 15s
—Using Indesign's Swatch Panel 12m 27s
—Working with Gradients 9m 38s
—Understanding the Layering of Objects 7m 30s
—Basic Object Transformations 9m 36s
—Aligning and Distributing Objects 8m 4s
—Margins and Columns 5m 14s
—Rulers and Guides 10m 59s
—Utilizing Grids in Indesign 10m 3s
—Bringing in Images and Graphics 9m 50s
—Understanding Frame Fitting 8m 31s
—Creating and Formatting Basic Text Objects 14m 18s
—Changing Text Frame Options 9m 21s
—Working with Threaded Text 6m 53s
—Formatting Text Using Character Styles 11m 24s
—Formatting Text Using Paragraph Styles 11m 13s
—Nesting Character Styles in Paragraph Styles 9m 52s
—Importing Text from Another File 8m 40s
—Setting up Automatic Page Numbering 6m 47s
—Spell Checking in Indesign 6m 14s
—Adding Type to a Path 5m 34s
—Creating Text Wraps 8m 27s
—Object Effects and Transparency 9m 55s
—Creating and Using Object Styles 10m 15s
—Using Search and Replace Queries in Indesign 9m 40s
—Preflighting Indesign Projects 7m 44s
—Packaging and Exporting Indesign Projects 8m 47s
