Adobe InDesign CC

Duration

Adobe InDesign CC

3 days

Outline

Getting Started

• About Classroom in a Book

Prerequisites

• Installing the software
• Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app
• Classroom in a Book fonts
• Online content
• Lesson files
• Web Edition
• Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition
• Saving and restoring the InDesign Defaults file
• Moving the current InDesign Defaults file
• Restoring the saved InDesign Defaults file
• Training resources

1 Introducing the Workspace

• Looking at the workspace
• Selecting and using tools
• Reviewing the Control panel
• Reviewing the Application bar
• Reviewing the document window and pasteboard
• Working with multiple document windows
• Working with panels
• Opening and closing panels
• Expanding and collapsing panels
• Rearranging and customizing panels
• Moving the Tools panel and Control panel
• Customizing the workspace
• Using the view commands
• Using the Zoom tool
• Navigating through a document
• Navigating pages
• Using the Hand tool
• Using context menus
• Using panel menus
• Modifying interface preferences
• Exploring on your own

2 Getting to Know InDesign

• Getting started
• Viewing guides
• Preflighting as you work
• Adding text
• Typing and styling text
• Importing and flowing text
• Working with styles
• Applying paragraph styles
• Formatting text for the character style
• Creating and applying a character style
• Working with graphics
• Working with objects
• Moving and rotating an object
• Changing an object’s stroke and fill
• Working with object styles
• Viewing the document in Presentation mode
• Exploring on your own

3 Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages

• Getting started
• Creating and saving custom document settings
• Creating a new document
• Working with master pages
• Adding guides to the master page
• Dragging guides from rulers
• Step and repeat, paste, and delete guides
• Creating a text frame on the master page
• Renaming the master page
• Adding placeholder frames for text
• Adding placeholder frames for graphics
• Creating an additional master page
• Overriding master items
• Modifying a parent master
• Applying master pages to document pages
• Adding new document pages
• Rearranging and deleting document pages
• Changing the size of pages within one InDesign file
• Using the Measure tool
• Adding sections to change page numbering
• Overriding master page items and placing text and graphics
• Replacing placeholder text
• Printing to the edge of the paper: using the bleed guides
• Viewing the completed spread
• Exploring on your own

4 Working with Objects

• Getting started
• Working with layers
• Creating and reordering layers
• Move items to the Background layer
• Creating and modifying text frames
• Creating and resizing text frames
• Reshaping a text frame
• Creating multicolumn text frames
• Adjusting text inset and vertical alignment
• Creating and modifying graphics frames
• Drawing a new graphics frame
• Placing a graphic within an existing frame
• Resizing a graphics frame to crop a graphic
• Placing a graphic without an existing frame
• Placing multiple graphics in a grid of frames
• Resizing and moving images within frames
• Adjusting the space between frames
• Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
• Placing and linking graphics frames
• Modifying and updating parent–child graphics frames
• Wrapping text around a graphic
• Transforming the shape of frames
• Working with compound shapes
• Converting shapes
• Repeating shapes
• Adding rounded corners to frames
• Transforming and aligning objects
• Rotating an object
• Rotating an image within its frame
• Aligning multiple objects
• Scaling multiple objects
• Transforming multiple objects
• Selecting and modifying grouped objects
• Drawing lines and modifying arrowheads
• Creating a QR code
• Finishing up
• Exploring on your own

5 Flowing Text

• Getting started
• Flowing text into an existing frame
• Importing text into an existing text frame
• Applying a paragraph style
• Resizing text frames automatically
• Flowing text manually
• Creating text frames while flowing text
• Creating threaded frames automatically
• Flowing text automatically
• Applying paragraph styles to text
• Adjusting columns
• Using the baseline grid to align text
• Viewing the baseline grid
• Adding a jump line page number
• Exploring on your own

6 Editing Text

• Getting started
• Finding and changing a missing font
• Entering and importing text
• Entering text
• Importing text
• Finding and changing text and formatting
• Finding and changing text
• Finding and changing formatting
• Checking spelling
• Checking spelling in the document
• Adding words to a document-specific dictionary
• Automatically correcting misspelled words
• Editing text by dragging and dropping
• Using the Story Editor
• Tracking changes
• Exploring on your own

7 Working with Typography

• Getting started
• Adjusting vertical spacing
• Changing the spacing between paragraphs
• Working with fonts, type styles, and glyphs
• Adding a font from Adobe Fonts
• Adding a special character
• Applying a stroke and fill to text
• Inserting fraction characters
• Working with columns
• Specifying columns for a text frame
• Creating a straddle head
• Adjusting columns
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Hanging punctuation outside the margin
• Creating a drop cap
• Adjusting letter and word spacing
• Adjusting the tracking and kerning
• Adjusting line breaks
• Hyphenation settings
• Inserting a manual line break
• Setting tabs
• Aligning text to tabs and adding tab leaders
• Creating a numbered list with a hanging indent
• Working with paragraph shading and rules
• Applying shading to a paragraph
• Applying a rule to a paragraph
• Exploring on your own

8 Working with Color

• Getting started
• Managing color
• The need for color management
• Displaying images at full resolution
• Specifying color settings in InDesign
• Proofing colors onscreen
• Defining printing requirements
• Loading a preflight profile
• Selecting a preflight profile
• Converting a color mode for a swatch
• Creating colors
• Creating a PANTONE color swatch
• Creating CMYK color swatches
• Applying colors
• Applying fill colors to objects
• Applying colors to strokes
• Applying colors to text
• Working with tint swatches
• Creating a tint swatch
• Applying a tint swatch
• Working with gradients
• Creating a gradient swatch
• Applying a gradient swatch
• Adjusting the direction of the gradient blend
• Working with color groups
• Adding colors to a color group
• Previewing the final document
• Exploring on your own
• Creating a color theme
• Viewing color themes
• Adding a theme to the Swatches panel
• Adding a color theme to your CC Library

9 Working with Styles

• Getting started
• Creating and applying paragraph styles
• Creating a paragraph style
• Applying a paragraph style
• Creating and applying character styles
• Creating a character style
• Applying a character style
• Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
• Creating character styles for nesting
• Creating a nested style
• Creating and applying object styles
• Formatting an object for a style
• Creating an object style
• Applying an object style
• Creating and applying table and cell styles
• Creating cell styles
• Creating a table style
• Applying a table style
• Globally updating styles
• Loading styles from another document
• Finishing up
• Exploring on your own

10 Importing and Modifying Graphics

• Getting started
• Adding graphics from other programs
• Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
• Managing links to imported files
• Identifying imported images
• Viewing information about linked files
• Showing files in Explorer (Windows) or Finder (macOS)
• Updating revised graphics
• Adjusting display quality
• Importing and sizing graphics
• Import, size, and crop
• Place a graphic into an existing frame and use frame fitting options
• Place a graphic into an existing frame by dropping from the desktop
• Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
• Editing placed pictures
• Working with dropped backgrounds
• Working with clipping paths from Photoshop in InDesign
• Working with transparent backgrounds from Photoshop in InDesign
• Importing native Adobe graphic files
• Working with a Photoshop file with layers
• Creating an anchored graphics frame
• Adding text wrap to an anchored graphics frame
• Importing an Illustrator file
• Importing an Illustrator file with layers
• Using an InDesign library to manage objects
• Creating an InDesign library
• Exploring on your own

11 Creating Tables

• Getting started
• Creating a table
• Converting text to a table
• Changing rows and columns
• Adding and deleting rows
• Deleting rows
• Rearranging rows and columns
• Adjusting column widths, row heights, and text placement
• Merging cells
• Formatting a table
• Adding a fill pattern
• Applying a fill color to cells
• Editing cell strokes
• Adding table borders
• Adding graphics to table cells
• Converting cells to graphic cells
• Placing images in graphic cells
• Adjusting the row heights
• Anchoring graphics in table cells
• Creating a header row
• Creating and applying table and cell styles
• Creating table and cell styles
• Applying table and cell styles
• Exploring on your own

12 Working with Transparency

• Getting started
• Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
• Applying transparency settings
• About the Effects panel
• Changing the opacity of solid-color objects
• Applying a blending mode
• Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
• Applying transparency to a vector graphic
• Applying transparency to a bitmap graphic
• Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
• Applying transparency settings to text
• Working with effects
• Applying a basic feather to the edges of an image
• Applying a gradient feather
• Adding a drop shadow to text
• Applying multiple effects to an object
• Copying effects between objects
• Editing and removing effects
• Exploring on your own

13 Printing and Exporting

• Getting started
• Preflighting files
• Previewing separations
• Managing colors
• Using the Ink Manager
• Previewing transparency effects
• Previewing the pages
• Creating an Adobe PDF proof
• Creating a press-ready PDF and saving a PDF preset
• Sharing a preset
• Printing a proof and saving a print preset
• Print Booklet
• Packaging files
• Exploring on your own

14 Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields

• Getting started
• Set up a workspace for forms
• Adding form fields
• Adding text fields
• Adding either/or choices: radio buttons
• Adding yes or no choices: check boxes
• Adding a list of choices: combo box
• Setting the tab order of the fields
• Adding a button to submit the form
• Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file
• Testing your form in Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Exploring on your own

15 Creating a fixed-Layout epub

• Getting started
• Creating a new document for fixed-layout export
• EPUB: Reflowable versus fixed-layout
• Adding animation
• Using a motion preset to create animation
• Adjusting the timing of animations
• Buttons
• Using buttons to play animations
• Using a button to trigger custom motion paths for animations
• Creating a navigation button
• Creating a pop-up caption
• Adding multimedia and interactive elements
• Adding a movie
• Adding a sound
• Creating a slideshow
• Creating a hyperlink
• Exporting an EPUB file
• Exploring on your own
• Timing animations
• Adding sound control buttons
• Creating a slide-in caption

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.