InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. This course presents the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application fun and easy to use. Author David Blatner shows how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, explore creating interactive documents, and much more. He also covers popular topics such as EPUBs and long documents and includes advice on working with overset text, unnamed colors, and other troublesome issues that may arise for first-time designers.
Topics include:
* Getting started in just 30 minutes: the quick start guide to InDesign
* Understanding your workspace
* Creating and setting up new documents
* Creating and applying master pages
* Entering and editing text
* Placing graphics
* Working with color and gradients
* Editing frame and path shapes
* Working with layers, objects, and groups
* Rotating and scaling objects
* Applying character and paragraph formatting
* Using styles
* Creating and formatting tables
* Exporting to EPUB and interactive PDF
* Packaging, printing, and exporting your final document

Download File Size:1.47 GB

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