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Adobe InDesign CC 2023: A Beginner’s Course

Create interactive PDFs, automate repetitive tasks, and publish your designs across multiple platforms using Adobe Indesign CC 2023.

(INDESIGN.AP1.E0T) / ISBN : 978-1-64459-447-6
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About This Course

In this InDesign 2023 essential training course, you’ll learn to create professional-quality designs using the latest features. From brochures and magazines to interactive ebooks and social media graphics, InDesign CC 2023 puts you in full control. Explore new features like Content Aware Scale for intelligent resizing, Creative Cloud Libraries for centralized asset management, History Panel for revising previous tasks, and Adobe Stock integration for easy access to high-quality content.

Skills You’ll Get

  • Navigate the workspace, customize panels, and adjust magnification to streamline workflow
  • Set up documents, work with page layouts, and apply parent pages to ensure consistency 
  • Create and manipulate text and graphic frames, apply effects, and import assets
  • Apply styles, adjust typography, and create tables to enhance readability and save time with efficient workflows 
  • Preflight files, create PDFs, and export for various platforms for print & digital distribution
  • Work with transparency, create interactive PDFs, and publish

 

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1

Getting Started

  • About Classroom in a Book
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing the software
  • Online content
  • Saving and restoring the InDesign Defaults file
  • Training resources
2

Introducing the Workspace

  • Getting started
  • Looking at the workspace
  • Working with panels
  • Customizing the workspace
  • Changing the magnification of a document
  • Navigating through a document
  • Using context menus
  • Using panel menus
  • Modifying Interface preferences
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
3

Getting to Know InDesign

  • Getting started
  • Viewing guides
  • Adding text
  • Working with styles
  • Working with graphics
  • Working with objects
  • Working with object styles
  • Preflighting as you work
  • Viewing the document in Presentation mode
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
4

Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages

  • Getting started
  • Creating a new document
  • Creating and saving custom document settings
  • Creating a new document from a preset
  • Working with parent pages
  • Applying parent pages to document pages
  • Adding new document pages
  • Rearranging and deleting document pages
  • Changing the size of pages within one InDesign document
  • Adding sections to change page numbering
  • Overriding parent page items and placing text and graphics
  • Printing to the edge of the paper: Using the bleed guides
  • Viewing the completed spread
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
5

Working with Objects

  • Getting started
  • Introducing layers
  • Working with layers
  • Creating and modifying text frames
  • Creating and modifying graphics frames
  • Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
  • Wrapping text around a graphic
  • Transforming the shape of frames
  • Transforming and aligning objects
  • Selecting and modifying grouped objects
  • Flowing type along a path
  • Drawing lines and modifying arrowheads
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
6

Working with Color

  • Getting started
  • Managing color
  • Defining printing requirements
  • Creating colors
  • Applying colors
  • Finding and changing color swatches
  • Working with tint swatches
  • Working with gradients
  • Working with color groups
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
7

Flowing Text

  • Getting started
  • Flowing text into an existing frame
  • Flowing text manually
  • Creating text frames while flowing text
  • Creating threaded frames automatically
  • Flowing text automatically
  • Using Find/Change to delete extra paragraph returns
  • Applying paragraph styles to text
  • Adjusting columns
  • Using the baseline grid to align text
  • Adding a jump line page number
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
8

Editing Text

  • Getting started
  • Entering and importing text
  • Finding and changing text and formatting
  • Checking spelling
  • Editing text by dragging and dropping
  • Using the Story Editor
  • Tracking changes
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
9

Working with Typography

  • Getting started
  • Adjusting vertical spacing
  • Working with fonts, type styles, and glyphs
  • Working with columns
  • Changing paragraph alignment
  • Creating a drop cap
  • Adjusting letter and word spacing
  • Adjusting line breaks
  • Setting tabs
  • Working with paragraph shading and rules
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
10

Working with Styles

  • Getting started
  • Creating and applying paragraph styles
  • Creating and applying character styles
  • Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
  • Creating and applying object styles
  • Creating and applying table and cell styles
  • Globally updating styles
  • Loading styles from another document
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
11

Creating Tables

  • Getting started
  • Working with tables
  • Converting text to a table
  • Changing rows and columns
  • Formatting a table
  • Adding graphics to table cells
  • Creating a header row
  • Creating and applying table and cell styles
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
12

Importing and Modifying Graphics

  • Getting started
  • Adding graphics from other programs
  • Comparing vector and pixel-based graphics
  • Managing links to imported files
  • Updating revised graphics
  • Adjusting display quality
  • Importing and sizing graphics
  • Editing placed pictures
  • Working with dropped backgrounds
  • Importing native Adobe graphic files
  • Using Subject-Aware Text Wrap
  • Filling type with a graphic
  • Using an InDesign library to manage objects
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
13

Working with Transparency

  • Getting started
  • Creating a background graphic
  • Applying transparency settings
  • Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
  • Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
  • Applying transparency settings to text
  • Working with effects
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
14

Printing and Exporting

  • Getting started
  • Preflighting files
  • Previewing separations
  • Managing colors
  • Previewing transparency effects
  • Previewing the pages
  • Creating an Adobe PDF proof
  • Creating a press-ready PDF and saving a PDF preset
  • Printing a proof and saving a print preset
  • Packaging files
  • Exporting graphics for the web and other digital destinations
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
15

Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields

  • Getting started
  • Setting up a workspace for forms
  • Adding form fields
  • Setting the tab order of the fields
  • Adding a button to submit the form
  • Exporting an interactive PDF file
  • Testing your form in Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions
16

Creating a Fixed-Layout Epub and Publishing Online

  • Getting started
  • Creating a new document for fixed-layout export
  • EPUB: Fixed-layout versus reflowable
  • Adding animation
  • Buttons
  • Adding multimedia and interactive elements
  • Exporting a fixed-layout EPUB file
  • InDesign Publish Online
  • Exploring on your own
  • Review questions

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Adobe InDesign2023 offers significant improvements over earlier versions, such as: 

  • Expand and resize images using Generative Expand
  • Jump to the previous action using the History Panel
  • Alter text case 
  • GUID support for UXP third-party 3D developers
  • PDF conversions 
  • Accessibility improvements 
  • Enhanced Typography

No, there are no prerequisites for taking this Adobe InDesign CC 2023 course. All you need is a creative mindset, an understanding of design principles, and InDesign software.

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