# Adobe InDesign Private Tutoring

Canonical URL: <https://www.careercenters.com/courses/indesign-essentials>

## Overview

**This course is only available as one-on-one training, if you're interested in our Adobe group classes please check our [design school courses](https://www.nobledesktop.com/graphic-design-school-nyc).**

In this Adobe InDesign Essentials training, you learn to lay out a multi-page document, insert photos, create text styles, master documents and pages, flow in copy from Microsoft Word, and print documents.

You'll create hands-on projects including text ads, magazine spreads, postcards, multiple page newsletters, and more.

## What you'll learn

- Work with typography to create a text ad
- Create a coupon using colors and gradients
- Add graphics to a postcard design
- Use master pages and grids to create a newsletter
- Adjust images for a Catalog Spread
- Apply Color Blends to a brochure
- Prepare files for print

## Curriculum

#### Lesson 1—Getting to Know the InDesign Work Area

- Tools, submenus and palettes
- Setup up a new document
- Creating document
- Viewing the Document

#### Assignment 1: New Document Set Up

#### Lesson 2—Working with Typography

- Creating Text Frames
- Flowing copy
- Changing fonts and paragraph alignment
- Importing copy and entering it into frames
- Text frame options
- Spell Checking 

#### Assignment 2: Text Ad

#### Lesson 3—Working with Color

- Applying color to objects
- Creating dashed lines
- Working with gradients
- Creating and applying swatches and gradient swatches
- Creating a tint
- Multicolor gradient

#### Assignment 3: Create Coupon

#### Lesson 3—Working with Images

- Placing graphics
- Stacking and text wrap
- Align multiple objects

#### Project 1: Nightclub Postcard

#### Lesson 4—Master Pages and Grids

- Creating Master pages
- Linking Master pages
- Editing master page items
- Keep spreads together and deleting pages
- Guides, preferences baseline grid
- The Layers palette

#### Assignment 4: Set up Master Pages for Newsletter

#### Lesson 5—Style Sheets and Fine-Tuning Text

- Different text flow options
- Creating and applying styles
- Importing Styles from another document
- Creating a footer and Special Characters
- Finding and changing formatting and special characters
- Finding and changing a missing font
- Creating text on a path
- Working with tabs
- Drop shadows

#### Assignment 5: Update Newsletter

#### Lesson 6—Image Manipulation in InDesign

- The Links palette and how to update and edit graphics in other applications
- Changing display settings
- Clipping Pages (Removing a white background)
- Examining Photoshop paths and alpha channels
- Importing Illustrator files
- Placing PDF files

#### Assignment 6: Adjust Images for Catalog Spread

#### Assignment 7: Apply Color Blends to Brochure

#### Lesson 7—Preparing Files for Print

- Preflight
- Transparency flattener preview
- Ink Manager
- Determining how graphics print
- Setting options for fonts
- Creating a PDF preset
- Exporting to PDF
- Packaging an InDesign File

#### Project 2: Four Page Magazine Layout

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $850