Course details

Level: Beginner + Intermediate                                             Released: 7/26/2019

Starting your graphic design career? Make yourself stand out to employers and clients by becoming an Adobe Certified Associate in InDesign. ACA certification can be the gateway to jobs and lifelong mastery of InDesign. This course helps you study for and pass the Print & Digital Media Publication Using Adobe InDesign exam. Instructor Mike Rankin explains the benefits of ACA certification, as well as how to organize your study efforts based on your current abilities. Each exam objective is covered in detail, from identifying your audience and laying out your initial design to publishing your final document.

Learning objectives

• The benefits of ACA certification
• Creating a personalized study plan
• Identifying your audience
• Starting a design project in InDesign
• Using design elements such as typography and color
• Working with the Layers panel
• Adding text and media
• Exporting and packaging files

Course details

Level: Beginner                                          Released: 11/6/2019

Adobe InDesign is the most important tool in publishing today. It’s an essential for magazines, newspapers, print and ebook publishers, and freelance designers around the world. This course teaches the tools and techniques that make the 2020 version of this powerful page-layout application so fun and easy to use. Instructor David Blatner gets you up to speed fast, with a quick start chapter that teaches you the basics in just 30 minutes. Then he dives into the details, including managing documents and pages, editing text and graphics, creating interactive documents and forms, and much more. Take the entire course, or focus on just the features you need to learn. Every lesson brings you one step closer to InDesign proficiency—an essential skill for any career in design or publishing.

Learning objectives

• Creating a new InDesign document
• Adding text frames
• Importing graphics
• Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
• Overriding master page items
• Importing text
• Threading text frames
• Placing and linking graphics
• Adjusting color and transparency
• Drawing path and frame shapes
• Managing objects
• Controlling layers
• Creating and applying text and object styles
• Creating tables
• Building interactive PDFs and web documents
• Packaging, printing, and exporting your InDesign project

In this course, you are going to learn everything you need to get started using Adobe InDesign. This course is for beginners. You don’t need any previous knowledge in InDesign, graphic design, or desktop publishing. We’ll start right at the beginning, working our way through step by step. Together, we’ll make a four-page brochure, learning the tools and techniques necessary to design it and print it professionally. We’ll work with color, picking our own and using corporate colours. We’ll explore how to choose and use fonts like a pro. We’ll find, resize, and crop images. So, if you’ve never opened InDesign before, or you’ve opened it and struggled, join this course and I’ll show you the easy way to make beautiful design work in Adobe InDesign.

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