Online Class: Adobe InDesign 101

Course Lessons

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Adobe InDesign

  Adobe InDesign is used to create things such as posters, brochures, flyers, magazines, newspapers, and even books.

• Lesson 2: Creating and Viewing Documents

  In this lesson, we're going to learn how to view and create documents.

• Lesson 3: Understanding Your Workspace

  In this lesson we will go over the workplace tools.

• Lesson 4: Pages

  In this lesson we're going to show you how to work with the pages within the document.

• Lesson 5: Working with Type

  This lesson is going to focus on teaching you everything you need to know about working with type in InDesign.

• Lesson 6: Working with Graphics

  With other programs, you usually use an Insert command to insert text or an image. However, with InDesign, you use the Place command.

• Lesson 7: Formatting Objects

  In this lesson we will learn about unassigned frames that we can use to create shapes, then fill those shapes with fill and stroke color to add to our layout.

• Lesson 8: Working with Color

  In this lesson we will learn about the many tools you can use to add and store color in your work.

• Lesson 9: Points and Paths

  In this lesson, we're going to learn about InDesign's pen tools, as well as creating simple and complex paths.

• Lesson 10: Managing and Transforming Objects

  Knowing how to create objects and shapes is only half the battle with InDesign. Knowing how to manage those objects will be key to using InDesign successfully.

• Lesson 11: Character and Paragraph Formatting

  If you've ever used a word processing program, then you're probably already pretty familiar with the character and paragraph formatting options available to you in InDesign CS6. In this lesson we will go over all of these tools.

• Lesson 12: Using Styles

  In this lesson we will demonstrate how to set up text styles such as character styles, paragraph styles and object styles.

• Lesson 13: Tables

  Tables organize information into rows and columns. This lesson will demonstrate how to insert and customize tables in this program.

• Lesson 14: Long and Interactive Documents

  It's safe to say in today's digital publishing age that InDesign is the most useful program out there for putting together long documents and books for various formats.

• Lesson 15: Packaging and Printing

  This final lesson will demonstrate how to package and print your finished document in InDesign.