| DAY ONE
The InDesign interface
- Creating a new document
- Creating and using frames
- Selecting frames and content
- Introducing layers
Working with text
- Placing text
- Selecting and editing text
- Handling missing fonts
- Working with glyphs
- Drag and drop text
Formatting characters in InDesign
- Character-level formatting
- Choosing a composer
- Hyphenation and justification
- Using the Eyedropper tool
- Creating drop caps
Working with styles in InDesign
- Character and paragraph styles
- Creating styles
- Editing and applying styles
- Introducing nested styles
- Removing style formatting
- Organising styles using Style Groups
Importing graphics
- Different file formats
- Placing graphics
- Placing multiple graphics
- Manipulating graphics
- Understanding fitting options
- PSD and PDF layer options
Combining text and graphics
- Wrapping text around graphics
- Introducing snippets
Understanding colour
- Spot and process colours
- Loading swatches
- Working with swatches
- Using stroke and fill options
- Creating tints
- Sampling colours from images
Laying out pages accurately
- Using rulers, grids and guides
- Using the Info panel
- Creating grids
- Working with layers
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DAY TWO
Multi-page documents
- Using the Pages panel
- Targeting pages and spreads
Editing copy
- Using the Story Editor
- Using Find/Change
- Using the Spell Checker
Introducing transparency
- Creating drop shadows
- Feathering edges
- The Flattener Preview panels
Transforming objects
- Scaling objects vs contents
- Transforming objects
- Grouping and ungrouping
Finessing text content
- Threading/unthreading frames
- Flowing text through frames
- Multi-column text frames
- Setting text frame options
- Document baseline grids
- Redefining styles
- Hanging punctuation
- Using special characters
- Viewing composition options
Working with Master Pages in InDesign
- Master Page guidelines
- Creating and editing Masters
- Applying Master Pages
- Auto-numbering pages
- Basing one Master on another
- Overriding Master objects
- Reapplying Master objects
Combining text and graphics
- Image import options
- Images with clipping paths
- Creating a new clipping path
- Removing image backgrounds
- Editing clipping paths
- Tolerance and threshold options
- Advanced text wrap options
Exporting and printing in InDesign
- Exporting as a PDF
- Performing a pre-flight check
- Packaging files for handoff
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