Adobe InDesign – Basics
Create professional-looking, well-designed documents using Adobe InDesign. Learn how to use paragraph and character styles to format pages uniformly, apply layout features to build alternate size configurations of your document, and use various panels to easily customize text, photographs and graphics.
Adobe® InDesign® has all the tools you need to achieve a professional layout design for print and web publishing.
This course can be applied to the Digital Marketing Certificate.
Instructor
Allie Kilmer is a graphic designer with the Integrated Marketing team at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She works directly with a diverse group of clients to craft smart, attention-grabbing communications across a variety of print and digital media. Before joining ... read more
Who Should Attend
This course is intended for marketing professionals, web designers, publishers or those who want to use the basic tools and features of InDesign for creating professional page layout designs.
Benefits and Learning Outcomes
- Identify the elements of the InDesign interface
- Create a new document
- Customize a document by using text, photographs, graphics, colors and page styles
- Manage page elements
- Build a table
- Prepare a document for delivery
Course Outline/Topics
- InDesign interface
- Creation of a document
- Text frames and basic text editing
- Shapes, color, placing and arranging graphics
- Styles: Paragraph, character
- Pages: Interface; facing pages; master pages
- Tables
- Prepping for print
Prerequisites
Familiarity with basic design terminology.
Testimonials
"This class was helpful and well paced and I learned new skills to apply at work. Allie [the instructor] was very knowledgeable and encouraging." — Class Participant, 2022
"Loved this course! I think it was great to have online – seemed easier to do it this way. Great tips and very knowledgeable instructor. Would love a second/follow-up course to this to learn more." — Participant
"I don’t use InDesign for my primary job duties, but enhancing my knowledge of this resource enables me to help my department/colleagues as well as increases my skill set and marketability in the industry." — Participant
"Allie made this class worthwhile. The online format could have been a real challenge, but her upbeat personality and incredible patience made it work. I would definitely take another class she was teaching." — Participant
Date: Wed-Thu, Apr 19-20
Delivery Method: Live Online
Time: 8:30am-Noon CT
Platform: Canvas
Instructor: Alexandra Kilmer
Fee:
$349 by Apr 5
$374 after Apr 5
CEUs: .7
Enrollment Limit: 10
Program Number: 5026-14771
Note: Participants will receive instructions for logging into Canvas to access course materials and Zoom links several days prior to first class.
Registration Deadline: Apr 19
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