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 following certificates:
Creative Powerhouse Certificate
Digital Marketing Certificate

Instructor

Alexandra Kilmer

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

Sessions

Date: Wed-Thu, Nov 1-2, 2023

Delivery Method: Live Online

Time: 8:30am-Noon CT

Platform: Zoom

Instructor: Alexandra Kilmer

Fee:

$349 by Oct 18, 2023
$374 after Oct 18, 2023

CEUs: .7

Enrollment Limit: 15

Program Number: 5026-15531

Note: Prior to the course start date, participants will receive instructions for logging into Canvas to access course materials and Zoom links.

Registration Deadline: Nov 1, 2023

Date: Thu-Fri, May 2-3, 2024