Intermediate InDesign CC

If you’ve worked with InDesign for a while now, you probably know there’s much more to the program than you use regularly—if you only knew about it! And there’s probably ways to work more efficiently, if only you had the time to figure them out! There are probably a lot of great projects you could be working on, if you knew how to start! How about creating a booklet for your employee orientation? Or some multilayered effects to take your newsletter to the next level? If this describes you, then get ready for some intensive learning! You’ll spend this first lesson exploring some time-saving InDesign features as you dig into the first project: a master style sheet you’ll develop and use throughout the course.

You know that the better organized you are, the easier it is to get your work done. You’re going to delve into more organizing in this lesson. You’ll start by defining your own workspace in InDesign, tailoring it to how you like to find and access tools and features. Picking up from where you left off in Lesson 1, you’re going to make a library from the images you assembled in the first lesson, and a business logo. Then you’ll get started on a multiuse template for your resort, using various InDesign features to save time and add consistency to your publications.

Master pages are one of the most important tools in your InDesign toolkit. In this lesson, you’ll finish the basic template for your resort business. You’ll create multiple Master pages you can quickly apply for different projects. You’ll see how to use the multiple page size feature in InDesign CC to build a letterhead and an envelope for your business, using the Library and other time-saving features in InDesign.

Have you ever seen publications using features like text wraps that add a professional touch? That’s what you’re doing in this lesson. You’re going to start from an existing publication containing the images and text sitting on the pasteboard. Then comes the fun! First, you’ll see how to adjust image sizes and locations. You’ll work with different types of text wraps to control how the text flows on the page—and you don’t have to be an illustrator to do it! Then you’ll learn how to attach a small graphic to text to give the headings in the project some extra pizzazz.

There are usually several ways to do the same task in InDesign, and there’s often one method that’s more advanced than others. In this lesson, you’ll dig into some of the ways you can design features to help you work faster and smarter. You’ll learn how to use facing pages and double-page spreads as you create part of the guest room guide for your example business. Along the way, you’ll work with several character styles and create a nested style to apply several styles at one time in the same paragraph. Then you’ll see how to build and use an object style.

If you’ve worked with InDesign for a while now, you probably know there’s much more to the program than you use regularly—if you only knew about it! And there’s probably ways to work more efficiently, if only you had the time to figure them out! There are probably a lot of great projects you could be working on, if you knew how to start! How about creating a booklet for your employee orientation? Or some multilayered effects to take your newsletter to the next level? If this describes you, then get ready for some intensive learning! You’ll spend this first lesson exploring some time-saving InDesign features as you dig into the first project: a master style sheet you’ll develop and use throughout the course.