Book description
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe InDesign choose Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book (2018 release) from Adobe Press. The 15 project-based step-by-step lessons show users the key techniques for working in InDesign. Designers will build a strong foundation of typographic, page layout, and document-construction skills that will enable them to produce a broad range of print and digital publications—from a simple postcard to an interactive Adobe PDF with form fields. The real-world tasks in this comprehensive book are presented in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format and are designed to train beginning Adobe InDesign users in the program—from fundamental features to powerful layout and output skills. This book will also help experienced InDesign users elevate their skills, understand best practices, and learn about new features.
The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each lesson as well as ebook updates when Adobe releases relevant new features for Creative Cloud customers. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Where are the Lesson Files?
- Contents
- Getting Started
- 1 Introducing the Workspace
- 2 Getting to Know Indesign
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3 Setting up a Document and Working with Pages
- Getting started
- Creating and saving custom document settings
- Creating a new document
- Switching between open InDesign documents
- Working with master pages
- Applying master pages to document pages
- Adding new document pages
- Rearranging and deleting document pages
- Changing the size of pages
- Adding sections to change page numbering
- Overriding master page items and placing text and graphics
- Printing to the edge of the paper: using the bleed guides
- Viewing the completed spread
- Exploring on your own
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4 Working with Objects
- Getting started
- Working with layers
- Creating and modifying text frames
- Creating and modifying graphics frames
- Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
- Placing and linking graphics frames
- Changing the shape of a frame
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Modifying the shape of frames
- Transforming and aligning objects
- Selecting and modifying grouped objects
- Drawing lines and modifying arrowheads
- Creating a QR code
- Finishing up
- Exploring on your own
- 5 Flowing Text
- 6 Editing Text
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7 Working with Typography
- Getting started
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Working with fonts, type styles, and glyphs
- Fine-tuning columns
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Creating a drop cap
- Adjusting letter and word spacing
- Adjusting line breaks
- Setting tabs
- Adding a rule above a paragraph
- Working with paragraph shading
- Exploring on your own
- 8 Working with Color
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9 Working with Styles
- Getting started
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Creating and applying character styles
- Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
- Creating and applying object styles
- Creating and applying table and cell styles
- Globally updating styles
- Loading styles from another document
- Exploring on your own
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10 Importing and Modifying Graphics
- Getting started
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Updating revised graphics
- Adjusting display quality
- Working with dropped backgrounds
- Working with alpha channels
- Importing native Adobe graphic files
- Using an InDesign library to manage objects
- Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
- Exploring on your own
- 11 Creating Tables
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12 Working with Transparency
- Getting started
- Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
- Applying transparency settings
- Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
- Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
- Applying transparency settings to text
- Working with effects
- Exploring on your own
- 13 Printing and Exporting
- 14 Creating Adobe PDF Files with form Fields
- 15 Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB
- Index
Product information
- Title: Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book (2018 release), First Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2017
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780134872001
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