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Adobe InDesign

Certification Preparation Course

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Create stunning layouts and designs for print and digital media. Create everything from business cards and brochures to e-books and interactive PDFs.

» Program Overview

Are you looking to take your print and digital design skills to the next level? Our Adobe InDesign course is the perfect choice for anyone seeking to create stunning layouts and designs for print and digital media. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced designer, this comprehensive course will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to create professional-grade designs.

With expert instruction, hands-on learning, and a focus on best practices, you’ll be able to create everything from business cards and brochures to e-books and interactive PDFs. And with a focus on preparing you for the Adobe Certified Professional Exam, you’ll have the opportunity to take a practice exam and be thoroughly prepared to become a certified professional in Adobe InDesign. Enroll in our Adobe InDesign course today and take the first step towards creating beautiful and functional designs that will stand out in today’s competitive market.

This course explores the graphic design software, Adobe InDesign, commonly used by professionals in document design and production for both print and online formats. Students will be introduced to both basic and more advanced functions through class discussion, readings and specific design projects customized to utilize one or more tools found in the software program. Students will also be prepared to take the Adobe Certified Professional Exam by completing a practice exam.

» Participant Benefits

With Adobe Illustrator, students will learn the fundamentals of the interface, learn how to create and export files that are compatible with web video and print, create basic to advanced shapes, learn and master the pen tool, work with color, create masks and work with transparencies, create and format text, create graphs and charts with real-world data.

  • Build documents with Master Pages
  • Understand how to format and work with text, type, and styles
  • Explore working with graphics and colors
  • Create informational documents using imported tables and tabular data
  • Prepare documents for print or export including packaging, pre-flight, separation, proofs, and PDFs
  • Understanding of digital documents
  • Build templates to quickly and easily create documents
  • Ability to create interactive documents using InDesign
  • Develop vocabulary pertaining to design production and client interaction

» Curriculum

Each session is three hours long and offered once per week.

Students begin to explore the InDesign interface. Discussion will include the importance of understanding in the design community. They will be introduced to many of the tools, palettes, menu selections, and techniques we will be using in class. Students will use this new knowledge to put together a small advertisement using these skills.

Students will discuss type styles and classifications. They will learn to use the basics of the Text tool as well as the Character and Paragraph windows.

  • Use the Character window for basic font style, size, alignment, color and  Character styles window, tracking, kerning and leading
  • Use the paragraph window to select alignment, hyphenation, rules, drop caps
  • Text Frame Options

Students will discover how to set up and use basic Master Pages, discuss design process, and learn basic design vocabulary.

  • Create and use multiple character styles using the Character styles window
  • Create and utilize basic Paragraph styles
  • Use typographic terminology as it pertains to page layout
  • Text Frame Options
  • Use the Shape tools
  • Pathfinder window
  • Links panel
  • Importing Graphics, Photos, or other imagery
  • Object styles
  • Text Wrap window
  • Copyright issues will be discussed
  • Use the color panels
  • Basic Color Theory
  • Color relationships
  • Color space- RGB, CMYK, Grayscale
  • Applying color to type, shapes, objects
  • Gradients
  • Swatch Libraries
  • Package and Export files
  • Review typography
  • Page Layout

Discussion: Design Process

  • Specifications, Creative Brief
  • Ideation, Sketches
  • Feedback loop
  • Wireframes, prototype iterations
  • Change orders

Project Management

  • Project scope
  • Scope Creep
  • Cloud collaboration
  • File Management
  • Create and modify tables
  • Applying table cells and styles
  • Edit tables
  • Using nested styles
  • Import a table
  • Edit tables
  • Bulleted and numbered lists
  • Pull Quotes
  • Headers and Footers
  • Variable text
  • Use Effects Window
  • Apply opacity to objects
  • Apply effects to strokes or fills
  • Importing object styles
  • Page number and document order
  • Create a table of contents
  • Build an index
  • Add hyper links and buttons
  • Link content
  • Export interactive files
  • Create a form
  • Understand interactive design terminology
  • Copyright
  • Permissions
  • Attribution
  • Licensing
  • Stock images
  • Build and use Templates
  • Import a Template
  • Libraries and snippets
  • Loading imported swatches, styles
  • Use color and transparency
  • Blend modes
  • Print troubleshooting
  • Adjust the appearance of objects and type
  • Troubleshoot documents
  • Manage documents from other designer(s)
  • Explore new features in InDesign

Final Review

Practice Exam

Program Cost

$1,495

LTU ALUMNI, FACULTY, STAFF & STUDENTS PAY:

$1,000

Contact Us!
prodev@ltu.edu

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» Document Viewer

Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.