Fee:

$180

Students will learn how to create new InDesign documents, place text and graphics, and format text; create custom color swatches; position items using guide; create a bleed; create facing-pages multi-page documents; insert new pages and move page elements; work with master pages; flow text between frames; specify tab and indent settings; create bulleted lists; adjust space between paragraphs; create and apply paragraph rules, paragraph styles, and character styles; work with text and graphics in frames; work with Photoshop files; modify graphics, graphic frame containers, and text wrap; nest frames, group items, and create and user layers; print documents and create print presets; export to PDF; prepare and package documents for commercial printing; and use Adobe Bridge and metadata.

Unit 1: Getting started
Topic A: The Adobe InDesign environment
Topic B: InDesign Help

Unit 2: Basic documents
Topic A: New documents
Topic B: Custom colors
Topic C: Item position

Unit 3: Structuring multi-page documents
Topic A: Multi-page documents
Topic B: Master pages

Unit 4: Typesetting
Topic A: Text frame threading
Topic B: Paragraph formatting
Topic C: Styles

Unit 5: Modifying items
Topic A: Text frames
Topic B: Graphics
Topic C: Grouped items
Topic D: Layers

Unit 6: Finalizing documents and setting defaults
Topic A: Outputting documents
Topic B: Commercial printing preparation
Topic C: Adobe Bridge
Topic D: Preferences and defaults

Appendix A: ACE exam objectives map
Topic A: Comprehensive exam objectives