InDesign Training: Essential Skills 3

Overview

Learn to plan, organize and design a variety of layouts, with respect to space, typography, and color in a creative and productive way.

This class is an in-depth integration of design principles and InDesign tools and workflows that is intended for experienced users. Learners will effectively use Swiss grids, standardized rules and ratios in conjunction with InDesign document guides, ruler guides and other tools to create layouts. Combine typography, color psychology and the use of space to communicate your message to the intended audience. In addition, this class will teach you how to create professional designs that are easier to manage, update and repurpose for other projects, including team projects.

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Outline

Review basic workflows and tools
Learn to plan and organize projects
Use space and layouts to communicate your design intentions
Become familiarized with different layouts that incorporate today’s design trends
Work with the Swiss grid and InDesign guides for organizing designs
Utilize different rules and ratios for creating layouts based on standards
Explore the use of typography for good design and reuse
Learn to design with color using psychology and useful tools
Leverage your Illustrator and Photoshop graphics for use in InDesign
Work with Adobe Stock and Creative Cloud Libraries
Create infographics and scalable, reusable icons
Create graphics, icons and other UI elements
Learn Tips and Tricks

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