Adobe Photoshop
INTRODUCTION
Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, and books. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Graphic designers and production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media. It also supports export to EPUB and SWF formats to create e-books and digital publications, including digital magazines, and content suitable for consumption on tablet computers. In addition, InDesign supports XML, style sheets, and other coding markup, making it suitable for exporting tagged text content for use in other digital and online formats.
Newer versions of InDesign can as a rule open files created by older versions, but the reverse is not true. Current versions can export the InDesign file as an IDML file (InDesign Markup Language), which can be opened by InDesign versions from CS4 upwards; older versions from CS4 down can export to an INX file (InDesign Interchange format).
To learn the software this semester you will view and use tutorials from Lynda.com (available free through the university) interspersed with some of my tutorials. Lynda.com is an online learning platform that helps anyone learn software, technology and creative skills. You have access to the Lynda.com video library of courses taught by recognized industry experts.
You can go as fast as you desire. Some of the videos are short, others may take hours to complete. Schedule your time appropriately to finish on time. If you take your time and follow the instructions fully, you will find that each lesson is very straightforward and easy to complete by the deadline.
Near the bottom of this lesson there is a link to the current online manual for InDesign and an embedded PDF manual with in-depth instructions on everything the software can do. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at any time.
PRESENTATION
ESSENTIAL TRAINING – INDESIGN
View and complete the following Adobe InDesign course on Lynda.com as soon as possible.
Make sure you download the exercise files for this series of lessons. The resulting folder, once unzipped, will contain all the exercise files for InDesign CC Essential Training that you will use for all the lessons. Each InDesign lesson has a corresponding exercise file in the downloaded folders that you will complete for that particular lesson.
Please watch every lesson, try not to skip around or you may get lost. Feel free to stop, back-up, do whatever you need to understand what each tool does. The entire set of lessons is 5 hours and 23 minutes. Don’t try and do them all in one sitting, break them up into bite size chunks of time. If you have any questions, just let me know.
View the InDesign CC 2019 Course on Lynda.com
ESSENTIAL TRAINING – COLOR
View and complete the following Adobe InDesign course on Lynda.com as soon as possible.
Make sure you download the exercise files for this series of lessons. The resulting folder, once unzipped, will contain all the exercise files for these lessons. Each InDesign lesson has a corresponding exercise file in the downloaded folders that you will complete with that particular lesson. You can find the download file at the top of the Lynda.com website for this series of lessons.
View the InDesign Color Course on Lynda.com
ADOBE INDESIGN CC REFERENCES
I have included a link to the current version of the Adobe InDesign user guide and a searchable PDF document for Adobe InDesign CC. The index is clickable and will take you to whichever help section you need.
View the InDesign User Guide
