Adobe InDesign from Beginner to Advanced

If you’re looking to achieve a professional look for your visual projects, Adobe InDesign is the program for you. Recognized as the market benchmark, this software allows you to organize, layout, and edit a variety of printed and interactive materials, giving them coherence and highlighting your visual communication.

In this 6-course Domestika Basics, designer and art director Leandro Rodrigues teaches you how to use InDesign to create a complete visual project from scratch in an agile, organized, and efficient way.

In the first course, learn how to install and configure the software, get familiar with the interface, see how to create and save your files, and discover the main commands and shortcuts you will be using.

Next, learn how to build your documents by establishing the layout and typography. Uncover the tricks for configuring formats, margins, columns, and spaces. See how to add text boxes and adjust formatting, character styles, and paragraph styles, as well as advanced features like the glyph panel, open type, baseline, justification, and hyphenation.

In the third course, dive into objects. Learn about the native and linked object types, their styles, and how to export them for printing or editing later.

Then, enter the world of large document layout. Leandro teaches you his techniques for dealing with large amounts of content and how to create master pages. Also, learn about numbering, bookmarks, master smart text flow, and making a book.

In the fifth course, learn various methods for improving agility and productivity in your projects. Use the program shortcuts and get to know tools like quick application, sequence styles, and perform automated actions with Locate and Replace.

To complete your course, Leandro gives you an overview of the interactive resources found in PDF and EPUB documents so you can export your final project and publish it online. Discover how to add object animations and page transitions, create presentations, insert multimedia files, and embed web content like maps and YouTube videos.

By the end of this Adobe InDesign Domestika Basics, you will know how to outline and organize interactive files like a pro.