Adobe Certified Professional - InDesign Cert Prep
6h 48mBeginner2026-04-30
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Course details
Elevate your expertise and become an Adobe Certified Professional in Print and Digital Media Publication Using Adobe InDesign. Discover methods for efficiently setting up interfaces, ingesting assets, organizing document structures, creating and modifying elements, and enhancing the visual appearance of your projects. Explore the process of publishing documents in various formats, ensuring robust and flexible outputs, to take your design skill set to the next level. This course targets individuals who have approximately 150 hours of hands-on design experience and are familiar with key Adobe product features and capabilities as well as relevant design career pathways. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with strategic insights to replace outdated practices with licensed, cutting-edge techniques.
Learning objectives
Apply critical concepts related to working with colleagues and clients as well as crucial legal, technical, and design-related knowledge.
Configure the interface setup and program settings that assist in an efficient and effective workflow, as well as ingest digital assets for a project.
Define and organize document structure, including layers, and manage document structure for efficient workflows.
Leverage core tools and built-in InDesign functionalities to create and modify the visual appearance of document elements.
Save, export, and publish entire documents in multiple formats, or as specific assets within a given project.
Learning objectives
Apply critical concepts related to working with colleagues and clients as well as crucial legal, technical, and design-related knowledge.
Configure the interface setup and program settings that assist in an efficient and effective workflow, as well as ingest digital assets for a project.
Define and organize document structure, including layers, and manage document structure for efficient workflows.
Leverage core tools and built-in InDesign functionalities to create and modify the visual appearance of document elements.
Save, export, and publish entire documents in multiple formats, or as specific assets within a given project.
Concepts
Introduction
- Introduction
- What to expect during the exam
1
- Identify the purpose and audience
- Requirements based on video, print, and web
- Key components of project communication
- Basic project management concepts
- Copyright, permissions, licensing, and how to use specific content
- File formats
- Resolution
- Image size
- Aliasing
- Color spaces
- Key terms related to multipage layouts - Inks and bleed
- Key terms related to multipage layouts - Magazines, part 1
- Key terms related to multipage layouts - Magazines, part 2
- Key terms related to multipage layouts - Common typographic issues
- Design elements and principles
- Rule of thirds
- Typographic hierarchy, readability, and legibility
2
- Creating documents
- Interface
- Document setup and Start Page Numbering
- Rulers, guides, and grids
- Importing assets
- Key components of project communication
- Using styles
3
- Layers basics
- Managing layers
- Photoshop layers within InDesign
- Document setup and Start Page Numbering
- Adjusting page size
- Moving and shuffling pages
- Alternate layout
- Parent pages basics
- Overriding parent page items
- Multiple parent pages
4
- Frames
- Graphic frames
- Text frames
- Character formatting
- Paragraph formatting
- Text to outlines
- Text flow
- Add special characters or content
- Selections
- Reusing contents
- Transformations
- Spelling
- Appearance
- Story Editor
- Effects and object styles
- Tables, part 1
- Tables, part 2
5
- Preflight
- Saving
- Proof
- Package
Conclusion
- Applying your skills
- Project 1 - Pink moth
- Project 2 - Table
- Project 3 - Cranes
- Project 4 - Formatting text
- Project 5 - Kerning
- Project 6 - Text wrap
- Project 7 - Parent page
- Project 8 - Preflight
- Project 9 - Pathfinder
- Project 10 - Button
- Project 11 - Text threading
- Project 12 - Document setup
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