NSU Oceanographic Campus Library Software Resources: Adobe InDesign

In this series, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción, co-hosts of the web's top resource for InDesign tips and tricks, InDesignSecrets.com, share some hidden and sometimes surprising workflow tips that will make working in InDesign more efficient and more fun. The course covers built-in timesaving features such as Quick Apply and auto-expanding text, but also little-known tricks, such as using the eyedropper to copy and paste character and paragraph text attributes and making accurate selections by selecting through or even into objects.

InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. InDesign 2018 Essential Training presents the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application so fun and easy to use—and provides a foundation to build more advanced skills and workflows. InDesign insider David Blatner shows how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents, create flexible master pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, create interactive PDFs, and much more. He also provides a quick-start guide that teaches InDesign basics in just 30 minutes. Get a quick refresher, watch the tutorials all the way through, or focus on just the areas that interest you. Whatever your InDesign training needs, this course has you covered.

Creating a successful newsletter means spending less time on repetitive tasks and more time creating your design. In this project-based course, Nigel French shares effective design and production techniques by taking you from start to finish through the process of designing a newsletter. He uses Adobe InDesign—with some help from Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop—to craft an eye-catching and impactful design. Nigel covers how to set up a document, work with text, and choose and manipulate images. Plus, he shows how to create both a print-ready PDF and a screen PDF of your finished newsletter.

Explore the ins and outs of styles, a time-saving set of features that allows designers to maximize efficiency in InDesign. This course covers text styles, table and cell styles, object styles, and other features in InDesign that are improved by the use of styles. Nigel French explores working with character and paragraph styles, and advanced text formatting with nested styles. He also explains how to create multilevel lists, generate a table of contents, and map Word styles to InDesign styles. Plus, he shares how to apply styles with Find/Change and apply conditions.

Whether the recipient of your PDF file decides to print it or keep it digital, you can get more value out of your brochure by designing it with interactivity. Digital publications can behave similar to a webpage, allowing readers to quickly jump to another section, visit a related website, start an email, and even play a video right in the document. Join Mike Rankin as he shows you how to add interactive elements to your materials.