# Adobe InDesign Bootcamp (Self-Paced with Mentoring) Canonical URL: ## Overview Learn Adobe InDesign in this course for high school students and build core skills for creating multi-page layouts with text and graphics. You'll learn how to style text, import images, manage colors, thread text frames, and organize pages to produce polished, professional-looking designs. Through hands-on projects, you'll practice using paragraph and character styles, master pages, baseline grids, tables, and libraries. You'll also learn how to package files for printing, export PDFs for web or print, and apply essential typesetting techniques used in professional layout design. AI also comes up as part of the broader conversation around design. Publishing and layout workflows are starting to incorporate AI tools that assist with everything from auto-formatting to content generation, and you'll leave with a sense of how those shifts connect to the InDesign skills you've built. ## What you'll learn - Design layouts incorporating text, color, and graphics - Import and format text and graphics for professional-quality designs - Apply and manage colors throughout your documents - Create short and long-form publications, including brochures, ads, magazines, and books - Prepare files for final output, including printing and PDF export - Create and edit paragraph and character styles for consistent text formatting - Use master pages to manage layouts across multi-page documents - Work with anchored objects, tables, libraries, find/change functions, and other advanced tools ## Curriculum ### Section 1 #### Business Card: Setting Up a File & Adding the Logo - Setting Default Preferences - Setting Up a File - Importing & Sizing a Vector Graphic (the Logo) #### Business Card: Adding Text - Creating Text Frames - Basic Text Styling - Loading Adobe Fonts #### Business Card: Colors - Removing the Default Color Swatches - Creating & Editing Color Swatches - Swapping Out Graphics #### Business Card: Adding a 2nd Page (the Back) with QR Code - Creating the Back of the Business Card (a Second Page) - Creating QR Codes - Navigating Documents (Zooming and Panning) - Copying Appearance With the Eyedropper Tool #### Business Card: OpenType Settings - Setting up a Document Bleed - Placing Images - Combining Text & Images - White Type on a Black Background ### Section 2 #### Brochure: Creating 2-Page Spreads & Cropping Photos - Setting Up Spreads (Facing Pages) - Importing Pixel-Based Photos - Cropping & Scaling Photos - Checking Image Resolution to Ensure Good Print Quality #### Brochure: Layers, Visual Effects, & Blending Modes - Creating & Locking Layers - Rotating Objects - Drop Shadows - Gradient Feather - Blending Modes #### Brochure: Fine-Tuning Type: Kerning/Tracking & More - Paragraph Spacing - Working in Picas (Instead of Inches) - Metrics vs. Optical Kerning - Kerning vs. Tracking - Variable Fonts #### Brochure: Working with Tabbed Text - Setting Tab Marker Positions - Adding & Styling Leader Characters #### Preparing for Professional Printing: PDFs & Packaging Files - Exporting PDFs for printing or emailing to clients - Packaging InDesign Files ### Section 3 #### Restaurant Menu: Paragraph Styles - Creating & Editing Paragraph Styles - Using the Eyedropper to Apply Paragraph Styles - Using Find/Change to Apply Paragraph Styles - Paragraph Rules #### Restaurant Menu: Character Styles & Nested Styles - Creating & Editing Character Styles - Using the Eyedropper to Apply Character Styles - Using Nested Styles to Automatically Apply Character Styles - Disabling Hyphenation #### Restaurant Menu: Keep With Next & Spanning Columns - Keep with Next Paragraph - Spanning Columns ### Section 4 #### Restaurant Menu: Bulleted Lists - Styling Bulleted Lists - Forced Line Breaks #### Magazine: Laying Out a Page & Threading Text Frames - Creating a Magazine Page Layout with Text & Images - Threading Text Frames #### Magazine: Paragraph Styles & Baseline Grid - Creating Paragraph Styles - Setting Up the Baseline Grid - Making Paragraph Styles Use the Baseline Grid #### Magazine: Color Themes & Custom Shapes - Removing the Default Color Swatches - Using the Color Theme Tool to Create Swatches - Using the Direction Selection Tool to Alter a Shape - Using Pathfinder to Create a Custom Shaped Photo Frame ### Section 5 #### Magazine: Text Wrap - Using Text Wrap - Wrap Around Object Shape vs Jump Object - Creating a Circle Photo with Text Wrap - Using an Invisible Shape to Wrap Text #### Magazine: Parent Pages - Adding Page Numbers - Creating a Layer for Parent Page Content - Creating More Parent Pages #### Magazine: Adding Pages & Controlling Page Order - Adding a New Page at a Specific Location - Allow Document Pages to Shuffle , - Adding a Spread Between Other Pages - Applying a Parent Page to Multiple Pages at Once #### Book: File Setup & Parent Pages - Setting Up the Document - Importing the Text - Setting Up the Parent Page - Adding Page Numbers - Adding a Chapter Title to All Left Pages ### Section 6 #### Book: Paragraph & Character Styles - Creating Paragraph Styles - Apply Styles Quickly Using Keystrokes & Find/Change - Drop Caps #### Book: Hyphenation & Keep Options - Turning Off Hyphenation - Setting Custom Hyphenation & Keep Options - Using Discretionary Hyphens to Control or Prevent Hyphenation #### Book: Setting Up & Using a Baseline Grid - Baseline Grid Settings & Making Paragraph Styles Use It #### Book: Running Heads & Chapter Opener Pages - Setting Up & Inserting a Running Header Text Variable - Setting Roman Numeral Page Numbers for Frontmatter - Adding a Section Start to Set the True Page 1 - Applying a Different Parent Page for Chapter Opener Pages - Applying a [None] Parent Page ## Pricing **Tuition:** $975