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Adobe InDesign: Professional Layout and Publication Design

This course takes you from competent to confident in Adobe InDesign, building the systems and workflows professionals use to produce brochures, magazines, and long-form publications. You will learn how to build reusable style frameworks, control typography at a professional level, manage color for print and digital, and prepare press-ready files.

Designers, marketers, and creative professionals who already know their way around InDesign but want to work faster, produce more consistent layouts, and deliver print-ready files with confidence.

Course content

Master Pages That Actually Work45m
Column Grids and Baseline Grids40m
Sections, Numbering, and Long-Document Navigation38m
Building a Paragraph Style System from Scratch50m
Character Styles, Nested Styles, and GREP Styles48m
Object Styles and Repeatable Layout Elements42m
Advanced Typography: Optical Alignment and Hanging Punctuation45m
OpenType Features and Typographic Refinement46m
Justification, Hyphenation, and the Paragraph Composer43m

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