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Layout & Print Design

Adobe InDesign: Professional Layout and Publication Design

Design publications that look like they came from a professional studio

12 lessons4 modules9h 3m durationintermediate level

Instructor: StretchLearn Faculty

About this course

Adobe InDesign is the industry standard for print and publication design, yet most users only scratch the surface of its real power. This course digs into the features that make production work fast, consistent, and client-ready: master pages, paragraph and character styles, baseline grids, advanced typography, swatch management, and complete prepress packaging. You will work through realistic projects — a tri-fold brochure, a magazine spread, a multi-chapter book — so every skill lands in a professional context. By the end you will be producing work that looks polished, holds up under print scrutiny, and can be handed off to any print vendor without rework.

Curriculum

Module 1: Document Architecture: Masters, Grids, and Structure3 lessons
Module 2: Style Systems: Paragraph, Character, and Object Styles3 lessons
  • Building a Paragraph Style System from Scratch🔒50m
  • Character Styles, Nested Styles, and GREP Styles🔒48m
  • Object Styles and Repeatable Layout Elements🔒42m
Module 3: Typography at a Professional Level3 lessons
  • Advanced Typography: Optical Alignment and Hanging Punctuation🔒45m
  • OpenType Features and Typographic Refinement🔒46m
  • Justification, Hyphenation, and the Paragraph Composer🔒43m
Module 4: Color, Output, and Prepress3 lessons
  • Color Swatches, Spot Colors, and Tints🔒44m
  • Preflight: Finding and Fixing Problems Before They Reach the Printer🔒50m
  • Packaging, PDF Export, and Handoff to Print🔒52m
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