# Adobe InDesign Bootcamp

Canonical URL: <https://training-nyc.com/courses/indesign-bootcamp>

## Overview

This bootcamp focuses on the most essential and in-demand InDesign skills on the market.

By the end of the course, students feel confident using tables and columns effectively for publication in books, news, magazines, and more.

Likewise, students learn to create advanced text styles, use XML with InDesign, manage color profiles, and work with 4-color printing.

This class is intended for those who want to take their InDesign knowledge to the next level. Whether you're interviewing for positions that require an advanced level of InDesign, or you're working in the print, advertising, or graphic design industries, our comprehensive curriculum will help you reach your goals.

## What you'll learn

- Create layouts with text, color, and graphics
- Create a 2-page magazine spread
- Style text, use color swatches, and format paragraphs
- Professional typesetting techniques
- Book layout creation

## 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

## Schedule
- Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 1, 2026 — NYC
- Jul 21, 2026 – Aug 6, 2026 — NYC
- Jul 27, 2026 – Jul 29, 2026 — NYC
- Sep 8, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026 — NYC
- Sep 9, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026 — NYC
- Sep 27, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026 — NYC
- Oct 19, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 — NYC

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $975

Payment options: GI Bill accepted.