Create a project demonstrating your ability to use all of the tools listed below or other advanced tools. Provide a brief explanation of your project and post a link to the file.
Learn 15 new tools or panels.
The list below is not comprehensive. Learn whichever tools interest you most.
Recommended tools:
- Story editor
- Type on a path
- Using sections in InDesign
- Page tool
- Creating and formatting tables
- Adjusting rows and columns
- Formatting cells
- Placing graphics in cells
- Importing from Excel
Other optional tools:- Placeholder text
- Setting hyphenation rules, other rules for text editing
- Character styles
- Making interactive documents like clickable PDFs
- Automating bullets and numbers
- Gap tool
- Scissors tool
- Page tool
- Footnotes
- Content collector/placer tool (I’m not sure what this is good for, but if you learn it and find a good reason to use it, let me know!)
- Pen tool
- Pencil tool
- Free-transform tool (and the tools underneath it)
- Shear tool
- Gradient swatch tool
- Gradient feather tool
- Measure tool
- “Transform again” options
Be able to explain the following:
- What Pantone colors are and why they are helpful
- What the difference is between CMYK and RGB and when/why to use each
- What InDesign does better than either Photoshop, Illustrator, Word, or Powerpoint, and what types of things InDesign is not very good at
Adobe InDesign - 3/3
