Show your completed project to an evaluator and demonstrate your ability to use all of the following tools.
Requirement Submission
Submit the date and name of the person who conducted your evaluation. View the list of evaluators here:
https://wiki.learnsoftware.org/current-sages/
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 recommended 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