Adobe InDesign: How to Create Interactive Layouts
Adobe InDesign: How to Create Interactive Layouts
What you’ll learn
Skills you’ll gain
Get ready to stun readers as they take a front row seat to your completely interactive Adobe InDesign layouts! In this course, taught by Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel, you will build upon your existing InDesign skills by learning how to create layouts that include slide shows, navigation, animation, sound, movies, and more. Jeff will lead you through all the basic interactive features of InDesign as well as advanced features to get you up and designing striking, interactive layouts. Throughout this course, Jeff shares timesaving tips, tricks, and secrets used by the experts to take your interactivity to the next level.
Syllabus
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Button slide show In this lesson, you will make your slide show more interactive by creating buttons to control navigation through the slides. 3m
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Creating hyperlinks Navigation is one of the most important parts of any interactive layout. 3m
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Unexpected hyperlinks Imagine a hyperlink that isn't the standard blue underlined text. You will convert existing objects in a layout into hyperlinks for navigation 3m
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Multi-state magic Making an object with multiple looks can be one of the essential problem-solvers in an interactive layout. 2m
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Multi-state navigation Working with forward and back buttons to navigate through all states takes a multi-state object to the next level. 3m
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Single-state buttons Making an object appear or disappear at the click of a button is a big part of what makes interactive fun. 4m
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Making objects appear The ability to make objects fade in can be a very powerful tool on any interactive page. 3m
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Making objects disappear Getting control of which objects are seen, and at a certain point, not seen can lead to some powerful effects. 3m
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Moving objects Making objects move is an essential part of InDesign's animation features. 4m
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Sleight-of-hand There's a whole area of InDesign animation that is literally a magic trick. 4m
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Animation fun Scaling and rotation objects or adding small repeated motions can add fun to your interactivity. 3m
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Timing is everything On a page with multiple animations, the ability to determine what happens first and for how long, is essential with complex interactivity. 4m
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Doing the impossible Uncover a little-know trick to animate an object two or more times. You're about to easily create impossible animation. 5m
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Adding sound Adding sound to an interactive layouts brings another dimension of fun to your project. 4m
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Incorporate movies If you need to add a product demonstration or a corporate message to a layout, simply place a movie into your layout. 3m
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Magical buttons We discussed a lot of uses of buttons already, but you're about to discover even more and make buttons that control other buttons. 4m
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Export options In this lesson, we will explore the advantages and disadvantages of exporting your interactive project using Adobe Publish Online, Interactive EPUBs and HTML5 with the third party plugin called in5. 4m
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A final word Get ready to put the power of InDesign's interactive layouts to work for you. 1m
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Awarded upon successful completion of the course.
Instructor
Jeff Witchel
Jeff Witchel is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Creative Cloud Design & Layout Solutions (Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop). Jeff is also Adobe’s Co-Representative to the InDesign User Group of New Jersey, an Adobe community professional, and an adjunct professor at Kean University at the Robert Busch School of Design. As an Adobe Certified Expert, Jeff has been a speaker at Adobe Groups across the United States and at creative conferences.
Jeff Witchel
Adobe Certified Instructor, Entrepreneur
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