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| Duration: | Two Days | |||
| Public Course: | £435 + VAT | |||
| Individual tuition: | £840 + VAT | |||
| Course Times: | 10am - 4.30pm | |||
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InDesign Introduction
Adobe InDesign combines immensely powerful typographic and page layout controls with a wide range of creative options. Our two day Adobe authorised introductory course is designed to enable you to make the most of the power of InDesign and will highlight how to use InDesign to create richer, more complex documents.
Day one of the course concentrates on building an InDesign document from scratch using the versatile layout and text handling features. Day two will explore more advanced layout and typographical controls, clipping paths, working with layers, multi-page documents and creating PDF files.
Who should attend
This is an introductory course for new users of InDesign.
Key Topics
Creating a document
Creating and formatting text
Working with stylesheets
Importing graphics
Understanding colour
Creating multiple page documents
Working with Master Pages
Printing your document
Course Content
| The InDesign interface • Creating a new document • Creating and using frames • Selecting frames and content • Introducing layers Working with text • Placing text • Selecting and editing text • Handling missing fonts • Working with glyphs • Drag and drop text Formatting characters • Character-level formatting • Choosing a composer • Hyphenation and justification • Using the Eyedropper tool • Creating drop caps Working with styles • Character and paragraph styles • Creating styles • Editing and applying styles • Introducing nested styles • Removing style formatting • Organising styles using Style Groups Importing graphics • Different file formats • Placing graphics • Placing multiple graphics • Manipulating graphics • Understanding fitting options • PSD and PDF layer options Combining text and graphics • Wrapping text around graphics • Introducing snippets Understanding colour • Spot and process colours • Loading swatches • Working with swatches • Using stroke and fill options • Creating tints • Sampling colours from images Laying out pages accurately • Using rulers, grids and guides • Using the Info panel • Creating grids • Working with layers Multi-page documents • Using the Pages panel • Targeting pages and spreads Editing copy • Using the Story Editor • Using Find/Change • Using the Spell Checker Introducing transparency • Creating drop shadows • Feathering edges • The Flattener Preview panels Transforming objects • Scaling objects vs contents • Transforming objects • Grouping and ungrouping Finessing text content • Threading/unthreading frames • Flowing text through frames • Multi-column text frames • Setting text frame options • Document baseline grids • Redefining styles • Hanging punctuation • Using special characters • Viewing composition options Working with Master Pages • Master Page guidelines • Creating and editing Masters • Applying Master Pages • Auto-numbering pages • Basing one Master on another • Overriding Master objects • Reapplying Master objects Combining text and graphics • Image import options • Images with clipping paths • Creating a new clipping path • Removing image backgrounds • Editing clipping paths • Tolerance and threshold options • Advanced text wrap options Exporting and printing • Exporting as a PDF • Performing a pre-flight check • Packaging files for handoff Questions and answers |