Adobe Indesign Introduction - course outline

This one day course can be booked according to our course schedule, or alternatively you can book a trainer to visit you. Contact us for more details!

Adobe inDesign CS

Beginners Level

When it comes to designing professional-quality literature, there?s no contender. As part of the Creative Suite, inDesign is fully integrative with Photoshop and Illustrator and immensely user-friendly. Its superior colour, text and image handling capabilities make it increasingly the professional designer?s choice.

Useful to you if:

• you need to create or edit literature such as books, magazines, posters, newsletters, brochures.

Before the course, you:

• should be able to navigate your desktop/system and be familiar with basic universal functions such as 'Save', 'Quit' etc.;
• need no prior experience of inDesign.

At the end of the day's course you will:

• have produced a poster, a business card, and a section of a magazine;
• be comfortable with print terms and principles;
• know some basic keyboard shortcuts to improve workflow.

Course contents (may vary slightly):

Basics

• InDesign in context
• General preferences
• Bitmap vs vector, common file formats
• Interpolation, resolution and quality issues
• Import percentages (maximum)
• Viewing/opening documents, browsing
• Title bar info, new document specifications
• Colour models

Tools and Palettes

• Tool bar, variations
• Most commonly used palettes
• Control palette
• Properties
• Document navigation

Page usage

• Pages
• Viewing options
• Rulers
• Guides
• Margins
• Bleeds and slugs
• Creating and deleting pages
• Creating new documents
• Master pages
• Automatic page numbers

Page contents

• Item and page co-ordinates
• Creating frames, objects, paths and lines
• Frames: objects, text, pictures
• Object grouping, scaling, modifications
• Stacking order
• Duplicating and re-using objects
• Step and repeat
• Alignment

Attributes

• Defining colours
• Applying colours
• Eyedropper styles ? click and drop
• Strokes
• Colour modes and extra resources
• Process v spot colours

Text

• Placing
• Text frame options, text wrap
• Threading text frames
• Find/change
• Invisibles
• Character formatting
• Paragraph formatting
• Introducing style sheets
• Tabs

Imagery

• Various graphics formats, and integration issues
• Links palette
• Display performance

Workflow

• Layers
• Printing and output
• Legacy saving
• Exporting to PDF
• InBooklet
• Keyboard shortcuts

Project achievements:

• House ad/poster
• Section of a magazine
• Business card

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