Adobe InDesign
Next Online Course Starts: Monday February 20, 2023
Duration: 2 Day
Schedule: 10.00am - 4.30pm (1 hour lunch break)
Next In-Person Course Starts: Monday February 6, 2023
Duration: 2 Day
Schedule: 10.00am - 4.30pm (1 hour lunch break)
*This course runs very regularly. For dates please call 020 7221 3399
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Adobe InDesign CC allows you to deliver beautiful layouts and highly sophisticated documents for print quickly and easily. This two day Adobe authorised introductory course is designed to give you a comprehensive working knowledge of Adobe InDesign.
Day one of the course concentrates on building a document layout from scratch. Day two will explore more advanced layout and typographical controls, clipping paths, working with layers, creating multipage documents and using Live PreFlight for trouble-free production and printing. This course will give you an excellent grounding in Adobe InDesign.
This is an introductory course for those new to page layout software and InDesign. If you are an QuarkXPress user migrating to Adobe InDesign, there is a separate two day Adobe InDesign Migration course. You need no previous experience to attend this course.
Course Content
Day One
INTRODUCTION
- Changing the look and feel of InDesign — workspaces and interface options
- Introducing InDesign preferences
- Understanding application and document-wide preferences
- Using essential shortcuts
CREATING A NEW DOCUMENT
- Navigating the New Document dialogue box
- Choosing a document destination—Print, Web or Mobile
- Saving and accessing presets
- Using Adobe-provided templates
- Creating and using frames
- Placing text
- Selecting and editing text
- Placing graphics and images
- Using the Content Indicator
- Saving an InDesign document
MANAGING FONTS
- Handling missing fonts
- Using the Font Favourites feature
- Filtering Fonts by Class
- Choosing Similar Fonts
FORMATTING COPY
- Character-level formatting
- Paragraph-level formatting
- Using the Eyedropper tool
WORKING WITH STYLES
- Introducing Object styles
- Introducing Character and Paragraph styles
- Creating and applying styles
- Editing styles
- Loading attributes from other documents
- Highlighting and removing style overrides
WORKING WITH GRAPHICS
- An overview of different file formats
- Introduction to image resolution
- Placing multiple graphics and images
- Understanding the Links panel
- Using the Info panel
- Linking versus embedding assets
- Handling missing and modified assets
- An introduction to the Auto-fit functions
UNDERSTANDING COLOUR
- Using stroke and fill options
- Creating colour swatches
- Creating and applying tints
- Sampling colours from images
Q&A
Day Two
INTRODUCTION
MULTI-PAGE DOCUMENTS
- Using the Pages panel
- Targeting pages and spreads
EDITING COPY
- Using the Story Editor
- Using Find/Change
- Using the Spell Checker
WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY
- Creating drop shadows
- The Flattener Preview palette
- A look at Blending models
TRANSFORMING OBJECTS
- Scaling objects vs contents
- Transforming objects
- Grouping and ungrouping
FINESSING TEXT CONTENT
- Threading and unthreading frames
- The Auto-Fit text function
- Flowing text through frames
- Text frame options
- Document baseline grids
- Multi-column text frames
- Allowing text to flow across columns
WORKING WITH MASTER PAGES
- Creating and editing masters
- Applying master pages
- Auto-numbering pages
- Adjusting margins and columns
- Numbering and section options
COMBINING TEXT AND GRAPHICS
- Image import options
- Images with clipping paths
- Creating a new clipping path
- Removing image backgrounds
- Tolerance and threshold options
EXPORTING AND PRINTING
- Exporting as a PDF
- Using Live PreFlight
- Anticipating potential problems
- Packaging files for handoff
Q & A
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