Adobe InDesign Introduction

Price:

£440
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Course duration:

2 days

Course dates:

Monday 15th November 2010

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Produce eye-catching page designs suitable for both print and the web

Work seamlessly with integration of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Use comprehensive creative tools refined by publishing professionals

This course introduces users to the page layout and design application of InDesign. Users will be able to use InDesign to produce publishing material such as basic flyers and newsletters. The course starts from the program basics and quickly builds knowledge and confidence in how to navigate the application and use the tools to create layouts from single pages to complex multi-page documents. Artwork is created from scratch and delegates will investigate ways to create creative layouts and production techniques.

Recommended for:

Anyone that needs to know how to use Adobe InDesign to create excellent page layouts for your organisations brochure, newsletter, business card or poster. No previous knowledge of Adobe InDesign is required but some knowledge of Photoshop will be useful although not essential

You will learn how to:

Create page layouts and multi-page documents

Use Photoshop and InDesign together

Export documents ready for print including PDF format and secured using password protection

Further techniques for setting up documents, special features including work with typography

Other people who have done this course say:

"Great Venue, Great Course" Laura

Course outline:

Day 1
Lesson		Description
1	The InDesign Interface	Creating, saving and navigating documents Understanding the work area
2	Importing Text	How to import text and flow it through a document
3	Styles	Object, paragraph and character styles How they work and how to use them
4	Transparency	Learn how to colourise images and add transparency to imported graphics
5	Transforming Objects	Learn how to scale and transform objects in InDesign
6	Setting up	Understand how to set up your document with guides
7	Typography	Learn how to work with type and add special features How to use tracking and kerning, drop caps and pull quotes

Day 2
Lesson		Description
1	Graphics	Using Photoshop and InDesign and Illustrator How to import graphics
2	Master Pages	Learn how to use master pages to speed up your workflow
3	Table of Contents	Create a TOC complete with hyperlinks
4	Frames	Learn about frames and how they work for images and text
5	Colour	How to use the swatches palette and how to apply colours to objects, learn about the stroke and fill of text
6	Tables	Creation of tables and how to format them and insert graphics and text
7	PDF Exporting	Export a PDF for the web or for print, complete with password protection for security, learn about preflighting
8	Further techniques	Keyboard shortcuts, file formats, Q and A

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