Overview
This course covers all of the more commonly used features of Adobe InDesign so that attendees can navigate the software and use InDesign's tools to create well-designed professional documents.
Whether you are using Adobe InDesign to create brochures, flyers, bid documents or any kind of printed or electronic document, this course will give you the skills you need.
You will learn how to set out documents, work with colour and incorporate text and images into documents. The course will cover the use of styles and master pages that allow you to format content uniformly, layout features that help you to build alternate size configurations of your document, and various panels that enable you to easily customise both text and graphics.
This course is suitable for anyone using InDesign CS5, CS6 or CC. If attending in a QA centre then the course will be delivered using InDesign CS6.
The course can be tailored to meet your specific requirements. Please contact your QA Account Manager to discuss.
Prerequisites
Delegates do not need any experience of InDesign or other desktop publishing applications, as anything that is required will be covered by the course.
However, all delegates should have basic computer skills and know how to launch applications, browse to locate files and have good keyboard and mouse skills, and a reasonable working knowledge of Microsoft Word would be beneficial.
For customers attending remotely via Virtual Classroom, an additional screen is required for this course to work through remote desktop labs and view training information.
Delegates will learn how to
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Create and set out a document in InDesign
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Work with InDesign’s different frame types
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Setup and apply master pages
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Work with colour and colour swatches
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Incorporate text, tables and graphics in documents
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Use styles to format text
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Work with compound objects in InDesign
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Prepare for and output documents using InDesign’s printing and preflight options
Outline
Module 1: Introducing Adobe InDesign
- The InDesign interface
- Zooming
- Navigating
Module 2: Creating documents
- Creating a new document
- Guides and views
- Working with frames
- Taking frames further
Module 3: Managing document content
- Grouping, aligning, and distributing
- Stacking, converting, and transforming
- Layers
Module 4: Working with document formats
- Managing pages
- Liquid Layouts
- Creating alternate layouts
- Working with island spreads
Module 5: Using master pages
- Working with master pages
- Working with page numbering
Module 6: Working with colour
- An introduction to colour
- The Colour panel
- Swatches
- Tints and gradients
Module 7: Working with type
- The Type Tool
- Importing text
- Linking and overset text
- Formatting text
- Further typographic controls
- Type on a Path Tool
- Other useful text commands
Module 8: Working with tables
- Creating tables
- Modifying tables
Module 9: Incorporating graphics
- Importing images
- Display performance
- Managing other Adobe files
- Scaling and moving
- Text wrapping
Module 10: Working with styles
- An introduction to styles
- The styles panels
- Creating a style
- Applying styles
- Editing and managing styles
- Style overrides
- Importing styles
Module 11: Preparing for output
- Resolving errors
- Printing a document
- Exporting files for print
- Packaging a document
- Exporting in another format
Appendices (covered if relevant and if time permits)
- Appendix 1: Working with paths
- Appendix 2: Compound objects
- Appendix 3: Creative Cloud
- Appendix 4: Adobe Bridge
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