Adobe InDesign - Introduction

Training

In London

£ 435 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Training

  • Level

    Beginner

  • Location

    London

  • Class hours

    7h

  • Duration

    2 Days

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.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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127-129 Great Suffolk Street, SE1 1PP

Start date

On request

About this course

Anyone who is looking to enter publishing, or looking to further their career progression. The focus is on developing skills by learning in a practical environment.

No prior experience required.

This is an industry led, practical, CPD approved certificated course that demonstrates that the delegate has invested in their learning and development, in key digital publishing skills.

You will be contacted by a course advisor who will send you general information on the course and start dates and how to book your place. You will be encouraged to contact us back, in order that we can answer specific questions and provide you with the details you are looking for.

Our entry requirements reflect the needs of the industry. The publishing industry is generally graduate entry, although there are exceptions and people with relevant experience within a commercial environment are welcome. We will accept non-graduates with a minimum of two years commercial experience. If in any doubt, please do not hesitate to contact us by telephone or email. Graduates will have greater opportunities than non-graduates to secure a position, but experience and the training provided by LSP are also important in helping with employment prospects. For those who are non-graduates the courses can consolidate the training with commercial experience to enable a delegate to become more marketable.

Please contact the Course Co-ordinator if you have any questions relating to entry.

The London School of Publishing offers some of the most up-to-date courses of their kind in the UK. Course contents are up-dated regularly and content reflects changes and developments occurring within the industry.

None of our courses are run as distance learning. We firmly believe that course delegates training in areas of publishing learn new skills when being trained face-to-face with an expert tutor.

The key advantages of following the LSP courses include:

LSP has been established since 1984 and we continue to be one of the most recognised and well-respected training organisations in the country. Our courses provide comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the current publishing processes.
We work closely with our tutors to ensure that key developments are implemented within the training.
Detailed notes on each of the sessions are provided – with plenty of exercises given and homework set regularly.
Course tutors are all working within their respective fields with many years of working and teaching experience.
The courses have intellectual rigour and help course delegates develop specific publishing skills.
The courses teach in a practical way – ensuring that course delegates are prepared for the demands of the industry and are ready to be employed within their respective fields.

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Subjects

  • Options
  • Layout
  • Graphics
  • Printing
  • Image
  • Production
  • Adobe
  • InDesign
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe InDesign

Teachers and trainers (1)

Julian  Woodfield

Julian Woodfield

Course Leader

Julian Woodfield worked as a professional animator and graphic designer from 1984 to 1990, working on a wide range of television commercials, TV title sequences and special effects for feature films. In 1989 he was a member of the team that produced the BAFTA award winning Wired title sequence for Channel 4. In 1994 Julian co-founded Media Training which is now an Adobe, Quark and Apple authorised training centre and is acknowledged as a leading training provider in this field in the UK.

Course programme

Day One

INTRODUCTION

THE INDESIGN INTERFACE

  • Creating a new document
  • Creating and using frames
  • The N-up View
  • InDesign Preferences
  • Using shortcuts
  • Setting tool defaults

WORKING WITH TEXT

  • Placing text
  • Selecting and editing text
  • Handling missing fonts
  • Using the Content Indicator
  • The Font Favourite feature

FORMATTING COPY

  • Character-level formatting
  • Paragraph-level formatting
  • Using the Eyedropper tool

WORKING WITH STYLES

  • Character and paragraph styles
  • Creating styles
  • Editing and applying styles
  • Creating and playing objects styles
  • Loading attributes from other documents

WORKING WITH GRAPHICS

  • Different file formats
  • Placing multiple graphics
  • Wrapping text around images
  • Understanding fitting options
  • Sizing images with Auto-fit
  • Different file formats
  • Smart guides and smart spacing
  • The Effect panel
  • Creating gradients
  • Setting up an Object library

LAYOUT CONTROLS

  • Understanding the notion of Gridify
  • Working with the Gap tool
  • Using the Align panel
  • Selecting, arranging and grouping objects

UNDERSTANDING COLOUR

  • Spot and process colours
  • Using stroke and fill options
  • Creating tints
  • Sampling colours from images

LAYING OUT PAGES ACCURATELY

  • Using rulers, grids and guides
  • Working with layers

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

*This course runs very regularly. For dates please call 020 7221 3399

Adobe InDesign - Introduction

£ 435 + VAT