Introduction to Adobe InDesign

Introduction to Adobe InDesign

• Practical projects are used to realistically demonstrate various production scenarios. Delegates will learn how to plan, create and edit a range of documents, giving them the confidence to prepare documents for printing.

Course Material
Course material is provided on an USB memory drive which is compatible with both Apple OSX 10.3 and above and Microsoft® Windows XP® and Windows Vista®.
- Instructional videos,
- Course notes,
- Sample files,
- Completed files,
- A certificate of completion.

Course Duration
Courses start at 9:30 and run until 16:30 with an hour for lunch. Refreshments are provide before thestart of the course plus mid morning and mid afternoon.

Follow on courses
The natural progression once this course has been completed is the Advanced InDesign course.

Course Syllabus :

Basic Concepts

• The wokspace
• Page layout area\
• Toolbox
• Palettes
• The control palette
• working with palettes
• Bridge

Frames

• Creating graphic frames
• Importing graphics
• Graphic file formats
• Resizing and modifying graphics
• Fitting content to frames
• Object styles
• Placing multiple content
• Duplicating frames and content

Page layout

• Creating documents
• Save document presets
• The page palette
• Importing pages
• Master pages
• Rules and guides
• Frame tools

Working with Colour

• Colour modes
• Swatches, spot and process colours
• Creating tints
• Colour libraries
• Saving and loading swatches
• Gradients

Creating Tables

• Importing and formatting
• Alternate colouring of rows
• Graphics

Transparency and Effects

• Transparency palette
• Creating effects- Drop shadows

Working with graphics

• Linking to imported files
• Updating graphics
• Graphic performance settings
• Libraries
• Preflight
• PDF output
• Packaging

Typography

• Importing text
• Character and paragraph styles
• Tracking and kerning
• Threading text
• Tabulations
• Special characters
• Type on a path
• Spell checking and the dictionary