Adobe InDesign CS5: Advanced

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In London

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  • Location

    London

This introduction course covers some of the basic and 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.

In this course you will learn how to use paragraph and character styles that allow you to format pages of text 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.

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Subjects

  • InDesign
  • Adobe
  • Graphics

Course programme

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Introducing InDesign (3 topics)

  • The InDesign interface
  • Zooming
  • Navigating

Creating documents (4 topics)

  • Creating a new document
  • Guides and views
  • Working with frames
  • Working with pages

Working with type (8 topics)

  • The Type tool
  • Importing text
  • Linking and overset text
  • Formatting text
  • Further typographic controls
  • Working with tables
  • Other useful text commands
  • Special characters and symbols

Working with styles (6 topics)

  • An introduction to styles
  • The styles panels
  • Creating a style
  • Applying styles
  • Editing and managing styles
  • Style overrides

Working with graphics (5 topics)

  • Importing images
  • Display performance
  • Managing other Adobe files
  • Scaling and moving
  • Text wrapping

Working with multiple frames (3 topics)

  • Grouping, aligning and distributing
  • Managing objects
  • Layers

Working with colour (4 topics)

  • An introduction to colour
  • The Colour panel
  • Swatches
  • Tints and gradients

Preparing for output (5 topics)

  • Resolving errors
  • Printing a document
  • Exporting files for print
  • Packaging a document
  • Exporting in another format

Appendix 1 - Creative Cloud (3 topics)

  • Creative Cloud files
  • Creative Cloud Libraries
  • Adobe Capture CC

Appendix 2 - Adobe Bridge (3 topics)

  • Introduction
  • The Adobe Bridge interface
  • Locating files and assets

Adobe InDesign CS5: Advanced

Price on request