Adobe InDesign Introduction

• 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

Course outline:

Day 1

Lesson 1 The InDesign Interface

• Creating, saving and navigating documents,
• Understanding the work area

Lesson 2 Importing Text

• How to import text and flow it through a document

Lesson 3 Styles

• Object, paragraph and character styles
• How they work and how to use them

Lesson 4 Transparency

• Learn how to colourise images and add transparency to
• imported graphics

Lesson 5 Transforming Objects

• Learn how to scale and transform objects in InDesign

Lesson 6 Setting up

• Understand how to set up your document with guides

Lesson 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 1 Graphics

• Using Photoshop and InDesign and Illustrator
• How to import graphics

Lesson 2 Master Pages

• Learn how to use master pages to speed up your workflow

Lesson 3 Table of Contents

• Create a TOC complete with hyperlinks

Lesson 4 Frames

• Learn about frames and how they work for images and text

Lesson 5 Colour

• How to use the swatches palette and how to apply colours to objects, learn about the stroke and fill of text

Lesson 6 Tables

• Creation of tables and how to format them and insert graphics and text

Lesson 7 PDF Exporting

• Export a PDF for the web or for print, complete with password protection for security, learn about preflighting

Lesson 8 Further techniques

• Keyboard shortcuts, file formats, Q and A