Creative Suite Five Day Workshop

Delivery method
Classroom based, maximum 5 delegates

Course description
[b]Introduction[/b]
How page layout, image editing and drawing applications collaborate

[b]Design essentials[/b]
• Understanding contrast, alignment and proximity
• Combining colours

[b]Working with Adobe InDesign[/b]
• Creating a new document
• Creating and using frames
• Introducing layers

[b]Working with text[/b]
• Selecting and editing text
• Working with Styles
• Character and Paragraph Styles
• Editing and applying Styles

[b]Combining text and graphics[/b]
• Importing graphics from

[b]Illustrator or Photoshop[/b]
• Wrapping text around graphics
• Introducing snippets
• Editing copy
• Using Find/change

[b]Working with colour[/b]
• Spot and process colours
• Using stroke and fill options

[b]Laying out pages accurately[/b]
• Using rulers, grids and guides
• Using the Info panel
• Working effectively with layers

[b]Finessing text content[/b]
• Threading/unthreading frames
• Flowing text through frames
• Multi-column text frames
• Working with Master Pages
• Creating and editing Masters
• Auto-numbering pages

[b]Introducing transparency[/b]
• Transparency options
• Creating drop shadows

[b]Printing from Adobe InDesign[/b]
• Printing from Adobe InDesign
• Exporting as a pdf
• Performing a pre-flight check

Suitable for
An Adobe authorised course designed to teach the key applications that all print designers need to know - InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat.

Requirements
No Knowledge of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop or Acrobat is required.