Fundamentals of Adobe InDesign CS4
Course
Inhouse
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Inhouse
This course is designed for anyone who needs to understand the fundamental features and uses of InDesign CS4 and the best way to use these to create brochures, newsletters, flyers and other page designs.
About this course
Basic working knowledge of Windows or Macintosh operating systems.
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Course programme
This course is designed for anyone who needs to understand the fundamental features and uses of InDesign CS4 and the best way to use these to create brochures, newsletters, flyers and other page designs.
Pre-requisites:
Basic working knowledge of Windows or Macintosh operating systems.
Course Includes:
A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.
Course Outline
Navigation
· Quick methods to change view sizes and move between pages
Interface
· Quick methods to use panels
· Organising panels
· Creating workspaces
Objects
· Creating objects
· Transforming objects
· Corner Effects
· Duplicating and aligning objects
· Using Smart Guides to align, rotate and resize objects
Object Styles
· Creating and editing basic object styles
· Using Library files
Strokes
· Use the Strokes Panel
Text
· Selecting text
· Formatting text
· Kerning/Tracking controls
· Paragraph formatting
· Dealing with overflow matter
· Linking frames and text flow options
· Spell Checking
· Bullets and Numbering
· Paragraph Rules
· Text Frame Options
· Smart Text Reflow
Style Sheets
· Creating/using Paragraph style sheets
· Creating/ using Character style sheets
· Editing/overriding style sheets
Images
· Placing images
· Options for fitting images in frames
· Scaling images
· Placing multiple images
· Checking image resolutions, colour space and image links
· Image cut-outs
Text Wrap
· Text wrap options
· Allowing text to ignore Text Wrap
Colour
· Creating CMYK and Spot colours
· Applying colours to fills and strokes
· Creating and using Gradient swatches
Creating Documents
· Working with Master Pages
· Page numbering options
· Creating and using Layers
· Creating and using Baseline Grids
· Adding and deleting pages
Working with Tables
· Creating tables from delimited files, Microsoft Word tables, or Excel spreadsheets
· Basic Table and cell formatting options
Working with transparency
· The Effects panel
· Applying effects
· Checking for rasterised text under transparency
Preparing documents for Press
· Printing options
· Live Preflight - Using continuous preflighting to be alerted to potential production problems while designing
· Packaging files for printing
· Creating PDFs
Fundamentals of Adobe InDesign CS4