InDesign CC Getting Started

Highlander Ltd

Short course

Online

£ 445 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Level

    Beginner

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Duration

    2 Days

  • Support service

    Yes

  • Personal tutor

    Yes

  • Virtual classes

    Yes

InDesign Getting Started is a 2 day live online course, taught by one of the UK's leading Adobe Certified Instructors with over 20 years experience using Adobe's design tools.

If you are starting from scratch and looking to get up to speed quickly, learning best practice throughout, this course is the answer.

About this course

Over two days you will learn how to work within InDesign, creating new documents from scratch, and making a wide range of edits and adjustments to your documents. You will learn to use not only basic features but more powerful functionality such as styles and parent pages, ensuring that by the end of the course you can hit the ground running on your next project.

This course is aimed at users who are new to InDesign or have relatively little experience with the product. Attendees often include people working in marketing and communications, graphic designers, PAs and publishing teams, as well as people creating content for other reasons.

You should be computer literate, and comfortable with standard operating system functionality such as copy and paste or opening new files. As the course is a live online course, you will need a machine with InDesign installed, and a stable internet connection. For the best experience we also recommend a headset and a second monitor, although the course can be completed without these.

This course is taught on the latest version of InDesign by Andy Gardiner, an Adobe Certified Instructor with over 20 years experience. In addition to holding Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor status on InDesign, Andy is also an Adobe Certified Design Master and a CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer.

Upon receiving your request you will be contact by one of our training advisors, who will be able to answer any questions you have. They will advise on upcoming course dates, as well as other options such as private team training if appropriate.

The course runs as a regular scheduled live online course, meaning you can attend from your own desk, whilst getting a fully interactive experience in which you can chat with the instructor. It can also be delivered as a private course for groups, either online or face to face.

Yes, we offer private courses either face to face or live online. These are popular for small teams of between 3 and 10 people.

Yes, you will receive a certificate of completion to confirm you have undertaken the course.

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Subjects

  • InDesign
  • Adobe
  • Desktop Publishing
  • Layout
  • Design

Teachers and trainers (1)

Andy Gardiner

Andy Gardiner

Adobe Certified Instructor and MD

Andy has run Highlander for over 25 years and is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Adobe Certified Design Master, CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer and In5 Certified Professional. He specialises in delivering courses at all levels on tools including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects. In recent years Andy has delivered courses for staff from organisations including Burberry, Manchester City FC, Joe Browns, Mishcon de Reya, Bank of England, Aviva, Lloyds Banking Group, LNER, Eversheds, Interflora and a range of NHS, Police and Government organisations.

Course programme

This course typically covers the following topics:
INTRODUCTION
  • What is Desktop Publishing
  • Why InDesign
  • What you will learn
INDESIGN INTERFACE
  • Overview of the interface
  • Creating customised Workspaces
  • Organising Panels
  • Customising Menus
  • Changing Default Settings
DOCUMENT CREATION
  • Creating a New Document
  • Bleed, Slug and Margins
  • Facing Pages
  • Columns and Gutter
FRAMES AND SHAPES
  • What are frames
  • Creating frames
  • Moving frames
  • Aligning frames
  • Sizing and positioning
  • Rounded corners
  • Anchoring frames
  • Rotating and skewing
  • Creating frames from text
WORKING WITH TEXT
  • Creating text frames
  • Using placeholder text
  • Inserting special characters
  • Glyphs
  • Threading text frames
  • Viewing threads
  • The Story Editor
  • Text frame options, inset spacing etc..
  • Hyphenation
  • Paragraph shading
  • Importing from Word
FORMATTING TEXT
  • Leading
  • Kerning & tracking
  • Drop caps
  • Baseline shift
  • Justification & Alignment
  • Uppercase, lowercase, sentence case & title case
  • Indents
  • Bullets
  • Formatting Bullets
WORKING WITH OBJECTS
  • Grouping and ungrouping
  • Change object shape
  • Rotating a spread
  • Arranging objects
  • Layers Panel
IMAGES
  • Different file formats
  • Placing images
  • Frame Fitting Options
  • Text wrap options
  • Resizing and positioning images
  • Select v direct select
  • Content Grabber (and how to turn it off)
  • Display performance
  • Clipping paths
LAYOUT
  • Creating layouts
  • Guides and smart guides
  • The gap tool
  • Using the page tool
  • Live distribute
  • Merging frames
  • Compound shapes
  • Gridify
  • Align Panel
PARENTS AND PAGES
  • Working with parents
  • Creating parents
  • Importing parents
  • Applying parents
  • Parent options
  • Page numbering
  • Numbering and sections
  • Parents based on Parents
COLOURS
  • Understanding Colours: CMYK, RGB, Pantone etc..
  • Creating colours
  • Saving colours as swatches
  • Sampling colours from images
  • Exporting and importing colours
  • Applying colours to strokes and fills
  • Adobe colour themes panel
  • Creating gradients
  • Saving gradients as swatches
  • Applying gradients to items
TABLES
  • Creating a new table
  • Convert text to table
  • Strokes and fills
  • Alternating row and column strokes
  • Adding rows and columns
  • Deleting rows and columns
  • Merge and unmerge
  • Placing images into tables
EFFECTS
  • Applied to what?
  • Drop & Inner Shadow
  • Inner & Outer Glow
  • Bevel and Emboss
  • Satin
  • Transparency
  • Feathering
  • Gradient Feather
BASIC STYLES
  • Character styles
  • Paragraph styles
  • Style priority
  • Creating styles
  • Applying and removing styles
  • Overrides
  • Redefining styles
  • Importing styles
  • Removing unused styles
  • Setting default styles
CC LIBRARIES
  • Creating a library
  • Adding content to library
  • Using content from a library
  • Collaborating
PREFLIGHTING
  • Why preflighting
  • Detecting errors
  • Identify & correct errors
  • Custom profiles
  • Import a preflight profile
OUTPUT
  • Packaging all files
  • PDF Presets (print ready, small size etc.)
  • Including printers marks / bleed
  • Compression
  • Export to interactive PDF
  • Page transitions (eg: fade, blind, etc.)
  • Publish Online
Highlander reserves the right to adjust the topics covered in order to ensure all delegates get the maximum benefit.

Additional information

The course is backed by extensive post course support including access to over 6.5 hours of HD video designed specifically for this course by the instructor.

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