InDesign CS3 - CS4 - CS5 Introduction

By the end of the course, using practical hands-on tuition, you will have an understanding of the following features and techniques:

• The InDesign interface - Creating, saving and navigating documents, understand the work area.
• Importing text - How to import text and thread it through a document.
• Styles - Object, paragraph, table, cell and character styles, how they work and how to use them.
• Transparency - Learn how to colourise images and add transparency to imported graphics.
• Transforming Objects - Learn how to scale and transform object in InDesign.
• Setting up - Understand how to set up your document with guides.
• Typography - Learn how to work with type and add special features. How to use tracking and kerning, drop caps and pull quotes.
• Graphics - using Photoshop and InDesign and Illustrator and how to import graphics. Text wrap around graphics objects
• Master pages - Learn how to use master pages to speed up your workflow.
• Table of contents - Create a TOC, complete with hyperlinks.
• Frames - Learn about frames and how they work for images and text.
• Colour - How to use the swatches palette and how to apply colours to objects. Learn about the stroke and fill of text.
• Tables and Layers - Creation of tables and how to format them and insert graphics and text. using layers in documents
• Pdf Exporting - Export a PDF for the web or for print, complete with password protection for security. Learn about Preflighting.
• Further techniques - Keyboard shortcuts, file formats, Q and A.