Using Adobe InDesign

Short course

In Islington

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Location

    Islington

This course will cover the key functionality of Adobe InDesign CC, the industry-standard design and publishing program, as well as the techniques associated with laying out text and graphics for professional publication. Participants gain an appreciation of the fundamentals of typography, page layout and other page design principles; they are shown how to apply these principles using InDesign, thereby gaining hands on experience in the art of successful page layouts. Course Information Start DateStart TimeDurationCostCourse CodeApply Monday 3 October 2016 18:30 - 20:30 10 weekly classes £430.00 CS1508 Apply Now Monday 16 January 2017 18:30 - 20:30 10 weekly classes £430.00 CS1508 Apply Now Monday 8 May 2017 18:30 - 20:30 10 weekly classes £430.00 CS1508 Apply Now Tutor Info Helen Pummell began artworking in 1996 at the very start of the desk top publishing revolution, working with each new development of design industry software, from the first version of QuarkXpress through to today's powerful Adobe Creative Suite.She has taught an ever evolving range of creative software at City University London and with private students since 1999.Her design experience spans advertising, retail, marketing, education and recruitment and she has worked for some of the country's leading advertising and marketing agencies. Her clients include many national brand leaders, household names and high street favourites, for whom she produces artwork and promotional solutions for both web and print.Helen currently teaches and freelances using a combination of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Eligibility Working knowledge of the Windows or Macintosh interface.

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Location

Start date

Islington (London)
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Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB

Start date

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Design
  • Marketing
  • Graphics
  • Layout
  • Adobe
  • Typography
  • InDesign
  • Advertising
  • Industry

Course programme

What will I learn?
  • The InDesign working Environment: how to open & view files, make use of the pasteboard, manipulate the Document Window.
  • Toolbox: Selection Tool, colour controls, hand tool, rotation tool, the Direct Selection Tool, Eyedropper Tool.
  • Navigation: how to move around your document using the pages palette, view menu, page keys, layout menu, scrolling and the navigator palette.
  • Layers: how to use and reposition Layers, lock and organize layers.
  • Constructing a new document: including how to change document preferences and create a custom start up page.
  • Master Pages: creation, editing, footers, headers, guides, grids, application and overriding master page items on document pages.
  • Type: Creating, colouring, editing, alignment plus essential typography tips and techniques.
  • Duplicating items.
  • Graphic Frames: Modifying graphics within frames, manipulating and editing the frame and its contents both separately and together.
  • Text Frames: creating, importing, editing, overflowing text, dynamic spelling, spell checking text, creating text in columns and the manipulation of text frames.
  • Creating solid objects.
  • Anchor Points: Understanding Bezier curves, selecting, manipulating, adding and deleting anchor points and their direction lines.
  • Drawing shapes with pre-set tools.
  • Wrapping text around a graphic object.
  • Styles: Paragraph, character and object styles.
  • Aligning objects.
  • Colour: Understanding CMYK colour and Pantone Solid Colour system for print. RGB colour for s. Creating colours in the Swatches palette, applying colours to objects and using stroke & fill attributes. Also how to view the separate print/ink plates on screen.
  • Working with gradients: Creating, editing and adjusting a gradient.
  • Transparency: Changing the opacity of a solid object or graphic, applying blending modes, creating a drop shadow.
  • Printing & exporting: PDFs, preflight, packaging files for printers and fixing problems.
  • Considering design in page layouts: what do graphics say?; face-ism Ratio; the golden ratio; grid-based design.

Using Adobe InDesign

Price on request