Adobe InDesign Course Titles
InDesign Introduction
Duration: 2 days | Book this course
Cost: $850.00 + GST
Course Description
You are starting to familiarise yourself with print layout and design using InDesign. You would like to learn about the tools and features available to you in InDesign. In this course, you'll work with some of the tools and features to create eye-catching printed documents using InDesign.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, the student must have basic PC skills, including a basic understanding of a computer's operating system, how to launch an application and create and save files, as well as how to copy files from CDs and other media
Who Should Take This Course
This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals.
Course Objectives
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:
- Manage the InDesign environment
- Design documents
- Manage text
- Utilise colours, swatches, and gradients
- Manage transparency
- Utilise tables
- Prepare for handoff to a service provider
- Create Acrobat PDF files
Course Outline
Course Outline
Getting Started
- Launching InDesign
- Setting User Preferences (units, increments, grids, guides)
- Restoring default setting
- Getting around the InDesgin Environment
- Creating a new document
- Navigating within the InDesign Workspace (zoom tool, hand tool, navigator palette)
- Dealing with Screen Modes
- Saving a documnt
Creating the structure of the document
- Document Settings
- Managing pages using the Pages Palette
- Implementing Layers
- Understanding text and graphic frames
Managing text
- Inserting and editing text
- Managing text flow
- Formatting text
- Introduction to Style Formatting
- Editing text
- Text Wrapping
Managing graphics
- Understanding various graphic file formats
- Inserting images using the Place command
- Modifying placed graphics
- Exploring the Links palette
- Embedding graphics
Enhancing your document
- Understanding colours (RGB, Process, Spot colours)
- Applying colours
- Applying basic effects
Inserting tables in InDesign
- Creating a table from scratch
- Formatting a table
- Importing a table from other applications
Preparing for handoff to a service provider
- Checking document for errors
- Understanding colour separations
- Packaging the document
- Exporting document to a Portable Document Format (PDF)
