Adobe InDesign Course Titles

InDesign Introduction

Duration:  2 days | Book this course
Cost: $850.00 + GST

Course Description

Giving your documents a well-designed, professional look will put you a step ahead in the marketplace.  Paragraph and character styles that allow you to format pages of text uniformly, layout features that help you to build alternate size configurations of your document, and various panels that enable you to easily customise both text and graphics.  Adobe InDesign CC has all of the tools you need to elevate the look of your document and get it out to the people who need to see it, whether it be in print or on the web.

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 USBs 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. If you are unsure, please complete a Training Needs Assessment form by clicking here or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Course Objectives

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:

  1. Navigate the InDesign interface
  2. Create a new document
  3. Customise a document using colour, swatches, gradients, and styles
  4. Manage page elements
  5. Add tables
  6. Prepare documents for deployment

Course Outline

Course Outline

Getting Started with InDesign

  • Identify components of the InDesign interface
  • Customise the InDesign interface
  • Apply the navigation controls and set preferences

Designing a Document

  • Establish project requirements
  • Apply design principles
  • Create a new document
  • Add text to a document
  • Add graphics to a document

Customising a document

  • Format characters and paragraphs
  • Apply colours, swatches, and gradients
  • Create and apply styles

Working with Page Elements

  • Arrange and align objects
  • Apply layers
  • Transform and manipulate objects
  • Thread text frames
  • Edit text

Building Tables

  • Create and modify a new table
  • Format a table

Preparing a Document for Delivery

  • Resolve errors in a document
  • Export files for printing and for the web