Duration: 2 days | Book this course
Cost: $790.00 + GST
Course Description
You are starting to familiarize 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
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
Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:
- Manage the InDesign environment
- Design documents
- Manage text
- Utilize colors, swatches, and gradients
- Manage transparency
- Utilize tables
- Prepare for handoff to a service provider
- Create Acrobat PDF files
Course Outline
GETTING STARTED
- Launching InDesign
- Setting User Preferences
- Getting around the InDesign Environment
- Creating a New Document
- Closing and Saving a Document
- Dealing with Screen Modes
CREATING THE STRUCTURE OF THE DOCUMENT
- Document Setting
- Managing pages using the Pages Palette
- Implementing Layers
- Understanding text and graphic frames
MANAGING TEXT
- Inserting text
- Managing text flow
- Formatting text
- Introduction to Styles 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 THE DOCUMENT
- Understanding Colours
- Applying Colour
- Applying Basic Effects
INSERTING TABLES IN INDESIGN
PREPARING FOR HANDOFF TO A SERVICE PROVIDER
- Checking document for errors
- Packaging the document
- Exporting document to a Portable Document Format (PDF)