This introduction course covers some of the basic and more commonly used features of Adobe InDesign so that attendees can navigate the software and use InDesign's tools to create well-designed professional documents.
Audience>
Each participant will leave with a recognised certificate
Outline>
In this course you will learn how to use 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.
Module 1 - Introduction
The InDesign interface
Zooming and navigating
Working with guides
Creating frames
Changing InDesign's Preferences
Module 2 - Working with Text Frames
Entering and importing text
Linking text frames
Autoflow
Character and paragraph formatting
InDesign typography controls
Notes
Creating simple tables
Proofing and inserting special characters
Module 3 - Working with Character and Paragraph Styles
Creating new styles
Applying styles
Removing styles and overrides
Editing and deleting styles
Module 4 - Working with graphics
Importing pictures
Repositioning and scaling graphics and frames
Text wrapping options
Module 5 - Working with multiple frames
Grouping, aligning and distributing objects
Stacking objects
Converting and transforming shapes
The Layers panel
Using objects in layers
Module 6 - Working with colour
The Color panel
Working with colour swatches
Creating tints and gradients
Applying colours
Module 7 - Preparing a document for output
Using Preflight
Printing an InDesign document
Exporting files for printing
Packaging a document
Our Clients
Our clients have included prestigious national organisations such as Oxford University Press, multi-national private corporations such as JP Morgan and HSBC, as well
as public sector institutions such as the Department of Defence and the Department of Health.