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Adobe InDesign Basics
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2 day(s) |
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$935 |
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This course provides the skills to layout text and graphics to create professional multi-page documents such as magazines, newsletters, brochures and reports.
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| Included in this course |
- Detailed manuals with training files on CD
- FREE re-sit of this course, available for 12 months on the same version
- FREE telephone support
- Lunch (for full fee paying clients)
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The pre-requisite is experience in Windows
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On completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Create, import and manipulate text, graphics and tables
- Create, edit and apply master pages and style sheets
- Assemble graphically rich single page and multi page documents
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| Course outline |
DAY 1
Lesson 1 – Indesign workspace: Menus, Palettes and palette menus, Toolbox shortcuts, Document and Pasteboard areas, Context menus & Navigation
Lesson 2 – Setting up a single page document: Importing of text from Word, Frames & Text blocks and overflow, Placing text & graphics, Using grids & ruler guides
Lesson 3 – Setting up a Multi-page Document: Document Presets & Pages Palettes, Workspace settings & Adding Guides, Setting up Columns
Lesson 4 – Creating Master Pages in Multi-page documents: Applying Master Pages to your Document, Adding, Deleting and Duplicating pages, Page Layout / Footers / AutoPage Numbering, Inserting Special Characters & White Spaces
Lesson 5 – Layout and Content: Text Wraps & Drawing Shapes, Importing Graphics: graphic file explained, The difference between a jpeg, gif, png, tiff & eps, Resolution explained, Resizing and Rotating Images, Reshaping Drawn Objects, Anchor Points & Paths
DAY 2
Lesson 6 – Working with Type: Character and Paragraph Palettes, Formatting Text using Styles, Text Rotation/Drop Caps/Text Alignment, Baseline Grids & Spell Checking, Making Text on a Path, Kerning & Tracking, Line spacing, paragraph alignment.
Lesson 7 – Colour: PMS explained, Process Colours/Spot Colours/CMYK, Using Pantone colours/charts, Custom Swatch Palettes, Custom Colours, Tints & Gradients, Applying Strokes & Fills/Gradients & Tints, Selecting and Colouring Objects & Text
Lesson 8 – Layers: Managing & Arranging Layers, Adding, Deleting & Duplicating Layers, Moving objects within Layers, Grouping and Ungrouping Objects, Layer Colour Guides
Lesson 9 – Creating tables: Formatting tables, Importing existing tables from word and spreadsheets from excel
Lesson 10 – Printing and PDF Exporting: Create a PDF for email, Press ready PDF with crop marks
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