Overview
Adobe InDesign seamlessly intergrates with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InCopy, and Dreamweaver. InDesign allows you to be more productive by using shared presets and colour settings. InDesign CS3 will allow you to work more efficiently with native file format support and effortless publishing to multiple media.
Creative effects and controls
Design compelling page layouts that include transparency, creative effects, and gradient feathers. Since effects are live and nondestructive, you can experiment with ease. Apply effects independently to an object’s stroke, fill, or content.
Reliable prepress and printing
Have confidence in your output. Get accurate, consistent results every time you print using sophisticated preview capabilities, exporting reliable Adobe PDF files, and sharing custom presets.
Productivity enhancements
Perform a variety of tasks more efficiently using new and enhanced productivity features, including Multi-file Place, Quick Apply, faster frame fitting, and the visual Pages panel.
XHTML export
Enable multiformat publishing, including print-to-web workflows, by exporting InDesign content as XHTML. Edit the exported content in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 software (available separately) and automatically format it using cascading style sheets.
Professional typographical controls
Compose beautiful typography using professional controls including the Paragraph Composer, OpenType fonts, drop caps, glyphs, and optical kerning and margin alignment.
Full-featured tables
Create richly formatted tables. Import tab-delimited text files and styled Microsoft Word or Excel tables, or build tables in InDesign. Apply a wide variety of formatting options manually or using table and cell styles.
Robust long-document support
Maintain consistency and streamline the production of long documents using advanced bullets and numbering, running headers and footers, and synchronized master pages.
Smart text handling
Control your text with intelligent text-handling features including the ability to import styled text from Microsoft Word files, apply complex text wraps around objects, and comprehensively replace fonts.
Scripting and extensibility
Accelerate and simplify workflows by automating processes using scripts and extending the capabilities of InDesign using the ExtendScript toolkit.
Course Summary
InDesign has emerged as the Industry Standard Page Layout Application. This course will introduce you to the workings and features available in this powerful, user friendly page layout application.
Audience
The InDesign Introduction course is aimed at Graphic Designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals, who are looking at designing documents, magazines, flyers and general promotional print material.
On Completion
Strudents will come away with the ability to layout text and graphics to produce various print material.
Course Content
Palettes & Workspace Layout
Using Adobe Bridge
Palettes
Workspaces
Toolbox, Control strip, Contextual Menu
Document Set-up
New Documents
Rulers & Grids
Views & Navigation
Opening other document types
Basic Text entry
Text Frames
Character formatting
Paragraph formatting
Text Distortions and Utilities
Text flowing & frames
Importing text
Objects
Object Styles
InDesign Snippets
Creating and working with objects
Creating frames & frame types
Duplicate, Transform, Arrange, etc.
Grouping, Measuring, Locking
Colour
Colour Palettes: Mixers, Swatches etc
Colour/Ink types
Creating mixed inks & Tints
Gradient swatches
Eyedropper and Overprinting
Customising Object Appearance
Fills & Strokes
Transparency & Drop Shadows
Pen & Bezier tools
Path tools in InDesign
Importing and options
Image Frames: simple, compound & custom frames
Images
File Types, Importing and options
Image Frames: simple, compound & custom
Fitting images: Control Palette and shortcuts
Inline graphics
Clipping Paths, Alpha channels, Viewing
Text Effects / Text Wrap: Options and Palette
Text on Paths
Page Layout & Books
Page Palette and working with pages
Text Flow and Links
Master Pages
Numbering Pages
Making & Packaging Books
Contents & Index creation
Layers
Layers Palette
Moving across layers
Libraries
Using InDesign libraries
Tabs & Tables
Setting Tabs / Tables: data & layout
Styling Text & Find/Replace Functions
Spelling / Find/Replace
Story Editor
Styling options: Drop Caps, Leading etc.
Creating Styles: Paragraph & Character
Output
Print, Separation, Flattening
Print options
PostScript, preflighting and Packaging
Exporting
Producing PDF files with Export...
Preferences & Custom Set-ups
Setting InDesign’s preferences
Dates
Duration: 2 days
Price: £495
| June |
30th - 1st |
| July |
28th - 29th |
| August |
18th - 19th |
| September |
15th - 16th |
| October |
13th - 14th |
| November |
10th - 11th |
| December |
15th - 16th |
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