Prerequisites
- Delegates do not need any experience of InDesign or desktop publishing, as anything that is required will be covered by the course.
- However, all delegates should have basic computer skills and know how to launch applications, browse to locate files and have good keyboard and mouse skills.
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.
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.
This course is suitable for anyone using InDesign CS5, CS6 or CC.
- Delegates do not need any experience of InDesign or desktop publishing, as anything that is required will be covered by the course.
- However, all delegates should have basic computer skills and know how to launch applications, browse to locate files and have good keyboard and mouse skills.
- Navigate their way around the InDesign environment
- Work with text frames and formatting
- Use styles to achieve consistency in documents
- Control images and page layout
- Work with layers and object controls
- Use colour to enhance the appearance of documents
- Output documents from InDesign
Module 1 - Introducing InDesign
- The InDesign interface
- Zooming
- Navigating
Module 2 - Creating documents
- Creating a new document
- Guides and views
- Working with frames
- Working with pages
Module 3 - Working with type
- The Type tool
- Importing text
- Linking and overset text
- Formatting text
- Further typographic controls
- Working with tables
- Other useful text commands
- Special characters and symbols
Module 4 - Working with styles
- An introduction to styles
- The styles panels
- Creating a style
- Applying styles
- Editing and managing styles
- Style overrides
Module 5 - Working with graphics
- Importing images
- Display performance
- Managing other Adobe files
- Scaling and moving
- Text wrapping
Module 6 - Working with multiple frames
- Grouping, aligning and distributing
- Managing objects
- Layers
Module 7 - Working with colour
- An introduction to colour
- The Colour panel
- Swatches
- Tints and gradients
Module 8 - Preparing for output
- Resolving errors
- Printing a document
- Exporting files for print
- Packaging a document
- Exporting in another format
Appendix 1 - Creative Cloud
- Creative Cloud files
- Creative Cloud Libraries
- Adobe Capture CC
Appendix 2 - Adobe Bridge
- Introduction
- The Adobe Bridge interface
- Locating files and assets