Adobe InDesign

This instructor-led, hands-on InDesign Course will teach you how to best use InDesign’s tools to create Flyers, Brochures, Reports, Tenders, Magazines, Marketing Materials in Perth 

InDesign Workspace

• The Document Window - rulers, margins, guides, ‘X’ and ‘Y’ coordinates, ruler origin, pasteboard and page views.

• Using Palettes - align, attributes, character, colour, glyphs, gradient, hyperlinks, index, layers, library, links, navigator, pages, paragraph and character styles, story, stroke, swatches, table, tabs, transform, transparency and trap styles palettes.

• Layers - working with layers, creating, duplicating and deleting layers, layer options.

• Menu items and Preferences overview

InDesign Document

• Document Setup - layout options, grids, zoom and hand tools, controlling windows and saving documents.

• Libraries - storing, searching and sorting library items.

• Document 'Bleed' - what is bleed and how to create a document 'bleed'.

• Templates - creating and saving a DL Brochure 'Template'.

• Pages and Books - blank pages, island spreads, master pages, page numbers, table of contents, flowing text, text breaks, setting and import options

Working with Text

• Creating text frames, typeface, point size, line, character spacing, alignment, indents, hanging indents, kerning, tracking, leading.

• Text Effects - paragraph rules.

• Tabs and Tables - tab characters, tab stops, leaders, creating tables, table options, cell options, strokes and fills.

• Character and Paragraph Styles

• Nested Text Styles creation.

• Working with 'Text on a Path'

• Working with 'Text Wrap' features

• Tabs and Tables - tab characters, tab stops, leaders, creating tables, table options, cell options, strokes and fills

Working with Objects

• Types of frames, basic shapes, selecting, altering, aligning, step and repeat, transforming, grouping and locking objects

• Styling Objects - fills, strokes, corner effects, transparency, drop shadows, feathering, using the eyedropper

• Object Styles - creating and saving 'Object Styles'

• Using 'Align' and 'Pathfinder' techniques

Colour

• Working in Colour

• creating Pantone (spot)

• CMYK (process) colours

• Swatches, Gradients, Tints, Swatch libraries.

Graphics

• Imported Graphics

• Placing artwork

• Specialty frames

• Image import options

• Clipping paths

• Applying effects to images

Outputting

• Setup controls

• Marks and bleeds

• Print styles

• Tiling

• Preflight and Packaging

• Exporting - file options

• Creating PDF files, PDF styles

• Exporting text

Advanced Tips & Tricks

• Data Merge Exercise

• 'Style Mapping' of Microsoft Word Styles

• PDF Security; Bookmarks and Hyperlinks

• Working with Snippets

• Embedded and Anchored Objects

• Advanced text formatting explained such as Glyphs, Nonbreaking Space, Nonbreaking Hyphen etc. etc.

• Footnotes and their options

• 'Keep Options' explained

• 'Paste Into' command

• Picture colouring in InDesign

• The 'Story Editor'

• Advanced 'Layer' options

• Compound Paths

• Managing Table Stroke and Fill options

• 'Pathfinder' techniques

• Menu Items and Preferences overview

• Plus, many, many more advanced Tips & Tricks

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course participants will have learned the necessary technical skills required to create full colour, multiple page computer generated digital artwork for print using Adobe InDesign CC. (Note - this course is also suitable for users of older versions of InDesign such as CS6)

Participants will have learned the necessary technical skills and knowledge required to:

Use the InDesign Workspace, Tools and Panels

Produce a document to specifications

Apply Text Editing and Formatting technques with Character and Paragraph Styles

Work with Design Objects and Graphics

Working with Multi Page Documents and Master Pages

Use Colour effectively and to specification

Applying Output Adjustments and to Specification

Use Advanced Document Creation and Editing techniques