Adobe Indesign

Description

Do you need to:

• Create a variety of documents, company newsletters, brochures, annual reports
• Learn typography, colour theory & graphic design

Aim

This course aims to equip participants with the technical skills required to create full-colour, multipage digital artwork for print using InDesign.

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of this course you should have the skills and knowledge to: 

• Create full colour, multiple page computer generated digital artwork for print using Adobe InDesign

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 techniques
• 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

Topics Covered

Key topics covered on this course include:

Introducing the Workspace

• Open documents
• Select and use tools
• Use the Application bar and Control panel
• Manage document windows
• Work with panels
• Customise the workspace
• Change the magnification of a document
• Navigate through a document
• Use context menus and panel menus

Getting to Know InDesign

• View layout aids
• Check on potential production issues with the Pre-flight panel
• Type and style text
• Import text and thread text frames
• Import a graphic
• Move, rotate, stroke, and fill an object
• Automate formatting with paragraph, character, and object styles
• Preview a document in Presentation mode

Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages

• Save custom document settings as a document pre-set
• Create a new document and set document defaults
• Lay out a master page • Create an additional master page
• Apply a master page to document pages • Add pages to a document
• Rearrange and delete pages