This Adobe Indesign course focuses on the uses of Adobe InDesign CC for desktop publishing in the Windows and Macintosh environments and for document layout and design.
This Adobe Indesign course focuses on the uses of Adobe InDesign CC for desktop publishing in the Windows and Macintosh environments and for document layout and design.
If you want to learn about desktop publishing and produce high-quality documents with great control over the placement of text and graphics on the page, then Adobe InDesign is the tool for you.
Participants have the opportunity to learn how to integrate text, graphics, and photographs to create a variety of professional quality finished documents for practical and business use. Learn to use Adobe InDesign to create graphics-intensive print documents and to really take your design skills to the next level.
Topics
Document and column set up for a variety of publications.
Use of rulers, guides, and snap-to guides.
Format type including styles, sizes, leading, tracking, kerning.
Use the edit menu: Cutting, Copying, and Pasting.
Multiple pasting, editing stories, and spell checking.
Format paragraphs, moving/resizing text blocks, leading adjustment etc.
Place graphics, resizing graphics, and text wraps.
Set up templates and style palettes.
Group/align objects and multiple pasting with “Step and Repeat” functions.
Graphic formats, links, and resolutions.
Color, color libraries and color separation.
Bi-fold brochures and other custom layouts.
Rotation tool, drop caps, page numbering, and insertion of special symbols.
Styles and creating a custom style palette, use of templates.
Print solutions and PPD’s and PDF’s.
Principles of design.
Prerequisites
Discussion
Getting to know tools, panels, and workspaces.
Learning how to navigate and zoom in a document.
Working with layers for efficiency and organization.
Setting up master pages in a document.
Building automatic page numbering and sections.
Creating text and graphics placeholder frames.
Placing text and graphics on document pages.
Understanding text and graphics frames.
Grouping and transforming frames.
Formatting text using paragraph and character styles.
Flowing, threading, and spell-checking text in text frames.
Adding color: swatches, gradients and tints.
Frequently-used shortcuts and techniques.
Goals
Become familiar with the Adobe InDesign workspace and tools
Learn how to use program features to execute workflow
Design your own 2 page magazine spread
Design a flyer for a restaurant opening
Design Engine’s mission through our vaulted training is to enhance communication between training participants, designers, and engineers, enabling them to effectively communicate 3D CAD designs.
By fostering collaborative relationships, encouraging problem-solving, and promoting innovation, we empower teams to work smarter and not harder.
Unlike other training programs, we don’t just teach software menu clicks, or read to you from a book. Instead, our expert instructors challenge you to think creatively and through examples help your teams develop a workflow that allows for quick and effective changes to be made to models with confidence.
As both product designers and engineers, we are well-equipped to take your product ideas from ideation through engineering, prototyping, production, and ultimately thru to retail.
Design engine maintains strong relationships with US and overseas manufacturers and US retail buyers. Like a smart puzzle Design engine is prepared to assist product organizations in one or all product development phases.
Design Engine has been a world leader in delivering high-impact training courses for 3D CAD professionals, industrial designers, mechanical engineers, drafters, mechanics, and game designers.
As pioneers of robust modeling, top-down design, and other exciting training techniques, our team has successfully trained thousands of engineers and designers from companies including Bissell, Caterpillar, Ingersoll Rand, GE Medical, US Army, US Air Force, Newell Brands, Stanley Black & Decker, Harley-Davidson.
Here at Design Engine, we are incredibly passionate about learning. We believe that good design should transcend the software, so we focus on fundamental design & 3D modeling skills.
We help designers and engineers adopt a robust, resilient modeling workflow and challenge teams to approach problems with new perspectives that facilitate learning. Read testimonials from those who have trained in the past.
This course provides an introduction to the functions and capabilities of Adobe InDesign. Students are guided in establishing a professional workflow to design documents for print and digital distribution.
This course introduces graphic and publication design principles applied to designing visual elements and digital publications using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign.
We provide Adobe InDesign classes in Los Angeles area in our computer training center. Adobe InDesign is the most popular industry standard layout software in the market. It is used to create advertisement, brochures, newspaper, magazines and flyers.
InDesign keeps getting better and better! InDesign has continued to improve and evolve its unparalleled page-layout features, seamless integration with Photoshop and Illustrator, and overall ease of use.
Adobe InDesign is the industry standard page layout program used to create professional layouts for print and digital platforms and output to not only desktop printers, but to the high-end printing and plating systems of real-world print shops and to the web.
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