This course is for anyone interested to improve their skills and making the most of Adobe's industry-leading page design and layout application.

On this course you will learn best practices, shortcuts, timesavers and general workflows using Adobe InDesign.

Taking part in this hands-on workshop will provide you with techniques to be able to work faster, more efficiently and more professionally with this industry leading Adobe product.

All attendees are required to bring a laptop with relevant software loaded (preferably latest version or at least InDesign CS6).

Course Syllabus

Basics

• Creating a document
• Interface
• Navigation
• Settings

Working with Frames

• Placing text
• Placing images
• Links panel
• Image Frame options
• Text Frames
• Text frame options

Pages

• Working with Pages
• Master pages

Formatting Text

• Choosing fonts
• Character formatting
• Paragraph formatting

Designing the Layout

• Lines and strokes
• Drawing Shapes
• Colour options
• Effects and blending
• Grids and guides
• Align and distribute

Compositional Techniques

• Layers
• Text wrap
• Anchor and Inline images
• Masking

Working with Styles

• Introduction to Styles
• Working with Styles
• Character styles
• Paragraph styles
• Object styles
• Nested styles

Advanced Text features

• Find/change and GREP
• Lists
• Footnotes and Captions
• Tabs
• Tables
• Data Merge

Handling Assets

• Snippets
• Libraries
• Templates
• Content Collector Tool
• CC Libraries

Long Documents

• Table of Contents
• Text Variables and Markers
• Book file

Preparing for Print

• Preparing for print - colors
• Preparing for print - corrections
• Exporting a PDF
• Package

Interactive formats

• Creating ePUBs
• Interactive PDF
• Publish Online CC

Course costs £250 per person and includes lunch & all course materials

To book please email [email protected]