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]
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