Adobe Indesign Introduction
Adobe inDesign CS
Beginners Level
When it comes to designing professional-quality literature, there?s no contender. As part of the Creative Suite, inDesign is fully integrative with Photoshop and Illustrator and immensely user-friendly. Its superior colour, text and image handling capabilities make it increasingly the professional designer?s choice.
Useful to you if:
you need to create or edit literature such as books, magazines, posters, newsletters, brochures.
Before the course, you:
should be able to navigate your desktop/system and be familiar with basic universal functions such as ?Save?, ?Quit? etc.;
need no prior experience of inDesign.
At the end of the day?s course you will:
? have produced a poster, a business card, and a section of a magazine;
? be comfortable with print terms and principles;
? know some basic keyboard shortcuts to improve workflow.
Course contents (may vary slightly):
Basics
InDesign in context
General preferences
Bitmap vs vector, common file formats
Interpolation, resolution and quality issues
Import percentages (maximum)
Viewing/opening documents, browsing
Title bar info, new document specifications
Colour models
Tools and Palettes
Tool bar, variations
Most commonly used palettes
Control palette
Properties
Document navigation
Page usage
Pages
Viewing options
Rulers
Guides
Margins
Bleeds and slugs
Creating and deleting pages
Creating new documents
Master pages
Automatic page numbers
Page contents
Item and page co-ordinates
Creating frames, objects, paths and lines
Frames: objects, text, pictures
Object grouping, scaling, modifications
Stacking order
Duplicating and re-using objects
Step and repeat
Alignment
Attributes
Defining colours
Applying colours
Eyedropper styles ? click and drop
Strokes
Colour modes and extra resources
Process v spot colours
Text
Placing
Text frame options, text wrap
Threading text frames
Find/change
Invisibles
Character formatting
Paragraph formatting
Introducing style sheets
Tabs
Imagery
Various graphics formats, and integration issues
Links palette
Display performance
Workflow
Layers
Printing and output
Legacy saving
Exporting to PDF
InBooklet
Keyboard shortcuts
Project achievements:
House ad/poster
Section of a magazine
Business card
Further Details
Runs every other month in Bristol
Guide Price: 295
Delivery: | Distance |
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