Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign CC allows you to deliver beautiful layouts and highly sophisticated documents for print quickly and easily. This two day Adobe authorised introductory course is designed to give you a comprehensive working knowledge of Adobe InDesign.

Day one of the course concentrates on building a document layout from scratch. Day two will explore more advanced layout and typographical controls, clipping paths, working with layers, creating multipage documents and using Live PreFlight for trouble-free production and printing. This course will give you an excellent grounding in Adobe InDesign.

This is an introductory course for those new to page layout software and InDesign. If you are an QuarkXPress user migrating to Adobe InDesign, there is a separate two day Adobe InDesign Migration course. You need no previous experience to attend this course.

INTRODUCTION

THE INDESIGN INTERFACE

• Creating a new document
• Creating and using frames
• The N-up View
• InDesign Preferences
• Using shortcuts
• Setting tool defaults

WORKING WITH TEXT

• Placing text
• Selecting and editing text
• Handling missing fonts
• Using the Content Indicator
• The Font Favourite feature

FORMATTING COPY

• Character-level formatting
• Paragraph-level formatting
• Using the Eyedropper tool

WORKING WITH STYLES

• Character and paragraph styles
• Creating styles
• Editing and applying styles
• Creating and playing objects styles
• Loading attributes from other documents

WORKING WITH GRAPHICS

• Different file formats
• Placing multiple graphics
• Wrapping text around images
• Understanding fitting options
• Sizing images with Auto-fit
• Different file formats
• Smart guides and smart spacing
• The Effect panel
• Creating gradients
• Setting up an Object library

LAYOUT CONTROLS

• Understanding the notion of Gridify
• Working with the Gap tool
• Using the Align panel
• Selecting, arranging and grouping objects

UNDERSTANDING COLOUR

• Spot and process colours
• Using stroke and fill options
• Creating tints
• Sampling colours from images

LAYING OUT PAGES ACCURATELY

• Using rulers, grids and guides
• Working with layers

Q & A

INTRODUCTION

MULTI-PAGE DOCUMENTS

• Using the Pages panel
• Targeting pages and spreads

EDITING COPY

• Using the Story Editor
• Using Find/Change
• Using the Spell Checker

WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY

• Creating drop shadows
• The Flattener Preview palette
• A look at Blending models

TRANSFORMING OBJECTS

• Scaling objects vs contents
• Transforming objects
• Grouping and ungrouping

FINESSING TEXT CONTENT

• Threading and unthreading frames
• The Auto-Fit text function
• Flowing text through frames
• Text frame options
• Document baseline grids
• Multi-column text frames
• Allowing text to flow across columns

WORKING WITH MASTER PAGES

• Creating and editing masters
• Applying master pages
• Auto-numbering pages
• Adjusting margins and columns
• Numbering and section options

COMBINING TEXT AND GRAPHICS

• Image import options
• Images with clipping paths
• Creating a new clipping path
• Removing image backgrounds
• Tolerance and threshold options

EXPORTING AND PRINTING

• Exporting as a PDF
• Using Live PreFlight
• Anticipating potential problems
• Packaging files for handoff

*This course runs very regularly. For dates please call 020 7221 3399