Adobe InDesign is rapidly taking over from QuarkXpress as the leading Desktop Publishing application. With many indispensable features, and fantastic integration with other Adobe applications, such as Photoshop, InDesign makes creating sophisticated and professional print documents easier than ever. It can even be used to create web pages.
You can quickly acquire the skills you need to immediately leverage InDesign's powerful capabilities on this TWO day "Introduction to Adobe InDesign" training course.
Course Outline:
- Introduction to the InDesign interface
- customising the workspace
- Setting view options
- creating your own keyboard shortcuts
- Creating new documents
- Adjusting document layout
- Using rulers and guides
- Using and re-using snippets
- Working with documents created with earlier versions of InDesign
- Opening QuarkXpress documents in InDesign
- Inserting, deleting and re-ordering pages within a document
- Creating master pages
- Overriding master pages
- Using parent/child master pages
- Re-using master pages creating in other documents
- Using text
- Text frames
- Placeholder text
- Threading from one text frame to another
- Importing text
- Auto-flow text
- Text in a curved or straight path
- Working in the Story Editor
- Auto correct and spell checking your documents
- Creating and using text variables
- Graphics within InDesign documents
- Importing graphics
- Embedding links to graphics files
- Editing the original graphic
- Fitting graphic size to frame or frame size to graphic or both
- Transparency and clipping path settings
- Setting colour tints on images - e.g. making photographs look sepia
- Colourizing images
- Formatting and effects
- Drop shadows
- Feathering edges
- Transparency
- Strokes and fill
- Managing and arranging Objects
- Stacking order of objects within a layer
- Staking order of layers within the document
- Objects within objects i.e. nesting objects within one another
- Grouping objects together
- Locking objects
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Text wrap and anchored objects
- Transforming Objects
- Using interactive objects e.g. Flash, within your InDesign document
- Stretching, rotating, skewing, scaling, mirroring and duplicating objects
- Text formatting
- Changing case
- Drop caps
- Justification , hyphenation rules and tabs
- Styles
- Applying a style to individual characters
- Applying a style to whole paragraphs
- Applying a style to objects
- removing unwanted styles from imported text
- Working in colour
- Creating and using colour swatches
- finding Un-named colours
- Using Pantone ® colours
- Exporting and printing
- Exporting as PDF document
- Using pre-flight options before printing
- Packaging your document before sending to the print shop
We are usually quite busy, but we can create some free days in our diary during September , October and November to visit your offices to present a Adobe InDesign training course to you and your staff.
Costs for our TWO day Adobe InDesign training courses for different number of delegates
£630 for 1 delegate
£1140 for 2 Delegates
£1680 for 3 Delegates
£2200 for 4 Delegates
£2700 for 5 Delegates
£3180 for 6 Delegates
Prices are in GBP and exclude VAT @ 17.5%
Training courses become very cost effective with 2 deledages or more. Especially when compared to sending your staff away to an anonymous training centre, miles from your office. Like all our courses, it can be customized to suit you, your staff and your project.
If you plan to have more than 6 delegates - please call us 020 8871 9886 for special deals on larger groups.
We offer 100% money back guarantee with this Adobe InDesign course, as with everything we do.
Contact Us now or phone 020 8871 9886 to arrnge a date for us to visit your offices to present this course.
