Course Description
This professional image page-layout program is now the industry worldwide standard software for working with professional commercial print documentations.
The software has immensely powerful typographic and page layout controls with a very wide variety of creative and inspirational options.
The Adobe InDesign introductory course is designed to enable you to make the most of the power of InDesign and its host of tools and will highlight how to use InDesign to improve productivity without sacrificing quality.
The Introduction course concentrates on getting to know InDesign's many complex tools and functions. Knowing how to navigate around your publication and create some amazing layouts.
If you are looking to create Brochures, Posters, Package Design, Printed Marketing Material then this is the course for you.
Course Content
What is InDesign
History of InDesign
InDesign's place in the industry
InDesign Basics
The InDesign User Interface
InDesign Panels & Tools
Introduction to workspaces
Creating saving & deleting workspaces
Adding, Moving & removing panels
Creating Panel Groups
Panning & zooming
Context Menus
Contextual Panel
Guides, Grids & Rulers
Adobe Bridge
Document Setup
Create a new document
Document settings
Document setup
Setting Margins, Bleed & slug
Setting text columns
Gutter width
Page size & dimensions
RGB vs. CMYK
InDesign Fundamentals
Creating Frames
Using frames for text & images
frame content selection
frame content modification
Layers in InDesign
Layer Blending
Text in InDesign
Entering Text
Placing Text
Import Text from Word
Dealing with missing fonts
Glyph Panel
Drag & Dropping
Language Settings
Typography in InDesign
Character Formatting
Working with Fonts
Fontography
Kerning & Tracking
Optical Kerning
OpenType Font Options
Keyboard Shortcuts
Scaling Fonts
Font sizes & styles
Drop caps
Hyphenation & Justification settings
Paragraph formatting
Alignment & justification
Hanging Punctuation
Special Characters
Viewing Invisibles
Filling with Placeholder Text
Master Pages
What are master pages
using many master pages
Creating Master Pages
Using Master Pages
Deleting Masters
Automatic Page Numbering
How to break an object from a master
Single & Spread Master
Nesting Master designs
Conclusion
Questions & Answers
Workshop
Exercises
Formatting
Eyedropper
Character Stylesheets
Paragraph Stylesheets
Applying stylesheets
Editing existing styles
Modifying styles
Clearing Style formatting
Nesting styles
Object styles
Text Frame Options
Graphics
Importing Photoshop PSD's
Importing PDF documents
Importing Vector Artwork & ClipArt
Importing EPS
Placing Images
Dynamic Graphic Preview
Cropping & resizing images
Photoshop Effects in InDesign
Layer Blending
Image & layer Opacity settings
Fit to Frame buttons
Text Wrap Around
How to get Text to Wrap Around
Wrap Around settings
Wrap Around Options
Colour in InDesign
RGB vs. CMYK
ICC Colour Profiles and Colour Management
Creating Swatches
Importing Swatch Libraries
Exporting Swatch Libraries
Spot & Process CMYK colours
Converting Spot to Process
Pantone Libraries
Tinting
Stroke & Fill options
Colour Picker
Page Layout & Techniques
Rulers, Grids & Guides
Info Panel, What is it?
Layer Management
Page Grid & Baseline Grid
Text Frame Baseline Grid
Adding, Deleting & moving pages
Single & spread Page Layouts
Go to Page command
Page Panel & its options
Story Editor
What is copy mode & how to use it?
The Story Editor
Find & replace
Spell Checking
Dynamic Spell Check & its options
Transparency in InDesign
Blend Modes
Transparency settings
Opacity Controls
Drop Shadow Effects
Feathering Objects
The Flattener Preview Panel
Linking Text Boxes
Linking Text Boxes
Threading Text
Dynamic Text Preview
Unlinking Text Boxes
Multi Column Text Boxes
The Flattener Preview Panel