Adobe
InDesign

DM01

2 Days: 10:00am - 4:30pm

May be subject to minor time alterations

CPD Accredited Advanced Certificate

£575

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Course Overview

The 2-day Adobe InDesign course is certified and authorised by Adobe and is designed to help you create beautiful layouts and highly sophisticated professional documents. The training is designed to give you a comprehensive and practical working knowledge of Adobe InDesign. InDesign is the premium software for anyone looking to create beautiful magazines, newsletters, reports, and other publications.

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. 

Course Details

  • Create documents from scratch 
  •  Integrate graphics, images and text 
  •  Work with multiple pages 
  •  Optimise work for print and web 
  •  Put into practice tips, shortcuts and good practice 
  •  Utilise Free digital course assets 
  •  Utilise Free post-course helpdesk support
DAY 1:
INTRODUCING THE INDESIGN INTERFACE
  • Changing the look and feel of InDesign — workspaces and interface options
  • Introducing InDesign preferences
  • Understanding application and document-wide preferences
  • Using essential shortcuts
CREATING A NEW DOCUMENT
  • Navigating the New Document dialogue box
  • Choosing a document destination—Print, Web or Mobile
    Saving and accessing presets
  • Using Adobe-provided templates
  • Creating and using frames
  • Placing text
    Selecting and editing text
  • Placing graphics and images
  • Using the Content Indicator
  • Saving an InDesign document
MANAGING FONTS
  • Handling missing fonts
  • Using the Font Favourites feature
  • Filtering Fonts by Class
  • Choosing Similar Fonts
FORMATTING COPY
  • Character-level formatting
  • Paragraph-level formatting
  • Using the Eyedropper tool
WORKING WITH STYLES
  • Introducing Object styles
  • Introducing Character and Paragraph styles
  • Creating and applying styles
  • Editing styles
  • Loading attributes from other documents
  • Highlighting and removing style overrides
WORKING WITH GRAPHICS
  • An overview of different file formats
  • Introduction to image resolution
  • Placing multiple graphics and images
  • Understanding the Links panel
  • Using the Info panel
  • Linking versus embedding assets
  • Handling missing and modified assets
  • An introduction to the Auto-fit functions
UNDERSTANDING COLOUR
  • Using stroke and fill options
  • Creating colour swatches
  • Creating and applying tints
  • Sampling colours from images
DAY TWO:
MANAGING YOUR ASSETS
  • Creating an Object Library
  • Introduction to CC Libraries
USING LAYOUT CONTROLS
  • Using rulers, grids and guides
  • Smart guides and smart spacing
  • Using layers effectively
  • Understanding the notion of Gridify
  • Introducing the Align Panel
  • Selecting, arranging and grouping objects
EDITING COPY
  • Using the Story Editor
  • Introducing Find/Change
  • Using the Spell Checker
WORKING WITH MASTER PAGES
  • Introducing the Pages panel
  • Creating and editing Masters
  • Applying Master Pages
  • Auto-numbering pages
  • Adjusting margins and columns
  • Introducing Numbering and Section options
  • Targeting pages and spreads
WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY
  • Introducing the Effects panel
  • Applying transparency
TRANSFORMING OBJECTS
  • Scaling objects vs contents
  • Transforming objects
FINE-TUNING YOUR TEXT
  • Threading and unthreading Text frames
  • Multi-column Text frames
  • Insetting copy within a Text frame
  • Controlling the vertical position of the copy within a Text frame
  • Wrapping text around images
EXPORTING YOUR DOCUMENT
  • Exporting as a PDF
  • Using pre-defined PDF presets
  • Using Live PreFlight
  • Packaging files for hand-off

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. Previous experience of Adobe InDesign is not needed to attend this course.

LSPR Professional Development Advanced Certificate. The Advanced Certificate is recognised by the: Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Certification Service: http://www.cpduk.co.uk

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