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InDesign Training


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InDesign Training Courses
This Adobe InDesign training course shows how to use this user-friendly yet powerful page layout application for creating and editing all manner of designs from leaflets and flyers to posters, magazines, books and other marketing materials. On this InDesign training course you will learn how to produce and edit stylish professional layouts from entering text and images to sending to print.

What you will achieve on the course:


• You will learn how to place text and images on a page
• Create multi-page documents including posters, leaflets and magazines
• Add colour to text and images
• Learn how to send a document to print
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Course Outline


Document Setup


  • The InDesign Working Environment
  • The Toolbox
  • Opening and saving documents
  • Using the Panels
  • The Control Panel
  • Rulers and Guides
  • Zooming and scrolling around your document

Text in InDesign


  • Entering and Importing Text
  • Editing text
  • Text threads
  • Text frame options
  • Font Size
  • Leading
  • Kerning and tracking

Paragraph Settings


  • Paragraph Indents
  • Space Before/Space After
  • Alignment
  • Drop Caps
  • Hyphenation
  • Paragraph Rules
  • Tabs

Master Pages


  • The importance of master pages
  • Editing master pages
  • Creating new master pages
  • Adding a page number
  • Breaking the link to master pages

Images and Graphic Frames


  • Placing an Image
  • Image Fitting Options
  • Scaling and Cropping Images
  • Image Links
  • Managing Links
  • Creating Clipping Paths

Color in InDesign


  • Colour spaces: CMYK, Pantone
  • Creating colour
  • The Swatches Panel
  • Filling and Stroking Objects
  • Editing Swatches
  • Creating and Applying Gradients
  • Transparency and effects

Style Sheets


  • The importance of style sheets
  • Paragraph Styles
  • Character Styles
  • Creating style sheets
  • Applying and Editing Styles
  • Object Styles

Getting ready for print


  • Finalising your document
  • Printing and Exporting
  • Preflight
  • Package
  • Exporting to PDF - hi-res and low-res
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InDesign Training Resources


A free Adobe InDesign trial can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/uk/downloads/

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