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Adobe InDesign – Essentials

Adobe InDesign – Essentials

Adobe InDesign – Essentials

Price: £430.00+VAT
Duration: 2 Days
Location:Crawley
Date(s):
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Our Adobe InDesign – Introduction course shows the techniques to confidently create or modify existing InDesign documents.

This course is designed for new and novice users of Adobe InDesign. No previous experience of InDesign is required; however, some experience of a word processing or desktop publishing package would be an advantage.

Training course objectives:

  • Create and modify InDesign documents
  • Use the InDesign graphics tools
  • Place Word, Excel and graphic files
  • Manipulate text by applying styles
  • Create and apply master pages
  • Create object libraries
  • Produce a sophisticated brochure for output to print

Versions Available

CS3, CS4, CS5

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Adobe DreamWeaver Module 1 & 2

  • Introducing InDesign

The work area, toolbox and palettes<BR>Opening files<BR>Navigation techniques<BR>Saving and closing files<BR>File export

  • Setting up a document

Document creation<BR>Working with guides, grids and master pages

  • Shapes and frames

Drawing and editing shapes and frames<BR>Filling objects with colour and gradients<BR>Stroking shapes and transforming objects<BR>Using the Pen tool<BR>Compound paths, shapes and text outlines

  • Textual content

Creating text frames<BR>Entering text and special characters<BR>Text editing<BR>Using the story editor text frame options<BR>Using find/change and the spell checker

  • Formatting text

Using character and paragraph palettes<BR>Using drop caps<BR>Optical margin alignment

  • Working with styles

Using character and paragraph styles<BR>Nesting styles<BR>Keyboard shortcuts<BR>Importing and deleting styles

  • Working with images

Adding images<BR>Modifying graphic frames and their contents<BR>Creating in-line frames<BR>Wrapping text around objects<BR>Managing links

  • Layers

Using layers to group and separate objects<BR>Creating layers<BR>Moving and copying objects between layers<BR>Merging and deleting layers

  • Special effects

Creating and handling transparency<BR>Using feathering<BR>Drop shadows and corner effects

  • Tables

Creating tables and adding content<BR>Inserting and deleting rows and columns<BR>Formatting tables

  • Object libraries

Working with an object library<BR>Changing the library display<BR>Cataloguing objects

  • Preflighting and printing

Checking the integrity of a document<BR>Using the package command and the print menu