InDesign Lite Course

InDesign Lite | Course Overview

Course Description

Want to get up and running with InDesign but don't need to learn the whole program? This course is ideal for those who will be creating and editing smaller documents (one or two pages only). Learn best practices for setting up your documents, working with images, formatting text and preparing your files for print or PDF. Exercises include creating stationery, flyers and ads. If you need to produce multi-page documents such as newsletters, catalogues, magazine layouts, brochures, fact sheets etc, then the introductory 2 day course which is more indepth, covers those features necessary to accomplish those processes.

Who Should Attend

  • People who will only be using InDesign a few times a month
  • People who will be working on small documents (one and two page layouts) only
  • People who will be mainly editing documents i.e. not having to create or set up themselves.

Prerequisite

Students should have a strong working knowledge of either Mac or Windows.

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InDesign Lite | Outline

The Interface

  • Customising and saving workspaces
  • Moving, docking, collapsing / expanding panels
  • Application bar
  • Smart Guides

The Toolbox

  • Toolbox overview
  • Additional tools
  • Control Panel display
  • Tabbed windows / multiple documents
  • Screen modes
  • Zooming, panning and document navigation
  • Viewing defaults / fit in window / actual size
  • Display performance
  • Contextual menus

Working with Documents

  • Creating and setting up documents
  • Facing pages
  • Bleeds
  • Inserting and deleting pages
  • Pages panel
  • Guides: Ruler, margin and column guides
  • Saving and opening documents

Selections

  • Selecting two or more objects
  • Marqueeing
  • Selecting all objects
  • Selecting text
  • Group and ungroup
  • Duplicating objects
  • Nudging elements
  • Eye dropper tool

Frames and objects

  • Creating frames
  • Rectangle Frame tool vs Rectangle tool
  • Strokes and fills
  • Moving & Resizing objects
  • Locking and unlocking objects
  • Rotating, Scaling & Transforming objects
  • Selecting reference points on control panel
  • Positioning items using X & Y
  • Arrangement Order / Send to back or front
  • Aligning objects using Smart Guides
  • Creating Lines
  • Adding arrow heads

Working with Images

  • Importing Images
  • Image file formats
  • Understanding resolution
  • Links panel
  • Info panel
  • RGB & CMYK
  • Modifying placed images
  • Fitting and resizing images proportionally
  • Display performance

Working with Text

  • Text frames
  • Entering text
  • Selection processes – word / line / paragraph
  • Editing and formatting text
  • Kerning and Tracking
  • Leading
  • Character Formatting – font, size, bold, italic, superscript, subscript etc
  • Paragraph Formatting – alignment, space before / after, indents, etc
  • Rotating text
  • Hyphenation
  • Fonts – serif & sans serif
  • Special characters – en & em dashes, non breaking spaces
  • Using the Glyphs panel
  • Check boxes
  • Importing text
  • Basic Shortcuts
  • Threading text frames

Introduction to Colour

  • Colour Basics
  • Swatches Panel

Exporting and Printing

  • Printing a document and print options
  • Preflight & Packaging

Troubleshooting

  • Reverting, undo and re-do
  • Accessing objects behind other objects
  • Turning Greeking off
  • Setting Guides to the back
  • Checking print resolution quality

Automation

  • Setting application & document preferences
  • Saving document presets
Adobe InDesign Lite Courses
BRISBANE
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May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct
InDesign Lite 27 20 9
24
8
26
10
25
10
25
InDesign Essentials 27 & 28 20 & 21 9 & 10
24 & 25
8 & 9
26 & 27
10 & 11
25 & 26
14 & 15
29 & 30
InDesign Advanced 1 & 2
eBooks: Creating ePubs Available on request.
eMagazines: InDesign to iPad Available on request.
CANBERRA
Select a date to book online now
May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct
InDesign Lite 20 26 15
InDesign Essentials 20 & 21 26 & 27 15 & 16
InDesign Advanced 4 & 5
eBooks: Creating ePubs Available as custom training only.
eMagazines: InDesign to iPad Available as custom training only.
InDesign Interactive PDFs Available as custom training only.
InDesign Accessibility Available as custom training only.

InDesign Lite | Testimonials

"I was extremely happy with the course content, pace, and overall simplicity that all levels of computer users could understand and benefit from."

"The course was very good and practical. We had a great trainer who gave very good explanations. This was a fantastic course – I would recommend it to anyone."

"Loved the class, learnt a lot!"

"Was a great course, very interesting and engaging. Makes me want to learn more!"

"It's great, thorough and applicable to industry requirements. Can't wait to do the essentials course!!"

"Very good course, exceeded my expectations."

"Great course. Very good introduction to Adobe software."

"I really loved this course, teacher and environment. I will be coming back definitely."

"Fantastic. In only a day, I feel I have learnt so much and am so much more equipped to do my job!"

"This is a very helpful course and the trainer was great."

"Thoroughly enjoyable! I would definitely recommend City Desktop and will probably come back soon. Thanks."

"Thank you for an enjoyable and very beneficial day."

"Best training course I have been to. Can't wait to get into practice. Great delivery. Thank you."

"The trainer was great at explaining and very friendly and helpful."

"The trainer did a fantastic job in training us on the very useful tool. I now know why it is so expensive to purchase given the depth of programming it contains."

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