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.

Design, edit, create, print...

Newsletters, flyers, stationery, adverts ...

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

Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Canberra

SYDNEY Select a date to book online now	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct
InDesign Lite	21	25	25	26	23	1 Nov
InDesign Essentials	13 & 14 21 & 22	4 & 5 13 & 14 17 & 18 25 & 26	1 & 2 9 & 10 17 & 18 25 & 26	5 & 6 13 & 14 21 & 22 29 & 30	4 & 5 9 & 10 17 & 18 26 & 27	2 & 3 15 & 16 21 & 22 29 & 30
InDesign Advanced	14 & 15	27 & 28	29 & 30	26 & 27	—	10 & 11
InDesign Long Documents	14	27	29	26	—	10
eBooks: Creating ePubs	—	21	15	26	—	11
eMagazines: InDesign to iPad	9 & 10 30 & 31	17 & 18	3 & 4 24 & 25	13 & 14 29 & 30	19 & 20	9 & 10 28 & 29
InDesign Interactivity & Animation	8	—	5	9	6	18
InDesign Accessibility	—	12 (AM)	—	2 (PM)	—	1 (PM)

MELBOURNE Select a date to book online now	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct
InDesign Lite	15	24	24	28	19	25
InDesign Essentials	28 & 29	13 & 14 24 & 25	9 & 10 24 & 25	5 & 6 15 & 16 26 & 27	10 & 11 19 & 20	2 & 3 15 & 16 28 & 29
InDesign Advanced	—	—	22 & 23	28 & 29	—	7 & 8
eBooks: Creating ePubs	—	17	31	—	6	18 Nov
eMagazines: InDesign to iPad	6 & 7	4 & 5	8 & 9	20 & 21	—	1 & 2
InDesign Interactivity & Animation	—	—	12	—	30	—
InDesign Accessibility (1-4.30pm)	27	—	—	21	—	15 Nov

BRISBANE Select a date to book online now	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

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Laura, Marketing Assistant and Freelance Writer

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

Kelley, Events Manager

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

Vanessa, PA

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

Jane, Executive Assistant

"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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