Adobe
InDesign Lite Course: $595
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 smaller documents (one or two pages only). Learn best practices for setting up your documents, working with images, text and preparing your document for print or PDF. Exercises include creating stationery, tender cover sheets and one page flyers. If you need to do this as well as set up multi page documents, such as newsletters, catalogues, magazine layouts, brochures, fact sheets etc, then the introductory 2 day InDesign course covers the necessary features to accomplish that.
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 and preferably using Word on a regular basis.
Course 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
COURSE OUTLINES
InDesign Essentials
2 day course: $795
InDesign Long Document
1 day course: $595
InDesign Advanced*
2 day course: $895
InDesign Interactivity & Animation
1 day course: $595
eBooks: ePub and Kindle*
2 day course: $995
InDesign to iPad and Tablet*
2 day course: $995
* Prerequisite quiz required.
| MELBOURNE | January | February | March | April | May | June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InDesign Lite | 19 30 |
20 | 13 | 16 | 8 30 |
21 |
| InDesign Essentials | 19 & 20 30 & 31 |
20 & 21 | 15 & 16 | 16 & 17 | 8 & 9 30 & 31 |
21 & 22 |
| InDesign Advanced: |
— | 22 & 23 | 29 & 30 | — | 10 & 11 | 25 & 26 |
| InDesign Advanced Long Documents |
— | 22 | 29 | — | 10 | 25 |
| eBooks: Creating ePubs | — | 8 & 9 | — | 4 & 5 | 28 & 29 | — |
| eMagazines: InDesign to iPad | 19 & 20 | — | 5 & 6 | — | 1 & 2 | 28 & 29 |
| BRISBANE | January | February | March | April | May | June |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InDesign Lite | — | 13 | 6 | — | 1 | 6 25 |
| InDesign Essentials | 30 & 31 |
13 & 14 | 6 & 7 | 2 & 3 | 1 & 2 | 6 & 7 25 & 26 |
| InDesign Advanced | — | — | 19 & 20 | — | — | 27 & 28 |
| InDesign Long Documents | — | — | 19 | — | — | 27 |
| InDesign Interactivity & Animation | — | — | 12 | — | — | 29 |
| eMagazines: InDesign to iPad | — | — | 13 & 14 | — | — | 4 & 5 July |
| eBooks: Creating ePubs | Currently not available as a public course in Brisbane. Private training can be organised onsite. | |||||
