You can quickly acquire the skills you need to leverage
InDesign's powerful capabilities on this comprehensive Two day training
course.
Discover the power of cross media publishing.
You will learn how you can publish documents in print, on-line, or even on mobile devices such as phones, iPhones and iPads.
You will create interactive documents (SWF files) for playback in Adobe Flash Player that will engage your audience. Uncover the the techniques of creating interactive PDF documents with embedded sound and video, or sophisticated layouts for print publishing, using this versatile package. You can download A 30 day trial of the latest version of Adobe InDesign from Adobe.com
With many indispensable features, and fantastic integration with other Adobe applications, such as Photoshop, Acrobat and Illustrator, InDesign makes creating sophisticated and professional print documents easier than ever.
Course Outline:
- Introduction to the InDesign interface
- customising the workspace
- Setting view options
- Creating your own keyboard shortcuts
- Creating New Documents
- Adjusting document layout
- Using rulers and guides
- Using and re-using snippets
- Working with documents created with earlier versions of InDesign
- Opening QuarkXpress documents in InDesign
- Inserting, deleting and re-ordering pages within a document
- Creating master pages
- Overriding master pages
- Using parent/child master pages
- Re-using master pages creating in other documents
- Using text
- Text frames
- Placeholder text
- Threading from one text frame to another
- Importing text
- Auto-flow text
- Text in a curved or straight path
- Working in the Story Editor
- Auto correct and spell checking your documents
- Creating and using text variables
- Graphics within InDesign documents
- Importing graphics
- Embedding links to graphics files
- Editing the original graphic
- Fitting graphic size to frame or frame size to graphic or both
- Transparency and clipping path settings
- Setting colour tints on images - e.g. making photographs look sepia
- Colourizing images
- Formatting and effects
- Drop shadows
- Feathering edges
- Transparency
- Strokes and fill
- Managing and arranging Objects
- Stacking order of objects within a layer
- Staking order of layers within the document
- Objects within objects i.e. nesting objects within one another
- Grouping objects together
- Locking objects
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Text wrap and anchored objects
- Transforming Objects
- Using interactive objects e.g. Flash, within your InDesign document
- Stretching, rotating, skewing, scaling, mirroring and duplicating objects
- Text formatting
- Changing case
- Drop caps
- Justification , hyphenation rules and tabs
- Styles
- Applying a style to individual characters
- Applying a style to whole paragraphs
- Applying a style to objects
- removing unwanted styles from imported text
- Working in colour
- Creating and using colour swatches
- finding Un-named colours
- Using Pantone ® colours
- Exporting and printing
- Exporting as PDF document
- Using pre-flight options before printing
- Packaging your document before sending to the print shop
Costs for TWO day Adobe InDesign CS5.5 Training Course presented at your offices, to different numbers of people.
1 Person = £630
2 People = £1140
3 People = £1680
4 People = £2200
5 People = £2700
6 People = £3180
All prices are in UK pounds sterling and exclude VAT @ 20%
With only 2 people being trained, on-site courses becomes very cost effective. Especially when compared to sending people away to an anonymous centre, miles from your office. Like all our courses, it can be customized to suit you, your staff and your project.
For larger groups - more than 6 people - call us now on 0845 458 8343 for favourable deals on larger groups.
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