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Design beautiful PDFs, eBooks, pamphlets, magazines, and more with Adobe InDesign!
This course is designed for people who wish to master the fundamentals of Adobe InDesign. Learn to use its full potential by completing exercises producing ads, brochures, magazine, newsletter layouts and forms. This hands-on course covers the basics of working with text frames, formatting, graphics and links, colours and libraries.
Participants will learn more advanced features of styles, layers, master pages, and templates. By the end of the course, participants will be able to generate book files and prepare documents for print and other media.
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Course Overview
Audience:
This course is designed for new users of InDesign.
Prerequisites:
Participants must have a working knowledge of a computer and Windows. It is important to be are familiar with the mouse, using standard menu commands and basic file management techniques.
Inclusions
Training Manual with step-by-step instructions
Practice files with relevant to the training material
Training Completed files you are free to take away any completed files for review
Unlimited online support as training does not stop when you walk out our door
Course Content
The Work Area
- Starting InDesign
- The InDesign work area
- Changing magnification levels
- Navigating through a document
- Working with layers
Page Layout
- Creating a new document
- Open/Save documents
- Setting basic layout options
- Grids, Guides and rulers
- Pages and Spreads
- Adding Pages
- Defining Sections
- Numbering Pages
- Adding Section Marker Text
Working with Masters
- Editing Master pages
- New Master pages & Master Spreads
- Applying Master pages & spreads
- Over-riding Master page items
- Layers and Master pages
- Adjusting layouts
Text
- Creating Text Frames
- Setting Text Frame options
- Linking and unlinking text frames
- Cutting and pasting text frames
- Adding a new frame to a story
- Entering and flowing text
- Importing text
- Editing text
- Checking Spelling
- Find and Change
- InDesign tagged text
- Aligning Text vertically
- Threading Text
Typography
- Character formatting
- Letter, word spacing and Kerning
- Fills and strokes
- Paragraph formatting
- Alignment and indents
- Styles
- Copying Styles from other documents
Text and Graphics
- Page Rules
- Text wrap
- Converting Text to Outlines
- Inline Frames
- Placing Text on a Path
- Using graphics from other programs
- Managing links
- Placing a Photoshop file
- Placing a PDF file
Drawings
- Drawing basic shapes
- Points and Paths
- Using the Pencil and Pen tools
- Drawing curved segments
- Drawing techniques
- Creating compound paths
- Smoothing paths
- Erasing paths
- Corner effects
- Strokes, fills and gradients
Transforming
- Moving objects
- Scaling and Rotating
- Reflecting and Shearing
- Locking objects into position
- Aligning and distributing objects
Colour and Transparency
- Colour management
- Apply colour & gradients to objects
- Creating a Tint
- Creating a spot colour
- Applying colour to text
- Applying transparency settings
Tables
- Importing and formatting tables
- Adding graphics to tables
- Formatting text in tables
Output
- General Printing controls
- Scale and Fit
- Printing Postscript to disk
- Pre-flight and package
- Exporting to PDF
Delivery Options
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Classroom sessions are delivered at a nominated location (Private courses only). Inclusions: |
Full Day Sessions: Half Day Sessions: |
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Live online sessions are instructor-led in a virtual environment, providing hands-on instruction and practical activities for participants. Participants can see the instructor screen and interact with the instructor and other participants. Instructor can assist participants on their screen if necessary. Participants can join a session from any location using the Course Invitation. There is no need for software just a computer with an internet connection and a browser. Public sessions are conducted through Live Online. Inclusions: |
Full Day Sessions: Half Day Sessions Times:
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Available InDesign Essentials courses
| Event | Event Date | Location | Individual Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe InDesign Essentials | 27-03-2025 | Live Online | $995.00 | |
| Adobe InDesign Essentials | 26-05-2025 | Live Online | $995.00 |
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