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1 day, Macintosh or PC

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Intro To InDesign
Advanced InDesign
InDesign Crash Course
InDesign For Designers
InDesign For Editorial
Quark To InDesign
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Course Outline

Testamonials

This course is specifically geared towards designers who wish to learn Adobe InDesign. As well as an in-depth overview of the program’s text tools, delegates will also learn to take full advantage of InDesign’s excellent graphical capabilities.

By the end of this one-day course, delegates will feel confident working within the InDesign environment, and be able to import text and graphics, and have a solid understanding of the program’s outstanding drawing tools.

InDesign Training – InDesign For Designers CS2 or CS3

The InDesign workspace
Creating a custom workspace
The control panel in-depth
The object pane in-depth
The character pane in-depth
The paragraph pane in-depth

Creating a basic page
Text frame options
Drag copying
Pasting inside a box

Placing text
Autoflowing text
semi-autoflowing text
The info palette

Creating a new document
Bleed and slug
Creating a master page
Creating paragraph style sheets
Creating character style sheets
Creating drop caps
Creating nested style sheets

Placing images and graphics
Colorising grayscale images
Clipping paths
Text wrap
Creating colour swatches
Creating mixed ink groups
Creating colour tints
Creating gradients

Using the pen tool
Expert bezier curve controls
Special effects

Using transparency
Using blend modes

Fills and strokes
Colour control shortcuts

The separations palette
Viewing ink limit
The flattener palette

Using the pathfinder palette
Using the align palette

"Thanks for the training, I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned more than I’ll probably ever remember.

With luck, I’ll be back next year for some Photoshop/Illustrator training."

Campbell Williams, Charterhouse Voice And Data

"I was most pleasantly surprised with the considerable assistance the trainer was able to give me in suggesting significant improvements to the way I have used the software to date.

I now feel I will be able to produce a better product using InDesign with considerably less effort."

Tim Stoneman, Editor, Review of Naval Engineering

Using the eyedropper tool
Using the revolve tool
Using the scale tool
Using the free transform tool

Creating a print ready pdf
Preflighting
Packaging for output