InDesign 6 week Evening Class

This popular two day course covers the core Adobe InDesign tools needed to give you a strong head start. This course is taught in person by an experienced  designer. You will learn how to create professional marketing materials that really stand out. The course allows plenty of activities to practice what you have learnt, giving you the confidence to hit the ground running.

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Items Covered

Changing view sizes and moving between pages 
Interface

Quick methods to use panels 
Organising panels 
Creating workspaces 

Objects
Creating objects 
Transforming objects 
Selecting objects with the content grabber 

Apply and adjust corner effects 
Corner Effects 
Duplicating and aligning objects 
Incorporating QR codes 
Using Smart Guides to align, rotate and resize objects 
Using gap tool to adjust and manipulate objects 
Drag and drop on Anchored Objects 

Creating Documents
Working with Master Pages 
Page numbering options 
Creating and using Layers 
Managing objects within layers via the layers palette 
Creating and using Baseline Grids 
Adding and deleting pages 

Strokes Panel
Use the Strokes Panel
Bullets and Numbering 

Text
Selecting text 
Formatting text 
Spanning text across columns,
balancing columns 
Kerning and Tracking controls 
Paragraph formatting 
Filtering font choices 

Dealing with overflow matter
Using the Story Editor 
Using Linked Stories 

Linking frames and text flow options 
Spell Checking 
Paragraph Rules 
Text Frame Options 
Smart Text Reflow 

Style Sheets
Creating and using Paragraph style sheets 
Creating and using Character style sheets 

Editing and overriding style sheets 

Object Styles
Creating and editing basic object styles 
Using Library files  

Images
Placing images 
Using the Mini Bridge to place images 
Options for fitting images in frames 

Scaling images 
Placing multiple images 
Checking image resolutions, colour space and image links 
Image cut-outs 
Text Wrap 
Text wrap options 
Allowing text to ignore Text Wrap  

Colour
Creating CMYK and Spot colours 
Applying colours to fills and strokes 
Creating and using Gradient swatches  

Working with transparency
The Effects panel 
Applying effects 
Checking for rasterised text under transparency  

Working with Tables
Creating tables from delimited files, Excel spreadsheets
or Microsoft Word tables Basic table and cell formatting options 

Preparing documents for Press
Printing 

Font management - using Document Fonts 

Live Preflight –fixing problems, alerts notifications 
Packaging files for printing 
Creating PDFs