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| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT |
Day One
Adobe InDesign basics
• Understanding the interface
• Opening existing InDesign documents
• Basic editing of existing documents
Creating InDesign documents
• Adjusting and personalising InDesign's interface
• Create different sized InDesign documents
• Adding and deleting pages
• Optimising documents for print, web or mobile devices
• Speed tips, shortcuts and good practice
Manipulating text and typography
• Adding text to a document
• Importing text from Word and RTF files
• Style text with InDesign's powerful typographical controls
• Creating custom type styles
• Amending and updating custom type styles
• Editing with multilingual spell-check, Find/Change, Story Editor and other advanced features
• Flowing text around pictures and other shapes
Integrating pictures into layouts
• Importing photos and graphics created in a variety of file formats
• Scaling, fitting, cropping and transforming images directly on the page
• How to update, replace and embed images
• Finding lost graphics
• Keeping track of image resolution to ensure top quality results
Day Two
Working with complex layouts
• Using rulers and guides,
• Adding and using layers,
• Using the transform and alignment tools
• Flowing text across columns and pages
• Adding, deleting and moving pages
• Adding automated page numbering
• Creating Parent templates to standardise page designs
Creating colours
• Learn to mix, apply and update your own colours and tints
• Re-using specific mixed colours across different documents
• The difference between RGB and CMYK colours
• Working with RGB and CMYK colours
• Copying colours from photos to produce your own colour themes
Graphical effects
• Adding transparency
• Using drop shadows
• Creating gradients
• Using glows
• Using bevel and emboss to create 3D effects
Using Adobe InDesign libraries
• Building a custom library of layout designs, graphics, type styles and colours
• Using saved library items in InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Sharing library items with colleagues
Saving and exporting InDesign layouts
• Creating press-ready PDFs for print
• Creating ultra-compact PDFs optimised for download
• Publishing InDesign layouts to the web
• Saving designs or documents as JPG and PNG file formats for use on the web, social media, in-app content, etc
Questions and answers
This course is also available as a private course. If you wish we can tailor the content for your team. Please contact us for more details.
"Matt offered real world examples for InDesign and was able to show us how to do the documents our company produce."
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