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Course Title:   Adobe InDesign level 1 course

Imagine being able to create documents of many types, from single page advertisements and flyers, to complex multi-page colour publications after just 2 days of training!

You are starting to familiarize yourself with print layout and design using Adobe Indesign CS3. You would like to learn about the tools and features available to you in Adobe Indesign CS3. In this course, you will work with some of the tools and features to create eye-catching printed documents using Adobe Indesign CS3.

This Indesign training course allows you to take desktop publishing and design to a new level, combining extraordinary production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat software. Create simple documents and prepare them for print or export as a PDF. Topics in this training course include learning the work area, working with text and graphics, creating simple vector based graphics, and the basics of design.

Through this training course, you can join the growing ranks of creative professionals discovering new levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe InDesign software. Tightly integrated with the Adobe applications you use most, InDesign delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.

Audience

This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals.

On Completion

Upon completion of this course you will be able to navigate and zoom in an InDesign document. Place text and graphics, apply paragraph styles, and create and apply character styles. Edit and apply master pages and override master page items and output an InDesign document to PDF. Learn to control margin, columns, and guides within a document; modify frames and apply the fitting commands to frames and their content. Define colours using the Swatches palette as well as create and apply gradients and tints.

Description

This 2-day instructor-led training course covers the basics of InDesign.

This Indesign training course allows you to take desktop publishing and design to a new level, combining extraordinary production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat software. Create simple documents and prepare them for print or export as a PDF. Topics in this training course include learning the work area, working with text and graphics, creating simple vector based graphics, and the basics of design.

Through this training course, you can join the growing ranks of creative professionals discovering new levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe InDesign software. Tightly integrated with the Adobe applications you use most, InDesign delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.

Adobe InDesign Level 1 Course Outline

Managing the Adobe InDesign CS Environment

• Preferences
• Customize Your Workspace
• Set General Preferences
• Manage Document Presets
• Workspace and Window arrangement

Designing Documents

• Create a New Document
• Alter a Document’s Layout
• Create the Structure of a Document
• Develop Master Pages
• Manage Text and Graphic Placement
• Develop Layers

Managing and Formatting Text

• Add Tex
• Edit Text
• Spell Check Text
• Thread Text
• Find/ Change
• Change Text Threads
• Format Characters
• Format Paragraphs
• Numbering paragraphs
• Text variables
• Manage Styles
• Style Groups
• Quick Apply
• Text Wrap
• Text on a path
• Rules
• The Glyphs panel

Objects

• Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
• Transforming Objects
• Duplicating
• Rotating
• Scaling
• Skewing
• Mirroring
• The Transform Again commands
• Object Styles
• InDesign Snippets
• Links Panel

Utilizing Colours, Swatches, and Gradients

• Utilize Colour
• Utilize Swatches
• Apply Fills, Gradients, and Strokes

Managing Transparency

• Apply Transparency
• Apply Transparency Flattener Presets

Graphics

• File Types
• Importing options
• Image Frames simple, compound and custom
• Fitting images Control Palette and shortcuts
• Inline graphics
• Clipping Paths, Alpha channels
• Importing InDesign documents

Pen & Bezier tools

• Path tools in InDesign

Effects

• Inner Shadow
• Bevel and Emboss
• Gradient Feather
• Inner Glow and Outer Glow

Tabs and Tables

• Create a Table
• Modify a Table
• Format a Table
• Table Styles

Libraries

• Using InDesign libraries

Preparing for Handoff to a Service Provider

• Check Documents for Problems
• Print a Document
• Package Files
• Preview Output
• Print, Separation, Flattening
• Print options
• PostScript, preflighting and Packaging

Creating Acrobat PDF Files

• Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution
• Manage PDF Presets
• Export PDF Files for Printing
  

Course Title 2 Adobe InDesign level 1 course Classification IT -> Design -> Design Adobe Indesign Course Requirements Before taking this course, the student must have basic PC skills, including a basic understanding of a computer's operating system, how to launch an application and create and save files, as well as how to copy files from CDs and other media. Price Notes

Course Information Location Gauteng - Johannesburg Course Type Full-time Start Dates Length of Course 2 days Final Registration Date

Contact Details Name Multimedia Centre Training Phone +27 21 790 3684 Email trainingmultimediacentre.co.za