Introductory Course
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courses:
Thursday 5th and Friday 6th January 2012
Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st January 2012
Location:
Pearse Street, Dublin 2
Price: €599
now only €459 including course notes, lunch and unlimited e-mail
support.
Contact us to tailor this course and run it on your own premises.
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What will I be able to achieve by the end of this course?
This Adobe InDesign course is designed for new users of InDesign who have little or no previous experience of desktop publishing. Starting from first principles, delegates will be led through the procedures for creating new documents and modifying existing ones, and will consolidate their knowledge by means of a series of carefully constructed exercises at each stage. The course may also be suitable for users of QuarkXPress or Adobe PageMaker wishing to transfer their skills to Adobe InDesign.
At the end of the course, delegates should feel confident and enthusiastic about using InDesign to create a range of simple but well laid-out documents including short, design-intensive publications such as flyers, leaflets and newsletters, through to longer single chapter books, catalogues and brochures.
Click here to view samples of the kind of documents you can expect to produce during the course.
This InDesign training course can be tailored to a clients particular needs.
Topics covered during this InDesign training course will include:
- The Traditional Publishing Process
- The Desktop Publishing Process using InDesign
- Understanding InDesign Views – Story Editor & Layout
- The InDesign Toolbox
- The Control Palette
- Docking, Undocking and Floating Palettes
- Setting InDesign Document and Application Preferences
- Understanding the InDesign Selection Tools
- Converting QuarkXPress and Adobe PageMaker Documents
- Retrieving (Opening) Documents
- Saving your Work
- Creating a New Document
- InDesign Document Setup
- Importing (Placing) Pictures and other Graphic Elements
- Understanding the Difference between Bitmap and Vector Graphics
- Using Rectangular, Elliptical and Polygonal Frames as Containers for Graphics
- Cropping, Sizing & Scaling Images
- Wrapping Text Around Frames & Graphics
- Moving & Transforming Frames & Graphics
- Applying Fills & Strokes
- Drawing Lines & Boxes
- Adding Type to a Page with the Type Tool
- Importing (Placing) Text
- Formatting Text
- Working with the Story Editor
- Spell Checking, Search & Replace
- Linking and Unlinking Text Frames
- Drop Caps and Bullets
- Choosing and Using Typefaces Effectively
- Understanding Leading, Kerning, Tracking etc.
- Typesetting for maximum readability
Inserting a Table in an InDesign Document
Adding Text to a Table
Adding Pictures to a Table
Formatting Text in Tables
Merging & Splitting Table Cells
Inserting/Deleting Rows & Columns
Setting the Grid & Border Properties
- Creating and Using Paragraph Style Sheets
- Creating and Using Character Style Sheets
- Using the Master Text Frame
- Automatic Page Numbering
- Headers & Footers
- Applying, Editing and Creating Colour Fills & Strokes
- Using Pantone and Other Colour Matching Standards
- Converting Pantone Colours to Process CMYK Colours
- Print options
- Output to PDF
- Some Common Output Problems explained – Fonts and Picture Formats
This course is offered by PPA Education & Training, an independent training organisation which is in no way connected with the trading entity known as Adobe Systems Incorporated. No attempt is made herein to represent PPA as an agent or representative of Adobe Systems Inc., and the courses described on this website are not endorsed or authorised in any way by Adobe Systems Incorporated.