COURSES
COURSES - Graphic Design - ADOBE INDESIGN
Learn To
  • Learn to create newsletters, adverts and other common documents
  • Create templates for pages to improve productivity and consistency
  • Understand how to create special effects with colour and transparency
  • Understand graphic file formats and print terminology
  • Use templates and styles to speed up creating and updating documents

... and much more
Course Audience
Those needing to use Adobe InDesign to produce professional graphic designs. Familiarity with Adobe PhotoShop and Illustrator would be useful but is not essential.
Course Duration
2 Days
Course Overview

Adobe are now firmly established as the leaders in Desktop Publishing tools. Adobes InDesign is becoming established as one of the leading Desktop Publishing tools for the MAC and Windows environments replacing QuarkXpress in many cases.

This course will teach users how to harness the power of InDesign to develop different types of documents. From simple fliers to newsletters users will incorporate graphics created in PhotoShop and Illustrator into different document types. You will learn how to package your document for print to get the most from the final design.

InDesign is designed to complement Adobes Illustrator and PhotoShop tools and make the development of composite documents and manuals easier. InDesign interface will seem familiar to those used to using other Adobe products.

Suitable for both Apple Macintosh Apple and Microsoft Windows Windows

Course Content
  • Page and document layout
  • Configuring preferences
  • Importing text
  • Creating a text frame
  • Defining a text path
  • Type styles and fonts
  • Type options
  • Character and Paragraph styles
  • Bulleting and numbering text
  • Using Tabs and indents
  • Graphics formats
  • Working with PhotoShop & Illustrator files
  • Importing graphics
  • Scanning images
  • Transparency
  • Working with graphic objects
  • Grouping graphics
  • Rotating, scaling, skewing and reflecting images
  • Wrapping text around graphics
  • Creating watermarks
  • Document templates
  • Numbering sections and pages
  • Generating indexes and tables of contents
  • Multi-column documents
  • Linking text frames
  • Creating Tables
  • View modes
  • Borders, and shading
  • Lines, circles, boxes and curves
  • Document headers and footers
  • Using master pages
  • Creating Styles
  • Dealing with colour
  • Graduated fountain fills
  • Swatches
  • Special effects with text
  • Colour separated printing
  • Finishing the document
  • Trapping colours
  • Preparing for final output
Course Objectives

This course teaches through a series of practical exercises how to create professional documents using this powerful DTP tool. Users take home work created during the class on disk and are able to use classes to explore new possibilities for design in their own businesses.

Course Testimonials
"I found this course to be very good. The instructor was very knowledgable and professional and had a very good teaching manner. She was also patient and supportive."

Niamh Marsh – Microsoft

See Also
Fireworks
Adobe Photoshop
iDTP Master Course
Corel Draw
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Acrobat
Course Delivery Options
Classroom Option    Classroom Option
CD-based Option    CD-based Option