Course Dates
- Monday 2nd - 4th August 2010 \ 2 places book now
Adobe InDesign is a professional layout programme designed to produce professional brochures, books, magazines and many other PDF or print based marketing - anything from a standard 3rd A4 flyer to War and Peace. With its powerful interface you can quickly create layouts, manage images, import tables and formatted text content. InDesign's ability to create templates and manage large amounts of styled content makes it simple to produce and globally adapt entire documents. InDesign also has the potential to produce outputs for print press, PDF and even a fully functioning website.
The InDesign software is designed to work closely with other Adobe Creative Suite packages such as Bridge and Photoshop to allow you to quickly and easily import and manipulate typography, tabular data and graphics. Adobe's Bridge file manager has been well integrated into InDesign allowing efficient image replacement and access to all other working files on your system or within other Adobe software giving you control over the content without the need to open the native programme.
Course Requirements
To attend the InDesign training course you should have experience using either the Windows or Mac interface and be capable of basic file management. No previous design software skills or experience is required, but a basic knowledge of any graphic design or Adobe software is a useful starting point.
Course Description
The InDesign training course will first guide you through the workspace allowing you to create and store the screen setup for the way you like to work or to allow you to define layouts for any task you will undertake. A short practice with a working document that already includes styles, text, structure and images will give you a good understanding of the properties, views and many of the editing tools to provide you with an overview of the potential of this highly capable piece of software.
Stage two is to break down each area of InDesign, looking at all aspects of layout and document production. Text and typography, takes you into the world of global styles, data importing and formatting text boxes and frames, from both a layout and design angle.
Working with images, focuses on the importing of different file formats such as PSD, AI, EPS, JPEG and more. We also pay close attention to the tools and skills needed to manipulate plus manage the layout and format of all illustrations, vector shapes and photographic images.
Managing large amounts of content with high levels of formatted text and tabular data is a common occurrence when producing many InDesign documents, so special attention is being paid to all the skills you will need to manage, update and globally adapt any part of these vast documents.
Templates are the key to easy management and quick workflow; with this in mind we will be looking at all aspect of styles, from text and objects through to master pages and layout templates.
The Adobe Bridge file management program allows you access to sophisticated functionality when used in conjunction with InDesign. The relationship between these two programmes will help you work faster and smarter, also allowing you to let the client select different versions or different image collections within a single design proof.
Finally we will look at the output functions within InDesign for producing proofs, in-house printing, print press and believe it or not full CSS (cascading style sheet) web pages. A guide through the pre-flight process will allow you to check your entire document for any potential print problem and the packaging facility will ensure all components and job information are stored together ready for the final print run.
Course Trainer
Paul has over ten years experience in the fields of web design, graphic design and photography; using InDesign to produce brochures, course books, documents and other marketing material for artists, councils, Universities, and independent projects plus developing online training and e-learning documentation. Published works include an insight into Product Photography and guidance articles on marketing for new designers to aid them to develop a flexible marketing strategy. Currently working with midlands based businesses as a marketing consultant, plus training for several companies bringing a broad spectrum of design and development skills and a great deal of experience in production and layout knowledge to the table. This industry awareness is transferred into the course material to give you real skills to take into your chosen market.
Course Location
This InDesign training course is run from our rooms in Nottingham's prestigious Lace Market area which is a part of the city's main commercial district. This is serviced by a state-of-the-art tram system allowing easy access to the city centre as well as direct hourly rail services from London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Derby and Leicester.
Course Details
- Course Duration :
3 days | 9.30am - 5pm - Course Location :
Lace Market, Nottingham, UK - Course Price :
£495 - Software Version :
InDesign CS4
Course Overview
The course covers the following areas :
- The Basics
- The Workspace
- Manipulating panels
- Saving your workspace
- Zooming and views
- Terminology
- Preflight and constant preflight
- Guides, slugs and bleeds
- Creating text
- Text threading
- Pages
- Creating new documents
- Custom pages
- Master pages
- Creating new pages
- Numbering your pages
- Arranging pages
- Applying page templates
- Frames
- Understanding frames
- Using layers
- Editing text and image frames
- Aligning elements
- Transforming elements
- Text
- Importing text
- Applying format & styles
- Text properties
- Manipulating text
- Import styles
- Finding text
- Spell checking
- Typography
- Text properties
- Paragraph properties
- Alignment selections
- Advanced options
- Colour
- Correct document setup
- Producing colour swatches
- Working with gradients
- Producing gradient swatches
- Producing tints
- Colour management options
- Styles
- Paragraph styles
- Character styles
- Nesting styles
- Object styles
- Table styles
- Globally managing styles
- Importing styles
- Images
- Working with Bridge
- Importing images
- Working with vectors
- Working with bitmaps
- The links panel
- Clipping paths and alpha channels
- Libraries
- Transparency
- Setting transparency
- Text and transparency
- Other effects
- Tables
- Importing a table
- Creating a new table
- Placing images with tables
- Table formatting options
- Books and long documents
- Creating a book
- Footnotes
- Cross-reference
- Table of contents
- Indexing
- Final output
- Preflight
- Packaging
- Producing Proofs
- Previewing options
- Non Standard outputs
- Online documents
- Interactive components
- Exporting to Adobe Flash
- Exporting to Adobe PDF
- Converting print documents for web