Adobe InDesign CS4 Introduction Training

This Adobe Indesign CS4 Introduction training course is designed for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers and marketing professionals.

Prerequitites: No prior knowledge of InDesign is assumed.

This 2-day Adobe InDesign Introduction training course covers the following areas:

· Introduction to desktop publishing concepts
o The InDesign Screen, Menu’s and Tools
o Customise your workspace
o Setting preferences

· Document design
o Altering Layout
o Create the Structure of a Document
o Develop Master Pages
o Manage Text and Graphic Placement
o Develop Layers

· Creating Basic Drawn Elements
o The Selection and Direct Selection Tool
o The Tool & Colour Palettes
o Grids, rulers and guides

· Working with Text
o Add/Edit & Spell Check
o Thread and Wrapping Text
o Find/ Change
o Dealing with missing fonts
o Change Text Threads
o Format Characters and Paragraphs
o Numbering paragraphs
o Hyphenation and justification
o The Eyedropper tool
o Creating drop caps
o Edit, Apply and Manage Styles
o Style Groups & Nested Styles
o Quick Apply
o Text on a path
o Rules
o The Glyphs panel

· Working with Objects
o Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
o Transforming Objects
o Group & upgroup
o Duplicating, Rotating, Scaling, Skewing, Mirroring
o The Transform Again commands
o Object Styles
o InDesign Snippets
o Links Panel

· Colours, Swatches, and Gradients
o Spot & Colour process
o Use Colour & Swatches (Sample colour)
o Apply Fills, Gradients, Tints and Strokes

· Managing Transparency
o Apply Transparency
o Apply Transparency Flattener Presets

· Frames
o Threading/unthreading frames
o Flowing text through frames
o Multi-column text frames
o Document baseline grids
o Hanging punctuation
o Using special characters
o Composition options

· Graphics
o Common Graphic file formats
o Importing & Enhancing Graphics Files
o Image Frames - simple, compound and custom
o Fitting options
o Inline graphics
o Clipping Paths, Alpha channels
o Tolerance and threshold options
o Creating Text Run-arounds

· Pen & Bezier tools
o Path tools in InDesign

· Effects
o Inner Shadow
o Bevel and Emboss
o Gradient Feather
o Inner and Outer Glow

· Tabs and Tables
o Create, Modify and Format a Table
o Table Styles

· Multi-page documents
o Using the Pages panel
o Targeting pages and spreads
o Edit copy with the Story Editor

· Master Pages
o Guidelines
o Creating and editing Masters
o Applying Master Pages
o Auto-numbering pages
o Basing one Master on another
o Overriding & Reapplying Master objects

· Libraries
o Using InDesign libraries

· Printing & Export
o Checking documents for problems
o Printing
o Package Files
o Preview Output
o Print, Separation, Flattening
o Print options
o PostScript, preflighting and Packaging

Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Files

Enliten IT will provide each delegate with a workbook and other useful reference materials where applicable.

On successful completion of this Adobe InDesign CS4 Introduction training course delegates will be able to:

• Design documents
• Manage text
• Utilise colours, swatches, and gradients
• Manage transparency
• Utilise tables
• Create Acrobat PDF files and prepare for printing

Please request information to find out the cost of this Adobe InDesign CS4 Introduction training course.

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