Course Overview:
Adobe InDesign is a high powered desktop publishing program, used across the industry to create professional publications. This course will quickly bring you up to speed on creating, editing and formatting documents.
Course Objectives:
- Creating and editing professional looking documents.
- Understanding the basics of Desktop Publishing.
Course Content:
Getting started
The Adobe InDesign environment.
Basic documents.
Item position, using Smart Guides, Smart Dimensions and Smart Spacing.
Structuring multi-page documents
Multi-page documents.
Master pages.
Typesetting
Text frame threading.
Paragraph formatting.
Styles.
Modifying items
Text frames.
Graphics.
Grouped items.
Layers.
Finalising documents
Outputting documents.
Commercial printing preparation.
Creating contact sheets.
Preferences
InDesign preferences.
Document settings.