InDesign - Beginners
InDesign CC level 1 beginner class
Sorry, we currently do not have any public classes scheduled for the InDesign level 1 class.
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InDesign CC level 1 beginner class
Course Description:
This course is focused on editing and creating layouts for brochures, newsletters, books, magazines and even interactive documents.
Learning Objectives:
This course will get you started with the basic concepts of InDesign and give you a path to continue your mastery of the application. This is a great primer for those seeking their Adobe certification.
After taking this course you will be able to:
- Customize the InDesign interfaces
- Edit an existing InDesign document
- Setup a new InDesign document
- Work with text and typography
- Use Styles to format text
- Access hidden text characters using the Glyphs panel
- Import and edit text, images and graphics from other applications
- Edit text and graphics Frames
- Create and manage layers for more organized InDesign documents
- Use Master Pages to quickly format document pages
- Mix and apply custom colors to document objects
- Import colors from color libraries like Pantone®
Target Audience:
This course is for anyone involved with desktop publishing - magazines, collateral material, ads, DVD covers, and even books can be created with InDesign. This is a great course for beginners just starting out with the tool.
InDesign CC level 1 beginner class
Course Details:
1. Getting Started
- Topic A: The Adobe InDesign environment
- Topic B: Preferences and defaults
- Topic C: InDesign Help
2. Basic Documents
- Topic A: New documents
- Topoic B: Text frames
- Topic C: Graphics frames
- Topic D: Custom colours
3. Guides and Master Pages
- Topic A: Object positioning
- Topic B: Master pages
4. Typesetting
- Topic A: Text frame threading
- Topic B: Paragraph formatting
- Topic C: Styles
5. Modifying Items
- Topic A: Text frame options
- Topic B: Graphics
- Topic C: Grouped items
- Topic D: Layers
6. Finalizing Documents
- Topic A: Printing and exporting documents
- Topic B: Preparing for commercial printing
Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.
InDesign - Advanced
InDesign CC level 2 advanced class
Sorry, we currently do not have any public classes scheduled for the InDesign level 2 class.
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InDesign CC level 2 advanced class
Course Description:
This course is directed towards InDesign users and publishing professionals with a basic working knowledge of InDesign. The focus of this course is on some of the finer points of desktop publishing with InDesign including creation of interactive documents.
InDesign CC level 2 advanced class
Course Details:
1. Efficient layout
- Topic A: Document setup
- Topic B: Tint and gradient swatches
- Topic C: Object libraries and snippets
- Topic D: Item spacing
2. Vector paths
- Topic A: Creating vector paths
- Topic B: Vector paths and pictures
- Topic C: Vector paths and type
3. Typography
- Topic A: Manual type resizing
- Topic B: Automated styles
- Topic C: Graphics in typography
- Topic D: Precise leading control
- Topic E: Composition, hyphenation, and justification
- Topic F: Horizontal spacing
4. Graphics
- Topic A: Layer comps
- Topic B: Transparency
- Topic C: Object styles
- Topic D: Transforming objects
5. Tables
- Topic A: Creating tables
- Topic B: Changing table structure
- Topic C: Formatting tables
6. Text Editing
- Topic A: The story editor
- Topic B: The CS Review panel
- Topic C: Special characters
- Topic D: Column, frame, and page breaks
7. Long Documents
- Topic A: Sections
- Topic B: Tables of contents
- Topic C: Indexes and cross-references
- Topic D: Books
- Topic E: Footnotes
Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.