InDesign CC level 1 beginner class

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 CC level 2 advanced class

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.