Adobe InDesign is the premiere page layout tool and a joy to use. Designed for seamless integration with other Adobe products,
InDesign is changing the standards of editorial, catalogue and advertising production. In this series of hands-on courses, students learn the
secrets of InDesign at every level.
InDesign Level One 3 days | $995 + GST
Comprehensive study of the basics. Prerequisite: familiarity with computer/mouse and proficiency in at least one software application.
- the toolbar
- the work area
- the palettes
- setting up a new document
- navigation and adobe bridge
- creating margins, columns, guides and setting up rulers
- creating and editing master pages and templates
- creating frames for graphics and text
- feathering, shadows and corner effects
- organizing elements in the layers palette
- creating colours, tints and gradients
- importing, pouring, flowing and autoflow of type
- editing and formatting type
- typography basics and opentype fonts
- creating paragraph and character styles
- managing links and libraries
- integration with illustrator, photoshop, acrobat
- importing content from microsoft office
- creating functional and editable tables and forms
- preflight, package
- creating web and press ready pdf files
- converting quark express and pagemaker files
InDesign Level Two 2 days | $695 + GST
This course focuses on advanced techniques for prepress or publishing. Prerequisite: Level 1 or permission of the instructor.
- using photoshop clipping paths
- transparency techniques
- advanced typography and formatting
- creating nested styles and snippets
- compound paths and pathfinder
- working with the pen tool
- text and image tables
- story editing and glyph sets
- sections, books and auto pagination
- creating interactive acrobat pdf forms
- grouping documents and generating book lists
- generating an index and table of contents
- advanced clipping paths, transparency and feathering effects
- generating and index and table of contents
- advanced typography and formatting
- preparing files for commercial printing in pdf format
- creating hyper linked pdf files
- creating interactive pdf's
- network publishing techniques using pdf, xml and xmp
- crop marks, slugs
- colour mapping
Migrating to Adobe InDesign 2 days | $695 + GST
This course is those with experience in either Adobe PageMaker or QuarkXPress. Prerequisite: Experience with Pagemaker or Quark XPress.
- user interface - similarities with illustrator and photoshop
- shortcuts
- eyedropper tool for styles and colour
- layers, colour palettes, characters palette
- unlimited undo and redo keyboard shortcuts
- preferences
- document creation and page sizing
- colour palette and swatches palette
- creating a custom colour
- placing text
- linking text frames
- formatting text manually
- formatting text with paragraph and character styles
- optical margin alignment
- optical kerning
- paragraph composer
- adding colour
- working with open type
- glyphs palette
- working with transparency
- placing native ps files
- text wrap
- drop shadows
- importing of .doc and .xls files
- tables
- printing documents
- features such as thumbnails, printing of guides etc.
- pdf export
- libraries
Editorial Adobe InDesign 2 days | $695 + GST
This workshop was designed for people working on publications. Prerequisite: Experience with Pagemaker, Quark XPress, or Illustrator.
- the toolbar
- the work area
- the palettes
- setting up a new document
- navigation and adobe bridge
- creating margins, columns, guides and setting up rulers
- creating and editing master pages and templates
- creating frames for graphics and text
- feathering, shadows and corner effects
- organizing elements in the layers palette
- creating colours, tints and gradients
- importing, pouring, flowing and autoflow of type
- editing and formatting type
- typography basics and opentype fonts
- creating paragraph and character styles
- managing links and libraries
- integration with illustrator, photoshop, acrobat
- importing content from microsoft office
- creating functional and editable tables and forms
- preflight, package
- creating web and press ready pdf files
- converting quark express and pagemaker files
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