InDesign Training

Exploring the InDesign Environment

In this section of the training, we familiarize you with interface; teach you how to customize your workspace and set preferences.

Designing Documents with InDesign

Designing documents is the cornerstone of InDesign. We teach you how to create and alter document layouts. Furthermore, we teach you how to develop master pages and manage text and graphics placement.

Managing Text

Creating great looking text is important to professional documents. We teach you how to create professional looking text. After completing this section of the course you will be able to manage styles, add, edit, spell check and format text.

Utilizing Colors, Swatches and Gradients

Black and white documents, although professional are boring to look at it. In this part of the class, we will teach you how to use colors to spice up your document. We will also make use of the swatches palette to do this more efficiently. Other features of InDesign will also be taught, such as how to apply Fills, Gradients and Strokes.

Adding Transparency

Transparency is a nice feature that can be used to create certain effects. For instance, you can have images overlap or have a background images. We will teach you how to apply transparency.

Adding Tables

Tables are used to display data in an organized and effective manner. This part of the training, we will teach you how to create, modify and format tables.

Preparing for handoff to a Service Provider

After you finish creating a document you might want to send it to printing. However, certain problems might arise. We will teach you how to prepare your document to avoid problems.

Creating Acrobat PDF Files

Sending off documents to a printing press or publishing the document on the web might require special file formats. At the end of this course, we teach you how to create a document in the widely used Adobe Acrobat PDF file format.

Building Character and Paragraph Styles

With InDesign Styles feature you can make your documents more consistent and save you time when global changes are needed. We will show you how to manage, import, redefine and update your Styles.

Controlling Text

With InDesign Styles feature you can make your documents formatting more consistent and save you time when global changes are needed. We will show you how to manage, import, redefine and update your Styles.

Handling Page Elements and Graphics

With a large document there are usually large amount of graphics that need to be managed and modified. We make this easier by teaching you how to manage libraries, handle duplicate items, use the Adobe Bridge and perform operations on images.

Importing and Exporting Files

InDesign can import from several types of files. We teach you how to import Layered Files and export PDF Files.

Print Settings

With InDesign you can create print settings for printing your documents and re-use them at a later date. In this section, we show you how to create Print Presets and how to preview Print Output.

Prerequisites:

• Basic Mac or Windows skills: copying/pasting, right-clicking (contextual menus), finding files, switching between programs, exploring windows