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| London Bridge | £379 + VAT save £120 | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £379 + VAT save £120 | |||
| London Bridge | £399 + VAT save £100 | |||
| Online | £399 + VAT save £100 | |||
| London Bridge | £429 + VAT save £70 | |||
| London Bridge | £449 + VAT save £50 | |||
| Online | £429 + VAT save £70 | |||
| London Bridge | £479 + VAT save £20 | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| Online | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £499 + VAT |
Day One
Adobe InDesign basics
• Understanding the interface
• Opening existing InDesign documents
• Basic editing of existing documents
Creating InDesign documents
• Adjusting and personalising InDesign's interface
• Create different sized InDesign documents
• Adding and deleting pages
• Optimising documents for print, web or mobile devices
• Speed tips, shortcuts and good practice
Manipulating text and typography
• Adding text to a document
• Importing text from Word and RTF files
• Style text with InDesign's powerful typographical controls
• Creating custom type styles
• Amending and updating custom type styles
• Editing with multilingual spell-check, Find/Change, Story Editor and other advanced features
• Flowing text around pictures and other shapes
Integrating pictures into layouts
• Importing photos and graphics created in a variety of file formats
• Scaling, fitting, cropping and transforming images directly on the page
• How to update, replace and embed images
• Finding lost graphics
• Keeping track of image resolution to ensure top quality results
Day Two
Working with complex layouts
• Using rulers and guides,
• Adding and using layers,
• Using the transform and alignment tools
• Flowing text across columns and pages
• Adding, deleting and moving pages
• Adding automated page numbering
• Creating Parent templates to standardise page designs
Creating colours
• Learn to mix, apply and update your own colours and tints
• Re-using specific mixed colours across different documents
• The difference between RGB and CMYK colours
• Working with RGB and CMYK colours
• Copying colours from photos to produce your own colour themes
Graphical effects
• Adding transparency
• Using drop shadows
• Creating gradients
• Using glows
• Using bevel and emboss to create 3D effects
Using Adobe InDesign libraries
• Building a custom library of layout designs, graphics, type styles and colours
• Using saved library items in InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Sharing library items with colleagues
Saving and exporting InDesign layouts
• Creating press-ready PDFs for print
• Creating ultra-compact PDFs optimised for download
• Publishing InDesign layouts to the web
• Saving designs or documents as JPG and PNG file formats for use on the web, social media, in-app content, etc
Questions and answers
This course is also available as a private course. If you wish we can tailor the content for your team. Please contact us for more details.
"Ian is very knowledgeable and goes at the right pace"
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