InDesign Introduction Training Course 2018
This InDesign Training Course is ideal for 121’s, company groups or larger team roll-outs and anybody looking to get up to speed with InDesign’s interface and tools. It’s aim is to get you designing and producing your own spreads and layouts from scratch. This is a trainer led course combining demonstration, scenario discussions and exercises on the computer. During the InDesign course you will learn the tools, features and techniques used in professional design every day to create a range of documents by the end of the course.
Relative to your industry (construction, marketing, sales, design, publishing etc) these InDesign Courses can be tailored to your content including flyers, reports, financial reports, tenders, brochures, training materials, POS documents, stationery, banners etc. During the course you will look at how type, images and colour are used to produce and publish highly communicative and professional looking spreads for output.
- Edit & Update existing documents
- Create New Documents (including bleed, slug, margins & columns)
- Work with colour, typography and use grids and guides to publish accurate and consistent looking documents
- Understand the tools, features and techniques used to create highly effective and communicative layouts and spreads
- Learn to edit and work with existing documents, create & format new documents from scratch
- Publish to various outputs including InDesign, PDF and Export
Onsite InDesign Course
This is an onsite InDesign training delivered as 121 sessions, company groups and large team roll outs. Onsite training has many benefits, the main one being that you benefit from a personal but professional approach to your InDesign Training.
- The training is focused entirely on your and your company requirements
- No traveling involved for you or your team saving travel & expenses
- Cheaper than traditional training
- The approach is focused specifically on you and your specific needs this is not a generic one size fits all course.
- Prior to the training you chat with me about your aims, content preferences and levels of delegate /s knowledge
- InDesign course is tailored to suit you /or your team
- Flexible dates & times to suit you
Laptop Hire
Short of a laptop or 6? If so, then I can supply laptops and projector hire and take care of all aspects of your InDesign training course – again, please don’t hesitate to get in touch for an informal chat about your needs. Upon arrival the laptops will be pre-loaded with your preferred version of the software and set up prior to the training. All that is needed from you is the delegates and electric sockets.
Being Midlands based means that I travel extensively across the UK and including all major cities, Leicester, Nottingham, Liverpool, York, Leeds, Sheffield, Oxford, Cheltenham, Chester, Crewe
InDesign Introduction Training Course 2018 - Overviews
Getting started
Creating and saving a document
New document setup
Tools / panels
Document navigation
Print /Web /Mobile Options
Imagery
Placing images
Editing images / graphic frames
Image formats
Graphic frames
Smart layout
Guides
Grids (including baseline grid for individual text frames)
Rulers (zero point)
Smart Guides
Tab Handling
Tab palette
Tab characters
Editing tabs
Adding leaders
Text Basics
Text frames
Formatting Text frames
Text frame properties
Text frame – multi column setup
Colour
Colour models, RGB, CMYK & Pantones
Create New colour
Edit existing colour
Accurate colour for print
Objects
Working with Objects
Effects
Corner Options
Stroke Panel
Stroke Weight
Stroke Options
Stroke Arrows
Print output
- Preview
- Preflight
- Export (print) to .PDF
Type Handling & Manipulation
Placing text
Character styles / Paragraph styles
Typography and layouts
Text frames
Combining Type and Imagery
Text and graphics
Text wrapping
Text wrap options
Clipping paths
CC Libraries
Creating a Library
Editing a Library
Sharing Libraries
Library Text Assets
Pages
Creating New Pages
Deleting, reordering pages
Understanding Shuffle options
