Fundamentals of Adobe InDesign CS5

Duration: 2 Days

Objectives

This Adobe certified course is designed for anyone who needs to understand the fundamental features and uses of InDesign CS5 and the best way to use these to create brochures, newsletters, flyers and other page designs.

Pre-requisites

Basic working knowledge of Windows or Macintosh operating systems.

Course includes

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.

Dates

Dates	Location	Price	Book Now
20 - 21 Sep	Bristol	£350	Book Now
27 - 28 Sep	London	£445	Book Now
11 - 12 Oct	London	£445	Book Now
11 - 12 Oct	Bristol	£445	Book Now
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All our courses run in London and Bristol or at your offices. For alternative dates, please email or call us on 0208 269 4260
All prices are per person and exclude VAT

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Course outline

Navigation
• Quick methods to change view sizes and move between pages

Interface
• Quick methods to use panels
• Organising panels
• Creating workspaces

Objects
• Creating objects
• Transforming objects
• Selecting objects with the content grabber
• Apply and adjust live corner effects
• Corner Effects
• Duplicating and aligning objects
• Using Smart Guides to align, rotate and resize objects
• Using gap tool to adjust and manipulate objects

Object Styles
• Creating and editing basic object styles
• Using Library files

Strokes
• Use the Strokes Panel

Text
• Selecting text
• Formatting text
• Spanning text across columns and balancing columns
• Kerning/Tracking controls
• Paragraph formatting
• Dealing with overflow matter
• Using the Story Editor
• Linking frames and text flow options
• Spell Checking
• Bullets and Numbering
• Paragraph Rules
• Text Frame Options
• Smart Text Reflow

Style Sheets
• Creating/using Paragraph style sheets
• Creating/ using Character style sheets
• Editing/overriding style sheets

Images
• Placing images
• Using the Mini Bridge to place images
• Options for fitting images in frames
• Scaling images
• Placing multiple images
• Checking image resolutions, colour space and image links
• Image cut-outs

Text Wrap
• Text wrap options
• Allowing text to ignore Text Wrap

Colour
• Creating CMYK and Spot colours
• Applying colours to fills and strokes
• Creating and using Gradient swatches

Creating Documents
• Working with Master Pages
• Page numbering options
• Creating and using Layers
• Managing objects within layers via the layers palette
• Creating and using Baseline Grids
• Adding and deleting pages

Working with Tables
• Creating tables from delimited files, Microsoft Word tables, or Excel spreadsheets
• Basic table and cell formatting options

Working with transparency
• The Effects panel
• Applying effects
• Checking for rasterised text under transparency

Preparing documents for Press
• Printing options
• Live Preflight - potential production problem alerts while designing
• Font management - using Document Fonts
• Packaging files for printing
• Creating PDFs