This online Adobe InDesign CC course is delivered by highly qualified instructors based here in the north east of the UK. Course materials will be sent to attendees 2 days prior to the course.
InDesign Intro - 2 days - £265
- Managing Your Workspace
- Setting up a new document
- Zoom and scroll shortcuts
- The Control Bar
- Customising the Pages window
- Basic working methods
- The Selection tools
- The Drawing tools
- Other tools
- Creating, editing and applying colours
- Flat colour
- Gradients
- Pantone (‘spot’) colours
- Creating / editing paragraph & character styles
- Linking text frames
- Text frame options
- ’Span’ and ‘split’ text
- Using tabs
- Checking spelling
- Find / Change
- Tracking and horizontal scale
- Creating ‘placeholder’ text
- Importing text
- Glyphs
- Text Wrap
- Importing images into InDesign
- Scaling and rotating images
- Transparency
- Cropping images
- Auto-fit
- Re-linking images
- Placing multiple images simultaneously
- Special effects
- Using layers
- Automatic page numbering
- Adding and deleting document pages
- Getting around in a multi-page document
- Preflight
- Creating a table style
- Creating cell styles
- Header rows
- Adding a header row style to a Table Style
- Importing tables from Excel
- Re-linking to new data
- Creating a low-resolution PDF
- Creating a High Resolution PDF
InDesign Advanced - 2 days - £265
- Organising your workspace
- Zoom and scroll shortcuts
- Advanced view options
- Master page tips and tricks
- Customising the Pages window
- Using Facing Pages
- Starting a new ‘section’
- Page shuffle
- Using Libraries
- InDesign File Formats
- Advanced Style Sheet Tips
- Text Gradients
- Flowing text into a document
- Creating type outlines
- Removing text frames from a thread
- Breaking a text thread
- Separating text with the Tab command
- Inserting and formatting footnotes
- Creating ‘Story Jumps’
- Moving column guides
- GREPS
- Text Variables
- Changing Case
- Using the Pen Tool
- Cutting / joining drawn lines
- Compound paths and the Pathfinder window
- Using the Eyedropper tool
- Using the Colour Theme tool
- CMYK vs. RGB and Pantone vs. process
- Creating a CMYK workflow
- In-line Graphics
- Anchored Objects
- The ‘paste in place’ command
- Inverted text wrap
- Transparency and other effects
- Placing multi-layered (‘.psd’) files
- Selecting a ‘hidden’ object
- Pathfinder and Align
- The Book option
- Numbering & Section Options
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Hyperlinks
- Bookmarks
- Buttons
- Interactive PDF forms
- Pop-ups
- Adding a movie or sound
- Creating a low-resolution PDF
- Making a High Resolution PDF
- Colour Management Systems (CMS)
- Changing the number of sides in a polygon
- Creating a grid of objects
- Making a slideshow