Adobe InDesign CS4: Introduction

Overview

This Adobe Indesign course has been designed to allow new users to quickly gain new skills in an application with a similar interface to other Adobe products. Delegates will learn how to create documents for print, understand the several file formats required for 4-colour printing & monitor display, import images from other graphic programs, understand the relationship between line screen, resolution & pixels, use clipping paths to mask image backgrounds.

This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.

Audience

The course is suitable for any user requiring a good knowledge of InDesign. All delegates must have basic Mac or Windows experience.

Course Outline

Managing the Adobe InDesign Environment

Preferences ; Customise Your Workspace ; Set General Preferences ; Manage Document Presets ; Workspace and Window arrangement

Designing Documents

Create a New Document ; Alter a Document?s Layout ; Create the Structure of a Document ; Develop Master Pages ; Manage Text and Graphic Placement Develop Layers

Managing and Formatting Text

Edit Text ; Spell Check Text ; Thread Text ; Find/ Change ; Change Text Threads ; Format Characters & Paragraphs ; Numbering paragraphs ; Text variables ; Manage Styles ; Style Groups ; Quick Apply ; Text Wrap ; Text on a path ; Rules ; The Glyphs panel

Objects

Arranging, Aligning and Distributing ; Transforming, duplicating, rotating, scaling, skewing & mirroring ; The Transform Again commands ; Object Styles ; InDesign Snippets ; Links Panel

Utilising Colours ; Swatches ; and Gradients

Utilise Colour & Swatches ; Apply Fills, Gradients, and Strokes

Managing Transparency

Apply Transparency ; Apply Transparency Flattener Presets

Graphics

File Types ; Importing options ; Image Frames simple ; compound and custom ; Fitting images Control Palette and shortcuts ; Inline graphics

Clipping Paths ; Alpha channels

Importing InDesign documents

Effects

Inner Shadow ; Bevel and Emboss ; Gradient Feather ; Inner Glow and Outer Glow

Tabs and Tables

Create a Table ; Modify a Table ; Format a Table ; Table Styles

Creating Acrobat PDF Files

Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution ; Manage PDF Presets ; Export PDF Files for Printing