- Cost
- £220.00 per delegate + VAT.
- Dates
- 23rd Sep 2010
- 21st Jan 2011
- 24th Jun 2011
- 9th Dec 2011
Course Description
In this course delegates will be introduced to Adobe InDesign and its capabilities as a design tool for multi-page document layout. They will cover advanced text handling and text wrapping techniques, working with tables and spot colours using object libraries. Delegates will explore shortcuts, work flow management issues and receive hints and tips.
Pre-Requisites
Delegates should be completely comfortable with all aspects of the InDesignIntroduction course. Basic IT and Windows for PC users or OSX skills for Apple Mac users.
What you will learn
- Preferences and defaults
- Saving and loading workspace
- Create keyboard shortcuts and templates
- Sectioning, numbering and making changes to master pages
- Specify custom grids using guides
- Using baseline grids
- Layers
- View, search, sort, manage and process images
- Customise .les and folders in content area
- Create and save groups in Bridge centres
- Setting colour management
- Create custom Glyph sets and special characters
- Inserting and using white space and break characters
- Optical margin alignment and optical pair kerning
- Flow text and inline graphics
- Manage hyphenation and justification
- Advanced paragraph and character formats
- Indents and spacing, tabs, bullets and numbering
- Nested styles
- Automatically copying style formats
- Inserting type and objects onto paths
- Create type outlines, compound and clipping paths
- Compound paths and shapes
- Drawing with the pen and pencil tool
- Drawing and editing Bezier paths
- Using transparency and drop shadow options
- Applying blending modes and feathering
- Updating Links palette
- Separation and transparency flattener previews
- Checking clipping paths
- Check Prefight before packaging document
- Exporting PDF for print