training:Courses:Adobe Indesign
Private Adobe Indesign Training Courses in London, UK
Provide yourself or your team with the best training with a bespoke, private Adobe Indesign course, focused on your exact requirements
UNIQUE BENEFITS OF PRIVATE TRAINING
- Customise the course to cover the right topics to suit your needs
- Individual attention allowing you to learn at your own pace
- Work exclusively on your own project
- Freedom to stop and ask as many questions as necessary
- No-one is held back or overshadowed by a larger group
- No external participants mean 100% focus on your business requirements
- Focus and relevance means cost-efficient training time
- Flexibility on timing, group size and location gives added convenience
INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE INDESIGN - COURSE SUMMARY
A one-day, private course designed to equip you with the knowledge and confidence needed to use Adobe Indesign successfully
- Converting QuarkXPress Legacy Files
- The InDesign Environment
- Document Layout
- Laying out pages with Frames
- Working with Text
- Formatting Type
- Working with Styles
- Importing Graphics
- Combining Text and Graphics
- Transparency
- Selecting and Transforming Objects
- Printing
Plus fantastic, exclusive FREE offers for every participant:
- FREE InDesign book
- FREE unlimited telephone and e-mail support
CONVENIENT LOCATION
My flexible approach means your private training can be held at the most convenient location for you. I will be happy to come to your offices or home or if you want to get away from any distractions, We can meet in central london. If the location is a problem or if you are outside of the uk then we can do training over the internet with screen sharing and the session can be recoreded.Duration: 2 day.
Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of using Windows and the Internet is required.
Discover Adobe InDesign, the popular alternative for Quark Express, in this unique course, which covers the use of InDesign for desktop publishing, page layouts, magazines, newspapers and brochures. Adobe InDesign - the next generation in desktop publishing.
This course teaches from the ground up all major aspects of the product, looking at real world examples and creating them in the most effective, efficient and print-friendly way. You will discover new levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe InDesign software. It is tightly integrated with all the Adobe applications used most in businesses. InDesign delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.
COURSE CONTENT
Converting QuarkXPress Legacy Files
- Procedure for converting files
- Pitfalls and considerations
- Customising keyboard shortcuts
The InDesign Environment
- Using the tools and palettes
- Control palette
- Using Context menus
- Opening and closing documents
- Navigating a document
- Recovering a document after failure
- Using the multiple undo feature
- Document presets
Document Layout
- Setting up pages and basic layout options
- Using rulers, guides, grids and layers
- Working with pages and spreads
- Automatic page numbering and sections
- Using master pages
Laying out pages with Frames
- Creating and using frames
- Using the frame tools
- Creating text and graphic frames
- Converting frame types
- Setting frame properties
Working with Text
- The Story
- Linking text
- Importing and exporting text
- Placing text in frames
- Threading text through frames
- Setting text frame properties
- Editing text
- Finding and changing text
- Checking Spelling
- Baseline Grid
Formatting Type
- Formatting characters
- Formatting paragraphs
- Working with tabs
- Working with composition
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
Working with Styles
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Nested Styles
- Overriding local formatting
- Copying styles from other documents
Importing Graphics
- Placing graphics
- Fitting content to frames
- Fitting frames to content
- Managing links and embedded images
- Introduction to working with clipping paths
- Importing native Photoshop files
- Full resolution preview
Combining Text and Graphics
- Drawing shapes
- Drawing and modifying straight lines
- Drawing basic shapes
- Drawing basic freeform shapes
Transparency
- Creating transparency
- Drop shadows
- Blends
- Flattener Preview
- Importing files with transparency
- Printing transparency
Selecting and Transforming Objects
- Moving Objects
- Using the transform palette
- Grouping and Ungrouping objects
- Align
- Pathfinder
Using Colours
- Defining and applying colours from colour libraries
- Importing colours from colour libraries
- Mixed inks
- Loading colours from other applications
- Creating and applying gradients
Tables
- Creating tables
- Merge/Unmerge
- Flowing tables across pages
- Table headers and footers
- Viewing cell frame edges
Outputting InDesign Documents
- PDF/X
- JPEG
- EPS
Printing
- Preparing for commercial printing
- Installing and selecting a PPD
- Separation Preview
- Printing a document
- Performing a pre-flight check before printing
- Packaging files for hand off
- Handing off to a prepress service provider
This course has given me not only the confidence to use In Design but also to play and enjoy it. I look forward to producing some stunning future work.
Sheaffer Slovakia sro Having been on several IT based courses which were, shall we say, a little dull, it was refreshing to come onto a course where the training was done in a way to maintain your interest. Well delivered and covered all of the topics that I needed to know, having a little knowledge already, there wasn`t too much focus on the absolute basics. Very good, relaxed and enjoyable, Thanks
RG Carter Technical Services Ltd Admin. This course was extremely informative, interesting and fun. Alex blatantly has a passion for design and that shows through his training. I would recommend this course to anyone else in my group. It has been a pleasure.
Carter Academy. Very informative, taught me the basics but also some handy tips and tricks to make my work easier. Good to learn from someone who uses InDesign on a regular basis.
Avenir Telecom First class, it refreshed my old Pagemaker skills, and brought me up to date on the CS4 suite. I would recommend it highly.
Sue Schofield Brilliant. it`s inspired me to do illustrator and photoshop course
Concept Design 95 Ltd Excellent content,covered everything I needed and alex was helpful with anything you needed to know or go back over
Dengie Crops Limited The course was useful. I feel able to use in design to produce my inhouse newsletter.
Cardinal Pole School Covered all the topics required. it was good to be aqble to work on own templates.
Stephen Barrable
Sheaffer Slovakia sro Having been on several IT based courses which were, shall we say, a little dull, it was refreshing to come onto a course where the training was done in a way to maintain your interest. Well delivered and covered all of the topics that I needed to know, having a little knowledge already, there wasn`t too much focus on the absolute basics. Very good, relaxed and enjoyable, Thanks
RG Carter Technical Services Ltd Admin. This course was extremely informative, interesting and fun. Alex blatantly has a passion for design and that shows through his training. I would recommend this course to anyone else in my group. It has been a pleasure.
Carter Academy. Very informative, taught me the basics but also some handy tips and tricks to make my work easier. Good to learn from someone who uses InDesign on a regular basis.
Avenir Telecom First class, it refreshed my old Pagemaker skills, and brought me up to date on the CS4 suite. I would recommend it highly.
Sue Schofield Brilliant. it`s inspired me to do illustrator and photoshop course
Concept Design 95 Ltd Excellent content,covered everything I needed and alex was helpful with anything you needed to know or go back over
Dengie Crops Limited The course was useful. I feel able to use in design to produce my inhouse newsletter.
Cardinal Pole School Covered all the topics required. it was good to be aqble to work on own templates.
Stephen Barrable