Adobe InDesign Introduction Online
Learn the basics of Adobe InDesign in the comfort of your own home. Join our Live Online Training Course taught over 2 days. This live online course is aimed at users who have minimal experience using InDesign and would like to learn how to create printed published documents.
- Set up new document attributes
- Create text frames and format text with character and paragraph commands
- Place text and images onto the page
- Work with colour, applying fill and stroke attributes to objects
- Create, manipulate, and arrange basic shapes
- Prepare publications for press
Participants will need to be familiar with Windows or Mac OS and have an understanding of page layout programs.
Before Session:
Please ensure you have downloaded the latest version of the software Adobe InDesign for use within the session. We also require a working computer with a microphone and speaker installed, and an up-to-date web browser for this training. For the best experience we recommend downloading the latest Google Chrome browser.
It is also essential that you have a second screen attached to your computer. This will allow you to watch the online training session and complete the course activities at the same time.
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- Opening a publication
- Navigating the interface
- The toolbox and tools
- Panels and workspaces
- Zooming in/out
- Moving between pages
- Editing text
- Finding and changing text
- Using the story editor
- Previewing your publication
- Printing your publication
- Changing font type and size
- Changing leading
- Aligning text
- Turn off/on hyphenation
- Working with bullets
- Manipulate tracking and kerning
- Eyedropper tool to copy attributes
- Creating text frames
- Placing text
- Placing text and linking to Word
- Threading text frames
- Deleting a text frame
- Columns within a text frame
- Alignment in a text frame
- Resolving overset text
- Place an image
- Fitting an image to a frame
- Resizing frame and contents
- Content grabber
- Adding borders/stroke
- Rotating the frame/contents
- Deleting an image
- Linking and embedding images
- Working with broken links
- Wrapping text around images
- Clipping paths
- Drawing shapes
- Send to back
- Bring to front
- Aligning and distributing elements
- Align to key object
- Understanding CMYK, RGB, Pantone
- Using default colours
- Adding a colour swatch
- Adobe CC libraries
- create a swatch library
- Selecting colours with the eyedropper
- Applying gradients and tints
- Setting up tabs
- Aligning tabs
- Setting indents
- Creating a table
- Formatting a table
- Importing a table from Excel
- Create and apply paragraph styles
- Create and apply character styles
- Editing styles
- Find and change formatting
- Loading styles from other documents
- Create and apply object styles
- Inserting and deleting pages
- Working with master pages
- Page numbering
- Creating multiple master pages
- Create a template
- Turn an existing publication into a template
- Loading a template
- Find fonts
- Create a package
- Create a PDF
- Printer marks in PDF
