Print Layout Design with Indesign Course

Institution Hackney Community College
Method Part-time
Location London
Type Courses
Course fee By request

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Print Layout Design with Indesign Course

Objectives Indesign ten week course

Topics covered

InDesign Interface

The Control Bar

Using tools and palettes

Changing views & navigating

Units and measurements - preferences

Keyboard commands

Setting keyboard commands & preferences

Creating documents

Creating a new document

Single & facing masters

Setting margin guides

Bleed, slug

Changing defaults and preferences

Control Bar

Paragraph Options

Character options

Creating objects and editing objects

Drawing shapes and lines

Modifying existing objects

The Select and Direct selection tools

Selecting moving and duplicating objects

Applying colour to fills and stokes

Using the transform palette

Aligning objects

Pathfinder palette

Working with textframes

How text frames work

Placing and typing text

Threading textframes

Automatic textframe functions

Text Elements and special characters, the Glyph palette

Formatting text

Font type introducing Open Type

Font face/size/colour

Paragraph formatting

Justification Composer

Leading, kerning and tracking

Creating Drop Caps.

Tabs

Creating paths from text

InDesign Tables

Text to table

Importing from Excel

Table options and controls

Table header/footers

Images

Placing images, Resizing images

Clipping Paths & Alpha Channels & transparency

Inline/embedded graphic elements

Repairing broken links /links palette

Importing Photoshop layered documents

Multiple import

Fitting options

Importing Illustrator files

The link palette
Practical experience 100%
Entry requirements Basic word processing, and a familiarity with the Web as a user
Academic title Desktop Publishing Software OCN Level 3
Course description
This course provides a through introduction to Adobe InDesign CS5. Learn how to create and design print documents to various formats.

Practical projects are used to demonstrate various production scenarios. Delegates will learn how to plan, create and edit a range of documents.

Extra support includes after class online tutor support with assessment, exercises files, real world samples, and discussion forum to support during and after training.