InDesign 1
Dates:
21-22 April, 23-24 June & 15-16 November 2010 (a two-day course)
Price:
£490+VAT (a number of discounts are available)
Venue:
The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)
Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability
"Teaching style was excellent, calm and informative. Good surroundings."
CUP delegate
If you want to create your own InDesign documents from inception to printing, or will be checking and editing documents created by others, this course will give you the solid grounding you need to make the most of InDesign's features. The course is suitable for first time users, and you don’t need any prior knowledge of other page layout software. If you already have a good knowledge of QuarkXPress, you may find From QuarkXPress to InDesign more suitable.
Using a range of exercises, you'll learn to use the software in specific contexts. You also have the option of sending your own materials (text and images) to us in advance, so that you can work with them in the exercises. This means you can tailor the course more directly to your own needs.
Programme
Day one
- InDesign’s user interface
- Palettes, menus and how to manage them
- The workspace, multiple views and document presets
- Working with text
- Importing text and other file types
- Editing text files
- Formatting text
- Character and paragraph attributes
- Styles - including nested character styles and importing styles from Word
- Colour
- Spot, process and additional colours
- Layers and transparency
- Using drawing tools with the colours palette
Day two
- Creating longer documents
- Master pages and page numbering
- Text flow and linking text files
- Images
- Image formats
- Linking and embedding images
- Links to Adobe Photoshop
- Pre-press with InDesign
- Pre-flight checks and printing
- Converting to PDF files with Acrobat, Export versus Print
- Separations and overprint previews
- Repurposing and cross media publishing
- InDesign and XML
- Preparing files for the Internet
Note: This course is taught using Adobe CS 3.
Your tutor
Sally Hughes is a freelance trainer and consultant specialising in design and layout software, typography and document design. She has authored a report on the use of information technology in editorial practice and written a book 'Design and Typography in Easy Steps'.
Sally maintains close links with the publishing industry and provides in-house training to companies such as Oxford and Cambridge University presses, Lion Hudson plc and Elsevier. She holds a part time appointment as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Publishing at Oxford Brookes University.
We also offer QuarkXPress 1.
Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in-company events.
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Dates: 21-22 April, 23-24 June & 15-16 November 2010
Price: £490+VAT (a number of discounts are available).
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