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This 2-day Introduction course helps you learn about the tools and features available in Adobe InDesign CC. We will help you understand how this industry-leading program takes desktop publishing and design to a new level, and combines production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat software. You will learn to create attractive, simple documents and prepare them for the web and for print. We will guide you in learning the work area, working with text and graphics, creating simple vector-based graphics, and the basics of design. You will also learn how to apply consistency to your text through the use of paragraph and character styles.

Creative professionals appreciate the freedom and productivity gains made possible through the use of Adobe InDesign. We will show you how to improve your workflow by harnessing InDesign's integration with other popular Adobe programs.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

Navigate the InDesign environment
Design documents and save them as Acrobat PDF files
Add effects to objects
Apply paragraph and character styles
Use colours, swatches, and gradients
Manage transparency and use tables
Prepare for hand-off to a service provider
Our goal is for you to be able to create simple but professional documents that are ready to use for the web and for print.

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This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals.

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The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Getting started in InDesign
Customise Your Workspace
Workspace and Window arrangement
Create a New Document
Zooming in and out
Moving around your document
Using Control panel options
Previewing your document
Managing and Formatting Text
Add Text
Edit Text using Story Editor
Spell Check Text
Find/ Change
Character formatting options
Paragraph formatting options
The Glyphs panel
Showing Hidden Characters
Threading Text
Handling images
Adding images
Cropping images
Resizing images
Adding Text Wrap
Understanding different image file types
Using the Links panel
Understanding and checking resolution
Colours, Swatches, and Gradients
Adding colour to Fill/Stroke
Adding Swatches
Understanding the difference between CMYK, RGB, Pantone colours
Creating tint swatches
Creating Gradients
Stroke settings
Objects
Creating different shapes
Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
Transforming Objects
Duplicating
Layers
Object Styles
Applying Effects
Shape and corner options
Paragraph and Character Styles
Setting up Paragraph Styles
Setting up Character Styles
Changing Paragraph & Character styles
Parent Pages
Setting up Parent pages
Applying a Parent page
Using Parent pages with facing pages
Adding page numbers
Overriding Parent page items
Preparing a document for Printing
Using Preflight for basic checks
Print a Document
Packaging Files
Exporting to PDF

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