About This Course
The Indesign beginner is an instructor-led, hands-on training course. This Adobe InDesign training course enables candidates to design a variety of layouts for both print and digital publications. Candidates learn step-by-step, the basics of the software so they can create their own print and digital materials.
This training course is available in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Australia and Live Virtually
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- No software knowledge is required for this course.
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There is no exam associated with this training course
- Course material for Indesign beginner provided
- Instructor-led Classroom Training at our premises
- Live Virtual Online Training attend in real-time from anywhere
- In-House Training at your premises (4+ participants)
- Discuss how the application can be used and start working with it.
- Set up and create a new document
- Work with and change workspace elements
- Use basic navigation
- Work with pages
- Work with layers
- Understanding colours and how to use them
- Work with graphics
- Work with text
- Ensure documents are ready for printing
- Use the help menu and access online help resources.
- Use the help menu and access online help resources.
- Starting with Adobe InDesign
- Understanding the application
- Starting the application
- The welcome experience
- The workspace
- Understanding workspaces
- Opening an existing document
- Closing a document
- Exiting
- Setting up a document
- Understanding document presets
- Adjusting the units of measure
- Creating a document preset
- Creating a new document
- Using new document preview
- Saving a new document
- Working with a workspace
- The tools panel
- Using selection tools
- Displaying and hiding rulers
- Working with workspaces
- Creating a custom workspace
- Understanding panels
- Displaying and hiding panels
- Floating and docking panels
- Working with the status bar
- Navigating
- Understanding screen views
- Changing screen views
- Using the hand and zoom tools
- Using shortcut menus
- Using keyboard shortcuts
- Working with tabbed documents
- Arranging multiple documents
- Working with pages
- Inserting pages
- Navigating pages
- Understanding master pages
- Creating master pages
- Creating ruler guides
- Locking, unlocking and clearing guides
- Viewing and hiding the grid
- Adjusting column guides
- Setting document bleed and slug
- Inserting auto page numbering
- Applying a master page
- Deleting pages
- Layers
- Understanding layers
- Creating a new layer
- Naming layers and assigning colours
- Assigning objects to layers
- Reordering layers
- Hiding and viewing layers
- Working with colour
- Understanding colour
- Stroke and fill
- Understanding the colour panel
- Applying a fill colour
- Applying a stroke colour
- Selecting colours using the eyedropper
- Selecting colours using the swatches panel
- Adding colours to the swatches panel
- Creating a gradient
- Creating a colour group
- Creating a colour theme
- Removing colour
- Frames and shapes
- Understanding frames
- Creating frames and shapes
- Transforming shapes
- Merging shapes using pathfinder
- Duplicating objects
- Arranging objects
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Grouping objects
- Creating an outline
- Placing graphics in an outline
- Working with graphics
- Understanding graphic file formats
- Placing graphics in a document
- Positioning graphics within a frame
- Fitting graphics
- Understanding linked graphics
- Navigating the links panel
- Linking and embedding files
- Placing inline graphics
- Creating a clipping path
- Applying text wrap
- Creating a caption
- Changing display performance
- Working with text
- Understanding text
- Applying type style
- Changing font size and leading
- Changing the vertical text alignment
- Threading text frames
- Importing text from Microsoft Word
- Adjusting kerning
- Adjusting tracking
- Editing text in place
- Editing text with the story editor
- Preparing for printing
- Running preflight check
- Printing a document
- Defining a print preset
- Understanding ink handling terms
- Creating a postscript file
- Exporting to PDF
- Soft proofing
- Packaging a document
- Getting help
- Understanding the help menu
- Using help
- Searching for online help