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InDesign CS3: Introduction
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Public scheduled course £435
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Adobe InDesign CS3 combines immensely powerful typographic and page layout controls with a wide range of creative options. Our two day Adobe authorised introductory course is designed to enable you to make the most of the power of InDesign CS3 and will highlight how to use InDesign to create richer, more complex documents.
Day one of the course concentrates on building an InDesign document from scratch using the versatile layout and text handling features. Day two will explore more advanced layout and typographical controls, clipping paths, working with layers, multi-page documents and creating PDF files.
This is an introductory course for new users of InDesign. If you are an experienced QuarkXPress user migrating to Adobe InDesign, we offer a two day InDesign migration course designed specifically for your requirements.
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DAY ONE
The InDesign interface
• Creating a new document
• Creating and using frames
• Selecting frames and content
• Introducing layers
Working with text
• Placing text
• Selecting and editing text
• Handling missing fonts
• Working with glyphs
• Drag and drop text
Formatting characters
• Character-level formatting
• Choosing a composer
• Hyphenation and justification
• Using the Eyedropper tool
• Creating drop caps
Working with styles
• Character and paragraph styles
• Creating styles
• Editing and applying styles
• Introducing nested styles
• Removing style formatting
• Organising styles using Style Groups
Importing graphics
• Different file formats
• Placing graphics
• Placing multiple graphics
• Manipulating graphics
• Understanding fitting options
• PSD and PDF layer options
Combining text and graphics
• Wrapping text around graphics
• Introducing snippets
Understanding colour
• Spot and process colours
• Loading swatches
• Working with swatches
• Using stroke and fill options
• Creating tints
• Sampling colours from images
Laying out pages accurately
• Using rulers, grids and guides
• Using the Info panel
• Creating grids
• Working with layers
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DAY TWO
Multi-page documents
• Using the Pages panel
• Targeting pages and spreads
Editing copy
• Using the Story Editor
• Using Find/Change
• Using the Spell Checker
Introducing transparency
• Creating drop shadows
• Feathering edges
• The Flattener Preview panels
Transforming objects
• Scaling objects vs contents
• Transforming objects
• Grouping and ungrouping
Finessing text content
• Threading/unthreading frames
• Flowing text through frames
• Multi-column text frames
• Setting text frame options
• Document baseline grids
• Redefining styles
• Hanging punctuation
• Using special characters
• Viewing composition options
Working with Master Pages
• Master Page guidelines
• Creating and editing Masters
• Applying Master Pages
• Auto-numbering pages
• Basing one Master on another
• Overriding Master objects
• Reapplying Master objects
Combining text and graphics
• Image import options
• Images with clipping paths
• Creating a new clipping path
• Removing image backgrounds
• Editing clipping paths
• Tolerance and threshold options
• Advanced text wrap options
Exporting and printing
• Exporting as a PDF
• Performing a pre-flight check
• Packaging files for handoff
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