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InDesign CS3 Introduction

Overview

This course is designed to familiarise users with the page layout and design features of InDesign. At the end of the course delegates will feel confident to produce single and multi-page documents.

Prerequisites

Good Mac or PC skills

Course Content

The Interface

Using tools, panels and contextual menus
Changing view sizes and navigating through a document

Creating documents

Creating a new document
Bleeds and Slugs
Opening and saving documents and templates
Using guides, rules and grids
Opening and creating master pages
Understanding Document Presets and Preferences

Creating objects

Drawing shapes and lines
Selecting moving and duplicating objects
The Selection and Direct selection tools
Info panel
Shape to Shape conversion
Changing the size, proportions or orientation of an object
Anchored Objects

Working with text

How text frames work
Importing text
Text frame options
Threading text frames
Character and Paragraph formatting
Basic hyphenation and justification
Using the eyedropper tool
Creating and applying paragraph and character styles

Tables

Working with indents and tabs
Creating, editing and formatting tables
Adding images to tables

Graphics

Understanding graphic formats
Placing vector and bitmapped graphics
Fitting graphics in frames
Placing PDF files
Managing links
Wrapping text around graphics

Colour

Understanding spot and process colour
The swatches panel using swatch libraries
Creating tints and gradients
Applying colour to fills and stokes
Using the gradient tools on fills, strokes and text
Copying attributes between objects
Moving colours between documents.
Sampling colours from imported graphics

Working with objects

Using layers
Stacking objects
Duplicating objects
Aligning and distributing objects

Paths

Drawing with the pen tool
Adjusting points and segments
Placing text on paths
Creating paths from text outlines

Master pages

Creating masters and based on masters
Adding automatic page numbering and other
Working with master page objects

Automating text

Find/Change
Defining Styles
Headers and Footers

Libraries

Creating, indexing and using InDesign libraries

Transparency

Selecting blending modes
Adding drop shadows and feathering edges
Flattener Preview panel

Outputting documents

Setting up documents for printing
Printing options and styles
Exporting PDFs
Snippets

File Management with Adobe Bridge

Using Adobe Bridge in conjunction with InDesign

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Course Booking Conditions

Duration

2 Days

Schedule

1/2 December 2008
15/16 December 2008
5/6 January 2009
29/30 January 2009

Prices

£545

All the bookings come with lunch, refreshments, course notes and post training support.

Late Availability

£450 30/31 October

Costs

Studio Vouchers: £420 or less
Season Tickets: £348

Dates

This course runs monthly or twice monthly at Harlequin Training. We can also run it privately at your site.

Harlequin Training