This hands on Adobe InDesign course is suitable for new or existing InDesign users. Learn Adobe InDesign CC to design a magazine, a brochure, and more. Go from beginner to advanced in editorial design. You'll Master the art of creative page layout with Adobe InDesign.
Intermediate to Advanced
2 Day Course
Certification Awarded
Online Resources
Course overview
- Go from Zero to Hero on this 2 Day hands on course that takes you through the Key fundamentals of this amazing layout application.
Skills you’ll learn
- To design for print and screen
- Design and create professional documents from scratch
- Work with text and images and create artwork for posters, fliers and ads
- Save time working with styles and master pages
- Use interactive elements for a more engaging user experience
- Learn the design principles of layout design
Who would benefit
- Existing InDesign users, beginners looking to get an understanding of Adobe InDesign, or upskill to a career into the following creative areas, desktop publishing, graphic design, advertising, marketing, online digital publishing.
Why take this course
- To become proficient in InDesign, to be able to produce a wide range artwork. This includes being able to create and edit long documents, brochures, magazines, annual reports, posters, flyers, press ads and point of sale artwork and design.
Certification
- At the end of the course, you’ll be Certified by the Irish Academy of Computer Training.
- CPD Certification
Requirements
- Course participants must have good computer, file management, keyboard and mouse skills. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required.
- Software is provided in the Classroom and Live Virtual options
Learning paths
- Part of IACT’s Graphic Design Master Diploma
Why choose IACT
- Ireland’s leading training provider for 30 years
- Full-time Certified Trainers who use the software every day
- Smaller class sizes to accelerate learning
Course curriculum
Day 1 : Indesign Course Curriculum
Day 1
On Day 1 you will cover the following topics;
- The Workspace
- Take a look around
- Panels and Palettes
- Starting a New Document
- Print vs Screen
- Spreads or Singles
- Margins and Columns
- Page layout concepts
- Bleed
- Intro to PDF
- Basic Drawing objects
- Document Navigation, Zooming and Panning
- The Stacking order
- An Introduction to Layers
- Grouping and Isolation mode
- The White arrow
- Alignment Tools
- Pathfinder and Shape making
- Vectors and Anchor points
- Working with Images
- Adobe Bridge
- The Place command
- Rectangle Frame tool
- Fitting options
- Linked files
- Errors
- Resolution and Colour space
- Intro to Text
- Basic Character formatting
- Leading Tracking Kerning
- Text Alignment
- The Pasteboard
- The Surfer exercise day 1 recap from zero to hero
Day 2 : Indesign Course Curriculum
Day 2
On Day 2 you will cover the following topics;
- Output to PDF
- Print settings, Screen settings, Interactive settings
- Export to other file formats
- The Swatches palette
- Gradient swatches
- Tint swatches
- Pantone References
- Text advanced
- Tabs
- Rules
- Tables
- Paragraph formatting
- Styles
- TOC
- Text boxes
- Linking
- Flowing
- Columns
- Working with pages
- Pagination
- Spreads and singles
- Master pages
- Page numbering
- Overview of online content
- Recipes layout exercise recap of Day 2
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