Course description
Adobe InDesign - Saturday Intensive: This intensive introductory course over three Saturdays is designed for those keen to grasp the basics of Adobe's industry-standard page layout software Adobe InDesign CC . You will learn how to import images and combine them with edited text to produce brochures, fliers, magazines etc. Your course will explore the power and versatility of Adobe InDesign CC in a series of practical exercises designed to build your knowledge and develop confidence in your creative ability to use this industry-standard image manipulation program for design purposes.
Topics covered include:
- navigate the InDesign interface
- the inDesign toolbox
- set up a document: size, orientation, single pages and spreads
- measuring, rulers
- format pages: margins, guides and grids, columns
- insert/import text and images
- cut, copy and paste text and graphics
- reposition and resize text and images
- format text: font styles, sizes and weights; text justification and kerning; wrap-around text; reversed-out text, text set along a path; indents, bullet points and drop caps
- create rules and borders
- colour page elements
- save and print document
- individual project
Course outcomes:
You will learn how to design leaflets and posters using Adobe InDesign
You will learn how to export and print your design.
You will learn how to choose between appropriate file formats such as PDF print & PDF interactive.
Topics covered include:
- navigate the InDesign interface
- the inDesign toolbox
- set up a document: size, orientation, single pages and spreads
- measuring, rulers
- format pages: margins, guides and grids, columns
- insert/import text and images
- cut, copy and paste text and graphics
- reposition and resize text and images
- format text: font styles, sizes and weights; text justification and kerning; wrap-around text; reversed-out text, text set along a path; indents, bullet points and drop caps
- create rules and borders
- colour page elements
- save and print document
- individual project
Course outcomes:
You will learn how to design leaflets and posters using Adobe InDesign
You will learn how to export and print your design.
You will learn how to choose between appropriate file formats such as PDF print & PDF interactive.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is suitable for beginners to Adobe programmes, however you should have a basic working knowledge of computers, and ideally Mac computers so you can get started knowing how to work the basic commands. This course will most likely be taught in our Mac suite, so a basic working knowledge of Apple Mac computers would be desirable.
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