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Scheduled:

Date Location Duration Cost
26 Jun 2012 (Tue) Washington 1 £ 295
27 Sep 2012 (Thu) Washington 1 £ 295
23 Nov 2012 (Fri) Washington 1 £ 295
All prices exclude VAT

Private:

This outline is available as a private course. Please contact us to arrange this course at a venue and date of your choice.
Private courses can be held at your site or one of our training venues, and can be customised to fit your requirements.

You can choose to have a private course based on an existing outline or you can choose the most applicable lessons from a number of different outlines and consolidate them into one course.

We can also write bespoke courses to fit your specific requirements, whether you require training on a standard application or a bespoke inhouse system.

Please contact us to discuss this further on 0191 377 8377.

Course Overview

Adobe InDesign is Adobe's answer to QuarkXpress. This course, aimed at those who have attended the Introduction to InDesign, will introduce the advanced tools and techniques through hands on exercises and theory. Delegates will gain an understanding of InDesign's power features.

Prerequisites

Course Content

Overview of Basics

    Formatting type
    Placing graphics
    Working with colour
    Text wrap
    Columns
    Layers
    Master pages

Drawing

    About paths
    Drawing basic shapes and lines
    Drawing with the pen tool
    Adjusting path segments
    Using the scissor tool
    Using the stroke palette
    Using corner effects
    Working with compound paths
    Creating paths from text outlines

Images

    About vector graphics and bitmap images
    Resolution for bitmap images
    Preparing graphics to be imported
    Alternate methods for importing graphics
    Exporting pages to EPS format

Colour

    About spot and process colour types
    Using the toolbox colour controls
    Using the swatch palette
    Using swatch libraries
    Using the colour palette
    About tints
    Creating and updating tints and their base swatches
    Adding colours from other documents
    Working with gradients
    Applying gradients to text
    Trapping

Colour Management

    Setting up colour management
    Calibrating your monitor
    Obtaining, installing and updating CMS profiles
    Turning on CMS and setting up default source profiles
    Colour-managing colours you create in your document
    Preparing imported graphics for colour management
    Importing images into a colour-managed document
    Colour-managing documents for online viewing
    Embedding profiles in output

Creating And Distributing PDF Files

    About PDF
    Exporting a document to PDF
    Producing PDF files for high-resolution composite workflow
    Preparing a document for on-screen viewing
    Setting PDF export options

Printing

    Preparing for commercial printing
    Changing default print settings
    Printing page marks
    Ensuring your resolution and line screen produce 256 grays
    Printing gradients
    Specifying the emulsion and polarity
    Performing pre-flight checks before printing
    Packaging files for hand off
    Proofing final output

Training Options

  • Scheduled public courses at one of our training venues
  • Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at one of our training venues (Durham, Newcastle or Washington) or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • Bespoke course written to your specific needs, at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • For further information please contact us on 0191 377 8377

What's Included

  • 1 delegate per computer
  • Relaxed refreshment area at our training venues
  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venue
  • Comprehensive course manual and exercises
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