Adobe InDesign – Essentials 2 Days | 12 hours | $795 PLUS TAX

This is the InDesign course most Ottawa professionals need. Starting from scratch, you'll learn everything required to create ads, brochures, newsletters, and product sheets that look genuinely professional. Our most popular InDesign course -- people walk out amazed at what they produced in just a few days. Prerequisite: Basic computer skills.

Introduction

» the control panel

» the tools

» customizing your workspace

» changing page magnification

» navigating around the page

Getting to know InDesign

» working with text

» working with graphics

» working with objects

» placing graphics and text

» working with colour

InDesign documents

» creating a new document

» working with master pages

» adding new pages

» creating a library

Working with objects

» creating basic and complex shapes

» working with the pen tool

» anchoring images in text

» wrapping text around an object

Flowing Text

» flowing text into an existing frame

» creating text frames while flowing text

» flowing text automatically

Editing Text

» finding and changing a missing font

» entering and importing text

» finding and changing text and formatting

» check spelling

Formatting Text

» type size and leading

» adjusting letter spacing

» working with columns

» paragraph alignment

» paragraph spacing

» setting tabs

Working with colour

» rgb vs cmyk

» creating and applying colors

» working with gradients

» creating a tint

» working with Pantone colours

Styles

» paragraph and character styles

» object styles

» updating styles globally

» loading styles from another document

Importing and modifying graphics

» vector vs bitmap graphics

» managing links to placed graphics

» adjusting display quality

» updating revised graphics

» linking text and Excel files

Tables

» converting text to a table

» inserting a table

» formatting tables

Transparency

» opacity

» blending modes

» using transparency to enhance design

» working with effects

Printing and Exporting

» preflighting files

» packaging files

» adding bleed

» adding slugs

Creating PDFs

» press-ready PDFs

» PDFs for email and the web

Our goal is to make sure your class meets your objectives, not ours. This outline is intended as a guide to provide structure for the workshop. Don’t be afraid to ask questions outside the box; our instructors are experts in the use of InDesign at all levels and are prepared to answer your questions on the fly.