This training course provides the InDesign user or QuarkXPress converter the ability to hone their skills and increase their knowledge of Adobe InDesign CS3 to an advanced level.
Using prior InDesign or QuarkXPress knowledge, students will create complex documents and work with a variety of palettes and tools to further understand and utilize the capabilities of this high-end design application. We recommend this course for those planning to migrate from QuarkXPress to InDesign or to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert status.
This Indesign training course allows you to take desktop publishing and design to a new level, combining extraordinary production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat software. Create simple documents and prepare them for print or export as a PDF. Topics in this training course include learning the work area, working with text and graphics, creating simple vector based graphics, and the basics of design.
Through this training course, you can join the growing ranks of creative professionals discovering new levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe InDesign software. Tightly integrated with the Adobe applications you use most, InDesign delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.
Converting legacy Quark files
Procedures, pitfalls and considerations when converting
Setting InDesign to use Quark keyboard shortcuts
Tools and Floating palettes, hiding/ showing palettes, contextual menus
Document recovery after a crash
Adobe Bridge, managing assets
Creating and using Snippets
Multiple undos
Preferences and defaults
Text frame tool, create/resize text frames. Text frame options
Paragraph styles - Indents, (hanging/1st line), drop caps, paragraph rules, paragraph spacing. Eyedropper to tool to copy text attributes. Adobe paragraph/single line composer
Hyphenation and Justification
Basic character/paragraph styles
Smart styles
Object styles
Selection and Direct Selection Tools
Creating picture frames, importing pictures, resizing and cropping, filling/ stroking frames. Embedding and Linking Pictures
Drawing shapes, modifying, filling/ stroking, Beziér shapes with Pen Tool
Tables - creating, modifying, converting text to tables, gridlines
Grouping/ungrouping, Locking and Unlocking items, duplicating, constraining, transform/arrange items
Basic use of colour, setting up and defining colours
Creating gradients
Master pages, page and layout options
Working with Layers
Transparency, blending, feathering, drop shadow effects, Transparency Flattening
Setting up and using InDesign Libraries
Preflighting and Packaging
Creating/Importing PDFs
Printing simple/complex documents
Questions and Answers
Some previous use of Quark Xpress or other DTP / page layout programme. Before taking this course, the student must have basic PC skills, including a basic understanding of a computer's operating system, how to launch an application and create and save files, as well as how to copy files from CDs and other media.
Graphic professionals who are already experienced in Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress and want more in-depth knowledge of the application and the management of complex documents.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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