InDesign CS3: Introduction for Beginners (2 day)

Course Overview

Learn all about the InDesign page layout and design application. You will learn how to use it proficiently and see how it works seamlessly with Photoshop and Illustrator, providing an integrated design environment.

Audience

The course is suitable for any user requiring a good knowledge of InDesign CS3.

Prerequisites

Skills needed before the course:

• A basic systems knowledge.

Course Outline

• Getting started
• The Indesign workspace
• Document navigation
• Pages, rulers, guides, margins, bleeds and slugs
• Creating new documents
• Creating and deleting pages
• Creating frames, paths and lines
• Working with objects
• Grouping objects
• Stacking order
• Duplicating and reusing objects
• Step and repeat
• Aligning objects
• Using object styles
• Scaling, skewing and rotating objects
• Working with text
• Importing text into Indesign
• Text frame options
• Threading text frames
• Find/change
• Character formatting
• Paragraph formatting
• Tabs
• Text wrap
• The glyphs palette
• Introducing style sheets
• Using dynamic spell checking
• Working with tables
• Importing, resizing and cropping images
• Understanding graphics formats
• Using the info palette
• Links palette
• Display performance
• Placing multiple files into Indesign
• Colour in Indesign
• Strokes and borders
• Understanding colour modes
• Understanding process and spot colours
• Defining colours
• Applying colours
• Using gradients
• The swatches palette
• Using the Indesign effects palette
• Understanding master pages
• Adding automatic page numbers
• Using Layers
• Printing and output
• Creating PDFs

InDesign CS3: Introduction for Beginners (2 day) / AIDCS3-12