Duration: 2 Days
Course Overview
Adobe InDesign is the industry-standard tool for page layout.
Introduction to InDesign training provides a thorough grounding, teaching key techniques for creating effective page layouts.
The course includes a session covering the latest AI features available in InDesign.
Provides a thorough grounding in page layout skills using Adobe InDesign. You’ll master and become confident using InDesign’s key tools and features for creating effective page layouts quickly. Sessions include:
Getting started
Setting up a new document
Preferences
Shapes, colours and gradients
Swatches
Objects
Text and text frames
Styles
Images and graphic frames
Creative Cloud basics
Creative Cloud libraries
Layers
Parent pages
Basic tables
Importing PDFs and exporting
The AI features covered include:
Text to Image, for AI-generated images
Generative Expand
Content-Aware Fit
How can I attend my course?
GENERAL INFOMRATION
Courses are hosted by highly experienced instructors with vast experience of using the application professionally.
You can choose to use a Windows computer or Mac
Training is designed for the busy professional, being short and intensive and combining lecture and demonstration. Practical exercises carried out under guidance help delegates to learn the techniques taught.
Delegates have ample opportunity to discuss specific requirements with the trainer.
Course Content
Setting up new documents
Getting started
• The Home screen
• The InDesign screen layout
• Displaying panels
• The Toolbox Panels
• Workspaces
• Working with files The pasteboard
• Change the magnification
• Navigate through a document
• Document preview
• Getting help
Setting Up a New Document
• Creating a new document
• Amending settings
• Ruler guides and grids
• Pages and spreads
Preferences
• Preferences and defaults
• Setting and restoring defaults
Shapes, colours and gradients
• Shapes and frames
• Adjusting stroke width and colours
• Importing and exporting colours Gradients
Swatches
• Creating a colour swatch
• Creating a gradient swatch
• Displaying swatches by type
• Swatch groups
• Deleting unused swatches
• Colour Theme tool
Objects
• Working with objects
• Opacity
• Effects
• Transforming objects
Text
• Text frame basics
• Entering text by typing and pasting
• Importing text
• Quick selection techniques
• Hidden characters
• Formatting characters
• Format paragraphs
• Setting indents
• Creating drop caps
• Copying type attributes with the
• Eyedropper tool
• Use Find/Change
• Special characters, glyphs and white spaces
• Spell checking
Text frames
• Specifying text frame options
• Cutting, pasting and deleting text frames
• Threading and unthreading text frames
Styles
• Character and paragraph styles
• Defining character styles
• Defining paragraph styles
• Apply character and paragraph styles
• Object styles
• Importing styles
• Styling “by example”
Images and graphic frames
• Adding images to a document
• Modifying graphic frames and their contents
• Image display quality and performance
• Managing links and the Links panel
• Wrapping text around objects
• Intelligent text wrap using subject detection
• Anchoring objects to text
• Image import options
Creative Cloud basics
• Adobe Fonts
• Extract from image
Creative Cloud libraries
• Create a new library
• Adding assets to a library
• Sharing a library
• Using assets from a library
• Moving assets to another library
Layers
• Layers and object stacking – is there a difference?
• The Layers panel
• Creating layers
• Moving and copying objects between layers
• Merging and deleting layers
Parent pages
• Introduction to parent pages
• Working with parent pages
Basic tables
• Creating a table
• Adding content to a table
• Making selections in tables
• Altering column widths
• Inserting and deleting rows and columns
• Moving or copying a table to a new location
• Breaking tables across frames
• Formatting tables
• Adding strokes and fills
• Headers and footers
AI
• Text to Image
• Generative Expand
• Content-Aware Fit
Importing PDFs
• Convert a PDF file to InDesign
Exporting
• Preflight checks
• Packaging
• Printing from InDesign
• PDF output
• Adobe PDF presets
COURSE MATERIALS AND CERTIFICATE
Delegates receive:
• A comprehensive InDesign training guide.
• An e-certificate (PDF) confirming successful completion of an Adobe-accredited Introduction to InDesign course.
AFTER COURSE SUPPORT
Following InDesign training, you’re entitled to 30 days’ email support from your trainer.
Further information, prices & dates
See armada.co.uk/course/indesign-training.