Course overview
In our Adobe InDesign Basics course your delegates will discover and begin to master the most regularly used features of InDesign. By the end of the course they will be able to confidently navigate the software and create documents including brochures, flyers and electronic documents.
Topics covered
Fundamentals
- Quick tour
- Navigating the interface
- Setting up pages
- Customisation
- Exporting files
- Open, save and close files
- Toolbox and menus
- Palettes
Drawing
- Draw and edit shapes and frames
- Create tints and gradients
- Colour swatches
- Fill and stroke shapes
- About paths
- The pen tool
- The scissor tool
- Compound paths
- Corner effects
- The stroke palette
Images
- Importing images
- Scaling and moving
- Text wrapping
- Spacing tool
- In-line frames
- Manage links
- Modifying graphic frames
- Vector graphics
- Preparing for import
Colour and special effects
- Introduction to colour
- Swatch palette
- Swatch library
- Colour types
- About tints
- Working with gradients
- Toolbox colour controls
- Trapping
- Transparency
- Feathering and drop shadows
Delivery methodology
(Face-to-face or virtual delivery available)
Small groups
Ideally 6-8 delegates to maximise engagement and interaction levels.
One-to-one
We also provide one-to-one 90 minute support workshops to provide targeted individual support (specific topics to be selected).
Tailored sessions
Talk to us about designing bespoke workshops for your team
