All our courses are customised to meet your objectives, but based on a solid foundation as reccommended by Adobe in their official course content.

All our courses are instructor led and very hands-on, going in to much details than the other courses. Making the courses more relevant to your interests, skill levels and objectives, incorporating real live work where possible, increases your involvement in the material and enhances your learning and recollection of the course material in addition to produce usable work!

Typical InDesign CS3 Course Outline

Managing the Adobe InDesign CS Environment

• Preferences
• Customize Your Workspace
• Set General Preferences
• Manage Document Presets
• Workspace and Window arrangement

Designing Documents

• Create a New Document
• Alter a Document’s Layout
• Create the Structure of a Document
• Develop Master Pages
• Manage Text and Graphic Placement
• Develop Layers

Managing and Formatting Text

• Add Text
• Edit Text
• Spell Check Text
• Thread Text
• Find/Change
• Change Text Threads
• Format Characters
• Format Paragraphs
• Numbering paragraphs
• Manage Styles
• Quick Apply
• Text Wrap
• Text on a path
• Paragraph Rules
• The Glyphs panel

Objects

• Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
• Transforming Objects
• Duplicating
• Rotating
• Scaling
• Skewing
• Mirroring
• The Transform Again commands
• Object Styles
• Links Panel

Utilizing Colours, Swatches, and Gradients

• Utilize Colour
• Utilize Swatches
• Apply Fills, Gradients, and Strokes

Managing Transparency

• Apply Transparency
• Apply Transparency Flattener Presets

Graphics

• File Types
• Importing options
• Image Frames simple, compound and custom
• Fitting images Control Palette and shortcuts
• Inline graphics
• Clipping Paths, Alpha channels
• Importing InDesign documents

Pen & Bezier tools

• Path tools in InDesign

Effects

• Inner Shadow
• Bevel and Emboss
• Gradient Feather
• Inner Glow and Outer Glow

Tabs and Tables

• Create a Table
• Modify a Table
• Format a Table
• Table Styles

Preparing for Handoff to a Service Provider

• Check Documents for Problems
• Print a Document
• Package Files
• Preview Output
• Print, Separation, Flattening
• Print options
• PostScript, preflighting and Packaging

Creating Acrobat PDF Files

• Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution
• Manage PDF Presets
• Export PDF Files for Printing
• About PDF formats and the PDF/X standard