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InDesign CS2 Introduction

InDesign

Training Provided by Harlequin Solutions. This course is designed to familiarise users with the page layout and design features of InDesign. At the end of the course delegates will feel confident to produce single and multi-page documents.
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instructor led trainingThis class may be available at a classroom in Ladbroke Grove, Greater London,
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Course Level:introductory
Duration:2 days
Training Presented in:English
InDesign CS2 Introduction The Interface
Using tools, palettes and contextual menus
Customising keyboard shortcuts
Changing view sizes and navigating through a document

Creating documents
Creating a new document
Bleeds and Slugs
Opening and saving documents and templates
Using guides. rules and grids
Opening and creating master pages
Document Presets

Creating objects
Drawing shapes and lines
Selecting moving and duplicating objects
The Selection and Direct selection tools
Info palette
Measure tool
Using the transform palette
Shape to Shape conversion
Changing the size, proportions or orientation of an object
Anchored Objects

Working with text
How text frames work
Importing text
Text frame options
Threading text frames
Character and paragraph formatting
Basic hyphenation and justification
Using the eyedropper tool
Creating and applying paragraph and character styles
Tables
Working with indents and tabs
Creating, editing and formatting tables
Adding images to tables

Graphics
Understanding graphic formats
Placing vector and bitmapped graphics
Fitting graphics in frames
Placing PDF files
Managing links
Wrapping text around graphics


Colour
Understanding spot and process colour
The swatches palette
using swatch libraries
Creating tints and gradients
Applying colour to fills and stokes
Using the gradient tools on fills, strokes and text
Copying attributes between objects
Moving colours between documents.
Sampling colours from imported graphics

Working with objects
Using layers
Stacking objects
Duplicating objects
Aligning and distributing objects
Paths
Drawing with the pen tool
Adjusting points and segments
Placing text on paths
Creating paths from text outlines

Master pages
Creating masters and based on masters
Adding automatics page numbering
Creating sections
Working with master page objects

Automating text
Using the Story Editor
Find/Change
Defining Styles
Headers and Footers

Libraries
Creating, indexing and using InDesign libraries

Transparency
Specifying transparency
Selecting blending modes
Adding drop shadows and feathering edges
Flattener Preview palette

Outputting documents
Setting up documents for printing
Printing options and styles
Exporting PDFs
Snippets

File Management with Adobe Bridge
Customising Thumbnails
Sort, rank and filter images
Multi camera raw processing
Metadata search
Filmstrip and slideshow
Adobe Stock Photo service
About The Training Provider: Harlequin Solutions.
Harlequin Solutions. - Harlequin Training is the leading authorised Macromedia, Quark and Adobe training company for design, print and web applications as well as experts in Soft Skills, Microsoft and programming training. Harlequin Training run public and private courses at our training centre in Ladbroke Grove in west London and can supply private courses at your offices. All of our courses are run by...
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