Indesign is a professional desktop publishing tool for serious designers. It has excellent PDF support, strong typographic controls, table creation and import, expanded OpenType support, good EPS previews, unique transparency controls, XML export and long-document features. It is also packed with illustrator-style drawing functions by which designers can compose creative contents and save time from switching back and forth with other design softwares. Working seamlessly with Photoshop and Illustrator makes Indesign even a more productive tool and can streamline the workflow.

Course Topics:  

• The Document Window - rulers, margins, guides, X and Y coordinates, ruler origin, pasteboard and page views.
• Using Palettes - align, attributes, character, colour, layers, library, links, navigator, pages, paragraph and character styles, story, stroke, swatches, table, tabs palettes.
• Document Setup - layout options, grids, zoom and hand tools, controlling windows and saving documents.
• Working with Text - creating text frames, typeface, point size, line, character spacing, alignment, indents, hanging indents, kerning, tracking, leading.
• Working with Objects - types of frames, basic shapes, selecting, altering, aligning, step and repeat, transforming, grouping and locking objects.




Students' Projects

• Working in Colour - creating Pantone (spot) and CMYK (process) colours, appending, swatches, gradients, tints, defining, storing, swatch libraries
• Styling Objects - fills, strokes, corner effects, transparency, drop shadows, feathering, using the eyedropper.
• Text Effects - wrapping text, text on a path, paragraph rules.
• Imported Graphics - placing artwork, specialty _frames, image import options, fitting, clipping paths, applying effects to images.
• Layers - working with layers, creating, duplicating and deleting layers, layer options. overprint preview features
• Tabs and Tables - tab characters, tab stops, leaders, creating tables, table options, cell options, strokes and fills.
• Exporting - file options, creating PDF files, PDF styles, exporting text.
• Keyboard Shortcuts - Macintosh and PC
• Menu Items and Preferences overview.