INDESIGN

Taking a INDESIGN course with ACT ACADEMY will give you the skills you need to be a professional Graphic Designer.

 INDESIGN   Duration 1 Months

  • Program Outline




 Basics

  • Creating and saving a document
  • The InDesign approach to page -layout
  • Overview of features
  • InDesign compared to QuarkXPress
  • Exploring the interface
  • Overview of tools
  • Overview of palettes
  • Navigating through documents
  • Zooming in and out
  • Print Preview and Print
 Working with text

  • Text frames
  • Importing text
  • Character formatting
  • Paragraph formatting
  • Indentation of text
  • Working with tabs
  • Find and replace and Spell-checker
  • Running text around an image
  • Creating threads
 Master pages

  • How master pages work
  • Creating master pages
  • Applying master pages
  • Setting page numbering
  • Using hierarchical master pages
 Styles

  • Benefits of using styles
  • Creating character styles
  • Creating paragraph styles
  • Setting parent and child styles
  • Applying styles
  • Importing styles
  • Document and default styles
 Setting object attributes

  • Defining colours
  • Saving colours as swatches
  • Spot and process colours
  • Setting stroke attributes
  • Adding arrows
  • Setting fill attributes
  • Creating gradients
  • Applying gradients
 Working with graphics

  • Graphic frames
  • Overview of graphic formats
  • Importing graphics
  • Resizing graphics
  • Cropping graphics
  • Using the Links palette
  • Using in-line graphics
  • Wrapping text around graphics
  • Using clipping paths
 Longer documents

  • Creating a table of contents
  • Creating an index
  • Using the Book palette
  • Creating a book list
  • Synchronising styles and colours
  • Printing a book list
  • Exporting a book list as PDF
  • Page numbering across books
  • Creating libraries
  • Adding and using library elements
  • Searching libraries
 Special effects

  • Placing text on a path
  • Creating drop shadows
  • Working with transparency
  • Exporting transparency
  • Blend modes
  • Feathering
  • Corner effects
  • Creating multi-colour gradients
  • Converting text to paths
 Tables

  • Creating tables
  • Formatting tables
  • Imported tab delimited text
  • Importing Word tables
  • Importing Excel tables
  • Filling alternating rows or columns
 Page layout

  • Setting margins
  • Using a layout grid
  • Creating custom guides
  • Multi-columns layouts
  • Using frame-based columns
  • Using page-based columns
 Interactivity

  • Automatically generating links
  • Generating bookmarks
  • Using the button tool
  • Button options
  • Choosing events
  • Creating web links
  • Embedding Flash video
  • Exporting interactive PDFs
 Typography

  • Typographic shortcuts
  • Using the Single Line Composer
  • Using the Paragraph Composer
  • Highlighting composition problems
  • Creating hanging punctuation
  • Manual kerning
  • Using optical kerning
  • Inserting special characters
  • Creating drop caps
  • Hyphenation and justification

 Program Schedule

Course Duration: 1 months

Normal Track
 2 hrs / 5 days a week
Fast Track
 4 hrs / 6 days a week

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