Telephone: 0207 609 5487

Email: europatraining@mac.com

Quick Course Finder Acrobat Intro Acrobat Advanced Dreamweaver Intro Dreamweaver Advanced Flash Intro Flash Advanced Illustrator Intro Illustrator Advanced InDesign Intro InDesign Advanced Quark To InDesign Indesign For Designers InDesign For Editors Indesign Crash Course Photoshop Intro Photoshop Advanced Quark Intro Quark Advanced OSX Intro

2 days, Macintosh or PC

Other InDesign Courses

The InDesign workspace
Creating a custom workspace
The InDesign tool palette
The InDesign control panel
The object pane in-depth
The InDesign character pane
The InDesign paragraph pane

Creating a basic page
InDesign text frame options
Creating an intermediate page in InDesign
Alt-drag copying
Pasting inside a box

Working with text
Placing text in InDesign
Autoflowing text
Semi-autoflowing text
The InDesign info palette

Working with documents
Creating a master page
Creating paragraph style sheets in InDesign
Creating character style sheets in InDesign
Creating drop caps
Creating nested style sheets
Using Find/Change
Creating a table of contents
Exporting pdfs in InDesign

Working with graphics
Placing graphics
Using the info palette
Colorising grayscale images
Clipping paths
InDesign Text wrap

Working with colour
Creating colour swatches
Creating process colours
Creating spot colours
Creating mixed ink groups
Creating colour tints
Creating gradients

Drawing in InDesign
Using the pen tool
Using the pencil tool
Expert bezier curve controls
Converting text to paths

InDesign Training – Intro to InDesign CS2 or CS3

This InDesign training course is designed for new users of InDesign and covers the basics of producing documents and mastering InDesign’s toolset.
The InDesign Training course is practical in nature. Led by an expert, delegates undertake a series of step-by-step exercises to hone their skills at a comfortable pace.

We conduct our InDesign training in London but can come to your offices. By the end of the InDesign training you will have mastered the basics of InDesign and be ready to create your own newsletters, books and magazines.

Intro To InDesign
Advanced InDesign
InDesign Crash Course
InDesign For Designers
InDesign For Editorial
Quark To InDesign
InDesign CS3 Upgrade

"This course was just what I was looking for. The trainer was so approachable; no question was too big or small, and he kept us smiling from start to finish! I am excited to get back to the office and put my newly gained skills into practice. Lunch was yummy, too."
Wendy Smith
The Anna Freud Centre

"The training is fantastic! I went from a beginner to a know-it-all in two days. I can do things now that would have taken me ages to learn myself, and I learnt it all at an easy fun pace."
Ashleigh Harper,
Paragon Management

"Thanks for providing an excellent and user-friendly approach to learning InDesign. This course is highly recommended for all."
Helen Richards,
Leica Microsystems

"This course was excellent, the pace made it easy to follow, the tutor was very engaging and friendly, giving great examples for visual explanations to help us to understand what we were being asked to do. I would recommend this course to all beginners or people who need a refresher. You come out with much more knowledge than you expected and with confidence to do it in the real world! Loved it!”
Alicia Fontaine, CCS Group
 

Nesting paths in InDesign

Using transparency
Using blending modes
Using multi-layered Photoshop files
Placing editable Illustrator files

H & Js in InDesign
Refining text in InDesign
Hyphenation in InDesign
Justification in InDesign

Setting Options
The glyph palette
OpenType font options
The story editor
Setting InDesign preferences
Creating custom dictionaries

Working with objects
Controlling fills and strokes
Using the selection tool
Using the direct selection tool in InDesign

Editing tools
Using the pathfinder palette
Using the align palette
Using the eyedropper tool
Using the revolve tool
Using the scale tool
Using the free transform tool in InDesign
Using the stroke palette

Preflighting in InDesign
The separations palette
Viewing ink limit
The flattener palette

Outputting InDesign files
Creating an interactive pdf
Creating a print ready pdf

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