InDesign Initiation + Advanced

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Goals


- Master the main features of InDesign

- Know how to design a model, manipulate objects, text and images and put all these tools into production

Program

Learn its history
Know its features
Understand its different uses

Differentiate the types of images: Bitmap and Vector
Differentiate the color modes: RGB, CMYK and Pantone colors
Use the chromatic circle and the different representations of color
Understand the main graphic formats: the native InDesign formats, the .indd
Understand other common formats: PSD, AI, EPS, PDF, TIFF, JPEG
Work upstream, the train track and the layout

Become familiar with menu bars, options, tools, windows, interface customization
Use colour palette sets

Create a new document
Use the predefined / personalized parameters
Create a predefined document
Personalize the workspace
Display rulers and grids, characteristics of rulers, origins and creation of guidelines
Use the graphic frames tool
Master the selection tool
Manage attributes: stroke and fill colors
Use the color picker
Manage stroke color and thickness
Transform objects
Arrange objects
Manage layers
Use the appropriate keys to create constraints
Create text
Create objects with exact dimensions
Select and precisely position objects
Duplicate objects

Workshop: produce a business card-type document

Use the direct selection tool
Use the vector drawing tools, object modifications

Get started with the pen tool
Add / remove anchor points
Use the point conversion tool
Use the scissors tool
Cut a path
Close a path
Join two different paths
Close an open path
Rotate, scale, shear
Convert shapes using the pathfinder tool

Workshop: create blocks with custom shapes

Import images from InDesign
Import images from Bridge
Import multiple images
Import Photoshop compositions
Import Illustrator vector art
Align, distribute, transform

Discover the types of fonts: serif, sans serif, fixed width…
Configure the fonts: font style, size, tracking, kerning, line spacing…
Import texts: with / without formatting
Use links text
Use the text blocks and options
Use the texts in columns
Chain text boxes
Use the texts on path

Workshop: make a brochure with folds

Define a character style
Define a paragraph style
Use anchored objects
Use text wrapping

Use the Pages panel
Use page navigation
Use templates or master pages
Create and apply templates
Number pages (folio)
Insert pages
Move pages
Delete pages

Workshop: format a complete article on several pages

Use preflight and assembly
Manage the printing of a document
Export the document to PDF
Customize PDF exports

Create table
Import from Word / Excel
Insert text and images
Table and cell styles

Workshop: realize e tables

Use paragraph styles
Create the table of contents
Lay out and update the table

Workshop: create a multi-page standard document with generation of an automatic summary

Create chapters
Create book
Synchronize chapters

Workshop: produce a multipage document

Choose interactions between pages
Create an interactive navigation menu
Use hyperlinks
Create bookmarks
Draw interactive buttons
Export the interactive pdf

Workshop: on the basis of a multipage document, create buttons and hypertext links in a PDF document

Use preflight and assembly
Manage color and ink
Limit the number of inks
Display marks and bleeds
Print a document
Export to PDF

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 1125

Audience

Everyone

Prerequisites

Mastery of the PC or Mac environment

Reference

PAO247-F

Sessions

Contact us for more informations about session date

A slightly larger projection of the trainer's work via the video projector on the wall would be a plus. The working environment is very good, calm and conducive to concentration. The lessons are good and very clear. The training corresponds perfectly to my needs. On the other hand, the pace is very sustained over a 5-day format and requires constant concentration. The trainer was professional, attentive and very available.
Matthew D.
Matthew D.
The course and its content were very comprehensive. The trainer is a pleasant, patient and fairly pedagogical person. I would have at times appreciated a little more time to integrate things and to be able to understand them better but I also understand that we are a group and that I had more difficulties than the average. Thanks to the trainer I was able to follow most of the exercises anyway.
Deborah L.
Deborah L.
Trainer: Denis Leclec is both dynamic and professional. He knows how to combine conviviality and seriousness to offer a very effective approach. I am very satisfied with the level and knowledge acquired during this training.
Philippe G.
Philippe G.
logical and graduated progression very well in line with my professional needs and expectations. Super positive point: lunch is taken care of by the training center and the business-to-business restaurant at the Montparnasse tower is really amazing!
Véronique L.
Véronique L.
Very well located. Quiet and clean Patience, excellent pedagogy, many useful examples, enriching feedback, well adapted pace Perfectly in line with my expectations and the needs that I will have of the Indesign tool Trainer: Very clear, good pedagogy, strong experience from the field, open to dialogue Very pleasant training center and very pleasant moment of conviviality between the courses.
Hubert M.
Hubert M.
Very well written, educational, timing bearable. Perfect adaptation to my needs, many personalized cases. Trainer: Very educational, very pleasant, patient. Relational really top. I will highly recommend your organization.
Claude T.
Claude T.
suitable premises, well installed, 7 students in all, ideal the examples chosen by the trainers were quite relevant 5 intensive days, the last afternoon we are a little tired. But adapted and well-constructed content. Trainer: excellent interpersonal skills, calm, humor. Very suitable teaching skills. ability to reformulate well
Alain B.
Alain B.
Very good working environment Personally, I think I could have gone directly to the level above. But this level allowed me to review important basics that I was missing. My first impressions of the training organization: of quality, with suitable infrastructures, a really interesting teacher, etc. If I have the opportunity to repeat a course next year, I will select DAWAN as a priority.
Alexia J.
Alexia J.
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