Four-week Adobe InDesign essential skills

Africa> Southern Africa, South Africa

Course or workshop

Submit a course or workshop

DIGITAL INDUSTRY EVENTS

• Digital Broadcasting and Media Conference 2008 Pretoria, Johanesburg, South Africa 30 Jul

• Digital design exhibition Cape Town 9 Aug

More industry events

DIGITAL COURSES & WORKSHOPS

• Five-month web design Cape Town 14 Jul

• Five-month desktop publishing course Cape Town 21 Jul

• Adobe InDesign CS3 Johannesburg 28 Jul

• Adobe ActionScript Cape Town 4 Aug

• Adobe Photoshop CS3 Cape Town 6 Aug

• Game design - Essential skills Cape Town 11 Aug

• Adobe InDesign CS3 Johannesburg 15 Sep

• Adobe InDesign CS3 Johannesburg 17 Nov

More courses & workshops

All

Industry events

Courses & workshops

View calendar

View list

Four-week Adobe InDesign essential skills

Learn how to build strong foundations for your page design, explore creative applications for lines and shapes, and discover how to break the rules while maintaining the underlying structure of a page.

Whether it's a magazine spread, a poster, or even a web page, nothing connects or communicates like an effective layout. Layout design, the art of what goes where on a page or editorial spread, is a creative challenge for any graphic or digital designer.

Document setup and typography
‹ Understand printing workflow
‹ Use the InDesign work environment
‹ Create a new document
‹ Add and position „box“ elements
‹ Create a multi-page document
‹ Create and apply master pages
‹ Threaded text
‹ Use the paragraph formatting controls
‹ Use paragraph and character styles

Modifying docs, workflow and drawings
‹ Position text in text frames
‹ Work with images
‹ Use layers
‹ Print and create print styles
‹ Export documents to PDF
‹ Prepare for commercial printing
‹ Set up multiple-page spreads
‹ Create tint and gradient swatches
‹ Make and use library items
‹ Work with vector paths
‹ Form and edit clipping paths

Advanced typo, tables and long documents
‹ Adjust leading, hyphenation and justification
‹ Control horizontal spacing in text
‹ Use the object styles palette
‹ Create, modify and format tables
‹ Edit text with the story editor
‹ Manage text flow
‹ Section a document
‹ Generate a table of contents
‹ Produce an index
‹ Create and test-print a book

Final production, print settings and prevening problems
‹ Use document presets
‹ Differences between desktop and commercial printing
‹ Discuss spot colour and halftones
‹ Use the Swatches palette
‹ Fix missing links
‹ Update modified links
‹ Preflight and package document
‹ PDF format, setting up PDF options

Venues

Date: 07 April 2008 to 02 May 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town 8001

Date: 07 July 2008 to 31 July 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town 8001

Date: 06 October 2008 to 30 October 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry road
Cape Town 8001

Contact: Moritz Fritsche
Company name: Friends of Design - Academy of Digital Arts
Telephone number: +27 21 461 09 71
Email address moritz@friendsofdesign.net