lndesign basic to intermediate
Ever wondered how they do magazine layouts, CD covers, brochures, booklets and annual reports? Are you an editor or sub-editor in the magazine or newspaper world, or do you just want to know what it means to work in block design or layout?
This one day course will show you everything to do with layout. From page structure, to creating booklets, and even books, posters, annual reports and more in Indesign.
Learn about image resolution, colour spaces, placing images for layout and even using Indesign to draw vector graphics. See what happens when the document is finished and learn about exporting for print and the web. If you're an editor we'll show you how to navigate Indesign documents easily in order to make text corrections or work with the
"Story Editor" to make quick changes. We'll also take a look at books, indexes, style sheets, and text effects. If you haven't been working on Indesign this course will show you all you need to know to be able to do it all yourself!
What will you learn:
• How to use Indesign as a layout program
• How to do magazine and newspaper layouts
• How to create brochures and annual reports
• Bringing images into your documents
• Image resolutions for print
• How to convert your final document to printable format
• How to export to web compatible PDF's
• Creating table of contents and an index
Topics to be discussed:
• The Indesign environment
• Using the panels
• Magnifications and getting around
• Master pages
• Everything to do with text images
• Text wrapping and advanced layout
• Using paragraph and character styles
• PDF's (exporting)
• Table of contents and index
• Text and image effects
• Drawing vector graphics in Indesign
Venue: Cape Town