InDesign fundamentals
- Workspace and menus
- User interface
- Setting up documents
- Menu bar and tool panels
- Grids and guides
- Fundamentals of DTP
Working with colours
- Defining, assigning, editing, deleting and importing the colour palette
- Creating and editing colours
- Transparency gradients and effects without a path
- The RGB colour model
- The CMYK colour model
- Colours in print
Setting up pages
- Fundamentals
- Creating files and master pages
- Object styles
- Creating pages with continuous pagination
- Importing and editing text
Text functions
- Introduction to typesetting
- Hyphenation and alignment
- Creating and editing text/objects
- Simple formats
- Linking text frames
- Gradient fill and effects
- Spell check
- Working with external files
- Snippets
- Working with and without frames
- Character- and paragraph-based text options
- Organising documents, master pages
Graphics
- Introduction to image formats
- Placing graphics
- Working with graphics
- Image options
- Drag and drop
- Creating objects with drawing tools
- Layer effects
- Drop shadow
Printing
- Assembling composite files
- Professional print preparation
- Performing colour separation
- Setting print options
