November 10, 2020
Indesign is a program which, used in conjunction with Illustrator and Photoshop, allows you to produce work intended for the world of publishing, graphics or advertising communication. Indesign allows you to easily create magazine layouts, books, brochures, leaflets but also ebooks as well as interactive newsletters.

 

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3 days of training
for basic and intermediate module
2 days for advanced module

Required levels:
Good knowledge of IT tools

THE BASICS: COURSE PROGRAM

 

  • General
  • Display (zooms, palettes, tools, guides, grids, preferences)
  • Compositions (pages, standard pages, use of layers)
  • Text (text management, styles, import, formatting, practical advice, tabulations, text vectorization)
  • Place text in columns, use alignment grids
  • Tables (Creating and modifying tables, formatting)
  • Creating vector paths (placing text on a vector, tracing bezier curves)
  • Import images (formats, resolutions depending on the type of printing, essential notions of photoengraving, display, transparencies)
  • Management of “books” (long documents, numbering, sections, models)
  • Create several templates.
  • Colorization (cmyk, rgb, duotone, grayscale, color separation, management of knockouts)
  • Printing, distribution and export
  • clipping and dressing

 

ADVANCED TECHNIQUES

Different conditioning exercises on practical cases will be offered in order to verify and consolidate the knowledge acquired from the previous course. The advanced course focuses on functions related to editing, creating long documents, creating interactive digital documents, advanced photoengraving functions and the relationships between Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign.

Required levels: Have completed the basic course or have an equivalent level.
Good knowledge of IT tools

COURSE PROGRAM

 

  • Use Paragraph and Character styles
  • Create nested styles
  • Apply different styles to an entire selection
  • Creating automatic tables of contents
  • Generation of glossaries and indexes
  • Managing and creating interactive elements
  • Black management and color calibration
  • Overview of output, flattening and overprinting
  • Import and preview ICC profiles
  • Create complex flyers with the Page tool
  • Advanced clipping and wrapping functions
  • Use Effects and FX Styles
  • Export for the web, creation of banners
  • Export for OFFSET and digital printing
  • Configure the control center to detect errors upstream.
  • Booklet printing (Imposition of pages for facing documents)
  • Text sequence options (widows and orphans)
  • Anchored Block Options
  • Hyperlinks and cross-references