Adobe InDesign Essentials

The correct way to cleanly link images and external files to your InDesign documents

Rotate and scale your images keeping in proportion and monitoring the final print resolution.

Learn how to place in multiple images at once and create groups of images.

Place multiple images in an organised grid placement

Using the links panel to manage links and repair/replace broken links.

Learn how to apply corner effects to your image and text frames

An introduction to layers and how they can help to organise your InDesign files

Apply basic effects like drop shadows etc to your image frames

A look at the swatches panel, creating and importing the different type of swatches we can use in InDesign

How you can apply swatches to the stroke and fill of frames

How to correctly add/delete and organise your pages in the pages panel

Creating text frames and filling with text then linking that text frame to other text frames to thread the text.

Applying colour to text and text frames, using both the stroke and the fill.

How to correctly set up and calculate a baseline grid for your document.

How to format fonts and paragraph alignments correctly

Learn how to apply a text wrap to various objects and also override the text wrap with specific frames.

Description of how to use the gradient feather tool efficiently and correctly, we also look at transparency in the effects panel.

Create and save your own library files for use in multiple documents.

Set tabs within your text frames for accurate alignment.

An introduction to creating master pages to help keep consistency throughout a document.

Creating multiple master pages in a document and duplicating/amending existing master pages.

Use the master pages to apply automatic page numbering throughout your document.

Keep your text formatting consistent over multiple pages by creating and applying character styles.

Merge multiple frames to create compound paths that enable you to have one image in a number of frames.

Use the detect edges feature to automatically detect the edges of an image and change the shape of the frame.

Apply text to any path or stroke created in InDesign and also control exactly where it sits on the stroke.

How to use effects in a more advanced manner with text and images to create a magazine front cover.

Merge, subtract and intersect paths to have greater control over the shape of your frames.

Master the pen tool controlling anchor points and control bars to enable you to have complete freedom in the shape of your frames.

Use the pen tool to trace around an image and crop it to the exact shape.

Pre Flight checking within your links panel, checking everything is linked correctly and high enough resolution for your required output.

Checking your swatches are all CMYK and ready for print output, we will also check the correct bleed is determined for each page.

We will define our own profiles in the Pre Flight panel to make sure our document is ready for print output.