InDesign Training - InDesign CS3 Essentials

Our InDesign CS3 training is a blended learning solution which combines our 2 day instructor led InDesign CS3 Essentials training course, with 6 months access to our Learning Management System (LMS) including the InDesign CS3 training slides and demos, course discussion forums, extensive glossary, additional exercises and samples, and other online learning support.

The 2 day InDesign CS3 Essentials course is run monthly at our London centre or available at your own location, and is a great way to get up and running with InDesign CS3. The course is suitable for anybody new to InDesign CS3.

 

Objectives

  • Identify and use InDesign® environment elements; and navigate through an InDesign® document.
  • Create and modify text and graphic frames; and import text and images from other applications.
  • Use master pages and guides to design a document's layout and to add automatic page numbering; and apply masters to document pages.
  • Import text; thread text throughout a document; reflow text threads; and change the number of columns.
  • Define colors and swatches and apply them to fills and strokes of frames.
  • Apply character formatting; apply paragraph formatting; create styles to streamline formatting; and set text inset spacing.
  • Place and manipulate graphics; control text wrap around graphics; and create and manage layers.
  • Apply transparency effects to native objects and placed images and graphics; and work with Transparency Flattener settings.
  • Create sophisticated tables.
  • Prepare documents for handoff to commercial printers.
  • Create Acrobat PDF files for the Web and for print.

Audience

This course is ideally suited to those who are new to InDesign CS3, and is a great way to get up to speed with all the day to day features of the product.

 

Course Overview

InDesign Overview

  • Introduction to InDesign - what is InDesign for
  • Customize Your Workspace
  • Set General Preferences
  • Manage Document Presets
  • Managing your workspace

Designing Documents

  • Create a New Document
  • Alter a Document’s Layout
  • Create the Structure of a Document
  • Develop Master Pages
  • Manage Text and Graphic Placement
  • Develop Layers
  • Wrapping text
  • Laying out columns

Managing text

  • Add Text - typing and placing
  • Editing Text with and without the story editor
  • Spell Check and dictionaries
  • Threading Text
  • Change Text Threads
  • Format Characters
  • Format Paragraphs
  • Manage Styles
  • Glyphs - where they are and how to use them
  • Text inside and on a shape

Columns

  • Making a text box into columns
  • Column guides
  • Creating boxes as columns
  • Laying out a page/spread as columns

Placing Images

  • Placing images
  • Image file type - jpgs/gif/tiff/pdf/eps/etc
  • Linking vs Embedding
  • Placing psd and ai files
  • Place options

Placing text

  • Placing several pages of text
  • What text file formats can be placed
  • Place options
  • Wrong font issues
  • Automatic flowing of placed text

Colours, Swatches, and Gradients

  • Colour
  • Swatches
  • Apply Fills, Gradients, and Strokes to objects and text
  • Applying effects
  • Transparency

Tables

  • Create Tables
  • Modifying Tables
  • Formatting Tables

Masters

  • Creating masters
  • Multiple masters
  • Masters upon masters
  • Editing masters
  • Headers/Footers
  • Page numbering
  • Section breaks and numbering
  • Overriding master items

Preparing a document for print

  • Checking Documents for Problems
  • Printing a Document
  • Preflighting a document
  • Packaging Files
  • Preview Output

Creating PDFs

  • Preparing PDF Files for web and for print
  • Managing PDF Presets
  • Export PDF Files - options
  • Interactive PDFs - buttons, links, and movies

 

 

  

Course Facts

Name: InDesign CS3 Essentials
Duration: 2 days
Locations: London, Leeds, onsite
Max Class: 10 delegates
Post Course Support: 6 months

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Post Course Online Support Including:

Course slides, movies and exercises: You will have 6 months post course access to course slides, movies and exercises via our Learning Management System (LMS). Refresh your memory or rework something in your own time and environment.

6 Months Post Course Support: You will have 6 months post course support via the LMS. This is in the form of the course forums in which you can post questions on any topic within the course that you are struggling with, and the instructor (and sometimes other delegates) will respond.

Additional Sample Files: In addition to the files used in the course, the LMS gives you the ability to work through additional sample files, and real world examples thereby extending both your understanding of InDesign CS3 and your ability to apply the techniques.

InDesign CS3 Glossary: The InDesign CS3 training glossary allows you to search through a wide range of InDesign CS3 terms, functions, data types etc. Due to the glossary being autolinked within our forums and other material, this also acts as a valuable quick reference directory when working through the material.

Useful Resources: Our instructors spend a vast amount of research time on technologies like InDesign, and in doing so come across a lot of useful 3rd party material. In this section we republish links to some of the more useful resources they come across, letting you benefit from their research time.

InDesign CS3 Skills Assessment: As part of the course you will also have the opportunity to take the InDesign CS3 Skills Assessment test. This multiple choice test is made up of 36 random questions, and is run over a timed period of 30 minutes. It is designed to give you an idea of how well your InDesign CS3 skills are developing and can be a nice way to measure improvement, not to mention provide feedback to management showing the value of the course.

 

Booking and Dates

The scheduled 2 day InDesign CS3 training course runs on the following dates at our London centre:

23 Jul 08
13 Aug 08
17 Sept 08
15 Oct 08
12 Nov 08
10 Dec 08