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Upskill with Jellyfish and become proficient in Adobe InDesign CC. By leveraging our experience and expertise, you’ll learn what it takes to create and publish high-quality documents across a wide range of digital and print media.
In this beginner-level course, you’ll get to explore InDesign’s interface, tools and panels. Some of the key features we will cover include working with text frames and graphics; managing documents and pages; and using character, paragraph and object styles.
You’ll be practicing your new skills by completing small tasks and exercises as you progress through each module. By the end of the session, you’ll have a solid understanding of InDesign and how you can begin to use it to create eye-catching layouts.
Our Adobe InDesign course is available as a private training session that can be delivered via Virtual Classroom or at a location of your choice in South Africa.
Course overview
Who should attend:
No matter your professional background and whether you have experience using a desktop publishing programme or not, if you’re looking to enhance your skills in layout design using Adobe InDesign CC, then this course is for you.
What you'll learn:
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Bring in text and images and combine them with objects to make great design layouts
- Use and apply color and gradients creatively
- Add styles, including paragraph, character and object styles
- Create from a master page and manage pages successfully
- Save, package, share, export and publish online
Course agenda
- What is InDesign?
- Document set-up
- Getting around the interface
- Tools, panels and menus
- Saving a document
- Creating text frames
- Selecting and editing text
- Formatting text
- Text on a path
- Overflow text
- Threading text
- Text wrapping
- Creating image frames
- Fitting command
- Moving image frames
- Editing images
- Stroking a frame
- Image clipping paths
- Drawing basic shapes
- Drawing lines
- Duplicate
- Aligning
- Grouping
- CMYK and RGB values
- Fill and stroke
- Color themes
- Working with gradients
- Adding transparency effects
- Pages panel overview
- Managing pages
- Master pages overview
- Managing master pages
- Automatic page numbering
- Paragraph styles
- Character styles
- Object styles
- Export to PDF
- Packaging InDesign files
- Publish online