This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities, Graphic professionals who need an essential understanding of page layout using Adobe’s flagship page layout application, with an emphasis on real-world issues.
The amount of material covered in class is quite vast (see outline below). It's therefore required that students are comfortable using a mouse, opening/ saving files and with the general operation of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills still wanting to take this course should first consider undertaking an IT skills course so as to not slow down the rest of the class.
Course outline
- Introduction
- The Interface
- Using tools, palettes and menus
- Workspce and windows arrangements
- Changing Views
- Zooming and scrolling
- Creating Documents
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- Designing Documents
- Create the Structure of a document
- Alter a document layout
- Develop Master Pages
- Using Guides, Rulers and grids
- Optimising preferences
- Manage Text Formatting and Placements
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- Develop Layers
- Formatting Text
- Find / Change Tool
- Characters and Paragraphs
- Text Wrap
- Placing text
- Graphics
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- File Types
- Importing options
- Image Frames
- Apply Transparency
- Libaries
- Effects
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- Inner Shadow
- Bevel and Emboss
- Inner Glow and Outer Glow
- Tabs and tables
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- Create and modify Tables
- Format a table - table styles
- Utilising Colours, Swatches and Gradients
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- Arrange, Align and distribute
- Transforming Objects
- Rotating, scaling, skewing and mirroring
- Object Styles
- Links Panel
- Preparing for print
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- Print a document
- Package files
- Print and flatten
- Print Options
- Prepare PDF Files for web distribution
- Manage PDF Presets
- Export PDF files for Print
Class time is 10:00 a.m.- 4:30/5:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled between 1-2 pm. We provide you with Tea, Coffee, Biscuits and other refreshments on the house. We also have a fridge and a microwave available for you to store/warm up any food you wish to bring along for your lunch.
Course Duration |
1 Day |
Dates and Prices |
This course is only available as individual 1:1 on a bespoke
Please call centre on 0208 443 2888 for a quote and to arrange dates |
Course Times |
10:00 till 16:00 |