Understanding InDesign

Faber Academy are running this event on InDesign, led by publishing software expert Ken Jones.

This hands-on session is split into a morning and an afternoon session; the morning covering the basics of InDesign and the afternoon looking at document structure.

Morning session:

Opening InDesign documents
Navigating the document confidently
Panels and workspaces
Layering and stacking
Creating and altering frames
Selecting, arranging and grouping objects
Working with colours
Adding and adjusting image content
Handling image links
Placing text from Word
Different text importing techniques
Selecting and editing text
Applying Character and Paragraph styles
Handling fonts
Exporting for the screen – PDF, JPEG and PNG.

Afternoon session:

Making new documents professionally
Working with Master Pages
Using rulers, grids and guides
Stroke and fill options
Align panel, smart guides and smart spacing
Moving content between layers
The Effects panel
Creating text and object styles
Threading text frames
Working with longer passages of text
Understanding fitting options
Adding and moving pages
Sections and auto-numbering
PreFlighting and packaging
Exporting for production – PDF and EPUB