Adobe InDesign Intro - 3 days
At Digital Training & Designs, we provide you with the right training solutions to help you learn Adobe InDesign. Check our schedule for class dates and prices for Adobe InDesign training in Dallas, Texas or call us for private training at your site.
Whether you enroll in our public classes, or have us create private training for your entire staff, we will help you learn this powerful application in a productive and efficient manner.
This course introduces Adobe InDesign, a design and page layout tool for creative professionals. In this three-day class you will learn the basics of page layout, how to create text and import text and graphics. You'll understand how text wraps around graphics and how to link text from one page to another. Production shortcuts are discussed and exercises are used extensively to reinforce the skills learned.
Read what others say about this class.
By the end of the class, you will be able to:
- Quickly navigate the InDesigns desktop and your document
- Create new documents, defining the page sizes, columns and margins
- Create text frames for typing and importing text
- Resize and move text and graphic frames
- Utilize kerning, tracking, and baseline shift
- Alter fonts with vertical and horizontal scale for creative effects
- Thread and unthread text frames
- Spell check documents
- Understand the differences between bit-mapped and vector graphics
- Add picture frames and import graphics
- Scale and rotate graphics and know when to use these options
- Wrap text around graphics
- Draw Basic shapes, lines, arrows and polygons
- Utilize layers for ultimate control of document content
- Create frame borders and backgrounds surrounding reversed text
- Produce, edit and use style sheets for rapid formatting of text
- Format paragraphs for readability and consistency
- Rapidly edit your document with Find and Change
- Understand Ruler guides for exact placement of items on the page
- Add colors to items using the Color Swatch palette and by creating blends
- Create Tables
- Collect your documents, art and fonts for delivery to a service provider
- Produce PDF documents from your InDesign layout
from the student evals
- You guys are great. I learn so much when I take classes here and would highly recommend them to anyone looking for quality training. June 2006
- This is my second Adobe class at Digitrain. The retention I've had from these classes far surpasses that from any other training facilities that I've attended. June 2006
- I really enjoyed this class. It was very challenging. Joan gave everyone enough personal attention when we got stuck on something. June 2006
- The view screens in the middle of each desk made it easy to follow along with the instructor. The environment was great and the instructor, Joan, was outstanding. There was a lot of personal attention and the training was well-balanced. Overall, an outstanding class that I would recommend to others. I would also be interested in attending additional courses through Digital Training & Designs. June 2006
- I thought the class was great, and very informative. It was nice to be able to interact with others and work out questions or problems that we had. I feel that I have a much better grasp on InDesign because of this training. Thanks!
Sarah P., Dallas, Texas - Virginia is very knowledgeable about the InDesign program; her experience added much to the class, for she has actually utilized all the pieces in her prior and current work. She was dedicated to ensuring that ALL students kept pace with the work of the class -- excellent instructor. Jill F., Austin, Texas

