Editorial designer (InDesign)
Course Overview
Adobe InDesign is a professional desktop publishing application you lets you create stunning page layouts, creative print media, e-books and other digital publications faster and more efficiently. InDesign is used to create things such as posters, brochures, flyers, magazines, newspapers, and even books. InDesign is a program that is commonly used by graphic designers and people in production; however, it's also used by writers, publishers, and others who want to create their own material. Adobe InDesign makes this easy.
Course Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO):=
- Learners will learn that what Adobe InDesign is and how it can be used.
- Learners will learn creating and viewing documents as well as navigating your workspace.
- Learners will learn working with graphics and formatting objects and managing and transforming objects.
- Learners will learn character and paragraph formatting and using styles.
- Learners will learn Demonstrate packaging and printing with Adobe InDesign, Load and Interactive Documents.
Who should Attend:
- Students and professionals who want to learn Graphic design
- Diploma or Bachelor in media production or visual communication.
- Those who want to improve career skill and career promotion.
Personal Impact:
- Will be a professional Editorial
- Can be create multipage books and any newspapers printing areas
- Able to manage design client.
- Certified and skilled
- Enhancing career development.
Organizational Benefits:
- Increase productivity
- Works will be professional
- New technology implementing
- Time saving.
- Increasing reputation.
Certificate and Professional Qualification:
TPI accomplished Certificate
Course Duration: 20 hour
Daily Outline:
Getting Start with InDesign
- Looking at the workspace
- Working with panels
- Customizing the workspace
- Changing the magnification of a document
- Navigating through a document
- Using context menus
- Modifying Interface preferences
- Exploring on your own
Getting to Know InDesign
- Viewing guides
- Preflighting as you work
- Adding text
- Working with styles
- Working with graphics
- Working with objects
- Working with object styles
- Viewing the document in Presentation mode
- Exploring on your own
Setting up a Document and Working with Pages
- Creating and saving custom document settings
- Creating a new document
- Switching between open InDesign documents
- Working with master pages
- Applying master pages to document pages
- Adding new document pages
- Rearranging and deleting document pages
- Changing the size of pages
- Adding sections to change page numbering
- Overriding master page items on document pages and placing text and graphics.
Working with Objects
- Working with layers
- Creating and modifying text frames
- Creating and modifying graphics frames
- Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
- Placing and linking graphics frames
- Changing the shape of a frame
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Modifying the shape of frames
- Transforming and aligning objects
- Selecting and modifying grouped objects
- Creating a QR code
- Finishing up
Working with Typography
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Changing fonts and type styles
- Fine-tuning columns
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Creating a drop cap
- Adjusting letter and word spacing
- Adjusting line breaks
- Setting tabs
- Adding a rule above a paragraph
Importing and Modifying Graphics
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Updating revised graphics
- Adjusting display quality
Printing and Exporting
- Preflighting files
- Packaging files
- Creating an Adobe PDF proof
Assessment Method:
Exams require candidates to engage in on-the-job types of problem-solving. Question types include multiple-choice single answer, multiple-choice multiple answer, drag-and-drop, fill-in-the-blank,simulations, and lab Exercises which is mapping the objectives of the course which will analyses the learners Indented Learning Outcome (ILO).
Job Role:
- Graphic design.
- Professional Art Director
- Visual art director
Learning Path:
- Bachelor in Fine Arts -> Adobe InDesign ->Graphic designer, Editorial designer
- Bachelor in Multimedia ->Adobe Illustrator ->Graphic designer, Art director, Editorial designer.
- Diploma in Graphics ->Adobe Illustrator ->Graphic designer, Editorial designer.
- Personal Interest -> Adobe Illustrator ->Editorial designer
Linked Programs:
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign.
Course Prerequisites:
- Basic design Skill and interest
- Diploma or Bachelor in media production or visual communication.
- Diploma or Bachelor in media in fine arts.