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.