Gatlin International

Description

Gatlin International offers InDesign classes to meet your busy schedule and budget.

Publishing reports, newsletters, brochures and other business documents can be a challenge without the right tools.

Adobe InDesign makes these tasks easier than ever before with all the features and flexibility and you'll need to publish professional-quality print pieces.

Whether you're new to layout design or making the switch from another design program, including QuarkXPress, our InDesign classes will help you get your creative ideas on the page.

In this 6-lesson InDesign class, you'll explore fundamental techniques as you quickly develop your print design skills.

Our InDesign classes will impart a working knowledge of the major tools and features of this powerful application. You'll learn InDesign's basic features and how to use master pages, import and manipulate objects, how to control text flow and style, how to incorporate graphic effects such as transparency, drop shadow, and feathering and much, much more.

Our InDesign projects provide training in a wide range of desktop publication applications. Through them, you'll learn how to create a single-page menu to catalog designs, visual identities, promotional designs, and even wedding invitations.

Upon completing your course work, you'll have an understanding of the InDesign software and an impressive portfolio to show for your efforts. Our InDesign classes were co-developed and taught by InDesign pro John Feld and top designer Thom McKenna.

Learn the convenient, affordable way with InDesign classes from Gatlin International.

Outline

LESSON 1 Overview of Adobe InDesign

Why is InDesign fast becoming the new professional layout design foundation? In this training lesson you'll take a look at the many applications for InDesign and learn how it integrates with your other favorite Adobe programs, Photoshop and Illustrator. You'll begin with a comprehensive tour of InDesign's workspace, learning how key tools work and how to prepare for your first page layout. In the exercise, you'll create a restaurant menu, learning how to use guides and format text along the way.

LESSON 2 Setting Pages for Layout Design

Lesson Two is all about creating multi-page documents. You'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy InDesign makes it to prepare, number, and organize your multi-page layouts, carrying design elements from one page to the rest using a master page. As you'll discover, text and image frames are flexible tools for creating these design features on each page. The training exercise takes you hands-on through the layout and production of an eight-page art catalog.

LESSON 3 Tools of the Trade

Once you get beyond the basics, you'll discover that InDesign is brimming with esoteric tools, commands, and features. How do you make sense of them all? This training lesson tackles the many complex palettes and tools in the program so you can learn to select, duplicate, transform, and color objects within your layout with ease. Did you know you can also draw new objects in InDesign, much like you can in Illustrator? You can use drawing and shape tools to add graphic elements without ever leaving InDesign. These tools will be used in the exercise as you create a logo and apply it to business card, letterhead, and envelope layouts.
 
LESSON 4 Working with Text

As you'd expect from any page layout tool, Adobe InDesign has a wide array of options for typography, allowing you to make very specific typeface and text layout choices in your projects. You'll explore the ins and outs of various powerful type features in this lesson, including Autoflow, placeholders, wrapping, and paragraph and character styles that you can apply to blocks of text with just a click. In the training exercise, you'll take an up-close look at book typography, then revisit your catalog, applying styles to implement your new type vision.
 
LESSON 5 Images and Content Management

Today's publications are increasingly graphics-intensive, taking full advantage of the profusion of digital images and illustrations. Lesson Five explores how to handle the many types of graphics you may be asked to work with. You'll learn InDesign tips and techniques for placing images, working with resolution, and managing color, exploring the creative freedom afforded by the program. Other types of content are also covered in this training lesson including data tables and linked files. You'll create a series of graphics-intensive marketing pieces in the exercise including a poster, a flyer, description cards, and a price list for an art gallery.
 
LESSON 6 Putting It All Together

As you enter the final lesson, you'll be ready to put together all the InDesign training and InDesign tips you've learned to get the most out of the program. Transparency and shadows are explored, and you'll take a look at approach for larger-scale projects like books. Finally, you'll explore PDF outputs and preparing your work for print. Your final challenge is to design a book and prepare it for print, putting everything you've learned in the course together in one professional-quality document.

Additional Info

Languages

English

Course Length

60.00 hours

Duration of Access

Enrolled students have access to the class for six months. During this period, questions or assignments may be submitted at any time to the instructor. Each course lesson requires an average of 10 hours of study time.

Instructor

John Feld is the editor of The Graphics Report, a resource for graphic and Web designers and digital photographers. John has been involved in the graphics world for over twenty years, as a graphic designer, owner of a large photographic studio, graphics trainer, system integrator of graphics software and networks, and manager of the creative concept and development of graphic software. He has worked at Scitex, MetaCreations, and UCLA and has taught at corporations and movie studios, recording companies, and advertising agencies including Paramount, Disney, Columbia, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Chiat Day, 30sixty design, R.R. Donnelley, Toyota, and TransAmerica Corp. John started teaching computer graphics with PageMaker 1.0, and QuarkXPress, set up a Quark Authorized Training Center, and has since taught on the Windows, Unix and Macintosh platforms.

John co-founded the Adobe User Group in LA and the Digital Prepress Committee for the PIA and co-authored the first industry standards for digital graphics for the printing industry. At UCLA, he created and taught the Digital Prepress curricula. John has lectured and taught at graphic and computer conferences, including AIGA, Comdex, Seybold, MacWord and E3 and has been active in developing on-line communities. John has a B. Ed from the University of Lancaster in the U.K.

Prerequisites/Audience

Courses are designed for adult learners interested in building skills and portfolio for a design career. To take the course, students simply require a computer (PC or Mac), an Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster), and any required software. For courses with software requirements, computers must meet software manufacturers' system requirements.

Requirements/Materials Included

To take this course you'll need Adobe InDesign CS4 or CS5, and Adobe Photoshop or equivalent digital imaging program.

Certification

3 CEU

Sessions College is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Certificate programs are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.