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Computing Workshop Descriptions - InDesign

• Basic Page Layout
• Refining Your Publication

InDesign: Basic Page Layout

This workshop is intended to be a three-or-four-hour hands-on experience. In the context of constructing a basic newsletter, participants of this workshop will manipulate text and graphic objects using a broad range of InDesign tools. Incorporated into the process will be an introduction to basic design principles and terminology.

Currently there are no scheduled offerings of this workshop.

Contact the IT Services Training Coordinator to purchase self-study materials

Participants will:

• apply basic principles of layout and design
• set up publication
• configure Master pages
• create, edit, and apply styles to format text
• work with text and graphic frames
• import and place external graphics

Participants should already be able to:

• use word processing features
• apply text styles
• be proficient with refined mousing tasks

InDesign: Refining Your Publication

This workshop will allow users to take a newsletter that has been created in InDesign and refine it using advanced page design techniques and InDesign tools. Building on what they have learned in InDesign: Basic Page Layout, participants will create a more readable and attention-grabbing publication. As participants work, they will be learning some graphic design terminology.

Currently there are no scheduled offerings of this workshop.

Contact the IT Services Training Coordinator to purchase self-study materials.

Participants will:

• place a graphic in a custom frame
• work with advanced Text Wraps
• create a CMYK color, and convert it to a Pantone Color
• create and use a library
• work with various alignment techniques
• work with tabs and bullets in text frames
• create a vector logo
• learn design terminology and techniques
• package the publication for a print house

Participants should already be able to:

• use the InDesign interface
• make quick adjustments in Photoshop
• use word processing features
• work with text frames
• be proficient with refined mousing tasks