Adobe InDesign offers tools for professional desktop publishing to create posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, books and much more. It is the #1 program for page layout used throughout the world by professional designers, marketing studios and the press industry.

 Course Objectives:

• Learn to create well designed documents using InDesign’s controls.


• Be able to work with the Toolbox, Control panel and Panel groups.


• Work with the Type and Image controls.

Key content:

• Create new documents and use page setup effectively.


• Work with Master Pages, page numbering and learn to apply masters to regular pages.


• Use rulers and guides to place your text and graphics


• Understand and use the toolbox and panels, menu options and page layout controls.


• Place text and graphics onto your page in a variety of ways.


• Work with the type controls for Character and Paragraph formatting.


• Be able to crop, size and position graphics.


• Apply colour to fills and strokes on all objects and text boxes


• Wrap text around graphics and objects.


• Output your document to PDF.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Set up a document for single pages or two sided printing


• Work with Master Pages to speed up page layout


• Insert Headers and Footers, and Page Numbers


• Place text and graphics into your document


• Work with Character and Paragraph formatting controls


• Wrap text around graphics and shapes


• Output files to PDF