Course Overview
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| Course Code: | V0285 | |
| Careers: | Personal/professional development | |
| How: | Short course, Fee for service | |
| Where: | PERTH CAMPUS - Building 4133 Newcastle StreetNORTHBRIDGE6003 | |
| International study available: | No | |
| Online study available: | No | |
| Uni pathway available: | No | |
| Day and Time: | 6 Thursdays 6:00 - 8:30pm
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6 Saturdays 9:30am - 12 noon (excluding public holidays) | |
| Commences: | 9 OR 11 May, 2013 | |
| Fee: | $265 | |
| Further information: | Email enquiry.art@central.wa.edu.au or phone 94271127 or 94271905 for more details. You can also enrol online directly or download an application form and fax or email to us. | |
About the course
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This course is an introduction to the Adobe InDesign publishing program. The program allows the user to layout text and images in a format that is appropriate to send to a professional printer or just for use at home/office to create brochures and flyers. This course is suitable for people working in a professional setting as well as for students. This course is taught on Apple computers, basic knowledge of Macs is an advantage but not essential. Adobe Illustrator can be used on a PC or Apple computer.
Skills you will gain from this course
Course Overview
Week 1 - Toolbox, control palettes, master keys, shortcuts, working area, creating a new document, margins & columns, bleed, slug, overview of formatting text tools
Week 2 - Adding text, text frames and linked text, placing text, printing documents, text frame options, editing text, specifying type, aligning type, improving layout with type, Legibility factors, laying out a business card, pathfinder palette, Putting it into practice exercise
Week 3 - Borders & strokes, using the swatch palette, colour palette, adding colour, basic layers, grouping, bleed areas, placing graphics, scaling graphics
Week 4 - Text wrap, putting it into practice exercise, A4 typographic exercise
Week 5 - Tabulation, linking and columns activity, in class tabulation exercise, aligning items/graphics
Week 6 - In class exercise : Recreating a page incorporating graphics, text, colour fills, tinting, gradients, rotation