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Jul18
The most efficient way of working with Adobe programs is to use templates. This is especially true of Adobe Indesign, whether you’re creating brochures, newsletters or flyers. In our Indesign training courses we show you how to create Indesign flyer templates from the initial setup to print stages. To create a template design like the flyer like the one shown... Read more...
Oct20
Using Indesign Master Page Elements when designing multi-page documents in Adobe Indesign will greatly speed up the design process, and save you time in the long run. We show you how to utilize the master page function in all our Adobe Indesign training courses. What are Indesign Master Page Elements? Each new document you create in Indesign has an A-Master... Read more...
Apr3
A very common use of Adobe Indesign is in the creation of newsletters. We show you a nice easy workflow for achieving this end in our Indesign training courses. The example here is the creation of an online weekly school newsletter; the intention is that this will be distributed via email, and will not be printed. The method we use... Read more...
Aug22
For many users the final step in designing their Indesign documents is to create a PDF, either for printing or for online viewing. We cover both of these outcomes in our Indesign training courses. The file format PDF stands for Portable Document Forma, and is the preferred file type for many digital printers. For example high street printers often will... Read more...
May10
Adobe Indesign is the world-leader in page layout programs, and whilst being extremely powerful, it’s also easy to use as well as being precise and compatible with other programs. If you’re a complete beginner or self-taught, we’ll help you to get started in our Indesign training courses. Significant features of Indesign include great handling of type and graphics, as well... Read more...
Mar12
Adding text to documents is crucial when working with Adobe Indesign. We show you the many variations in text editing and formatting in our Adobe Indesign training courses. Basically there are three methods of adding text to a document. You can either type the text manually, copy and paste it from a PDF document, or import the copy from a... Read more...
Feb24
Adding colour bars to an Indesign document can add an extra dimension of interest to the design. We demonstrate how easy this is done in our Adobe Indesign training courses. First of all choose the Rectangle shape tool and click and drag across the bottom of the page, for example. Note the Fill and Stroke colours at the bottom of... Read more...
Jan26
Placing images is a large part of the Adobe Indesign workflow – we spend a lot of time in this area in our Indesign training courses. Before we place our images, however, we may wish to create some non-printing guides to help us design each page. In this example we created three horizontal guides at 25, 45 and 130mm. We... Read more...
Dec26
Creating a setup for an A5 flyer is easy in Adobe Indesign. This is one of the may topics we cover in all our Indesign training classes. Firstly, the initial setup is created via the File drop-down menu. Here we choose New and Document. Books, Libraries and Folios we cover in later blog posts. Before we start designing we should... Read more...
Nov19
After the brochure template has been created, it’s a simple matter each month or so to create a new edition of the brochure based on this layout. We demonstrate these time-saving techniques, and more, in our Adobe Indesign courses. The template has been saved as an indt file (Indesign Template), so rather than choosing New from the File menu we... Read more...
