ADOBE InDesign CS6

Learn about creating professional worksheets, posters, flyers, brochures and more with this free Adobe InDesign CS6 workshop.

This Adobe InDesign CS6 workshop teaches you how to use the popular desktop publishing platform Adobe InDesign. In this workshop you will learn about the basics of text formatting, image file formats and colour, as well as how an InDesign document is printed, and how its contents can affect your printing methods.

Detailed Description of the Workshop

InDesign is a desktop publishing and typesetting software programme made by Adobe, and is widely used by teachers, publishing and print industry professionals for creating worksheets, posters, brochures, flyers and even eBooks. This workshop will give you a detailed understanding of what it is and how to use it.

The workshop starts off with the basic introduction to the application, such as creating documents, navigating the interface, setting preferences and saving documents. Then the workshop moves on to the main tools taking you through each type, from basic selection tools to object creation, and object manipulation. Next the workshop moves on to creating text frames, importing text, how to use features such as find and change, and how to track changes for collaborative work on a document. You will also learn about formatting text, paragraphs and creating columns for displaying your content in magazines or newspaper layout.

You will also learn about images, starting off with the digital image formats, and the differences between them and which to use where and why. You will learn about importing images, moving, resizing and cropping images, along with importing images Adobe’s free Mini Bridge Software, fitting images into a content frame and how to add caption to them. You will learn about creating and drawing shapes using both the predefined shape tools, and free hand drawing using the pen and pencil tools. You will learn about editing and formatting the shapes and how to work with anchor points. Finally, you will learn about colours and how different settings of the colour of your images and documents can affect the costs and effort required to print your document.

Workshop Outcomes

After completing this workshop, you will be able to:

Recognise how to create documents and set your personal preferences
Identify how to use the tools for selection, moving, object creation, object manipulation and framing.
Recognise how to use frames to place text and graphics
Recognise commands and tools for formatting text and paragraphs
Discuss the different types of image files that can be used in InDesign
Identify how to import and manipulate images
Identify how to draw and manipulate objects

This Workshop is divided into six main sections:

Getting started with InDesign

This section shows you how to get started with Adobe InDesign.