Advanced InDesign

We would like you to sample some of our instructional materials before enrolling. In this way, you can gain an appreciation of the way we deliver material and our methodology.

 

	Click here to play a small on-screen movie which Shows some of the instructional material in the course.
If the movie plays and you can hear the commentary, then your system is suitable for broadband learning. Although we offer one-on-one learning, this option is by far the most cost effective way to improve your InDesign skills and provides considerable savings in course costs.

  Please do not take the course without covering the material in our Introductory course, even if you have some knowledge of the InDesign environment.

 

Cost of courses

• Online learning via broadband

The most popular option is to take this course as an online learning student. Our online broadband learning courses features rapid enrolment, many multi media instructional movies, online forums, multi-choice reviews, questionnaires, submission of assignments, email support etc. This is an enhanced learning experience at an affordable price.  The course cost is $AUD75.00 for >30 hours of high quality training. Visit http://www.softwaretutor.designcad.com.au now and enrol. [The syllabus is set out in the information link alongside the course name]

You can pay by PayPal which accepts direct deposit and credit cards and start immediately. Alternatively, send us an email requesting an enrolment. We will enrol you and post out an invoice. Payment can then be made by direct deposit. Our bank details will be on the invoice.

• One-on-one training (Adelaide or Canberra - in our offices or yours).

We can provide face-to face, one-on-one training. Each course takes one day and costs $AUD550.00. We do require some information about what it is that you or your organization hopes to achieve by training so that we can prepare appropriate materials in advance of the course.

Each participant in one-on-one, face to face full day courses is automatically enrolled at no extra cost in the broadband learning version of the matching course (at www.softwaretutor.designcad.com.au). This would normally cost an additional $75.00 per person. In this way, students get a double benefit - personal tuition and the ability to access any of the written instructional materials online, replay any of the demonstration movies, download sample files, log questions, take quizzes and submit assignments for review.

A list of course modules

1. Creating a specific set of carefully named folders for each project
2. Graphics for InDesign documents
3. Managing stories efficiently
4. Placing PSD files into InDesign documents
5. Understanding colour
6. Managing Object Styles
7. Using Tables
8. Creating and using templates
9. Using and maintaining a Style Guide
10. Pre-Flight checking and printing
11. FastTrack InDesign
12. Keep InDesign skills up to date
13. Creating a new document - some revision
14. Clipping paths
15. Placing screenshots in InDesign
16. Case Study: An advertisement for a trade magazine featuring 'advertorial' comment
17. Dealing with commercial publishers
18. Finding and installing fonts in the InDesign environment
19. Using Master Pages effectively

Printing course materials

  We continue our drive to reduce our carbon emissions by using digital delivery of course materials. If you do need to a paper print of part of the course notes (say to print the steps in an operation), we encourage you to print just the web page you are currently viewing rather than the whole module. This can usually be done through the preview option in the print facility of the browser you are using, and selecting print the current page. Another option is to press the Shift PrntSc key combination which puts a copy of what you are viewing onto the Windows clipboard. Then start your word processor Microsoft Word or WordPad (available in everyone's computer) and paste the clipboard contents into the page and print from Word or WordPad. We also provide a link to a PDF version of the course.

About our courses & methodology

Locations & times - face to face group training

Credit card payment

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