DTP - INDESIGN - Design layouts and professional publications - TOSA certification

Create professional page layouts for articles, leaflets, brochures, newsletters

The TOSA certification is divided into 4 skill areas: Interface and workspace, Text, Images and graphic objects, Printing and automation, The scores achieved will validate a level (operational, advanced or expert). Depending on the level, additional skills will enhance the mastery of the previous level, to lighten the reading only the most + will be scored.

Operational between 551 and 725 pts

• Mastering the use of InDesign in the graphics chain, creating, modifying new documents, identifying panels and tools, keyboard shortcuts for display; saving the file, a workspace. Setting up automatic pagination in templates; unlocking an object; locating a section mark in the Pages panel; creating markers and changing the number of columns; setting up a basic line grid; the different image formats; transition effects, animations, scrolling slides, presenter mode.
• Know the RGB and CMYK modes; use the tools to choose your shade, import images in plates with or without dynamic captions; re-edit or update a link; remove the white background from an imported photo; identify the image resolution and edit it; manage layers; align frames using a key object; set rounded corners; place a text frame on a dressed frame; differentiating between image adjustment icons
• Printing a document as a plate and saving a predefined printout; knowing the paragraph and character styles and finding replacements in the style panel; setting cascading styles; creating table styles; adapting your page layout.

Advanced between 726 and 875 pts

• Make perfect use of palettes, tools, menus and keyboard shortcuts. Perfectly manage a long document with automatic pagination; create different templates (parents, children), create markers and change the number of columns, margins; the different image formats, set up a base line grid; save defined parameters; retrieve styles; the different export formats
• + set up footnotes; underlining and paragraph indentation; set hyphenation parameters, add columns, margins; master the search and replace function; converting table rows into body or foot rows
• + updating imported images and using Pathfinder
• + anchoring a block, setting up a table of contents

Expert between 876 and 1000 pts

• + managing text wrapping
• + editor mode
• + activating a Photoshop trace, layer options, various pastes
• + inserting a text variable, creating object styles

• Statement of skills and/or competencies

More information about this certification (RS6957, exact wording of the diploma, name of the certifier, certification registration date) by clicking here.

• All audiences

Knowledge of the basics of digital image processing desired.

Know how to use a computer,

Knowledge of Windows

• Fully classroom-based training

• Personalised course
• Group lessons

• Resource centre
• Room equipped with networked computer workstations

EN-certified teachers, Bac +3 trainers with significant experience in adult education, professional speakers

Trainers experienced in individualising learning.

Trainers experienced in individualising learning.

Apply the techniques taught in training to their professional assignments.

Access for people with disabilities

Transport

establishment located in the north of the city (direction tarascon avignon) opposite Ets Leclerc

- Modular and adaptive tests for better positioning.

- A combined consideration of starting level and "job" objectives.

- Free additional activities offered remotely.

- Regular and accurate progress statements.

- Certification adding to the employability of trainees at the end of the course.

- The possibility of taking the decision to follow this training yourself, thanks to the Personal Training Account.