InDesign Advanced
This course is designed for experienced InDesign users who wish to achieve mastery over those aspects of InDesign that most contribute to creativity and workflow efficiencies. It examines the time saving features and shortcuts which can help layout artists and designers avoid repetitive formatting and layout tasks and free up time to be creative. The course also explains how to streamline your workflow and improve your productivity, to get a greater return on investment. All our Adobe InDesign courses are taught by industry professionals who are also Adobe Certified Professional trainers. They will share years of their industry experience with you, imparting best practice techniques as well mastery of the tools.Topics covered include InDesign Preferences and Interface, Objects, Object Styles, Strokes, Text, Advanced Styles, Advanced Typography, Advanced text features, Images, Colours, Documents, Tables, Working with Transparency, Working with Interactivity, Print Production and InDesign Utlities.
Course Facts
- 2 day course
- Our Trainers are Authorised Professionals
- Live Online or Classroom-based
- Certificate of completion
- Maximum class size of 6 for scheduled courses
- Unlimited support after your course
- Courses at all levels: Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced and Masterclasses
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Course Outline
Preferences
- Detailed look at key options in Preferences
- Changing Application/Document defaults
Interface
- Spread view rotation
- Normal, preview and presentation mode
- Shortcuts for quick navigation
Objects
- Combining/converting objects
- Transforming objects with different methods
- Pasting objects within objects
- Creating Bezier paths
- Pathfinder and Align
- Compound paths
Object Styles
- Advanced Object Styles
- Picture fitting controls
- Activating paragraph styles in object styles
Strokes
- Creating custom strokes
- Pen/Pencil/Smooth/Erase tools
Text
- Text Import options
- MS Word to InDesign style sheets workflow
- Creating and using custom dictionaries
- Using the story editor
- Turning text to outlines
- Find/Change options
- Basic GREP searches
- Mapping Styles to Tags on Export
- Open type
- Column Guides
Advanced Styles
- Bullets and numbering - with styling and using Space Between
- Nested Styles
- Grep Styles
- Cross References
- Understanding Character style behaviour
- Understanding Object style behaviour
Advanced Typography
- Single Line/Paragraph Composers
- Working with OpenType
- Justification/Hyphenation controls
- Keep with Next
- Creating Custom Glyph sets
- Word space kerning
- Controls for Drop Caps
- Paragraph rule options
- Optical Margin alignment
- Span and Split
- Column rules and custom Baseline grid
Advanced text features
- Text variables - Running Heads
- Conditional Text
- Indexes
- The Notes features
- Footnotes and Endnotes
Images
- Working with native Photoshop files
- Working with AI Illustrator and EPS files
- Object Layer options and Layer Comps
- Re-linking based on file extension
- Live image captions
- Update using Edit With
Colours
- Named and Unnamed Colours
- Multi-ink colours and groups
- FOGRA39
- Aliasing spot colours in the ink manager
- Rich Black
Documents
- Document Presets
- Advanced Master Page options
- Sections and numbering
- Working with CC and ordinary Libraries vs Content Collector
- Creating and placing Snippets
- Books
- Linking for Text and Spreadsheets files
Tables
- Creating Cell and table styles
- Linking to Spreadsheets/updating information using import options
Working with Transparency
- Effect behaviour in the effects panel
- Transparency with Blending modes
- Isolating blending with groups
Working with Interactivity
- Buttons and forms
- Hyperlinks and QR
- Print v Interactive PDF
- EPUB, Jpeg, PNG output
- Creative Cloud functionality - CC Libraries, Share and collaborate, Publish Online
- Liquid Layout
Print Production
- Separations preview
- Flattener Preview
- Bleed and slug
- Crop/Reg/Bleed marks
- Define PDF settings
Utlities
- Using and adding scripts
- Data Merge
- Track Changes