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Skill Overview
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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. Booking a private training session allows you to focus on your exact needs on dates that work best for you or your team. • Sessions can be run online or in person, on your site or at our London training centre. • We manage training for many of the UK’s largest companies, taking care of all the admin, working with you to ensure the perfect course. • Our expert trainers will first understand your requirements and then tailor each session to your exact specification. • We offer a free consultation service to work out every detail of your course. Prices for bespoke sessions with our expert trainers start at £525 + VAT.
Learning Objectives
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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 Utilities • Using and adding scripts • Data Merge • Track Changes
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Skill Length
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2 Days to 1 Week
2 to 6 Weeks
7 Weeks +
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Course is delivered anytime between Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
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Skill Eligibility (Prerequisites for skill/software requirements)
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Learners will require access to a laptop with an internet connection and access to the relevant software to enrol on this course. They should also have some previous experience in the subject.
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