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Adobe Indesign Advanced - course outline
This one day course can be booked according to our course schedule, or alternatively you can book a trainer to visit you. Contact us for more details!
Adobe inDesign CS
Advanced Level
inDesign excels in advanced typographic arrangement and design precision. Seamlessly integrated with Illustrator and Photoshop it handles imagery and text expertly and intuitively; through layers and fine controls, it produces superior literature with print specifications as complex as you will ever need.
Useful to you if:
you need to design professional literature such as books, magazines, posters, newsletters, brochures, or if you work at the print or production end of the literature design chain.
Before the course, you should:
- have a working knowledge of inDesign.
At the end of the day’s course you will:
- have produced an advertisement, and a brochure with spot colour separations;
- be comfortable with print specifications;
- know some advanced keyboard shortcuts to improve workflow.
Course contents (may vary slightly):
Basics
- InDesign basics recap
- General preferences
- Customising InDesign
- Bridge and version cue
Tools and Palettes
- Tool bar, variations
- Less commonly used palettes
- Control palette – options
- Workspace
Page usage
- Facing pages
- Setting footnotes
- Layout options
- Sectioning
Objects
- Pathfinder
- Effects
- Runaround/wrap
- Tables
Attributes
- Colour management
- Transparency
- Gradients
Text
- Story editor
- Table of contents and index tools
- Special characters and spaces
- OpenType fonts
- Glyph palette
- Importing Word using style sheet mapping
- Advanced style sheets
- Setting tables and importing Word, Excel and other
- tab-delimited data
- Anchoring shapes and lines into text
Imagery
- Editing and creating clipping paths
- Working with alpha channels
- Display performance
- Import options, eps. Photoshop, layers etc
Workflow
- Layers and separations
- Printing separations
- File info
- Separations preview
- Ink manager
- Snippets
- Libraries
- Trap presets
- Interactive options
- Video
- Bookmarks
- Buttons
- Hyperlinks
- Legacy saving
- Exporting to PDF, universal standards
- InBooklet
- Preflight
- Package
- Story palette
- Keyboard shortcuts
Project achievements:
- Advertisement
- Brochure with spot colour separations
If you would like to make an enquiry about our Training, fill in the form below, or call us on 0845 485 1173, or email us at sales@computertrainingsolutions.co.uk





