Audience
This course is for those who want to create more sophisticated documents in less time by building on their existing skills.
Prerequisites
You should consider attending InDesign Introduction before taking this course.
Duration
2 days. Hands on.
Course Objectives
Create more sophisticated documents in less time by building on your existing skills. Delve deeper and master time saving automation tricks used by the pros.
Delivered by an Adobe Authorised training provider.
What will I learn?
- To fine-tune your text
- Go further with graphics
- Take full control of pages
- Design with tables
- Change interface for workflow
- Free digital course assets
- Free helpdesk support for 28 days
Course Content
Day One
Rock InDesign like a boss
• Locate and tweak essential settings hidden in the Preferences
• Customise the appearance and content of menus
• Change InDesign's keyboard shortcuts and add new ones
• Take charge of all those panels with workspace power tips
• Use built-in automation scripts and add new ones (for free)
Finesse your text content
• Restyle specific words and phrases across hundreds of pages in a second
• Access the full hidden character set of every font including accents, symbols and icons
• Work with typographical glyphs, dashes and white spaces
• Set up complex multi-style text formatting that works automatically
• Master advanced formatting features such as paragraph shading, baseline alignment and column spanning
• Simplify, customise and automate bulleted and numbered lists
Design with tables
• Insert tabular layouts with resizable rows and columns into any document and edit their content
• Import spreadsheets from Microsoft Excel and continue working with them in InDesign
• Restyle tables with fonts, colours and patterns, and even add graphics
• Add, remove and re-arrange rows and columns at will
• Flow tables across multiple pages with repeating headers and footers
Questions & answers
Day Two
Manage your design assets
• Use design industry colour references such as Pantone
• Work with RGB, LAB and CMYK colours, including spot inks
• Build re-usable and sharable libraries containing branded colours, type styles, graphics and layouts
• Capture the visual style of anything in a layout and re-apply it anywhere with one click
Take full control of pages
• Automate complex documents with multiple master pages
• Use different page sizes in the same document
• Change page numbering and spread pagination anywhere in a document
• Manage layout grids that automatically align text baselines
Go further with graphics
• Enable 'clipping path' cut-out graphics or create your own
• Place multi-layered images or graphics and choose which layers to show
• Create original graphics with shape and drawing tools
• Apply advanced transparency effects and blending modes
• Reposition graphics automatically when your text reflows
• Make text roll along curves, turn corners and swerve into custom shapes
Produce better PDFs
• Ensure colour consistency between on-screen and print
• Create custom 'preflight' checks to ensure clean and reliable output
• Configure your own custom PDF presets for faster export
• Make PDFs that your printing press people will love
Questions & answers