Course description
Adobe InDesign training course for existing users, expanding your knowledge of the application and teaching skills for creating eye-catching layouts.
Building on the topics taught in our introductory course, this course teaches techniques in the following areas to power-user level:
- Layers
- Page Layout
- Text
- Objects
- Data Merge
- Tables
- Styles
- Table of Contents
- Long Document Features
- Editorial Features
- Parent Pages
- Interactivity
- Output.
Upcoming start dates
Course Content
Colour Management
- Introduction – principles of colour management
- Calibration and Profiling
- Colour management policies
Typesetting
- ‘Keep with’ – controlling line breaks
- Baseline grids – aligning text to grids
- Hyphenation and justification
Stylesheets
- Overview of styling
- Nesting character styles inside paragraphs
- Applying sequential styles to multiple paragraphs
- List feature – creating multi-tier lists
- Using quick apply
Images
- Anchoring techniques
- Adjusting Photoshop and Illustrator import options
Captions
- Creating captions – using image metadata
Drawing
- Pen tool – drawing and modifying
- Cutting and Transforming shapes
- Pathfinder – combining shapes
- Outlining type
Using Adobe Bridge
- Organise, browse, locate and view creative assets
- Centralise access to project files, applications and settings
- Tag files with metadata and other labels for easy searching
Colour
- Mixing colours
- Overprinting
- Overprint preview
- Flattener preview
- Viewing Separations
Find/Change
- GREP searches – advanced find replace features
Automation
- Data merge – merge text and images from database to create pages
Long document features
- Book – combining documents into a ‘book’ to arrange, control and output
- Using the Story Editor
- Control styling
- Page and chapter numbering
- Table of Contents
- Tracking changes
Interactive PDFs
- Creating Buttons and Links
- Interactive forms
Preflighting, packaging and output
- Using the preflight command to check the integrity of a document
- Examining the PDF output flow and print commands
Training venue
All our training venues offer excellent training facilities.
A computer - Windows or Mac - running licensed Adobe InDesign is made available for each delegate to use for the duration of the training.
Lunch and refreshments are provided.
Which version of Adobe InDesign is covered?
Intermediate/Advanced InDesign training is based primarily on InDesign 2024. The techniques taught are relevant to all recent releases of InDesign.
Training is suitable for both Windows and Mac users.
Suitability - Who should attend?
Anyone looking to build on their existing basic Adobe InDesign skills, to gain a deeper knowledge of this application.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Upon course completion, delegates will receive an e-certificate confirming successful completion of our Adobe InDesign course.
Course delivery details
InDesign training is fast-paced, hands-on and practical.
Our trainers teach the necessary theory then demonstrate techniques step-by-step. You then practice the techniques taught on a computer running InDesign. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to ask questions.
Why choose Armada
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Over 96% delegate experience rating on our Autodesk courses in 2021
5 locations across UK and live online courses
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