indesign training

Adobe InDesign CS5 software lets you explore more creative possibilities and experience new levels of productivity when creating documents for multiple media. Design compelling page layouts, that include transparency, creative effects and gradient feathers.

Intended Audience

For the beginner or intermediate publisher.

Courses

Indesign Advanced Advanced level 2 days

Adobe InDesign CS5, provides precise control over typography and built-in creative tools for designing, preflighting and publishing documents for print, online, or to mobile devices. Include interactivity, animation, video and sound in page layouts to fully engage readers.

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[+] Full course outline for Indesign Advanced

Managing Pages
- Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
- Sections, page numbers, and chapter numbers
- Creating and applying master pages
- Overriding master page items
Text
- Text frames
- Filling with placeholder text
- Special characters
- Importing text
- Threading text frames
- Text frame options
- Text on a path
- The Story Editor
- Spelling
- Auto Correct
- Finding and changing text
Advanced Master Pages
- Using Multiple Master Pages
- Based on Master
- Override All Master Page Items
- Remove all Local Overrides
- Detach All Objects from Master
Working With Styles
- Removing Overrides
- Redefining Styles
- Drop Caps
- Nested Styles
- Nested Line Styles
- Based On
- Next Styles
- Applying Next Styles
- Grep Styles
- Importing Styles
Anchored Objects
- What are Anchored Objects?
- Inserting Anchored Objects
- Anchored Object Options Inline or Above Line
- Custom
Bullet and Numbered Lists
- Adding a Bulleted List
- Adding a Numbered List
- Modifying Bullet and Numbered Lists
- Adjusting Tabs
- Customizing Glyphs
- Restarting a Numbered List
Object Layer Options
- Working with PS & AI Layers in InDesign
- Layers or Layer Comps?
- Placing Files with Show Import Options
- Update Link Options
- Links Panel Indicators
Find/Change
- Why Use Find Change?
- Changing Text
- Changing Text Formatting
- Search Options
- What is Grep?
- Grep Searches
- Changing Glyphs
- Changing Objects
- Saving Queries
Taking Advantage of Libraries
- The Benefits of Libraries
- Creating a New Library
- Adding Objects to a Library
- Naming Library Items
- Placing Library Items
- Item Information
- Deleting Library Items
- Library Options
Snippets
- The Benefits of Snippets
- Creating a Snippet
- Placing a Snippet
- Sharing Snippets
- Snippets vs Libraries
Text Wrap
- What is Text Wrap?
- Wrap Around Bounding Box
- Wrap Around Object Shape
- Jump Object
- Jump to Next Column
- Wrap Options
- Wrap Using a Photoshop Path
- Apply to Master Page Only
Conditional Text
- What is Conditional Text?
- Creating Conditions
- Applying Conditions to Text
- Deleting Conditions
- Condition Options
- Conditions Sets
- Loading Conditions
- Loading Conditions and Set
Table of Contents
- Understanding Table of Contents
- Being Smart with your Paragraph Styles
- Applying a Table of Contents
- Table of Contents Options
- Using Table of Contents to Create an Index
- Update Table of Contents
- Table of Contents Styles
Index
- How to Set up an Index
- References
- Topics
- Creating a New Index Entry
- Editing an Index Entry
- Removing an Index Entry
- Generating an Index
Kuler
- What is Kuler?
- Browsing Themes
- Searching for a Theme
- Viewing Themes
- Refreshing Themes
- Edit a Theme in the Create Panel
- Adding a Theme to the Swatches Panel
Data Merge
- What is Data Merge?
- How it Works
- Setting Criteria
- Selecting a Data Source
- Adding Data Fields
- Updating a Data Source
- Content Placement Options
- Preview
- Creating a Merged Document
- Exporting to PDF
Tables
- Creating a Table
- Customizing a Table
- Table Options
- Cell Options
- Working with Text in a Table
- Working with Images in a Table
- Table Styles
- Cell Styles
Long Documents
- Working with Books
- Adding Documents to a Book
- Replacing Documents
- Removing Documents
- Saving your Book
- Preflighting a Book
- Packaging a Book
- Exporting a Book
- Printing a Book
- Synchronizing a Book
Preflight
- Preflight Panel Overview
- Resolving Preflight Errors
- Define a Custom Preflight Profile
- Embed a Profile Into Your Document
- Load and Export Profiles
- Preflight Options
- Error Reports
- Preflighting a Book
Exporting to PDF
- Adobe PDF Presets
- Advanced PDF Options
- Compression
- Output
- Advanced
- PDF Standards and Compatibility

Indesign Essentials Entry level 2 days

Adobe InDesign CS5 provides precse control over typography and built-in tools for designing, preflighting and publishing documents for print, online or mobile devices.

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[+] Full course outline for Indesign Essentials

Unit 1: Tools
- Palettes
- Toolbox
- Transform Palette
- Characters and paragraph palettes
- Swatches palette
- Style palettes
- Navigator palette
- Pages and Layers palettes
- Shortcuts
- opening, saving and automatic recovery
- Converting files
- Preferences
- New Control palette, customisable workspaces
Unit 2: Page Setup and Layout
- New document settings
- Margins and column guides
- Master text frames
- Spreads and pages
- Select and target
- Pages, numbering and running heads
- Sections and section starts
- Master pages and island spreads
- Stacking order
- Pasteboard
- Rules, guides and grids
- Layers
- Flattening
- Auto adjustment
- Multiple document views
- Workgroup Servers
Unit 3: Illustration/Drawing
- Path
- Stroke and fill
- Frame
- Bezier curves
- Anchors and handles
- Stoke attributes and corner effects
- Shapes
- Pen and pencil tools
- Editing points and paths
- Text to paths
- Compound paths
- Creating type along a path
- Drop Shadow and Feather
- Pathfinder commands
Unit 4: Objects
- Transforming objects
- Moving items in and out of frames
- Adjusting frames and content
- Setting a point of origin
- Scaling and rotating
- Shear/skew and reflecting
- Moving and arranging objects
- Duplicating objects
- Step and repeat
- Align and distribute
- Stacking order
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Nesting
- Cropping and clipping paths
Unit 5: Typography
- Hyphenation and justifcation
- Dictionary and language
- Single-line, multi-line composers
- Optical margin alignment
- Hanging punctuation
- Glyphs and insert character
- Leading and baseline grid
- Small caps and ligatures
- Tabs and rules. Cell-based tabs
- Character formatting, scaling
- Style sheets
- Nested styles
- Kerning and tracking
- Text to bezier path conversion
- OpenType
- Active fonts
Unit 6: Text processing
- Linking and flowing text
- Text frames
- Threading
- Selecting and editing text
- Non-printing characters
- Inserting font characters and the Glyph Palette
- Linked files
- Find/change
- Spell checking
- Inline frames
- Wrapping text
- Text import filters
- Tagging text
- Adobe XMP
- Story Editor
Unit 7: Colour
- RGB, CMYK and L*a*b colour
- Out of gamut colours
- Colour separation and registration
- spot colour
- Applying colour to objects
- New colours, tints, and gradients
- Swatchbook libraries
- Imported EPS and PDF spot colours
- Spot to process colours
- Trapping
- colour management
- Applying/exporting profiles
- Separations palette
Unit 8: Import amd Export
- Images overview
- Importing images
- Placing PDF files
- Linked and embedded images
- PostScript export and virtual printer overview
- EPS and prepress export
- Web Hyperlinks export
- PDF for print and online
- Enhanced integration with Adobe Acrobat
- JPEG Export
Unit 9: Printing
- Dots and pixels
- Page description languages
- Imaging
- Screening
- Resolution
- Dog gain
- Preflight and package
- Printing to a device or a PostScript file
- General page control
- Advanced output issues
Unit 10: Cross Media Applications
- XML
- XML Workflow automation
- eBook Support
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Export
- Collaboration
Unit 11: Long Documents
- Books
- Table of Contents
- Indexing
- Hyperlinks