If you want to master design and publishing with InDesign, this is the course you need. It helps you achieve professional results in all your print and digital publications by teaching you efficient production workflows and advanced creative techniques. You’ll learn how to collaborate within workgroups; work efficiently with text, objects, and variable text; perfect your printed and digital output; get the most out of InDesign’s transparency and effects tools, and much more, all with a real-world workflow focus and hands-on instruction with world-renowned InDesign guru and author Pariah Burke.
What You Will Learn
- Not just how to use InDesign’s features but also why and when you should use them
- Setting up press-ready pages and spreads with bleed, slug, and live areas
- Placing and fitting images rapidly and accurately
- Using layers, guides, grids, templates, and libraries to speed the design process
- Improving productivity through reusable settings and assets
- Working with InCopy to incorporate collaboration
- Customizing InDesign’s tools to meet the demands of daily deadlines
- Exploring all that InDesign can do with text, characters, and documents
- Revolutionizing your workflow by using pages and stories effectively
- Mastering essential calibration and color management steps, even for grayscale jobs
- Printing well and accurately with the right preflighting procedures
- Getting more efficient and more creative using smart workflows
- Optimize InDesign to meet your print, prepress, and digital publishing needs
- Find sophisticated solutions to everyday design challenges
Lesson Outline
The following is a list of possible topics for you to use as a guide. Your course will be fully customized to your unique goals, workflow, and learning pace. Because every course we teach is fully customized to each group, the following list of topics to be learned should be considered a guideline, one that will be expanded or altered as required to fit your needs.
Customizing
- Panels
- Bars
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Menus
- Plug-In Customization
- Workspaces
- InDesign in Your Pocket
- Customizing Application Defaults
Text
- Working with Text Frames
- Paragraph Formatting
- Paragraph Composition
- Paragraph Rules
Characters
- Formatting Characters
- Special Characters
- OpenType
- Glyphs Panel
Drawing
- The Essence of Vector
- Drawing Paths
- Shape Tools
Images
- Placing Assets
- Managing Placed Assets
- Live Captions
Objects
- Transparency and Effects
- Strokes
- Swatches
- Anchored Objects
- Type on a Path
- Step and Repeat
- Gridified Tools
- Gap Tool
- Transform Again
- Transform without Grouping
- Live Distribute
- Smart Guides
Pages
- Creating Pages
- Managing Pages
- Page Size, Orientation, and Rotation
- Master Pages
Stories
- Threading and Unthreading Text Frames
- Lists, Numbers, and Bullets (Oh, My!)
- Word Processing
- Referencing: Footnotes, Endnotes, and Cross-References
- Fixing, Finding, and Changing Text and More
Documents
- Seeing Your Work
- Page Transitions
- Guides and Grids
- Layers
- Books
- Indexing
- Tables of Contents
Preflight
- Managing Color
- Proofing
- Preflighting
- Ink Manager
- Overprinting and Trapping
- Print Dialog
- Print Imposed Pages and Booklets
- Packaging
Export
- IDML
- XML
- HTML/XHTML
- EPS
- JPEG
- Flash
- ePUB
- PDF (Interactive)
- PDF (for Print)
Efficiency
- Working Efficiently with Text
- Working Efficiently with Tables
- Working Efficiently with Objects
Collaboration
- Collaborating with Other Designers
- Collaborating with Writers and Editors
- Collaborating with Anyone on Any File
- Sending Documents for Review
- Sharing Reusable Settings
Schedule your Advanced Adobe InDesign training class now!