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InDesign Training: Essential Skills II

InDesign Training: Essential Skills II

InDesign Training: Essential Skills II Schedule

Austin, TX March 07-08, 2012 $895.00 Add to Cart
Phoenix, AZ - Tempe April 04-05, 2012 $895.00 Add to Cart

Special Group rates are available for this training.

We can also perform this training at your location or at one of the cities listed below:

InDesign Training: Essential Skills II Overview

Take your design skills to the next level in this two-day InDesign CS4/CS5 training. Learn how to maximize your efficiency with quick keys, importing and exporting complicated files, and working with styles including the nesting of styles. Work with tables, table styles and graphics within tables. Utilize transparency and Photoshop Blending Modes. Incorporate Illustrator files and work with type and photo effects from Photoshop. Your instructor will also cover color concepts, typography, working with long documents and incorporating XML into InDesign.
 
Your instructor will cover the pitfalls and the best practices will be followed so that you are creating rich layouts with the latest design standards and properly previewing these files with separations and transparency previews to create high and low resolution PDF files in this InDesign class.

This training is intensive, but not complicated. Our job is to make difficult concepts easy to understand and implement into your own projects.

Learn to import a variety of documents into InDesignLearn to import a variety of documents into InDesign

Incorporate Photoshop and Illustrator files into your workflowIncorporate Photoshop and Illustrator files into your workflow

InDesign Training: Essential Skills II Course Materials

Along with this Two-Day Training, you will receive:

  • Course Manual
  • Student Files and Class Assets
  • How-To Videos on CD*
  • An Adobe Nationally Recognized Course Certificate
  • After-Class, Follow-Up Support
  • Conversion Tools Bookmark
  • Additional Goodies!

*Some classes may not include videos

 

InDesign Training: Essential Skills II Course Prerequisites

  • Completion of InDesign: Essential Skills I, or have equivalent knowledge of the topics covered in the InDesign: Essential Skills I course

 

InDesign Training: Essential Skills II Course Outline

InDesign Training: Essential Skills II PDF Version of InDesign Training: Essential Skills II Outline

NEW FEATURES OF CS5 COVERED

  • Interactive documents and presentations
  • Simplified object selection and editing
  • Multiple page sizes
  • Track text changes
  • Paragraphs that span and split columns
  • All-new Layers panel
  • Production enhancements
  • Print to digital
  • Live captions

WORK AREA REVIEW

  • Quick Keys
  • Tools Panel
  • Control Panel
  • Viewing and arranging Panels
  • Panel menus
  • Save a Workspace
  • Navigating the document
  • Scrolling through a document
  • Using InDesign Help
  • InDesign Foundations Review:
  • Resolution & Color for Print & Screen
  • When to use InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop
  • File Formats
  • Know what a Raster and Vector is

IMPORTING AND EXPORTING

  • Import Text, Clean or Formatted
  • Import Layered Files
  • Modify Visibility of Layered Files
  • How to use a Library
  • Export Web Ready Graphic
  • Export Postscript File

 

WORKING WITH STYLES

  • Creating and applying paragraph styles
  • Creating a character style
  • Nesting character styles
  • Creating and applying object styles
  • Creating and applying cell styles
  • Globally updating styles
  • Loading styles from another document
  • Create a Template

IMPORTING & CREATING TABLES IN InDesign

  • Formatting and editing tables
  • Adding and deleting columns
  • Using graphics within tables
  • Formatting text within a table
  • Working with styles and tables

WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY

  • Colorize an Imported Graphic
  • Change Opacity of Objects
  • Apply Transparency to Text
  • Use Photoshop Blending Modes
  • Use Feathering
  • Apply Multiple Effects
  • Edit or Remove Effects

UNIQUE TEXT AND GRAPHICS

  • Illustrator Tools in InDesign
  • Use Pathfinder
  • Text as Graphics Frame
  • Use Fitting
  • Type on a Path
  • Not your Basic Text Frame
  • Inline Graphics
  • Type Effects from Photoshop
  • Photo Effects from Photoshop

 

WORKING WITH COLOR

  • Color Right from your Photo
  • Use Gloss Varnish in your Project
  • Create Spot Color Swatch
  • Create Tint Swatch
  • Import PMS Metallic Color SwatchCreate Mixed Ink Swatch
  • Save a Color Palette

APPLICATION OF ADVANCED Typography and Design

  • Project Applies Masterclass Techniques
  • Learned and Includes:
  • Great Places to buy Great Fonts
  • Import and Format Text
  • Unique Text Frame
  • Use Hyphenation and Hanging Punctuation
  • Baseline Shift
  • Quick Keys for Text Formatting

WORKING WITH LONG DOCUMENTS

  • Join Multiple InDesign Files into a Book
  • Control Page Number Throughout Book
  • Create Running Headers and Footers
  • Create Table of Contents
  • Assign a Source Document
  • Update Modified Documents
  • Create Text Variables
  • Generate an Index
  • Edit Index

 

USING XML

  • Import XML tags
  • Apply XML tags
  • Map Styles and Tags
  • Use the Structure Pane
  • Import XML
  • Export XML
  • XML Snippets

SEPARATIONS AND TRANSPARENCY FLATTENER

  • Previews & Printing and PDF Exporting
  • Separations Preview &
  • Transparency Flattener
  • Preview Print Dialog, Important Features
  • Create a Package
  • Create a High and Low Res .pdf
  • Save .pdf Presets for use later
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