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Adobe InDesign CC Advanced 2 Days - Glasgow

Key Course Details:

Level:

Advanced

Location:

Central Glasgow

Duration:

2
Days - 10am to 5pm

Price:

£495 + vat

Dates:

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Join the professionals in getting the best out of the world's leading desktop-publishing program. Our course will show you how to unlock the power of InDesign's advanced tools and help you to become more proficient and confident in laying out documents.

With our help, you will take your existing InDesign know-how and enhance it as you learn how to create interactive PDFs, eBooks, and more. We will show you how to work more efficiently by saving re-usable data and storing PDF presets. This course is a great way to step up to expert level by increasing the quality, consistency, and speed of your output.

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InDesign Advanced 2 Days
Course Details

This 2-day Advanced course will help to develop your skills as you explore the advanced features of Adobe InDesign CC. We will help you understand how this industry-leading program takes desktop publishing and design to a new level, and combines production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat software.

You will already understand the basics of the program, and we will show you how to take that knowledge to the next level. We will cover advanced topics such as creating eBooks, generating indexes, and automating workflows.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Create complex documents such as interactive PDFs and eBooks
- Use advanced tools and palettes
- Re-use data via libraries and snippets
- Generate tables of contents and indexes
- Store PDF presets
This course is the perfect preparation if you plan to take the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam.

Our goals are for you to understand the advanced features of InDesign and for you to become a confident power user.

Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:

This course is intended for those who wish to enhance their existing knowledge of InDesign and who work as graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, or marketing communications professionals.

You will need basic experience in using InDesign. Ideally, you will have taken our Adobe InDesign CC Introduction 2 Day course.
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Full Course Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Managing Your Workspaces
- Organising Your Panels
- Advanced Zooming and Navigation
- Advanced View Options
Advanced Typography
- Typographical preferences
- Advanced Character formatting options
- Advanced Paragraph formatting options
Style Sheets
- Review of setting up Style Sheets
- Advanced Style Sheet Tips
- Nested Styles
- Using ‘Based on’, ‘Next Style’ and Quick Apply
Pages and Parent Pages
- Review of setting up Parent Pages
- Parent & Child masters
- Overriding Parent Page items
- Using ‘Shuffle’ options
- Best practice with Parent pages
- Numbering and Section options
Organising your Layout
- Advanced Align options
- Using keyboard shortcuts for align and distribute
- Using the Gap tool
- Using Autofit for images
- Review of setting up Object Styles
- Setting up a Baseline Grid
- Creating custom frames and objects with the pen tool
Colour
- Review of Swatches – managing colours and gradients
- Creating Mixed Inks
- Using the Ink Manager
- Sharing Swatches between documents and with Photoshop and Illustrator
Managing Documents
- Using Libraries and Snippets
- Creating Templates
- Creating and using Find/Change queries
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Using an InDesign ‘Book’ to collate documents
- Setting up Indexes
- Tables
- Setting up Tables
- Importing Excel & Word tables
- Creating Table and Cell styles
Creating an interactive PDF
- Adding Hyperlinks, Buttons, Movies and Sounds
- Setting up Page Transitions
- Exporting an Interactive PDF
Setting up an e-book / e-pub
- Understanding what an e-book is
- Overview of preparing a file to become an e-book
- Overview of Export options
Preferences
- Understanding InDesign preferences
- Changing document preferences
- Changing application preferences
Printing
- Using the Overprint Preview and the Separations Preview panel
- Defining the Transparency Flattener settings
- Using Preflight
- Understanding an RGB workflow
- Creating PDF presets
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Location Details

This course is provided at our Scotland training centre located in central Glasgow at:

Centrum Business Centre
38 Queen Street
Glasgow
G1 3DX

The Glasgow training centre is located on Queen Street in the heart of Glasgow close to Central Station, Queen Street Station and Argyle Street Station.

Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.
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InDesign Advanced 2 Days - Upcoming Glasgow Course Dates

27 Nov - 28 Nov	£495 + vat
22 Jan - 23 Jan	£495 + vat
09 Apr - 10 Apr	£495 + vat
04 Jun - 05 Jun	£495 + vat
16 Jul - 17 Jul	£495 + vat

Client Reviews

"The trainer was easy to follow and very easy going, which creates a excellent training environment. I will certainly be coming back in the future. A great teacher and a great course!"
Scott Godfrey, InDesign - 4 Day Masterclass
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Kerry Willis, Paignton Zoo, InDesign - 1 Day Introduction
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Abi Griffin, InDesign Introduction - 2 Days
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Marta Jadowska, UBT, InDesign 1 Day Intermediate with ePub
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