adobe indesign - advanced

By attending Adobe InDesign - Advanced workshop, Participants will learn:

  • Transparency and effects
  • Create rich interactive InDesign documents
  • Color management
  • To Prepare documents for printing
  • Long documents
  • Advanced path technology
  • Use scripts
  • XML

In Adobe InDesign - Advanced training course, Participants will gain a thorough understanding of the interface, tools, features, and production tips for page. The Program is an ideal combination of instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice.

Adobe InDesign - Advanced

  • Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X
  • Attending a training on InDesign - Essentials or having equivalent experience
  • Attending a training on Photoshop - Essentials or having equivalent experience is recommended

  • Professional designers new to InDesign

COURSE AGENDA

  • Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
  • Applying transparency settings
  • Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
  • Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
  • Applying transparency settings to text
  • Effects
  • CS5
  • Multiple page sizes
  • Gap tool
  • Paragraphs that span or split columns
  • Balanced columns
  • Drawing multiple frames in a grid
  • Live captions from metadata
  • Mini Bridge
  • CS6
  • Alternate layouts
  • Liquid layouts
  • Linked content: Content collector and placer tools
  • Digital publishing
  • EPUB and HTML5
  • Interactivity
  • Need for color management
  • Isolate blending vs. knockout group
  • Creating a mixed ink swatch or group
  • Synchronizing color settings in Adobe Bridge
  • Specifying color settings in original source file
  • Specifying color settings in InDesign
  • Printing requirements
  • Image color settings
  • Assigning vs. converting a profile
  • Proofing colors onscreen
  • Creating a custom preflight profile
  • Previewing separations and ink amounts
  • Setting up a custom trap
  • Changing Participants attributes
  • Flattener presets
  • Transparency blend space
  • PDF/X output formats
  • Adding form fields
  • Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file
  • Accessibility
  • Setting up an online document
  • Adding buttons, page transitions, and hyperlinks
  • Exporting as Flash Player (SWF)
  • Adding advanced interactivity, animation, and video
  • Completing the booklet
  • Choosing the content of an eBook
  • Adding metadata
  • Exporting an EPUB file
  • Starting a book
  • Creating a running footer
  • Adding a footnote
  • Adding a cross reference
  • Synchronizing a book
  • Generating a table of contents
  • Indexing a book
  • Favorite tips and secrets for InDesign