Adobe InDesign Course: Level 2
Adobe InDesign. Page design, layout, and publishing.
COVID-19 update: arrangement of our courses
We are now delivering courses online and in-person. Please check the delivery format of each class before enrolling.
Please note that course materials (excluding prescribed texts) are shared electronically within 48 hours of course commencement. Printing is not available.
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This Adobe InDesign course takes you through various advanced aspects of the software which are required to produce professional layouts and typography. Extend your knowledge beyond Adobe InDesign Course: Level 1 and take your skills to the next level.
Your own Adobe Creative Cloud account is required for this course. For further details, see ‘Before the course’.
Outcomes
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- work with your Adobe account
- use, modify and create libraries
- collaborate and work with others effectively
- format text
- apply formatting to various kinds of objects
- work with styles
- use, create and modify tables
- create and insert a table of contents and an index
- create a simple ePublication
- work with and understand alternate layouts.
Content
The Adobe Account
- The Adobe Website
- Signing in to your Adobe Account
- The creative profile home page
- Managing your Adobe Account
- Adobe creative cloud application manager
- Working with apps
- Understanding typekit
- Add fonts from typekit
- Understanding Adobe Colour CC
- Understanding behance
Libraries
- The libraries panel
- Adding elements to the libraries panel
- Sorting the contents of the library
- Working with libraries
Working collaboratively
- Uploading a file to creative cloud
- Creating a folder in creative cloud
- Working with files and folders
- Adding collaborators
- Viewing and navigating files in creative cloud
- Making changes to a shared file
- Commenting on a shared file
- Deleting comments
- Creating user identification
- Adding notes to a shared file
- Viewing notes in a shared file
- Working with tracked changes
- Accepting collaboration invitations
- Removing collaborators
Paragraph formatting
- Understanding the paragraph panel
- Applying space before and after paragraphs
- Applying an indent
- Applying a first line indent
- Understanding tabs
- Setting drop caps
- Creating a bulleted list
Formatting objects
- Applying effects
- Applying corner effects
- Changing the opacity of an object
- Applying a gradient to an object
- Using the eyedropper to copy formatting
- The find/change dialog box
- Creating a snippet
- Inserting a snippet
Working with Styles
- Understanding styles
- Understanding the styles panels
- Creating character styles
- Applying character styles
- Creating paragraph styles
- Creating a style from existing formatting
- Applying paragraph styles
- Working with style groups
- Editing styles
- Creating and applying object styles
- Deleting styles and style groups
Working with tables
- Creating a table
- Selecting tables and table cells
- Entering text in a table cell
- Adjusting a table
- Formatting text in a table
- Understanding the table panel
- Formatting cells
- Working with table borders
- Working with table colour
- Importing a spreadsheet table
- Deleting a table
Long documents
- Understanding table of contents
- Inserting a table of contents
- Formatting a table of contents
- Creating a table of contents style
- Updating a table of contents
- Understanding indexes
- Adding index entries
- Generating a simple index
Creating a simple E-publication
- Understanding digital documents
- Fixed layout vs reflowable
- Checking your fonts for EPUBS
- Interactive navigation tools
- Understanding adding animation
- The EPUB interactivity preview panel
- Adding animation
- Creating a multi-state object
- Interactive objects
- Creating a button
- The EPUB export options dialog box
- Exporting to EPUB
- Understanding multimedia tools
Alternate layouts
- Understanding alternate layouts
- Previewing liquid layout
- Applying liquid layout rules
- Constraining specific objects
- Applying rules to other pages
- Creating an alternate layout
- Splitting the document window
Intended audience
Suitable for anyone wanting to advance their understanding of design and graphic production to create layouts for print media.
Prerequisites
Prior to attending, you should have completed Adobe InDesign Course: Level 1 or have equivalent knowledge.
Delivery style
- Presenter-taught training in a computer lab where you can use a CCE desktop computer or bring your own device.
- Online training via the platform Zoom.
Materials
Course materials are provided electronically.
Before the course
You will need an Adobe Creative Cloud account to participate. If you don’t have an existing account, you can purchase one here. Please bring your account login details with you to class.
IMPORTANT For security reasons, you MUST remember to sign out of your Adobe Creative Cloud account at the end of class.
Additional information
Face-to-face classes
These classes run in a computer lab. You can use a CCE desktop computer or bring your own device.
Please bring a USB flash drive to class if you would like to make a copy of your work or any relevant class materials. Alternatively, you can save these to a cloud storage space or email them to your personal email address.
Online classes
If you are attending an online class you will need your own device.
Recommended operating system: Windows or Mac
Recommended software for PC: Adobe InDesign CC 2020
Recommended software for Mac OS: Adobe InDesign CC 2020
Features
- $50 repeat class - Conditions apply
- Expert trainer
- Small class size
- CCE Statement of Completion
What others say.
So much information in a short amount of time, so the day goes so quickly! Very enjoyable and informative course, I have enjoyed all the Adobe CCE courses I have done this year and cannot wait for the next one. Fabulous lunch, and excellent and clean facilities. Thank you CCE!
We had a great tutor – very patient and descriptive. I would definitely recommend this course to others.
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What others say.
- So much information in a short amount of time, so the day goes so quickly! Very enjoyable and informative course, I have enjoyed all the Adobe CCE courses I have done this year and cannot wait for the next one. Fabulous lunch, and excellent and clean facilities. Thank you CCE!
- We had a great tutor - very patient and descriptive. I would definitely recommend this course to others.
- Great equipment, knowledgeable presenter and comprehensive course notes.
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