Course summary

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.

Learning 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

Who this course is for

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 modes

• Face-to-face, presenter-taught training using your own device
• Online training via the platform Zoom

Materials

Course materials are provided electronically using Dropbox.

What you need to do before the course

To participate in this course, you will need Adobe InDesign installed on your device and an Adobe Creative Cloud account. If you do not already have an account, you can purchase one through the Adobe Creative Cloud website. Please bring your account login details with you to class.

• Recommended operating system: Windows or Mac
• Required software: Latest version of Adobe InDesign
• AI features: Download the BETA version of Adobe InDesign via your Creative Cloud app to access AI tools.

Face-to-face classes

Please bring your own laptop with all required software pre-installed.

Online classes

For the best experience, we recommend using a computer with a large monitor or dual screens/devices. Small laptop screens can make it difficult to follow the facilitator’s display while working in the software.

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