Course information

Adobe. Work smarter with digital and print media.

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. You will also need your own device. 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 modes

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

Delivery style

Face-to-face classes

These classes run in a classroom and you will need to bring your own device with Adobe InDesign installed. You should ensure it is fully charged as access to power is limited. Please note that the University does not carry any responsibility for your lost, stolen, or damaged devices whilst on the University premises.

Online classes

You will need your own device with Adobe InDesign installed. We also recommend using a computer with a larger screen, or two screens/devices. A small laptop screen provides limited space, and it can be difficult to manage following the facilitator’s screen and using your own software.

Materials

Course materials are provided electronically using Dropbox.

Before the course

You will need an Adobe Creative Cloud account to participate. If you don't have an existing account, you can purchase an Adobe Creative Cloud account here. Please bring your account login details with you to class.

Recommended operating system: Windows or Mac

Recommended software for PC: Adobe InDesign CC 2023

Recommended software for Mac OS: Adobe InDesign CC 2023

Download the BETA version through your Creative Cloud to access the AI features.