Adobe InDesign Core Skills: Level 2

Course Description:

  The Adobe InDesign CC Core Skills: Level 2 course is designed for advanced level InDesign users. The class will build upon the Level 1 course topics to help students design professional level print and online documents in InDesign CC and optimize their workflow. Students should be familiar with the topics covered in the Level 1 course before taking this course. Each section of the class will include challenging practice files.

The course is always upgraded to latest version of CC as soon as Adobe published new training materials for that version. This normally happens 2-4 months after the version release.

The course will cover the following topics:

• Working with Objects
• Flowing Text
• Editing Text
• Working with Typography
• Working with Color
• Working with Styles
• Importing and Modifying Graphics
• Creating Tables
• Working with Transparency
• Printing and Exporting
• Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields

• Working with Objects
  Review – Creating and modifying graphics frames
  Creating multiple frames in one step
  Transforming the shape of frames
  Selecting and modifying grouped objects
  Flowing type along a path
  
• Working with Color
  Managing color
  Search and replace colors
  Working with tint swatches
  Working with gradients
  Working with color groups
  
• Flowing Text
  Create linked frames automatically
  Add pages and linked frames automatically while flowing text
  Clean up text by deleting extra paragraph returns
  Apply paragraph styles to text
  Control column breaks
  Align text to the baseline grid
  
• Editing Text
  Finding and changing a missing font
  Editing text by dragging and dropping
  Using the Story Editor
  
• Working with Styles
  Review – Creating and applying paragraph styles
  Review – Creating and applying character styles
  Creating and applying object styles
  Globally update styles
  Import and apply styles from other InDesign documents
  
• Importing and Modifying Graphics
  Distinguish between vector and bitmap graphics
  Manage imported graphic files using the Links panel
  Adjust the display quality of graphics
  Import Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator graphics using different techniques
  Use various sizing and fitting techniques
  Wrap text around graphics
  Fill type with a graphic
  
• Working with Transparency
  Change the opacity of objects drawn in InDesign
  Apply transparency settings to imported graphics
  Apply transparency settings to text
  Apply blending modes to overlapping objects
  Apply feathering effects to objects
  Add a drop shadow to text
  Apply multiple effects to an object
  Copy effects between objects
  Apply an effect to one layer of a Photoshop file
  Edit and remove effects
  
• Printing and Exporting
  Pre-flighting files
  Previewing separations
  Managing colors
  Previewing the page
  Creating an Adobe PDF proof
  Creating a Press-Ready PDF and saving a PDF preset
  Printing a proof and saving a print preset
  

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