Non-Certification Course

Adobe InDesign CC Advanced

Maximize your Adobe InDesign skills with our 2-day Advanced course. Learn to create eBooks, generate indexes, and automate workflows. Available in Kuala Lumpur or on-site throughout Malaysia. Enroll now and unlock the full potential of Adobe InDesign!

RM 2,400.00

per person

Level

Advanced

Duration

2 Days

Training Delivery Format

Face-to-face / Virtual Class

RM 2,400.00

per person

Level

Advanced

Duration

2 Days

Training Delivery Format

Face-to-face (F2F) / Virtual Class

Class types

Public Class

Private Class

In-House Training

Bespoke

This 2-day Advanced course will help to develop your skills as you explore the advanced features of Adobe InDesign CC. We will help you understand how this industry-leading program takes desktop publishing and design to a new level, and combines production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat software.

You will already understand the basics of the program, and we will show you how to take that knowledge to the next level. We will cover advanced topics such as creating eBooks, generating indexes, and automating workflows.

To optimise your knowledge and skills, join our Adobe Indesign training in Kuala Lumpur. This Adobe Indesign training is also available if you want to conduct at your work place throughout Malaysia.

This course is intended for those who wish to enhance their existing knowledge of InDesign and who work as graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, or marketing communications professionals.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Use advanced tools and palettes
  • Create complex documents such as interactive PDFs and eBooks
  • Re-use data via libraries and snippets
  • Generate tables of contents and indexes
  • Store PDF presets

This course is the perfect preparation if you plan to take the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam.

Our goals are for you to understand the advanced features of InDesign and for you to become a confident power user.

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Lesson 1: Managing Your Workspaces

  • Organising Your Panels
  • Advanced Zooming and Navigation
  • Advanced View Options

Lesson 2: Advanced Typography

  • Typographical preferences
  • Advanced Character formatting options
  • Advanced Paragraph formatting options

Lesson 3: Style Sheets

  • Review of setting up Style Sheets
  • Advanced Style Sheet Tips
  • Nested Styles
  • Using ‘Based on’, ‘Next Style’ and Quick Apply

Lesson 4: Pages and Parent Pages

  • Review of setting up Parent Pages
  • Parent & Child masters
  • Overriding Parent Page items
  • Using ‘Shuffle’ options
  • Best practice with Parent pages
  • Numbering and Section options

Lesson 5: Organising your Layout

  • Advanced Align options
  • Using keyboard shortcuts for align and distribute
  • Using the Gap tool
  • Using Autofit for images
  • Review of setting up Object Styles
  • Setting up a Baseline Grid
  • Creating custom frames and objects with the pen tool

Lesson 6: Colour

  • Review of Swatches – managing colours and gradients
  • Creating Mixed Inks
  • Using the Ink Manager
  • Sharing Swatches between documents and with Photoshop and Illustrator

Lesson 7: Managing Documents

  • Using Libraries and Snippets
  • Creating Templates
  • Creating and using Find/Change queries
  • Creating a Table of Contents
  • Using an InDesign ‘Book’ to collate documents
  • Setting up Indexes
  • Tables
  • Setting up Tables
  • Importing Excel & Word tables
  • Creating Table and Cell styles

Lesson 8: Creating an interactive PDF

  • Adding Hyperlinks, Buttons, Movies and Sounds
  • Setting up Page Transitions
  • Exporting an Interactive PDF

Lesson 9: Setting up an e-book / e-pub

  • Understanding what an e-book is
  • Overview of preparing an existing file to become an e-book
  • Overview of Export options

Lesson 10: Preferences

  • Understanding InDesign preferences
  • Changing document preferences
  • Changing application preferences

Lesson 11: Printing

  • Using the Overprint Preview and the Separations Preview panel
  • Defining the Transparency Flattener settings
  • Using Preflight
  • Understanding an RGB workflow
  • Creating PDF presets
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At this time, this course is available for private class and in-house training only. Please contact us for any inquiries. 

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