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Adobe InDesign CS4: Certification Bootcamp - Blended Learning

Course Code: INDCS4BC      Days: 3
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London (N1) 24/03/10 £ 850
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Course Overview

InDesign CS4 Certification Bootcamp is a blended learning solution which combines the InDesign Getting Started and InDesign Advanced courses into a complete solution for those looking to take their skills from beginner to advanced in one go and prepare for the InDesign CS4 ACE exam. The ACE exam fee is included in the price.

Audience

This course is ideal for those who are planning to use InDesign for their day to day work, and need to have a good level of skills with the product. Graphic designers, prepress and production professionals, and print service providers who work for magazines, design firms, advertising agencies, newspapers, book publishers, and retail/catalog companies, as well as in corporate design, commercial printing, and other leading-edge publishing environments will find this of particular benefit.

Prerequisites

In order to complete this course you will require basic computer skills such as a basic understanding of a computer's operating system, launching an application, creating & saving files, and copying files from CDs & other media.

Course Outline

Stage One - Getting Started

General Interface

  • How the panels work
  • Docking
  • Panel groups
  • Document tabbing
  • Creating/Saving workspaces
  • The Application bar
  • N-up display
  • Canvas Rotation
  • Basic shortcuts

Exploring InDesign

  • Explore the InDesign Environment
  • Using InDesign Workspaces
  • Explore Adobe Bridge
  • InDesign Preferences

InDesign Overview

  • Introduction to InDesign - what is InDesign for
  • Customize Your Workspace
  • Set General Preferences
  • Manage Document Presets
  • Managing your workspace

Designing Documents

  • Create a New Document
  • Alter a Document's Layout
  • Create the Structure of a Document
  • Developing Master Pages
  • Manage Text and Graphic Placement
  • Develop Layers
  • Wrapping text
  • Laying out columns
  • Smart guides and smart spacing

Managing text

  • Add Text - typing and placing
  • Editing Text with and without the story editor
  • Spell Check and dictionaries
  • Threading Text
  • Change Text Threads
  • Format Characters
  • Format Paragraphs
  • Manage Styles
  • Glyphs - where they are and how to use them
  • Text inside and on a shape

Style Sheets

  • Paragraph Styles
  • Character Styles
  • Managing Styles

Columns

  • Making a text box into columns
  • Column guides
  • Creating boxes as columns
  • Laying out a page/spread as columns

Placing Images

  • Placing images
  • Image file type - jpgs/gif/tiff/pdf/eps/etc
  • Linking vs Embedding
  • Placing psd and ai files
  • Place options

Placing text

  • Placing several pages of text
  • What text file formats can be placed
  • Place options
  • Missing font issues
  • Automatic flowing of placed text

Colours, Swatches, and Gradients

  • Colour and Kuler
  • Swatches
  • Apply Fills, Gradients, and Strokes to objects and text
  • Applying effects
  • Transparency

Tables

  • Create Tables
  • Modifying Tables
  • Formatting Tables

Masters

  • Creating masters
  • Multiple masters
  • Editing masters
  • Headers/Footers
  • Page numbering

Preparing a document for print

  • Checking Documents for Problems
  • Printing a Document
  • Preflighting a document
  • Packaging Files
  • Preview Output

Creating PDFs

  • Preparing PDF Files for web and for print
  • Managing PDF Presets
  • Export PDF Files - options
  • Creating Interactive PDFs

Basic object editing

  • Creating basic shapes
  • Editing shapes
  • Pathfinder
  • Applying effects to a shape
  • Object styles

Basic overview of using InDesign within CS4

  • How to use InDesign with Photoshop CS4
  • How to use InDesign with Illustrator CS4
  • How to use InDesign with Flash CS4

OpenType

  • What is an OpenType font
  • Why use OpenType fonts
  • OpenType fonts and their variations
  • Glyphs
  • Fractions, where are they and how to create them

More about Masters

  • Masters upon masters
  • Section breaks and numbering
  • Overriding master items

Keyboard shortcuts and Customisation

  • Customising Menus
  • Finding shortcuts
  • Editing shortcuts
  • Saving shortcuts

Dynamic documents

  • Bookmarks
  • Hyperlinks
  • Cross-references
  • Movies and sound
  • Buttons

Stage 2 - Advanced Techniques

More about Masters

  • Basing masters on existing master pages
  • Applying master pages to multiple document pages
  • Different page sizes
  • Page shuffling and moving pages
  • Overriding page items
  • Sections

Advanced Styles

  • Local Overrides in Style
  • Basing One Style upon Another
  • Importing and Redefining Styles
  • Object styles
  • Nested styles
  • Line styles
  • GREP styles

Creating Interactive PDFs- Advanced

  • Buttons, Links, Movies - Techniques
  • Documents for Flash
  • Page transitions

Text Flow Control

  • Composition, Hyphenation, and Justification
  • Tracking and Kerning
  • Scaling Text
  • Anchoring objects
  • Story Editor

Page Elements and Graphics

  • Item Duplication
  • File Formats
  • Libraries
  • Placing multiple files
  • Placing InDesign files within InDesign files

Document Sectioning

  • Sectioned Documents
  • Sectioned Document Navigation
  • Footnotes
  • Indexing
  • Markers

Managing Long Documents

  • Tables of Contents
  • Indexing
  • Creating a Book

Print Settings

  • Print Presets
  • Colour Separations Print Settings
  • Colour Management
  • Colour Proofing

Advanced tables

  • Table styles
  • Cell styles

Transparency

  • Adding Transparency
  • Blending Colours
  • Flattening

Using InDesign within CS4 - Advanced topics

  • InDesign with Photoshop CS4
  • InDesign with Illustrator CS4
  • InDesign with Flash CS4 - using XFL

Advanced Textual techniques

  • Cross-referencing
  • Conditional Text

InDesign and data

  • Datamerge with InDesign
  • Structuring InDesign Documents with XML
  • Importing XML

Customising

  • Important preferences
  • Customising the menus, palettes, and keyboard shortcuts
  • Text variables

Bezier Shapes

  • Bezier Paths
  • Compound Paths
  • Clipping Paths
  • Type Outlines

GREP

  • What is GREP
  • How to use it


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