InDesign Training Course

Incorporating an impressive array of creative tools for digital and print publishing, Adobe InDesign enables graphic designers and production artists to craft vivid print media and interactive documents for web publishing. AcademyX's InDesign Fundamentals training will prepare you to create sophisticated documents, including magazines and books, and presentations enhanced with video and sound. This hands-on class is taught by an Adobe-Certified Instructor, and will equip you accomplish more with advanced productivity tools, such as object libraries and reusable "snippets" of content, exercise precision control over typography and composition, easily manage the complexities of long documents, and prepare finished work for the commercial printing environment.

Getting Started with Adobe InDesign

Maintain consistency with master pages.
Control the flow of text with advanced text frame threading techniques.
Group items to simplify document editing.

Managing Layout Efficiently

Set up a document in the way most suited to your needs, and use templates to minimize repetitive effort.
Build a custom palette of InDesign "swatches" to make sure that the colors, tints and gradients you use most often, are always readily available.
Streamline your efforts with object libraries and "snippets."
Use InDesign's native ability to manage object spacing, so that layout changes made to one element won't require an excessive reformatting effort to the entire document.

Using Vector Paths and other Graphic Design Elements

Draw freeform paths, pictures and type with the vector path tool.
Rapidly transform the position, size and other graphic elements of an object, manually or numerically.
Compare multiple versions of a layout using InDesign's "layout comps" feature.

Controlling Typography and Styles

Create, import and edit styles to make rapid, document-wide typographical changes.
Make manual style changes to any number of objects in a document.
Control the leading, composition, hyphenation and justification of text within a document.
Use shortcuts to manipulate typographical elements with greater speed.

Organizing and Managing Long Documents

Organize a long document with sections and indexes.
Manage citations and external references with footnotes, endnotes and tables of contents.
Create text conditions and variables to apply text formatting rules based on certain conditions.

Prerequisites:

Basic Mac or Windows skills: copying/pasting, right-clicking (contextual menus), finding files, switching between programs, exploring windows.

InDesign training is offered at four locations::

InDesign Fundamentals Training