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Adobe InDesign CC Advanced with ACP Exam 3 Days - Manchester

Key Course Details:

Level:

Advanced

Duration:

3
Days
- 10am to 5pm

Price:

£695 + vat

Join the professionals in getting the best out of the world's leading desktop-publishing program. Our course will show you how to unlock the power of InDesign's advanced tools and help you to become more proficient and confident in laying out documents. Pass the ACP exam and get qualified!

With our help, you will take your existing InDesign know-how and enhance it as you learn how to create interactive PDFs, eBooks, and more. We will show you how to work more efficiently by saving re-usable data and storing PDF presets. This course is a great way to step up to expert level by increasing the quality, consistency and speed of your output. You will test your new skills as you take the ACP exam.

Join the professionals in getting the best out of the world's leading desktop-publishing program. Our course will show you how to unlock the power of InDesign's advanced tools and help you to become more proficient and confident in laying out documents. Pass the ACP exam and get qualified!

With our help, you will take your existing InDesign know-how and enhance it as you learn how to create interactive PDFs, eBooks, and more. We will show you how to work more efficiently by saving re-usable data and storing PDF presets. This course is a great way to step up to expert level by increasing the quality, consistency and speed of your output. You will test your new skills as you take the ACP exam.

  • InDesign Advanced with ACP 3 Days

    Course Details

    This 3-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.

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

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

    The final day of the course is dedicated to the Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) InDesign exam, including trying a mock exam, reviewing answers, and then taking the real exam. The ACP exam represents an official qualification, and you will be provided with an instant pass or fail result. We are confident that you will join everyone we have already helped to pass the exam and collect an official certificate of Adobe Certified Professional status.

    As well as giving you the opportunity to take the ACP exam, 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, to become a confident power user, and to leave with an ACP qualification under your belt.

    Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:

    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.

    You will need basic experience in using InDesign. Ideally, you will have taken our Adobe InDesign CC Introduction 2 Day course.

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  • Full Course Outline

    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.

    Managing Your Workspaces
    • Organising Your Panels
    • Advanced Zooming and Navigation
    • Advanced View Options
    Advanced Typography
    • Typographical preferences
    • Advanced Character formatting options
    • Advanced Paragraph formatting options
    Style Sheets
    • Review of setting up Style Sheets
    • Advanced Style Sheet Tips
    • Nested Styles
    • Using ‘Based on’, ‘Next Style’ and Quick Apply
    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
    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
    Colour
    • Review of Swatches – managing colours and gradients
    • Creating Mixed Inks
    • Using the Ink Manager
    • Sharing Swatches between documents and with Photoshop and Illustrator
    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
    Creating an interactive PDF
    • Adding Hyperlinks, Buttons, Movies and Sounds
    • Setting up Page Transitions
    • Exporting an Interactive PDF
    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
    Preferences
    • Understanding InDesign preferences
    • Changing document preferences
    • Changing application preferences
    Printing
    • Using the Overprint Preview and the Separations Preview panel
    • Defining the Transparency Flattener settings
    • Using Preflight
    • Understanding an RGB workflow
    • Creating PDF presets
    Adobe Certification Preparation & ACP Exam
    • Work through exam preparation sheet
    • Sample Exam questions
    • Take Practice exam
    • Any other questions?
    • InDesign ACP Exam
    • Instant Pass or Fail Result
  • Location Details

    This course is provided at the XChange Training Manchester training centre based at:

    Piccadilly House
    49 Piccadilly
    Manchester
    M1 2AP

    Piccadilly House is located in the heart of Manchester directly next to the Piccadilly Gardens transport interchange with excellent bus and tram connections and is easily accessed from Piccadilly train Station (5 mins). Victoria station is also close by (around 10 mins).

    Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.

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  • InDesign Advanced with ACP 3 Days - Upcoming Manchester Course Dates

    Next 15 Jan - 17 Jan £695 + vat
    Next 12 Mar - 14 Mar £695 + vat
    Next 14 May - 16 May £695 + vat
    Next 09 Jul - 11 Jul £695 + vat
  • Client Reviews

    "We had an excellent instructor for the InDesign course - as someone who had no prior knowledge, he explained everything thoroughly and enthusiastically. I will definitely be back if my training requirements change!"

    Francesca D’Alessio, Rider Levett Bucknall, Adobe InDesign - Two Day Introduction

    "For such a brief time frame an awful lot is covered. The walk-throughs via projection were excellent and instruction/explanation was excellent. He is clearly a very knowledgeable professional!"

    Angelo Christodoulou, Queen Mary University, InDesign - 1 Day Introduction

    "Thoroughly enjoyed my day of training on Adobe InDesign, the trainer was very professional and easy to get on with. His knowledge and delivery was very good. Will definitely recommend you to others."

    Anthony Barnes, The Design Business, InDesign - 1 Day Essentials

    "Great trainer who gave a fantastic insight in a short period of time. I'm looking forward to doing the advanced session!"

    Nader Morsy, New College Manchester, InDesign Introduction - 2 Days

    "It was good fun, informative and I feel like I learnt a lot. It has also made me want to do more courses."

    Stephanie Razis, Salamanca, InDesign - 2 Day Introduction

    "A thoroughly enjoyable course, very useful and brilliantly tailored to our requirements. Have completed two other introductory InDesign courses and this has been the best by far. Would definitely recommend to others."

    Juliet McEwan, University of Glasgow, InDesign - 2 Day Bespoke Introduction

    "Very organized training course covered all the basics needed and ran efficiently and in a nice relaxed and amenable environment."

    Amaya Climent, The Crown Estate, InDesign - 1 Day Essentials

    "I had no knowledge of InDesign prior to this training, now I feel like I can use it with confidence. The course has equipped me with new skills and knowledge that has made me genuinely excited to get back to work and use this software."

    Sam Wright, Industrial Tomography Systems, InDesign Introduction - 2 Days

    "It was brilliant. I feel like I have learnt so much in 2 days. Our trainer was fantastic and I would love to come back and learn more."

    Alex East, ISG, Adobe InDesign - Two Day Introduction

    "Trainer was very knowledgeable and professional - good amount of bespoke content covered."

    Victoria Portwin, Gottex, InDesign - 1 Day Bespoke