Adobe InDesign CC Advanced 2 Days - Bristol

InDesign Advanced 2 Days Overview

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.

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

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.

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.

 

InDesign CC Advanced 2 Days 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

• Advanced zooming and navigation
• Advanced view options
• Focus selection for formatting
• Changing tools (without changing)

Layers

• Micro layers
• Professional layers
• Multi-lingual export options
• Locking layers
• Duplicating layers

Anchored Objects

• Inline objects
• Anchoring object options
• Setting up the anchor
• Applying an object style

Next Styles

• Logic of next styles
• Using next styles
• Applying next styles
• Forcing a new style

Grep Queries

• Using advanced find/change
• Using GREP queries
• Understanding logic of queries
• Saving a new query

Frame Fitting Options

• Default frame fitting
• Manual frame fitting
• Applying frame fitting
• Linking frames to object styles

Long Documents

• Using table of contents
• Creating a table of contents style
• Editing a table of contents

Spot Colours

• Create new pantone swatches
• Spot or process considerations
• Creating a mixed-ink group
• Editing a mixed-ink group

Live Preflight

• Live preflight
• Defining profiles
• Importing and exporting
• Embedding profiles

PDF Export Standards

• PDF/X ISO standards
• Colour transformations
• Registration marks
• Trim and bleed geometry

Data Merge

• Creating a data set
• Formatting data merge
• Merging data
• Formatting options

Tables

• Importing data
• Creating a table
• Modifying a table
• Formatting a table

Table and Cell Styles

• Creating cell styles
• Creating table styles
• Applying table styles
• Style tips and tricks

What's Included

The following are provided for your best experience on this course:

• All computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac systems
• Small class size (limited to a maximum of 4-8 attendees on all sessions)
• Quality reference manual for post course reference to take away with you
• 6 months post course support to assist you where needed
• Official Adobe Authorised Certificate for your successful completion of the course
• Lunch To give you the most flexible options for lunch we provide lunch vouchers which can be redeemed locally at a number of popular eateries including Pret A Manger, EAT, Starbucks, Tesco, Sainsburys, Boots and Greggs
• Refreshments to keep you on top form are available for you throughout the course with a full range of teas, coffees and biscuits
• Pads and pens

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm 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.

Further details on benefits included with this Adobe InDesign CC course:

Adobe Certified InDesign Instructor

We are an Adobe Authorised Training Centre and our trainers are Adobe Certified Instructors with years of experience teaching InDesign. Get the layout skills you need with our experienced InDesign professionals.

Quality training manual

Included with our InDesign courses is the Brilliant InDesign book provided for free to use as a post course reference resource. This is a full 300+ page manual to supplement the content covered during the course.

6 months support

Included with your course booking for all delegates on this course is 6 months free support so if you run into problems or need assistance relating to anything covered during your course we would be happy to assist you during this time.

Adobe Authorised Certificate

After your Adobe class with XChange Training you will receive our official Adobe Authorised Training Certificate as a record of your successful completion of the Adobe Certified InDesign course.

Lunch & refreshments

Delegates attending scheduled or bespoke courses at our training centres will receive lunch and plentiful refreshments including tea, coffee and hot chocolate for each day of the course.

Training Location

This course is provided at the Bristol training centre located at:

The Waterfront
Welsh Back
Bristol
BS1 4SB

The training centre is conveniently located in central Bristol in the popular Waterfront area of the city and is easily accessible from Bristol Temple Meads.

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.

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Testimonials

Thoroughly enjoyed the two day training course. We had a fantastic trainer and the course content was very clear and helpful. Thank you very much.

Ella Luscombe, Kier Construction Southern, Adobe InDesign - Two Day Introduction

The trainer had an extremely high level of knowledge about InDesign. He was very thorough in all his explanations and clear when providing any instructions. I feel very confident in the information I have been given and now feel able to go away and use InDesign. Excellent trainer.

Maria Juszczyszyn, Aldi, InDesign Introduction - Two Days

A really informative course with lots of useful hints and tips to use InDesign.

Anisha Patel, AAPG, InDesign - 2 Day Advanced

Excellent. Course was tailored to our requirements, so didn't feel that any time was wasted.

Susanna Booth, Competition Comm., InDesign - 1 Day Introduction

Really useful content presented in an understandable yet comprehensive manner. Covered a lot without being overwhelming. Fantastic and very helpful training and great tips on shortcuts too!

Carley Willis, UKTI, InDesign - 2 Day Introduction

To say that this course has revolutionised my design life is an understatement; It will benefit my work certainly but also several projects currently ongoing in my personal life as I am an aspiring writer and food blogger. Fantastic course delivered by an amazing trainer!

Lyndsay Stewart, Next, InDesign - Two Day Introduction

Very in-depth and thorough training for people completely new to the program. Covers everything you'd need to know at a very reasonable pace.

Andy Porter, Breaking Free Online, InDesign Introduction - 2 Days

Top quality facilities, instructor and training (as always.). I cannot praise everyone highly enough.

Steve Linehan, The Stationery Office (TSO), InDesign - 2 Day Introduction

The trainer was easy to follow and very easy going, which creates a excellent training environment. I will certainly be coming back in the future. A great teacher and a great course!

Scott Godfrey, InDesign - 4 Day Masterclass

I was very happy with the way the course was ran and felt everything I wanted to learn was covered. Our tutor was very helpful and friendly. Would definitely recommend to a colleague or friend.

Jade Barnes, ANS Group, Adobe InDesign - Two Day Introduction