Adobe InDesign CC Introduction Masterclass with ACA Exam 5 Days - London

InDesign ACA Masterclass 5 Days Overview

This 5-day Masterclass course helps you learn about the tools and features available for power users 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 learn to create attractive, simple documents and prepare them for the web and for print. We will guide you in learning the work area, working with text and graphics, creating simple vector-based graphics, and the basics of design. You will also learn how to apply consistency to your text through the use of paragraph and character styles. Once you grasp the basics of the program, we will show you how to take your understanding 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:

• Navigate the InDesign environment
• Design simple and complex documents, including interactive PDFs and eBooks
• Add effects to objects
• Apply paragraph and character styles
• Use colours, swatches, and gradients
• Manage transparency and use tables
• Prepare for hand-off to a service provider
• Use advanced tools and palettes
• Re-use data via libraries and snippets
• Generate tables of contents and indexes
• Store PDF presets
• Develop Bézier paths
• Work with XML
• Automate your workflow with other Creative Cloud programs

The final day of the course is dedicated to the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) InDesign exam, including trying a mock exam, reviewing answers, and then taking the real exam. The ACA 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 Associate status.

As well as giving you the opportunity to take the ACA exam, this course is the perfect preparation if you plan to take the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam.

Our goals are for you to be able to create simple but professional documents that are ready to use for the web and for print, to understand the advanced features of InDesign, to become a confident power user, and to leave with an ACA qualification under your belt.

This course can be taken in a single 5-day block or split into a 2-day block (Introduction) and then a separate 3-day block (Advanced plus ACA exam) taken at a later date.

Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals.

You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.

 

InDesign CC ACA Masterclass 5 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.

Getting started in InDesign

• Customise Your Workspace
• Workspace and Window arrangement
• Create a New Document
• Zooming in and out
• Moving around your document
• Using Control panel options
• Previewing your document

Managing and Formatting Text

• Add Text
• Edit Text using Story Editor
• Spell Check Text
• Find/ Change
• Character formatting options
• Paragraph formatting options
• The Glyphs panel
• Showing Hidden Characters
• Threading Text

Handling images

• Adding images
• Cropping images
• Resizing images
• Adding Text Wrap
• Understanding different image file types
• Using the Links panel
• Understanding and checking resolution

Colours, Swatches, and Gradients

• Adding colour to Fill/Stroke
• Adding Swatches
• Understanding the difference between CMYK, RGB, Pantone colours
• Creating tint swatches
• Creating Gradients
• Stroke settings

Objects

• Creating different shapes
• Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
• Transforming Objects
• Duplicating
• Layers
• Object Styles
• Applying Effects
• Shape and corner options

Paragraph and Character Styles

• Setting up Paragraph Styles
• Setting up Character Styles
• Changing Paragraph & Character styles

Master Pages

• Setting up Master pages
• Applying a Master page
• Using Master pages with facing pages
• Adding page numbers
• Overriding Master page items

Preparing a document for Printing

• Using Preflight for basic checks
• Print a Document
• Packaging Files
• Exporting to PDF

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 Master Pages

• Review of setting up Master Pages
• Parent & Child masters
• Overriding Master Page items
• Using ‘Shuffle’ options
• Best practice with master page
• 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

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 a file to become an e-book
• Overivew 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 & ACA Exam

• Work through exam preparation sheet
• Sample Exam questions
• Take Practice exam
• Any other questions?
• InDesign ACA Exam
• Instant Pass or Fail Result

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 XChange Training main London training centre based at:

5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BH

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St John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is just a few minutes away and the training centre can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes. There is also easy direct access by bus from Waterloo (243) and West End (55) with nearby stops.

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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