InDesign: Ultimate Mastery

Setting Up Your Document

• Be precise with Rulers and Guides
• Add
• move & shuffle Pages in your Document
• Paginate Spread Pages
• Using Bridge to organise your creative assets and InDesign Libraries to share them

Working with Frames

• Place Text & Graphics on the Document Pages
• Applying Colours
• Tints and Gradients
• Get creative with the Stroke panel
• Shapes & Corner options inside of InDesign
• Transforming Frames Content
• Changing the default Transparency
• Share the Appearance attributes with Object Styles

Importing and Editing Text

• Flowing Text & multiple Columns design
• Formatting with Character & Paragraph Styles
• Leading
• Spacing
• Tracking and Kerning
• Create Bulleted & Numbered lists
• Explore decorative Fonts & special Characters with Glyphs panel

Working with Graphics

• Image quality & Display options
• Fitting or Clipping graphics with Frames
• Share Colours with Swatch Exchange Format
• Manage linked files & automate updating of your content
• Vector artworks inside of InDesign
• Goddies inside of the Effects panel

Page Layout tools

• Using Placeholders
• Eyedropper and Master Pages for different workflow
• Aligning multiple Objects & working with Object Groups
• Wrap text around inline Objects while making use of Alpha Channels
• Be a professional with Baseline Grid alignment

Outputting and PDF Export

• Understanding Bleed & Slug
• Differentiate between Spot & Process colours
• Create a Package to share InDesign Documents
• Manage missing Fonts
• Preflight for Prepress

Enhancing your Workflo

• Section Starts
• Prefixes & Page Numbering
• Exploring Find / Change command
• Data Merge & Text Variables for Dynamic Data
• Customise advanced Preferences
• Synchronizing Book Documents
• Indexing & Table of Content
• Discover Interactive PDFs with Hyperlinks
• Navigational Buttons
• embedded Sounds and Movies

Advanced Typography

• Style Overrides & making use of Story Editor
• Share Styles with Snippets
• Explore Nested Styles
• Creating Hanging Indents
• Hyphenation & advanced Justification options
• Understand Anchored Objects

Mastering Tables in InDesign

• Working with Tabulators
• Table & Cells formatting
• Placing Graphics inside a Table
• Link Tables from MS Office for automated updates
• Importing Graphs & Charts from MS Office

Drawing Vector Graphics

• Using the Pen
• Pencil & Scissor Tools to work with Bézier Curves
• Combine Shapes for complex Compound Paths
• Utilise Clipping Paths for CD/DVD label design
• Gradient Feather tool
• Importing & Colouring B&W Images

Advanced Outputting & XML Export

• Learn about ICC Profiles & Colour Management
• Manage Rendering Intents
• Transparency Flattener & Trapping
• Outputting an Interactive PDF
• XML Tagging & mapping Tags to Style

Advanced Techniques

• Master pages
• Snippet files, Libaries and Templates
• Linking, embedding files and creating Packages
• Advanced usage of Styles
• Quick apply and Story Editor
• GREP search
• User dictionaries
• Bullets and numbering
• Advanced text options and columns
• Working with tables
• Advanced image techniques
• Live captions
• Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign integration
• Mini-Bridge
• Working with colours, transparency and gradients
• Creating and working with long documents
• Conditions
• Text variables
• Table of contents
• Importing, exporting
• Live Preflight
• Interactive PDFs
• Exporting to Flash Movie files (SWF)
• Buttons and actions
• Video files and Multi-state objects
• Animations
• Managing prepress and printing

ACA Prep

• Copyright
• Design principles, elements, and image composition
• Design project requirements and deliverable
• Adding descriptive metadata to images
• Mock exam