InDesign Training: Bootcamp

Overview

This course is a complete foundation that starts at a beginning level and progresses to an intermediate level of mastery.

Desktop publishing demystified. Create professional layouts to create everything from a business card to a book in this four-day InDesign comprehensive training class. Your instructor will work with you to properly create flowing text, and incorporate graphic frames to import images and backgrounds. You will be introduced to several color and typography concepts for use in your InDesign workflow. Work with master pages, paragraph and character styles to build layouts quickly and effectively. Learn how to export an Acrobat PDF with the proper settings so that your audience or printer can see your layouts, colors and fonts just as you intended.

Learn how to maximize your efficiency with quick keys, importing and exporting complicated files, and working with styles, including the nesting of styles. Work with tables, table styles and graphics within tables. Utilize transparency and Photoshop Blending Modes. Incorporate Illustrator files and work with type and photo effects from Photoshop. Your instructor will also cover color concepts, typography, working with long documents and incorporating XML into InDesign.
 
Your instructor will cover the pitfalls and the best practices will be followed so that you are creating rich layouts with the latest design standards and properly previewing these files with separations and transparency previews to create high and low-resolution PDF files in this Adobe InDesign class.

Prerequisites