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InDesign Training: Bootcamp

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Overview

The Adobe InDesign Bootcamp training is a comprehensive course that pairs and integrates both of our essential skills classes.  

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.

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Outline

  • Get comfortable with the interface and workspaces
  • Learn to create different types of frames
  • Create Paragraph, Character and Object Styles
  • Explore the use of Typography and the related panels
  • Incorporate images, Word documents and Excel documents
  • Manipulate images and manage through the Links panel
  • Format type to create well-crafted documents
  • Learn about the different color panels and resources
  • Incorporate Tables and related Styles
  • Learn to export, reuse and share projects
  • Become familiar with related Creative Cloud apps and tools
  • Use paragraph and character styles for automated formatting
  • Create large scale documents with an InDesign Book
  • Incorporated text variables to generate dynamic text
  • Create advanced numbering schemes and running header/footers
  • Build and manage table of contents, indexes and bookmarks
  • Learn to use excel data and Data Merge to create content with InDesign
  • Work with tables and table styles
  • Build interactive projects with buttons, animations and multimedia for mobile devices

Photoshop goes well with InDesign. You might consider also taking our Photoshop Essential Skills 1 training.

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Prerequisites

  • Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac
course-level

Skill Level: 1-2

Foundation to Beyond Basics

Materials

Along with this training, you will receive:

  • Student courseware and class projects
  • Adobe InDesign Course Certificate
  • Conversion tools bookmark

This training can also assist with the preparation of Adobe certification exams, including the Adobe Certified Professional credential.

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