InDesign Advanced Information

InDesign Advanced course is designed for individuals who already have a solid understanding of Adobe InDesign and want to further enhance their skills.

For curious beginners to advanced creatives working in any industry.

Who it’s for: Curious beginners to advanced creatives working in any industry.

What it is: A multifaceted content layout program that allows for the creation of posters, brochures, newsletters, books, basic illustration, special effects, and interactivity.

What You’ll Learn In InDesign Advanced?

We begin with learning the interface and workspace to drawing and manipulating shapes, applying color, and understanding and implementing typography. Then, we get into a fun series of lessons on placing images, editing images, and text wrapping. Next, we do a deep dive into paragraph, character, and object styles.

We explore the valuable Master pages, and learn about exporting and packaging our documents for publishing. In our advanced course, we cover data merging and how to create a Table of Contents and interactive form. We also go deeper into nested styles including Character, Paragraph, and Object styles. Finally, we get creating with some of our favorite vector and shape manipulation tools, and explore how to use the Creative Cloud Libraries more effectively to share and utilize all of your new assets and tools.

Course

1. Introduction
2. CC Libraries
3. Adobe Stock
4. Advanced Layers
5. Master Pages
6. Inserting Sections
7. Placeholders
8. Loading Masters
9. Styles
10. Nested Character Styles
11. Nested Object Styles
12. Applying Borders to Styles
13. Applying Shading to Styles
14. Creating Custom Strokes
15. Direct Selection Tool
16. Pen Tools
17. Pathfinder Panel
18. Creating Outlines and Shapes from Type
19. Creating a Table of Contents
20. Creating Table of Contents Bookmarks in a PDF
21. Cross Referencing – Paragraph Styles
22. Cross Referencing – Text Anchors
23. Working with Hyperlinks
24. Creating Interactive Forms
25. Working with Tables
26. Data Merge Tool
27. Conclusion

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