InDesign Jumpstart – zero to HERO

Description
Zero to InDesign Hero in just 5 days and gain the Adobe Certified Associate(ACA) in InDesign Accreditation.

Imagine being able to create documents of many types, from single page advertisements and flyers, to complex multi-page colour. And then later being able to improve on your existing InDesign skills by being able to use additional techniques to manipulate text, pictures, and pages. Control type formatting, create and edit graphics, and create and modify layouts with efficiency and accuracy – all after just 5 days of training!

You will be prepared for and take the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam at the end of this course.
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Get Certified and become an Adobe Certified Associate (ACA)

Whatever your career path, proven Adobe software expertise will keep you ahead of the curve and help you develop a solid competitive advantage in today’s complex marketplace.
Adobe certifications are a reliable validation of your skills and knowledge, and can lead to accelerated professional development, improved productivity, and enhanced credibility in your field.

Prerequisites
This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, prepress professionals, and marketing communications professionals. It’s focused on those creating layouts for print.

Assumed Knowledge
Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of your computers operating system. For example, you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CD and other media.

Skills
You’ll learn to become comfortable when working with Layout Text & Graphics in a Document while making use of InDesign frames, share formatting and appearance attributes with styles, manage linked files and missing fonts, automate the workflow with Masterpages, define colours, tints and gradients using the swatches panel, output an artwork for prepress printing, manipulate long documents as books, work with tables inside of InDesign, create interactive PDF documents, utilise the automation features inside of InDesign, use XML to tag document elements according to their content.

You will also be prepared for and take the InDesign Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) to be accredited by Adobe.

• Course content

  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 across the CS3 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 Workflow

  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