Course Description

This 1-day advanced course has been devised for learners who wish to improve their efficiency and accuracy by building on their existing knowledge.

At all stages the opportunity to experiment and practise with new learning techniques will be encouraged

At the end of the course learners will have learned many time saving techniques as well as best practices to apply when approaching their next project

Target Student

This course is intended for the intermediate users of InDesign looking to build on their skills.

Pre-requisites

Delegates should have a working knowledge of InDesign. Delegates are welcome to bring along projects they may be already
working on.

Performance Based Objectives

To increase the users knowledge of InDesign allowing them to significantly improve speed, accuracy and efficiency when working on new projects.

At the end of the course learners will have learned many time saving techniques as well as best practices to apply when approaching their next project.

Throughout the day, handy hints and useful tips will be used.

Course Content

Working with Colour

Setting up Colour Management in InDesign
Colour Managing Imported Images in InDesign

Importing and Modifying Graphics

Working with Clipping Paths
Working with Alpha Channels
Creating a Library
Placing Native Files

Working with Transparency

Importing and Colourising Grey-scale Images
Applying Transparency Settings
The Effects Panel

Working with Long Documents

Starting a Book
Adding Sections to change Page Numbering
Creating a Running Footer
Adding a Footnote
Adding a Cross-Reference
Synchronising a Book
Generating a Table of Contents

Output and Exporting

Previewing Separations
Previewing How Transparency will be Flattened
Previewing the Page
Pre-flighting as You Work

Making a Print Document Interactive

Adding Buttons and Hyperlinks
Exploring Interactive Features
Supported for PDF