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 Adobe InDesign CS4 level I training
2 days. You'll learn to use Adobe InDesign CS4 to create graphics-intensive print documents. This two-day course covers key foundation lessons, including:
- • Getting to know tools, panels, and workspaces
- • Learning how to navigate and zoom in a document
- • Working with layers for efficiency and organization
- • Setting up master pages in a document
- • Building automatic page numbering and sections
- • Creating text and graphics placeholder frames
- • Placing text and graphics on document pages
- • Understanding text and graphics frames
- • Grouping and transforming frames
- • Formatting text using paragraph and character styles
- • Flowing, threading, and spell-checking text in text frames
- • Adding color: swatches, gradients and tints
- • Frequently-used shortcuts and techniques
Prerequisites:
Suggested Follow Ups:
- Adobe Acrobat I
- Adobe Illustrator I
- Adobe InDesign for Long Documents
- Adobe InDesign II and III
- Adobe InCopy for Workgroups
- Adobe Photoshop I
- Typography and Font Management
Book your training today! Click this link to our Onsite Training Request form.
Register to take a class with Mike or with Urszula Witherell
Adobe InDesign CS4 level II training
2 days. Take the next step in learning to become an Adobe InDesign CS4 master. Learn all you need to know to work effectively with InDesign CS4, including these advanced features:
- • Working with typography, including tracking and kerning
- • Creating drop caps, rules, tabs, dot leaders and hanging indents
- • Developing paragraph, character and object styles
- • Nesting character styles within paragraph styles
- • Loading styles from one document to another
- • Placing, managing and editing linked graphics
- • Adjusting the viewing quality of the document
- • Working with clipping paths and alpha channel masks
- • Workflow tips for placing graphics into InDesign
- • Using the Library panel for placing frequently-used content
- • Using Adobe Bridge for placing graphics
- • Creating tables from spreadsheets; formatting cells and text
- • Placing graphics within the cells of a table
- • Working with Live Preflight
- • Exporting documents to PDF for commercial printing
Prerequisites:
Suggested Follow Ups:
- Adobe Acrobat I and II
- Adobe Illustrator I
- Adobe InDesign for Long Documents
- Adobe InDesign III
- Adobe InCopy for Workgroups
- Adobe Photoshop I
- Typography and Font Management
Book your training today! Click this link to our Onsite Training Request form.
Register to take a class with Mike or with Urszula Witherell
Adobe InDesign CS4 level III training
2 days. Let Adobe InDesign CS4 take you into the future of publishing. Learn to fully exploit all the advanced features of InDesign CS4 as your integrated workflow and publishing environment:
- • Setting up preferences and color management
- • Using advanced frame techniques
- • Drawing with the Bezier Pen
- • Transparency features, feathering, drop shadows
- • Applying transparency settings to text
- • Working with transparency flattener preview
- • Adding and editing hyperlinks, bookmarks, and page transitions
- • Placing video, and building JavaScript buttons for web-enabled PDFs
- • Commercial printing: troubleshooting, preflighting, and packaging
- • Options for exporting files to PDF for commercial printing
- • Exporting to Flash
- • Expanded features of Adobe Bridge CS4
Prerequisites:
Suggested Follow Ups:
- Adobe Acrobat I
- Adobe Creative Suite 4 Bootcamp
- Adobe InDesign for Long Documents
- Adobe InCopy for Workgroups
- Adobe Photoshop I
- Color Management for Digital Publishing
- JavaScript for Non-Programmers
Book your training today! Click this link to our Onsite Training Request form.
Register to take a class with Mike or with Urszula Witherell
Adobe InDesign CS4 level IV training
2 days. Learn to speed up productivity in your workflow by getting to know the many presets within InDesign CS4. Experiment with GREP for finding and changing text. Try out JavaScripts for driving InDesign to do more work in less time. Setup a Data Merge project for joining your design with personalized data from an external spreadsheet file.
- • Automating repetitive tasks with presets
- • Preserving your presets from loss when defaults are restored
- • Using GREP queries in Find/Change text dialog box
- • GREP styles and Line Styles within the paragraph style
- • Working with Glyph and Object Find/Change
- • Introduction to JavaScripts that drive InDesign
- • Installing and using JavaScripts
- • Setting up a Data Merge for joining database info
- • Shortcuts, productivity, and Q&A
Prerequisites:
- Adobe InDesign I, II, and III
Suggested Follow Ups:
- Adobe Acrobat I and II
- Adobe Illustrator I
- Adobe Creative Suite 4 Bootcamp
- Adobe InDesign for Long Documents
- Adobe InCopy for Workgroups
- Adobe Photoshop I
- Color Management for Digital Publishing
- JavaScript for Non-Programmers
- Typography and Font Management
Book your training today! Click this link to our Onsite Training Request form.
Register to take a class with Mike or with Urszula Witherell
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