PME NTI : InDesign Advanced

Course Overview

This one day training course in Birmingham City centre at the NTI Birmingham will cover advanced text handling and text wrapping techniques, working with tables and spot colours whilst using object libraries. Delegates will explore shortcuts Adobe InDesign, work-flow management issues and receive useful hints and tips for work flow processes.

What you will learn:

• Preferences and defaults
• Saving and loading workspace
• Create keyboard shortcuts and templates
• Sectioning, numbering and making changes to master pages
• Specify custom grids using guides
• Using baseline grids
• Layers
• View, search, sort, manage and process images
• Create and save groups in Bridge centres
• Setting colour management
• Create custom Glyph sets and special characters
• Inserting and using white space and break characters
• Optical margin alignment and optical pair kerning
• Flow text and inline graphics
• Manage hyphenation and justification
• Advanced paragraph and character formats
• Indents and spacing, tabs, bullets and numbering
• Nested styles
• Automatically copying style formats
• Inserting type and objects onto paths
• Create type outlines, compound and clipping paths
• Compound paths and shapes
• Drawing with the pen and pencil tool
• Drawing and editing Bezier paths
• Using transparency and drop shadow options
• Applying blending modes and feathering
• Updating Links palette
• Separation and transparency flattener previews
• Checking clipping paths
• Check Prefight before packaging document
• Exporting PDF for print

Entry Requirements

Pre-Requisites

Basic IT and Windows for PC users or OSX skills for Apple Mac users.