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Adobe InDesign CS4 for Professionals
Adobe InDesign is the future of professional publishing and the perfect solution for all print publishers. With InDesign you get unparalleled precision and control, outstanding text handling, and seamless integration with Adobe's other professional graphics applications: Illustrator, Photoshop, and even Acrobat. Whether you are a graphic designer developing clients' advertising and marketing pieces or a publisher creating books or manuals, you will find InDesign intuitive and flexible.
MacTraining's 3 day InDesign for Professionals topics include
- Working with Typography; vertical spacing, multiple ways to change fonts, sizes, etc, drop caps and initial caps, letter and word spacing, paragraph alignment, setting tabs (important), rules....
- Transparency; colorizing a greyscale image and its frame, applying transparency setting for InDesign and for EPS files, adjusting transparency and blending modes of placed images and text, effects....*
- Setting up a document with master pages, automatic page numbers, and placeholders, saving custom page setups, setting up and using design grids, sections and numbering pages in sections (don't think you need this? Maybe it'll show up on a test sometime in the future!), adding and removing pages with emphasis on double sided (facing) paged documents, overriding master page items on document pages....
- Long Documents; building Tables of Contents for the whole document and/or individual chapters, indexing (yes, actually creating an index), cross-references, footnotes, running footer, synchonizing a book....*
- Output and exporting; preflighting and packaging, creating a proof, previewing separations, seeing how transparency will be flattened, previewing the page
- Tables; importing and formatting data, custom formatting of rows and columns, editing the table, using graphics in a table (nifty technique in this project), formatting text in your table
- Paragraph, Character, and Object styles (this is one of the most important features of layout programs which should be used by all designers irrespective of brand of layout program or word processor, or the type of document being produced - IMPORTANT, IMPORTANT)
- Working with frames, color, and graphics
- Libraries*
Participants in the 3 day class are encouraged to bring in the types of documents they'll need to produce.
Files marked with an asterisk * will be covered in the 3 day Photoshop Professionals class.
Those serious about adding to their print design employability should be taking this course.
The 3 day class fee is $845 with a 25% discount if 4-6 attendees from the same company attend at the same time. NFP's get 5% off. The 2 day class fee is $645 with the discounts mentioned above.
The 3 day fee includes materials retained by the participants. Call 414.258.1646 to register or use our handy registration form which you may download from mactraining.com
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