InDesign CC 2017
Level 1: 3 – Day Training
Students receive a course text, Adobe InDesign CC 2017 Classroom in a Book, which includes downloadable class files. These resources provide students with a valuable tool for post-training practice, using familiar files and lessons.
All Mira Images Adobe authorized training is provided by certified instructors at our location or yours. Because we know your time is valuable…
We will never cancel your class.*
The Mira Images Classroom is located just outside of Philadelphia, PA and is convenient to Harrisburg, PA; New York, NY; New Jersey; Baltimore, MD; Wilmington, DE; and Washington DC.
Open Enrollment
Hands-on Training
$1199.00
- Adobe Certified instructors
- Hands on classes
- Personal attention
- Small class size
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EPUB with InDesign
Class Description
InDesign keeps getting better and better! InDesign has continued to improve and evolve its unparalleled page-layout features, seamless integration with Photoshop and Illustrator, and overall ease of use. In this 3-day intensive hands-on InDesign training you will maximize InDesign’s rich feature set to create stellar documents. Whether a designer, prepress professional, or even a beginner, this class will give you the skills to use InDesign effectively and efficiently. Topics include:
- Setting up your documents
- Working with pages and layers
- Using a library to manage objects
- Flowing and formatting text
- Working with styles
- Working with graphics
- Working with master pages
- Packing for print
Course Curriculum
Introducing the workspace
- Working with panels
- Customizing the workspace
- Navigating through a document
- Using context menus
- Using panel menus
- Modifying interface preferences
Getting to know InDesign
- Viewing guides
- Preflighting as you work
- Adding text
- Working with styles
- Working with graphics
- Working with objects
- Working with object styles
- Viewing the document in Presentation mode
Setting up a document and working with pages
- Creating and saving document settings
- Creating a new document
- Switching between open InDesign documents
- Working with master pages
- Applying master pages to document pages
- Adding new document pages
- Rearranging and deleting document pages
- Changing the size of pages
- Adding sections to change page numbering
- Overriding master page items and placing text and graphics
- Viewing the completed spread
Working with objects
- Working with layers
- Creating and modifying text frames
- Creating and modifying graphics frames
- Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
- Placing and linking graphics frames
- Changing the shape of a frame
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Modifying the shape of frames
- Transforming and aligning objects
- Selecting and modifying grouped objects
- Creating a QR code
- Drawing lines and modifying arrowheads
Flowing text
- Flowing text into an existing frame
- Flowing text manually
- Creating text frames while flowing text
- Creating threaded frames automatically
- Flowing text automatically
- Applying paragraph styles to text
- Adjusting columns
- Adding a jump line page number
Editing text
- Finding and changing a missing font
- Entering and importing text
- Finding and changing text and formatting
- Checking spelling
- Editing text by dragging and dropping
- Using the Story Editor
- Tracking changes
Working with Typography
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Working with fonts, type styles and glyphs
- Fine-tuning columns
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Creating a drop cap
- Adjusting letter and word spacing
- Adjusting line breaks
- Setting tabs
- Adding a rule above a paragraph
- Working with paragraph shading
Working with color
- Managing color
- Defining printing requirements
- Creating colors
- Applying colors
- Working with tint swatches
- Working with gradients
- Working with color groups
Working with styles
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Creating and applying character styles
- Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
- Creating and applying object styles
- Creating and applying table and cell styles
- Globally updating styles
- Loading styles from another document
Importing and modifying graphics
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Updating revised graphics
- Adjusting display quality
- Working with clipping paths
- Working with alpha channels
- Importing native Adobe graphic files
- Using an InDesign library to manage objects
- Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
Creating tables
- Creating a table
- Converting text to a table
- Changing rows and columns
- Formatting a table
- Adding graphics to table cells
- Creating a header row
- Creating and applying table and cell styles
Working with transparency
- Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
- Applying transparency settings
- Adding transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
- Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
- Applying transparency settings to text
- Working with effects
Printing and exporting
- Packaging files
- Creating an Adobe PDF proof
- Previewing separations
- Previewing how transparency effects will be flattened
- Previewing the page
- Printing a proof and saving a print preset
- Using the Ink Manager
Creating Adobe PDF files with Form Fields
- Adding form fields
- Adding a description to a form field
- Setting the tab order of the fields
- Adding a button to submit the form
- Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file
Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB
- Creating a new document for fixed-layout export
- Adding animation
- Adding multimedia and interactive elements
- Exporting an EPUB file
Creating a Reflowable EPUB
- Completing the booklet before export
- Choosing the content of an ebook
- Adding metadata
- Exporting an EPUB file