Take your InDesign skills to the next level with this course.

This course will teach you some of the most useful and advanced tricks in Adobe InDesign. 

You will learn all about Typekit & Opentype fonts, font grouping & font pairing. 

You will master colour features like the colour theme tool and colour modes as well as professional proofing for colours for print. We’ll set permanent defaults for fonts, colours & will learn how to turn hyphenation off for good, once and for all.  

What would an advanced InDesign course be without all the tactics to fully control paragraphs, auto expanding boxes, spanning & splitting columns. You’ll become a Styles master, using nested styles, grep styles, next styles & advanced object styles.  

We’ll make beautiful charts & graphs for your InDesign documents. You’ll learn the pros & cons of various digital distribution methods including Interactive PDF’s, EPUBs & the amazing Publish Online. 

You’ll become a master of long, text heavy documents, auto-flowing, primary text frames & smart text reflow, cross referencing, indexes, text variables & the InDesign book feature. There is entire section dedicated to how to speed up your personal workflow & how to speed up InDesign and get it running super fast. 

We look at interactive forms & scripts. 

If you’re one of those people using InDesign and you know there is probably a better way, a faster way to work then this is your course.

This course is not for people brand new to InDesign. It’s for people who already know and understand the fundamentals. 

What's included

Here's what you will get when you purchase this course

  • 5.5 Hours

    You will have access to 5.5 hours of top quality, on-demand training videos.

  • Training Files

    You can download all of the exercise files used during the training, including projects.

  • Lifetime Access

    Learn at your own pace and take as long as you need. Access this course forever.

Course Outline

Here's what you'll learn in more detail

  • 1
    Introduction
  • 2
    Fonts
  • 3
    Creative Cloud App
    • Free Icons Using Adobe Market In InDesign CC
  • 4
    Colour
    • How To Use The Color Theme Tool In Adobe InDesign CC
    • Using Colour Modes In Adobe InDesign CC FREE PREVIEW
    • Importing Colours & Setting Default Colors In Adobe InDesign CC
    • Finding Great Colours Using Adobe Color For Use In Adobe InDesign CC
    • Appearance Of Black & Proofing Colours
    • Draw Lot Of Shapes At Once InDesign Gridify Live Distribute
  • 5
    Drawing
    • How To Make Arrows In Adobe InDesign CC
    • How To Draw Complex Flowers In Adobe InDesign CC
  • 6
    Paragraph Goodness
  • 7
    Charts & Infographics
    • How To Create Pie Charts & Bar Graphs In Adobe InDesign CC
  • 8
    Interactive Documents
  • 9
    Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Keyboard Shortcuts In Adobe InDesign CC That Will Change Your Life
  • 10
    Long Documents
    • How To Automatically Place Lots Of Text Onto Multiple Pages In InDesign CC
    • How To Make A Cross Reference In Adobe InDesign CC
    • How To Create An Index In Adobe InDesign CC FREE PREVIEW
    • Add Document Name Automatically To The Page In InDesign Using Text Variables
    • How To Use The Adobe InDesign CC Book Feature
  • 11
    Preferences
    • Changing Preferences For Advanced InDesign Users
  • 12
    Workflow Speed Tips
    • How To Speed Up Your Workflow For Advanced InDesign CC Users
  • 13
    Styles
    • Why Should I Use Character Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
    • Advanced Paragraph Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
    • How To Use & Map Word Styles In With Adobe InDesign Styles
    • How To Create Nested Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
    • How To Create A Grep Style In Adobe InDesign CC
    • How To Use A Next Style In Adobe InDesign CC
    • Advanced Object Styles In Adobe InDesign CC
  • 14
    Multiple Documents
    • Best Practices For Working Across Multiple Documents In Adobe InDesign
  • 15
    Images
    • How To Use Adobe Stock With Adobe InDesign CC
    • How To Crop Images Inside Of Text In Adobe InDesign CC
    • Using Adobe Comp CC To Make InDesign Layouts On Your Mobile Phone Or iPad
  • 16
    CC Libraries
    • Advanced Use Of CC Libraries In Adobe InDesign CC
  • 17
    Working with Photoshop and Illustrator
    • How To Get The Most Of Photoshop & Illustrator In Adobe InDesign CC
  • 18
    Forms
    • How To Create A PDF Form Using Adobe InDesign CC
  • 19
    Pages
    • Advanced Use Of The Pages Panel In Adobe InDesign CC
    • How To Place InDesign Documents Inside Of Each Other
  • 20
    Scripts
    • How To Use And Install Scripts In Adobe InDesign CC
  • 21
    Speed Up InDesign
    • How To Speed Up InDesign When It’s Running Really Slow
  • 22
    Exporting & Printing Tricks
    • Advanced Exporting & Printing Tricks For Adobe InDesign CC
  • 23
    Conclusion
    • What To Do Once You’ve Finished Your Advanced InDesign CC Training Course

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