InDesign course – Intermediate – Blue Academy

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InDesign course – Intermediate

InDesign course – Intermediate

Course Curriculum

Lesson 1: Essential skills revisited

Using the Pages panel
Changing magnification
Placing and formatting type
Paragraph and character styles
Using Find/Change
Applying object styles
Placing and positioning graphics
Applying text wrap
Understanding layers
Applying effects

Lesson 2: Text and type

Lesson 3: Advanced styles

Using nested styles
Redefining styles
Breaking links to styles
Additional style options
Creating a new style group
Using Quick Apply
Selecting all unused styles
Editing export tags
Sorting styles
GREP styles

Lesson 4: Additional graphics features

Auto fitting
Importing graphics with Adobe Bridge
Placing graphics with Mini Bridge
Object styles
Clipping paths & alpha channels
Removing an image background
Anchored objects
Advanced importing
Import layered Photoshop files
Import InDesign layouts as graphics

Lesson 5: Advanced tables

Formatting cells and text
Text alignment and inset within a cell
Formatting text in tables by column
Working with tables in Story Editor
Defining a header cell
Setting column and row dimensions
Setting a fixed row height
Setting column width
Creating and applying cell styles
Creating and applying table styles

Lesson 6: Using effects

Applying opacity to objects
Applying effects to strokes or fills
Adjusting effects
Object styles with effects
Using Find/Change to apply styles
Converting text to a path
Applying blending modes to objects
Working with transparent files
Applying an alpha channel selection
Applying a path selection

Lesson 7: Advanced document features

Adding text variables
Creating a book from multiple files
Defining pagination
Document order
Synchronizing book attributes
Creating captions
Creating a Table of Contents
Building an index
Adding topics
Adding cross-references
Exporting from the Book panel

Lesson 8: Introduction to digital documents