Adobe InDesign CC – Advanced («INDEM2»)

• Layouting with InDesign in a structured and goal-oriented way
• Working confidently and independently with InDesign
• Exploring new design possibilities with Creative Cloud and InDesign
• Creating sophisticated documents such as brochures, flyers or other multi-page printed materials

1 Settings and workflows

• Program-specific and document-specific settings
• Transfering formats and colors from existing documents
• Sensible presets

2 Document layout

• Creating documents with different page formats (e.g. fanfold)
• Creating guides as layout grid

3 Working with text

• Setting up baseline grids for text in register
• Discovering and managing Adobe fonts
• Using OpenType features (ligatures, ordinals...)
• Beautiful justification - made easy, sentence settings
• Creating bulleted lists with paragraph formats (numbering, bullets)
• Creating complex paragraph and character formats
• Nested paragraph formats
• Dealing with different formats

4 Working with objects

• Text frames, image frames? - never mind, they are all vectors
• Easy working with vectors 
• Object formats

5 Colors and gradients

• Understanding and setting up spot colors
• Creating and applying gradients
• Managing swatches, create color groups
• Color adjustment tool
• Adobe Color

6 Tables

• Setting up a table
• Working with areas and contours
• Creating headers and footers
• Using table and cell formats

7 Working with objects

• stock.adobe.com
• Import options
• different image formats
• Transparent images and objects
• Understanding and applying effects
• Time-saving placement methods

8 Collaborate

• CC libraries
• PDF export for correction
• Correcting correctly in Acrobat
• Importing corrections into InDesign
• Online review

9 Document control and secure output

• RGB workflow
• Controlling panel settings for shortcuts (resolution, show color mode) 
• Making sense of the Preflight panel
• Setting up preflight profiles for printing processes or document control

Frontal teaching, informative, exemplary and practice-oriented teaching sequences as well as practical and imitative exercises

This advanced course is aimed at editors, print designers, marketing managers, product managers and other interested parties with in-depth knowledge of InDesign from a wide range of fields and branches who want to deepen their knowledge and act successfully as professionals in this field.

You have good PC user skills (PC or Mac). Knowledge of InDesign or participation in the following course is recommended:

Information about Classroom Equipment
Our courses are usually held on Windows devices. However, we are happy to provide you with an Apple computer in Zurich, Bern, and Basel upon request. Please let us know in advance by emailing info@digicomp.ch.
Of course, you are also welcome to bring your own laptop.
For virtual participation, we recommend using an additional monitor (not just a laptop) so that you can follow the lessons and participate fully.

Adobe CC Software
Adobe Creative Cloud software will be made available to you without restriction in the course rooms during the course.
If you are participating virtually, you can work on your own device. Please let us know if you do not have your own «Adobe Creative Cloud» license. In this case, we will be happy to provide you with the software via remote access for the duration of the course. 
The remote environment will be set up on a Windows device; Apple devices are not an option here. Unfortunately, it is not possible to use this environment beyond the course period.