InDesign CS4 Level 2 Course

Length
2 Days (16 actual hours of training)

Class Fees
1 Student       $795
2 Students    $1290
3 Students    $1635
4+ Students     Call

Note: Maximum class size at our Atlanta classroom is four students. Five or more students must train on-site at their place of business. For more information, please read about our class sizes.

Note on Fees:  Multiple student discounts are for multiple students from one organization.

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Class Times
Classes can be held at any time per the customer's schedule, but unless arranged otherwise, classes run from 9 AM to 6 PM each day, with an hour for lunch. This equates to eight total hours of training per day, which is one to two hours more than any other software training facility or private instructor.

Description
Our InDesign CS4 Level 2 course is designed to teach the advanced features of InDesign that allow students to add further creativity to any project, save time, and meet very specific needs of his/her work environment. Most of the significant new features of CS4 are taught in this course. The Level 2 course would be well suited for those working in the Publishing or Graphic Design industry, particularly those working on books and manuals.

After completing this course a student will be able to:

• Understand Color Management
• Work with advanced Text options
• Draw shapes and paths
• Save time with Libraries
• Create a table
• Create Table of Contents and Footnotes
• Utilize image alpha channels and clipping paths in InDesign projects
• Manipulate transparency

Class materials
Steve uses an actual issue of J'Adore magazine, a published book layout, and other written materials for the class. For students who did not take the Level 1 course, Art=Visual also provides them with their own copy of Deke McClelland's InDesign CS4 One-On-One book to use as a reference manual.

Art=Visual classes have plenty of hands-on practices that allow students to create real world art and compositions.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Color Management
• Monitor calibration
• Basic color management set-up
• Assigning vs. Converting color profiles
• Creative Suite color management settings
• Proofing colors
• Printer profiles

Lesson 2: Advanced Layout
• Customizing keyboard shortcuts
• Layout adjustments
• Advanced Master Page options
• Templates

Lesson 3: Advanced Object Options
• Pen Tool
• Altering object frame shapes
• Text on a Path
• Making compound paths
• Closing and opening paths
• Converting shapes to other shapes
• Corner Options

Lesson 4: Advanced Graphic Options
• Display performance
• Custom Frame Shapes
• Colorizing grayscale images
• Importing PSD Layered files
• Using clipping paths and alpha channels
• Importing multi-page PDFs
• In-line and Anchored Objects

Lesson 5: Advanced Text Options
• Custom text frame shapes
• Find/Replace text using styles
• Style Mapping for MS Word files
• Creating a "Continued on.." and "Continued from.." page
• Section markers and prefixes
• Nested styles and Nested Line styles
• Conditional Text
• GREP styles
• Creating Text Outlines
• Filling Text Outlines with graphics
• The Story Palette
• Tabs
• Baseline Grid
• Text Variable

Lesson 6: Transparency
• Basic Transparency manipulation
• Blend Modes
• Knockouts
• Isolating blending
• Flattener Preview Palette

Lesson 7: Libraries
• Creating and using Library Items

Lesson 8: Object Styles
• Creating and using Object Styles

Lesson 9: Tables
• Creating a new table from scratch
• Creating a table from existing text
• The Table Panel
• Modifying Table structure
• Headers and Footers
• Table Options
• Cell Options
• Table Styles

Lesson 10: Document Organization
• Footnotes
• Table of Contents
• Chapter Markers
• Creating Books from multiple InDesign documents