ICT 689 - Adobe InDesign Advanced

Course Description

Our advanced Adobe InDesign course is designed for learners who want to study how to create and design longer documents, master typography, and pagination tools and techniques, and create interactive forms and documents within InDesign. Explore tricks and shortcuts to help improve their production quality.

Students will learn how to become effective and efficient InDesign users by mastering layout and design techniques, and managing colours and images in publications for both print and digital.  

Course Details

Course assignments are application based; at the end of the course, you may be able to use some of this work to build your portfolio. The software used in this course is Adobe InDesign CC.

Course Learning Outcomes

By completion of this course, successful students will be able to:

• Demonstrate advanced skills in effective page layout design 
• Create long documents such as books and eBooks 
• Design professional publications and graphics in InDesign 
• Create digital documents such as interactive PDFs and forms 
• Evaluate workflow and improve design productivity 
• Integrate production power and creative freedom with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat software

Topics

• Creating books and long documents 
• Building a table of contents, indexing, and chapter numbering in long documents 
• Creating bezier, clipping, and compound paths 
• Creating interactive PDF forms and other documents for the web 
• Inserting hyperlinks, bookmarks, and buttons 
• Publishing documents for sharing and collaboration 
• Creating charts and infographics 
• Advanced typesetting and stylesheets 
• Working with grids 
• Designing corporate documents for digital and print publication 
• Package Design 

Who is this course for

This course is aimed at individuals and groups who need to improve their Adobe InDesign publishing skills for purposes such as:

• Desktop Publishing 
• Digital and Print Publication 
• Graphic Design 
• Web Design 
• Advertising and Marketing 
• Corporate Literature and Branding 

The audience for this course is: 

• individual who wants to learn the advanced techniques in Adobe InDesign 
• individual wanting to design professional flyers, PDFs, eBooks, and other publications 
• entrepreneurs, professionals, online businesses, artists, graphic designers who wants to learn the creative techniques in Adobe InDesign 

Applies Towards the Following Program(s)

• Certificate in Integrated Digital Media : Optional Courses