InDesign Advanced
Crash Course
Take Your Indesign Skills to the Next Level—Fast!
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Course Description
Take your Adobe InDesign skills to the next level with this advanced course designed for experienced users. Learn to create professional, high-quality layouts with precision, efficiency, and creativity. This course covers advanced typography, interactive documents, automation techniques, and expert-level design workflows used by industry professionals.
What You’ll Learn:
✅ Advanced Layout & Grid Systems Master multi-page documents, complex grids, and advanced alignment techniques.
✅ Professional Typography Techniques Learn about OpenType features, nested styles, and text automation.
✅ Working with Interactive & Digital Documents – Create PDFs with interactive elements, buttons, and animations.
✅ Automating Workflows – Speed up design processes using scripts, GREP styles, and data merging.
✅ Colour Management & Print Preparation – Ensure colour accuracy, preflight your files, and prepare designs for high-quality printing.
✅ Advanced Image & Object Handling – Work with advanced image adjustments, clipping paths, and complex object styles.
Who Should Take This Course?
This course is ideal for designers, marketers, publishers, and professionals who already have basic InDesign knowledge and want to master high-level techniques for print and digital media.
Why Enroll?
⭐ Gain industry-level InDesign expertise
⭐ Improve efficiency with automation and advanced tools
⭐ Expand career opportunities in publishing, marketing, and design
⭐ Work on real-world projects and portfolio-building exercises
Regular Price £199
Which includes:
🖥️ 7 hours session with a design expert
🧑🤝🧑 Small group training, maximum of five
🎨 Editable practice files to use after the course
✨ Shortcuts & tools cheat sheet to save hours
📜 Certificate of Completion to certify your skills
💬 Live Q&A and unlimited email support
🏷️Launch Price £139
Use code LAUNCH139 at checkout
Apply before 20th of June
Please note that places are limited!
By the end of this course, you’ll confidently navigate InDesign like a pro and create stunning, portfolio-worthy designs. Elevate your skills and unleash your creative potential—join us today
Curriculum
Updated in 2025
Title: Mastering Advanced InDesign: Interactive PDFs, Animation &
Fine-Tuned Typography
Duration: 7 Hours (Including Breaks & Hands-on Exercises)
Target Audience: Designers & Professionals with Intermediate InDesign Experience
Session 1: Introduction & Course Overview
● Quick recap of essential InDesign tools & settings
● Overview of interactive PDFs and dynamic elements
● Understanding how animation and media work in InDesign
Session 2: Creating Interactive PDFs
📌 Objectives: Learn to create PDFs with buttons, hyperlinks, forms, and navigation
Topics Covered:
● Setting up an interactive document
● Hyperlinks & Buttons: Adding internal/external links, page navigation
● Forms & Fields: Text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, submit and reset buttons
● Exporting & optimizing interactive PDFs
✔️ Hands-on Exercise: Create an interactive menu page with working buttons & hyperlinks
Session 3: Adding & Formatting Text
📌 Objective: Insert and format text effectively in InDesign.
Topics Covered:
● Using the Animation Panel: Applying movement & various transition effects
● Multi-state Objects: Creating slideshows & interactive elements
● Timing Panel: Controlling playback sequence & synchronization
● Button Triggers: Making animations appear on click/hover
✔️H ands-on Exercise: Design an animated product showcase with interactive buttons.
Session 4: Inserting & Controlling Video & Audio
📌 Objective: Embed, control, and customize multimedia content in InDesign
Topics Covered:
● Embedding vs. Linking: Pros & cons of both approaches
● Supported File Formats: Best practices for adding videos & audio
● Media Panel Controls: Customizing video playback (autoplay, loop, poster images)
● Interactive Video Buttons: Creating Play/Pause/Stop controls
● Exporting & troubleshooting multimedia PDFs
✔️ Hands-on Exercise: Insert a video with a custom play button & controls.
Session 5: Fine-Tuning Text Formatting & Typography
📌 Objective: Perfect typography with advanced text formatting techniques..
Topics Covered:
● Advanced Styles: Nested styles, GREP styles, object styles
● Optical Adjustments: Kerning, tracking, optical margin alignment
● Text Flow & Wrapping: Text on paths, anchored objects, auto-sizing
● Variable Fonts & OpenType Features: Ligatures, swashes, stylistic
● Fixing Common Issues: Overflows, spacing problems, justification
✔️ Hands-on Exercise: Create a responsive text layout with nested styles & precise formatting.
Session 6: Final Project & Q&A
📌 Final Project:
● Students apply all techniques to create an interactive portfolio or brochure
● Review & feedback session
● Q&A & troubleshooting common issues
Software Requirements:
● Adobe InDesign (latest version recommended)
● Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF previews
● Sample assets (provided before the course)
This course structure ensures a practical, hands-on experience with a strong focus on real-world application.
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