Adobe InDesign Hands-On and Online Training Classes
Ascend offers hands-on, Adobe Authorized InDesign CS3 and CS4 classes online, in a classroom style, or at your location. Since 1998, we have offered the highest quality training for those in the creative and development communities. When learning Adobe InDesign, we feel a more individualized training experience is vital, whether online or at our facility. All our instructors are Adobe Certified, and top professionals in their field.
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Online: Adobe InDesign CS4 Level 1
This online class will teach students to create and publish professional layouts. Students learn about Master pages, importing graphics, transparency and formatting text. Typography, Preflight, InDesign Styles will also be covered in-depth. Students who are former QuarkXPress users should consider our Adobe InDesign for Quark Users class. Students that take this online class receive a $150 credit toward any hands-on classes at Ascend.
Online: Adobe InDesign CS4 Level 1 - InDesign for Quark Users
This online class is for those who are new to InDesign but familiar with QuarkXPress, who want to migrate over to using Adobe InDesign. The benefits of this course over the InDesign Level 1 class are that basic publishing concepts are not covered and when applicable, comparisons of InDesign to QuarkXPress are made. Students learn about Master pages, importing graphics, transparency and formatting text. Students who take this online class receive a $150 credit toward a hands-on class at Ascend.
Online: Adobe InDesign CS4 Level 2
This online class is for those who are familiar with InDesign and who want to take their knowledge to the next level. Students learn the more complex aspects of InDesign including: Advanced Characters, Nested Styles, Multiple Placing, Tables, Working with long documents and more. Students that take this online class receive a $150 credit toward any hands-on classes at Ascend.
Online: Adobe InDesign and XML for Designers
This 2-day XML course teaches current InDesign users to automate publishing without having to have a background in code. XML simplifies the process of moving data into your InDesign layouts speeds up print or Web assignments. This class is beneficial to those working in catalogs, mapping XML to formatted layouts, and publish information to databases. Students who take this online class receive a $150 credit toward a hands-on class at Ascend.
Hands-on, Live, Multi-Day Classroom Training
Adobe InDesign CS4 Level 1
This course, Adobe InDesign CS4 Level 1: Fundamentals to Intermediate, explores the use of the most powerful desktop publishing program on the market. Students will use frames to place text and graphics, learn typography and paragraph formatting, and explore how to draw and manipulate objects and graphics. Macintosh or PC experience required, some experience with word-processing, presentation or desktop publishing programs is helpful.
Adobe InDesign CS4 for Quark Users Level 1
InDesign CS4 for Quark Users class is for students who have a solid knowledge of QuarkXPress and are making the jump to InDesign CS4. This class will assume that you understand desktop publishing basics like how to place graphics and text, page building and basic typography (fonts, sizes, paragraph spacing and indents etc)
Adobe InDesign CS4 Level 2: Advanced Master Class
This workshop is designed for the current InDesign user to take their skills to a more advanced level. Students will cover the more intricate topics in the program, along with how InDesign works with the CS4 Suite. In class we will work on concepts such as master pages, advanced typography, style sheets, placing graphics from Photoshop and Illustrator, text wrap, clipping paths, tables, anchored objects, drawing, coloring and modifying objects.
Adobe InDesign & XML: XML for Designers
This workshop is designed to teach current intermediate to advanced InDesign users how to use XML within InDesign for print and Web applications.You will learn how to create basic XML files and produc...
Adobe InDesign CS3 Level 1
This course, Adobe InDesign CS3 Level 1: Fundamentals to Intermediate, explores the use of the most powerful desktop publishing program on the market. Students will use frames to place text and graphics, learn typography and paragraph formatting, and explore how to draw and manipulate objects and graphics. Macintosh or PC experience required, some experience with word-processing, presentation or desktop publishing programs is helpful.
Adobe InDesign CS3 for Quark Users Level 1
InDesign CS3 for Quark Users class is for students who have a solid knowledge of QuarkXPress and are making the jump to InDesign CS3. This class will assume that you understand desktop publishing basics like how to place graphics and text, page building and basic typography (fonts, sizes, paragraph spacing and indents etc)
Adobe InDesign CS3 Level 2: Advanced Master Class
This workshop is designed for the current InDesign user to take their skills to a more advanced level. Students will cover the more intricate topics in the program, along with how InDesign works with the CS3 Suite. In class we will work on concepts such as master pages, advanced typography, style sheets, placing graphics from Photoshop and Illustrator, text wrap, clipping paths, tables, anchored objects, drawing, coloring and modifying objects.
Hands-on, Live, 1-Day Classroom Training
Adobe InDesign Quickstart Training: 1 Day InDesign CS4 Introductory
This 1-day Introductory InDesign class covers the main elements of InDesign. Students learn the key layout, type and editing elements of Adobe InDesign CS4. Students moving onto our more in-depth 2-day InDesign class receive a 50% credit towards our InDesign CS4 Level 1 course.
Adobe InDesign is a Universal application, and now that it's integrated with Adobe's Web Development applications, it's the premier desktop publishing application available. With support for remote editing, check-in and check-out of projects, file support like .psd and .ai, XHTML and XML export to Dreamweaver and more, you'll be able to master advanced publishing, layout, and typography techniques in a fraction of the time.
These courses are designed to take you to the next level.
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