Adobe InDesign Classes in Chicago, 8 Months Free Retakes
Learn from InDesign experts with small class sizes with individualized attention. Classes at our Chicago training facility, Deerfield training facility or online. Students are provided with their own workstation, a Mac or Windows computer, and a maximum of 10 students per class.
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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Adobe Authorized In-depth classes are backed up by a free 8 month retake policy. Retakes not available for Quickstart, onsite or custom training.
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Adobe CS5 Hands-on, Live, Multi-Day Classroom Training
Adobe InDesign CS5 Level 1: Fundamentals to Intermediate
Adobe InDesign CS5 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.
Prerequisite: Macintosh or PC experience required, some experience with word-processing, presentation or desktop publishing programs is helpful.
Adobe InDesign CS5 Level 2: Advanced Master Class
InDesign CS5 Level 2: Advanced Master Class is for those who want to take their InDesign skills to the next level. In addition, we will cover the new features of InDesign CS5.
Prerequisite: Solid Adobe InDesign skills.
Adobe InDesign CS5 Level 2: Interactivity
InDesign Interactive course is a 1 day class for current InDesign users wishing to transition from print to interactivity. Students learn to use the interactive features in Adobe InDesign to create animations, interactive navigation, rollover buttons, and page transitions. You will also learn to import audio and video, and export to both Flash and PDF files.
Adobe InDesign ePUB: Creating and Publishing eBooks
The publishing industry is changing at lightning speed. You will learn how to create and publish InDesign documents for ePub and mobi. The class will teach you the electronic workflow for publishing to iPad, Nook, Kindle, iPhone, Android and other mobile devices. You will learn the differences between images for print versus web, font issues, CSS and more. Students must have solid InDesign skills before taking the class.
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 product...
*We offer older versions of training on a custom basis only.
Adobe CS4 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.
Online, Interactive Training
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.
InDesign CS5 New Features
Adobe InDesign CS5 is packed with new features for both publishing and interactivity! You can now export your layered InDesign file to InDesign as a SWF. Multiple page sizes, simplified editing and selecting objects are also featues users have been clamoring for. You used to have to create separate text frames for headlines across multiple columns. Now you can span headlines across multiple columns from the Span Columns pop-up.
InDesign Tip:
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About Adobe InDesign
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.
About Ascend's Training Programs
Ascend Training has offered the highest quality Adobe Authorized classes in the Chicago, Milwaukee, and Indiana areas since 1998. We are constantly offering the newest versions of all Adobe software training classes upon realease. We currently offer all CS4 classes, but will offer Adobe CS5 and CS6 classes upon release by Adobe. This includes Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe InDesign CS5, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe InDesign CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS6 and all Adobe future upgrades. Adobe has not announced any dates for any future upgrades.
Ascend Training will offer classes in Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe InDesign CS5, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe InDesign CS5, Adobe Premiere CS5, Adobe InCopy CS5 and the entire Adobe Creative Suite. No release date has been set by Adobe.
When released, Ascend Training will offer clases in: Adobe Dremweaver CS5 Classes, Adobe InDesign CS5 Classes, Adobe InDesign CS5 Classes, Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classes, Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classes, Adobe Bridge CS5 Classes and the entire Creative Suite 5 when it is released. Ascend has no information on release dates, or if Adobe is planning to continue the Creative Suite past version CS4
Ascend Training: Hands-On and Online Adobe, Avid and Quark Training
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