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This Specialization, taught by Kate Silver, is intended for intermediate designers seeking to develop advanced layout and workflow skills in Adobe InDesign. Through three project-based courses, you will explore styling systems, tables and effects, and long-document formatting, preparing you to design high-quality print and digital projects for clients or your portfolio.
Kate Silver is a graphic and shoe designer, Top Teacher on Skillshare, and instructor at the UK’s leading Adobe training center in London. She creates beginner and advanced courses on design software including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Canva, and more.
With experience designing for brands like Jimmy Choo and Sophia Webster, Kate brings hands-on expertise to her classes, making complex tools simple and accessible. Her lessons focus on clarity, practical projects, and smart shortcuts to help students build real skills with confidence.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Advanced Guide to Adobe InDesign CC: Pro Styles & Layouts
- Course 2: Advanced Guide to Adobe InDesign CC: Tables & Effects
- Course 3: Advanced Guide to Adobe InDesign CC: Books & Brochures
Courses
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Ready to tackle long documents like brochures, eBooks, or multi-page PDFs? In this final course, join Kate Silver as you explore everything from creating a full Table of Contents to managing multiple parent pages and exporting interactive formats. You’ll bring together everything you’ve learned so far to complete advanced layout projects that really showcase your skills. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: * Design and update dynamic Tables of Contents * Structure brochures using parent pages, grids, and drop caps * Export documents to professional PDFs or interactive 3D flipbooks * Use variable fonts, advanced saving techniques, and layout logic This course is designed for intermediate to advanced users who want to push their layout skills to a professional level. You’ll walk away with a full-length interior design brochure and other multi-page print/digital projects you can proudly add to your portfolio. To get the most out of this course, you should be confident using InDesign’s styles, effects, and basic layout tools. Instructor bio: Kate Silver is a graphic and shoe designer, Top Teacher on Skillshare, and instructor at the UK’s leading Adobe training center in London. She creates beginner and advanced courses on design software including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Canva, and more. With experience designing for brands like Jimmy Choo and Sophia Webster, Kate brings hands-on expertise to her classes, making complex tools simple and accessible. Her lessons focus on clarity, practical projects, and smart shortcuts to help students build real skills with confidence.
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If you're ready to level up your InDesign workflow and already know your way around the basics, this course is the perfect next step. Whether you're self-taught or coming from my beginner class, Kate Silver will take you to explore advanced preferences, optimized workspace setups, and powerful styling tools that will seriously boost your design speed and precision. By the end of this course, you’ll know how to: * Master Paragraph & Character Styles for professional consistency * Use advanced bullet styling, emoji bullets, and nested styles * Set up smart workspaces, auto-activate fonts, and save to CC Libraries * Design restaurant menus, flyers, and QR code layouts with flair This is for designers who want a more efficient, pro-level way to work in InDesign — especially those who want to build real-world, portfolio-ready projects as they go. You’ll get access to free templates and exercise files to follow along step by step. To be successful, you should already be familiar with Adobe InDesign basics — either from experience or by completing my beginner course. Instructor bio: Kate Silver is a graphic and shoe designer, Top Teacher on Skillshare, and instructor at the UK’s leading Adobe training center in London. She creates beginner and advanced courses on design software including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Canva, and more. With experience designing for brands like Jimmy Choo and Sophia Webster, Kate brings hands-on expertise to her classes, making complex tools simple and accessible. Her lessons focus on clarity, practical projects, and smart shortcuts to help students build real skills with confidence.
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This course is all about taking your editorial layouts and workflow even further. Your course instructor, Kate Silver, will dive deep into tables, text data management, object styles, blending modes, and subtle effects to give your designs that polished, professional edge. If you’ve been doing things the long way in InDesign, I’ll show you faster, smarter methods. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: * Build clean, data-driven tables and stylish timetables * Apply object styles, shadows, and graphic effects with confidence * Remove image backgrounds using clipping paths * Use tools like the Story Editor, Gridify, and Find/Change to save hours You’ll design projects like a table-based coffee book, flyers, and an editorial-style timetable, all while learning 60+ tools and time-saving tricks. This class is perfect for designers looking to improve their technical layout skills and produce print or digital pieces for real clients. You’ll need a working knowledge of InDesign and some experience using paragraph styles and page layout features to succeed. Instructor bio: Kate Silver is a graphic and shoe designer, Top Teacher on Skillshare, and instructor at the UK’s leading Adobe training center in London. She creates beginner and advanced courses on design software including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Canva, and more. With experience designing for brands like Jimmy Choo and Sophia Webster, Kate brings hands-on expertise to her classes, making complex tools simple and accessible. Her lessons focus on clarity, practical projects, and smart shortcuts to help students build real skills with confidence.
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