Adobe InDesign Training Courses in Staffordshire...

Adobe InDesign Training Overview...

InDesign Training Courses are held across Staffordshire including Stafford, Stoke, Burton, Lichfield are held onsite at your premises for individuals and company groups. These Adobe courses are ideal for those looking for a thorough understanding of the software and design or anyone looking to update their current skills with InDesign refresher training.   

This InDesign course provides you with the ability to produce a number of different spreads and layouts including flyers, foldouts, brochures and newsletters and tender documents with accurate colour proofing for print..  It also monstrates good practice by using Master Pages, Styles and templates to produce consistent and professional layouts.  Because of the multiness of the Creative Cloud there is a brief overview of Photoshop where you learn the basics of image size, resolution and retouching and understand the complete flow of working between the different cloud applications such as Photohop and Illustrator.  We can provide training in most versions of InDesign.

*The Photoshop overview is quite optional and can be omitted with other content substituted.

InDesign Introduction Course Outline

Getting started with InDesign
Creating and saving a document
New document setup
Tools / panels
Document navigation

Imagery
Placing images
Editing images / graphic frames
Image formats
Graphic frames

Tab Handling
Tab palette
Tab characters
Editing tabs
Adding leaders

Colour Panels
Working with Colour
Colour Modes
Colour Swatches
Changing / Matching Colour
Understanding Colour

Smart Layout
Grids & Guides
Smart Guides
Align & Distribute Objects
Rulers (Zero Point), 

Text frames
Formatting Text frames
Text frame properties
Text frame – multi column setup 

Typography
Placing External Text (Word, RTF)
Paragraph & Character Formatting
Typography & Layout 

Images
Placing & Importing Images
Resizing, Rotating, Adjusting Images
Positioning Images in Layouts
Working with Multiple Images

Consistent Layout & Accurate Design
Master Pages
Styles - Character and Paragraph
Creating & Editing Colour Swatches

Basic Photoshop (Optional)
Image Size and Resolution
Crop & Transform
Saving for Print or Web

Type & Images
Working with Text & Images
Working with Text Wrap
Clipping Paths
Removing Backgrounds for Text Wrap
Text Insets

Printing & Exporting
Preview
Preflight & Package
Interactive Elements for PDF
Export (print) to .PDF

Prices for Adobe InDesign Introduction course - onsite per day

Standard rate for one person is £275.00 all inc
A second person £75.00 all inc
*Laptop Hire available £25.00 per machine per day
T&C's apply to laptop hire

Mobile Classrooms...

Typical Room Setup for onsite Adobe Training Courses...

We can run InDesign courses with your own kit onsite or if you prefer we can bring in our own kit and set up the room for you. 

Onsite InDesign Training Courses in Nottingham

This room set up was for a recent InDesign Training Course held in the Midlands for 8 persons.

We have up to 8 laptop computers 

All laptops come preinstalled with your preferred version of InDesign.

The room is set up for you

Pricing is at:

*£25.00 per laptop per day
£30.00 projector hire per day
*T&C's apply

All we need from you is the room and electric points

Adobe InDesign Training delivered onsite across the UK including Staffordshire, Stafford, Crewe, Stoke, Burton on Trent, Lichfield, Tamworth

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Greta runs all the InDesign courses including the InDesign Introduction Course.  She is a highly respected digital design trainer and consultant with over 2 decades of experience in corporate training. She has a large and diverse skillset and when not training can be found clicking away behind a Canon lens.  Greta is published and has been technology correspondent for Writing Magazine for nearly 12 years often writing about eBooks and ePublishing amongst other design themes.