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Learn Adobe InDesign in Derby and Derbyshire

On this Essential InDesign Beginner Course stop outsourcing and start creating, editing and publishing stunning brochures, corporate reports, digital reports and marketing assets inhouse.

  • Bespoke Onsite InDesign Training, we come to your premises across Derbyshire to training your team
  • Live Online InDesign Workshops via Zoom, interactive, expert led sessions from the comfort of your desk
  • No prior experience needed, go from zero to press ready
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Introduction to InDesign Course in Derby

Take your first steps into professional layout design with this Introduction to InDesign course in Derby. You’ll learn how to create clean, effective documents from flyers to multi-page publications whilst getting comfortable with key tools like typography, images, and layout. 

With practical, guided exercises throughout, you’ll quickly build the skills and confidence to create and publish professonal documents for both print and digital output.

What will you be able to do after the InDesign Essentials Course?

Build practical, industry-relevant design skills with guided, hands-on training you can apply straight away.

  • How to set up professional documents for print and digital design
  • The fundamentals of typography, text formatting, and layout design
  • How to import, edit, and manage images and graphics in InDesign
  • Using grids, guides, and styles to create consistent, polished layouts
  • How to design flyers, brochures, and multi-page documents from scratch
  • Preparing and exporting files for high-quality print and digital use

What will you be able to do after the InDesign Essentials Course?

This Introduction to InDesign course across Derbyshire is delivered through a mix of short, focused tutorials and hands-on exercises so you learn by doing rather than just watching. You’ll work on real-world design projects throughout the session, with guidance and feedback to help you improve as you go. With small group sizes and a supportive pace, there’s plenty of opportunity to ask questions and build confidence using InDesign in a practical, structured way.

Who is this course for?

Whether you’re learning as an individual or upskilling a team, this Introduction to InDesign course in Derbyshire is designed to be flexible, practical, and workplace-focused.

Individuals can build strong foundational design skills for career development or creative projects, while teams benefit from consistent training that can be applied directly to everyday tasks. The course can also be tailored to your organisation’s needs, ensuring relevant, hands-on experience with real design workflows.

This course is ideal for:

 

  • Marketing and communications staff
  • Admin staff and office managers
  • Small business owners
  • Freelance designers
  • HR and training professionals
  • Job seekers building creative or marketing skills
  • Teams needing consistent InDesign capability

What you said about your InDesign Training

I really enjoyed the course though was really glad that I had a bit of self taught use under my belt. It is so vast with so much to learn and multiple ways of doing things.

I got what I needed, and much more today. It was great to ask questions and change pace thoughout the day. 

Head of Interpretation and Display

Good introduction as I knew very little. Good to ask questions and get help especially with it being such a large group. I learnt lots about the different features.

Marketing and Digital Engagement
Derby Museums

What areas do you cover in Derbyshire

Our onsite InDesign courses are hosted at your premises across the region and surrounding counties including Derby itself, Chesterfield, Matlock, Swadlincote, Long Eaton, Glossop, Belper and Ripley.

Just on an aside we also regularly visit Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire – do get in touch to find out about availablity in your area.

Find out about InDesign Training near you

Adobe InDesign Training FAQs

This Online Adobe InDesign Course is available with a virtual live instructor who you’ll have direct live contact with throughout your course via video, audio and screen sharing in real time.

All our digital design courses are available online virtually in video editing software such as Zoom, Teams, WebEX and Google.

24 /7 Online Adobe InDesignTraining

Because of the flexibility of virtual online courses training can be run on a 24 /7 basis including evenings, overnight and weekends.

1 /2 Day Bite Sized Virtual Online Training Sessions

Lots of people prefer to learn in shorter sessions so because of the flexibility with Online Training we can break full days training into managable half day chunks.

Please note we can only offer this for online training 

Do you record the Adobe InDesign Courses?

We do, we’re happy to record your Adobe InDesign training but unfortunately due to privacy issues can only offer this for 121 sessions and closed company groups.

The onsite Adobe InDesign Courses are hosted on your premises to deliver the training.

We travel UK wide including most major towns, cities and their surrounding areas. 

The major benefit of onsite Adobe InDesign Training is that it has a far more personal approach than a traditional classroom delivery.

  • The course is focused entirely on you and your individual company requirements
  • There is no travelling involved for you or your team because the trainer comes directly to you. 
  • This is not a generic one size fits all course as training can be tailored to suit you
  • Dates and times are arranged to suit your schedule.

Pre-course online meeting /voice call

Prior to your training course we organise an online meeting to introduce your trainer and discuss the logistics, course content that works best for you and your team.

Tailored Adobe InDesign Training is perfect for private company courses, 121 sessions or larger team roll-outs. 

You can mix and match from any of our courses including mixing levels such as intro /intermediate etc and add and remove content to suit you.

Depending on the number of people attending the takes between 1 to 2 days and is ideal for anyone looking for a private training event.

Get in touch to find out more about Adobe InDesign Training Derby Courses

Adobe InDesign Training Courses in Leicestershire

On the Introduction InDesign Training Course find out how to create layouts and spreads for newsetters, flyers, business documents on more.

Have you just inherited documents from a former collegue and feeling a bit out of your depth?

Not a problem on this course learn how to create new documents and edit existing ones. 

  • Create New Documents & Edit Existing Ones
  • Work with Type
  • Placing & Manipulating Images
  • Smart Layouts
  • Text Wrapping
  • Colour
  • Strokes & Fills
  • Interactive PDF’s
  • Print & PDF Production

What do you produce on the InDesign Course?

Although this is an Introduction to InDesign Training the course content design is a broad one because we tend to tailor the content individually for each client.

Because of the flexibility of virtual online training all of the Online Adobe Training sessions run 24 /7, evenings, overnight and during the weekend.

*We can only offer this for virtual online training courses

We realise that not everyone likes to have all their training over full days so we can split the full days courses into 1 /2 day sessions.

*Unfortunately we are unable to offer this for our Onsite InDesign Courses

We run a wide range of courses but these are the most popular at the moment. 

This is an Introduction to InDesign course so ideal for anyone new to the software or with minimal skills. channels.

It’s ideal for anyone who doesn’t have a design background but would like to design flyers, newsletters and business literature to bring their design inhouse.

  • Content Creators 
  • Small Business Owners
  • Marketing Teams
  • Social Media Teams
  • Administration Teams

Booking with us

Please get in touch with us via the online booking form.

We will then get in touch and send the details of booking reservation and find out your timeframe for training.

We will then send across dates.

Once the booking is confirmed we then organise a pre-course call /meeting to discuss the course and any logistics around the day.

Payment

Payment for training is via BACS or Credit Card

Credit Card payment is via Stripe

*Greta Powell Training Ltd does not collect or store your card details.

Purchase Orders

We accept purchase orders from UK registered companies and the public sector.

Adobe InDesign Training Derby Course Overview

Getting Started with InDesign

Creating and saving a document
New document setup

(Bleed, slug, margins, columns)

Tools Menu, Panels, Control Bar

Window Menu

>Arrange & Tile

Existing Workspaces /Create New Workspace

Type Handling & Manipulation

Placing text

Character styles / Paragraph styles

Typography and layouts

InDesign & Images

Placing images

Editing images / graphic frames

Image formats

Graphic frames

& Fitting Options

InDesign & Smart Layout

Guides

Grids

(including baseline grid for individual text frames)

Rulers

(understanding the zero point)

InDesign & Style Packs

What are Adobe Style Packs

Accessing Style Packs /Downloading

Editing & Manipulating Style Packs

Create Style Packs

Style Packs /InDesign & MS Word

InDesign Paragraph Shading & Borders

Creating Paragraph Borders

Paragraph Borders Options

Paragraph Shading

Paragraph Shading Options

InDesign & Text Frames

Text Frames

Format Text Frames

Text Frame Properties

Text Frame – multi column setup

InDesign & Tab Handling

Tab palette

Tab characters

Editing tabs

Adding leaders

InDesign & Text Wrap

Text and Graphics

Text Wrapping

Text Wrap Options

InDesign Pages Panel

Creating New Pages

Deleting, reordering pages

Understanding Shuffle options

InDesign Colour Panels

Colour models, RGB, CMYK & Pantones

Create New colour

Edit existing colour

Accurate colour output for print

Print output

Preview & Package

Preflight /Preflight Panel

Export (print) to .PDF

InDesing & CC Libraries

Creating a Library

Editing a Library

Library Assets

Sharing & Collaborating Online Libraries