InDesign Intro Course
Greta Powell Training delivers InDesign Training Courses Midlands and UK wide. We cover the majority of major cities and their surrounding towns and areas.
We regularly visit locations such as far apart Sheffield, Oxford, Peterborough, The Wirral, Merseyside, Liverpool, Blackpool, Birmingham, Huddersfield.
Ideal for beginners to InDesign this course can also be delivered as an online InDesign Training Courses run with a live instructor and delivered via video link.
This InDesign training is very much hands on where you will learn to create and design a variety of layouts for flyers, booklets, flyers, infographics, social media etc.
Tailored InDesign Training Courses Midlands wide
We specialise in custom bespoke InDesign Courses and work with you to create a course that covers your specific needs. We organise an online meeting /voice call prior to the training session to work through the content, structure and logistics of the day.
Do you run other Adobe InDesign Training Courses?
We do, we run a wide range of set InDesign Courses including:
What do you learn on Introduction to InDesign Training Courses?
You will learn how to set up new documents from scratch using professional print settings including bleed and slug, set up multiple documents and work with automated features such as Presets, Parent Pages and CC Libraries.
The course is very hands on and during the training you will work with different types of text, placing & flowing text and work with styles for type consistency throughout a document. You will also work with things such as Master Pages & Grids to give your spreads exact positioning, page numbering and layouts in the documents.
During the InDesign Course you will find out how to purpose documents for both print, web and social media and understand the different file formats and processes for output. The course covers design techniques and shows you how to make publications glow using images, colours and typefaces to add sheen to your designs.
InDesign & PDF
The course also dips into InDesign’s interactive side and shows you how to repurpose content /create new content to publish an interactive InDesign documents containing links, video and bookmarks.
- Edit & Update existing documents
- Create New Documents /Document Layouts
- Work with colour, typography and use grids and guides to publish accurate and consistent looking documents
- Understand the tools, features and techniques used to create highly effective and communicative layouts and spreads
- Learn to edit and work with existing documents
- Format, Layout and Design Documents
- Work with the newer graphic formats HEIC, HEIF, WEBP, and JP2K
- Publish to various outputs including InDesign, PDF and Export
How do online InDesign Introduction Training Courses work?
Our Online InDesign Training Courses are delivered virtually to you at a time and date to suit your diary.
All of our virtual InDesign training runs with a live instructor who you can interact with throughout your course via video, chat and sharing screens in real time. All our digital design courses are available online.
Do you run InDesign Training Courses at the weekends?
All of our digital design training courses including InDesign are available on any time zone so we can offer 24 hour availability including weekend training courses.
All the online training sessions run via the most popular video conferencing software including Zoom, Teams, Google and WebEx. It’s your choice which one you prefer.
We are happy to record your training session for you to refer back to after the training.
Added Bonus about Online Training Courses
An added bonus of our online courses is there’s no travel involved meaning less stress on the planet so environmentally, it makes great sense.
No fighting traffic or public transport just get up, have tea /coffee and something to eat, turn on the computer and we’ll be there ready to deliver your course.
And by the way we don’t care if you’re wearing your Jim-Jams or last nights lop-sided party hat.
All our digital design courses are available online. If you have any questions about any of our Online Adobe Training courses please do not hesitate to get in touch for an informal chat.
How do Onsite InDesign Training Courses in the Midlands work?
Onsite InDesign training can be arranged for large team roll outs, 121 sessions, company groups /workshops. There are a number of benefits to onsite courses but the main ones are:
The training is focused entirely on your and your company requirements
No traveling involved for you or your team saving travel & expenses
Cheaper than traditional training
The approach is focused specifically on you and your specific needs this is not a generic one size fits all course.
Prior to the training you chat with me about your aims, content preferences and levels of delegate /s knowledge
InDesign course is tailored to suit you or your team
Flexible dates & times to suit you
InDesign Intro Course - Overview
Getting started
Creating and saving a document
(Bleed, slug, margins, columns)
Tools Menu, Panels, Control Bar
Arrange & Tile
Workspaces
InDesign and AI Tools
Content Aware Graphic Frames
Subject Aware Text Wrap
Auto-Styling
AI and ChatGPT
InDesign & Images
Placing images
Image Editing
Image Formats
Graphic Frames
Working with Photoshop
InDesign Pages Panel
Creating New Pages
Master Page Setup
Page Numbering
Deleting, reordering pages
Understanding Shuffle options
Type Handling & Manipulation
Placing text
Character styles / Paragraph styles
Typography and layouts
Paragraph Shading & Borders
Creating Paragraph Borders
Paragraph Borders Options
Paragraph Shading
Paragraph Shading Options
InDesign and Layout
Guides
Baseline Grid /Document Grid
Rulers (zero point)
Columns & Rows
Working with Tabs
Tab palette
Tab characters
Editing tabs
Adding leaders
InDesign and Text Wrap
Text and graphics
Text wrapping
Text wrap options
Clipping paths
Working with Text
Text frames
Formatting Text frames
Text Frame Options
Text Frame /Columns /Baseline Grid
InDesign and Colour
Colour models, RGB, CMYK, Spot & Pantones
Colour Management
Edit Existing Colours
Accurate Colour for Print
Exporting and Printing
Preflight Panel
Packaging for Print
Export (print) to .PDF
InDesign CC Libraries
Creating a Library
Editing a Library
Sharing Libraries
Library Text Assets
