Adobe InDesign Training Northampton
This onsite Adobe InDesign Training in Northampton and Northamptonshire runs across the entire region including Wellingborough, Kettering and Towcester.
It’s an Introduction to InDesign Course where you will work with spreads and layouts to design magazines, flyers, info-graphics and interactive documents. You’ll learn the basics of InDesign including text and graphics through to publishing out to print or digital.
This InDesign course is available onsite at your premises across Northamptonshire or as a virtual online InDesign Training session with a live instructor.
How do Online Adobe InDesign Training Courses work?
Our Online InDesign Courses are available on any time zone so we can offer 24 hour availability and over the weekend.
We run our online training sessions via the most popular video conferencing software including Zoom, Teams, Google and WebEx.
It’s your choice which video conferencing software you prefer.
We are happy to record your training session for you to refer back to after the training.
Do you run InDesign Training Courses at the weekends?
Yes we do and overnight as we’re totally time zone compliant. Our Online InDesign Courses run on a 24 /7 basis including weekends.
Who should attend this InDesign Training Course?
Our InDesign Training Courses are ideal for anyone wishing to work with desktop publishing and design flyers, business stationery, business reports, tenders and so forth.
Over time we’ve delivered this to a wide range of clients both public and private sector including construction, education, publishing, designers, administrators, digital creators and many more.
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So this InDesign Course is suitable for complete beginners?
Yes it is and it’s also great for those with a limited knowledge who would like to build InDesign further into their skill-set. You don’t need any previous experience of graphic design software to attend this course apart from using a computer (MAC or PC).
InDesign for Beginners Training, what will you learn?
You start at the beginning by creating new documents (including bleed, slug, margins & columns) and will also find out how to edit and update existing documents which may have been inherited from a former person.
You then find out how the different elements in InDesign work including colour (when and how to use it) add grids and guides for accurate content placement and understand how typography works. Learn how to work with features such as Parent Pages & Grids to give your spreads exact positioning, page numbering and positioning in your documents.
The course is very hands on and during your InDesign Introduction course you will work with different types of text, placing & flowing text /text frames and learn how to set up styles for type consistency throughout a document /or series of documents.
Working with Images, Artwork & Text
And, of course it goes without saying that you will learn to work with images from Photoshop, Illustrator and external sources. Learn how to wrap text around them and add them to your CC Library. During the InDesign Course you will find out how to purpose documents for print, web and social media and understand the different file formats and processes for output.
The course also covers design techniques and shows you how to design publications that look both professional and elegant. With this in mind we work with images, shade, gradients and colour to add sheen to your designs and spend time learning about CC libraries and reusable assets.
InDesign & Interactive PDF’s
Although we cover more of the Interactive side of InDesign on our Intermediate and advanced course this Intro course does dip it’s toes into InDesign’s interactive side. You will learn how to repurpose content /create new content to publish interactive InDesign documents containing links, video and bookmarks.
Find out more about our Adobe InDesign PDF Interactive Course
- Edit & update existing documents inherited from previous users
- Work with colour, typography and use grids and guides to publish accurate and consistent looking documents
- Find out about strokes, fills and gradients to enhance your document
- Wrap text around images and artwork
- Learn and understand the tools, features and techniques used to create highly effective and communicative layouts and spreads
- Create and share CC Libraries
- Format, Layout and Design Documents
- InDesign’s Interactive Panel
- Publish to various outputs including InDesign, PDF and Export
By the end of the InDesign Course you will be able to create, edit and design a variety of different spreads and layouts including flyers, brochures, marketing materials, magazines. If there are any particular layouts you would like to work with this can be run as tailored InDesign Training.
What are the benefits of Onsite InDesign Training Courses?
Our onsite InDesign Training are private and professional courses providing you with the opportunity to explore and learn areas of the software that public courses are unable to offer.
You control the amount of learners on the course whether for a one to one session or larger company groups.
There are a number of benefits to onsite courses but the main ones are:
The training is focused entirely on you and your company.
There is no travel involved for any of your team saving you travel and expenses.
An onsite training approach also means that the content can be based on your specific criteria and tailored to suit you.
We provide extremely flexible dates and times which again are worked to fit in with your diaries.
Find out more about onsite training in the Northamptonshire region
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.
Adobe InDesign Training in Northampton & UK wide
As well as the Northamptonshire region we run onsite Adobe Training across the UK including Cambridge, Newmarket, Ely, Luton, North Wales, Newquay
Adobe InDesign Training Northampton - Overviews
Getting started
Creating and Saving a document
New Document Setup
Workspace
Tools / Panels
Document Navigation
InDesign Objects
Working with Objects
Fill & Stroke
Corner Options for Reshaping
Smart Layouts
Guides
Grids (including baseline grid for individual text frames)
Rulers (zero point)
Smart Guides
InDesign & Existing Documents
Update & Edit Existing Files
Identify Document Structure
(Find out how it has been designed with a view to editing & updating the content)
Replace Existing Images
InDesign Text Basics
Text Frames
Formatting Text Frames
Text Frame Properties
Text Frame Columns
Text Frame Grid
Imagery
Placing images
Editing images / graphic frames
Image formats
Graphic frames
Object & Layout
Align InDesign Objects for Accurate Positioning
Pathfinder for Combining & Customising Shapes & Frames
Transform Tool for Moving, Scaling, Shearing & Rotating
Type Handling & Manipulation
Placing Text
Working with & Handling Text Frames
Controlling Text Flow
Character styles / Paragraph styles
Typography and layouts
Design & Colour
Sample Colour
Colour Theme Tool
Working with Swatches /Libraries
Effects Panel / FX Effects
Opacity
Effects Panel (Level, Blending, FX etc)
Appearance Panel
Understanding Effects & Print Issues
Combining Type and Imagery
Text & Images
Wrapping Text & Images
Text Wrap Options
Clipping Paths
Detect Edges
InDesign Stroke Panel
Stroke Weight
Stroke Options
Stroke Arrows
InDesign CC Libraries
Creating CC Libraries
Adding /Editing CC Libraries
Sharing CC Libraries
Working with CC Libraries
InDesign & Font’s
Working with Typefaces
Adobe Typekit *
Using Adobe Typekit
Adding & Removing Type
Print output
Preview
Preflight
Export (print) to .PDF
InDesign Colour & Gradients
Colour models,
RGB, CMYK & Pantones
Create & Edit Colours
Create & Edit Gradients
Accurate colour for print
