Adobe InDesign and Photoshop Course

Adobe InDesign and Photoshop Course

Our combo training courses are one of our most popular options and this one runs over two days covering the InDesign Beginners and Photoshop Beginners course.

Both of these can be run as tailored Adobe training courses with course content and structure built around you.

Contact us to discuss your tailored Adobe course.

Introduction to Adobe InDesign and Photoshop Training

Show you how to create professional layouts and spreads in InDesign

Edit and manipulate stunning photographs in Photoshop

On this course you’ll bring the two together to create professional publications, prints, social media designs 

In an incredibly short time learn the tools, techniques & features to create beautiful print or digital artwork.

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Training Course

Day one is the Introduction to Photoshop Course

Whatever your flavour of photography product, macro, landscape or wedding photography during the Photoshop course  you’ll learn to give depth, colour and if necessary repair your photos quickly and easily.

The course demonstrates the tools and features needed to manipulate and improve your photography for print or digital output.

We have three popular Photoshop courses that work well with this combo course – the Introduction to Photoshop Course the Photoshop for AI Training and the Photoshop for Photographers Course

All the images are saved and then used on second day Adobe InDesign Course.

Create professional images

Import photos into Photoshop to enhance and manipulate.

Edit for print & digital

Start from scratch

Work with AI Tools to enhance and create

Introduction to Adobe InDesign Training Course

Day Two – is the introduction to InDesign Course

How to work from the basics of the software to designing spreads and layouts for print or interactive export. 

We’ll use image and text frames to create professional looking documents incorporating brand colours, logos, fonts.

InDesign offers a wide range of options from flyers, newsletters, brochures through to interactive PDF online documents.

For example you could opt to create your own photobook or the company newsletter, annual report then publish it out to print or digital.

Adobe InDesign and Photoshop Training in Cambridge

Create Spreads & Layouts

 Beautiful, professional images created in Photoshop?

What to do with them?

Hop into InDesign and design newsletters, flyers, brochures, annual reports, photo-books for print or digital output.

 

Adobe Training Course FAQ

Our online Adobe InDesign and Photoshop Courses run virtually with a live instructor giving you direct contact with them throughout the training via video, chat & screen share.

We run this online training via all the most popular video conferencing software including Zoom, Teams, Google and WebEx. It’s your choice which one you prefer.

Do you record online InDesign sessions?

We are happy to record the training but due to privacy issues can only offer this for one to one sessions or company groups.

Because online training provides great flexibility we’re able to run our courses on a 24 /7 basis including weekends and over night depending on your timezone.

Adobe InDesign and Photoshop Courses Oxford are hosted onsite at your premises.  You benefit from this more personal approach to InDesign training as:

  • The training is focused entirely on your and your company requirements
  • No traveling involved for you or your team
  • 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 we organise a meeting to discuss the course and then tailor it to suit you /your team.
  • Flexible dates and times to suit you

It’s ideal for those with little to no experience with the software and perfect for company group training events, individuals or anyone looking for an Introduction to InDesign and Photoshop.

Over the years we’ve delivered this course to companies and individuals including schools, universities, marketeers, designers, bid writers, publishers, educators, content creators.

This Introduction Course is very flexible. Content can be added or removed and you are more than welcome to bring your own files /work with you.  

On the InDesign Introduction Course you’ll learn how to edit existing documents and create new ones from scratch using printers marks and grids for precise layout.

During the course you will find out about the InDesign interface, Properties Panel, Window Menu and Tools bar and how to use these to design a variety of spreads and layouts.

As you near the end of the training you will learn how to create interactive PDF’s and print documents and best practice for publishing in both formats.

The full InDesign Introduction Course overview is below but in short you will learn how to: 
  • Edit & Update existing documents
  • New Document Set-Up /Bleed /Slug etc
  • Workspace, Window Menu & Tools 
  • Colour, Swatches & Pantones
  • Grids, Guides for Layout
  • Format, Layout and Design Documents
  • PDF Interactive Panel
  • Properties Panel, Adjust Layout, Content Aware Fit,
  • Publish to various outputs including InDesign, PDF and Export
 
On the Photoshop Introduction Course you’ll learn how to work with images to enhance and repair them.
 
You’ll find out about layers and their importance in Photoshop and how to work with the different workspaces, panels and tools.

 

The full Photoshop Introduction Course overview is below but in short you’ll learn how to:

  • Work with Layers & Adjustment Layers
  • Change Image Size & Resolution
  • Resize and Crop Images
  • Use the Transform Tool to scale, rotate and warp
  • Select images and parts of images accurately
  • Work with Brushes, Transparency and Blends
  • Understand & use File Formats correctly
  • Create Images for Print and Digital

Because of the flexibility of Online training we run these on a 24 /7 basis, evenings, overnight and during the weekend. 

We are also able to split full days of training into 1 /2 day blocks.

Unfortunately we can only offer 1 /2 day sessions for online training courses.

This is an introduction to InDesign Course so ideal for anyone new to the software or looking to build on basic skills and as with any of our training courses, it can be designed around you. 

We have a wide portfolio of courses and can mix and match content to suit you from our existing overviews or combine two or more courses for a more overall approach.

Booking with us

Please get in touch with us via the online booking form or click to:

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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.

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Adobe InDesign & Photoshop Training - Overviews

InDesign and Photoshop Courses

Photoshop AI Tools

Generative Fill Tool

Generative Expand Tool

Contextual Tool Bar

Generative Properties

Generative Expand (Crop Tool)

Expand /Fill

Text to Image

Parametric Filters

Remove Tool

InDesign – Getting Started

Create & Save a Document

New Document Setup 

Print /Web /Mobile Options

Columns /Margins /Bleed & Slug

Photoshop Precise Position

Grids /Guides /Rulers

Raster /Vector

Selections

Selection Tools

Adding /Removing Selections

Select Subject /Select & Mask

Colour Wand

Working with Colour Tolerance

InDesign Tools & Features

Navigating InDesign

Toolbox /Menus /Panels

Photoshop Practicalities

Image Resize /Resolution

Artwork Sizing

Transform /Free Transform Tool

Crop Tool /Crop Options

Image Modes

Photoshop Masks

Create a Mask

Adding & Removing to Masks

Viewing Selections

Saving /Loading Selections

InDesign Frames

Text Frames

Formatting Text Frames

Text Frame Properties

Inputting Text

Photoshop Layers

Understanding Layers

Layer Panel

Creating /Editing /Shuffling Layers

Merging /Flattening Layers

Photoshop Brushes

Text Frames

Formatting Text Frames

Text Frame Properties

Text Frame – multi column setup

InDesign Type Handling

Placing Text

Working with Placeholder Text

Character & Paragraph Styles

Type in Layouts

Establishing a Type Face

Photoshop Adjustment Layers

Working with Adjustment Layers

None Destructive Workflows

Editing Adjustment Layers

Hue & Saturation /Curves /Histogram
Levels /Black & White

 

Photoshop Retouching Tools

Healing Brush

Clone Stamp Tool

Content Aware Tool

Patch & Spot Healing

InDesign & Colour

Colour Models

RGB /CMYK /Pantones

Colour for Print Documents

Creating & Editing Colour

Accurate Colour for Print

Creating Gradients & Tints

Colour Management

Photoshop SmartObjects

What are SmartObjects?

None Destructive Transformations

Linking & Unlinking SmartObjects

None Destructive Filters

Edit & Update One /Multiple Objects

Photoshop Social Media

Multiple Artboards

Create Social Media Images

Twitter /Linkedin /Pinterest

InDesign Image Frames

Images into Frames

Editing Image & Frame

Image Formats

Image Frames & Pathfinder Panel

Placing Images outside Image Frames

Photoshop & Colour

Working with Colour

Accurate Colour

Panels RGB /CMYK /LAB

Spot & Process Colours

Pantones

Photoshop Print & Export

Export /Export As

Export to Web

Print

InDesign Text Wrapping

Text & Graphics

Wrapping Text around Graphics

Text Wrap Options

Text Offsets

Photoshop Type Tool

Character /Paragraph Text

Creating & Editing Text

Warping Text

Text Mask Tool

InDesign Print Output

Preflight InDesign Document

Preflight Panel

Packaging InDesign File

Export as PDF /PDF Interactive