QuickStart InDesign Training Course

If you are looking to produce in-house professional looking documents in a short space of time then this QuickStart InDesign Training Course is ideal.

It starts at the very beginning explaining about layout and document set up then moves into adding text, images and structuring documents.

Our QuickStart InDesign Courses run over one day and are designed to give you the skills needed to work in InDesign both for print and digital output. 

It’s available both as an onsite InDesign Course hosted on your premises or as a virtual online InDesign training session held with a live instructor. It’s part of our Quickstart Creative Cloud Training which also include Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Premiere Pro and Lightroom training courses.

This is perfect for anyone completely new to the software and looking to grasp the fundamentals quickly and easily. It is particularly popular with small business users who are looking to produce marketing and business documents in-house without the need for an external designer.

Over the years this course has been delivered to educators, designers, publishers, authors, students and many more.

By the end of the InDesign course you will be able to create, edit and publish flyers, small magazines, marketing materials and social media posts.

Our online  Adobe InDesign 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.

We are happy to record your training session for you to refer back to after the training.

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

Find out more about our QuickStart InDesign Training

 

You will learn how to create a range of documentation including flyers, social media posts and infographics for business and personal use.

During the course you will learn all the fundamentals involved in desktop publishing including how to create a document from scratch, understand print ‘jargon’ and work with different types of pages such as normal and parent pages.

As the day progresses you will learn how to put together short newsletters and brochures and to export them out as both InDesign documents or PDF’s. We cover both static, print PDF’s and also the basics of interactive documents.

We usually arrange a meeting prior to the training to discuss course content and to exchange any files needed for the course.

Content can be added or removed and you are more than welcome to bring your own files with you. 

The training is focused entirely on your and your company requirements

No traveling involved for you or your team saving travel & expenses

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 your trainer about your aims, content preferences and levels of delegate /s knowledge

Flexible dates & times to suit you

The full InDesign Course overview is below but in short you will learn how to:
  • 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

QuickStart InDesign Training Course - Overviews

Getting Started with InDesign

Creating and saving a document

New document setup

Tools / panels

Document navigation

Print /Web /Mobile Options

Adobe InDesign & Colour

Colour models, RGB, CMYK, Spot & Pantones

Colour Management

Edit Existing Colours

Accurate Colour for Print

InDesign & Images

Placing images

Graphic Frames /Images

Image Formats

Sizing /Shaping /Rotating Graphic Frames

InDesign & Photoshop

InDesign & PDF

Exporting to PDF

PDF Presents

InDesign Interactive Panel

Adding Hyperlinks & Bookmarks

Transitions

Animations & Timings

Publish Online

Type Handling & Manipulation

Placing & Threading Text

Adding /Updating Character styles / Paragraph styles

Typography and Professional Layouts

Type Families & Pairing

Links Panel

Working with Links

Replacing Missing Links

Updating Links

InDesign & Smart Layout

Guides

Rulers (zero point)

Columns & Rows

Combining Type and Imagery

Text and Images

Text Wrap

Text Wrap Options

Text Outsets

Clipping paths

Working with Text Frames

Text Frames

Formatting Text frames

Text Frame Options

Text Frame /Columns /Baseline Grid

Print & Exporting Files

Preview

Preflight

Export (print) to .PDF

PDF Print Options

PDF Interactive Options

Export Menu