InDesign Training Course in Bristol

So this week saw a trip down to the South West to deliver an InDesign Training Course in Bristol. Most people dislike the M5 but personally I like it, it always reminds me of driving down to the South West for holidays with my son. (Enough of the personal stuff). This particular course was bespoke InDesign Training for an engineering company, a regular client of Greta Powell Training who were looking for specific InDesign skills for their bid writers.

InDesign Training Brief

Briggs & Forrester Group are a well known engineering company whose bid writers wanted to stream line and build on their current InDesign workflow. They were working from existing templates and had a good grasp of the software but felt there was more they could do using InDesign’s automated features. 

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InDesign Colour Theme Tool 

Welcome to the wonderful little tool known as the InDesign Colour Theme Tool which was introduced to the software in version 2014. It’s absolutely perfect for setting a matching theme throughout the layout and the colours can be added both to Swatches and the Library. Which means, of course the themes can then be shared across to both Illustrator and Photoshop (oh and Premier Pro – Premier Pro also includes the Creative Cloud Library).

Another cool thing about the Colour Theme Tool is this handy little tip.

Quick Tip!

Once you have sampled colour from the image and the colours are inside the panel you then either click Add to Swatches or Add to Library to add the theme. But did you know that if you hold down Q whilst sampling InDesign will set up a colour group of five colours in it automatically. As quick as bish bosh!

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InDesign Tutorial – Text Frame Columns

There are a number of ways to create columns in InDesign but in this InDesign tutorial it’s the Text Frame Object that will be covered. In this one box you have the ability to set the amount of columns, balance them evenly and to adjust the width between them.

There is a video at the end of the tutorial for those who prefer a more visual approach otherwise…………………..

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Adobe InDesign Tip 1 – Live Distribute

Admittedly there are hundreds, if not millions of tips and tricks hidden inside InDesign many of which are well known and used on a daily basis.  In this particular InDesign Tips & Tricks post I’ve tried to include the more obscure ones and decided to start off with a personal favourite – Live Distribute, which has been with us since InDesign CS5 

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InDesign & Photoshop Training Course Content Updated

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Adobe InDesign Training – Nottingham

This Adobe InDesign Training is run onsite across the whole of Nottinghamshire and Nottingham for 121 sesions and company groups at times and dates to suit you.  This Onsite InDesign Course run at Introduction level is ideal for those delegates looking to gain a good understanding of the software or anyone wishing to update their current skills. During the day you will work hands on with various layouts including flyers, manuals, newsletters, business stationery and other layouts to produce professional visual communications quickly and easily.

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