Course description
Adobe InDesign Intermediate 4 Week Evening Course
Adobe InDesign is the industry-leading layout and page design software for print and digital media. It is a powerful desktop publishing tool that is ideal for creating high quality graphics for magazines, newspapers, catalogues, books, posters, flyers and brochures.
Develop your InDesign skills and become proficient in using the software. You will be working on engaging projects, guided by our friendly and knowledgeable lecturer. Towards the end of the course you will have an opportunity to work on your projects, consolidating your new skills whilst tailoring the course to your specific needs.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This London Software Training course is ideal for anyone who has a foundation knowledge of InDesign and is looking to build on their existing skills. InDesign training will greatly aid anyone looking to further their study or gain employment within the design, publishing, architectural, construction and engineering fields.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
You'll receive a London Software Training certificate on successful completion of this course.
Training Course Content
Customisation
• Locate and tweak essential settings hidden in the Preferences
• Customise the appearance and content of menus
• Change InDesign's keyboard shortcuts and add new ones
• Take charge of all those panels with workspace power tips
• Use built-in automation scripts and add new ones
Text
• Restyle specific words and phrases across hundreds of pages in a second
• Access the hidden character set of every font including accents, symbols, icons
• Work with typographical glyphs, dashes and white spaces
• Set up complex multi-style text formatting that works automatically
• Learn advanced formatting features including column spanning
• Simplify, customise and automate bulleted and numbered lists
Design with tables
• Insert and edit tabular layouts with resizable rows and columns
• Import spreadsheets and continue working with them in InDesign
• Restyle tables with fonts, colours and patterns, and even add graphics
• Add, remove and re-arrange rows and columns at will
• Flow tables across multiple pages with repeating headers and footers
Design assets
• Use design industry colour references such as Pantone
• Work with RGB, LAB and CMYK colours, including spot inks
• Build re-usable libraries with branded colours, type styles, graphics and layouts
• Capture the visual style of anything in a layout and re-apply it anywhere
Take full control of pages
• Automate complex documents with multiple master pages
• Use different page sizes in the same document
• Change page numbering and spread pagination anywhere in a document
• Manage layout grids that automatically align text baselines
Graphics
• Enable 'clipping path' cut-out graphics or create your own
• Place multi-layered images or graphics and choose which layers to show
• Create original graphics with shape and drawing tools
• Apply advanced transparency effects and blending modes
• Reposition graphics automatically when your text reflows
• Make text roll along curves, turn corners and swerve into custom shapes
PDFs
• Ensure colour consistency between on-screen and print
• Create custom 'preflight' checks to ensure clean and reliable output
• Configure your own custom PDF presets for faster export
• Make PDFs that your printing press people will love
Course delivery details
This is a 4 week evening course, one evening each week, 6.45pm to 9.30pm
London Software Training courses are delivered live online and in-classroom, offering you the option to attend from the comfort of your home or at our training studio in Hackney, east London.
Live online training enables you to:
- See the lecturer's live screen - guiding you step by step
- Share your live screen with the lecturer who can offer immediate help and feedback
- Speak with other students, as you would in a classroom setting
We provide a link to download the free software trial 2 days before your training (trials are free for 30 days). Closer to your training, we will send a link to join the online training.
Please put in as much practice in between sessions as you can afford so that you develop and retain your new skills. After your course finishes, you will need to practice for at least 2 weeks, putting in as much time and effort as possible - we promise that you will get so much more out of your training if you do this!
Why choose London Software Training
10 years of delivering software training to over 5,000 companies and individual learners
In-classroom and Live Online training are available
5.0 stars Google Review rating
Reviews
Average rating 5
Did the evening introductory course on InDesign. Very hands-on course structure and great teacher.
I learned a lot at introduction course for three days.
Expenses
Your course price includes:
- Free group course re-take within 18 months
- Expert teaching from practising architects, designers and software pros
- Hands-on, practical lessons
- Tailoring of syllabus and work on your projects
- Video tutorials and digital reference book for revision and development
- LST certificate of completion for your CV and LinkedIn
- Free career guidance
Your tutors are designers, makers and architects, as well as software pros. They will guide you on the best way to apply for design roles or set up a creative business, whilst teaching you all the key technical skills to make your CV and portfolio stand out from the crowd.
Continuing Studies
Adobe InDesign opens up many opportunities in various industries. We offer guidance on CV and portfolio building as part of the course. You may also want to look at London Software Training’s Career Development Packages to develop your creative opportunities.
- Product Design
- Branding
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Photography
A truly fantastic day. Excellent tutor, knowledgeable encouraging. That was just the 1st day.