Key details

Adobe Express is an all‑in‑one design, photo and video editing tool.

This short course provides a thorough grounding, teaching techniques for creating effective content for your social media channels. You’ll learn how to create:

• Professional-standard graphic designs for your social media channels.
• Marketing materials such as logos, flyers and banners.
• Responsive web pages to showcase your photos or portfolios.
• Videos incorporating animated text, icons and pictures, narration and background music.

This course is ideal for newcomers to Adobe Express, and those with limited experience.

Adobe Express training is arranged on-request, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed course’ for your group. Your training can be tailored to take into account any existing knowledge you have, and the work you’re going to be doing.

In-class or online

This course is available in-class at eight centres or live online.

Expert trainers

Adobe Express courses are hosted by expert trainers, with vast professional experience of using the application. For details, see Expert trainers. 

Adobe Express training guide and certificate

Course delegates receive:

• A practical Adobe Express training guide, to refer to during the course and use as a refresher after. Choose from a printed, bound guide or a PDF – whatever suits you best. If you’re participating online and you choose a printed guide, we’ll post this to you.

• An e-certificate confirming successful course completion.

After course support

Following Adobe Express training, delegates are entitled to 30 days’ email support from their trainer to help with any post-course issues. For further details, see Support.

Prerequisites

No prior Adobe Express experience or other specialist knowledge is required.

General information

Course times

Standard course times are 9.30am–4.30pm.

As we’d be hosting this as a ‘closed course’ for you/your group, there’s usually flexibility to change these times to suit you, e.g. start or end 30 minutes earlier or later.

Payment

Payment for Adobe Express training can be made by:

• Bank transfer. Please call 01527 834783 for our bank details.
• Card. All major credit and debit cards accepted. Payment can be made securely online or over the phone. Card payments are processed by Stripe. Armada doesn’t record or store your card details.

Purchase orders

We accept purchase orders from UK-registered companies and public sector organisations.

Accommodation

See Accommodation local to our training centres.

Cancellations and postponements

If an on-request Adobe Express course booking is cancelled giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a cancellation fee is payable. View cancellation terms.

If an on-request Adobe Express course booking is postponed giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a postponement fee is payable. View postponement terms.

Terms and conditions

Expert trainers

Adobe Express training courses are hosted by:

• Marek Mularczyk
• Phil Talbot

Marek Mularczyk

Marek is an Adobe Design, Video and Motion Specialist, and an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI).

Voted as one of top 10 Adobe Certified Instructors in the world, Marek has over 15 years’ experience as an animator and photo/video editor, and has published numerous books on these topics.

As an instructor, Marek has trained a wide range of blue-chip clients including Lloyds, Barclays, HS2, Lululemon, Asos, Boohoo, Sony, Samsung, and many more.

Prior to focusing on training, Marek worked as a professional photographer for over 12 years. Photography remains his passion, and in his spare time he travels Europe in search of that perfect picture.

Phil Talbot

Phil works as a professional graphic designer and illustrator.

He’s a long-standing Adobe Design Specialist with expert knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Creative Cloud Express and Acrobat. He has used all of these applications extensively for over 25 years.

Phil’s professional qualifications and extensive experience provide an ideal base to train delegates using blended learning techniques to improve the individuals’ and organisations’ capabilities. He has worked with and trained many blue-chip organisations.

Course content

Getting Started

• Introduction to Adobe Express
• How to access Adobe Express
• Account Types: Free vs Premium (paid) versions
• Touring the interface
• The Adobe Express Post mobile app
• The Adobe Cloud Express blog and online tutorials

Creating a post

• Selecting a template
• Using the Design feature
• Setting your background
• Adding photos and icons
• Resizing and manipulating photos
• Using the Layout tool
• Using colour palettes
• Using fonts and typography effectively
• Adobe Fonts
• Enhancing your photos
• Using filters
• Adjusting themes
• Adjusting transparency
• Customise your design with Adobe’s Artificial Intelligence, Adobe Sensei
• Export your social media graphic as a jpeg, png or PDF
• Inviting others to collaborate
• Duplicating and resizing your posts for other social media channels
• Setting up your brand
• Saving time with templates

Creating a responsive web page

• Sharing your web page and creating a sharable link

Creating a video

• Adding animated text
• Moving icons and pictures
• Adding narration and background music
• Exporting your video

Live online training

Online training lets you participate in a live Adobe Express course from your place of work or home.

We do everything possible to make your online training experience as close as possible to actually being in the classroom. You can:

• See and hear our trainer, and the other delegates participating in the course…
  
• Watch our trainer demonstrate techniques in Adobe Express.
• Interact by speaking, or using chat.
• Share your screen with our trainer, and allow them to take control to explain something.

Like our in-class courses, online Adobe Express courses…

• Are presented by Adobe Certified Instructors.
• Give you plenty of opportunity to carry out assisted, practical exercises using Adobe Express.
• Offer 30 days’ email support from your trainer.

All you need is an Internet-connected computer with…

• Adobe Express installed. If you don’t have access to Adobe Express, we can usually send you a link to fully-functional trial software to download and install.
• A webcam and audio capability. If your computer running Adobe Express doesn’t have these, you can use a second device, such as another computer or tablet. See Hardware recommendations for live online training for further details.

If there’s anything you’re not sure about we’ll do our best to help you. We won’t, however, be able to assist with your Adobe Express installation.

We provide everything else…

• Links to download the files, resources, etc. you’ll use in your course.
• A training guide. For most courses, you can choose from a printed copy that we post to you, or a PDF.

In the week before your course, we’ll send you an email containing everything you need to prepare for and participate in the training. Then, a couple of days before your course, we’ll give you a courtesy call to make sure you have everything in place and answer any questions you may have.

Please note that we are not able to record scheduled online courses for privacy reasons.

When you attend live online training, you’re participating in a real course, hosted by a real trainer, in real time