Key details

InDesign training course for beginners, teaching skills for creating effective page layouts quickly.

Adobe InDesign is the industry-standard tool for laying out pages for print. It also provides everything you need to develop and publish content for playback on iPad and Android tablets.

Introduction to Adobe InDesign training covers key techniques and features, including setting up new documents, shapes, frames and placeholders, textual content, formatting text, working with styles, placing images, using layers, creating special effects, tables, object libraries and preflighting.

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

Accredited InDesign training

Armada is an Adobe Authorised Training Centre (AATC), accredited by Adobe to provide InDesign training.

Expert trainers

InDesign training is hosted by Adobe Certified Instructors, who are Adobe Certified Experts in the application, with vast experience of using it professionally.

How will I learn?

InDesign training is hands-on and practical.

Our trainers teach the necessary theory then demonstrate techniques step-by-step. You then practice the techniques taught on a computer running InDesign.

There is plenty of time to ask questions, and you can take away all the files you create.

Training guide and certificate

Course delegates receive:

• A comprehensive training guide for InDesign, to refer to throughout the course, and to use as a refresher afterwards.
• An e-certificate confirming successful completion of an Adobe‑accredited InDesign training course. Click here to see an example of the certificate you receive.

After course support

Following InDesign training, delegates are entitled to 30 days’ email support from their InDesign trainer to help with any post-course issues.

Prerequisites

No prior InDesign knowledge is necessary.

InDesign Version

Training is based primarily on InDesign CC 2018. The techniques taught are relevant to all recent releases of InDesign.

All InDesign training is suitable for both Windows and Mac users.

Our guarantees to you

Our price guarantee is your assurance that you’re getting the best value for money.

Our training guarantee ensures that you learn the concepts and skills you need.

On-request InDesign training available

As well as our scheduled courses, Introduction to Adobe InDesign training is also available on-request, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed’ course for your group, hosted at one of our centres, or your venue anywhere in the UK.

On-request training can be tailored to take into account any existing knowledge you have, and the work you’re going to be doing in InDesign. Please contact us for a quote.

General information

Course times

9.30am–4.30pm.

Payment

Payment for InDesign training can be made bank transfer or card. View training course payment options.

We accept purchase orders from UK-registered companies.

Accommodation

See Accommodation local to our training centres.

Cancellations

If a company or delegate cancels an InDesign training course booking giving less than 10 working days’ notice, a cancellation fee is payable. View cancellation terms.

 

Course content

The work area

• Using toolbox, panels and menus
• Opening, saving and closing files
• Navigation
• Customising the work area
• Preferences and defaults
• File export

Setting up new documents

• Creating new documents
• Setting up master pages
• Using ruler guides, smart guides and grids

Text

• Inserting text
• Placing text – incl. file formats
• Threading text – flowing text
• Import options – what can be imported
• Entering special characters
• Using the Story Editor
• Tracking changes
• Using Find/Change
• Spell checking – incl. languages

Colour

• Colour theory – RGB/CMYK/Spot colours
• Applying colour
• Colour swatches
• Gradients
• Filling and stroking shapes and transforming objects
• Eyedropper tool

Typography

• Formatting text
• Size/leading/tracking/kerning/ indents/spaces…

Stylesheets

• Formatting Paragraphs
• Character, Paragraph and Object styles
• Importing and deleting styles

Working with images

• Placing images
• Using the content collector tool
• Modifying graphic frames and their contents
• Using the spacing tool
• Creating in-line frames
• Wrapping text around objects and managing links.

Pages

• Master Pages – creating ‘page templates’
• Auto page numbering

Layers

• Creating, locking, hiding, printing

Effects and styling

• Transparency
• Feathering

Bullets and Numbers

• Bulleted and Numbered Lists
• Customising Bullets and Numbers

Tabs

• Setting up Tabs

Tables

• Creating and editing tables
• Adding content and formatting tables

Libraries

• Creating assets for use in InDesign and across CC

Preflighting, packaging and outputting

• Managing Links

Online features

• Publish online feature
• Publish on Behance

Mobile apps

• Adobe Comp
• Adobe Capture

Discounts and bundles

To make your InDesign training as affordable as possible, we offer:

• A range of training discounts on our scheduled (public) InDesign training courses.
• Bundle prices if you attend Introduction to InDesign along with other courses.
• A price guarantee that you won’t get InDesign training for less.

Training discounts

Multiple places

If you book multiple course places, we can offer you:

• 10% discount if you book two places.
• 15% discount if you book three or four places.
• 20% discount if you book five or more places.

This can be for several people attending one course, one person attending several courses, or a combination.

Concessions

We offer a 10% discount on scheduled InDesign course places to:

• Students, teachers and lecturers.
• People who work for a registered charity.
• ISTC members.
• Delegates self-funding their training for career progression purposes.

Please call us if you qualify for a discount. Evidence of your status that entitles you to a discount may be requested.

Terms and exclusions

Only one of the above discounts can be applied to any booking.

The above discounts are not available for training bundles or on-request course bookings (one-to-one training or a course for your group).

Bundle prices

InDesign training bundle. Attend:

• Introduction to InDesign (2 days), and
• Advanced InDesign (1 day)

for £475 + VAT, saving £15+ VAT.

Three-course Adobe Creative Cloud bundle. Attend:

• Introduction to InDesign (2 days), and
• Two other introductory-level courses in Adobe Creative Cloud applications, such as Photoshop and Illustrator.

and save £140 + VAT.

Four-course Adobe Creative Cloud bundle. Attend:

• Introduction to InDesign (2 days), and
• Three other introductory-level courses in Adobe Creative Cloud applications.

and save £200 + VAT.

Bundle discounts are calculated automatically when you book online.

Price guarantee

When you book training with Armada, we want you to be certain that you’re not paying over-the-odds. So, if you book a place on any scheduled (public) course and then find the same course at a lower price elsewhere, we will match that price.

To qualify for the price match:

• The course you find must be comparable. By this we mean it must:
• • Cover the same subject.
  • Be the same duration or longer.
  • Hold the same accreditations as our course, i.e. it must be provided by an Adobe Authorised Training Centre (AATC).
  • Be in the same region, i.e. within 50 miles of our centre.
• The lower price must be advertised on the other company’s website.

To claim a price match, just call any time before attending your course and tell us where you saw the price.