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InDesign - Introduction to Adobe InDesign

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  • The course was excellent, very knowledgeable trainer who answered most of our questions and showed us particular aspects that people asked about. In addition the facilities were fantastic.
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In Sheffield, Birmingham, Milton Keynes and 2 other venues

£ 345 + VAT

Take the first step on an incredible journey!

Adobe Accredited

Are you interested in improving your skills and learn everything about InDesign? If the answer is yes, this is the right course for you.

Used worldwide for creating posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books, Adobe InDesign sets the standard for desktop publishing.

It is also an excellent application for publishing content suitable for tablet devices.

With the Introduction to InDesign Course, imparted by Armada, you will receive comprehensive training in paging layout skills; how to produce professional-standard pages and putting out professional-standard pages.

If you want to enjoy all these advantages, contact us through emagister.co.uk so we can give you the most relevant information about this course!

Important information

Documents

  • CourseOutlineIntrotoInDesign.pdf

Facilities

Location

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Birmingham (West Midlands)
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6 West Court, Saxon Business Park, Bromsgrove, B60 4AD

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Bristol (Avon)
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Hartwell House, 55-61 Victoria Street, BS1 6AD

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Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire)
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Gloucester House, 399 Silbury Boulevard, MK9 2AH

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Reading (Berkshire)
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Spaces, 9 Greyfriars Road, RG1 1NU

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Sheffield (South Yorkshire)
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Electric Works, Sheffield Digital Campus, S1 2BJ

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About this course


- To gain a thorough grounding in Adobe InDesign.

- To teach delegates how to use InDesign's key features to create effective page layouts.


This course is suitable for:

- Newcomers to InDesign.
- Novice users with limited InDesign experience.

Delegates receive an e-certificate confirming that they have attended an Adobe-accredited course.

We are an Adobe-Authorised Training Centre.

Delegates are also entitled to 30 days' after-course support from their trainer (by email).


Delegates can book in any of the following ways:
Phone: call 01527 834783.
Online: www.armada.co.uk.
Email: Please email full details, including your name, address, email address, contact phone number and the date of the course you want to attend to training@armada.co.uk.

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Reviews

5.0
  • The course was excellent, very knowledgeable trainer who answered most of our questions and showed us particular aspects that people asked about. In addition the facilities were fantastic.
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Mary Abbot

5.0
01/01/2014
What I would highlight: The course was excellent, very knowledgeable trainer who answered most of our questions and showed us particular aspects that people asked about. In addition the facilities were fantastic.
What could be improved: Highly recommended.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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This centre's achievements

2018

All courses are up to date

The average rating is higher than 3.7

More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months

This centre has featured on Emagister for 14 years

Subjects

  • Electronic Publishing
  • Desktop Publishing
  • Communication design
  • Creative Suite
  • Graphics
  • Layout
  • Adobe
  • Drawing
  • InDesign
  • Ebooks

Teachers and trainers (4)

Lynne Telfer

Lynne Telfer

Adobe trainer

Peter Owen

Peter Owen

Adobe Certified Instructor

Philip Odell

Philip Odell

Trainer

Philip Talbot

Philip Talbot

Trainer

Course programme

Course Programme


The work area

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

Setting up new documents

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

Shapes and frames

  • Drawing and editing shapes and frames
  • Creating and using colour swatches
  • Tints and gradients
  • Filling and stroking shapes and transforming objects

Textual content

  • Placing and flowing text
  • Import options
  • Linking/unlinking text frames
  • Entering special characters
  • Using the story editor
  • Using find/change and the spell checker

Typography

  • Formatting text
  • Exploring the wealth of typographical control available

Working with styles

  • Defining and applying character, paragraph and object styles
  • Using nested styles
  • Removing styles from selected text
  • 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

Layers

  • Using layers to group and separate objects
  • Working with the layers palette
  • Creating layers
  • Moving and copying objects between layers
  • Merging and deleting layers

Special effects

  • Creating and handling transparency
  • Using feathering, drop shadows and gradient feathers
  • Applying effects independently to an object’s stroke, fill or content.

Tables

  • Creating and editing tables
  • Adding content and formatting tables.

Object libraries

  • Discovering the flexibility of object libraries for common reusable assets

Preflighting, packaging and output

  • Using the preflight command to check the integrity of a document
  • Using the package command
  • Exporting to PDF

InDesign - Introduction to Adobe InDesign

£ 345 + VAT