Adobe InDesign Intermediate Evening Course

Ready to achieve your creative and career goals? Unlock your full potential and increase your employability by upskilling with London Software Training.

Adobe InDesign is the industry-leading layout and page design software for print and digital media. The software is a powerful desktop publishing software that is ideal for creating high-quality graphics such as magazines, newspapers, books, posters and brochures.

Your Adobe InDesign 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

All courses are available in-classroom and online. London Software Training is located in Hackney, East London. Our Intermediate Adobe InDesign course can also be taken online, the virtual classroom offers the same quality as face-to-face training.

Develop your Adobe InDesign skills and become proficient in using the software with this Adobe InDesign Intermediate 4 Week Evening Course. 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 the new skills whilst tailoring the course to your specific needs.

Adobe InDesign Intermediate 4 Week Evening Course Overview:

Customisation

• Locate and tweak essential settings hidden in the preferences
• Customise the appearance and content of menus
• Change Adobe 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 full hidden character set of every font including accents, symbols and icons
• Work with typographical glyphs, dashes and white spaces
• Set up complex multi-style text formatting that works automatically
• Master advanced formatting features such as paragraph shading, baseline alignment and column spanning
• Simplify, customise and automate bulleted and numbered lists

Design with tables

• Insert tabular layouts with resizable rows and columns into any document and edit their content
• Import spreadsheets from Microsoft Excel and continue working with them in Adobe 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 and sharable libraries containing branded colours, type styles, graphics and layouts
• Capture the visual style of anything in a layout and re-apply it anywhere with one click

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

Please note that course delivery is available as either in-class (£295) or live online (£245).

What our students say about this Adobe InDesign course:

Mark - The Adobe InDesign course has been very intuitive and great fun whilst learning new skills. Looking forward to taking the skills learnt and applying them to my jobs!

Monica - Amazing teacher. Friendly environment and made you feel very welcome. I thoroughly recommend the courses. enjoyed and learnt a lot. Thanks again.

Ramah - I enjoyed the Adobe InDesign course with all respect as well as the training environment. I would recommend London Software Training for anyone who has a passion to develop his/her skills.

This course is ideal for anyone who has a foundation knowledge of Adobe InDesign and is looking to build on their existing skills. Adobe InDesign training will greatly aid anyone looking to further their study or gain employment within the design, architectural, construction and engineering fields.

This course is ideal for those with prior knowledge of Adobe InDesign, who are looking to build these skills to an advanced level.

Adobe InDesign opens up many opportunities within 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

Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included