InDesign Training Course Level 2 UK Wide - On-site and Online

Advanced Adobe InDesign Training Course

This advanced Adobe Indesign training course is designed for those working with books and longer documents who need to master typography and pagination techniques within InDesign using Master Pages.

Our Indesign Advanced course is intended for content creators, publishers, editorial teams and those responsible for creating corporate or commercial literature who already have a solid foundational understanding of desktop publishing techniques with the software.

The course is ideal for those who wish to produce long, structured publications with style, flair and consistency.

Email us or call 0844 493 3699 to find out more.

The Advanced Adobe Indesign course can be delivered on Creative Cloud versions of the software or on legacy versions of Creative Suite including CS5/CS6, and for Mac or Windows operating systems. This is an on-site event delivered either at your workplace, or as a live virtual classroom event, for one-to-one sessions and small groups of up to 10 delegates.

The course can be combined with the Beginners Adobe InDesign training course to create a two-day training programme. Alternatively, you can also blend the training with other Adobe applications, or opt for our five day Creative Cloud Master Class. For those migrating from QuarkXpress to InDesign or vice versa, you can opt for a conversion course. See also, our InDesign for Interactive PDFs course.

Our expert Adobe trainers come to you and can deliver this InDesign Beginners course at your premises across most regions of mainland UK (including East Midlands and West Midlands, Greater Manchester and the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, Greater London, East Anglia, Bristol area, South East and South West of England etc.), or virtually from anywhere.

InDesign Advanced Training Course Prerequisites

In order to attend this course you should already have basic Adobe InDesign skills and knowledge equivalent to our InDesign Beginners course.

Intended Audience

This course is aimed at individuals and groups who need to improve their Adobe InDesign publishing skills for purposes such as:

• Desktop Publishing
• Digital and Print Publication
• Graphic Design
• Web Design
• Advertising and Marketing
• Corporate Literature and Branding

On-site Advanced Adobe InDesign Courses in the United Kingdom

Our 'face-to-face' closed courses for Adobe InDesign are delivered as private courses for your delegates offering more flexibility than off-the-shelf public courses and topics taught can often be tailored to match your learning needs. One of our trainers will discuss your training requirements with you prior to the course.

These Adobe InDesign training courses are conducted at your workplace for small groups and are exceptional value and very popular. You will usually need to book at least one month in advance. We can attend anywhere in the UK (for overseas requirements, please enquire).

With our on-site Adobe InDesign courses our regional trainers come to your workplace throughout England, bringing the training to you regardless of whether you are in a major city or conurbation such as Greater London, Greater Manchester, Birmingham and the West Midlands, Bristol, Leeds, or anywhere else. This offers a really cost-effective way to train small groups and entire departments in the comfort of familiar surroundings from the Capital City of London to The Cotswolds, from Hampshire to Northamptonshire, West Midlands to West Yorkshire, Sussex to South Yorkshire, Norfolk to Northumberland, Lancashire to Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire to Gloucestershire, Bristol to Berkshire, Essex to the East Riding of Yorkshire and everywhere inbetween.

Live Virtual Classroom Advanced InDesign Courses in the United Kingdom & Beyond

If you have a group of staff that you would prefer to be tutored remotely rather than having a trainer come out to you these small-group Adobe InDesign courses are also available Online as live virtual, interactive training sessions from the comfort of your own office or workplace. These live instructor-led courses are taught via MS Teams video conferencing.

Why choose virtual learning? As we are all becoming more used to Online learning and live virtual meetings it has become apparent that the virtual classroom method of delivery has many advantages over traditional face-to-face learning venues.

If you are looking for local training near you, then you can't get any closer to your doorstep than you can with virtual learning.

Our virtual learning InDesign courses cater for groups of up to ten people and your learners benefit from full and immersive interaction with your trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via advanced live video conferencing that is further enhanced by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

You can find out how to set up Microsoft Teams for a live Online virtual course here (Virtual Learning with MS Teams).

We really ❤ love helping UK organisations to master Adobe InDesign. Our only question is: Will it be yours?

Advanced Adobe InDesign Courses FAQ

Our Adobe InDesign trainers are:

Specialist educators with a wealth of experience and expertise, proven track records and excellent feedback.

Our Closed Adobe InDesign Courses are:

Flexible instructor-led courses catering to YOUR specific learning needs and training requirements.

Education is Our Passion:

Over 18,000 students trained across almost every industry, sector and background.

Advanced Adobe InDesign Training Delivery Method for Closed Courses

• Instructor-led Adobe InDesign training provided with step-by-step demonstrations, lessons and hands-on exercises.
  
  
• Dynamic and interactive Adobe InDesign courses with plenty of time for questions and answers.
  
  
• The personal touch: Professional tuition that's tailored to match your team's present knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the Adobe InDesign functions, design features and techniques that your trainee staff, co-workers or employees need the most.
  
  
• Private, corporate Adobe InDesign training for small group sizes with a maximum of 10 learners on any course.
  
  
• Can be run as a single course, tutorial or workshop; Or as a training rollout bringing whole teams, departments and organisations up to the benchmark level of Adobe software knowledge that you require.

What is the difference between Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Creative Suite?

Adobe Creative Cloud is Adobe's platform of Cloud-based creative design and desk-top publishing applications and tools (such as PhotoShop, Indesign and Illustrator and so forth) which is licensed as a subscription-based service either for individual CC products, or for the whole of the Creative Cloud suite.

Adobe Creative Suite is Adobe's legacy 'On-Premise' suite of creative design and desk-top publishing applications and tools (such as PhotoShop, Indesign and Illustrator and so forth) which is licensed with a traditional EULA (End User License Agreement) whereby the software is physically installed on your device both for individual Creative Suite products or the whole suite of software applications.

All of our closed course Adobe training programmes can be delivered on either Creative Cloud (CC) or Creative Suite (CS).

Adobe InDesign Advanced Training Course Outline & Topics

We specialise in delivering flexible training programmes and the actual course content, topics and syllabus taught will often vary depending upon your learning requirements and upon the version of the software taught.

1. Adobe InDesign Master Pages
   • Introduction: What are InDesign master pages?
   • Working with master pages
   • Solo and multiple master pages
   • Locking and unlocking
   • Numbering your pages
   
   
2. Adobe InDesign Handling Long Documents
   • Table of contents and prefatory material
   • Compiling an index
   • Book palette
   • Producing book lists
   • Styles, stylesheets, colours, branding and standardisation
   • Handling complex page numbering
   • Complex table of contents
   
   
3. Adobe InDesign: The Pen Tool
   • What is the Pen Tool?
   • Freehand shapes and bézier curves¹
   • Shape Manipulation
   • Working with the Transform palette
   • Object alignment
   • Working with the eye-dropper
   
   
4. Adobe InDesign Effects
   • Textpaths and options
   • Inserting drop shadows and setting rounded corners
   • The Transparency palette and filters
   • Working with the Gradient palette
   • Creating and editing colour gradients
   • Manipulating colour with Blending Tools
   
   
5. Adobe InDesign Working with Complex Graphics
   • Clipping Paths²
   • PhotoShop Alpha Channels³
   • Understanding different image file formats
   
   
6. Adobe InDesign Printing
   • Using the Preflight Tool
   • Printing PDF files
   • .PDF password protection and encryption
   
   

Notes: Adobe InDesign Terminology in Layman's Terms:

1) In computer graphics a bézier curve is a curve which makes use of a mathematical formula to define the control points of the curve (and its scale) to produce a smooth and continual arc.

2) A Clipping Path can be thought of as a technique for removing backgrounds from images and displaying a portion or section of that image within a shape. The path itself is made up of sections with anchor points which together pin an outline of the image. With InDesign the Clipping Path is a "smart" feature and the software can create the path for you with just one click without the need for indepth knowledge of the technique often required by graphic design software.

3) Alpha Channels give you granular control over the transparency of a graphic based upon colour using one or more of the Red, Green and Blue channels. When you import a PhotoShop image (PSD) into InDesign the software will identify the Alpha Channel transparency information within that image.

InDesign Course Levels: training courses are available for beginners and advanced users of Adobe InDesign.

Desktop Publishing & Adobe Software Training Reviews from our UK Clients

Just wanted to put on record how pleased we were with the standard of training we received last week. The trainer is a credit to your organisation and we will certainly not hesitate in organising training through yourself again as required in the future.
M Roberts, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (PhotoShop beginners training Chester, Cheshire)

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say thank you to the trainer for the training on Friday. Everyone really enjoyed it and we found it really beneficial. We do hope to use you again in the future for other training purposes.
C Boothroyd, Bako North Western Ltd (PhotoShop and InDesign Training Preston, Lancashire)

The trainer was great and we found the course extremely useful.
C Sommerville, TP Group (Beginners InDesign Training Farnborough, Hampshire)

I am pleased to tell you that the training went well and I just wanted to drop a line to say that the trainer was very good and we are much more confident now.
B McKeary, Chester Grosvenor (InDesign training Chester, Cheshire)

I just wanted to let you know that the InDesign training with your trainer was excellent! He covered everything I needed to know and taught me so many tricks. Very good! I am very pleased with this.
A Surkau, Hoarelea (Intermediate InDesign Training Bournemouth, Dorset)

The trainer was lovely and incredibly helpful tailoring the training to our needs, please pass on our thanks.
D Kilty, Hitchcock Wright and Partners (Adobe InDesign Training Liverpool, Merseyside)

I just wanted to say that the training was brilliant yesterday. I've already used what I've learnt to produce a document!
K Palmer, Stryker UK (Beginners to Intermediate Adobe InDesign Training Newbury, Berkshire, RG14)

Great training with a real sense of achievement at the end of the day.
J Baxter, Leeds College of Music (Adobe InDesign training Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Very Enjoyable! Lovely tutor and very interesting course
A Hemingway, Wakefield City Council (Adobe Acrobat training Wakefield, West Yorkshire)

Excellent
L Bhardwaj (PhotoShop training Blaby, Leicestershire)

A fantastic tutor, made the whole experience very enjoyable.
R Sharma-Slessor, Depuy Spine (a Jonson & Jonson Company) (Adobe Photoshop and Indesign Training Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Very informative course with lots of helpful advice and good practice.
M Hamilton, Canon Slade School (Dreamweaver Training workshop Bolton, Lancashire)

Really enjoyable and worthwhile.
L Maycock, Trutex Ltd (QuarkXpress Beginners Training Clitheroe, Lancashire)

Covered all areas perfectly. Super. Fab tutor.
H Smithson, The Original Factory Shop (QuarkXpress training Burnley, Lancs)

A comprehensive course, no need for improvements.
A Alvey, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (Advanced Illustrator Training Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

[The trainer] has been great to work with. I really enjoyed the training.
K. Clarke, HSBC (Indesign training Birmingham, West Midlands)

Very first time I have used Captivate and it was a great start.
A. Kaczmarczyk, Learn Direct (Adobe Captivate training Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

I'd just like to say a big thank you to you on behalf of all the attendees. We thoroughly enjoyed the training.
A Hall, Royal Liverpool University Hospital (Adobe Captivate Training Liverpool, Merseyside)

The training was great and the trainer was marvellous.
S. Hart, Chester Grosvenor Hotel (Adobe InDesign training Chester, Cheshire)

An exceptional trainer. I found her manner warm, easy going professional and interested. Her skills with the Adobe Cloud were vast, her knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets, Convert to Paths, and Clipping Handles exceptional. She will always be somebody who shall forever remain in our hearts.
D. Cook, CML2 Ltd (Adobe Creative Cloud Master Class and QuarkXpress Beginners training Ipswich, Suffolk)

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