InDesign Training Course Level 1 UK Wide - On-site and Online

Beginners Adobe InDesign Training Essentials Course

Our Beginners Adobe InDesign training course introduces learners to the fundamentals of working with text documents using Adobe InDesign.

By the end of the day delegates will have a solid foundational understanding of creating Indesign layouts for print and digital publication, and a strong grounding in the concepts of DeskTop Publishing (DTP) for written, narrative-driven content.

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

This introductory course is available for contemporary Creative Cloud versions of InDesign and legacy versions of Creative Suite including CS5 and 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 small groups of up to 10 delegates.

Our beginners InDesign course can be combined with the Advanced 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.

Adobe InDesign Beginners Training Course Prerequisites

No previous knowledge of Adobe InDesign is required to attend this introductory essentials course. It is ideal for beginners who are looking to get off the starting block with Indesign and anyone who needs to produce shorter documents such as advertising material, infographics, posters, pamphlets, flyers, smaller brochures and restaurant menus. For longer documents and publications the course can be taken in conjunction with our advanced InDesign course. This course is also suitable for those who are self-taught using Indesign but feel more comfortable starting from scratch, or with a refresher.

Intended Audience

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

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

On-site Adobe InDesign Beginners 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). On rare ocassions travel supplements may apply for InDesign training in Central London to cover additional expenses such as congestion charges, but we will endeavour to waive these when possible.

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 Adobe InDesign Beginners Course for the United Kingdom and 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?

Adobe InDesign Beginners Course 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.

Adobe InDesign Beginners 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).

Beginners Adobe InDesign Training Course Outline & Topics

We specialise in delivering flexible Adobe InDesign training programmes and course content and topics taught may vary depending upon your learning requirements and needs.

1. Introducing Adobe InDesign
   • What is Adobe InDesign?
   • Creating and saving a new InDesign document
   • Starting a new InDesign document
   • Navigating and understanding tools and panels
   • Navigating around your InDesign documents
   
   
2. Adobe InDesign Smart layouts
   • Working with Guides
   • Working with Grids (including baseline grid for individual text frames)
   • Working with Rulers (zero point)
   
   
3. Adobe InDesign Text Frames
   • Using Text frames
   • Formatting your Text frames
   • Understanding Text frame properties
   • Multi column setups in Text frames
   
   
4. Adobe InDesign Working with Font Styles and Formatting
   • Style Packs and Font Pairings
   • Placing your text
   • Working with character styles and paragraph styles
   • Typography and layouts
   
   
5. Adobe InDesign Layout Tools
   • Manipulating grids, guides and rulers
   • Understanding and manipulating the stacking order
   • Working with Objects (grouping and ungrouping)
   • Setting alignment and distribution
   
   
6. Adobe InDesign Using tabs
   • Introduction to the Tab palette
   • Working with Tab characters
   • Editing and manipulating your tabs
   • Adding leaders to your tabs
   
   
7. Adobe InDesign Type
   • Manipulating text with text wrapping
   • Text and graphics
   
   
8. Adobe InDesign Colour
   • Working with Colour models
   • Adding New colours
   • Editing existing colours
   • Using colour swatches
   • Adding colour fills and strokes
   
   
9. Adobe InDesign Imagery
   • Placing images within your documents
   • Editing images / graphic frames
   • Image formats
   • Graphic frames
   • Print output
   • Previewing Your InDesign documents
   • Checking you work for errors using Preflight
   
   

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)

The training was great, by the way, really good and the trainer was lovely.
A Emm, Leftlion (Beginners to Advanced Adobe InDesign training Nottinghamshire)

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

I've been meaning to email you regarding the training and how impressed we all were with Greta; the feedback from the team was that she was not only incredibly knowledgeable about all the subjects but was also very approachable and excelled in her training manner. I just wanted you to know that we all thought she was excellent, so thank you very much for organising her and the courses.
T Jenkins, Interdirect (Beginners to advanced Illustrator, PhotoShop and InDesign training Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire)

Excellent
L Bhardwaj (PhotoShop training Blaby, Leicestershire)

The instructions made learning the software so much easier than I had imagined, and the trainer is an absolute delight to be with. Making learning fun is a talent. She is a rare gem. Thank you for sending her to me. She has changed my working life in three days flat!
P. Scott (Beginners PhotoShop, InDesign and Illustrator Training Winchester, Hampshire)

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)

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

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)

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

The course was a great success here.
L. Palmer, Dextra Group PLC (Adobe InDesign training Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7)

Greta was 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 training Ipswich, Suffolk)

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