Course Features
- Online or face-to-face
- 15+ years of training experience
- Small class sizes
- Focused training
- Use your own computer
- Free trial software available
- Open to everyone
- No prior experience needed
Learn Adobe InDesign with Adobe InDesign courses in Sydney or online
Live Online Scheduled Zoom classes
Join an online live interactive Zoom training course. Follow along with the instructor through the course exercises files and ask questions. You will need to install Zoom Client for Meetings and the Adobe software on your own computer. Zoom is free to download and Adobe offer a free 7-day trial.
Bespoke onsite face-to-face Adobe training courses in your workspace
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Adobe InDesign is the industry-standard publishing application for print publications and online content. Use InDesign to create and publish a broad range of content for print, web, and mobile applications. This course will equip you with the skills to create simple fliers, banners, business cards or complex multi-page layouts, quickly and efficiently with precise control.
This Adobe InDesign course is designed to give you an essential working knowledge of Adobe InDesign. InDesign is the go-to software for anyone looking to create beautiful magazines, newsletters, reports and other publications.
Learning Outcomes
By the completion of this Adobe InDesign course you will be able to:
- Understand the essential functions of Adobe InDesign
- Create and edit a new document
- Add text and graphics
- Export for print publication and online digital formats
Content
The InDesign Workspace
- Navigate and Zooming
- Save & Reset workspaces
- Adjust Screen Modes
- Setting Preferences
Create documents
- Open an existing document
- Create InDesign documents of any size and any number of pages optimised for print, web or mobile devices
- Adjusting document settings
- Setting document bleed and slug
Understanding Frames
- Understanding the different types of frames
- Create Rectangle & Shape frames
- Create Text Frames
- Transforming Frames
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Grouping objects
Creating Typography
- Creating Text
- Adjusting Font type, font style, point size & Leading
- Adjusting Tracking & kerning
- Setting Hyphenation
- Set character & Paragraph spacing
- Bulleted and Numbered Lists
- Text Wrap and Clipping Paths
- Import text from Microsoft Word
- Find & replace missing fonts
Placing and Fitting Images
- Import photos and graphics from a variety of file formats
- Scale, fit, crop and transform images
- Fitting graphics within a frame
Colour & Stroke
- Understanding the Swatches panel
- Settings Stroke and fill colours
- Add your own custom company colours to the swatches panel
- Understanding CMYK, RGB and Spot colours
- Save and share Colour Libraries
- Creating a gradient
- Creating a Tint Swatch
- Create a dashed line within the stroke panel
Aligning & Distributing
- Align & Distribute Layers
- Arranging and grouping Layers
Links
- Understanding linked graphics
- Navigating the links panel
- Update, replace and embed images
Layers
- Creating a new layer
- Assigning objects to specific layers
- Rearranging layers
Styles
- Creating a new Paragraph Style
- Creating a new Character Style
- Creating a new Object Style
Tables
- Creating a Tables from scratch
- Converting text into a table
- Setting Headers & Footers
- Saving a Table style
Pages & Master Pages
- Understanding pages & master pages
- Insert, Rearrange and delete pages
- Inserting auto page numbering
- Applying a master page
Save, Share and Export
- Preparing your Indesign File with Preflight
- Share a InDesign document for review
- Save an InDesign print-ready PDF document
- Save as JPG and PNG file formats for use on the web
- Packaging a document
Intended audience
This introductory Adobe InDesign course requires little or no prior knowledge of the InDesign software. Participants with a working knowledge of Adobe InDesign will also find this course very useful, as it aims to go beyond the basics.
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Over 15 years experience
Learn Adobe InDesign online or in Sydney from an Adobe industry training expert with over 15 years of Adobe training experience
Over 15 years experience
Learn Adobe InDesign online or in Sydney from an instructor with over 15 years of Adobe training experience
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What participants say about our courses
This course was everything I expected it to be and more. Antony was a great tutor and made sure we understood every aspect. Now all I need to do is practice, practice, practice.
Antony is a fantastic teacher and is very patient.
Tutor was knowledgeable and covered everything we needed to know, was engaging the whole time and didn’t get the chance to be bored. Loved it.
Excellent, well-paced course. Individual attention given when needed. Highly recommended.
Antony was very patient, and a great instructor. I had a great time in this course and can't wait to delve into it at work.
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I found the teacher to be so lovely and importantly very patient with the many questions that were thrown at him.
Excellent course. Anthony, the lecturer was easy to follow and the notes are a great reference resource.
The course was excellent, the tutor was excellent. It's such an exciting and easy to use program.
Instructor was very capable and able to keep all the participants on track – even though abilities were varied. Very patient.
Antony is a fabulous teacher. From knowing little, to building brochures is exciting and can be implemented into my role at work immediately. I will be coming back for other courses.
Another awesome course with the great Antony Brown! Thank you yet again.
Antony was a brilliant and engaging teacher. Would look to do more courses with him specifically as his teaching style made the work easy to grasp.
The tutor, Anthony, was calm, patient, knowledgeable and very easy to understand. Made what I thought was going to be a difficult course, really enjoyable. I learnt a lot. Thank you.
Antony was a great teacher, he took the time to ensure everyone was on the same page. Great teaching skills! I had a really good time and felt like I learnt more in 2 days than most people do in weeks. Thank you!
It was a great course. Anthony has a great way of explaining complex techniques with ease and confidence. The room and the equipment was well maintained making the course a pleasure to attend.
Antony was great. Very patient and knowledgeable. I will be back to study the course again in the next 6 months as there was a lot of content. I was happy with the amount of content as I was never bored, always learning something new. Just need it to sink in now! Thanks.
An excellent course that was well-structured, rigorous and with plenty of hands-on practice time. I would recommend it to anyone and think it would suit absolute beginner to advanced novice.
Antony was fantastic – very knowledgeable and helpful.
Antony was really great, extremely helpful, knowledgeable and knew when to let us drive for a bit ourselves. I have already recommended the course to a couple of people I know from film school as it is such great value for dollar. Thanks again!
This is my second course with Antony. He’s a great teacher.
This is my second course with Antony. He’s a great teacher.
I went from having near no knowledge of Photoshop to feeling comfortable enough to teach it myself! This course was great!
The course was great. Antony is a wonderful tutor!
The range of tools we learnt in the limited time we had far exceeded my expectations. Also, the pace we were taught at was perfect. Thank you for your professionalism and expertise.