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Adobe InDesign CC Introduction 2 Days - Manchester
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction to Intermediate
Duration:
2
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£395 + vat
Learn the fundamentals of InDesign as we guide you through this comprehensive introduction to the leading desktop-publishing program. We will show you how to create and export attractive, simple documents. This is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in digital publishing.
After we give you a complete tour of the InDesign environment, we will show you how to combine text and graphics to produce output that is ready to use straight away. We will help you add consistency through the use of paragraph and character styles. You will grasp how quick and easy it is to create documents for the web and for print, including how to produce professional PDF files.
Learn the fundamentals of InDesign as we guide you through this comprehensive introduction to the leading desktop-publishing program. We will show you how to create and export attractive, simple documents. This is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in digital publishing.
After we give you a complete tour of the InDesign environment, we will show you how to combine text and graphics to produce output that is ready to use straight away. We will help you add consistency through the use of paragraph and character styles. You will grasp how quick and easy it is to create documents for the web and for print, including how to produce professional PDF files.
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InDesign Introduction 2 Days
Course Details
This 2-day Introduction course helps you learn about the tools and features available in Adobe InDesign CC. We will help you understand how this industry-leading program takes desktop publishing and design to a new level, and combines production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat software. You will learn to create attractive, simple documents and prepare them for the web and for print. We will guide you in learning the work area, working with text and graphics, creating simple vector-based graphics, and the basics of design. You will also learn how to apply consistency to your text through the use of paragraph and character styles.
Creative professionals appreciate the freedom and productivity gains made possible through the use of Adobe InDesign. We will show you how to improve your workflow by harnessing InDesign's integration with other popular Adobe programs.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Navigate the InDesign environment
- Design documents and save them as Acrobat PDF files
- Add effects to objects
- Apply paragraph and character styles
- Use colours, swatches, and gradients
- Manage transparency and use tables
- Prepare for hand-off to a service provider
Our goal is for you to be able to create simple but professional documents that are ready to use for the web and for print.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals.
You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.
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Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Getting started in InDesign- Customise Your Workspace
- Workspace and Window arrangement
- Create a New Document
- Zooming in and out
- Moving around your document
- Using Control panel options
- Previewing your document
- Add Text
- Edit Text using Story Editor
- Spell Check Text
- Find/ Change
- Character formatting options
- Paragraph formatting options
- The Glyphs panel
- Showing Hidden Characters
- Threading Text
- Adding images
- Cropping images
- Resizing images
- Adding Text Wrap
- Understanding different image file types
- Using the Links panel
- Understanding and checking resolution
- Adding colour to Fill/Stroke
- Adding Swatches
- Understanding the difference between CMYK, RGB, Pantone colours
- Creating tint swatches
- Creating Gradients
- Stroke settings
Objects- Creating different shapes
- Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
- Transforming Objects
- Duplicating
- Layers
- Object Styles
- Applying Effects
- Shape and corner options
- Setting up Paragraph Styles
- Setting up Character Styles
- Changing Paragraph & Character styles
- Setting up Parent pages
- Applying a Parent page
- Using Parent pages with facing pages
- Adding page numbers
- Overriding Parent page items
- Using Preflight for basic checks
- Print a Document
- Packaging Files
- Exporting to PDF
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Location Details
This course is provided at the XChange Training Manchester training centre based at:
Piccadilly House
49 Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2APPiccadilly House is located in the heart of Manchester directly next to the Piccadilly Gardens transport interchange with excellent bus and tram connections and is easily accessed from Piccadilly train Station (5 mins). Victoria station is also close by (around 10 mins).
Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.
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InDesign Introduction 2 Days - Upcoming Manchester Course Dates
11 Dec - 12 Dec Special Offer! £369 + vat 15 Jan - 16 Jan £395 + vat 19 Feb - 20 Feb £395 + vat 11 Mar - 12 Mar £395 + vat 24 Apr - 25 Apr £395 + vat 20 May - 21 May £395 + vat 24 Jun - 25 Jun £395 + vat 15 Jul - 16 Jul £395 + vat 21 Aug - 22 Aug £395 + vat 16 Sep - 17 Sep £395 + vat 14 Oct - 15 Oct £395 + vat 11 Nov - 12 Nov £395 + vat 16 Dec - 17 Dec £395 + vat -
Client Reviews
"Excellent. Course was tailored to our requirements, so didn't feel that any time was wasted."
Susanna Booth, Competition Comm., InDesign - 1 Day Introduction
"The trainer was excellent - she explained everything in depth and gave me enough time to keep up. The content was very useful and I know feel a lot more confident to use InDesign. "
Sian Hughes, UKTI, InDesign - 1 Day Introduction
"The trainer was easy to follow and very easy going, which creates a excellent training environment. I will certainly be coming back in the future. A great teacher and a great course!"
Scott Godfrey, InDesign - 4 Day Masterclass
"Thoroughly enjoyed the two day training course. We had a fantastic trainer and the course content was very clear and helpful. Thank you very much."
Ella Luscombe, Kier Construction Southern, Adobe InDesign - Two Day Introduction
"The instructor was absolutely brilliant, he was enthusiastic and no question was ever too much to answer. The environment was lovely and learning was enjoyable."
Laura Kay, Lakelovers, InDesign Introduction - 2 Days
"Excellent explanation, professional and friendly approach. Very clear in explanations. Overall an excellent trainer."
Andrew Shelmerdine, Vinci Academy, InDesign - 2 Day Advanced
"Training is/was comprehensive and a good overview for the beginner. Good outline of course and structured day's learning."
Courtney Jones, SPS, InDesign Introduction - 2 Days
"I found the course very enjoyable. After using InDesign for a year just teaching myself how to do things, it is good to now know how to do them properly! Thank you very much."
Justine Rich, Capita, InDesign - 2 Day Introduction
"Excellent course, excellent trainer. Learnt so much. We covered lots of things I had tried to do before with much difficulty. The training made things simple, I will be much more efficient now! "
Laura Millar, FCA, Adobe InDesign - Two Day Introduction
"I have studied a course with XChange Training before and it is extremely well organised, friendly staff and has a good work environment."
Victoria Hassett, ETM Group, InDesign - 1 Day Introduction
Next Dates:
11 Dec - 12 Dec Special Offer! £369 + vat
15 Jan - 16 Jan
19 Feb - 20 Feb
11 Mar - 12 Mar
24 Apr - 25 Apr
20 May - 21 May
Over 15 years of providing certified Adobe InDesign training courses UK wide
5/5 Stars
I am so glad to step forward and diced to take that course with XChange Training, big big big thanks to Simon for the valued information that I have learnt until now and the vibe he offer in the class. cheers
28/11/2023
5/5 Stars
really interesting course
28/11/2023
5/5 Stars
Great, in-depth training. Solid basic understanding - previous training did not cover the bases but now I feel very confident in using the program. Will recommend to colleagues.
28/11/2023
5/5 Stars
Good instructor, nice environment, very positive experience.
28/11/2023
5/5 Stars
Really useful and informative. Simon was great, engaging and helpful. Open to questions and knowledgeable. Appreciated the small class size which meant direct, personal feedback and training. I feel much more confident using InDesign than before the course. Thank you!
28/11/2023
5/5 Stars
This has been a great experience. As someone who has never dealt with indesign before I now feel confident that I can create basic documents and social media posts.
28/11/2023
4/5 Stars
Susannah was great fun, very knowledgeable, and extremely patient. The course was well paced.
28/11/2023
4/5 Stars
Very good course, the first two days were a great introduction to InDesign and I learnt a lot from Donna. The course didn't feel overly long each day and Donna was very good at explaining everything and making sure that no-one was left behind. The advanced course was more mixed and it felt like it was one size fits all but would prefer if there were more specific ones for print/digital/animated content rather than bundled together. Also having people join for the second two days that hadn't done the first two days we went back over content that had already been covered so they could do this.
23/11/2023
5/5 Stars
Phil, the trainer was the most knowledgeable, personable and expert trainer I have ever experienced - and I've done a lot over the years! I couldn't fault him. He had such a good way of teaching and conducted a fast pace to get through all the topics but not so fast that you couldn't keep up, and when you needed him to pause in case you missed a step, he would quickly go over the step again. He had a great method and mannerism to teaching too and keep each delegate encouraged. His use of easy to understand descriptions of even the most technical task helped delegates understand and his friendly mannerism kept you focused. He handled the whole class of various abilities in an even and fair way, so even slightly slower ones like me wouldn't feel inferior. Well done for that Phil! And now I feel the knowledge and understanding I have gained on Adobe Illustrator advanced has equipped me for life. I also feel so much more confident and can't wait to start using my advanced skills on a daily basis. Thank you so much. Maria
23/11/2023
5/5 Stars
Fantastic course. Kind and thorough tutors!
21/11/2023
5/5 Stars
Course was brilliant, learned a lot from Phil. He was great
12/10/2023
5/5 Stars
Phil was an amazing trainer. He was engaging and extremely knowledgeable. He gave us plenty of time to write notes and make us feel very comfortable. I would 100% take a course again or recommend to someone else.
12/10/2023
5/5 Stars
Really informative course. Phil was extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable - made appropriate diversions to answer all questions clearly and carefully. Looking forward to returning for the advanced and illustrator courses in the future.
12/10/2023
5/5 Stars
Our company are allowing staff to go on courses like this so we don't spend as much money externally. Having dabbled in photoshop etc years ago this was an absolute brilliant two day course to strip bad habits back to basic and re-understand the software and align it to what you want to use it for. Cannot recommend this course enough, already told my boss I want to come back for further training. Simon was super engaging and kept things interesting.
10/10/2023
5/5 Stars
Simon was extremely helpful, patient, interesting and insightful. I have learnt so many new skills in the 2 day training course and I will definitely be back in the future for more training with him! Highly recommend.
10/10/2023
5/5 Stars
Excellent course - trainer very knowledgeable & passionate about field, really enjoyed it.
10/10/2023
5/5 Stars
It was a really great course and I will definitely return at a later date to do another course. The small group makes it really nice, relaxed and gives the most time to be able to fully understand what you are learning.
09/10/2023
5/5 Stars
we would like to extend our thanks to Donna and Adam for their cooperation and assistance during the course
21/09/2023
5/5 Stars
Donna was really great tauter, she gave us the material for InDesign from Zero. She is really amazing.
21/09/2023
5/5 Stars
Really enjoyed the course, Donna was absolutely fantastic!
21/09/2023
5/5 Stars
The course was well delivered and run and provided all level of skills and understanding of Adobe Indesign for beginners to intermediates.
19/09/2023
4/5 Stars
I have definitely learned a lot considering not having any experience with Adobe Indesign. All my learnings will help me improve the published products in the company. I wish I could have followed the instructor though every time when he was explaining a function and how it works, why it is used. I found the speed of the instructor a bit too fast when clicking tools and implementing them. I observed the class in general struggled with following the instructor too. I lost track of the steps on some of them. I believe if there was a bespoke structure set up in advance for our own needs, instructor would have covered all the functions we needed to know and use in our existing indesign documents. Doug showed some of the useful functions/tools though which I find very useful. Number of trainees for an advance course shouldn't be more than 4-5 people next time in my opinion as it could allow the instructor to focus on teaching specific areas as per the group's needs. As a suggestion, advance training could be arranged consecutive days with standard Indesign training to avoid recapping needs of the trainees next time.
14/09/2023
5/5 Stars
Alan was very knowledgeable, patient and explained things very well.
05/09/2023
5/5 Stars
I was dubious about how two days of training on software I'd never used before would actually work, but it was marvellous. Alan was clear, he covered all of the key basics I think I'm going to need and made InDesign easy to understand. Superb knowledge, the sessions were very well prepared and had a great flow of info to them. Very impressed.
05/09/2023
4/5 Stars
Learnt a lot, trainer was fabulous and very knowledgeable. He considered each individual preference for training and was patient where required. Very impressed, and will be returning for further training.
05/09/2023
5/5 Stars
An excellent experience. The course was particularly well-paced. Phil was extremely knowledgeable and personable and was always happy to stop and help out with individual issues.
05/09/2023
5/5 Stars
Phil was extremely helpful, and the course was very useful.
04/09/2023
5/5 Stars
I have received a very thorough understanding of the basic uses of inDesign. This is perfect for my current work role and I feel more confident using the software in practice.
04/09/2023
5/5 Stars
I enjoyed the two day course, it catered really well for a class attended by students of wide range of experience. I learned lots of really helpful tips and feel much more confident in my daily workflow.
24/08/2023
4/5 Stars
Fantastic set up. Perhaps add more content regarding creating web based assets
24/08/2023
5/5 Stars
Instructor was very intelligent, clear, and professional. Everything was demonstrated in clear manner and looked very simple. Thanks a lot for the course! It's perfect for those who just starting to work with InDesign.
24/08/2023
5/5 Stars
Comprehensive, well organised, very clear training with post course notes. Alan answered all question clearly.
24/08/2023
5/5 Stars
really well explained and easy to follow. Donna was very helpful and knowledgeable.
24/08/2023
5/5 Stars
Very helpful instructors. explained everything well and answered all questions.
24/08/2023
5/5 Stars
A brilliant two days of learning. Simon is very engaging and delivery of the course was very good as Simon has a wealth of knowledge. I cannot wait to do more training with Simon in the future.
22/08/2023
5/5 Stars
Thorough introduction to use of InDesign suitable for individuals with limited experience using the programme. I feel much more confident going forward in using the tools to create posters and booklets.
08/08/2023
5/5 Stars
The course was great and informative - Big mention to Phil who was enthusiastic and super helpful throughout. he was smiley and bubbly and his passion for the topic made it so much easier and fun to learn! Thanks phil!!
08/08/2023
5/5 Stars
Really interesting once again, thank you. A really great introduction to InDesign
08/08/2023
5/5 Stars
The course was clearly laid out at the start and progressed at a good pace throughout the day. We were able to ask questions at any point which Phil answered/provided guidance on how to proceed. As someone only completed the 1st day course, I feel like this covered everything I needed at this point in time, but should that change in the future I would want to return back to take the 2nd part with xchange training.
07/08/2023
5/5 Stars
Great overview course - I'd like to have continued with the full week! Organised very well, on time with good pre-course info given in advance.
17/07/2023
5/5 Stars
Fantastic informative and relevant course structure delivered in a logical and digestible form.
06/07/2023
5/5 Stars
Mirroring my comments from the introductory two-day course, Phil Tranter is an animated, knowledgeable and considerate trainer with unlimited enthusiasm for the Adobe products. He made the course engaging and enjoyable.
06/07/2023
5/5 Stars
I found the course very useful and I'm looking forward to starting to use it at work. Phil explained everything clearly and had excellent knowledge on In Design. I will be using it regularly to create bid documents.
04/07/2023
5/5 Stars
Great course, learnt a lot in just 2 days. Really clear step by step and easy to follow. Phil was great, enthusiastic and helpful. Looking forward to coming back and doing my Photoshop course.
04/07/2023
5/5 Stars
Pleasant, comfortable training room. Would've liked some antibacterial wipes for equipment. Lunch gift card is a good idea and practical. Phil is a very pleasant and accommodating trainer with lashings of enthusiasm for the product and the candidates.
04/07/2023
Whats Included:
Your choice of Windows or Mac 
Certified hands-on training 
Small class size (max 4-8) 
6 months post course support 
Quality reference manual 
Authorised Course Certificate 
Lunch and refreshments
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the course times?
For all courses in the Manchester Centre the normal session timings are 10am to 5pm with an hour break for lunch. In addition to the hour lunch break there are also two fifteen minute coffee breaks mid morning and mid afternoon.
Daily times are:
09.45 - Registration
10.00 - Course start
13.00 - Lunch
14.00 - Afternoon starts
17.00 - Course ends
Do you offer discounts
or promotions?
We offer a range of regular discounts available for self funding individuals, charities and education along with period special offers. See our promotions page for full details.
What is provided with this course?
During the course we provide all computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac, lunch and refreshments along with pads & pens. After the course you will receive the authorised Certificate, quality reference manual and 6 months direct post course support.
Does this course give
a qualification?
Although this course does not provide an actual qualification each delegate is provided with an official Certificate for completion of the course level.
Can you invoice my company?
In short yes we can provide 30 day invoice terms to any UK Limited company with the provision of your official purchase order and/or completing the invoice request for your booking online.
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