Adobe InDesign Intermediate 2 Day Course
Who is this course for?
Develop your InDesign skills and become proficient in using the software. 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.
What: Hands-on practical course. The afternoon of day 2 is bespoke allowing for you to work on your projects and portfolio.
When:2-day course.
Time: 9:45am - 4:00pm
Where: London Software Training, 17, Sheep Lane, London, E8 3FA
Develop your InDesign skills and become proficient in using the software. 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.
Customisation
- Locate and tweak essential settings hidden in the Preferences
- Customise the appearance and content of menus
- Take charge of all those panels with workspace power tips
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
Design with tables
- Insert tabular layouts with resizable rows and columns into any document and edit their content
- Restyle tables with fonts, colours and patterns
- Add, remove and re-arrange rows and columns at will
- Flow tables across multiple pages with repeating headers and footers
Design Assets
- Work with RGB and CMYK colours
Take full control of pages
- Automate complex documents with multiple master pages
- Use different page sizes in the same document
- Manage layout grids that automatically align text baselines
Graphics- Place multi-layered images or graphics and choose which layers to show
- Create original graphics with shape and drawing tools
- Make text roll along curves, turn corners and swerve into custom shapes
PDFs
- Ensure colour consistency between on-screen and print
- Configure your own custom PDF presets for faster export
- Make PDFs that your printing press people will love
Your 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
- Class recordings for revision and development
- LST certificate of completion for your CV and LinkedIn
Your tutors are designers, makers and architects, as well as software pros. They will guide you on the best way to apply for design roles or set-up a creative business, whilst teaching you all the key technical skills to make your CV and portfolio stand out from the crowd.