InDesign Training Courses

This training course is for complete beginners. You do not need previous experience with InDesign to attend.

It is designed for people who will be:

1. Creating documents and marketing materials from scratch.
2. Working with complex documents created by a graphic designer or other Adobe InDesign professional.
3. Going on to attend our Advanced course and need to master the basics.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Create attractive documents from scratch.
2. Use InDesign tools like master pages & master paragraphs to speed up your work.
3. Use object styles and paragraph styles to give your document a consistent graphic design.
4. Prepare your document for print and web using InDesign.

This course is for people who are already InDesign users and want to develop their skills further.

It is designed for people who will be creating complex documents from scratch.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Create advanced page layouts using Master Text Frames and bleed and slug.
2. Edit images using clipping paths and the feathering effect.
3. Use advanced type features like glyphs and baseline grid.
4. Automatically create new pages and documents using the Page tool and Master Pages.

The combined course is a combination of our Introduction course and our Advanced course.

We offer a discount when these two courses are booked at the same time.

Yes.

We frequently run private and in-house courses and are able to tailor the content to cover the booker’s exact requirements.

Full details of our Guildford courses can be found here:  Guildford training centre

Full details of our London courses can be found here:    London training centre

InDesign is a professional design tool used to create layouts for print and digital media.

It’s ideal for designing magazines, brochures, flyers, posters and interactive PDFs.

It allows you to combine text and images in complex layouts with precise control over spacing, alignment, and styles to create professional documents.

Yes, InDesign supports both print and digital projects.

You can use it to create interactive PDFs, digital eBooks (EPUB format), and social media graphics.

It allows you to add hyperlinks, buttons, and videos, making it a great tool for creating interactive and multimedia content—not just printed documents.

Yes, InDesign supports collaboration through Adobe Creative Cloud.

You can save documents to the cloud and share them with team members, who can leave comments and make changes.

You can also package all files—including fonts and linked images— so that you can hand them over to other designers or printers, ensuring that everyone sees the same version of your design.

Canva is very easy to use (drag & drop) and good for simple projects aimed at casual-users and small businesses. It’s precision and customisation options are limited.

InDesign gives you full control over layout, typography, and print settings. InDesign is designed to be a professional design solution and the better tool if you are working with long or complex documents.