Get to grips with the essentials in no time:
• Explore, adjust and personalise InDesign's interface to suit your work
• Learn speed tips, shortcuts and good practice
• Open existing InDesign documents and understand everything you see and how to edit it
• Create InDesign documents of any size and any number of pages optimised for print, web or mobile devices
Manipulate text and typography:
• Import text from Word and RTF files, or even type it in directly
• Master InDesign's powerful typographical controls for styling text
• Create your own custom type styles, use them in any document and update them instantly
• Edit text like a pro with multilingual spell-check, Find/Change, Story Editor and other advanced features
• Flow text around pictures and other shapes
Integrate pictures freely into layouts:
• Import photos and graphics from a variety of file formats
• Scale, fit, crop and transform images directly on the page
• Update, replace and embed images, and find lost graphics
• Keep track of image 'resolution' to ensure top quality results
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Take full control of complex layouts:
• Learn how to use rulers, guides, layers, and transform and alignment tools
• Flow text across columns and from page to page, then change it all around as you wish
• Add, delete and move pages; automate page numbering; and create your own 'master' templates to standardise your page designs
Create colours and graphical effects
• Mix, apply and update your own branded colours and tints, and re-use them in any document
• Understand and work with RGB and CMYK colours
• Copy colours out of photos and produce your own beautiful colour themes
• Play with transparency, drop shadows and other special visual effects
• Build a custom library of layout designs, graphics, type styles and colours, and use them anywhere – even in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator – or share them with your colleagues
Export to PDF, the web and more:
• Turn your InDesign layouts into press-ready PDFs for your printer and ultra-compact PDFs optimised for your customers to download
• Publish your InDesign layouts to the web instantly so they can be viewed by anyone using a web browser
• Save your designs or even whole pages to JPG and PNG file formats for use on the web, social media, in-app content, etc
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| Online | £299 + VAT save £150 | |||
| London Bridge | £449 + VAT | |||
| Online | £299 + VAT save £150 | |||
| Online | £349 + VAT save £100 | |||
| London Bridge | £349 + VAT save £100 | |||
| Online | £379 + VAT save £70 | |||
| London Bridge | £379 + VAT save £70 | |||
| Online | £399 + VAT save £50 | |||
| London Bridge | £399 + VAT save £50 | |||
| Online | £449 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £449 + VAT | |||
| Online | £449 + VAT | |||
| Online | £449 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £449 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £449 + VAT | |||
| Online | £449 + VAT | |||
| Online | £449 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £449 + VAT | |||
| London Bridge | £449 + VAT | |||
| Online | £449 + VAT |
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"Everything was excellent. I thought in the first hour I would never understand InDesign, but now I feel really confident in using it and just having a go trying out something new! Thank you Matt!"
