Adobe InDesign
- Level(s) of Study: Short course
-
Course Fee:
£295
* - Start Date(s): 11 November 2023 / 11 May 2024
- Duration: Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 4 pm, two days
- Study Mode(s): Short course
- Campus: City Campus
-
Entry Requirements:
More information
Introduction:
Adobe InDesign is the industry standard software for creating layouts and page designs. It’s used to design a huge range of high quality documents across both digital and print media including book and magazine layouts, brochures, catalogues, flyers, interactive presentations, invitations, photo albums and many, many more.
This two day course will introduce you to the key functions of Adobe InDesign as well as teach you industry level tips, tricks and shortcuts from our expert tutors, so that you can really level up your design skills.
It's ideal for:
-
Marketers creating social media graphics, web banners, blog posts, brochures, flyers, posters, reports, email newsletters, presentations and digital portfolios. -
Authors who want to design eye catching book layouts including covers and interior pages as well as interactive eBooks. -
Wedding planners who want to offer beautiful invitations and wedding stationery, menus, custom photo books and albums. -
Small business owners who want to design professional looking proposals and presentations, case studies, interactive sales brochures and infographics.
What you’ll study
Through practical projects and demonstrations, you’ll develop your skills in the software to create visually interesting documents ready for print or to use online.
You’ll have dedicated, uninterrupted study time in our industry standard Mac suites, using the latest version of Adobe InDesign software.
By the end of the course you will:
- understand the key role of Adobe InDesign among the other Adobe applications
- understand key typography points and use of hierarchy
- create files for digital and print outputs
- learn about pages and create master pages and grids
- understand the importance of the placement of artwork and text
- get tips on key compositions
- create typographic style sheets
- practice populating a file with artwork and type using key features of Adobe InDesign
- learn how to save and export files in various formats.
- Shortcuts
- Creating a file
- The workspace
- Tools
- Pages
- Shapes
- Selecting and scaling
- Stroke and Fill
- Intro to layer styles
- Saving files
- Images
- Creating guides
- Line & rows
- Body copy
- Paragraph Styles
- Type Tool
- Colours and Swatches
- Crop Tool
- Pen Tool
- Direct Selection Tool
- Master Pages
- Page Numbering
- Composition
- Rectangle Frame Tool
- Gradients
- Placing Images
- Line Tool
- Custom pages
- Shuffle Pages
- Understanding Grids
- Masking
- Concertina
- Properties Panel
- Saving for print /web
- Exporting
How you’re taught
This course will be delivered in person on Nottingham Trent University city campus.
Contact hours
You will receive 10 contact hours of quality tuition with an experienced tutor.
Campus and facilities
You will be based in the Nottingham School of Art and Design on the City Campus.
You’ll find collaborative working spaces where you develop your sketches and concepts, and Mac suites equipped with industry standard software and hardware including the latest version of Adobe Creative Cloud.
You will receive an email one week before the course starts with joining instructions on where to go for the first day.
You’ll also have access to our library to use outside of your short course; whilst you can’t reserve or take away books, you are welcome to use them as a resource for research and referencing.
Entry requirements
Level: Beginner
Entry requirement: Whilst no software experience is required, you should be confident in saving files and basic computer functions.
You must be over the age of 18 to attend this course.
The course is also suitable for anyone who has completed Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator courses at NTU or elsewhere, as you’ll be able to include vector graphics and place photos into your page designs.
Level: Beginner
Entry requirement: Whilst no software experience is required, you should be confident in saving files and basic computer functions.
You must be over the age of 18 to attend this course.
The course is also suitable for anyone who has completed Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator courses at NTU or elsewhere, as you’ll be able to include vector graphics and place photos into your page designs.
Fees and funding
The fee for this course is:
£295
Payment is due at the time of booking.
The fee for this course is:
£295
Payment is due at the time of booking.
How to apply
You can book this course via the NTU online store:
Saturday and Sunday course (11 and 12 November 2023)
Saturday and Sunday course (11 and 12 May 2024)
Browse all our graphic design and illustration short courses.