Getting started with Adobe InDesign
Learn all the basics on our Adobe InDesign Level 1 course.
Course overview
If you’re new to Adobe InDesign, our Adobe InDesign Level 1 course is a great first step into the world of design and layout creation. Over each part, you’ll get to grips with the Indesign interface, learn how to create and edit new documents for different purposes, before discovering how to populate a page with text, images and colour.
Course details
What you'll learn
- Acknowledge what InDesign is and it’s capabilities
- Confidently navigate the workspace
- Locate and tweak essential settings
- Construct a simple document
- Make changes to your document and work with pages
- Move objects about on a page
- Save and revert documents
- Populate a page with text
- Apply text formatting
- Identify and place correct image file formats
- Resize an Image within a document
- Apply colour and effects to elements within a document
- View your document in various ways
- Export a PDF for print
Lisa Wallace - Course Lead
Lisa joined Falmouth University as a Digital Skills Trainer in 2019 and delivers a wide range of digital skills courses to students, staff, and external delegates. Her key areas of expertise include Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Rush, Adobe Express, and Canva. With a background in graphic design, Lisa brings industry knowledge and valuable design and layout skills to her training sessions.
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