Professional Courses

Thursday evenings, 23rd September– 28th October 2010

The course runs every Thursday evening for 6 weeks, 6.30pm – 9pm (six 2.5 hour sessions)

This course is for designers who wish to learn how to use Adobe InDesign software from the beginning, and will give you skills and confidence to create high quality flyers, brochures, stationery and other promotional material. Each week you will complete a specific project, building your skills in using InDesign software. It is recommended that you have some experience of Photoshop and/or Illustrator before attending this course.

The course is run at the FTM in a brand-new purpose built learning centre equipped with the latest software and facilities, and tuition is in small groups with a focus on your particular learning requirements. 

At the end of the course:

• You will receive an FTM certificate of successful completion for your CV
• You could develop your skills further by taking a course in Photoshop, Illustrator or one of our other courses for designers run here at FTM

Course fee and discounts

The standard course fee is £120
£20 discount for 2 courses - book/pay for 2 courses at the same time for £220
£60 discount for 3 courses - book/pay for 3 courses at the same time for £300

We regret that no other concessions are available

Bookings

To book your course email info@ftmlondon.org or phone 020 7407 8664

Full course outline

Session 1
Creating a flyer
Introduction to the InDesign interface
Formatting characters and paragraph
Importing images
Cropping and resizing

Session 2
Creating a poster
Colouring text
Kerning text
Importing and manipulating a Photoshop file

Session 3
Creating Stationery
Importing and manipulating a Illustrator file
Creating and using layers
Using opacity

Session 4
Creating a concertina leaflet
Creating columns
Flowing text across multiple columns
Setting and using tabs

Session 5
Creating a double page magazine spread
Creating and applying style sheets

Session 6
Creating an A5 booklet
Creating and using master pages
Numbering pages
Further style sheets
Reviewing achievement on the course
The next step