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InDesign Classes

InDesign Classes from the experts

Regularly scheduled live InDesign classes online and InDesign courses in Boston and Philadelphia. Private InDesign training available nationwide.

  • Benefit from proven methods: we have delivered InDesign courses to thousands.
  • Learn InDesign from highly qualified trainers who have written more than 10 books on InDesign.
  • These InDesign classes help you quickly understand how to create print and digital publications.
  • InDesign courses with a live instructor either online or in-person.
  • Private InDesign training is available for groups or teams.
  • Live online InDesign classes available for individuals or groups.
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InDesign Classes Offered

Attend introductory to advanced InDesign Classes in our training centers, online, or at your office.

InDesign Training Delivery Options

We have InDesign Classes for every schedule and budget, led by expert instructors who help you to quickly and easily achieve professional results with your work.

Regularly Scheduled InDesign Classes

Our regularly scheduled, public InDesign Classes include introductory through advanced training. Most courses are offered monthly. See the list of classes below. We offer live classes led by an instructor in the same classroom with you.

On-site InDesign Classes

All InDesign courses can be delivered on-site at your location. Call or complete the form on the above link to receive information about classes at your location. We deliver on-site classes across the U.S. and globally.

Online InDesign Classes

Live online InDesign courses provide you with a small group course that you can take from anywhere with a high-speed Internet connection. You can ask questions, hear and talk with the instructor, even share your screen as part of these interactive classes.

Course Details and Outlines for InDesign Classes

Choose any of our InDesign Classes below to see outlines, pricing and dates:

InDesign Training Class - Introduction

In this introductory InDesign training class you learn to create designs for print, tablets, and PDF presentations. In this InDesign course you'll discover how you can efficiently create documents by taking advantage of a superior design environment that includes advanced typographic controls and intuitive graphic features. You will also find techniques that will help to make your InDesign publications look polished and professional.

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InDesign Training Class - Intermediate

This intermediate InDesign class helps you to work more efficiently and create better designs. Learn advanced typography, color controls, styles, libraries, and prepress controls in this intermediate InDesign course.

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InDesign Training Class - Advanced

Move from proficiency to mastery with this advanced InDesign course, created for designers ready to explore the depths of InDesign's capabilities. Learn templates, advanced color features, interactive documents, and digital publishing options in this InDesign class.

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InDesign Bootcamp

This four-day comprehensive InDesign bootcamp training provides introductory through advanced digital publishing skills using Adobe InDesign. This InDesign bootcamp combines our introductory through intermediate InDesign classes into four consecutive days, providing you with a comprehensive workshop. The material covered is identical to the introductory and intermediate InDesign courses, but is delivered in a single week. You start by learning essential InDesign skills and end the week with a full set of experience using styles, adding interactivity, creating digital documents and much more.

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InDesign Workshop

Gain the skills you need to successfully create exceptional print and digital materials in InDesign. This one-day information-packed InDesign course is presented by the instructors at American Graphics Institute, who have written over 10 books on Adobe InDesign.

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InDesign Digital Publishing Training

Learn InDesign’s digital publishing capabilities in this highly focused course. Discover how to use InDesign to adapt flyers, brochures, magazines, and other content for digital distribution. This InDesign training is focused on adding interactivity, creating document navigation, enhancing documents with multimedia, using online review processes, and exporting InDesign documents for digital distribution.

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InDesign Training Class - New Features

Learn the new features of the latest version of InDesign. This New Features of InDesign training class is designed to help upgrading users get up to speed quickly with the latest version of InDesign. Whether you have skipped several previous versions or are upgrading from the previous version, we can help you close the gap and take advantage of new productivity enhancing features in the most current version of InDesign.

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InDesign Training for Quark Users

In this InDesign course, you learn how to transition your Quark skills into InDesign proficiency. You discover how to work within InDesign to create new documents from scratch and convert Quark documents to InDesign. This InDesign training class includes learning the tools that you need to created finished publications. In this InDesign class AGI's Adobe-Certified Instructors ensure that you have the practical knowledge you need to work efficiently with InDesign.

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InDesign XML Training Class

Understand the efficiency XML can bring to InDesign layouts in this InDesign XML course. In this InDesign XML class, you learn how to leverage your InDesign skills by importing XML into layouts, transforming XML, and exporting XML from InDesign. You learn all the important XML capabilities within InDesign in this course.

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InCopy Training Class

Discover Adobe's InDesign-integrated writing and editing software in this InCopy course. Explore the InCopy workspace, work with InCopy documents, print from InCopy and export documents to PDF. This InCopy class also covers sharing content with InDesign for a smooth, productive workflow between designers and editors.

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InDesign Classes - Course Dates

All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.

 

Please call 800-851-9237 or 781-376-6044 to schedule a course.

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Locations for InDesign Classes

InDesign Classes are offered at the following locations. Most occur monthly with a live instructor in the same classroom:

All InDesign Training Locations

InDesign training classes available for all versions

Whether you are using the most recent Creative Cloud version, or earlier releases such as CS6, CS5, or CS4, we offer InDesign training courses to help you learn the tools you use. Our regularly scheduled public InDesign courses use the most recent versions of the applications, and we also have older versions available to use as well. If you wish to use an older version of InDesign for your training, simply let us know and we'll work to accommodate you. Our InDesign instructors have more than a decade of experience working with it, and can address questions and deliver training on all versions of InDesign.

About InDesign Classes and InDesign Training from AGI

The regularly scheduled public classes, workshops, and seminars provide hands-on learning from expert InDesign instructors. Small classes with practical exercises and projects help you to quickly learn InDesign as it relates to your specific needs. Our instructors have extensive experience with the applications they teach and in leading classes. They are reviewed after each course, and undergo continual professional development and testing. Our full time instructors pass the rigorous Certified Technical Trainer exam, and Adobe Certified Expert exams. Our instructors have been hired by Adobe to write the certification exams taken by other instructors, and develop official Adobe training courseware.

Prerequisites for enrolling in InDesign courses

For the introductory courses, no previous experience is required. For the intermediate and advanced courses, specific previous experience or coursework is listed on the course description pages. For training in our classrooms, we provide your choice of a Mac or Windows computer for use during the InDesign class. We recommend that you have a copy of the InDesign app available on your computer for you to use when you return to your computer after class. You can find it on Adobe's InDesign page.

Course materials for InDesign classes

The instructors at American Graphics Institute have authored more than 50 books on digital design, including the InDesign training book titled InDesign Digital Classroom. Course participants receive a copy of one of our books or related course material as part of the class.

InDesign Certification Training

These InDesign courses are the perfect preparation to become an Adobe Certified InDesign Expert, or you can gain a certificate with the InDesign Certificate program.

Adobe InDesign Certification Training

American Graphics Institute offers Adobe InDesign Certification Training in Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, and through live online classes. As the authors of more than 50 books on the Adobe tools and having helped Adobe create many certification exams, AGI is in a unique position to help you prepare for the Adobe Certification exams with training classes led by experts. Participants who take the introductory through advanced InDesign classes to prepare for a certification test may retake any of the courses at no cost for up to one full year until they have passed the certification.

Adobe InDesign Certified Expert ACE Training.

The introductory through advanced InDesign courses at American Graphics Institute prepare you for the InDesign ACE certification exam. This is the highest-level certification exam offered by Adobe. 

Adobe InDesign Certified Associate Exam Training.

For the InDesign ACA certification exam the introductory InDesign course provides sufficient preparation for taking this certification exam. This is the foundational level exam for certification, and is useful for proving that you have an understanding of essential InDesign skills.

Adobe InDesign Certification Prep Training

Adobe InDesign Certification Training helps prepare you for the certification tests. Many employers also know that American Graphics Institute courses provide exceptional preparation and once you receive a certificate for your courses from AGI an extra certification test may not be needed due to the intensive preparation provided by the courses at American Graphics Institute.

Additional InDesign Training Resources

Determining the best InDesign class

For help deciding which InDesign class to take or how to best learn InDesign, contact us for guidance in selecting the best InDesign course for your needs, or take our free online InDesign skills assessment.

InDesign CC Training

InDesign classes provide training for InDesign CC (Creative Cloud), covering the latest version. InDesign CC courses are also applicable for many versions including InDesign CC 2018, InDesign CC 2015, InDesign CC, and InDesign CS6.

InDesign Training Classes GSA

American Graphics Institute offers InDesign Classes under GSA contract 47QTCA19D003Y. As a GSA contract holder, InDesign training GSA pricing for federal agencies is available for both private and public InDesign workshops. Contact an American Graphics Institute representative for additional information or to register.

Night and Weekend InDesign Courses

In addition to our many weekday classes, American Graphics Institute also offers weekend and night InDesign courses. These options are listed within the course schedules listed above, or contact AGI for upcoming night and weekend dates.

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AGI's team of experienced instructors are led by the design and usability expert and best-selling author of more than 20 books including Creative Cloud for Dummies, Creative Suite for Dummies, and Photoshop Digital Classroom. Classes are led by experienced professionals who have extensive professional and training experience, and also work in our consulting practice areas and as practicing professionals. For Federal agencies, American Graphics Institute classes are offered under GSA contract 47QTCA19D003Y.