
Master InDesign's industry-leading page design and layout tools for print and digital publishing, from placing text and images to mastering styles, master pages, automatic table of contents, and time-saving features.
Discover Adobe Bridge, part of the Creative Cloud, as a file management hub for InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Preview fonts, linked files, and color profiles, then place images into InDesign.
Learn to work with image frames in InDesign, crop content, and edit inside the frame. Use the content grabber, fit options, and precise rotation to control image appearance.
Check and manage image resolution in InDesign using the links panel and preflight to ensure 300 PPI print quality by monitoring effective PPI and avoiding stretching.
Master quick image resizing using keyboard shortcuts and anchored reference points, then flip, crop, and align content with fill frame proportionally for image frames and text frames.
Explore how to work with text frames, manage overset, and thread stories across multiple frames using the story editor and text threading tools.
Learn to work with pages in InDesign by duplicating, deleting, shuffling, and moving spreads, switching between facing and single pages, and using the Pages panel options.
Learn how to combine master pages and threading with smart text reflow in InDesign, override master frames, place text across pages, and import master pages between documents.
Explore InDesign drawing tools—pen, pencil, and scissors—to create paths with anchor points and handles, refine curves, and flow text along paths using the type on a path feature.
Explore blend modes in InDesign to blend images and colorize or grayscale using transparency effects. Learn how normal, multiply, screen, lighten, and overlay create composition, with colorize and grayscale techniques.
Master precise layouts in InDesign by using grids and guides, smart guides for alignment, rulers, and baseline grids, with snap to grid and master-page placement for consistency.
Use text wrap in InDesign to make text flow around images or shapes, adjust offset, and use options like largest area or contour for precise layout.
Master advanced text wrap in InDesign, using detect edges to create silhouettes, placing images behind the text frame, and using pen tool and open path fixes to control wrap.
Master masking and layering in InDesign to create magazine-cover effects by combining a masked image with text, drop shadows, outlines, and careful alignment of multiple layers.
Explore nesting of character, paragraph, and object styles in InDesign MasterClass, using drop caps, tracking, and grep styles to automate styling across a document.
Master InDesign techniques to fix typographic mistakes by using keep lines together, no break character styles, and grep styles to prevent orphans, widows, and runts in body copy.
Master how to create and customize numbered and bulleted lists in InDesign, including paragraph selection, list settings, tabs and indents, and saving lists as paragraph styles.
Use the tab panel in InDesign to align text left, right, center, or decimal, including currency. Save tabs as a paragraph style for consistency.
Learn to format tables in InDesign by saving paragraph, cell, and table styles, applying header and body styles, and creating alternating row patterns for clarity.
Learn how CC Libraries centralize and reuse assets across InDesign and other Adobe apps, storing graphics, styles, colors, brushes, and patterns in the cloud for easy sharing and collaboration.
The aim of this course is to teach you to use InDesign like a creative professional. Learn all of the best practises for working in InDesign so you feel 100% confident in creating new work, always know which tool or feature to use, and never waste time doing things the long way.
This course is up-to-date with all the new features introduced in 2024.
Adobe InDesign is one of the three core applications created by Adobe and will prove to be an essential tool in all sorts of design projects. Which is why it’s a must know for any Graphic Designer and mastering the software in and out will be extremely valuable when it comes to creating commercial work.
More about Adobe InDesign:
InDesign is the industry-leading page design and layout design application which allows you to work across desktop and mobile devices.
It’s ability to handle long documents with dozens or even hundreds of high resolution images without any lag or compromise on quality is unrivaled by any piece of software.
InDesign’s real strength lies in its immensely detailed typographic features, which allow users to refine the copy they work with to the smallest details.
“Even before finishing the course, I was able to work and earn on three projects using InDesign. Martin is a great teacher, I recommend this for a total newbie who wants to become a professional. It's EASY!”
Paul Avan
A closer look at what you will learn:
First of we will start with the basics, so you feel totally at ease with the interface, settings preferences and creating documents.
The next three chapters are all about introducing you to all of the brilliant tools and features in InDesign. Including Image & Text Frames, using Pages, choosing Fonts and Formatting Text.
Then we move onto creating layouts, drawing, how to work with Swatches, Effects, Blend Modes, Grids and more!
Once you know how to design a layout you can start to learn about compositional techniques, this is where the course presents a unique learning opportunity.
The more complex features in InDesign are explained in the final three chapters of the course, so by then you will already be extremely familiar and comfortable with the tools/interface and feel confident and ready to master the more advanced techniques. These chapters include Mastering Styles, Advanced Text Features and Handling Assets and much more.
“This is awesome! I've been using InDesign for a few years now, but am largely self-taught. This course is filling in the gaps of my knowledge and connecting the dots brilliantly!”
Keeley Stitt
This course includes:
81+ Videos (10 hours of total playtime)
Interactive quizzes testing what you learnt in each chapter
Downloadable working files including an in-depth Workbook with interactive exercises
Course content updated with the latest 2024 new features
All future updates to InDesign will be included in this course for no extra payment
Estimated finish time: 25 hours (including finishing all exercises and quizzes)
Preparation guide for the official Adobe Certified Associate exam: Print & digital media publication using Adobe InDesign
Completion certificate upon finishing the entire course
Martin is an Adobe Certified Instructor – voted as one of the Top 10 Adobe instructors in the world – with years of experience teaching in classrooms, seminars and webinars. He also worked professionally in the creative industry for over 10 years on a wide range of projects for clients such as Disney, Accenture, Mattel, etc. The examples and techniques in this course have been selected and refined to offer the most efficient and enjoyable way to master Adobe InDesign.
Who will find it useful:
Perfect for anyone looking to start or develop their career in the creative industry.
Complete beginners will be able to master the software from the very beginning to the most advanced features.
Self-taught users and existing professionals can use the course to take their skills and knowledge to the next level, refine their workflows and learn to do everything the right way!
Existing and more experienced users of InDesign may also discover hidden gems and workflows or catch up with all the new features released in 2024.
“Thoroughly enjoyed my experience with this course and thought that it was very well laid out. For instance, Martin puts a few of the more challenging subject matters pretty far into the course, so that you've already built confidence with all of the basics and even a few simpler but advanced techniques. Plus, Martin also reiterates a lot of previous lessons throughout new ones -- just calling attention back to them and reusing -- so everything sinks in very nicely and becomes part of your workflow.”
Jessica Hinckle
Skills you will gain:
Creating everything from printed books to brochures, magazines, eBooks and interactive online PDFs.
Designing engaging page layouts for both print and digital publications quickly and efficiently at the highest professional standard.
Mastering the complex typographic features and the ability to work efficiently with long documents like catalogs and books.
Work with and manipulate a huge variety of creative assets including images, text, simple illustration.
Ready to master Adobe InDesign? Start today by enrolling on this course!