Adobe InDesign CC - A complete introduction (Udemy.com)
The Fast Track - Get up and running with Adobe InDesign. Here's everything you need to get started as a professional.
Created by: Mark Gatter
Last updated July 2019
What you will learn
- After this course, students will know enough to work in a professional graphics studio. Seriously.
How it compares
Against the other 52 rated Udemy courses in Adobe Indesign on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 65% of them
- Reviews51#32 of 53 by number of reviews
- Length3.1 hoursshorter than 63% of them
- Last updatedJuly 2019earlier than 53% of them
Quality Score
Overall Score : 92 / 100
Course Description
- This course is aimed at total beginners, or people who want to expand a basic understanding of the program.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
51 Reviews
Mark Gatter
Hi - I'm Mark Gatter and I'm an Adobe Certified Instructor. My specialist subjects are InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator (and I've got the 'ACE' qualification in all these) but there are other programs lurking in the background, too. I lived in California for 18 years and ended up as the Production Manager for the biggest commercial printers in north California, and returned to the UK in 1998.
I've had 5 books published, three of which are about graphic design, the big graphics programs, and printing. The other two are about growing vegetables...which I don't plan to cover here. At all.
I teach roughly half the time, and when I'm not teaching I work as a freelance graphic designer. I'm constantly having things printed, all over the world, or put on websites which helps to keeps me sharp for my teaching work. I reckon I can take a total beginner, who has never even seen InDesign, Photoshop etc, and get them up to speed in about a day and a half. There'll be lots of stuff they won't know, of course, but they'll be proficient in all the basics they'd need to work in a professional graphics studio.
I invite you to check out my videos and see if you agree!
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Reviews
By Lingtalfi talfi
Best experience ever with an online course, no kidding.
I've learned inDesign a long time ago for creating invoices for my clients, so I had some notions
about the interface, but no real in-depth understanding.
Now my goal is to create a book of my piano compositions, and I wanted a refresher course that
would help me do that.
I hesitated between this course and some other courses, and finally I opted for this course
since it was shorter (about 2 hours of time) and the instructor said it would give me a good knowledge
of the software.
I was quite skeptical when I purchased this course, because you never know what you really get until you unpack the box.
But then I quickly realized that this course was perfect for me: the teacher is very precise on wording (which I believe
is VERY important when you learn something), and all the lessons are based on concrete examples (not abstract theory).
The teaching is straight to the point and precise.
I believe this course taught me everything I will ever need in InDesign, and more (a few useful features I didn't know about).
Except for one thing that he didn't cover: the red arrow at the bottom right of a text box. But that should be a 5 min search on internet (should I need to understand it), and so I won't blame the teacher for that.
So in the end, I feel not only that this course was worth every penny, but more importantly I feel ready to rock on my piano composition book project (and I spent only a couple hours).
So, thanks M. teacher.
If you need a crash course on InDesign, I would totally recommend this course, it has it all.
By Irina Andrianova
yes, the course is very good
By Allison O'Dell
I was looking for a course that would just get me up to speed with the essentials so I could refresh my InDesign skills. This is perfect. Very well done!
By Russhelle James
I really liked this! It was easy to follow and I will definitely go back to it as reference.
By Carolyn Anteneh
Course exceeded my expectation. The pace was perfect and the content was very thorough! Thank you!
By Sarah Stubbings
Terrific overview!








