Adobe Indesign for Fiction Book Layout - Complete Guide (Udemy.com)

Perfect for what I need to learn. I am saving myself so much time by doing this course. It is easy to get lost in In Design, and formatting a book is different than doing the graphics work I have done before in in design. A great refresher and so helpful for all the rules with Book formatting.

Now 2026. Unfortunately, the Help option takes you to the internet and Adobe help forum, so I cannot search menus internally. But otherwise, I have managed okay to get everything set up :) Very useful tips. There was a moment when I struggled to find the Left Justified icon (due to working off a smaller screen) - I hunted through all the top menus to find it. I was not able to. I then realised the instructor should have asked anyone who couldn't see the Left Justified icon on their screen, could have gone to the right panel and selected Paragraph to bring up the options box for Left Justified. Overall, I have found this course to be really useful.

Learning what I wanted to. This course may be best suited for larger screens. I wasn't able to see everything on my iPad. I am now using my laptop and a monitor. One with the course and the other with Adobe InDesign. This is the way to go! The course is great, though. It is well paced and easy to follow.

If you are looking for an extremely basic, simple, and straightforward approach to using InDesign to do your own simple book layout, this class might be for you, particularly if you've never used the software before. (Though, if that is the case, I would suggest another app might serve you better.) I expected significantly more information when I purchased a "complete guide" to fiction book layout. This entire course was, at best, a rudimentary beginner's guide to book layout. No mention was made about making or saving templates, using text variables, or any intermediate or advanced applications for character or paragraph styles. The times when I would have appreciated an experienced professional's advice, for example, with copyright, fonts, and industry standards, most often the "advice" was to do your own research, which defeats the entire purpose for me. All said and done, I watched the course at 2x speed and learned nothing I haven't already figured out from playing with the app and watching free YouTube videos.

Je recommande ce cours qui est juste exceptionnel. J'ai appris énormément. Le formateur est au top, il explique très bien et donne des astuces pour faciliter l'apprentissage et l'utilisation de Indesign. Tout les cours d'Aaron sont très bons en général.

I was a professional graphic designer. Although I did not book layout. After years away from designing, this course was a perfect refresher course as well as providing new and using information of book layout. Aaron is very thorough in his step by step approach. I would highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to learn book layout. Of course you do need to know how to use Indesign to take advantage of the instruction. Thanks Aaron!

Ich bin von diesem Kurs absolut begeistert! Er beinhaltet alles, was ich jetzt an Wissen brauchte, um meinen Roman zu setzen. Alles ist wunderbar erklärt und gut nachvollziehbar, auch wenn man eine aktuelle deutsche InDesign Version verwendet. Durch die Kleinteiligkeit der einzelnen Kapitel findet man Themen auch gut wieder und kann punktuell nochmal bestimmte Arbeitsschritte ansehen. Gegebenenfalls muss man ergänzend noch schauen, was für den Buchsatz eines Romans im deutschen Sprachraum zu beachten bzw. üblich ist, aber alles Tricks und Kniffe, die es braucht, um ein Buch professionell zu setzen, werden hier erklärt. Top Kurs, sehr zu empfehlen!

I took this course because I was so disappointed with what I could do in Atticus and wanted to be able to format my book exactly how I wanted it. I was so intimidated by Indesign, but this course made it possible for me to feel like I could format my own book and do a damn good job.

So far so good. I see it is from 2019. If our brilliant software creators would sit on their hands for a year or two, we might get some mastery. My point, under help, I don't see a search function and Help sends me out to Learn and Support Land. The program could already do more than is humanly possible in 2019. Slow the heck-fire down. We can't compete with AI, might as well enjoy our lives. Anyway...the teacher is great.

The class was quite instructive. It helped me understand the Indesign workflow, something I couldn't find on Youtube. I sped up some of the videos because I didn't care about Scrivener and such, but it's good to know how to handle that software for future reference.