Adobe InDesign Master Class - Beginner to Pro, ALL LEVELS (Udemy.com)
Create posters, newsletters, trifold brochures, reports, books; master the amazing InDesign. Illustrate, Design, Layout
Created by: David Casuto
Last updated March 2024
What you will learn
- Learn how to create posters, brochures, books and more in InDesign
- Understand layout principles and processing including text boxes, columns, inset padding, text threading
- Learn how to place images, work with frames, add strokes, corner radius options, and text wrapping
- Create and modify Master/Parent pages, pagination, placeholders
- Understanding typography principles including leading, tracking, kerning and more.
- Learn how to draw and edit shapes, and use color including color theory, strokes, fill and gradients, pen tool, direct selection tool
- Exporting, packaging, PDF creation, zip files, ready for print
- Working with layers, layer management, visibility, locking, color coding
- Working with Styles: Paragraph styles, Character styles, Object styles, Nested styles
- Creating a Table of Contents, creating Bookmarks, Cross-referencing
- Working with hyperlinks and buttons and other interactive tools
Course Description
InDesign is such an amazing program and is used across industries and job roles!
In this class, we cover everything you need to learn in InDesign. All levels, and all topics for all project types.
Here is a list of topics we cover in this class:
· The InDesign Workspace including understanding Panels and customizing
· Working with the Pages panel
· Keyboard shortcuts
· Packaging and Preflight options
· Master/Parent Pages
· Understanding Margins, Bleeds, Slugs and Page settings
· Saving Presets
· Overview of InDesign Templates
· Drawing basic shapes
· Understanding Fill and Stroke
· Stroke color, width and style settings
· Color overview (CMYK, RGB, HSB, Hexadecimal)
· Creating Swatches
· Corner options
· Resizing, rotating and moving shapes
· Using the Properties Panel for Shapes
· Placing images
· Image placement options
· Image Frames
· Fitting options for images
· Using the Properties Panel for Images
· Autofit options for image resizing
· Stroke color, width and style settings
· Text wrapping
· Cloning images
· Cropping
· Creating Table of Contents
· Data Merge
· Buttons and Hyperlinks
· Creating Buttons
· Creating interactive Forms
· Object Effects including Drop Shadow, Glow, Feathering
· Object Transparency
· Intro to Object Styles
· Overview of Object Styles panel
· Overview of object settings
· Drop Shadow, Corner Options, Stroke, Columns, Text Wrapping
· Creating an Object Style
· Applying an Object Style
· Overriding and updating Object Styles
· Using the Control Panel
· Using the Properties Panel
· Basic Formatting
· Overview of basic typographic settings (Kerning, Tracking, Leading)
· Paragraph properties settings
· Placing text from Word Document
· Bullets and Numbering
· Paragraph Margins
· Paragraph Rules
· Paragraph and Cell Style introduction
· Why do we use Paragraph Styles?
· Examples of Paragraph Styles
· Intro to Paragraph Style Panel
· Creating a Paragraph Style
· Applying a Paragraph Style
· Nesting a Paragraph Style inside an Text Object Style
· Managing Links
· Preflighting Documents for Printing
· Creating a Custom Preflight Profile
· Previewing Transparency
· Exporting PDF Files for Printing & Proofs
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
453 Reviews
David Casuto
I am an Adobe Certified instructor with two Master's Degree: Instructional Technology (M.Ed.) + Organizational Psychology (MS).
With over 20 years' training experience, I have trained for hundreds of companies and organizations including: Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Walmart, Twitter, Adobe, Salesforce and dozens more.
I am not only a Trainer, but I am also a practitioner of the programs I teach, being a designer and creator.
I love to teach and give the gift of knowledge and hope to reach as many students as possible!
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Reviews
By Loutreece Miller on 9/19/2024
I would loved to have learned about exporting large PDF file, like books that I have made with other software/apps and how to edit those in Adobe InDesign. I would have also liked to have learned how to work with templates and bring in templates from other sites and how to apply them to my design in Adobe InDesign.
By Rsvida on 7/27/2024
It's perfect so far. Absolutely no complaint. The instructor is very clear and is teaching in the right pace. I am very keen to move further and learn the rest. Update: I have learnt a great deal about InDesign through this course. It is definitely recommended for both beginners and advanced users. I appreciate the amount of subject details involved and of course, the effort Mr. Casuto has put into these lectures.
By Gabriella on 5/26/2024
This course is full of really amazing content. Doing the course has taught me how to take advantage of features that I never new existed, that save time and make it easy to set up files in a way that saves repetitive work. Thankyou!
By Wil Cantrell on 8/8/2023
It's been years since I've worked with page layout...as far back as Aldus PageMaker. The first thing that confused me with InDesign is how frames and placed media acted independently of each other by default. This course gets that out of the way right of the bat.
By Harold Cole on 5/2/2023
Learning a lot, helping me create a brochure my client needs soon. The several...'Edit this outs' are not out but not an issue... LOL. Was confused at first during MASTERS lesson 26, as I have 2023 that changed the name to PARENTS.
By Tracy Hall on 4/6/2023
Without notice, I was tasked to create a company newsletter in a program I had never worked in - InDesign. This course helped me produce a beautiful piece that impressed my director and others in my office. I could not have done it without this tutorial.
By EDOARDO DIMILANO on 3/30/2023
Dave is a great instructor. He speaks very clearly and easy to follows his lessons. I am very pleased to have this opportunity and finally understand what Indesign is about. I am excited and looking for to continuing studying with him. Thank you.
By Elizabeth Kaplan on 1/17/2023
The instructor is great at explaining things. But there are some places where he goes super fast and doesn't say exactly what he's doing. At those times, I just rewind the video to just before I got lost and watch him more closely. I had 0 experience with InDesign before starting this course yesterday, and I was very intimidated by the layout of the software. But now, just a day later, I am following along with the course material, playing around on my own, and I feel immensely more confident with using InDesign.
By Gauri Kulkarni on 11/27/2022
This course is amazing. Dave's teaching skills are fantastic. It's so much fun to learn from him. I learned Photoshop , Illustrator and now InDesign from Dave. He explains about every tool and gives examples to make it more clear for us. Thank you Dave !!
By Susanne Tamir on 7/28/2022
I just started but its amazing, even i am an advanced Indesign user and many things i know its an excellent source to refresh and in addition i got in each lesson a good tip i did not know. I guess in the advanced section i will learn a lot. The teacher knows to pass all in a friendly, easy and original way. I bought his 2 other courses as well and can really recommend for beginners and advanced.
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