InDesign CC: Book Production, Laying a solid foundation (Udemy.com)
What you need to know before you start putting your book together
Created by: David Bergsland
Last updated August 2017
What you will learn
- Select book size, margins, column width, and more for the print version of their books
- Develop typographically excellent paragraph designs coupled with the knowledge needed to make professional decisions
- Will be able to set up an efficient default set of paragraph styles and character styles
How it compares
Against the other 52 rated Udemy courses in Adobe Indesign on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 5% of them
- Reviews65#28 of 53 by number of reviews
- Length3.9 hourslonger than 50% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2017earlier than 73% of them
Quality Score
Overall Score : 82 / 100
Course Description
You will discover why InDesign is necessary for book production. Word, and word processors in general, do not even have the capability of producing excellent typography.
This course covers the basic concepts you need to understand before you start putting your book together: how to set up your documentsize, margins, and column width; Typography: what it is and how you produce excellent, readable typography so you can design your paragraphs to enable your readers to comfortably enjoy reading your book. By the time you finish the course, you will be amazed at all you didn't know about typography, readability, and how to communicate with your readers [or the readers of your clients].Who this course is for:
- An author or graphic designer who needs to produce better quality books and ebooks,
- The designer who needs typographic skill
Instructor Details
- 4.1 Rating
65 Reviews
David Bergsland
- Began art & design career doing posters for my acid rock band in Minneapolis
- Earned my BFA in printmaking & painting in 1971
- Illustrated for publishers as soon as I was graduated
- Became a graphic artist in 1979 in West Virginia
- Grew into Typographer & Art Director in 1983 in Albuquerque at a large commercial printer
- Began teaching commercial printing in 1991 in a large community college in Albuquerque
- Started writing textbooks in 1994 beginning with "Printing In A Digital World"the 1st textbook on the all-digital workflow for commercial printing
- Began designing fonts to use in my books
- Developed digital publishing degree in 1996
- Initiated on-demand publishing house for print & ebooks in 2002which developed into a full-time effort in 2009
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Reviews
By Karen E. Willmus
yes
By Jc le Cardinal
ok
By Sam Clark
Good historical overview of how we got here.
By Lara Stark
A beginner, great course!
By John Petrocelli
I've read David Bergsland's Indesign books. This course is great to hear him mentor you through the book and course with additional details. It's a very detailed course, telling you just what you need to do if you want to produce books and design books, that are readable and artfully crafted on the fly. I would have paid him a lot of money to have him mentor me, explain a little more the concepts in his book with illustrations, but it's all here, right in this course. And at this price, it's a steal.
By David Stewart
Oh my god, the lecture sections are far too long, typically containing 80% disorganised waffle and 20% need to know.
In general the author appears to wander around the topic in an amateurish fashion, using what I can only describe as a poorly constructed PowerPoint presentation with terrible colours and graphics.
The very first part left me wanting to shoot myself within 2 minutes of the 10 min 24 seconds available.
I cannot recommend this course, I feel I totally wasted my money
By Victor M Landa
It is already very clear that the instructor does know what he is talking about
By Paul Russell
I am Hearing Impaired with 80% loss but I wear hearing aids which returns most hearing back. I rely on Subtitles and Captions all the time. The Auto Captions Udemy use is usually reliable depending on the Teachers accent. Good clear English voices always work well.
The Teacher of this course has a barely understandable accent which even the Auto captions have trouble interpreting. Auto Captions have a pretty good rate of clarity when it works with clear accents, this course is an example of what kind of accents should NOT be used.
As for the course, I gave up halfway through, the tests are awful due to the Teacher does not keep up with the students progress that I am aware of. The Teachers own Books are awful and his style looks like it's stuck in the early 90's. Awful fonts and terrible graphics.
This course is really for the eBook nerds who want to know more about Fonts and Typefaces etc. Otherwise a total waste of time. Did not learn how to make a Book. At all.
By Susan McEachern
I didn't pay to have a history lesson; I paid to learn how to use Adobe Indesign to produce print and ebooks. I was hoping for a more step-by-step instruction.
By Soorya Townley
Because of all your efforts, long hours of labor for over 30 years. It seeps through. I feel honored to have found you.
By Gilbert Reid
very interesting, very clear; I'm a bit impatient with introductions - but here the introduction is very useful and gives a clear context for what I am trying to learn and why I am trying to learn it.
By Renee Tresko
A lot of extra words - lessons so far are approximately 80% conversational and 20% instructional. While the conversation is interesting and valuable and the instructor knows the industry, my time is such that I am more interested in getting to the "how to" instead of so much history.







