InDesign CC Essentials for Beginners - Basics & Tricks (Udemy.com)
Graphic designers can learn Handling: InDesign Fundamentals, Minimal Designs, Typography, Design Grid system & Exporting
Created by: Khalil Ibrahim
Last updated March 2021
What you will learn
- Using Indesign for Graphic design Projects.
- Integrate Photoshop, Illustrator & inDesign to design a beautiful graphic design project.
- Indesign Templates, how to get free templates & how to use them.
- understanding Bleed & Margin for printing technicals
- How to present your Indesign designs using free mock-ups for best client presentation.
- Placing Graphics & design elements from Photoshop & Illustrator
- Using CC Libraries for maximum adobe's design applications integration
- Handling Frames in Indesign & understanding their Concept
- Creating Precise Grid Systems to follow like Rule of Thirds or Golden ratio while maintaining our measurements using rules & X, Y coordinates.
- How to create a strong Minimal design while Managing Positive & Negative Space to achieve an Aesthetic & beautiful design.
How it compares
Against the other 52 rated Udemy courses in Adobe Indesign on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 5% of them
- Reviews198#17 of 53 by number of reviews
- Length1.6 hoursshorter than 82% of them
- Last updatedMarch 2021more recently than 55% of them
Course Description
Learn Adobe Indesign Essentials & basics in one single Project!
(Practical minimal clean real-world brochure design)
What you will learn in this course?
- Familiarize with InDesign.
- Indesign Templates, how to get free templates & how to use them for different measurement systems (A4 sizes or US letter size for example)
- Creating Documents in Indesign while understanding Bleed & Margin.
- How to present your Indesign designs using free mock-ups for best client presentation.
- Placing Graphics & design elements from Photoshop & Illustrator.
- Integrating Indesign with Photoshop & Illustrator to design strong solid graphic designs
- Using CC Libraries for maximum adobe's design applications integration.
- Handling Frames in Indesign & understanding their Concept.
- Handling Colors, Palettes & Swatches to meet the CMYK technical Printing aspect.
- Handling Text, Text Frames, Paragraph styles & Text Styles.
- Creating Precise Grid Systems to follow like Rule of Thirds or Golden ratio while maintaining our measurements using rules & X, Y coordinates.
-How to create a strong Minimal design while Managing Positive & Negative Space to achieve an Aesthetic & beautiful design.
- Dealing with Indesign Pages & Handling covers & Spreads.
- Preflight checks for final export.
- Exporting Designs from Indesign & creating Packages while considering the Printing Technicals for CMYK.
The Instructor is What Makes the course so special, Right?
Khalil Ibrahim is a Chief designer who promoted to that title after working in many international advertising agencies with experience over 15 years in the design field and using Adobe Photoshop. Besides traveling around the world learning about different Design Schools, Trends & Art Directions. and who really cared to not only make sure you understand Photoshop's tools, technicals & concepts but Also to really learn it in a creative way and to use it Artistically like a Creative professional.
Let's start that amazing journey together!
Instructor Details
- 4.1 Rating
198 Reviews
Khalil Ibrahim
Khalil Ibrahim, also called "Abraham", studied Arts, Advertising & Graphic Design at the Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University.
He then worked as a designer, rising to Chief Design Officer in top-tier Advertising Agencies such as DDB, TBWA & Sahara Petroleum Services, across several countries.
He later transitioned to Mentoring Design & AI while employed in the Aviation sector to pursue his passion for flying and explore the globe (check Instagram for vibrant content) while embracing diverse art directions, trends & design schools, and learning from many cultures.
He passionately runs Design Academy Online, gratefully teaching over 240k worldwide learners from more than 207 countries in Design & Art, delivering a creative and professional approach in both Design & AI.
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Reviews
By Jasir Ali on 1/30/2025
it was very fun and useful
By Tarininath Payeng on 1/18/2025
good and in-depth but required more projects
By Ndzi Cynthia Mugob on 8/22/2024
Yes it was. I'm loving every bit of it.
By Amaka Ezeh on 7/6/2024
THANK YOU! This is quite interesting, I must start practicing right away.
By Mehak Chawla on 9/25/2022
your explanation is good but please provide English subtitles as well.
By Susan Wilson on 7/29/2022
The advice is very helpful
By Maida on 9/5/2021
Best course, Best mentor
By Kosaw Naung on 4/30/2021
simple and effective course for beginner
By Ziad Abdelkader on 4/12/2021
It doesn't really explain the basics of InDesign
By Evance Ochola Odhiambo on 1/16/2025
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Overall Score : 82 / 100












