Learn Adobe InDesign: Design a Magazine and More in InDesign (Udemy.com)
Learn Adobe InDesign CC essentials and editorial design. Master Adobe InDesign for beginners by designing a magazine.
Created by: Chad Neuman, Ph.D.
Last updated April 2026
What you will learn
- Design professional publications such as magazines by using InDesign
- Apply editorial design principles to publications in InDesign
- Use InDesign's various functions and tools to create publications and other promotional material
- Produce a magazine and brochure in InDesign
How it compares
Against the other 52 rated Udemy courses in Adobe Indesign on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 84% of them
- Reviews1,688#7 of 53 by number of reviews
- Length8.8 hourslonger than 80% of them
- Last updatedApril 2026more recently than 96% of them
Course Description
January 2026 Course Update! All InDesign videos have been updated with new recordings, including new support files (about 90% new course, with some case studies kept in the course from earlier).
Create magazines, brochures, and more in InDesign!
Learn InDesign, the world's industry-standard publication layout program, to create flyers, posters, advertisements, and online magazines. Create magazines to share online or sell online through Apple. Create books to sell on Amazon. There are so many possibilities!
Enroll now and learn how to
place and format text in InDesign
place and format images in InDesign
add character and paragraph styles in InDesign
flow text across pages on along a path in InDesign
use libraries and snippets in InDesign
apply color themes in InDesign
draw and adjust shapes in InDesign
add custom corners in InDesign
work with layers in InDesign to select objects
apply master pages in InDesign
package, save, export, and print files in InDesign
apply editorial design principles such as proximity, alignment, contrast, and repetition in magazines and brochures
design and produce a professional magazine in InDesign
design and produce a professional brochure in InDesign
do much more in InDesign
Enroll to get access to exclusive lessons and follow-along tutorials as well as helpful, printable PDF handouts and discussion board access for peer critiques and feedback. Let's get started creating and designing in InDesign!
Learn InDesign from Chad Neuman, who has the relevant experience in the field:
Managing editor at two graphic design magazines
Advertising layout specialist and webmaster at a regional newspaper
Internet development director at an advertising design firm
Freelance graphic designer for 20 years
Current full-time university professor and freelance graphic designer
and relevant education:
BA in Communication
MA in Journalism and Media Studies
PhD in Communication
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
1,688 Reviews
Chad Neuman, Ph.D.
I love seeing students succeed in their designs, photos, productions, artistic work, and careers.
Do you want to learn become a better designer or communicator? Do you want to learn industry-standard editing and effects in Photoshop? Do you want to create logos for your brand or for clients? Do you want to learn new skills that are in demand in the new digital economy?
I'm passionate about communication, writing, art, and design education, and I'm currently a full-time professor of communication and digital media. I've developed curriculum and taught classes on design, photography, and writing for over a decade. My university students have become full-time, award-winning photographers, web designers, creative specialists, reporters, and layout designers. And now, you can learn from me as well!
Get started by enrolling in my courses, learning new skills and knowledge, and asking me questions in the courses and forums.
My Three-Part Qualifications to Teach You (Professional Experience, Education, and Experience Teaching):
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Reviews
By Kristina Galvan on 2/29/2024
You are my favorite Adobe CC instructor! I am familiar with PS, but needed to learn about In-Design and Illustrator for work. It was intriguing and engaging. I didn't find your voice to be robotic. There were times when I needed to pause the video because my computer was not running as quickly as yours, but Udemy has the "slow down" feature that I could use to fix that. Overall this was a fantastic crash course for a beginner like me on In-Design!
By Janet E Brown on 6/6/2019
I am not new to InDesign, yet I wanted to find an instructor that could give me an edge to understanding more about the software and design principles. I choose this instructor as his knowledge and teaching are thorough. He is at the level of where I am venturing to for my own company. I have learned usable skills in today's digital structure and look forward to applying these skills. I have desktop publishing skills from my many years as an executive assistant doing presentations, meeting agenda documents and other forms of documents. Not to mention flyers and other materials that I have freelanced doing. I am not at the season in my life where I am taking my journey down a road of anticipation of designing, photography, and videography. I look forward to sharing my journey with as much of the world as possible. Remember to enjoy your journey[ies] as well. Blessings
By Tehmeena Khan on 5/28/2018
Great course! I never thought I would be able to understand how Adobe InDesign works. I have finally managed to create my first ever print-ready full-page ad copy and my boss is very happy with my work. Thanks for creating such a constructive course. I would strongly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn Adobe InDesign but is a complete beginner, just as I was. Fabulous!
By Barbara Maciejewska on 12/5/2017
I'm not an InDesign freshman, but I learned a lot from this course. I would reccomend this course to people, that already made some experience with InDesign, and want to improve their InDesign skills and learn some options, that are more hidden or not that obvious in the programm. I'm using CS6 version, and it wasn't problem at all. Only few features that InDesign CC has are missing.
By A. S. on 11/17/2017
Thanks Chad, The course was well constructed and easy to follow. I am now looking forward to creating some experimental documents to test my memory and see how well I can navigate Indesign. I'm also looking forward to uploading these for critiquing and hearing insights from other students so I can pick up additional tricks and design tips. I highly recommend the course to anyone who is interested in creating professional looking documents.
By Esteban Peguero on 1/9/2017
good course but there is a lag of communication, instructor never check the homework or questions from other student. when i wrote this comment my post was more than 20 days old and noticed questions from other student over a month old without any review from instructor.
By Carrie Schwartz on 3/10/2016
I really enjoyed the course "Learn InDesign: Design Magazines and More" Dr. Chad has a very nice clear crisp tone of voice to learn from, with much experience in which he shared I felt confident enough to create a book for a Cancer foundation. The layout of his course was simple enough to return to areas I needed by looking through his content. He leads you into good design concepts where you will find useful for many future design projects. This is why I rated his course excellent. Thank you Dr. Chad.
By Casey Lynn on 12/23/2015
I've taken 2 in-person InDesign courses in the past and still felt like I had no clue what I was doing. This class changed all that. Each lesson builds on previous lessons and if you forget something, it's often repeated later. If not, you can always press pause and figure it out. I'm now comfortable putting InDesign on my resume and I can't wait to keep improving.
By Gary Dickinson on 12/11/2015
Chad's course is extremely comprehensive and engaging. Although not exactly what I was looking for (specifically book design which I knew from the outset) this course certainly has amazing InDesign training as well as good design principles for magazines. Chad does move along pretty swiftly but each module is in convenient bite size chunks so to pause/replay is no problem at all. Added to this, my questions/queries were answered quickly and efficiently and Chad sends various updates and news about his courses and training. All-in-all highly recommended!
By Harish Chennamsetty on 9/13/2015
Chad Neuman is one of my favorite teachers. He prepares the curriculum so well that we engage all the way till the end. Except some very few basics such as the terminology explanations etc, Chad has covered almost everything that needed; we can call it practical learning. There are also course materials, lab exercises at the end and some additional resources to help us learn and experience what he taught. However, some of his resources with indd format may not be compatible with some older versions of Indesign CC. As a critic, I liked the course and I recommend it to everybody who simply needs to learn everything about indesign as quickly as possible.
Quality Score
Overall Score : 94 / 100












