Are you new to Adobe InDesign, or have you used it for a while but have wondered what certain tools and functions do?Well, you've come to the right course.In this complete guide to InDesign CC, you will learn everything you need to know about the world's industry-standard graphic design and publication software.

Instead of listing the tools and techniques in a list and going through them devoid of a context or project, Icover all the tools and techniques comprehensively, but in the context of projects. So, you will learn by designing a poster for a local business, a lookbook for a ski resort, and anannual report for a camera company.

By the time you have completed this course, you will have mastered InDesign! And you will have projects to add to your portfolio.

Besides the essentials and fundamentals of InDesign, such as placing and editing images, threading and formatting text, andusing master pages, you will also learn more advanced topics, including advanced color and thepreflighting/printing process.

In fact, this course contains a complete guide to tables in InDesign as well as the complete guide to color in InDesign. You will also learn how to use both Photoshop and Illustrator with InDesign, in their own special sections. Adobe has made these programs so compatible, they work seamlessly together.

I'm Chad, and I'm a graphic designer and full-time university professor. I've worked as internet development director at an award-winning advertising design firm, webmaster and advertising designer at a regional newspaper, and managing editor of two graphic design magazines. Whether it was laying out a newsletter for a client while working at an ad design firm, or laying out advertisements and using CMYKplates at a newspaper,having this professional experience has enabled me to relate these InDesign video lessons to real-world applications.

For example, when we go over everything about adding and applying swatches, you learn when we would use spot colors vs. process colors, and Ishow example brand books and how they communicate their Pantone, CMYK, RGB, and Hex colors for graphic designers, and of course, how to apply those in InDesign.

Ihavealso taught InDesign for the past decade as a university professor, teaching classes like Digital Layout and Design as well asMagazine Design and Production. My students have become page designers, creative specialists, and creative directors at newspapers, magazines, and media companiesafter graduating. Teaching InDesign in-person has enabled me to figure out what teachingmethods and exercisesare most effective and what areas students have the most questions about.

Ilove seeing what students come up with after mastering the technical side and using creativity and problem solving to produce amazing designs. Students in my Udemy courses have produced their own books after taking my InDesign courses.Ilook forward to seeing the work you design and produce in this course!Let me know if you have any questions by posting in the Q&A, or post your linked publications there for feedback.