Adobe Indesign  CC 2025

Build company newsletters, brochures, annual reports. Learn typography, color theory & graphic design skills in InDesign

You will learn

• You will be able to add InDesign to your CV
• You will be able to start earning money from your InDesign Skills.
• You will have over 5 of your own projects to add to your portfolio.
• You will build a flyer in InDesign.
• You will create a postcard design.
• You will build a company brochure.
• You will create a magazine layout.
• You will create a company newsletter.
• You will create your own business card.
• You will build stationery for a business including letterhead & comp slip.
• You will build a longer annual report document.
• You will create & use corporate colors.
• You will create your own colors to use in your designs.
• You will learn how to pick complimentary fonts for you design.
• You will resize, rotate & crop images.
• 76 lectures 5+ hours of well structured content.
• Learn how to create PDF files ready for printing.
• You will get the finished files so you never fall behind.
• Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet.
• Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.
• Techniques used by professional graphic designers.
• Professional workflows and shortcuts.
• A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

Course Outlines

Create one Page Flyer

• How to change MM to Inches & changing UK to US dictionary in InDesign?
• New document in InDesign – what is bleed & slug?
• How to create your own RGB & CMYK colors in Adobe InDesign
• How do I steal colors from a logo using InDesign?
• How to color the background of a page in InDesign
• Importing resizing rotating & flipping images & Logos inside InDesign
• How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign
• How to group, ungroup & rotate images in Adobe InDesign
• How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign
• How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign
• How to make a simple PDF from InDesign
• How to save your InDesign file as a JPEG
• Why should I use CC Libraries in InDesign?
• How to share your InDesign files with others by using package document
• Assignment 1: Page Flyer

Other people’s files

• Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates
• Working with other people’s InDesign documents, missing images
• How to find missing fonts in InDesign?
• How to replace images in InDesign?
• Opacity, transparency and see through ness in Adobe InDesign
• Why is InDesign adding [Converted] and making me save as
• What if I can’t find the InDesign file – can I open the PDF?

Newsletter/Brochure

• Creating a new company newsletter or brochure, what are spreads
• How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign
• How do I add automatic page numbering to a InDesign file
• Removing a masterpage & deleting parts off the master page in InDesign
• Production Video 1
• What is Effective PPI & Image resolution in the InDesign links panel
• How to add drop shadows to an image or logo in InDesign
• What is TypeKit used for in Adobe InDesign?
• How to add the Copyright, Registered & Trademark symbols in InDesign
• Where can I find the different versions of letters in InDesign – Ligatures
• How to add placeholder text & lorem ipsum & get a word count in InDesign
• Importing Text from Microsoft Word & keeping or removing the formatting
• Creating Columns in a text box using Adobe InDesign
• How do I justify text & turn off hyphenation in InDesign
• What is a the space after & leading in Adobe InDesign
• How to underline text with a full width line in Adobe InDesign
• How do I make a paragraph style in Adobe InDesign
• How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign
• How to us Find & Change to remove double spaces after a period or full stop
• Stealing colours from images, is there a format painter in Adobe InDesign?
• InDesign Class Exercise 2 – Magazine Spread
• Assignment 2: Magazine Spread

Long Business Document

• How to bring in lots of text into InDesign at once
• How do I import paragraph styles from another document?
• How do I insert completely blank pages in Adobe InDesign?
• How do I create a gradient in Adobe InDesign?
• Do I need to use layers in Adobe InDesign?
• Opacity advanced, mater warks and Transparency Effects in Adobe InDesign
• How do I add rounded corners to an image or box in Adobe InDesign?
• How to add a large first letter to my text aka Drop Cap?
• How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Ke
• How do I get text to move around an image or shape using text wrap?
• Why can’t I put text over anything that has text wrap applied?
• How to draw an arrow or triangle or star in Adobe InDesign?
• How do I put an image inside other shapes like a circle – cropping?
• What is Adobe Stock?
• Where can I find free images & icons that I can use for my business?
• How do I add bullets and numbered lists in Adobe InDesign?
• How can I create a table inside Adobe InDesign?
• How do I convert tables from Microsoft Word or Excel into Adobe InDesign?
• How do I get images to move with the text in Adobe InDesign?
• How do I create a Line Break, Column Breaks & Page Breaks in Adobe InDesign?
• How do I make an automatic table of contents in Adobe InDesign?
• How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?
• Can i change the numbering of my pages so 1 starts later in the InDesign file?