Hi everyone! I recently uploaded five Adobe InDesign courses to one of my YouTube Channels, Good Creative Academy. There are free previews, support file links to follow along, and the members-only videos have no ads. I recently completely updated the InDesign: Design a Magazine and More in InDesign course, including new support files, new video lessons due to Adobe InDesign updates, and newer layout projects.

There are currently eight Adobe InDesign courses on the channel, and I working on adding my Photoshop courses and Illustrator courses to my YouTube channel after I update them with new projects, support files, and videos. Stay tuned! These are university-level online design courses with practical projects that allow designers to build their design portfolios. Projects include a lookbook, poster, magazine, annual report, and more. Topics include advanced color in InDesign, tables in InDesign, using Illustrator and InDesign seamlessly, using Photoshop and InDesign seamlessly, editorial layouts, and much, much more.

Join my YouTube channel as a member and get access to my helpful design courses such as Learn InDesign: Design a Magazine and More in InDesign.

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 support files. Let’s get started creating and designing in InDesign!

Learn InDesign from me, Chad Neuman, as I have 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

Learn InDesign by designing a poster, lookbook, and annual report in InDesign in the Complete Guide to InDesign Online Course.

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, I cover 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 an annual 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, and using master pages, you will also learn more advanced topics, including advanced color and the preflighting/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 CMYK plates 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 I show 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.

I have also taught InDesign for the past decade as a university professor, teaching classes like Digital Layout and Design as well as Magazine Design and Production. My students have become page designers, creative specialists, and creative directors at newspapers, magazines, and media companies after graduating. Teaching InDesign in-person has enabled me to figure out what teaching methods and exercises are most effective and what areas students have the most questions about.

I love seeing what students come up with after mastering the technical side and using creativity and problem solving to produce amazing designs. Enroll today by becoming a member!