Adobe InDesign Pro Book & Magazine Design for Beginners

The Adobe InDesign Club for Creatives: Book and Magazine Design

My name is Tim, and I’m a graphic designer and illustrator. In this course, we are going to learn how to use InDesign to an excellent level so that whatever you need to create, from business cards to brochures, has a professional finish. InDesign is a fantastic graphic design programme for layout, particularly for print design. This course is for complete beginners, and there is no need for any experience in InDesign or graphic design. We will work through real-world book design projects, starting with a simple vintage typographic poster. We’ll make dust jackets for children’s books, layouts for hobby and recipe books and lots more.

Along the way, we will learn to work with colour, picking your colours and then working with these and combining them with your own font selection. I am going to give you all the tips and tricks I’ve learned over the years because my goal is for you to get to the end of this video series and all the skills necessary to make beautiful InDesign documents with confidence and a sense of design flair. I am here to ensure that you have the very best experience in learning book design, so if you have any questions, please reach out. I am always up for a chat! This is a club-style course, meaning that I am continually updating it and adding new projects for a lifetime of learning InDesign.

Are you looking to learn practical and essential Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop software skills to create professional graphics, designs and typography with a focus on professional book and magazine covers and page layouts?

• Do you want help getting your fiction or nonfiction book ready for a publisher?
  

• Do you have personal or original artwork that you want to digitalise?

If the answer to any of those questions is yes, then this course has been designed with you in mind.

This course is for everyone interested in using Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop to create professional graphic design for all types of publications. It also teaches the skills you will need to digitise your artwork from sketchbooks to handwritten recipe collections and create high-impact publications, book spreads and magazine covers.

I am going to give you all the tips and tricks I’ve learned over the years because my goal is for you to get to the end of this video series and all the skills necessary to make beautiful InDesign documents with confidence and a sense of design flair. I am here to ensure that you have the very best experience in learning book design, so if you have any questions, please reach out. I am always up for a chat!

We will use Adobe InDesign throughout the course to develop and build your software skills and we’ll also cover:

• How to scan and prepare images

• How to organise a book or magazine

• And then we’ll go deeper into typography, body text and design fonts

• You will learn about page masters, page furniture, pagination and flow

• Finally, you will learn how to create the 2D book cover design with the front cover and to the book cover design with front, back and spine.

• You will also learn how to create the 2D book cover mockup so that you can easily present your book cover designs professionally with just a few simple clicks.

On completion of this course, you will be able to design any publication, book or magazine cover and format the book or magazine layout using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign.

In addition, you will also benefit from:

1. Knowledge checks throughout the course to support your learning journey

2. Practical examples and assignments that you can follow to practice what you learn throughout the course

3. Full support through Udemy’s online learning community

4. Full suite of resources, which means you can learn using the documents you see the instructor using on the course

Learn from the approachable and patient instructor Tim Pond, who is an experienced educator as well as an author and illustrator of “The Field Guide to Drawing and Sketching Animals” which has been published in ten languages. Tim will take you through this online course at a gentle pace, perfect for beginners.

Please note that I have remastered all the sound levels on this course to ensure the audio is tickety-boo! In the resources, you will find a forty-page Indesign support booklet. New projects will be regularly added to this club-style course, and I look forward to welcoming you!

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