Master InDesign in 4 Hours | Free Course for Beginners

Watch + join BYOL for the full InDesign Essentials Course and 10% off: https://byol.com/indesl26 Download the Exercise Files: https://byol.com/indesl262 Download the Cheat Sheet: https://byol.com/indesl263 Download InDesign: https://byol.com/ides26l Conquer Adobe InDesign with designer and educator Khara Plicanic! In this beginner-friendly course, you’ll learn how to use InDesign as a professional layout tool for real-world design work, from flyers and brochures to forms, magazines, and social media templates. Together with Khara, you’ll tackle: – Navigating InDesign’s interface, panels, tools, and workspace with confidence – Setting up documents for print, digital, and social media projects – Placing, scaling, linking, and managing images, graphics, and logos – Using paragraph, character, and object styles to build consistent, editable designs – Creating flyers, tri-fold brochures, fillable PDF forms, magazine-style layouts, and social templates – Preparing files for professional output with bleeds, preflight, packaging, and export settings – Building reusable systems with parent pages, text variables, templates, and linked assets So open up InDesign, roll up your sleeves, and let’s get started! No prior InDesign or design experience required Who this course is for: – Complete beginners with zero InDesign experience – Designers ready to create more polished, professional layout work – Photoshop and Illustrator users who want to understand how InDesign can enhance their workflow – Creatives, freelancers, and small business owners creating marketing materials, forms, magazines, presentations, or social content – Anyone who has opened InDesign, felt overwhelmed, and wants a clear, approachable path forward What you’ll learn: – How to download, install, and set up Adobe InDesign – Understanding InDesign’s interface, panels, tools, workspaces, and shortcuts – How InDesign works alongside Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge, and Acrobat – Setting up documents for print, digital, and social media projects – Working with images, graphics, frames, links, and resolution – Creating flyers, brochures, forms, magazine layouts, and social media templates – Using guides, grids, margins, columns, bleeds, and parent pages to build flexible layout systems – Formatting text with paragraph styles, character styles, object styles, and nested styles – Working with threaded text frames, overset text, text wrap, drop caps, anchored objects, and text on a path – Creating bulleted lists, numbered lists, tables, pull quotes, page numbers, and tables of contents – Building fillable PDF forms with text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, buttons, and signatures – Using interactive features and exporting print-ready and interactive PDFs – Troubleshooting missing links, missing fonts, low-resolution images, overset text, and preflight errors – Packaging InDesign files properly for sharing, archiving, or client handoff – Building reusable templates, parent pages, and text variables for efficient workflows – Creating social media layouts in multiple formats from a single document – Completing multiple hands-on projects based on realistic creative briefs – Downloadable exercise files, templates, fonts, and project assets to follow along – Practical workflows, shortcuts, and production techniques used by working designers 0:00 Course Introduction 2:43 Your First Poster Design 18:06 Finding Your Client Brief & Assets 25:56 Touring the InDesign Workspace 34:59 Setting Up Colour Swatches 41:47 Setting Up Your Flyer Document 1:10:55 Adding and Styling Headline Text 1:16:58 Styling Event Details Text 1:23:19 Working with Strokes & Alignment 1:30:06 Logo, Arranging Objects & PDF Export 1:38:24 Exporting a JPEG for Sharing 1:43:55 Exploring Brochure Templates 1:48:48 Setting Up Bleeds for Print 1:56:17 Creating Guides & Placing Cover Images 2:03:25 Setting Preferences & Adding a Logo Fill 2:09:25 Introducing Paragraph Styles 2:18:46 Building the H1 Header Style 2:25:19 Creating H2 & Body Text Styles 2:31:08 Threading Text Between Frames 2:38:59 Anchoring Images to Text 2:44:01 Customising Anchored Object Options 2:57:47 Applying Anchor Styles & Composing Images 3:07:25 Placing vs. Pasting Vector Graphics 3:13:41 Creating Character Styles for Bold Text 3:21:59 Building a Custom Bulleted List 3:33:50 Placing Text & Building a Numbered List 3:40:41 Adding Lettered List Answers 3:45:43 Fine-Tuning Paragraph Spacing 3:50:34 Exporting Your Brochure for Print 3:57:12 Wrapping Up the Course Join the Bring Your Own Laptop Facebook Group: https://www.byol.com/FB Follow me on Instagram: https://www.byol.com/IG Follow me on TikTok: https://www.byol.com/tiktok Follow me on Twitter: https://x.com/danlovesadobe Join the LinkedIn Group: https://www.byol.com/LINKEDIN/ Connect with Khara: https://kharaplicanic.com/