InDesign 2023
Bootcamp Training Course
This bootcamp you will take you from an InDesign beginner to expert. You will complete a series of Real World publishing projects including an advertisement, a magazine, a corporate brochure, a novel, a movie poster, a receipe book, a restaurant menu, a travel guide, pitch deck, and much more.
Our instructors will lead you step-by-step through each project, teaching the correct workflow, how to master each tool and useful shortcuts to speed up your production. You will leave the course fully competent and able to use InDesign in a professional design environment.
What's Included
- Certificate of Course Completion
- Training Manual
- FREE Class Repeat (valid for 6 months)


Live face-to-face instructor
No minimum class size - all classes guaranteed to run!
No prior experience of InDesign is needed. Training available on Mac and PC.
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Detailed Course Outline
- New document settings
- Creating a document
- Layout and navigation
- Creating a text frame
- Working with and re-sizing text frames
- Importing and managing graphics
- Importing and managing text
- Creating a document for Print
- Setting the bleed
- Working with titles and subtitles
- Creating decorative elements
- Simple layout sketching
- Working with a multi-column document
- Placing and formatting images
- Text wrapping
- Setting up the document as a 2-Page spread
- Working with facing pages
- Working with and formatting bulleted lists
- Working with FX to solve object issues
- Working with decorative fonts
- Printing as a spread
- Simple web export
- Segments, Anchor Points, Curves
- Creating Custom Shapes & Page Elements
- Working with Effects to enhance graphics
- Simple Perspective graphic creation
- Layout a one-page recipe with images
- Create custom graphics elements
- Learn how to use the Direct Selection Tool
- Working with Swatches
- High Quality vector map creation
- Using the Ellipse Frame Tool
- Working with Multiple FX on single object
- Setting up a 2-Sided Project for Print
- Working with custom-sized documents
- Bar Codes/QR Codes and Beyond
- Understanding Basic Blending Modes
- The various ways to set up a multi-panel project
- Layout workflows and design
- Batch design tricks
- Print project outputs
- Create and manage a multi-page document
- Turning on and modifying the Baseline Grid
- Stylizing Text with Paragraph Styles
- Managing multiple columns
- Adding Metadata to media
- Live vs Static Captions
- Manipulating Master Pages
- Creating Page Numbers & Repetitive Graphics
- Understanding the various brochure folds
- Learn about 3rd party plugins for lnDesign
- Pro Brochure Workflows
- Converting points to Bezier Curves
- Re-create a Polaroid-style frame for Images
- Working with FX to create shadows
- Layering Graphics for visual impact
- Working with Slugs
- Advanced PDF Presets Information
- What happens to your color on export
- Exporting for the Printer
- Understanding Color Conversion
- Packaging your Project for Archive or Transfer
- Stylizing Tables & Content
- Excel and Text to lnDesign Tables
- Text to Table Conversions
- Creative Table Design and more!
- Two Ways of Adding GREP in your Projects
- Composing a GREP Phrase
- Using GREP to apply conditions
- GREP in Paragraph and Character Styles
- Extensions & scripts to know about
- Installing extensions & scripts
- Managing lists, style modifications, sorting functions
- Batch image treatments
- The Anatomy of a Book
- Setting up a standard trade book
- Creating Book Styles for easy formatting
- Formatting, Numbering & Defining Content
- Importing content from Word files and more!
- Eliminate "Runts" or Forced Line Breaks
- Preparing content for a TOC
- Creating a table of contents
- Stylizing a table of contents
- Prepping a document for an Index
- Creating an Index
- Working with Scripts to manage data
- What are XMLs? How are they used?
- Setup for 6" x 9" Trade Book with 200 Pages
- Creating a document with a Spine
- Manipulating multiple pages as one document
- Working with Photoshop and lnDesign
- Working with Importing layered content
- Documents vs Book Projects
- INDB File Formats
- Anatomy of the Book Panel
- Synchronizing, Preflighting, Error Reporting
- Creating a Presentation or Pitch Deck document
- Defining and labeling Sections
- Setting up Pitch Deck Master Pages
- Creative Continuity with Master Pages
- Creative Page Titles with FX
- Working with Object Styles
- Formatting Text using Styles and Next Style
- Creating a Gallery-Style TOC
- Understanding Clippings Masks
- Creating a Clipping Mask
- Pitch Deck Tweaks
- Exporting for PowerPoint, Web, PDF & Print
- Exploring Interactive PDFs
- Create and manage Hyperlinks
- Interactive In-Document Navigation
- How to embed Video and Audio
- Buttons and Forms menu
- Testing & Exporting an Interactive PDF
Our outlines are a guide to the content covered in a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class.