Adobe InDesign Bootcamp
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Create documents that combine typography, images, and consistent page layouts. Noble Desktop's InDesign Bootcamp covers importing and styling text, working with color, building multipage documents, and preparing files for print or PDF. Paragraph styles and parent pages help you manage revisions across brochures, magazines, and longer publications.
What's included with live classes
- Free course retake within one year to refresh the material and gain practice.
- Course workbook
- Class recordings
Overview
If you’ve ever wanted to create the kinds of layouts you see in books, magazines, and brochures, this InDesign course is where to start. You’ll get thorough experience in the software, learning how to bring together text and graphics across multiple pages, style type, import photos, define colors, thread text frames, and a whole lot more. The course doesn’t skip the details either, covering things like paragraph and character styles, nested styles, parent pages, baseline grids, hyphenation, and much more.
What makes it click is the hands-on work. You’ll spend time building real projects including a business card, brochure, restaurant menu, magazine spread, and book. That means you’re not just learning features in isolation but actually putting them to use. You’ll also pick up professional typesetting techniques along the way, and by the time you wrap up, you’ll know how to package files for a print shop and export PDFs for both print and web. It’s the kind of well-rounded training that actually prepares you to hit the ground running.
Who this course is for
This class is a good fit for: Beginners without previous design experience who want to learn InDesign. Marketers, publishers, and other professionals looking to add InDesign to their skill sets. Designers who know other Adobe apps and want to learn InDesign.
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- Live tuition
- $975
- Course length
- 18 hours
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Self-paced tuition & enrollment
Learn through recorded lessons on your own schedule.
- Tuition
- $975
- Course length
- 30 hours
- Format
- Self-paced online
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
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Curriculum
What you'll learn
- Create layouts with text, color, and graphics
- Import and style text
- Create and apply color
- Create short or long documents such as brochures, business cards, restaurant menus, magazines, and books
- Prepare your files for final output: printing or PDF
- Create and edit paragraph/character styles to easily format and change text throughout a design
- Use parent pages to control the layout of multi-page documents
Course syllabus
Section 1
Business Card: Setting Up a File & Adding the Logo
- Setting Default Preferences
- Setting Up a File
- Importing & Sizing a Vector Graphic (the Logo)
Business Card: Adding Text
- Creating Text Frames
- Basic Text Styling
- Loading Adobe Fonts
Business Card: Colors
- Removing the Default Color Swatches
- Creating & Editing Color Swatches
- Swapping Out Graphics
Business Card: Adding a 2nd Page (the Back) with QR Code
- Creating the Back of the Business Card (a Second Page)
- Creating QR Codes
- Navigating Documents (Zooming and Panning)
- Copying Appearance With the Eyedropper Tool
Business Card: OpenType Settings
- Setting up a Document Bleed
- Placing Images
- Combining Text & Images
- White Type on a Black Background
Section 2
Brochure: Creating 2-Page Spreads & Cropping Photos
- Setting Up Spreads (Facing Pages)
- Importing Pixel-Based Photos
- Cropping & Scaling Photos
- Checking Image Resolution to Ensure Good Print Quality
Brochure: Layers, Visual Effects, & Blending Modes
- Creating & Locking Layers
- Rotating Objects
- Drop Shadows
- Gradient Feather
- Blending Modes
Brochure: Fine-Tuning Type: Kerning/Tracking & More
- Paragraph Spacing
- Working in Picas (Instead of Inches)
- Metrics vs. Optical Kerning
- Kerning vs. Tracking
- Variable Fonts
Brochure: Working with Tabbed Text
- Setting Tab Marker Positions
- Adding & Styling Leader Characters
Preparing for Professional Printing: PDFs & Packaging Files
- Exporting PDFs for printing or emailing to clients
- Packaging InDesign Files
Section 3
Restaurant Menu: Paragraph Styles
- Creating & Editing Paragraph Styles
- Using the Eyedropper to Apply Paragraph Styles
- Using Find/Change to Apply Paragraph Styles
- Paragraph Rules
Restaurant Menu: Character Styles & Nested Styles
- Creating & Editing Character Styles
- Using the Eyedropper to Apply Character Styles
- Using Nested Styles to Automatically Apply Character Styles
- Disabling Hyphenation
Restaurant Menu: Keep With Next & Spanning Columns
- Keep with Next Paragraph
- Spanning Columns
Section 4
Restaurant Menu: Bulleted Lists
- Styling Bulleted Lists
- Forced Line Breaks
Magazine: Laying Out a Page & Threading Text Frames
- Creating a Magazine Page Layout with Text & Images
- Threading Text Frames
Magazine: Paragraph Styles & Baseline Grid
- Creating Paragraph Styles
- Setting Up the Baseline Grid
- Making Paragraph Styles Use the Baseline Grid
Magazine: Color Themes & Custom Shapes
- Removing the Default Color Swatches
- Using the Color Theme Tool to Create Swatches
- Using the Direct Selection Tool to Alter a Shape
- Using Pathfinder to Create a Custom Shaped Photo Frame
Section 5
Magazine: Text Wrap
- Using Text Wrap
- Wrap Around Object Shape vs Jump Object
- Creating a Circle Photo with Text Wrap
- Using an Invisible Shape to Wrap Text
Magazine: Parent Pages
- Adding Page Numbers
- Creating a Layer for Parent Page Content
- Creating More Parent Pages
Magazine: Adding Pages & Controlling Page Order
- Adding a New Page at a Specific Location
- Allow Document Pages to Shuffle ,
- Adding a Spread Between Other Pages
- Applying a Parent Page to Multiple Pages at Once
Book: File Setup & Parent Pages
- Setting Up the Document
- Importing the Text
- Setting Up the Parent Page
- Adding Page Numbers
- Adding a Chapter Title to All Left Pages
Section 6
Book: Paragraph & Character Styles
- Creating Paragraph Styles
- Apply Styles Quickly Using Keystrokes & Find/Change
- Drop Caps
Book: Hyphenation & Keep Options
- Turning Off Hyphenation
- Setting Custom Hyphenation & Keep Options
- Using Discretionary Hyphens to Control or Prevent Hyphenation
Book: Setting Up & Using a Baseline Grid
- Baseline Grid Settings & Making Paragraph Styles Use It
Book: Running Heads & Chapter Opener Pages
- Setting Up & Inserting a Running Header Text Variable
- Setting Roman Numeral Page Numbers for Frontmatter
- Adding a Section Start to Set the True Page 1
- Applying a Different Parent Page for Chapter Opener Pages
- Applying a [None] Parent Page
Self-paced course
Learn through recorded lessons on your own schedule.
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
View self-paced tuition & enrollmentLearn Adobe InDesign in this self-paced course. You’ll gain comprehensive skills in creating page layouts with text, graphics, and multiple pages. Learn to style text, import images, define colors, thread text frames, and more to produce professional-quality layouts.
Work on real-world projects such as books, magazines, and brochures while learning paragraph and character styles, parent pages, baseline grids, hyphenation, and more. You’ll also learn to package files for printing, generate PDFs for digital or print, and apply essential professional typesetting techniques.
Who the self-paced course is for
This self-paced InDesign course is ideal for: Beginners with no prior design experience who want to learn Adobe InDesign Marketers, publishers, and other professionals seeking to expand their skill set with InDesign Designers who know other Adobe apps and want to learn InDesign.
Self-paced curriculum
What you'll learn self-paced
- Create layouts with text, color, and graphics
- Import and style text
- Create and apply color
- Create short or long documents such as brochures, business cards, restaurant menus, magazines, and books
- Prepare your files for final output: printing or PDF
- Create and edit paragraph/character styles to easily format and change text throughout a design
- Use parent pages to control the layout of multi-page documents
Self-paced syllabus
Section 1
Business Card: Setting Up a File & Adding the Logo
- Setting Default Preferences
- Setting Up a File
- Importing & Sizing a Vector Graphic (the Logo)
Business Card: Adding Text
- Creating Text Frames
- Basic Text Styling
- Loading Adobe Fonts
Business Card: Colors
- Removing the Default Color Swatches
- Creating & Editing Color Swatches
- Swapping Out Graphics
Business Card: Adding a 2nd Page (the Back) with QR Code
- Creating the Back of the Business Card (a Second Page)
- Creating QR Codes
- Navigating Documents (Zooming and Panning)
- Copying Appearance With the Eyedropper Tool
Business Card: OpenType Settings
- Setting up a Document Bleed
- Placing Images
- Combining Text & Images
- White Type on a Black Background
Section 2
Brochure: Creating 2-Page Spreads & Cropping Photos
- Setting Up Spreads (Facing Pages)
- Importing Pixel-Based Photos
- Cropping & Scaling Photos
- Checking Image Resolution to Ensure Good Print Quality
Brochure: Layers, Visual Effects, & Blending Modes
- Creating & Locking Layers
- Rotating Objects
- Drop Shadows
- Gradient Feather
- Blending Modes
Brochure: Fine-Tuning Type: Kerning/Tracking & More
- Paragraph Spacing
- Working in Picas (Instead of Inches)
- Metrics vs. Optical Kerning
- Kerning vs. Tracking
- Variable Fonts
Brochure: Working with Tabbed Text
- Setting Tab Marker Positions
- Adding & Styling Leader Characters
Preparing for Professional Printing: PDFs & Packaging Files
- Exporting PDFs for printing or emailing to clients
- Packaging InDesign Files
Section 3
Restaurant Menu: Paragraph Styles
- Creating & Editing Paragraph Styles
- Using the Eyedropper to Apply Paragraph Styles
- Using Find/Change to Apply Paragraph Styles
- Paragraph Rules
Restaurant Menu: Character Styles & Nested Styles
- Creating & Editing Character Styles
- Using the Eyedropper to Apply Character Styles
- Using Nested Styles to Automatically Apply Character Styles
- Disabling Hyphenation
Restaurant Menu: Keep With Next & Spanning Columns
- Keep with Next Paragraph
- Spanning Columns
Section 4
Restaurant Menu: Bulleted Lists
- Styling Bulleted Lists
- Forced Line Breaks
Magazine: Laying Out a Page & Threading Text Frames
- Creating a Magazine Page Layout with Text & Images
- Threading Text Frames
Magazine: Paragraph Styles & Baseline Grid
- Creating Paragraph Styles
- Setting Up the Baseline Grid
- Making Paragraph Styles Use the Baseline Grid
Magazine: Color Themes & Custom Shapes
- Removing the Default Color Swatches
- Using the Color Theme Tool to Create Swatches
- Using the Direct Selection Tool to Alter a Shape
- Using Pathfinder to Create a Custom Shaped Photo Frame
Section 5
Magazine: Text Wrap
- Using Text Wrap
- Wrap Around Object Shape vs Jump Object
- Creating a Circle Photo with Text Wrap
- Using an Invisible Shape to Wrap Text
Magazine: Parent Pages
- Adding Page Numbers
- Creating a Layer for Parent Page Content
- Creating More Parent Pages
Magazine: Adding Pages & Controlling Page Order
- Adding a New Page at a Specific Location
- Allow Document Pages to Shuffle ,
- Adding a Spread Between Other Pages
- Applying a Parent Page to Multiple Pages at Once
Book: File Setup & Parent Pages
- Setting Up the Document
- Importing the Text
- Setting Up the Parent Page
- Adding Page Numbers
- Adding a Chapter Title to All Left Pages
Section 6
Book: Paragraph & Character Styles
- Creating Paragraph Styles
- Apply Styles Quickly Using Keystrokes & Find/Change
- Drop Caps
Book: Hyphenation & Keep Options
- Turning Off Hyphenation
- Setting Custom Hyphenation & Keep Options
- Using Discretionary Hyphens to Control or Prevent Hyphenation
Book: Setting Up & Using a Baseline Grid
- Baseline Grid Settings & Making Paragraph Styles Use It
Book: Running Heads & Chapter Opener Pages
- Setting Up & Inserting a Running Header Text Variable
- Setting Roman Numeral Page Numbers for Frontmatter
- Adding a Section Start to Set the True Page 1
- Applying a Different Parent Page for Chapter Opener Pages
- Applying a [None] Parent Page
What's included with self-paced
- Adobe InDesign (1 month)
- Course workbook
- Self-paced video lessons
Self-paced lessons
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Adobe InDesign Bootcamp (Self-Paced)
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Course Overview & Setup
Lesson 1: InDesign Basics & Business Card Design
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Discover how to use Adobe InDesign to create professional print and digital layouts, including business cards, brochures, magazines, and books.
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Document Setup & Importing Graphics
Lesson 1: InDesign Basics & Business Card Design
10:00
Set up Adobe InDesign correctly by resetting preferences, adjusting measurement units, and understanding print versus digital presets.
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Adding Text
Lesson 1: InDesign Basics & Business Card Design
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Add and position text frames for a business card using placement techniques and alignment tools.
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Color & Swatches
Lesson 1: InDesign Basics & Business Card Design
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Create and manage color swatches for consistent print design using CMYK values.
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QR Code Design
Lesson 1: InDesign Basics & Business Card Design
16:56
Design the back of a business card with a QR code and custom border styling.
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OpenType Features
Lesson 1: InDesign Basics & Business Card Design
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Activate Adobe Fonts and explore OpenType features to enhance typography with swashes and advanced character options.
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Brochure Setup
Lesson 2: Brochure Design & Layout
10:00
Create a folded brochure layout with correct page sizing, facing pages, bleed settings, and page numbering control.
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Layers & Images
Lesson 2: Brochure Design & Layout
10:00
Organize brochure layouts using layers to manage background and content.
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Advanced Typography
Lesson 2: Brochure Design & Layout
31:59
Refine brochure typography using paragraph spacing, hidden characters, measurement units, and picas.
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Tab Formatting
Lesson 2: Brochure Design & Layout
12:12
Format pricing layouts using tabbed text and custom tab stops in Adobe InDesign.
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Exporting PDFs
Lesson 2: Brochure Design & Layout
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Prepare print-ready and client-ready PDFs by configuring bleed, crop marks, compression, and color conversion settings.
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Menu Setup & Leading
Lesson 3: Restaurant Menu Design
10:00
Understand leading (line spacing) in Adobe InDesign and configure it as a paragraph-based setting for consistent typography control.
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Character Styles
Lesson 3: Restaurant Menu Design
10:00
Create and apply character styles to format prices and labels independently from paragraph styles.
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Keep Options & Spanning
Lesson 3: Restaurant Menu Design
6:35
Prevent awkward text breaks using Keep Options and span headings across multiple columns for cleaner layouts.
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Bulleted Lists
Lesson 4: Magazine Layout Design
10:11
Convert comma-separated text into formatted bulleted lists using Find/Change and custom bullet styling.
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Magazine Layout Setup
Lesson 4: Magazine Layout Design
17:38
Create a professional magazine spread with facing pages, modular column grids, bleed settings, and photo placement.
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Magazine Styles
Lesson 4: Magazine Layout Design
13:57
Establish paragraph styles for headings and body text to ensure consistency across magazine articles.
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Color Themes & Shapes
Lesson 4: Magazine Layout Design
13:35
Generate cohesive color palettes using the Color Theme tool and apply them to typography and graphic elements.
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Text Wrap Techniques
Lesson 5: Advanced Magazine Techniques
10:00
Create dynamic layouts by wrapping text around custom shapes and images using Text Wrap settings.
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Page Control
Lesson 5: Advanced Magazine Techniques
11:45
Control page insertion, document reflow, and section numbering in Adobe InDesign.
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Book Document Setup
Lesson 5: Advanced Magazine Techniques
19:59
Set up a multi-page book layout in InDesign using primary text frames and smart text reflow.
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Book Styles
Lesson 6: Book Design & Typography
10:00
Create professional paragraph styles for chapter numbers, chapter titles, body text, and drop caps.
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Hyphenation & Justification
Lesson 6: Book Design & Typography
Improve book typography by refining hyphenation settings, justification controls, and paragraph composition.
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Baseline Grid Setup
Lesson 6: Book Design & Typography
5:48
Align body text across facing pages using a baseline grid for consistent vertical rhythm.
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Running Heads & Parent Pages
Lesson 6: Book Design & Typography
17:52
Create dynamic running heads using text variables that automatically update by chapter title.
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Course Outro
Lesson 6: Book Design & Typography
0:13
Reinforce key Adobe InDesign skills learned throughout the course and encourage continued practice to build speed and confidence.
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Course Reviews
Is this course right for you?
Choose this course when your work involves publications, marketing materials, or other multipage layouts. The certification program is a separate option for learners who also want tutoring and preparation for the Adobe InDesign exam.