GDES-210 fall 2023 / David Ramos, American University Design

Learning InDesign

In this class, you’ll rely heavily on InDesign. You’ll need to learn the program in order to complete assignments in this course. We’ll be using the LinkedIn Learning tutorial.

Getting InDesign

InDesign is available in the design program labs in Katzen. If you want to run InDesign on your own machine, you can subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud, which costs $20/month with a student discount.

LinkedIn Learning

You have free access to LinkedIn Learning through the AU Library. The library provides instructions on how to get access to your LinkedIn Learning account.

We’ll use the InDesign 2023 Essential Training tutorial.

Key LinkedIn Learning lessons

Setting up documents

Layers

Text and type

Images

Color

Printing and export