Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates
Lesson 21 from: Adobe InDesign FundamentalsDaniel Walter Scott
Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates
Lesson 21 from: Adobe InDesign FundamentalsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
21. Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates
Lessons
Overview
1InDesign Tutorial Basics Class Introduction
01:50 2Exercise files & Projects
02:39 3What Does Adobe InDesign do?
01:34 4What are the differences between InDesign and PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark?
05:10PROJECT 1: One page flyer
5How to change MM to Inches & changing UK to US dictionary in InDesign?
01:39 6New document in InDesign - what is bleed & slug?
08:08How to create your own RGB & CMYK colors in Adobe InDesign
08:39 8How do I steal colors from a logo using InDesign?
03:14 9How to color the background of a page in InDesign?
03:33 10Importing resizing rotating & flipping images & Logos inside InDesign
07:53 11How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign
05:46 12How to group, ungroup & rotate images in Adobe InDesign
05:12 13How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign
05:20 14How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign
05:16 15How to make a simple PDF from InDesign
06:43 16How to save your InDesign file as a JPEG
03:18 17Why should I use CC Libraries in InDesign?
05:08 18How to share your InDesign files with others by using package document
04:26 19Class Exercise 1
03:24 20Quiz - One Page Flyer
PROJECT 2: Other people's files
21Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates
04:59 22Working with other people's InDesign documents, missing images
03:12 23How to find missing fonts in InDesign?
04:27 24How to replace images in InDesign?
01:30 25Opacity, transparency and see through ness in Adobe InDesign
02:29 26Why is InDesign adding [Converted] and making me 'save as'
01:06 27What if I can’t find the InDesign file - can I open the PDF?
02:37 28Quiz - Other people's files
PROJECT 3: Company Newsletter/Brochure
29Creating a new company newsletter or brochure, what are spreads in InDesign
06:58 30How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign
05:33 31How do to add automatic page numbering to a InDesign file
04:11 32Removing a master page & deleting parts off the master page in InDesign
02:30 33Production Video 1
02:53 34What is Effective PPI & Image resolution in the InDesign links panel
06:52 35How to add drop shadows to an image or logo in InDesign
04:20 36What is TypeKit used for in Adobe InDesign?
08:37 37How to add the Copyright, Registered & Trademark symbols in InDesign
05:08 38Where can I find the different versions of letters in InDesign - Ligatures.
03:35 39How to add placeholder text & lorem ipsum & get a word count in InDesign
03:04 40Importing Text from Microsoft Word & keeping or removing the formatting
02:58 41Creating Columns in a text box using Adobe InDesign
01:46 42How do I justify text & turn off hyphenation in InDesign?
03:59 43What is the space after & leading in Adobe InDesign?
05:22 44How to underline text with a full width line in Adobe InDesign?
01:53 45How do I make a paragraph style in Adobe InDesign?
06:06 46How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?
04:28 47How to use Find & Change to remove double spaces after a period or full stop.
02:37 48Stealing colours from images, is there a format painter in Adobe InDesign?
03:09 49InDesign Class Exercise 2 - Magazine Spread
04:22 50Quiz - Company Newsletter/Brochure
PROJECT 4: Long Business Document
51How to bring in lots of text into InDesign at once
08:11 52How do I import paragraph styles from another document
12:45 53How do I insert completely blank pages in Adobe InDesign
02:03 54How do I create a gradient in Adobe InDesign
07:20 55Do I need to use layers in Adobe InDesign
05:29 56Opacity advanced, mater marks and Transparency Effects in Adobe InDesign
04:24 57How do I add rounded corners to an image or box in Adobe InDesign?
02:52 58How to add a large first letter to my text aka Drop Cap
02:16 59How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning
02:32 60How do I get text to move around an image or shape using text wrap
03:57 61Why can’t I put text over anything that has text wrap applied?
03:25 62How to draw an arrow or triangle or star in Adobe InDesign
06:40 63How do I put an image inside other shapes like a circle - cropping
02:47 64What is Adobe Stock
04:17 65Where can I find free images & icons that I can use for my business
04:23 66How do I add bullets and numbered lists in Adobe InDesign?
00:51 67How can I create a table inside Adobe InDesign?
07:10 68How do I convert tables from Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel into Adobe InDesign
04:26 69How do I get images to move with the text in Adobe InDesign using anchored objects?
03:22 70How do I create a Line Break, Column Breaks & Page Breaks in Adobe InDesign?
04:16 71How do I make an automatic table of contents in Adobe InDesign?
04:46 72How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?
04:30 73Can I change the numbering of my pages so 1 starts later in the InDesign file?
03:26 74Quiz - Long Business Document
PROJECT 5: Conference Name Badge
75How do I combine Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in InDesign?
09:04 76CLASS EXERCISE: Create your own business card
01:16 77Quiz - Conference Name Badge
What next
78How to create a mockup for your portfolio using InDesign
04:07 79InDesign cheat sheet & shortcuts
12:45 80BONUS: Software Updates
40:41 81What to do after this InDesign tutorial class?
01:07 82Quiz - What Next
Final Quiz
83Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates
Okay, so when you are getting started with in design, you might also be getting started in design in general. So getting ideas for layouts can be quite tough. So inspiration is how you'll grow really quickly is look at the best people around and see what they're doing. We're not copying here, we're getting inspired by and we're appropriating their ideas and using our own content, our own forms, our own colors. Yeah, so just inspiration. So the places to go, Pinterest is an easy one. Is the one in here in front of me. I put in magazine spread spread is two pages side by side and gives you an idea of, you know, just kind of ideas that might get started. You can, once you've signed in you can start putting them to your own boards and you'll have a kind of a collection of things you like. Okay, I like another version. It's very similar Pinterest. It's called Nice. Okay. With two eyes there it is there dot co um I like this one, it's just uh I find a better layout. So I've done the same thi...
ng. I've done a search for a magazine spread, it just removes all the Pinterest kind of branding from it. I like this site just like Pinterest. You can have boards here and when you get them all together, let's have a look at one of my boards, hand drawn type. Okay, you can see here, is that kind of gathering ideas to get your job going. Another really good one is Beyonce Beyonce has some other perks other than just inspiration. I've done magazine spread in here. This is the place that we're going to look at later in the tutorial for your portfolio. Okay. This is where people get founders, designers more and more. Another perk in here is often they'll have like see this one here is not somebody's work so much as it's a photo risk catalog magazine you can download and start using it okay, like a little template. Now, one of the problems often is you'll see this and you'll say, great, here's a really cool cover. I really like it, but you have a different project. Somebody's come to you and said, hey, here's the cover and they haven't said, here's like three words to put on it. They've said, hey, I want you to fill the cover with two pages of word documents and you're like, you don't get to do lovely negative space and big blank areas because you've got to fill it jam packed. I find the best inspiration for those kind of text heavy and your reports brochures kind of really text heavy stuff is to google and your report. So I'm in google here. I've typed in your report. Just add the word pdf publicly listed companies have to go and report their annual reports online. So you will find lots of stuff and I just clicked on a few of these and found like I don't even know what C. R. H. S. I'm just kind of looking at how they're getting around because you see there's a lot of data that have to communicate. They've done some really cool infographics. Okay. They've gone for a three column layout. 123. Okay, so I'm just looking for it for inspiration. Just thinking like I never considered the big type down the side big image. Okay, so getting ideas from this, his BMW S one, you can see somebody's gonna hand you a thing like this, you know, like how am I going to show this Excel graph and actually make it eligible? You can see here they've done a really nice job of kind of clarifying the year that we're at and you just work through some of these really text heavy documents and get an idea about how you might approach it. Another thing you can do is use a starter templates. So in design especially. Okay, if you go to new will file new um you go to print and let's say we're doing some sort of brochure or a magazine, you'll see underneath these blank documents. Now we have these templates. Okay, If you're using an older version of in design, it doesn't work okay. But here we've got some templates and let's say we are doing some sort of, you can see there's a jacket, there's a food magazine layout. Let's click on this and let's click on show preview and it just gives you an idea, you're like, hmm, I like this and you might start with this and you can totally use this and just switch out the images. There's nothing stopping you. But you'll find is you'll end up adjusting it to suit your taste and your content and it will change quite a bit and you'll be able to kind of take ownership of the design and all you do is click download. Okay. You've got to be connected to the Net. It takes a little while. But eventually the only difference is that these images won't be there when you open it, you can see now it's downloaded there. It is there done click open. It's using fonts. We don't currently have. We're gonna look at missing fonts a little bit later on, but we're gonna click sync fonts and hit close. Okay. And you've got a magazine layout. The only trouble is without the images just doesn't look as pretty dessert. But hopefully you've got access to some images for your work. Okay. Otherwise you're gonna have to go to stock library sites and start filling it in. It's a nice way to get started. Now, my parting advice for somebody who's a little stressed out forgetting design ideas is that it does get easier. Nobody's born a good designer. But now you've got an interest and you've got some tools in this area. You'll start keeping an eye out for designs that you like Fonzie like colors you start liking and what will happen after a few projects you'll start knowing what clients like and what they don't like and what's worked and what hasn't. And as you get more experienced, you'll start to be able to pull designs out of thin air, but you're not pulling marathon, you're pulling out of past experiences, successes, wins, losses. So that's gonna be it for our inspiration section. We're going to go through onto the next section where we start updating somebody else's file. Very important.
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Ratings and Reviews
Jerome Clark
I think Dan is very good at explaining and breaking down complex content. I like the way there are lots of small sessions which is good for keeping focus. I would advise anyone who does this course and is taking notes to label which session the notes are referring to as I have struggled to find a few looking back and this helped me. It really made me realise how much I didn't know and had been fudging. Thank you Dan I will be taking plenty more of your courses in the coming months it's been a great help.
Giuseppe Lipari
Excellent course, instructor is great well spoken, clear and a great teacher. I highly recommend this class for beginners and those who learned indesign on their own.