InDesign Beginner Tutorial
Exercise Files:
https://tinyurl.com/yx74uwy5
Who it's for: Curious beginners to advanced creatives working in any industry.
What it is: A multifaceted content layout program that allows for the creation of posters, brochures, newsletters, books, basic illustration, special effects, and interactivity.
What you'll learn: We begin with learning the interface and workspace to drawing and manipulating shapes, applying color, and understanding and implementing typography. Then, we get into a fun series of lessons on placing images, editing images, and text wrapping. Next, we do a deep dive into paragraph, character, and object styles. We explore the valuable Master pages, and learn about exporting and packaging our documents for publishing. In our advanced course, we cover data merging and how to create a Table of Contents and interactive form. We also go deeper into nested styles including Character, Paragraph, and Object styles. Finally, we get creating with some of our favorite vector and shape manipulation tools, and explore how to use the Creative Cloud Libraries more effectively to share and utilize all of your new assets and tools.
Start 0:00
Introduction 0:03
Overview 1:48
Customizing the Interface 4:52
Navigation 13:54
Creating New Documents 21:44
Overview of the Pages Panel 28:07
Creating Posters 35:26
Placing Images and Adding Text 51:23
Working with Images (Part 1) 56:23
Working with Images (Part 2) 1:08:06
Creating an Image Grid 1:16:14
Aligning Objects 1:19:13
Working with Links 1:23:53
Image Effects and Eyedropper 1:30:59
Object Styles 1:38:34
Typographical Settings 1:48:22
Placing Text from Word 2:02:56
Text Frame Options 2:13:51
Text Threads and Hidden Characters 2:19:33
Paragraph Styles 2:27:41
Bullets, Numbering, and Paragraph Styles 2:40:21
Character Styles 2:45:30
Working with Color and Swatches 2:51:49
Working Gradients 3:01:08
Master Pages 3:11:13
Preferences, Spellcheck, and Display Performance 3:29:40
Exporting and Packaging 3:40:15
Conclusion 3:57:26
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