Adobe Indesign: How To Design A Modern Poster | Start To Finish 🖼

it's been 20 years of InDesign so we're making a video sponsored by Adobe for the 20th anniversary of Adobe InDesign specifically it's a minimalistic abstract poster that anyone can really do when they're starting out InDesign it's a great way of understanding composition gridding and also just general balance Adobe sponsored this video and I created one of the poster designs for the 20th anniversary celebrating 20 years of Adobe InDesign and they also sent me a bunch of these pins or badges whatever you want to call them those pins of badges are for you guys I'm doing a giveaway of them if you want to be a part of this make sure you subscribe to the video like comment and share on this video and I will give you a chance to win one of I think 20 of these limited edition pins alright so first things first you will need Adobe InDesign if you don't have it click the link down below and it will take you to Adobe where you can go and get Adobe InDesign if you don't know what InDesign is it's basically a publishing tool for Adobe it allows you to create print media assets such as posters book covers yes you can use Illustrator or Photoshop but InDesign is really for publishing tools and creating different articles of media so in that print media so if you haven't seen the poster that I designed for Adobe here it is up on the screen this is the poster and it was one that I did just to celebrate the idea of creativity and Expressionism and abstract ation I'm going to show you in this video how I made that and you're gonna learn a lot of stuff so go ahead and press create new and you'll get this document box up we want to go to print and then go to a4 you can go to a3 if you want but I prefer a4 make sure the orientation is portrait because most posters are import trait and also don't worry about these margins just yet we'll figure them out later just press create and it'll take you to this box here and you've got a weird guide in the middle ignore that for now so on my screen I've got these windows up of character layers paragraph style character style and swatches if you want one of them up all you have to do is go to window and click on one of these anything with a tick next to it means that it's already open on your screen but the first thing I always do when I'm creating a poster or doing something like this like an advertising poster is I go ahead and create guides now these guides are basically gonna compose a grid for me to work on so the way that we do this is go to layout create guides and a little bit of this dialog box here now this is an important dialog box because this allows us to add grid numbers in here very easily and honestly it's easy you don't have to be picking out the guides now what we need to know is the rows columns and then the gutter so the number of rows that we want I'm gonna go for 20 this is what I normally do the more guides you have the more areas you can add things in and I'm gonna explain it a bit more but 4 columns gonna add 24 just so that we've got more wiggle room and it's not just so asymmetric now for the gutter I always just take it to zero when doing a poster design but basically a gutter is the space in between the guides so you want to add a five millimeters space in between the guides so you know that you've got that space all the way through your document but because we're doing a post-it design we're only using these guides as basically a metronome or a click track to our work then you'll start to see all these guides here now these guides can be taken on and off which is basically just ctrl and semicolon I want my background color to be the pink purple which is the InDesign color scheme so I'm going to go to this rectangle over here and then I'm going to zoom out a bit and I'm gonna go to the top here all the way down and create a square nothing's happened so what we need to do is flip the color because right now we've got no color and a stroke so I'm gonna flip them by pressing shift and X that's going to flip it but it's all black so double click on this and then put the input color to this one which I pre copied which is e83 b83 that's the hex code I would suggest now to go to illustrator because we need a topic for this poster now the topic of your poster could be your town your name who you are what you do or a passion my topic is abstract ation and simple shapes adobe provided an asset to me which is what I use in my original poster which is this the twentieth anniversary and I'm going to be using it in this poster designed to show you how I embedded it to the poster so all these other shapes that you see here are just assets to the design you can buy assets or you could create them I normally create these assets based on the topic that I am about to show people so for instance if it was like a gig poster I would put musical notes in there or guitar strings or I would use you know sound waves in there and those would be assets because they conform to the context of what we're trying to show the next stage is imagery now I want to create a sort of abstract ation image I like abstract art or dripping paints and I think it's cool to add that find out medium into post it looks cool it looks nerdy I like it now you can use Adobe stock for these images but all you need to do is go and search for some images for abstract painting well suggest to do is to create a folder and download them into that folder the reason why is because InDesign needs to link these assets together for it to work otherwise InDesign doesn't like it when it can't find the image so I've got all my images of place right here into my document box okay so the next thing I need to do is compose now what I love to do in InDesign is basically using shapes that are simple to get a cool composition so what I'm going to do very quickly is just go ahead and create a new layer up here cook all these shapes now I'm going to start to add some shapes around here I'm going to forget about this pink line there but I'm going to start to add some shapes because I know I like these shapes that we've got going on and I'm going to use the grid now the idea of this grid is that when we use it we keep in line with the grid as much as possible it's kind of like a guide within your work so I know that if I had that there it looks pretty decent all the way around but what I want to do is keep that going all the way across I want to keep everything within a grid to create this abstract ation so obviously this square isn't going to be a square it's going to be an image and the reason why I put a square there is just a block a place there so we have an image in place for that one then I'm going to do is basically repeat the process using the guides creating these outlines like so there's now making sure things that line up and this is a really easy way of using the grid tool and you can experiment or do whatever you want to do with this is quite literally up to you how you respond to the design that you're creating so I've got that there I want this to be my sort of art style for now I've got the basic fundamentals of what I want I'm gonna then select all of my shapes and then right click I'm going to go down to content what we're doing here is we're selecting a content for the shapes it could be unassigned and remained as a vector shape if you wanted to but I know I want this to be a graphic so I'm going to press graphic it's gonna give you these at red lines in the center of it now these red lines show me that there's an image that could be dragged into that well I'm going to do is get my file browser open I'm gonna import the image that I want into this one by just dragging it in so now we have somewhat weird-looking work there what can we do with this well easiest thing we can do is go ahead and highlight this and go to our blending options by going to opacity when we've highlighted this and go to a pasty go from normal and the cure to multiply and that will create a curve blending mode into this work which looks kind of cool now all we need to do is repeat the same for these three objects here and any other objects but I'm just working on this first pipe down here for now so in fact I'm gonna bring this down just one little notch there I'm gonna bring this up here and bring that up a little knotch in line with our work so instantly I'm going to go ahead and use a different image for these things just randomly placing them in for different images that kind of like the look of them and we're going to scale all these images down and we can move the images scale them do whatever we need it might take a bit of like getting used to we'll do the same for this I mean very different textures doing this is the coolest part about creating something like this okay I like the look of that now again we can go ahead and play with the blend mode so just go ahead and highlight those go to the opacity and change the blend modes to something cool that maybe overlay would work maybe not we can't really see it too much maybe color Dodge that could work because it looks white now and looks very interesting so what I could do is keep one on I change the rest maybe go to multiply again to see what that looks like I like multiply as well now I'm gonna work on some of the assets of this so I'm gonna do is when I'm in Illustrator I'm going to select one of the assets copy it go back to InDesign paste it in and we have now got a shape that we can add content to so I can add this shape as a image shape so we could go ahead and bring in I don't know this again and it'll match inside of there we do the same we just add to multiply and we've got a shape right there reason why I create these shapes is because it creates a different element it's easier to do it beforehand so you can experiment with what you have instead of creating the shapes on the fly create them beforehand and have some fun with them and see how you can fit them in I'm also going to bring in my InDesign graphic just here so I'm gonna bring your answers in these corners so we've got a bit of a bleed there so I like the size of that something else I'm going to do is going to start copying this white strip around the reason being is because you can create a lot of cool shapes with this I'm gonna bring it onto its side we're gonna create some white strips here and because of the grid we can go ahead and bring this down we've got a cool white shape right there we could put this out so it fits perfectly within the grid we could bring this out again I'm not gonna bring any text into this version of the post I just want to show you how to grid with basic shapes but if you wanted to you can be pretty simply all you have to do is going to illustrate an outline your text so all I've done in my assets is basically create this 20 years adobe which forms into his little block or a grid which I kind of enjoyed to watch so I'm going to select this it's been outlined and we're gonna copy it back in to InDesign that's being copied back in we're gonna move we're gonna move our graphic here and take this graphic and put it up here and then fit it in within the grid so using these two lines as the grid but then the last graphic that I'm going to use that I always sort of use a bit balanced in here is this which is going to sit just generally appear next to the Adobe InDesign 2020 sign and the reason why it's going to sit up there is to give some sort of balance so it's fitting in with the guides everything's working they see these crosses here well we want to go ahead and move them to the right so they fit in with this graphic here now there is your basic abstract ation poster design I created this a bit different to the one that I actually created a foot Adobe but the way that I created this is super simple and easy and it helps with practicing it's really nice to experiment I want to thank Adobe for sponsoring this video if you want to go ahead and get adobe indesign then click that link down below and don't forget to subscribe like and comment and share this video so you're in it for a chance to win one of these bad boys let me know if you want to win one in the comments below thank you so much for watching and I'll catch you in the next video see you soon [Music]

Channel: Will Paterson

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Length: 12min 1sec (721 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 09 2019