How To Use InDesign Like a Professional - Martin Perhiniak

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okay so let's get started with the InDesign hopefully it's visible enough the screen and let me start first with a simple visual trick or technique that I use quite a lot in InDesign and I'm going to open one of these images so place them into InDesign let me just create quickly a new document here okay chillie let's just changed document setup I'm going to use the landscape for this so when you place in images obviously there's many ways of placing in images into InDesign the way I prefer to do it is to actually go into bridge and drag and drag the image from there or place it from there bridge is a application which I've been using since it came out it's I just really got used to it so the way I usually place things in is drag something and then with command tab or alt tab switch to InDesign and then drop it it's for me it's just a more fluid way of doing things and instead of clicking when you place into something into InDesign I usually click and drag to create the framing which I want to place the image in also holding down space here you can move that frame around before you let go so again just can help to position it exactly where you want it and then we know that in InDesign everything is in within frames so we have a frame that holds the content of this image as well in this case again the image is the content itself so instead of having one frame for the image you can actually create multiple frames using the frame tool you can create a couple of frames okay let's just create three frames for now you can even overlap these frames let me just show you with the overlap these two may be something like that and that maybe we can also rotate these frames around just to create an interesting effect you will see what I'm doing once you have multiple frames okay you can select the image in the background and cut it just say edit cut it removes it completely from the background then you select one of is frames and say Eddie paste into now it keeps the position and the size as it was originally so if I continue doing the same thing you can use a shortcut as well command alt V that pastes in the image into multiple frames the good thing about this is if we select all of these and let's say which is that the avoid stroke around them okay and maybe at the drop shadow immediately creates an interesting effect there for the whole composition the good thing about it is that I can still change the size of these frames okay and I can still create new frames let's say I want to have another small frame here okay maybe rotate it slightly around if I use the same command I can still place in the original image that was still the a bit pasted into command now the only problem with this technique is once I start moving the image so not resizing resizing is fine okay as long as the image stays in place but once you start moving it then it's going to be disconnected from the original placement there's another way of doing the same technique and it's another thing that's good to learn that you can do in InDesign let me just delete all of these and just place in the original image as it was so there's this other technique if I create the rectangles first okay she's going to create three completely separate rectangles and I select these rectangles I can actually turn them into a compound object so you can go into object parts make compound paths shortcut is command 8 of control 8 what happens is that if InDesign is going to consider this as one frame you can see that the cross is now overlapping these rectangles so it became one object which means if I select this image and paste it into this automatically fills in all three of them so I don't have to do it one by one but the biggest advantage probably with this is if I use the white arrow tool I can even move sorry if I select these think no white arrow tool selected I can move them around see and it keeps the image where it was because now they are part of a bigger object and they can also be overlapped you just have to adjust how the overlap works it has its limitations just as the previous one you can you can rotate as well of course so it has its limitations but these are the two techniques where you can combine multiple frames and have an image overlapping those frames this can be used for so many different things one of the things which can make it even more interesting if you combine text into your frames so let's just say I want to create something a bit different from this again I'm going to use the same image but I just create a new layer and I'm going to say okay I would like to have some text here so I use the type tool and I just type in adventure let's say at work and then we are going to change the font I'm going to use that's I don't have that font here let's just use something like this one and then I'm going to make this bigger okay actually impact would be better I need something a bit more bolder text and we'll see a bit more of the image so if you want to use text as a frame for an image it's not commonly done in InDesign it's something you can very quickly do in Photoshop using a clipping layer clip the image onto a text layer but you can actually do that here in InDesign as well you can go to the type menu and just simply create outlines from the text once it's outlined you can paste the image into it I just did the same thing edit paste into okay and then you have the image within the text okay and to take this even further we can also of course have let's say another frame below like that and then we can paste the image in there and paste the image in here and then you can already see a little bit more of the image okay so I just wanted to give you a peek into the like the freedom of what you can achieve if you start playing around with frames and not just constrain yourself tool is the just simple rectangular frame you can use anything as a frame and combining multiple frames to achieve effects and of course don't forget and once you created a frame that frame can also be adjusted you can use the any of those points and create interesting shapes from even a normal rectangle okay you can add a bit of perspective or all momentum into into the whole graphic if we start playing around with things okay I just used direct selection tool and started making changes there okay now let me show you a technical skill nested Styles now this is a very important thing and that's why I'm going to start with it so I'm just going to open this file from the bridge so going to technical enesta Styles just open this document up okay now why is it so important because this is I've been teaching InDesign for almost 10 years and I know for a fact that this is something that almost no one knows about or only those who really look into working with styles working with styles in it is InDesign is is like basic you have to work with Styles otherwise you will just waste a lot of time but working with Styles can be really taken to the next level if you start looking into how stars can be connected to each other creating styles on their own character styles paragraphs as if you already do that trick but if you never start never tried nesting styles then you should definitely look into this there was a company I worked for which was a they have to release a catalog every two months and they have around 10,000 products and I was actually doing a training for them and they told me that they spend weeks on always updating their products in InDesign because it just takes so long to do it nicely in the style because they have a copywriter who writes all the copy and then they got that and they have to update it now there's the desire formatting it's a simplified version of what they had and obviously they have the copy now the problem was that what they did is they had spies set up for each of these so that's one style that's another style and then the titles are actually three different characters or paragraph styles they created and then what they did is they selected that apply the style selecting that apply the other style and they selected these eats one by one applying styles now that's it still better than using no style at all but obviously that's not the way you should work in InDesign because InDesign is probably one of the most smartest applications in the Adobe family if you know what you are doing because there is a way to have one paragraph style that can sort this whole thing out by using embedded or nested character styles so look at this I have that one selected okay and I go to my paragraph Styles panel and there's the product description style it's just one style but as soon as I apply that look at that it applies completely different styles and it knows where it needs to change the formatting and even like find things like the P in this in this column will fall in the same position so it's easier to read or the value again the point is it's easier to read when it's like that then if it's aligned to the left okay so it knows exactly how to align these and it doesn't stop there if they have a product which has more than two lines let's say three lines again it will do it just fine it will know that there's not just one or two lines but there's three lines and if there is more I can't continue typing and you will see let me just make a bit more space here okay I think there might be a bit of a overlap here with styles yeah I use something else here but I'm going to show you how I did this because it's more interesting how it works so basically what you need to do to be able to do this is to set up all these styles as character styles you can see I have product name product a board product abnormal that's actually these three styles okay set them up as character styles and then what you do is you create a paragraph styles and within that paragraph style you go to drop caps and nested styles and there you place in these character styles as nested styles now I'll show you another example where I can actually walk you through this process but this is this is the way it works okay let me show you the actual process I'm going to open another maybe simpler version of this so again this is what we have here we have a simple list of items okay and this is the desired result and this is the actual original copy let's say that one there okay and I created already the character styles there's the the product name the price the stock and the note new or you state so that's how it's going to look at the end so to create the paragraph style I have that one there already but I'm just going to create a new one okay and in this let's say I go for this one test in this I go to top caps and nested style I think I had the original and selected so I'm going to select basic paragraph new and reset to base yes okay so I go to drop caps and nested style and all I do is click on new nested style so what comes first the product name new nested style I choose product name remembered as the character style I say I want this to go through one word okay so the first word is fine but instead of saying that I'm going to use from words because there might be more words like camera a is two words some products might have three words so instead of using a word number I will use tab characters as a division okay so up to the first tab care actor is going to use that and then new nested style the next one is going to be the price again up to the first tab character that's going to stop it so let's see if I use this on this we can see that the first two is working and I'm going to show you the hidden characters command or D or ctrl alt e' sorry i is the shortcut to show hidden characters but they are also here in type show hide hidden characters and you can see those at the tab signs and that's how i'm going to continue so i go back to the product list and because i have the preview and i already applied it here we can actually see it live while i'm doing so if i go again new nested style and i choose now the stock through one tab character again that already is going to work there you see it's already updated and then I go again new nasty style and then you used that's the last stage and then I don't say tab characters I say the forced line break does shift enter or shift return that's what you can see at the end that's the shift return that's the best way to separate your lines most of the time in in InDesign if you don't want to separate a paragraph because return would create a new paragraph you don't want to separate it into paragraphs you just want to start a new line then you use fourth line break so this is all easy so far but the trick comes now how can I repeat this pattern okay I have a pattern of four different styles all you need to do is to create a new nested style at the end and choose repeat which creates a loop of those character styles and that's the trick so once you choose repeat you can even define how many styles you want to repeat so if you had in the beginning one or two that you don't want to repeat only the last four in our case there's no no other styles but the last four I want to repeat I just choose that and then look at that it's perfect already the only thing we have to worked out now is the tabs tabs again very powerful in InDesign you must use tabs if you do anything right similar to this tabs very simple all you need to do is to click here on the ruler to define where you want these to go okay so you can see that each of these positioning can create positioning for those text in there and if you for example want to make sure the in stock is always aligned you can select that tab okay actually that one is probably is that yes so if I select this one here I can change it to this tab you can see that there are four different tab options the align left center align right or align to decimal and in align in you can actually type in the word in and then it's going to align to those words so it will always keep even it's like a hundred in stock or only one in stock it will always align to the word or the letter I okay and that's in in stock it will always be that there so it can be aligned on that decimal okay for character specified character so tabs are also a brilliant way to work out where these things should go I'm just going to set that back to left as well and I'm going to click on ok so remember drop caps and nasty Styles use the repeat at the end very important very useful feature and this again going back to this catalog example here when I use Styles I use a style for the title another style character style for the description and then I use four different styles for these columns so when I use the repeat how many styles do I repeat do you think the last last four so this one that one that one and that one it didn't repeat these two there an example where you don't need to repeat the whole pattern you just wanted to repeat the last four okay so usually in InDesign there's always an option which can do what you need you just need to really look into it and and play around until you find what you need okay so another example a quick one visual example let me switch back yes if you don't have a tab between them yeah if the copy itself is missing tabs or even fourth line breaks at the end they use normal line break then it will mess up the styling of course so in those cases you can always use the fine change feature so for example for double spaced or triple space if someone press that instead of using tab you can always filter those up and immediately change them to tab or if you makes make a selection of all those catalog elements where you see there's something wrong you can see that maybe they didn't use force line breaks you can with the fine change quickly replace all line breaks to force line breaks and that should solve the problem yeah you have to definitely make sure that the copy is good so this company where I showed them how to do this they said they probably saved them around two weeks of work for every two months which is not bad because they did this manually one by one imagine for 10,000 products doing that I felt sorry for whoever had to do that with the old way now they just apply it and it's done and that's how it's supposed to be so let me show you the next visual skill so out of bounds this is a very important technique which needs a bit of photoshop skills as well but what I'm going to show you here is again creating visual interest in an image I'm just going to make this high-quality display so we can see it better see just so what changing it doesn't matter you will you will see it doesn't necessarily need to be high quality so what I'm going to show you here is that when you need to create effects where something comes out of its frame okay the out of bounds or cutout effect or you can call it so many ways is best done by using a PSD file and I'll show you the PSD file it's here in the links all I did there just open up this image all I did here is I created a Photoshop file which has the original photographs photograph and then I have another version which has her masked out I use the pen tool to mask around and a bit of pixel mask as well for the hair but you can see that is also there as a separate layer so the original photo and the separate layer and this Photoshop file I placed into InDesign so let me go back to InDesign and in InDesign what you can do is to have two versions of the same image on top of each other so I'm going to select this copy and paste in place so there's now two of the same frames on top of each other okay you can see it in the layers we have two of them and I'm just going to turn one of them off for now and the one at the bottom I'm going to reduce down to something like that okay I cut it maybe not that underneath it so never good to do something like that doesn't look right but let's just cut her half in there and then I turn back the other Photoshop file I select that right-click and then choose object layer options and within there we have access to the Photoshop layers so within InDesign I can actually turn those layers on and off and to create this effect all I need to do is to turn off the photo the original one which had everything and if I click OK you will see that on this version we will see the masked out version and we immediately have that the fact that she is coming out of the frame okay by using two images very simple way of doing it the most the most interesting thing about this is I can look that version which where she comes out of the frame okay I'll look it which means I won't be able to select it so wherever I click here I just select the one which still shows the background and I can always play with that where I want the cutout effect to be so I can always drag it down drag it up I can do whatever I want I can drag it up from the bottom and because I did a nice mask in the beginning I can go in any direction I want and cut into it of course I can turn this into any frame I can even add radius on it I can do again multiple frames if I want in the backgrounds so many different things you can do once you do this setup okay so Photoshop file two layers one last one the original and they use two versions on top of each other one which turns of that layer to be able to show the masked version if you look at magazines or any printed materials you will see this effect so many times usually less is more so you don't want it to be really like cut half of the body out subtle things like in this case probably only thing I would do is have a slight step out of the frame like that and just a bit of that whatever that is that big feather on her head coming out of the frame okay so subtle effect you are usually working better for the overall design okay so now we are getting going back to a technical any questions about this okay going back to another technical skill table of contents I'm curious how many of you use the actual table of contents feature in InDesign and sup okay that's actually quite good how many of you type it in manually okay that's that's not a bad thing don't worry you can put your hands up there's a there's a reason for using it and also there's a reason why not to use the feature the automated table of contents feature now just to show you an example here this is an automated table of contents and I can show you the pages so we have four spreads in here we have two chapters this one is the adventure chapter first one is about this romantic trip to the Alps then another spread about Costa Rica and then another chapter is the relaxing trips first image is Croatia and then another one is Wales just so you are familiar with the whole page layout and then this is what is reflected in the table of contents so we have in this issue the adventure trips and relaxing trips and then the titles there and this is created using the table of contents feature why is that useful well if I for example decide that the Vails the last spread is actually falling into the adventure trips category I can just drag that up there okay I moved it up and I can just go to the layout so sorry select this one here the table of contents and update table of contents and look the wheel should go up now why did it not refresh update it should refresh let me see why is it not refreshing and I think it might be because of the recording sometimes recording my screen effects some things in in the application I'm just going to swap these around maybe that way nothing no response Y can also be because I prepared this on another computer and I just package the whole thing up that's a shame it's not showing there it's like completely dead this table of contents normally unfortunately I don't know why it's doing that maybe if I open the that's the only thing I have to show unfortunately but so yeah maybe that would be a good idea so I'm just going to delete it I'm not sure it's going to table of contents oh then coming up maybe it's because of the screen resolution we can't see a strange let me check it on a different document yeah I think it's the screen resolution that doesn't probably showing up somewhere outside of the screen that panel I'm sorry I don't know why it's not working now but basically what you need to do with the table of contents is also using paragraph styles I'm really sorry that I can't show you this but what important is using paragraph styles so paragraph styles like this one here is what table of contents can track so when you use a paragraph style for that I call that the topic or something like that you can see it here in paragraph Styles destination title that's what the table of contents is tracking and wherever the style is used is going to be moved into and placed into the table of contents here so that's that's when it's going to appear but for example for things like the adventure trips and relaxing trips if you break that up into multiple frames like this one here using different styles then it's a difficult way to track that and to actually use this text within the table of contents so for these examples of quick fix is to actually put the text again in a separate frame called adventure trips that the text I want to see in the table of contents and put it on a hidden layer which I call table of contents text and there is an option in table of contents which I unfortunately I can't show because that panel is missing as it doesn't come up there dialog box there is an option to include hidden Linear's okay so sometimes you don't want to actually see the text that you want to see in the table of contents but because the page is going to move around in your document that can still track where that text is even though it's on a hidden layer so sometimes you might want to use that feature called include hidden layers I just wanted to point that out and also if you want to create this effect where you have the dots after the text for that all you need to do is to create a character style character style which has the underline option on using weight let's sell one point and with the color you want and set the type to dot it that's the character style you save and within the table of contents you can choose a character style for whatever you want to have in between the entry and the page number and then it's going to fill it up with those dots okay that's a commonly asked question how to do this this is the way if I change this to wavy it's going to create wavy line if I change this to Japanese dots that's a little bit closer then it's still going to use that and so on and so forth and you can see I can change the weight as well which will change the size okay so once again character size paragraph size without then you can't create automated table of contents okay let me go to but once again if in some cases I would actually avoid using the automatic table of contents if the format of the document doesn't really let itself to use this feature is it's a bit restricted only being able to work a paragraph size then you don't necessarily need to use it so it's not a big problem if you don't use it in some cases another quick example just go back to this document here so another quick example of a visual feature using the grid e5 feature so I'm just going to go back to your bridge and I'm going to go to this folder just find the visual image grid so I have multiple images here if I want to place all this in InDesign once again I can do exactly the same thing start dragging them from bridge go to InDesign let go once I let go you will see it will load all of these images in they are really high resolution so it takes it takes a while but if i zoom closer you can see that there's 8 images in the place gun it's actually pot place gun that's the technical term so I can use the right and left arrows to go through these images and decide which one I want to place in first but what's another cool thing you can do is while you are dragging you can use the right I mean the arrows on the keyboard to split up your actual layout into as many frames as you want okay so for example let me let's just create maybe it would make more sense to have four columns okay and two rows because we had four images still I can use the space to move this around and also another thing you can do is if you hold down command and use the up and down arrows as you can see I can also increase or decrease the space between these frames so it's a little bit difficult by holding down still the mouse but just hold on command or control and up and down arrows you can reduce as you can see and I reduce it completely to zero the vertical space between the columns I mean between the frames and I let go it's going to placing the images in there but by default these images one completely fill the frame they will be fit to the frame and center to them but the fitting can be always changed later so if I select them I can use the pre feel frame for for example these are the frame fitting options here on the top so I used normally feel frame proportionally and also recommend to try out Auto fit if we use auto fit that also lets itself to another really cool feature like using the gap tool now if I start changing where the division should be these images will automatically fill in and fit to the the frames they are placed into as you can see and there's shortcuts as well with the gap tool if you hold down alt you actually move everything around that selection with the gap tool obviously you have to click on the gaps but it it doesn't only mean these gaps it means everything so any negative spacing design can be edited to change the positive space it's a very smart thing and as a designer you can think of it as the negative space editor so if I use shift that's another thing I can break gaps as well and come on the control can resize gaps so there's a lot of things here you can do with this and very quickly you can create very cool and interesting results okay so once again let's just maybe I need more space for that image I need more space for the docks because they are really cute and so on and so forth okay I can also break up the the bottom line break up this one a little bit and so on and so forth and see the auto fit is really cool because it automatically resizes the image so when I make it more into the original aspect ratio it automatically shows more of the image once again with this one I don't have to go into it it automatically does it for me so a combination of the greedy file it's a really stupid name but that's just simply using the arrows when you place in multiple images to create the frame combined with the gap tool and combined with the feel frame proportional and auto fit together so it's a combination of a couple of things but it can create very cool results and quickly okay so the next one is how many of you had problems and other technical skill I'm just wondering how many of you had problems with orphans widows in InDesign okay so how to solve these problems would be good to solve it in in real life but here in InDesign it's it's a very easy thing to solve so there's another quick example I have here so for those who don't who are not familiar with these typographic issues I have there written although it's not really visible from this distance let me just zoom a little bit closer how many of you heard of run as a tagger typographical typography term it's also another thing that's the single word that appears as the last line of a paragraph so some people think that that is a video but that's actually technically not a video that is a runt video we only call these things where a last line of a paragraphs appears on top of a column okay when it's the last line of a paragraph which is just a single word or even two words sometimes it can call run again it doesn't look nice okay so that's a run that's a video and what is an orphan who knows what's the orphan if I do something like this that is an orphan the first line of a paragraph at the bottom of a column okay so these are three issues that you can have when you work with text and it's very it's very common I mean it's hard to avoid these things to happen so there is actually two things you have to do set up a character style and another paragraph style and nest that character style within the paragraph style once again same thing I explained before so first thing is to set up a character style I call it no orphans and that is only one feature that you need here okay within the character style you have to go to basic character formats and take no break that's all you need in that character style basic character formats take no break that's all once that's set then you set up a paragraph style and I just go into that paragraph style and show it to you there's two things you need to do that first you go to keep options and there you just simply select keep lines together again just another tick which means at the start and end of paragraph it automatically will keep two lines together so it will never allow to break the first two lines and the last two lines of a paragraph so that immediately solves or friends and videos okay but it still doesn't solve runs then the paragraph is not really confirmed breaking up but just simply the last line is too short to sort that out you have to do another thing going into the probably most feared area of paragraph size grabs time grab styles are more like almost coding because what you need to do here is to apply at that size so just say new grab side choose that character on character style created earlier with the note break and then add this text to it dot curly brackets a number which represents the amount of characters the minimum amount of characters you allow as the last line so 20 characters isn't usually like two three words so it's already long enough not to look bad as a very short line but you can set that up to whatever you feel is good it can be 30 40 whatever you want so that means it will allow minimum to have 20 characters in the last lines of each paragraph and it ends with also close the curly brackets and end with a dollar sign it's almost like a decrypted language but if you learn these things it's actually very simple it's not like Java or C++ coding it's much easier than that it's good to look into if you want to get to a really high level of setting up Styles looking to grab Styles there's a there's a list on on Adobe's website of all the grep language codes and it's very easy to learn doesn't take long just have to spend a bit time on it but as you can see once I set that up I only need to use that paragraph style so if I select this text here you can see that it has the orphans widows and runs but once I click on the other one immediately sorts everything so notice the short end paragraphs the runs are now much longer everywhere okay before there was a short one there another short on there now they are better and also the video here with the one line is automatically having two lines and if I try to create an orphan look at the two lines at the bottom there once I cut into it immediately moves it up there so it doesn't allow one line on its own there and it's all sorted so once you set this up you can use it for anything I mean you can have the copy paragraph style always using these features you don't need it for like headlines and shorter text but the cop copy especially if you have longer tags should always have these features automatically added sorry yes - yishun can also be taken off within no no no it shouldn't it shouldn't affect it you can include that in the style and it won't mess up anything from this okay did that make sense it's really hot in here okay so the next one not much time left I'm trying to cover as much as I can just not a very quick one I'll just go back to one of these examples how to tint images also another visual one tinting images in InDesign so you don't always have to go back to photoshop to create a tin to the fact you can create a simple frame fill it with the color any color you wish and then you just have to go to transparency under the effects transparency and simply use blend modes basic blending and use choose color and look at that nice blending just like in Photoshop and cool thing about this is that you can always change the opacity of the blending you can also change the blending itself you can use screen multiply all kinds of different effects there and you can also turn an image into black and white or grayscale by setting this one to saturation okay or actually sorry you can use color and then just change the color to black and that creates a black and white effect okay so very simple easy way of creating this effect and once again the cool thing to do this in InDesign is that you can always move these around so you don't have to go back and forth in Photoshop and InDesign just do it directly in InDesign okay of course I wouldn't do retouching and masking in in InDesign but the things I can do I rather do it here than going back to photoshop okay another quick technical one bullets and numbering just a quick quickie on this one as well bullets and numbering again is a tricky thing to learn and to make sure you use it properly one simple thing to remember if you have ever have to work with lists for every level you should have a separate paragraph style that's the key so you see I have first level list and second level list as paragraph styles and the way I use that is basically if I add new titles here another entry it automatically continues with my first level list but if I go to the next one here you can't use tab like in let's say Google Docs tab would immediately overt it would immediately use the second level for a list but if I press tab it just simply keeps the original style okay you don't have to use tab here let's say this is another sub entry all I need to do is to change it to the second level this and automatically because that's set up as a second level list it will automatically add the indent so let me show you here there is a separate bullets and numbering section in paragraph styles and there you can decide what level that should be in so in this case bullets is set to second level and you can of course even add custom glyphs so you can use any anything from characters and in from fonts I use that one let's say and then it will use that and the way I colored these bullets and the numbers is by using a character style which is just simply using blue so it says character color blue and that is used within this paragraph styles so both the first level list and second level list and the bullets and numbering is using the character style code number at least number okay so that's why it's colored so very simple thing as and then what another important thing if you use paragraph size for numbering and bulleted lists is to make sure you have make sure you have the continue from previous number option on with which you can actually make sure even if you create another frame and that frame can be on another page if I type in entry see it automatically knows that there was already five items before okay so it continues the numbering because it's just using the same style okay so within a whole document if the if you want it to continue you can set it to that if you want it to always start from scratch in every frame then you can set it to start at a specified number okay that is that that does make sense okay cool quick tricky next one okay clipping path another cool thing how many of you use clipping paths within Photoshop and then use it in InDesign okay some of you great so let me show you that just very quickly clipping path example here we go okay now this tent is actually most in Photoshop but I applied it as a mask here in InDesign so the image itself looks like this let me show you and it's a jpg another interesting thing you can actually save I intentionally wanted to show this to you you can save parts in JPEG files not many people know that usually you would save a tiff but jPAS can include curves I mean parts multiple parts as well so you see it's not a vector mask it's just a simple work path that was saved as a path cord tent okay I can show you that's that's the thing itself I can select it with the there are the points okay so it's prepared like that but it's saved as this so there's no transparency it's not a PNG or not a PSD or sit it has the original white background but once I place it in InDesign what I can do is to go to the object menu and on the the parts not not part sorry where is it clipping paths options you can choose that again I don't know that that dialog box is missing somewhere probably in the outside of the screen area that's really annoying but that one so here again object clipping path options that's where you can choose the tent path from the jpg and then it automatically removes the background okay so very simple thing and just a quick quickie here as well what if you use text wrap on this image you can see that text is wrapped around it but you don't want this text frame to be using the text wrap let's say I want to have it this overlapping the terms like there because this tent is using text wrap every text is tossed away from it what you need to do is to select that text frame which you don't want to be affected by text wrap go to the text frame options object text frame options and there is a feature there could ignore text wrap none of my dialog box are coming up that's quite annoying but there's an option called ignore text wrap and then it's going to remove that and just try to quit InDesign maybe then I will see these things again no no none of my dialog boxes are visible strange and never had this before it's probably the screen resolution I chose let's try just a quick quick attempt because otherwise we can't see that and then there's only one last thing I want to show and that's the end before we boil in this room so the last thing is the quote frame which is a very common thing that we need to do I mean use pool codes in text and how to properly do that so in the meantime I'm going to just go to that folder and InDesign doesn't want to quit okay now it's off let's open this one up so how would you how would you create pool codes in in InDesign and any suggestions so when you know like you have a layout like that text you can see there a lot of text and in the middle there is a grabbed sentence which is important or something that's relevant to the whole article which is like a starting point to read the whole thing it can make you interested in the whole thing and there's there are those big pool quotes around it how would you place them when you place them in separate frames or yeah separate frames because they are really big and they usually don't use the same size as the text is there anyone who would use table for that no you know you never thought of using a table I'll show you why that's a useful way very simple to set up but perfect for aligning it and there's two little hidden gems here in this example that's really the end of it so hopefully it will open it yet there you go so that's why I was talking about the pool code so let me just zoom a little bit closer come on okay so that's the one if I go into my frame and select it you can see it's a table which three columns you don't need rows just three columns and what you do is you place the pool coat the first one on the first color the third one third column has the other pool coat and then the cool thing about it if you do it this way wherever they are aligned they will always stay there so that one will always be at the bottom the other one will always be on the top and if I start changing the text so let's say I just remove some text from here that one on the right automatically goes up if I put it back it automatically goes down if I make more text here or add more text so let me just select this one here and that that after it you see automatically again goes down okay so that's a much better way of setting it up using a table and just simply align these wherever you want them I usually use what's that baseline shift I use baseline shift or letting whatever you prefer to move it up and down and then whenever they are that's where they stayed and one last thing have you noticed that when I added text or remove text the frame is changing do you see that when I type automatically increases the frame the way that can be done I think it was a addition in cs6 or CC I don't remember when they introduced this but in the text frame options we have now an auto size option where you can set up auto sizing for frames depending what you need normally for text it would be height only so that automatically increases the height or decreases the size depending on the content of the frame very useful thing I mean I use this all the time since since I realize that there is an option for that so that means if I remove a line automatically reduces the height of the frame when I add back text automatically extends the frame okay very useful stuff there all right and that's ten features I went through in a short amount of time hope I showed you new things and I hope you enjoyed it if you have any questions I will be here all days you can ask me and thanks a lot for your attention
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Keywords: print, how to use indesign, InDesign, digital, Software (Industry), techniques, Adobe InDesign (Software), indesign pro, academy class, martin perhiniak, indesign professional
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Length: 52min 50sec (3170 seconds)
Published: Tue Nov 03 2015
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