Hi, there. My name is Daniel Walter Scott, and I'm an Adobe certified
instructor here at Envato Tuts+. Now in this course, I'm going to show you everything you need to know about
getting started with Adobe InDesign. Now this course is aimed at people
completely new to InDesign. There is no need to have any previous
experience in the software or graphic design or desktop publishing. We're gonna start right at the beginning
and work our way through step by step. Together, during this course, we're
gonna make a full page brochure learning the tools and techniques necessary to
design it and get it ready for print. We'll work with color, we'll pick your
own and use corporate colors as well. You'll learn how to choose and
use fonts like a professional. You'll be working on
longer text documents. You'll learn how to find, resize and crop
images ready for your professional work. You'll learn how to open other
people's InDesign files, fixed the fonts, fix the images, so
that you can start making adjustments. So, if you've never opened up InDesign, or you have and you've struggled
a bit with it, come with me and I'll show you the easy way to make
beautiful design work in Adobe InDesign. Hello there, you made it into the class. This video is all about
us getting started, a few things we need to get setup. We'll download the exercise files, I'll
show you where to share your files, and I'll show you how to get
your machine set up, so that your copy of
InDesign looks like mine. So first up,
is downloading the source files, okay, so you could play along with me. Depending on where you're
watching this course, okay, first try might be going back to
the home page of this course, and you'll see source files in kind
of over this slide of the video. Otherwise, check underneath
this particular video, there'll be a useful links, okay, and
see if the source files are in there. So download those and get ready. Next thing,
we'll talk about is sharing your work. All right, next up,
is sharing your work and asking questions. So best place is on the forum, okay? So go to Envato Tuts+, okay, and
go to the website and check out the forum. It's one of the top links on the website. And look for this course, okay,
it'll be labeled under InDesign for beginners, and
you can drop your questions and your homework that I send at
the end of this and there. If you prefer though,
you wanna share on social media okay, on Twitter, we are Tuts+ design,
or me personally, I am Dan loves Adobe, or on Instagram,
I am bring your own laptop. So questions and cool examples of the work
you've done, you can share them that way. Next thing we need to do is hang around,
we're gonna jump in and get our computers setup, so that yours looks like mine,
so that we can start off pretty perfect. All right, let's jump onto the computer. All right, we're here inside the computer, I'm not sure I dived there but
hey, we're here. First thing we need to do is, we need to
kind of like internationalize ourselves, and because if you're working with
imperial or metric measurements, sometimes InDesign loads up
with something called pickers. If you've never used
that measurement before, we all need to get on the same page. We're gonna use inches in this course. So we've opened up InDesign, yours might
look a little different from mine, but that's all right. On a Mac, you follow me first, okay? So InDesign, go to Preferences and
go down to Units and Increments. So that's if you're a Mac user. If you're a PC user, it's a very similar
thing but it's under Edit, and down here, you'll find something called Preferences,
and Units and Increments. Okay, so follow me in here. Now I live in Europe, so I end up doing
lots of things in millimeters, but we're gonna do this one in inches, just cuz that's where most
of the Tuts+ crowd are from. Okay, so we're gonna click on inches. Yours might be set to picas, it's a kind
of a more traditional print measurement. I don't even know how to use it. I always switch mine to inches and
millimeters, so we're gonna use inches and inches. Strokes are typically used as points,
we never change that. I'm not going to change anything else. One thing that we might do while we're
in here is go the dictionary and just make sure you're using the language
that's going to do your spell check, okay. So you can switch between English USA or English UK, or
whatever dictionary you need to use. Now the thing is with
changing this preference, make sure when your doing it
that no documents are open. If you have documents open,
it's gonna change it forever. For all new documents,
if I have one document open and then go and mess with it, it'll only
change it for that particular document. So if you feel like you're changing and
it's never sticking, it's cuz you've got a document open. All right, next thing that we're gonna
do is reset our Workspace just so that your vision of InDesign looks
like mine throughout the tutorial. So the first thing we need to do
is just open up any old document. We're gonna make a new document. So File, New Document and
just leave all the defaults. Whatever it set to, I don't mind, click Create, we'll cover all
of that better in a second. What I want to do is make your
InDesign version look like mine. Okay, to do it, you got to Window and
just be sure you're on Essentials, okay? So I'm using the version CC 2019. If you're using an earlier version,
I'll talk about that just in a second, but you should be using the latest
version if you can, okay? So Workspace, make sure you're on
Essentials, click on it, okay? It should have a little tick next to it,
and then you can go to Reset Essentials, okay. And then watch what happens
to my little workspace, kind of resets to the predefined size and
hopefully, now yours looks like mine and
we can continue on. Now if you're one of the people who are
quite new to InDesign and Adobe programs, you might be like the person who loves to
accidentally drag these out to places and they end up in weird spots and
you like no, panels everywhere, okay? To reset it all back, you'll get out of
jail free card is Window, Workspace, and just make sure on Essentials. You click on this Reset Essentials again,
and it's all back to normal. Now, if you're using an earlier version
of InDesign, say, 2018 or CS6 even, okay. You'll be able to follow
along with this course, the trouble is going to be is you
don't have this properties panel. Your version of the same tools, we'll have
the properties panel along the top and while most of it is the same,
you'll see a lot of the width and height along the top instead of the side. There are a few differences,
you're just gonna have to figure out, okay if you're looking for guides,
you probably gonna find guides. Not in a handy little button here, you're
gonna find it under Window and Guides. So you can play along, you just need
a little bit more investigation involved. All right, so that's gonna be it. Let's close down this window. Don't save it and we'll move on to the next video where
we start talking about new documents. Hey there, in this video, we're going
to create the cover for our brochure, we're gonna create a new page and it's
gonna end up looking nothing like this, it's gonna end up looking like this. Little more boring but it's our first
video, we're gonna learn how to create a page, how to work with margins and
what this bleed thing is all about. All right, let's jump in and get busy. Okay, to get started, close down
any document you might have opened, or any new document you
created in the last video. Let's all go to start,
go to new, and go to document. All right, this thing appears. Yours is gonna be different from mine, because I've got lots of
recent things I've used. Let's go across to print. Now it doesn't really matter if you're
using this for traditional print, send it to a printer for a brochure, or
whether you plan on using this as a PDF at the end, it's more to do
with the export at the end. But we're gonna start the same way,
we're gonna use print, we are gonna use US letter, okay, but
obviously you can use A4 if you want. And you can see where it says View or
Presets. This is a bunch of other kinda like
typical sizes that you can use in their business cards and compact disc. [LAUGH] I assume that it'd gone by now,
but hey-ho. All right, so let's click on letter. And over here on the right,
let's discuss the basics. So width and height is easy,
you can change your units, okay. Mine's gonna be inches. Orientation, landscape, portrait. Nice and easy. Number of pages. We'll just have one to start with. We're gonna do the cover and
we'll add extra pages later on. Let's turn facing pages off for
the moment. We'll talk about that later on in the
course but just having one single page, just have that off. We'll start our page numbering at 1 and the only other thing we'll discuss
is margins and bleed and slide. So margins is nothing really, it's just
an invisible line around the inside of your page, just to give yourself some
sort of, yeah, internal margin, so that there's consistency away
from the edges in InDesign. Whenever I'm teaching somebody that's new,
without margins you end up kind of like some ticks closer to the right
than it is on the left. And margin is just a nice way of
having consistent kind of borders on the consistent borders on your document. This particular design I'm gonna
move mine up to like one inch. Okay, click one and look over here and
because this link is broken, depending on yours I think I
remember the last thing you did so I'm gonna put that on and
they should all turn to one inch. Doesn't matter, just make sure
they're one inch all the way around. And next we're gonna talk about bleed and
slug. Okay, so we'll jump out to real Dan. And he'll explain you,
about a magazine here that'll show you. It will help you understand bleed. All right, I am back, let's talk
about bleed now, in the real flesh. So bleed is, let's say that this is the magazine
that we're making with a brochure. Okay, it's US letter and
we've got the right size, okay? But now we need to add bleed, and bleed
is just a little bit around the edges, little bit extra, okay? That we have to add to a document when
we're sending it to physical print. If this is gonna be a PDF,
we don't need to add bleed, okay? Cuz bleed is, let's say this
picture of this handsome man here, we need it to be just a little bit bigger
it's normally about three millimeters or an eighth of an inch. Okay, a little bit extra on outside,
okay and that little bit extra
gets trimmed off the end. This is magazine here,
right, fast producing this. This magazine would be the right
size plus my bleeder on the outside. And what would happen is if you were in
the printing like we were printing this, they print all the pages separately
they perfect bind them, okay. Which means just blowing them along this
edge, okay and what you'll see is all these pages like you see a flat it
is he might not be in the video but we know magazines are nice and flat, okay. That's not how they come they actually it
trimmed down to that size, so what they do is they print all the separate bits
of paper stick them together, and they're actually pointing
all over the place. Okay, well, reasonably close, but
they're all rough around the edges. To get them pretty,
just slice off the edges. And that's why we need bleed. Cuz you need a little bit of image to
get sliced off and go into the bin, so there needs to be an overlap. Cuz if you had it right at the edges,
this page might move and it might leave some white
around the outside. You just need to make sure there's
a little bit of wiggle room for the guillotine to be cutting off. I'll show you another example. So say this coffee card,
or my business card. You can see this image
here on my business card. You probably can't but
it is a red square probably, okay. I had to make sure that image
was three millimeters or an eighth of an inch bigger, okay. And so that when they printed this,
they probably printed this on a sheet of a bigger sheet, okay, A3 or A2 sheet, and
they stack loads of them on there, okay. And they made sure there's a bit of
bleed on each of these business cards, and then somebody gets out
a guillotine and cuts them, okay, following something called cropmax. Which we'll look at later
on in the course, and a little bit of my business
card ends up in the bin. But it means that I get that red line,
okay? Or the red image is perfect to
the edge and it looks nice. That is bleed and
when do you know to do bleed? Basically whenever you go
into commercial print. If you are printing this in the office,
you're not gonna need bleed because unless you're planning on glowing it yourself and
cutting it up, you're not gonna need it. If it's going for PDF,
you're not gonna need it. And but if you're sending it
to the printer to get made. And this could be say you're
doing an ad for a company. Okay, and somebody has asked
you to produce a printer head, they probably would ask for bleed. They will say it needs to be this high,
play this wide and it needs an eighth of an inch bleed. Okay, just ask them if they need it or
not whoever you're sending it to. And they'll have something called a spec
sheet they'll be able to send you, giving you all the details you need. That is bleed, a slug, slug,
the short answer is you'll never use slug. It's like bleed, it's a little bit
more around the outside, okay? So bleed was an eighth of an inch, slug
is a lot bigger, it's half an inch, okay? And you only use that if your
actual printer yourself. And you'll add notes to the side. You'll write in the slug. You'll write things like
make sure the top of this magazine is glued
to this other insert. Like little notes like
that go in the slug. I never use a slug. You'll probably never use the slug. There's some people that use it though. You'll use bleed potentially
half the time, and you'll never use slug, hope that helped. All right, that is bleed, there's a couple
more things we need to do before we get going, so wait around or
jump back into the computer. And I won't do the dive this time but
we'll get in there and I'll show you how to finish off our page. All right, we're back,
let's put in the bleed. Okay, so you might have to twirl down this
little arrow here to see the bleed and make sure the little chain link broken,
make sure it's connected. Okay, it means when we change one,
they all change. And we're gonna put in an eight
of an inch which is point, okay. So 0.125 okay, and I can click
in any of these other boxes and it should move around or
three millimeters. So notice that I can actually just
type in millimeters for afterwards. So if I know it's three millimeters,
because I do this all the time, right. I have to do stuff for America. Even though my brain
doesn't think in inches. So I just type in the measurements, click
over okay, and it will convert it for me, it's close enough. It could be higher, okay. It could be a quarter of an inch. Check out what the specs are. I'm just giving you what's
kind of like most common. All right, so 0.125 and
the slug we ignore. Are you ready, steady? Hit Create and here we are. And if you can't, if yours is maybe
zoomed in like this, go to View, let's click on this one here
says Fit Spread in Window. You should get back to this. Okay, so what are we looking at? The white area is the edge of
the page that's a US letter. There's magenta kind of purple
line on the inside is our margin. It doesn't print,
it's just there's a visual guide member. We did margins of one inch before. Okay, so
just a little visual guy doesn't print. The red line around
the outside is our bleed. Okay, so you need to make sure we'll do
in the next video where we actually start drawing import images they have to
overlap to the edge of the rid. But know that anything in this little
kind of area here between the white and the red line is gonna end up
in the bin and be trimmed off. If your document is going both at print
and it's gonna be used as a PDF to be, say, downloaded from your website or
emailed, just add bleed, cuz when you export the PDF for your website,
it'll just exclude the bleed as well. So if in doubt, add bleed,
it's easy to chop off at the end. Let's save our document. Because at the moment up at the top here
you can see it's called untitled four. Let's go to file, and
let's go to save, and where you're gonna put it, it's up to you. I'm gonna put mine on my desktop for
this class, I'm gonna create a folder, so on a PC it's different, right? You hopefully you can find the new folder
button, otherwise, dump over here if you dump, stuff, probably my documents,
but I'm gonna put mine, I'm gonna be very responsible,
I'm gonna be on desktop, New folder. And I call this one in design tutorial. Create, now I'm j gonna,
just gonna go in this folder. The name of the document at the top here
is going to be this is what have you do, don't call it anything like brochure. Because you'll end up,
this is your first brochure, you'll end up with loads of brochures,
okay? So you'll wanna give it a specific name. So what I do I give it the company name. Because I work as a freelancer
on lots of different jobs, and this one here is going to be called NZ,
no it's VNZ. Is it NZ. Okay it's gonna be in the brochure,
often up with the date at the end, okay just to make sure, cuz brochure will
get potentially redone every year okay, and then V1, okay never call it less. It's like the kiss of death, okay. And you've all seen it. Final 2, Final new, don't do that. Just call it V1, V2, V3, V4. You're laughing because you've done it. All right, so we've got our name,
now we click Save. The one thing we'd do before we
go is it say that you're done and you're like, I need to change the margin
or the size of the page or the bleed. To do it, just make sure you're
on your Properties panel, okay? And which is probably up, okay. If you can't see your Properties panel,
go to Window, go to properties. And over here you can see the basics, it's
width and height, margins, one thing you won't see is you won't see bleeds,
go to adjust layout and you can see bleed. It's a bit more hardcore while
a little bit more hidden in there. There you go, let's click OK, and that my
friends is how to create a new document, let's jump in to the next video where
we start looking at creating and adding color. Hi, there. This video is all about
making color on squares. We got a big one, little one [LAUGH]. Okay, but mainly, it's about
creating your own custom colors, what the difference between CMYK
colors versus RGB colors are and also how to make premade corporate
colors if you've got them. How to put them into design and
re use them. All right let's jump in now and
work out color. Okay so let's talk about color so
first up let's create a rectangle. We need something for
our color to show in. Okay so there's two rectangles, the rectangle frame tool
is like a place holder. It's like a rectangle with a cross
through it to say, in the future, images might go here. You are totally allowed
to use those boxes, I never do, I just use the regular
rectangle which is underneath. Now, if you can't see the rectangle,
you might be on ellipse, click hold, hold, hold, hold the mouse key down. Then click on the rectangle tool and draw out a rectangle and yours is
probably not gonna look like mine. What ends up happening
is it actually fills with whatever the last
color you were using. So yours might have no fill, no color. Yours might have a line around
the outside, but no center. Let's fix that, and at the same time,
look at some of the colors. So I draw my rectangle, it's still
selected, so little dots in the corner. If yours is not selected,
grab this tool, okay? It's the top black arrow, it's called
a Selection tool, just click on it once. And over here, in your Appearance panel,
you can see the fill and the stroke. The stroke is the line around the outside. So let's first of all go to the Fill and
click on the little square here. Your's might have a little red line
through it, it might be a different color. Okay, let's just click on,
in my case it's black. Okay, and over here, I'm gonna click on
this first option that says swatches. What is a swatch? They're just pre-mixed colors and InDesign
decided these are the ones that you should be using, or at least the starting ones. And let's have a play. Okay, so let's, first of all,
make the center of it green or red or yellow or magenta, or
whatever color you want to. Let's make it yellow,
whatever you want to. Do what I say, make it yellow, okay? And then with the stroke,
now this thing here is kinda hovering out. To get rid of it just kinda click in this
no-man's land up here, just click once and this disappears back
into its little house. Okay, let's click on the same little icon
here, stroke, and let's pick a color. And let's pick black because I
want to show it as contrast. Over here next to stroke, see this little
arrow here, you can use the drop down. And you can pick a bigger size or you can just use this little up arrow or
down arrow, the tiny. But I guess I wanted to show you
the difference between fill and a stroke. Fill is the center part and
stroke is the outside. So let's have a look at the different
premade swatches you've got. Okay, so let's click on Fill. I'll click on the little yellow icon, the
little spot here, and I'm on my swatches. And on the bottom here,
you'll see these are the premixed colors. Those are,
I don't really need to talk about those, other than they're hideous,
some premixed colors. There's this one black, and registration
and they look exactly the same. I'm not gonna cover registration
too much now, it's a go and Google it type of thing, but never use it. It's a printer's only thing,
it's rich black, so it gets quite, not complicated, but it's a whole another video that will be
super boring at this kind of level, okay? We'll just use black,
don't use registration. The other weird thing is paper, okay,
although that's white, it's not empty. None means it's got nothing in the middle,
okay, watch this, I'll show you. I'll move it across to the edge,
grab the edge of it, so grab the actual black edge
of it to move it out. You can see that has a fill of none. But if I make it white, it's different. And when I say white, I mean paper. InDesign tries to be clever. Basically, we all know if I put blue paper
into my printer right next to me here and hit print, I'm not gonna get any white. It's going to show through the blue paper. So that's the reason I call it paper and
not white. So ugly colors, black and none,
paper, never use registration. Now let's say that we
don't like these colors. We wanna mix our own, we wanna go super
creative and we wanna mix our own color. You can use this option here, so
we're on swatches, click on color, and down the bottom here it's
gonna have this ugly slider. What we're gonna do in this
top little slidy thing, the burger menu, let's click on RGB. It changes to my red,
green, and blue mixer, and we can just click it anywhere down in
here, okay, and pick our own custom color. Now if yours is not changing,
just make sure with your black arrow, you've got this guy selected. Go back in here,
go to my little color palette, and we should be able to
pick any color we like. Now you might have seen in the there,
you might have heard in the past, RGB versus CMYK. Okay, those are the two kinds
colors you're gonna use. And you can see a real big difference
there between this green which is RGB green, or this kind of like,
I want to say snifter green. But you wouldn't have
snifters in your country, [LAUGH] it's like a spearmint
kind of lolly chocolate thing. Anyway, let's say spearmint peppermint,
it's some kinda minty color. Now, RGB is what your computer
screen uses to mix colors, and it's a bigger color range. It has more richer colors
because your little monitor right in front of you right now
has a lots of light coming out of it. Luminance that helps get some really
crazy colors like this kind of nuclear, Madonna pink and
kind of toxic green color, okay? But when it comes to your printer, we all know if I printed that at your home
computer, it's gonna wash out, right? It's gonna look great on screen and
then get all washed out. And that's just because your printer
doesn't have light coming out of it like your screen. So which color should you use? CMYK, boo. RGB, yay, okay? So if your document,
like this document here, this brochure, it's gonna have dual purpose. It's going to be something sent to
the printer, they're gonna print it off. It's also gonna be something that
gets downloaded from our website, or emailed out. So we'll start with RGB, and
later on when we go to export, we'll convert it all to CMYK for
the printer, boo. This is kind of best of both worlds. If you're only going to print,
there's no point getting all excited with these colors only to know
that you're gonna go to CMYK. And your next question is,
well how do I make this better? Unfortunately you can't,
CMYK goes onto paper, and just washes out. You can make it darker or lighter, but you can't make it that rich,
vibrant color that it was. It just is not possible with the ink,
inks that come with your printer. So the rule is, if I'm mixing colors and I'm going to go,
say I'm printing my business card. I'm not going to trick
myself using this and only be disappointed later on by
using CMYK when it gets printed. But if my business card is going to be
used online to something, I'm gonna use RGB and then when I export, I'm gonna
export two versions, one for online which will be RGB and at the end, I can convert
everything to CMYK in one fell swoop. So that's a bit of nerdy colorness. It's probably not what you hoped for,
you just want to mix the colors and keep going. But I guess at this stage,
we need to start using the correct colors. We're gonna use RGB in this case. Let's say we like this color and we wanna
use it a couple of different times. Instead of trying to mix it every time
you can go this option here that says add to swatches. Swatches is this first little
panel here of pre-mixed colors. So I can randomly pick a color
back to my pigment and let's go to here and
go to Add to Swatches. And If I go to my Switches panel now,
right on the bottom, there's my RGB color, red, green and blue, that make sense. So later on I can go through,
and I can draw something and I can go over to here in my fill and down the bottom on my swatches tab, right
down the bottom, there's my mint green. Hello mint green. All right, let's say though that
you're working for a company and have already got colors. So what I'm gonna do is gonna delete that. I'll keep this guy here. And let's say that, yeah,
we can't just use any old color. We've gotta use our corporate colors. Now, to get your corporate colors, you're
gonna have to either talk to your designer or the designer who originally
made your brand, or hopefully maybe, you might even
have a brand guideline somewhere. It's probably in your third drawer down,
all dusty. Have a look through there and see if you
can find the colors that the designers have decided that that was right for
your company. For visit NZ, or visit New Zealand,
I've got some cooperate colors, okay. I've typed them out for you in your
exercise files, there's one in there called colors, double-click it,
okay, and there they are there. And I'm gonna show how to put them
into InDesign, so I'm gonna do some rejigging of my, I don't want you to
do this because I want you to carry on. I'm gonna stick it there so
you can see it, I can see it. Actually, I'll stick it on the side,
make it easier for the editor to zoom in, all right. So I've got my black arrow selected,
I'm in InDesign. I've got this selected. I'm gonna go to Fill. I wanna create my own crazy color. But really, I'm gonna go to the little
burger menu, I'm using RGB. And I'll just type in the numbers here so
you can see whenever they're listed, they're always listed as red,
green, and blue. So you can see here that's not
like not R equals or G equals, always assume, same as CMYK,
it always assumes this same order. Okay, so 53, 120 and
114, that is the color. I'm gonna drop this down and
say add to swatches. I'm gonna check my little
swatches panel to make sure at the bottom there, it's there. Okay, and I'm gonna give it a name. I totally skipped that step. You double click it to give it a name,
so we can see it says RGB numbers there, just double click it
anywhere along on there. And let's go see if it
says name with color, let's call this one VNZ Green and
let's click OK. Makes it a little easier to work with, this little mint correct color we had
before, I'm gonna bin him, good bye. Okay, to bin him you click on him and
you hit the little trash can there. So I've got my VNZ, let's mix up
the third color which is the red, it's not quite red but
you'll get the idea. We'll do it one more time to get that and
then we'll fast-forward the last one. So make sure you got this guy selected,
click on fill, hit the little color icon,
switch it to RGB. And then in here I'm gonna go 192. I'm gonna hit Tab cuz I like tabbing
through these to make it a little faster. So 192, 62 and 84 [LAUGH]. Okay, it gives me my, I call it red. It's not red. Don't even know what to call it, stuck in
the middle of my color naming groups but anyway you get the idea. Okay, we're gonna add it to
our swatches just like before, we're gonna go to our swatches,
double click it. And we're gonna say name with color
value and I think you VNZ, we're gonna call this one red even though you're
screaming at me going, it's not red. It's, I don't even hazard to guess,
it's like a rose or, I don't know what to say,
[LAUGH] let's click OK. And I'll get you to do
the last one by yourself. It's the slate color, and I'll get
the editor to speed me up, all right? I'll see you in a sec. All right, you're back. So let's apply our colors. So we'll start with this guy,
we've used him. I'm going to give him
the color of the slate. So the fill color, make sure it's on
the slate, where it comes to the stroke. Click on the little edge here,
scroll to the top, go to none, make sure you're on swatches, okay. And so it's got another line on the
outside and it has got slate as the fill. Now we're gonna resize this thing. So we're gonna use the selection tool so
the black arrow, make sure it's selected. Let's grab this top left-hand corner. You'll notice that that when
you get close to the edge, you get this like diagonal errors. Click on that and just drag it. Okay, I'm dragging it with my mouse and
where do I drag it to? Do I drag it to the edge of the white? No, we drag it all the way out to
the bleed which is the red line. That means that there's this little chunk
of the slate that's going to get sliced off by the guillotine into the bin. Why do you bother doing that? Why don't you just go to the edge? It's because often the guillotine
is not as fancy as you think. There's often it's just a person
standing there with a guillotine lining up your page,
tongue out going, slice. And they need a bit of wiggle
room to get it right or wrong, so I get it close enough. So you need a little
bit of extra on there. So at the bottom right, I'm gonna
drag down, down, down, down, down, so it covers all the way
to the inch of the rid. If you have dragged yours, this happens
drag and you end up kinda like, aah, all over the place. Don't worry, go to View,
go back to Fit Spread in Window, and it should come back to normal,
and just be very careful. Try and get it down there. All right, one rectangle,
let's grab the Rectangle tool. There's lots of them that look the same. Even me, [LAUGH],
I clicked on that one by accident. Make sure, it's a test. You gotta click on this one here, and what I'm gonna do is,
I'm gonna draw another rectangle. And this one here's going to be,
just drag it in the middle, not too worried about it. And make sure it has a fill of,
down the bottom here, VNZ Green, okay, and make sure it has no strokes,
I click on the stroke and go to none. I'm gonna resize this one, grab the black
arrow, I'm going to drag this down, roughly about a third, okay, and
we're gonna have this two-toned. You saw at the beginning of this video,
you saw the beginning of this course, what we're kinda making this
kinda two-tone-y thing. So slate box, green box,
let's do one more, drag it out, and let's give it a fill of the not read. There you go and
make sure it's got no stroke and we're not too worried about the size yet. We're gonna use this as background for
some of the ticks we're gonna make so just get used to resizing it. It's gonna be asked for
this video bit of a long one, but we learned what RGB versus CMYK is. And we've looked at how to apply fills and
strokes quite a bit, plus we're getting used
to InDesign in general. In the next video though,
we'll do some more advanced navigation. But in the next video, we'll look at some
basic navigation to kinda help you move around the document a little easier,
let's jump in and check that out now. Hi everyone. This video is just some basic navigation
to work our way around InDesign and our document. The first one is zooming in and out. There is a magnifying glass, okay. You can click on this,
it's the last one in the tool bar. Click once to zoom in, and
if you hold down the Alt key on a PC, or the option key on a Mac. So look down at your keyboard, you might
have an option key if you're on a Mac. You're probably going to have
an Alt key if you're on a PC. Hold it down. And check my screen,
you can see plus turns into a minus. So if I hold down the Option key,
I'm using the Mac, click once, zooms out. Let it go, click once, zooms in. Now, I'm not gonna do too
many shortcuts in this class, we'll do a little bit towards the end,
but nobody uses that tool, okay? Cuz it's long and
you gotta go and change it. So go back to your Selection tool,
and we're gonna use this one. On a Mac, hold down the command key and
hit plus. On a PC, hold down the control key and
hit plus, it zooms in. Right next to the plus key is minus. So minus zooms out, plus zooms in. So remember, Command + on a Mac,
Ctrl + on a PC. That's the one people use the most now,
zoom in a bit like me, I'm zoomed in a few. Okay, how do you move
around once you're in here? You can use these little see
these little slide bars? Now fine. Okay, if you're finding in
design quite tough in terms of just computers in general,
this might be the best way to move around. But if you're not and you wanna be a little bit fancier,
hold on the spacebar key on your keyboard. Watch my little cursor here changes
from the arrow to this little hand. Okay, and if I click and drag the hand, so
I go to my spacebar down on my keyboard, click hold drag, click hold drag,
click hold drag. There it goes, spacebar, I can start
moving things around, hold spacebar. And I can move myself around. You can see the scanner just
sliding these little bars around. That's too advance, go back to
sliding these little guys untill later on maybe you can practice with
this spacebar a bit more. All right, let's go back to View and
we gonna go to Fit Spread in Window. You can actually use Fit Page and Window. Okay, so my shortcut. Not gonna get in too many shortcuts, but if you find like you're doing the same
thing over and over, you're like, men I'm always doing the old object
transform move, or arrange in the back. You can see they all have shortcuts on
them minus specifically showing for a Mac. But if you have a look through your menus, you'll see that lots of them have your
particular computer's version of it. Okay, to be using a PC that's gonna say,
Shift+Ctrl+P. Anything your doing repetitively,
check what the shortcut is. And for me one of the ones I use all
the time is View, and Fit Page in Window. Okay click on that, so reminds come on 0. Yours is gonna be ctrl + 0,
if you're on a PC. It zooms all the way out, nice, okay. I've got this selected so selection tool. Red box selected. We've learned to resizing,
by grabbing the corners. And rotation is, you see my cursor here,
you see the diagonal line means resize. But if I go just a bit further out,
look, changes to a curved arrow. If I click hold my mouse key down and
drag it now, that's how you rotate things. Okay, so it's kind of like I don't know,
magic zone of, between scaling and
rotating and then nothing. So this is kind of like zone
that you're gonna need to be in. Now once you've practiced rotating and
you want to get back to how it was, so there's an undo option. So let's go to Edit, and
there's this one here called Undo, the shortcut is command + Z or
Ctrl + Z on a PC. So undo, edit, undo,
using shortcuts will be handy for this. So undoing a few times. So edit, undo loads of times
until this guy is straight again. Two more things I wanna show
you is I actually want this, this green box down the bottom to
be a third of my document, okay? I don't like it when I've just
kind of like magically picked. I don't know there's some wierd things
where if you actually divide things properly, like thirds. There's kind of an unwritten
visual language that really helps when you are abiding by some of the rules. So rather than just like guessing half and
going, about half, I don't know. They eye kind of looks at and goes,
there's something wrong about your comp. You can't put your finger on it but
just something a little weird about it. So, I'm gonna show you how to do
a little bit of maths in these. So what I wanna do is I'm gonna make this
green box the full size of the US letter. And over here, a cool little thing
you can do is the width and height. The W and the H. So, the height, I'd like it to be a third. So, it's 11 inches high,
instead of trying to do my math, which I'm terrible at, I can go divide. So I'm just using the backslash on
my keyboard, divide by 3 please. And hit Enter on my keyboard, magic? So now I know that that
is exactly one-third. You can divided it by half. You can times it by 2. Timesing by the way is, in here,
it's the asterisk, okay? It's normally tied in with your number
eight key or over on your number keypad. But I times this by 2, I did the width
[LAUGH] times by two, you get the idea. I'm gonna go back to my edit, undo, and
now I know that that is exactly one-third. I'm gonna stretch it out
to be part of the blade. And then my happy little graphic designer
brain is, that's how it should look. Things are lined up with the margins for
no good reason and that is exactly one-third. Two of the things I wanna
show you is the range. So let's say that I grab my green box and I want it to be over the top
of this pink box here, okay? But you can see this guy is on the top,
I call it pink, it's red, red not red, nuclear red. It's a grayed on nuclear red,
had a motorbike once that was nuclear red. We've run our store as pink. But anyway, we want the green box
to be above the nuclear red box. So with the green box selected,
right-click it. And let's go to our range and
let's bring it to the front. Cool?
So that's how you kind of move the order of things. So that's in the back now, then this
nuclear red box, then the green box. And say I want the nuclear red
box to be back in the front. I can right-click it and say actually I
want to Go to Arrange, Bring to Front. If you are finding problems with
right-clicking, you're like, hey my Mac doesn't have a right-click. You can, all the things that are hidden in
the right-click which are quite helpful can be found in these top menus. I happen to know that object arrange
is in here somewhere, where are you? Right on the top and bring the front. It's great at the moment because
it's already at the front, okay? But I can send it backwards,
object arrange, bring to front. All right, one last bit of
navigation I wanna show you, I wanna put that back there, is the W key. So be on your black arrow,
hit the W key on your keyboard. Click on it, [SOUND] look at that. It's more of what it's gonna
look like when it prints, okay? It's not exact, but it gets rid of all the little kind
of bits around the edges, okay? So let's click off on the background. So to deselect, there's a long way. Let's go to Edit and go down to Deselect. You could use as a shortcut as well,
which Cmd + A. Means I've just got nothing selected, or
do what everyone does and just click with your black arrow over here somewhere in no
man's land, just lets go of everything. How to get back, hit the W key again. W, on, W, off, on, off, on, off, okay? It's just really handy. Can you see, it even hides the bleed, cuz we know that that's gonna
be trimmed off in the bin. So when I hit W, watch, it just goes. Gives me a kind of a more of an idea
what these things gonna look like. And just, I don't know,
bit of visual cleanings. The long way for that is down here. Can you see this one? If I click on that, if I click and
hold that down, okay, normal preview. Hold it down again, normal,
hold it down, preview. You can see how tiresome
that is by clicking it. But that's the long way. And that is it for basic navigation,
zooming in and out command plus or minus or control plus or minus, when I
am zoomed in, spacebar moves me around. Clicking on things. This is no man's land for rotation. Edit, undo to get it back. We can do some basic math in these fields. Divide by 3, times by 2,
and my favorite, the W key. Goodbye, W, W, W, W. One little tip though is, if you're in
the type tool, which we'll do a little bit later on, and you start typing
the w key, what's gonna happen? It's just gonna type a W, so
you might have to go the long way. But as long as you're not in the type
tool, the W shortcut is perfect. All right, that is going to be it for
navigation. Let's get into the next video, which we will look at fonts and
type, all that sort of good stuff. I'll see you there. Hey there, this video, we're gonna put in
text, yay, we'll do some basic formatting, add some text boxes,
it's all very exciting, let's get going. All right, to get started, if you're
zoomed in like I am, let's zoom completely out, you can use the long way under View
but we're gonna start using shortcuts. Remember, Command zero not O it's
on a Mac, or Control zero nice, make sure the W key is switched
to it's called normal mode. Okay where you can see all the lines in
inches here, okay, let's draw a text box. Nice and easy Grab the type tool, okay? So this capital letter T here and
when you're drawing a text box, it's always better to draw on the side
here and then bring in your text. If you start trying to draw straight on
top of images and rectangles like this, Indesign has this clever way of
trying to connect them up and it becomes quite confusing. So over here on the right hand side,
I'm gonna click hold down my mouse key and drag out a box, nice big box. It's not really don't worry too much
about it, and I want you to type the word discover, okay, and type to adjust it,
okay, we're gonna highlight the text, okay, so with the Type tool just kind of
drag over it, and with that selected, you can see over here we got character and
paragraph the basics at least. The top one here minion pro Click
this little drop down menu, and you can go through all the fonts that
are on your computer, you're not gonna have the same ones as me, so I'm going to
for the moment stick to our minion Pro. Okay but have a look through,
you'll notice that there's a nice little preview there, yours might look a little
different from me, but pick a font. But don't worry we're gonna change it in
a second, so [LAUGH] don't spend the next half an hour picking a font,
because we're gonna change it. I'm gonna use Arial, let's go crazy,
okay, so that's the font. Underneath it is whether it's bold,
italic, that jazz, okay option here, Font Sizes,
okay, if you increase it up, obviously it's gonna go up, we're not
gonna cover everything in too much detail, cuz font adjusting is not
that unique to InDesign. Okay, so Font Size, this next one here,
lidding, that's an interesting one. It's the space between lines,
or line spacing, they just call it lidding in InDesign,
you won't use kenning but you'll use trekking as the space between
letters, left line, centered, right line. We'll stick with the left line at
the moment, and what I wanna do is, I wanna change the color of this font,
and it's easy when it's selected, cuz you can kinda see, my fill has changed from
that kinda full cube to this capital T, to describe that I'm
changing the font color. I can pick say our VNZ red, okay and
you're like that's green, if I go back to my black arrow, click it a couple of times
you'll see that it's actually the right color, but when it's highlighted it
inverts it so it's kind of a bit strange. So go back to your selection tool, the
reason why I wanna show you this is that later on, as soon as you finish
this video, you're gonna go and do your own stuff and you'll be like,
great, I'm gonna go and change the color of this font to,
yeah, not changing the font color. So I'm gonna go to edit, undo,
what you need to do is one of two things, you need to have it selected to change. Can you see now, it's gone back to
the full color, which is cool, now, it's gonna work, or if you don't wanna
have it selected like highlighted like that, you can select it with
your black arrow, just cool. And just like before, we click on this,
it's not gonna quite work, and it's gonna do that came in under what you
can do, before you click on a color where it says apply to, you can actually
apply to the text, not the frame, they call that the text frame,
and it's the box that it's in. We're gonna say actually
apply to the text please, and I'm gonna go down here and
pick select or Magenta or yellow, I'm gonna pick paper actually cuz I want
it to be over the top over this background color here, see the highlight
the text to change the color. Or we do a selection tool you can apply
to and just change in here to text. One of the things I wanna show you is what
happens when we hit the W key cuz you're I'd love to see this font,
I'm gonna click over the background so it's not selected I'm gonna
hit what was the key? Do you remember? To get rid of all the lines and
stuff around the you remember, the W key, you're gonna click it,
you're like diaspora, it's gone. Okay, it's cuz it's out in this space
board area, this area here which is gonna be thrown away in the bin, so
it hides it from from you. So if you wanna see it,
it's gotta be on the page somewhere, okay? If you're half on the page,
you can only half see it, just so, it'll stop a freak out later on, anyway. So you can work in this Preview mode,
there's nothing wrong with it, okay? Just know that Yeah, you can't see stuff
that you've left over here on the side. Now I'm gonna put this word here discover
I'm gonna increase the font size up something nice and big,
I don't even know yet cuz it's not gonna be the fun I'm gonna to
pick, but what will happen though is if your rectangle is not big enough, look
what happens when it gets to the edge. [SOUND] It's gone completely,
okay, you might have started this tutorial like this and
you're it's been like that forever Dan, it's because the text
is just too big to fit. So you go to do one of two things
you've got to make the box bigger, so, I grab my black arrow, the selection
tool and just go, here you go. There's more room for you buddy, okay? Cuz if it gets smaller,
it doesn't fit, okay? So you either do that or draw another
text box [LAUGH] or say it's like this, what I do is I grab my type tool,
click inside of there somewhere, go to Select All, it's kind of bit of
a wishful thinking this one, right? So you click in there are go to
Select All, where is Select All? There it is there, so it selected all
the text even though we can't see it, and I'm gonna make the font size a whole
lot smaller until it appears. Better still, when you're new,
don't be on the W key, okay? So I'm gonna click off on the background
so nothing is selected, hit W, just delete it, select it, delete it,
start again, draw a bigger box, and make sure you've got a smaller font. I'm gonna undo all that,
cuz I actually had mine okay. So I'm gonna go Edit > Undo,
Cmd + Z a couple of times, you'll notice Cmd + Z doesn't work
when you're in the type tool, say if I hit Cmd + Z now or Ctrl + Z on a
PC it didn't work, sometimes you just have to kind of click out of everything,
and then it will do it fine. All right, so go to this word, Discover,
I'm gonna make a nice big text box for it to fit, instead of drawing in
another textbox, I'm writing the word, New Zealand, make sure you just go into
and select it with my black arrow, go to edit copy, and then edit paste. I've got a second version of this, this
one here I'm gonna change to all caps, New Zealand, make sure there's
enough room for it, there we go. Okay, we've put in some ugly text, you
might have picked some beautiful character text, and we're gonna look at something
in the next video called Adobe Fonts. And it's gonna expand your font
horizons with lots of cool, amazing fonts they get
to use commercially. Let's finish this video, wrap it up,
and jump into the next one. Hey, everyone. This video, we're going to take our
boring old fonts, sorry Arial, and transform it into these pretty fonts,
or at least I think they're pretty. All right, let's jump in and
I'll show you the world of Adobe Fonts. They're free, they're commercial us, there's loads of them, they come as
part of your credit cloud license. My goodness, where are they? I'll show you in a sec. All right, to find these amazing
fonts that Adobe have gifted to us, let's use our black arrow and
let's click on the word discover. And before we start messing around with
fonts, you really need to make sure that it's either, you notice in between videos
I played around with my font size, couldn't help myself but, and
no matter what font size it is, you just need to make sure
the box it's in is big enough. So grab the black arrow move it, even
though it's not lined up with anything, just so that there's a bit of space
because if we start picking fonts that happen to be a bit bigger, it'll end
up doing what we did in the last video, remember they got cut off? Okay, and we couldn't see them. That, by the way,
is called Over-Sit Text, okay? And you can kind of see that
little red plus sign, okay, that's the visual indicator for
that happening. Make sure it's big enough
that you can see stuff. And in this 2019 version, of editor's
really cool way of interacting with them. If in the past you've heard of
something called Adobe Typekit, okay, that was the original name for
this thing. It's now just cold plain old Adobe Fonts. Okay, so we've got the selected,
I can see my character. If you can't see character, you might have
to highlight your text with the title, okay, but I can see mine fine. Just drop this down and
this window appears, okay? Fonts, this little icon here,
or this little button here, is the fonts that are on your machine,
okay? You'll have some, okay. This one that says find more,
is a magic button. Click on it. Cool thing about them is that
this is looking at Adobe's, not your fonts, okay, and
they have loads of t hem. Now if your internet connection is
super slow, mine's reasonably slow and it keeps up okay. If yours is super slow, or you're offline,
this feature's not gonna work, okay, cuz what it does is you're
gonna pick a font, and it's basically Adobe gonna download it for
you. So, couple things, you can just hover,
you can see, let's pick that font there. Can't even pronounce that font, so I'm going to work with Abolition,
did I say that right? [INAUDIBLE] I can say that one. Okay, so you can move through these fonts,
and it's cool? These are just fonts that you're
allowed to use commercially, on the house from Adobe. Cool?
The one thing to note is, see this one here, Abigail? You can see it's not appearing,
what's wrong with it? It's that same problem. Can you see my little plus there,
it means that this box is not big enough, that font is just ginormous. So, we go back into it, I made the box
is bigger and I go in Find More. Yeah fine, there we go,
you can see it fits now, so I can see it. So let's make sure the box is big. I love Abril, Abril Fatface,
you don't need to do anything, just hover above them. If yours is not working, it means your
internet connections are super slow or you're not logged in to your
creative cloud account. If that's true, it's either using
an early version of Indesign and this doesn't exist, or
I go into Help, okay? You can see in my case I am
logged into my account, okay? If yours says log in, it means it doesn't
know who you are, and you should log in, and try to remember that Adobe
password that you've forgotten, okay? So just make sure you're logged in,
and this stuff will work. So to activate the font, so Find More and you could scroll
through here to get a font to work. And let's pick one crazy
font that's easy to see. No way, Jose. Okay, I feel like that's, it's on the cover of lots of like
tourist magazines, all right? Discover Southeast Asia or
New Zealand or Australia. Anyway, what you can do is
you can click on it, okay, and it just downloads it
magically in the background. And it's ready to go. Cool?
If your Internet connection, again, is real slow it'll take a little bit of
time but it will download eventually. If it's still not working, like this interaction's being blocked
by a firewall at work or something, you can go to fonts.adobe.com,
and you can get them that way. And it's like a Web interface. It's not as easy as this. Other things you can do with these
Adobe fonts or even your own fonts. Okay, so it doesn't matter whether
you're using Fonts or Find More. So your computer, Adobe's ones,
this filters appears on both of them, and it's pretty spectacular. So let's say that you're
a designer like me and you've downloaded a zillion
fonts in the last, I don't know, 15 years I've borrowed and or appropriated
fonts from all sorts of places. And what I wish is I had
the time to go through and kinda like tag them like all handwritten
fonts in a group, something like that. Adobe, magically,
with your own fonts, go filters and you can say actually show
me the handwritten ones. And it's gone through my
particular computer and shown me all the fonts that
look like they're handwritten. It's too good.
And if you go to Find More and do the same thing, and say actually,
I wanna see the handwritten ones, you'll see there are lots, okay? When you like one hover above it,
it's showing me over here, okay, and I can just click it to download it. There's options in here for, let's say I want a serif font that
has the little feet off the edges. But I want a serif font but I want
a condensed width one, so it's narrow. You can see it there,
look at that, super narrow. But let's say I wanted this but I also wanted to have,
not the numbers that drop down. Can you see these old style figures where
the weird numbers drop off the side? You don't wanna pick a font for
a company that has those weird numbers. You can click ones that
only fonts that are serif, that are narrow, that have numbers
that all sit on the base line nicely. There's lots of different options in here,
so go through, click on them, you can clear them all. What I want to do is I want to go and
actually search for one. All right to search for one what you can do is kind of,
it's not in here, can I click out? Click right on this thing. And instead of using the drop
down just type it in here. So I'm gonna delete whatever was there. The one I want is Linotype,
and it was called DDOT. So hopefully you can read that there. So just delete what was in there and
just type in. You can see it's not found
anything in my machine, but if I go to Find More it
still didn't find it. I'll just type in DDOT. There it is DDOT. Find More, so don't type in Linotype,
they've called it LT for Linotype. So DDOT, I want, basically, Pro Bold,
Bold Italic, Headline, Italic, and Roman. So I'm just gonna go through and click that one, Activate,
don't show again, that's quite repetitive. I'll get you, you,
you don't have to get this font, you can just click on any font you like
except for Comic Sans and Brush Script. You are forbidden to use these ones for no
good reason other than I don't like them. You're allowed to like them. You can see at the top there it's
activated three fonts, okay. The other fonts we're gonna
download one called Roboto. So that same thing again and
I click on it. I'm gonna say down here, delete all that. Just type Roboto. I already have this one installed so
it's appearing under my fonts. But if yours, it probably doesn't,
go to Find More and then start downloading the ones you want. There's lots in terms of Roboto. [LAUGH] So
maybe pick just the Bold, Black. Forget all the Condensed, maybe get
the Light version and maybe the Medium. So Medium, Light, Bold and
black, just for this course. We're gonna use,
you can see it's quite a plain font. We need a body copy font and
that DDOT is going to be our more, kind of flamboyant hitting font. So in terms of good body copy fonts,
Arial and Helvetica and Calibri are all ones that
are kind of default in our world, right? Word dishes them up, and they're fine,
there's nothing wrong with them. But if you're looking for
something with a little bit more special, a little bit more designery, not a word,
but Roboto is a nice good one, okay? And another one that gets used really
often is something called Open Sans. Okay, it's another real good
body copy one, or Source Sans. Write that down cuz you might pick Open
Sans for this one and for another client or another job you just want something a
bit different, Source Sans, Open Sans, or Roboto, are really good, just kind
of getting started body copy fonts. Easy to read, has lots of different
languages in them as well. All right, so
we're gonna go and apply them. So this guy here, I'm going to make him the DDOT and
he's gonna be DDOT, which one? Just kind of scrolling through
them to find the one I want. Pro that was already on my machine,
so I'm just gonna use Pro Bold. Font size, this is up to you. Depends on my size of
my word in this case. That's gonna work for me. I've got mine up to 78 and I'm gonna
shrink this box in a little bit so it's a bit more usable, and here's a New Zealand I'm gonna
use that contrasting font. Often, it's good practice just to have two
sets of fonts, kind of a hitting font and a body copy font. Mine's gonna be Roboto. I'm just typing it in down here,
and I'm gonna use Roboto Light. You might be like,
that looks exactly like Arial, Dan. Yeah, it does,
I am not gonna argue with you. I just, I like different fonts. So, and what I'm gonna do is,
I'm just kinda moving this around. One thing, a little tip is, you're getting
it closer, it really wants to snap to things, which is normally really cool,
and you're like, stop snapping! If you kinda click on it with your
black arrow, just use your keyboard. I'm just looking down at my keyboard here,
there's up, down, left, and right arrows,
the cursor keys, okay, you can just use those to tap things around just
to kinda get it where you want. I'm gonna extend the tracking on this, which is tracking is
the space between letters. So over here, that's the tracking and I'm gonna increase it up a little bit,
a lot, too much. There's no official rules on how
much you can stretch something out. It'll depend on the size of font you're
using, the kind of font, and how, I don't know, designery you wanna be. All right, so
I'm now just gonna resize the pink box, try and get it to the right sorta size. I'm aligning everything with this margin, because it's gonna to add some [INAUDIBLE]
visual consistency to this document. And I'm gonna start moving it all down,
so I'm gonna say you. It's really hard sometimes. So see that this box here is right
on the top, I'm gonna move it so I can click on the pink box easy. And this is gonna bring up a big point. I wanna move them all down in one go. How do I do that, okay? Cuz I can do them all separately,
but it's a pain, okay? So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
click on the pink box first. And then I'm gonna hold down my Shift key,
that's both Mac and PC, hold down Shift and
click on the word New Zealand once. You can kinda see it's got
both of them selected, okay, I can move them down as a little group. If you want them to stay as a little
group forever, you can go to layout, and you can go to this one, no, you go to
Object and you can go to Group, okay? There's a shortcut,
Cmd+G or Ctrl+G on a PC. I don't want them to be together forever
cuz I'm not too sure where they should go. Okay, I'm dragging Discover back. Now what was the key I needed to I
wanna get rid of all this junk around the outside so I can see it all? Remember?
W. Okay and you can kind of see New Zealand
is not quite in the middle there. There we go. Nicer there. All right, so those are Adobe fonts. They're kind of weirdly hidden. Remember, click on Text in there,
and it's just this Find More. If you have turned on Filters, just so
you know, if you turn on Filters, turn on Crazy Filter, okay, Decorative Fonts,
it will be on every time you go in there. So if you're in there, you're like,
man there's some weird fonts, it's because you've left one of the filters on and
it stays on, so make sure you clear all. Click off from the background here. It's looking nice. You might have watched this video and
gone, awesome, I can't change my font cuz
you've got a corporate font and you're never allowed to change it cuz
it's been Arial since the dawn of time. But if you end up doing your own project,
you get to pick your own fonts. If you can't find your corporate font
in there, you need to find it from your designer, ask them to send it to you,
or you need to go and buy it. If you're gonna buy a font, something like myfonts.com is a really
common place to go buy fonts. I wouldn't be buying fonts anymore, now
that Adobe have given us all these free fonts, okay, unless a client comes
to you and say we use Garamond, and you have to use it because
that's our corporate font. And if I don't have it,
I'll go to my fonts and I'll check it's not in the Adobe fonts
first, and if it isn't, I'll go off and buy it using something called myfonts.com. There are competitors to that,
but that's where I go. All right, that is enough fonts for
one video. Let's get into the next video
where we start adding images. Bring on the images. Hi everyone, welcome to the image video,
where we discuss images. I'll show you where to find them,
where to get free ones from, how to use commercial images,
how to flip and resize them and we're gonna learn what
the frame versus the images. That's why this section is so long, one of the quirks of InDesign, let's
dive in now and work out how to do it. All right, let's first talk about the two main food
groups when it comes to finding images. Okay, there is one called royalty free and
one called free. So royalty free means,
you pay a small fee and you don't have to then pay royalties
afterwards mean royalty free. So one of the main types
of this is Envato Elements. Okay, this site here means
you pay $15 a month, and you get access to their
whole library of assets. You can see here one subscription
like nearly 1 million assets and you get to download as many as you like. It's a brilliant resource and it's for people like me who are professional
freelance designers. Or somebody working in an agency or somebody working in a company that need
the ability to download images quickly, without having to search
through the free stuff. So I'll show you some actual free places
to get things which is perfect, but you'll find the depth isn't there. For me, say I need to search for say, something like New Zealand, okay,
click on New Zealand, do a search. And you'll see there's graphic templates,
which will look at later on. There's actual InDesign templates you
can use, all part of the same licence. Cool illustrations, photographs, that's
the one I want at the moment there's fonts, there's all sorts of templates. Loads of cool things that
come with that $15 a month. But if I look in images here,
you'll notice that, New Zealand's not as specific like
it's a unique kinda small spot. And there is just a huge depth
of images that I get to use. So I can download these,
use them commercially as many as I like get to use them for
my print, say in InDesign. I get to use them for web things,
I get to use them for email campaigns, but there's a fee associated to it
that monthly $15 subscription. So let's say that you are broke, or
you're getting started and you don't have, you don't wanna spend $15 a month, okay,
you can go to the actual free images and the cool thing about these sites is
that they're commercially usable. So you can actually use these, the photographers that add them
to the site say that, yep, you can use my images commercially,
that's fine, I'm okay with that. So one of the big ones is Unsplash and
probably my favorite. There's a couple of other ones, Pexels,
with an E okay, or freeimages.com. They have different libraries. So if you can't find it in Unsplash,
try one of the other two. You'll notice here that the images
are just as amazing case, they're still typically
amateur photographers. But still the quality is through the roof. The trouble is that
the depth is not there. So doing a search for New Zealand will
get me some cool images, okay, but not the variety that I
need professionally. I just need to get an image, get it
quickly, not to be digging around for a long time in the free stuff. Now, it's pretty easy to
download an image, okay. You just click on this little arrow here,
and I've gone through and found there is a photographer on
here that I know Philip Boffer. Okay, he is an amazing photographer and
all around creative professional. I reached out to him and he said it
was fine for using his images, and I've got them in our
exercise files ready to go. So let's jump into InDesign and I'll
show you how to start importing images. All right,
now we need to bring in an image. So first of all,
make sure you're not in preview mode. We wanna see all the junk, cuz we're
gonna drag it over on the edge here, like we did our type and then bring it in. So an easy way to get started. Just put everything on the paste board,
drag it over. Remember W key. The other thing we need to do is make
sure we've got nothing selected. So black arrow, click in the background so
you've got nothing selected. And you should, hopefully,
see quick actions import file. Click on that. And in here, new exercise files we're
gonna bring in fills image one, okay? Let's click Open. Now when you're bringing in an image,
there's two ways. If you click once, bad. It's not bad, but if you click once
it brings it in at it's full size. I'm going to zoom way out,
you can see it's a ginormous image, and it's not really usable doing that. Okay, so what I'm gonna do is go to Edit,
Undo, okay? And I'm kinda back to that stage. So instead of clicking once,
you click, hold, you drag your mouse out to
whatever size you roughly want it. You can see that's
a little bit more useable, you get it down to even if
you want it really big. It's easier to kinda start it off with a
reasonable size, so you can see the image. The next thing to learn is that
the image here is actually two parts, there is a frame and
an image inside the frame. Like a picture frame on your wall okay,
the image is separate from the frame. And if you've tried to self teach and
design is one of the weird quirky things. So let's discuss that. So if I use my black arrow and I grab
one of these corners, watch this, and I drag it up over here. You can see I've adjusted the frame,
but the image didn't change, okay? So I'm gonna go to undo. The way to move the image or
work on the image as well as the frame, is you need to hold down
two really weird shortcuts. This is where you get your pen
out with your post-it note and this is the one shortcut you can't forget. You need to hold down on a Mac,
it's Cmd+Shift. And on a PC, it's Ctrl+Shift. And then drag the corner. And it does kinda more like
how you'd want it to do. That's kinda more traditionally yeah, you
wanna resize an image you drag the corner. But if you don't hold those two keys down,
it does this. Good work InDesign. Anyway, I'm gonna undo. So make sure you hold down both of those
keys and grab the corner, okay, and we can resize at the size that we want. So frame separate from the image. Let's have a look at adjusting the image,
separate from the frame. I only show you this cuz you're gonna
break it, you're gonna go look. I'm gonna move the image. And you're gonna go [SOUND],
and you can see, if I grab that little target in the
middle, it's called the content grabber. If I grab that target in the middle and
drag it, it drags the image but not the frame. You're like weird,
especially when you drag it this way. You drag it all the way out and
you're like aah, it's gone, okay? So I'm gonna undo it. So undoing it, clicking off on the
background and clicking back on it once, but not the content grabber. I never click on this guy. [LAUGH] Yeah. It's a good idea. I always click anywhere but okay, and
then click and drag anywhere but that. And then content grabber moves the whole
thing together, but if you did want to move just this guy, maybe to,
wanted to trim it up a little bit. Look at that, it's like a mask. Cool?
And if your's has gone horribly wrong, delete it. Let's go back, nothing selected. Import file, let's go into image one
Drag him out again, so we're back at it. All right, so we learned that there's a frame and
there's a separate image inside of it. Let's make that work to our advantage. So what I wanna do is drag it
anywhere by the content grabber and put it in the top left-hand corner here. I wanna make it kinda cover
this whole select box here. Next thing I wanna do is, I'm gonna grab
the edge here and I'm gonna scale it up. I want the whole thing to come up. What keys do I hold down? Check your posted note,
you definitely wrote it down right. Remember Mac, it's Cmd+Shift and
on a PC it's Ctrl+Shift, drag it until it get to this right line
edge here, kind of lines up here roughly. And what we'll do actually is,
zoom out a little bit so you can see the edges like I can. I don't want you in too close, I want you
to keep holding this two keys down, okay? The Cmd+Shift or the Ctrl+Shift. Okay, and keep dragging it up so
we'll do the height, QCM. I wanted to kinda line up
roughly with the slate. Don't worry if it's not perfect. But do make sure you move it so
it's up and kinda gonna be a cut off
in the bleed here, okay? So it pokes off the top and the left. And this right-hand side here,
you could leave. There's no reason you
have to chop this off. When we make a PDF to send to the printer,
it will chop it off for us. But me, I can't deal with this
big slope sided thing, so I'm gonna adjust just the frame. So I don't hold down any keys,
I grab this guy, and just drag it across. So I'm not holding anything,
I've got my selection tool. You can kinda see how InDesign wants
you to have a frame and an image. Bit of a pain to get used to
when you're brand new, but actually after a while it's pretty good. All right, so the frame is kinda adjusted. Now this is where the content
grabber becomes quite nice, is that I can say actually I wanna
drag the image, but not the frame. And you're like now I understand
the weird content grabber thing. You can see I kind of move it across,
all right, it's looking good. You see it's red? When it's red around the outside,
it means you're dealing with the image. If I click off and click back on and
it's blue around the outside or cyan, that means I'm dealing with the frame. So if I click the content grabber,
red box means, dealing with the image. If I click off, click back on,
I'm dealing with the frame. All right, last couple of things
I'm gonna do before we move on is, flipping an image comes up a lot. So with it selected, go to Object. You can see there's a bunch
of transform options. If you wanna rotate it. Not gonna go through them all, but
flip horizontally, vertically. I did that wrong, here you go. So there's all your kinda
basic transforms for images. And the last thing I'll show
you is how to replace an image. Let's say you like that image, but the
client comes back and says don't like it, so we wanna switch it. So black arrow, make sure nothing is selected click on
it once, not in the counting rover. And over here it says, Input file okay. And because it's selected,
it should override it. Let me show you why. Let's click on it. Let's click on fill both the image number
two, and this should be on by default. If it's not, turn it on. You can see what it's gonna do. Replace selected item. Heading selected,
let's work with this guy. Trouble with this fella is
that he is a different size so we need to do some adjustments to him. The frame is the right size, but
the thing in the inside isn't right, so how do we adjust the image,
so let's click on the inside. Okay, go to content grabber and
we've got the image selected, we might be able to just drag it around. But in our case,
it's still not big enough. So what we're gonna have to do is,
resize the image inside the frame. We hold down the same
short cuts as before. Cmd+Shift on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift on a PC. This means it locks the height and width. It means that,
I can make this thing a lot bigger. Okay, you can go outside
the frame that's fine. You drag it up this way as well. Okay, and
even though it's overlapping it's fine, I'm gonna let go of these two keys and
kinda use my counting grabber. Now it's handy, handy content grabber. Okay, here we go. Love that image. Phil, you have to jump in with
the comments to tell me where it is. It's the South Island of New Zealand,
I know, but I'm not sure where, beautiful. The last thing I wanna show you
before we go away is if your looking, you feel like men,
mine looks really pixellated. I wonder what's wrong. Okay, with the image selected so,
black arrow, click anywhere around here, you might be,
go to View > Display Performance, and you should be on High Quality Display. That's on by default most of the time now,
maybe it goes to typical. I'll show you what typical looks like. Just makes it kind of not as nice. You can see there your's might be looking
like that and you'll be like hmm. It'll print fine. It just means your computer
might be a bit slow, and it's kind of compensating by
putting it as typical display. It doesn't change the output. It just means your computer
runs a bit faster. If your computer is struggling,
you might manually go and switch it to Typical Display. I'm gonna switch mine to high quality,
cuz I've a really good computer. All right, last thing before we go
is that [LAUGH] you probably like, it's covering all the ticks, then. And [LAUGH] I noticed,
too busy showing you how images work. So how do we send it to the back? If you've already done it,
you get a high five. If you haven't or you're struggled or you
haven't tried yet, let's do it together. Okay, so this image needs to go to
the back or at least behind the text. So with it selected,
do you remember from earlier on? You were right-click,
you go down to Arrange. And you go to Send to Back. And it's gonna half work,
it goes all the way to the back. And the problem is we've got
this slide box that we drew, that's in front of it now. So I'm gonna click off. Click back on. And the slide box here,
isn't useful for anything. I'm gonna delete him. He was there to till that gap at the top. And for us to practice our sweet color
making skills and now is not needed. You could've right-clicked it and
send into the back as well, but he wouldn't print he wouldn't
be really useful for anything. All right, that's it, images over and
out for actually just this video, we'll do a little bit more images in the next
video, where we discuss image resolution. But for now, don't worry if you
are finding the frame this is image inside the frame a little bit confusing. It happens to everybody you might have to
watch this video a couple of times and it really comes down to experience and
practice. All right that's it,
see you in the next video. Hi, everyone. In this section,
we're gonna talk about image resolution. What is it?
You might have heard of it about it before, you might have been
confused about it before, basically it's the quality of the image. Okay, will it print nice or
will it display nice as a PDF? That's what we're gonna discuss. So image resolution, basically, it's high
quality images versus low quality images. Does it look good, does it not? And it comes down to a number,
anywhere between 72 and 300. Where do you find that number? So first thing we need
to do is go to Window, make sure you're not in preview mode,
okay? So hit the W key, go to Window,
and go to this one called Links. Your Links panel will show you your
images that are used in this document. You can see there, it shows me I've got
Image2 used somewhere in this document. Actually, it tells me it's on page 1,
so that's handy. What's even more handy is
it'll tell me its resolution. So I'm gonna click on it once. And down here in this tiny little window,
okay, which is a little hard to use, it'll show me lots of information
about this particular image. See this little tab at the bottom here? I'm gonna click and
drag it down so I can see more. You can see here,
it tells me it's an image, it's a JPEG, it's RGB, all lots of useful stuff. What I'm looking for
is this one called Effective PPI. PPI is short for pixels per inch. If you're old school, dots per inch, DPI. It's exactly the same thing,
they just call it PPI now. And it's called pixels per inch cuz
because if I zoom in, I'm zooming, zooming, zooming, zooming. If I zoom in on the image enough,
you'll start to see, it's a little hard to see
probably in the video, but you can see the tiny little
pixels that make up this image. Us as humans, if we zoom out far enough,
we don't see those little pixels. It looks like a lovely continuous image,
okay? And basically, say you got an inch squared here, the PPI
is, how many pixels are in that inch? So PPI is pixels per inch. So any inch on this page, there is currently 278 pixels
jammed into that inch. And basically, the higher this number, the better quality it will look, or
appear as a print, or on a screen. If this said 2000, if I zoomed in, you'd see a lot more pixels crammed
into that one inch, confused? Yes, okay, so basically,
we've got two numbers. 72 PPI is fine, and will look really good
if you're going out for a digital means. So like a PDF that's going to be
emailed or downloaded from a website or viewed on a website. [LAUGH] Okay, so
72 is as low as you can go. If I use 72, though, and
say I get this guy, zoom this up, I'm gonna make it bigger holding
my two keys down, Cmd + Shift. If I keep making it bigger, can you see? I'm stretching this image and
that same inch hasn't changed size, but there's just less little pixels that get
to go into it cuz I'm making it bigger. Okay, and if I get this up to about 72,
roughly, I'll make it bigger this way. I don't want you to do,
this is a bit of a pain. But you can see I'm getting close to 72,
come on down. Let's just say it's 72. I've stretched it so
big that if this is going out for digital, okay, that would look fine. Okay, 72 dots per inch on
a screen generally looks fine. If I sent this to a commercial printer,
though, soon as it gets printed, it will look terrible. That's why 72 is the lowest you can go,
but only if you're going out for digital. If you need to go to print, this needs
to be as close to 300 as possible. Okay, so at the moment,
I'm gonna undo that. Undo, undo, undo, undo, undo, undo, using,
remember, Cmd+Z, or Ctrl+Z on a PC. Now, if I was going to be
absolutely perfect and proper, I would scale this down a bit more. So I'm compressing it. So I'm jamming more little
pixels into that inch. You can see I'm nearly close to that,
that's the exact number, okay? Well, for an exact number,
that's not exact at all. I'm close, okay? [LAUGH] So it's nearly 300. That's the benchmark. If you want it to look great when it's
printed from a commercial printer, you should be aiming for 300. But it is just an aiming,
it doesn't have to be perfect. Some people would disagree with me,
they say it has to be 300. Okay, but I am less fussy about
it because the difference between an extra one PPI and not PPI,
nobody on the planet's gonna know. This is my opinion though, remember. [LAUGH] So when you're bringing in
an image and you're stretching it out, it's good to just, and you don't
wanna go to your boss and say, yep, do you like this image? Great, it's gonna be good. It's gonna cover the whole
front cover there. Okay, there it goes. We use this on the cover. And you sell it to him, great. And you print it, and because it's down
at 180, it's not gonna print very good. 300 would be beautiful. How do you get it to 300? You can't, okay? Basically it's down to
the original photograph. So let's say this is Phil's image, okay? It'll depend on how much he's cropped
it and the megapixel of his camera. So its original capture is kinda how
it's born, and you can't change that. You can fudge it a little
bit in Photoshop, but it's out of the scope of this course. Now, if you wanted to use this as a cover,
and it's down 180, you be like, can I print it? I would, okay? Now, this is definitely coming from Dan,
whose done a lot of print, but is not a purist when it comes
to like pre-press quality guru. And I know enough designers who would
be like, it's 180, it'll be fine, and print it and be happy enough with it that
I'm confident enough to share it with you. So my minimum is 180. And my highest, there's no point, well,
anything above 300 doesn't matter, okay? So 300's the maximum
that looks good in print. And how low can you go? I say 180. But you might send it to your printer and
they go, hey, that's not good enough quality. Then you might do a test print, okay? Just have a little look,
but I'm happy at 180. Let's just look at one more image just
to hopefully kind of add a bit more sense to it. So I'm gonna have nothing selected,
Import Image. And you can do this with me. From your Exercise file, there's one
in there called low-resolution-example. Okay, so I'm gonna bring it in. I'm actually just gonna click once. Okay, cuz I know it's quite a small image. I made it small just as an example. So I'm gonna open up my Links. I close that in between, there we go. So I've got two images. This one here, if I drag it down, is at
near enough 300 that I, this one here? Yeah, this one here. Near enough 300, I'm like,
yeah, fine, go to print, okay? This one here though,
if this is going out to be printed, I need a thousand of these printed for
my conference, okay? And I need this to look great,
it's not gonna look great at this size. 72 dots per inch will look fine if this
is gonna be say, down here, and it's going to be in a PDF that I'm gonna email
to people, or downloadable from a website. 72, remember, is perfect for screen,
but in terms of print, it's way off. Remember I said kind of, 180,
is fine for print, okay? It needed to be, watch this. If I wanna get ready for print,
if I scale it down, 88's too small still. That's too small, there you go. Okay, so at 300, it is tiny. It's about a third. So whenever you bring in an image and
it's 72 per inch, and you're like, I wonder if it's gonna be big enough? Make it about a third the size, roughly. And that'll be high quality,
near enough 300, it's gonna print perfect. Then there's the little bit
too casual resolution Dan way, where it can look fine at about 180-ish,
okay? So I'd be happy printing that. It depends what it is. If you're trying to sell a Rolex or
a Bentley and it's the front cover, don't fudge the images. Get it as high quality as you can, but
this is a supporting background image. It's got a bit of noise in the graphic
anyway, I'm happy to do it at 180. So screen use is gonna be up to 72. And if it's going for commercial print,
it should be at 300, but you can go as low as 180. Don't tell anybody I told you that. The last thing to discuss is let's bring,
I'm gonna get rid of the kea, or is it a kakapo? I'm not sure, it's one of the,
it's a native bird of New Zealand. It's probably a kakapo. I'm not sure, anyway,
the last thing I wanna show you is, so we've dealt with images,
JPEG in particular. Let's say I bring in a logo
that's been made by somebody. If you're looking to make logos, check out the Envato Tuts+ Illustrator
course that I've done. Okay, but, let's go to File. No, I keep going back,
that's my old way of doing things. I'm getting used to the new way. If this thing here is in your way,
click on the little link. You can kinda pop it back in and
out, okay? Nothing selected, Import File. I'd like you to bring in the Logo1-White. Click Open, make it a size. I'm gonna click and
drag it about that size. And what you'll notice is that if
I go to my Links panel now, and I click on Logo1-White,
there is no effective PPI. You're like, where is it? It doesn't have it, it's because
is what's called a vector file. A vector file is made by something
like Adobe Illustrator, and it means it's resolution-independent. It can be scaled to
the size of a mountain, and it will still be crisp and clear. It's kinda more math
that involves making it. That's why it's got a really specific
look, really hard edges, simple colors. So you don't need to worry about
the resolution of images like this. Again, if they come through and
these guys are set to Typical Display, they can look really bad. Let's have a little look. You see, if it looks like that,
just go to View, and go to Display Performance, and
just make sure it's high-quality. I'm gonna scale mine down. How do I scale it, what's the shortcut? Do you remember, it's two keys,
they're a bit weird. It's Cmd+Shift on a Mac,
Ctrl+Shift on a PC. And I'm just gonna kinda put mine up here,
roughly in the corner. That looks good. So now, the W key, sort of big. [LAUGH] There we go, that'll do. All right, that is image resolution. If you're like, man, that blew my brain, you might have to watch
it a couple of times. Image resolution is a funny one. I hope this section made it
a little bit clearer, but we're done with the images now. Let's move on to the next section
where will deal with some long text. I'll see you there. Hi, there. This video is about spreads
versus single pages. So far in this course we've made, you can
kinda see it there in the background, we've made a single page document,
our cover. Now, we wanna make some
pages on the inside, okay? So it's gonna kind of, we've got a cover, now we wanna
make some pages on the inside. And because it's going to
be this kind of format, as in it's not going to be like single
sheet stapled in the corner, okay, that you'd normally do at home and
just kind of like dog ear them, okay? It's actually gonna be printed
like a little brochure, okay? So they'll probably put it on A3, or I don't even know what
they call a WS letter. But a big sheet, fold it in half,
and that will be your document. So we've done the cover. Now, we need to add some more pages. And if we added four more single
pages that would work, and we could send it to the printer,
and that will be okay. But what we wanna see is we wanna
see two pages side by side. Like that.
That's not a very good page. Where's a good one. See this one here. There's a relationship between
this page and this page. So we'd like to see the pages
together in what's called a spread. Spread, okay? So we are going to turn on spreads. We're gonna make sure
we've got four pages, cuz we'll have a cover, the inside spread,
and the back cover, okay? And InDesign will do something cool
where it shows you a cover by itself and the back by itself, but
these two pages together. Hopefully it makes more sense when we
get in there, but that is spreads. And let's go and make them now. All right, adding pages is super easy. Make sure your deselected. Easy way that I do it is black arrow,
click in the background, nothing selected. And you should be able to see
over here in your Properties, you should see Document,
telling me my size, width and height. This is the one I want. How many pages? So I want four in total. So remember, front,
two inside pages and a back cover. Type 4, click out, and magically,
you've got four pages. But where are they? Okay, there's two ways to look. You can just zoom out. Zooming out, you'll see, look, four pages. What was the shortcut? You remember, Command+minus on a MAC,
Ctrl+minus on a PC. The other way, and
probably the more common way, is there's a whole tab
here dedicated to pages. If you click on that, you can see I've
got my front cover, these pages here. To get to them,
say I'm gonna jump to the last page, I just double-click the white area. You can kinda see it highlights there. You can see down the bottom here,
I'm on page four. Double-click page two. There's nothing on these pages, so
it's not very exciting, but anyway, you get the idea. Double-click page one,
and I'm on page one. You might what single pages, and
it's perfect for what you need, okay? What we wanna do, though, is go to
Properties, have nothing selected, and turn on this one called Facing Pages. This turns on one. We use the word spreads
often in the industry. Facing pages is what InDesign calls it. You can kinda see why. If we go to Pages now, you'll see
these two faces face each other. Now, technically, the back should be like
glued to the front, cuz we know if we print them off and folded them,
if you open up a magazine fully, you can see the front and
the back at the same time. But they separate them off just so
that we don't go mad, okay? So the back's at the end. Page four. That's page two. Page three. Page one. You know how to count, you get the idea. So nice and simple. I think I'm trying to stretch
this video out cuz it's short and all the other ones have been really long. But you can turn it off just as
easily by turning off Facing Pages. But what we wanna do is this. Go to page two,
cuz we wanna work across these two pages. We're gonna start putting
in some long text. We'll do that in the next section. Hi there, this video we're gonna look
at adding long texts to a document, in our case a brochure, it could be
a magazine, it could be an annual report. Okay, in this case the text goes from
being over here to here, and it flows. Watch this, if I make this box smaller,
you see it flows along there. So linking text boxes, we'll talk
about how to create columns as well. That's what we're gonna be
working towards in this video. All right, to get started, make sure
you're on our spread here, page two. So double-click page two, and
make sure the W key's off, so you can see everything. Let us bring in text. Let's go back to our Properties panel,
and we can click Import File. It depends what you do with your text. A lot of people just copy and
paste, they'll draw a text box, and just paste it out of an email,
or out of a Word doc. We've got ours sitting
in a nice little file. So I'll show you this
way while we're here. So I had nothing selected import file,
and we're going to use text one, but a copy, click open and
the text becomes loaded. So this kind of saves time. I don't have to draw a text box and
then paste it into it. What I'm going to do is you can see it's
kind of it's the same as the image before I can click hold. Drag our box, draw it nice and big. Don't worry about matching the size,
just get it somewhere like that. That brings in my text, okay? Now what happens with text is like it did
earlier on in the course, that little red box, I'm always as a designer in InDesign,
always keeping an eye out for that box. That's a danger box. It means I've lost some text, it means
that's overset and there's more down here. I can tell by dragging it down. There is a layer. I know that's enough two pages. So I'm gonna show you how
to link to text boxes. So just kinda resize it so
it's roughly the same size as mine, it doesn't have to be perfect,
something like that. Now to connect this page to this page. What you do is, with your black arrow, so your Selection tool, click this little
red plus button, just click it once. Just click it once, okay? And your cursor becomes loaded. If it goes horribly wrong,
just hit the Escape key. As you're like,
I didn't know what I was doing, I'm lost. Hit Escape key, delete any random
text boxes you might have. You might delete everything and
start again. Don't be afraid to do that
when you're new, okay? But let's say I click it once,
I've got this thing. What I can do is move across
here a little bit, okay? And click and drag another box. Cool?
And those two boxes are linked. So go back to this first box and
shrink it down, so I clicked the ones, grab the bottom one, drag it up you can
see it spills over into this other box. They're always connected. You keep connecting by clicking on this,
I've made it small enough so that this box has become overset. Remember the red plus. Click it once again and
I can either make another column, or I can undo that and
I can just move down to the next page and paste it down here, so
all three boxes are linked. If I adjust this box. I'll just do it here, can you see? It spills over to that one. All right.
I'm going to undo, don't look back. A couple of things you'll have questions
about, is that if I delete this box, what happens to the text. If I had delete to that's on my keyboard,
it actually just flows back into here. It doesn't actually delete. Same thing if I delete this first box,
look what happens. So it starts with New Zealand, you can
see it just pushes over to the next box. So, unless you delete all the boxes,
okay, it should all hang around. So I'm gonna undo because I
kinda wanna start with this. So if I want two columns because my
example here, right, has, where is it? This is where we're gonna end up, okay? Is we're gonna have a first box of text,
okay and then we're going to have these two and I could draw one box and link it
like we have and then link a second box. I'm gonna show you especially if your
doing a long document so an annual report might have like 50 pages or 100 pages or
some sort of documentation. Okay you don't want to be drawing
two text boxes you just want split this one in half. And I wanna show you both of these. So what we gonna do is this fellow here. I'm gonna make sure it is lined up here,
not too worried about the height, but I want it lined up with
the edge of this okay, our margin and I want this side to line
up with the other side of the margin. So it's like a full width. What you can do is black
arrow width is selected, you'll notice over here there's
options for the text frame. You can see it's just one column,
click on that, it becomes two columns. Cool? This next one here,
we can adjust the space between. It's called the gutter. You can just it's the space
opening up in between this. So you might have a document
that actually is just this, you're linking the two pages together. Okay, so you link this page to this
page to the next page to the next page, you really long, text-heavy
document columns is just a handy little trick rather than linking
two separate text boxes. I'm gonna undo cuz that's
kind of where I want. All right, before we go and I'm just
kind of make it look a little bit nicer. So, what I want is you can skip now we're
not doing anymore linking text boxes. Just going to get a little bit
closer to this design here. So I want this kind of big rectangle
here on the left, okay, and it is exactly one third of the document. So we're going to use
our handy math tricks. So, I'm gonna grab the rectangle tool and
I'll zoom out, and I'm gonna draw this fella. Bring it to the height, so
it goes all the way into the bleeds and don't mind which color it is even
though I'm gonna pick a color. But it's gonna be in the image later on. Okay, what I want to do is make
sure it's exactly one third. How do I do that? It's I go through and
I make it this width. Then I go into width,
I go divide by three. Hit return, and that is a third,
plus a little bit of bleed. [INAUDIBLE] But here you go. Got my third, this fella here is going to
same height, but just a little bit wider. I'm going to try and use the same
sort of margin size of the slide. Hit W.
How's it looking? Now I'll remember our command zero. Okay, does the full page I
like to see full spread. So it's a bit of a hard
shortcut either all the time. In this case, it's command+Option+0, okay. If you're on a PC, it's Control+Option+0. Okay.
Just to get the whole spread in the middle. Don't worry too much about we've got
this kind of missing chunk over here. We're gonna adjust the font size a little
bit and we'll end up filling up this gap. Or if you don't even have one we
might just shrink these guys down, you'll notice I can shrink them down,
you see those cool smart guides that line, you see the green things over there,
I can't really point to it but you can see there they
line up nicely on the top. All right, it's enough for this video,
let's jump into the next one where we start looking at something called
paragraph styles, super helpful for longer text, I'll see you there. Hey there, this video is about
working with paragraph styles. Paragraph style means you can connect
a couple of bits of text together in terms of its style, its font, its color. And the cool thing about it is later on, you can go once you've
made this connection. Especially good for a longer document,
you've got headings all through it, you can go through it,
actually let's just change the font. You'll see that all the connected
paragraph style headings all go and update. Great for body copy,
perfect for long documents. Let's work out how to make
a paragraph style now. All right,
to get started with our paragraph style, let's create our little heading over here. So we're gonna grab the Type tool, draw
a nice big box cuz it's gonna be a big heading and we're gonna type in so
much to do dot dot dot. Okay, and let's highlight it all. And let's go over here and pick a font. Now we're gonna use the font that we
downloaded earlier on for the cover. Can't remember what it was called D dot. That's it, D dot. And I'm gonna use the D dot bold. I'm gonna make it be the green. Okay, nothing new here, a little tip is you can go through and
pick these, drop down. You can type them in,
what I tend to do is, say it starts at 12. If I want to go up In
lots of measurements, I hold down the Shift key and
click the up arrow. Instead of going up one, I hold the Shift
key down and it goes up in tens. Because that's where I wanna go,
somewhere about that. I wanna play around with the line
spacing as well, okay, or called leading in InDesign. And I'm happy enough with that. Hey, black arrow, move it around. I'm gonna shrink this
bottom bit up a little bit. That's kind of what I wanna do. So the cool thing about this is that I
want to use it again and again, and again. Let's say that I'm working with this
client Visit New Zealand loads. I don't want to have to like
type that out and type it in. Put the colors in, so
I get to use a style. So to make a style,
all you gotta do is highlight your text. So go to your Type Tool and
drag a box around it. You might have just
noticed what I did there. I never go to the Type tool cuz
I'm lazy and InDesign's helpful. Okay, so the black area, if you double-click it,
you end up as the Type tool. Okay, you go to black arrow. You can see it change over here with a t. Double-click it and
I can just keep clicking. [LAUGH] It's like one two gets the word. One, two, three gets the line. One, two, three, four gets the whole
paragraph, gets everything. So watch this, one, two, three, four,
five, one, two, three, four, five. Is that helpful Dan? I don't know, I do it, so maybe it is. So, either way, how you do it,
have this whole thing selected, every last little bit of it. And let's go to Window >
Styles > Paragraph Styles. This little panel appears. So I'm going to drag the top little
dark strip of it to move it around. I'm gonna put mine there, cool. You're given a basic
paragraph to start with. What I'd like to do is create my own one. So we're going to create new style. It's this turned up page,
the second icon from the right. Click on that and we've given this
one called Paragraph style 1. Double click it, okay? It opens it up and tells you a few things. It tells you that it is bold,
D dot is the font color. You can see lots of things. It's the VINZ green, all cool stuff. And I was just gonna save it so
we can reuse it. There's a couple of little things though, so what you wanna just double check
is that it's not based on anything. So, especially when you're new, make sure
it's always based on no paragraph style. That can catch it out later on when
you're new, once you get more advanced, you can start stacking styles on top of
each other, but I find, for new people, it's just too hard. So we're gonna give it a name,
I'm gonna call it VINZ Heading. Always give it the client name at the
beginning as well, because I end up with loads of different heading styles and
I need to know which one they are. Cuz they can actually jump from one
document to the other if you copy and paste the text. So that makes it nice and
clear what client it's for, and that's it. Let's click OK, give it a name. Make sure it's not based on anything,
click OK. What do we do now? Is we go back to my black arrow,
click off on the background to deselect. Come down here. Okay, so I'm on my last page, page four. You can kinda tell down
here I'm on page four. You could go to your pages panel,
double-click four so you know you're in the right spot. I'm gonna turn the preview mode off. So remember W key and what I want to do,
Type tool, draw a random box, and type in so, so
little time, dot, dot, dot. I'm totally abusing the, [LAUGH] I don't
think there needs to be a dot, dot, dot. Anyway, you get the idea. You can capitalize it. So we've got our text and we don't want to have to go through our
Properties panel and do all these things. Imagine if we just clicked this button. [SOUND] Gasp, horror. So that is the power of a paragraph style,
do it once, highlight it, make it,
then you get to reuse it. Gets even better, right? So I'm gonna click off so we've got
nothing is selected, nothing at all. And let's say that up here,
we're like, actually I like it but I want it to be the red,
nuclear red color that we've got. So with nothing selected,
just double click VNZ, okay? And go into Basic character formats,
that's where most of the business is done. They're actually quite powerful,
there's lots in here. You can see I can change the font,
and the boldness, and the size. Actually, what I want is the character
color down the bottom here. And you can see I wanna change
it from VNZ Green to Red. Then click OK. And the good thing about it is
that changes and that changes. And that's really handy when it's not so much of a big deal when we're dealing
with just a four page brochure but you can imagine a longer
document is super helpful. So let's do one more together,
if you like, and kind of get it. Let's do it again with the body copying. So I'm going to select all the body copy,
you can grab the long way Type tool, click in there once. Go to Edit > Select All,
where is it, Select All, and that grabs all of the text. Or the weird Dan way, black arrow,
keep clicking until you grab it all, okay? With it all selected,
let's pick our body copy font, remember we downloaded,
it was called Rebotto, that was it. So I'm gonna delete that and
just type in rebotto. And I'm gonna start with,
I'm gonna use rebotto regular, medium. I'll use medium. Okay in terms of font size for
a body copy 12 point is the default for things like Word and
InDesign but it's quite big. If you pick up any magazine,
if you go to the magazine shop and you check all the body copy text. It's more likely to be ten, okay? That's a real common body copy size. 9.5 is common as well,
11, 12 gets quite big. If I was you,
if you like 12 on the screen, print it off physically so you can see. You'll be like ooh, that's a bit big or,
it might be perfect. We're gonna run with
12-point because we're gonna say that it's the client's
default font size. And we've got lots of kind
of space to work with. So let's go 12-point and what I'd
like to do now is, it's all perfect, so Roboto 12 point, love it and
let's make our paragraph style. So it's all selected,
add this little turned up page here. It's called Paragraph Style 1,
double-click it. Now, what are we gonna check? Make sure it's not based on anything. So, no paragraph style. Give it a name, VNZ Body Copy, click OK. And hopefully now, it's ready to go. Okay, so I can click off, black arrow,
click in the background, come down here. I've got some more text to bring in, so
I'm gonna make this a little smaller so it has a bit of room. Now we're gonna bring in our files and nothing selected Import File,
go to Text 2 Back. Click Open, drag out a box. Woah, it's remembered my last
heading [LAUGH] that's okay. We need to select all the text, so select
it all and go to V, T and Z body copy. I didn't select it all, keep selecting
until you go VTNZ, VNZ body copy. I'll leave the problems I have in
there just so that you're like, just in case you do it,
we can fix it together. Cool? And again, remember, our perk is that, let's say later on we want to adjust
say the spacing in between it. We can have nothing selected,
go into Body copy and then go into Basic character formats and
increase the leading. What you might do is just move this over,
turn on preview, so that you can kinda see it. And watch this,
I can start increasing the leading. I want mine to be, Yeah, it's what I want. And I don't like the medium,
I like regular, just a little bit lighter. And can I deal with the font size that is? Yes, it's fine. Okay, let's click OK. All right, so paragraph styles you'll
notice that it's adjusted, this one, but it's also adjusted this page. Okay, so control a nice big,
long document. And one thing I might do is,
though this overset, I'm gonna leave it for the moment cuz
I wanna show you when this document gets exported InDesign's clever and
warns you. But what you probably might want to do
now is kind of start raising this up so that there's enough room for
all of this to go in. Okay fits in there, I'm gonna leave it cuz I want to show you
what happens if you forget or miss it. All right, that is it for
this video for paragraphs styles. Let's get into the next video where
we learn some tips and tricks and clean up our design a little bit. See you in a sec. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the tips and tricks video. It's a mixture of tips and tricks and
mainly just filling out this course. Because we've we've got to this stage
where we've got lots of empty parts and we've learned lots of the tools
we need to use in InDesign. But I guess I just wanted to
show you some tips and tricks. But then, we're actually just going
to move through and add images and just make this thing a little
bit prettier to export, okay? So let's dive in, some tips and tricks, plus just some doing things
to make it look nice. All right,
first trick is I can import an image and, because I wanna do this image here, right? See it there, the fern? Okay, I could do that, bring it in
the way we've been importing file and dragging it out and resizing it. I'll show you the trick that I do. I use my Finder. So on a Mac there is there Finder. PCs have Windows, okay? And I'm just going to move it. There's my exercise files. I'm going to grab image three and
just drag it into it. And you can kind of just
drag it straight in. It's kinda cool? Another cool trick is, you'll notice if I
click the Content Grabber, it's actually, if I zoom out, it's actually quite a big
image, okay, cuz it comes in at full size. A nice little trick is click off in the
background, click back on this guy, and there's this frame fitting, okay? So it just says fit frame proportionately. And it just scales itself down so
that it fits inside of the frame. There's a couple of other options, but the first one's gonna be your best friend,
okay? And I know there's a bit
of width on there, so I can kind of adjust it,
if i want, up to you. Here we go, that looks good. Next thing I wanna do is I'm gonna close
down the the little cross in the corner. I'm gonna grab the Line Tool. Don't really need to know how it works,
but we're gonna do it here today. I'm gonna turn my Preview back
on cuz I want to get it from here all the way across
to the sidebar here. And it does it's very best to try and
be straight. It's pretty clever that way. If it doesn't, though,
you can hold the Shift key down and you can see the Shift key
won't let it bend at all. So do that again. Click+hold, drag, hold Shift watch, just snaps it as a straight line, and
we good to go all the way on there. I'm going to give it,
it doesn't really matter if it has Fill. I'm gonna turn Fill just for
OCD reasons, okay? But the Stroke, click on this. We're gonna pick the VNZ red, and
I'm gonna increase the stroke white. So I'm gonna zoom in a little bit,
get a sense for it. Hit the black arrow,
click off in the background, W key. You can kinda see that's
roughly what I wanna do. Another little trick I wanna show you
is I wanna bring in a little icon, it's a little version of that
kiwi that I made for the logo. It's a little fictional company. If you do wanna go visit New Zealand,
go to NewZealand.com, brilliant website for
all that sorta stuff. But I made a little own brand for
this course. So the little kiwi. And I can go to Import > File and
that is fine. But I'll show you a cool little trick
is if you bring in vector graphics, say something like something
made in Adobe Illustrator. We looked at it earlier
with this thing here, okay? But I wanna recolor it, okay? So say it's an icon like
this particular one. You can just open it up in Illustrator. You don't need much Illustrator skills. So in my Finder, and where is it? Exercise files. I double-clicked Logo two, this AI file,
and opened up in Illustrator. There he is. Now, instead of doing it the official
way and copying and pasting him, just gonna use my black arrow,
select him, go to Edit > Copy. You can use your shortcut. Jump into InDesign. If you are wondering how I'm
jumping between these programs, cuz like, how do they come up,
it is on a Mac, Cmd+Tab key. Just kind of allows you to, yeah,
hold the Cmd key down, hit Tab, and allows you to pick which
program you want to jump to. On a PC its Ctrl+Tab, I'm pretty sure. Okay, so I'm in InDesign. I'm gonna go to Edit > Paste. And the difference here is that it's
not linked to that original file, which is no big drama. But the real big perk is I can over here
with my Fill go I want you to be the VNZ red color. This means you can color. It doesn't work with images, okay, but it works with these vector graphics
done in something like Illustrator. Icons, logos, perfect. Work the same if I wanted
to recover this logo, okay? If I wanted it to be, I can't do it now,
I can't fill it, okay? If I try and fill it with a color,
it just fills the background. But if I copied and pasted it from
illustrator, I can totally color. All right, this fellow here,
I want to go and Object > Transform. I want to flip,
horizontal den that's it, all right? Next thing I want to do is,
I want to bring in our quote text. So let's go to Import > File. Let's go to text three quote,
and drag a nice, big box. One of the weird things you'll notice
is that it's probably not doing it for you, okay? But it's gonna happen to you eventually. So whenever I drag out a box,
its applying this style VNZ Heading. So to get rid of that,
I'm gonna undo, okay? So I've got nothing ready to go. Before I get and start importing text, I
go to Window > Styles > Paragraph Styles. And you can kind of see why. See it's selected as VNZ Heading. It's blue, means that every new
box that I create's gonna be that. So what am I do just to
make things life easier, you could pick Basic Paragraph or
the VNZ Body Copy. Either one works for me. And close it down. Just means whenever I import text now it's
going to be that style not the giant one. Text 3 Quote. Drag it out. A bit more usable. I'm gonna align it so
it's aligning to this right-hand margin. I'm gonna turn my Preview key back off. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pick,
what we're using? Didot, I'm gonna use Didot Italic. I'm not. I'm just gonna use the Didot Bold. I'm gonna use the fill color, okay? And remember, unless I have it selected, it's not gonna do exactly
what I want when I fill it. Who remembers how I do that? How I make sure the text
colors are not the background. You're like, click that one. Yes, that one, okay? Apply to text. Scroll down and I'll use the green. Now, a little shortcut
here is font sizings. We looked at it a little bit earlier on. I use this one quite often. I select the text I wanna
change the size of. I look down at my keyboard, hold Cmd+Shift
key, and hit the Greater Than Key or the period or the full stop, depending
on where you are in the world, okay? It gets bigger and bigger. And the comma, or the less than, it's next to M down the bottom
of most keyboards, okay. It's just if you hold down, so
Cmd+Shift on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift on a PC. And hit period or comma, okay? It should get bigger and smaller, okay? And how big do I want mine? About that. I'm not gonna look at the regular version. If you're not too sure how high
the line spacing should be, go to Auto. And InDesign will give you a good
kind of starting point at least. You can change it from here,
but I'm happy with it. Also gonna do, is I'm gonna select
all of you guys, go Right-aligned. I'm gonna make sure you are Roboto. That's a nice little balance of fonts
where there's some that is this big kind of display font, which is our Didot,
and some which is not. And I want this to be bigger again. So I'm gonna Select All,
select all of you. And use my shortcuts. Wanted to kind of break
down to three lines. All right,
this needs to go down a little bit. So I'm gonna select on this, and
I'm going to increase the line spacing. All right,
it's looking kinda how I want it. Bring this up. I always find that I've gotta kinda lean
back in my chair, hit the W key, lean back in my chair, have nothing selected, and
then start looking at it like this. I've got my eyes half squinted,
kind of like [SOUND]. And what you need to do as well is
don't be afraid to print things off, even if it's going out digitally. Often it's seeing them in a different
format can really go wow, that's big, or that doesn't look quiet right. I'm happy enough with it. You can totally skip on now. I'm gonna do the last page just
cuz I want it to look nice. You can follow along with me, if you like. Yeah, you can skip on,
no new tips or tricks at the moment, just a bit of design-ness getting done. All right, I'm gonna cheat. I'm gonna grab you,
cuz I know it's already a third. I've copied it and
pasted it using my shortcut. And I'm gonna W key. And I'll work a little faster now. So if you find like you can't keep up,
I'm just trying to, I guess give you a sense of the flow
that tends to happen while I'm working. Who's the bird? I think it's at number five. So I'm gonna drag him in. Love this little bird. Resize it. I like the way it sits in there. I'm gonna make sure these both
hit that margin on this side. I want to set this up at the bottom. Hold Shift to click both of them. And move it to a size. What I might do is,
actually this thing in here, I want to cut it so
it's in its own Text Document. Cuz what I wanna do is grab the rectangle
tool, draw a rectangle all the way along. Actually let's use that full margin down
the bottom here, see what it looks like. Rght-click it, Arrange > Send to back. Make sure the fill is nuclear red. I'm gonna grab the Type Tool. Last little tip for
the people that hung around, okay? [LAUGH] I never click on the Type Tool. If I wanna get to the Type Tool,
I just click the T key on my keyboard. This is kind of out of the scope,
we're getting into too many shortcuts, but watch this. If I hover above any of these tools, can you see in brackets,
there's the A in this one? This one has V in the brackets. This one, the Type Tool has T. So literally,
you can see I'm on the Selection Tool, if I type T on my keyboard,
hey, it goes to T. A goes to my Direction Selection Tool. V is my Black Arrow. So when I say go back to the Black Arrow, you'll get used to hitting
V on your keyboard. And then back to T for the Type Tool. Try not to drag a box over
this cuz I'll show you why. If I click on this,
it's gonna fuse my text to this box. It's a pain, it's kind of stuck to it. Often, you want to it be separate. So I'm gonna grab my T key,
draw it over here, paste in my text, okay? Then move it in using my black arrow,
okay? And what I might do is line it up. Line it up there, line it up there,
line it up there. It didn't snap, there we go. Okay, and I'm gonna do Centered. I'm going to do Fill >
Fame > Text > Paper. I'm gonna make it Roboto Bold. I'm gonna make the font
size a little bigger. And I'm going to lower it down. Beautiful, last thing I'm gonna
do is bring in my logo, okay? Again, you could use
the proper File > Import. I'm just gonna bring in Logo Black. If you can't make this work because maybe
your machine doesn't let you kind of click and drag, or you're finding
it a bit tough, just use the, have nothing selected, File > Import. You end up at the same place. Now, resizing, remember,
what are the two keys I hold down? Cuz if I don't, the frame just moves. Gotta hold down the Cmd key and
the Shift key. Or if you're on a PC, the Ctrl+Shift key. I'm just gonna scale it down,
W key on, lean back in my chair, give it the head bob side to side look. [LAUGH] And be like,
what do you know, that's a big, okay. And I'm gonna go like that. Nice enough. All right, I thought that was it, there was one last little thing
I wanted to do to the cover. And let's resize this. I'm gonna use this to
put some text inside. I'll move it over here for the moment. I want this image. I like it as a full kind
of background cover. So I've just grabbed the frame and
dragged it out. I'm gonna hit the Fit Frame Proportionally
button, okay? And then, try and
grab the Content Grabber. It's a little bit hard cuz
that text is in the way. You might have to move the text box
if you're finding it hard to grab. Cool, and
this color here is going to host my text. It's just gonna be a nice box here. I'm gonna bring in the text. We could use the File > Import. I'm gonna use my cheap way. So text for cover, drag it out. I'm going to select it all. You're going to be white or paper. You're going to be 16. Lidding's going to be about there. That works for me. Black arrow. Here we go. You'll notice that I didn't go to
the black arrow as in, I said, you should always use
the V key to get to it. Doesn't work when you have text selected. What's gonna happen if I hit the V
key now to get to my Selection Tool? V key. [LAUGH] You got it, okay? There is a way around it,
you can get to it another way. Hitting the Esc key gets you to the V key. That's why, if you hold this down or
hover above it, you see V or Esc. That's the reason they gave
it to the Esc key as well. All right, that's looking fine for me. That is actually it this time. W key, look back,
stretch, looks all right. Okay, we're gonna go and Export now. So before I Export,
I'd actually print this off and check it to make sure it
looks okay in physical form. But you get that idea. Let's move on to the next video where
we look at exporting this document. Hi there, this video is all about
exporting our document, we finished it, we love it, now we're gonna get it out for
two methods. We're gonna send it out as a jpeg, and
I'll show you how to make these jpegs or just kinda like separate
nice little jpegs, and then I'll show you how
to get really as a pdf. Okay, this pdf is really for
the printer, it's easy to make, it's got crop max in the corners,
it's ready to go, we've done spreads, it's a nice and easy to do, so
let's jump in now and workout how. All right, so the first thing we would do when we're
exporting is exporting a simple Jpeg. Okay so let's say we just wanna send this
over to somebody via email as a JPEG, or maybe you're designing, not a broad show
but you're designing like an advert, or something, a banner for your website or
social media, okay you need a jpeg. So let's go file, let's go to export,
where is he, can't find him, there he is, [LAUGH] File Export and
down the bottom here, it's probably going to default,
Both to PDF, okay? So there will be PDF print,
okay, so click it and find JPEG. Give it a name along the top here and I'll
click save, and now our options are kinda traditional with the top here, do you want
all the pages or just a specific page? Pages or spreads, okay pages means its
gonna export page one, two, three, four, separately,
you'll ended with four Jpegs, spreads is gonna combine
the inside spread for you. And we'll leave spreads on for
the moment, in terms of the quality, you can mess around with maximum,
high, medium, it will basically determine the quality
of it of course, but also the file size. So, if you have it at maximum and
the file size is way too big for what you need it for, you may have
to may experiment with high and medium until you find something
that's right for you. Resolution, don't worry about format
method, way too hard core, and resolution you can worry about this. Okay remember we talked about that
is just good enough for screen, but if you wanted to go to print, it needs
to be really up at 300, 144 is a nice little medium ground, I'm gonna email it
to somebody, it's gonna be too big in terms of file size but it's gonna look
quite good, and in terms of color. The space, cuz it's going via email, it's
just going to go like digital means we're gonna use RGB for sending this to our
printer, I'd go 300 and I'd go CMYK, but if I was sending this to a printer,
I'd actually probably not use a JPEG. We'll use the PDF,
which will do in the next section. Okay, so I'm gonna go back to my 150-ish
Jpg, don't worry about any of this at the moment, it's pretty hardcore,
you can dive into it if you need to. But for the moment, let's click Export,
and hopefully on my desktop, let's go check it. So on my desktop, I've got that file
we created called InDesign tutorial, and there is my Jpegs,
so I've got one, two and three, it's kind of made it weird,
in terms of the names, I called it V1, and so the first page,
here it is, here, perfect. My second page is called V12, V13,
you kinda get the idea, right? And so page 1, page 2,
okay, which is the spread, cuz remember we switched it to spreads,
and then there's this last page here. I might go through now, and
just call this one Page 1, just to make it a little bit clearer,
if I was sending it to someone, Page 2-3, and this one's going to be P3. All right, three JPEGs,
the file sizes are not too big, if you needed them to be smaller,
mess around with the quality and the resolution, and
that's how you get JPEGs. Let's look at doing a PDF next, okay so
it's time to send this to a printer, you've got a quote from him or her, and
she said it's going to be 10,000 of these things printed and they've given
you a price, great, send us the artwork. Okay, so we go to File, we go to Export,
and we switch it from jpg to pdf, pdf will give you way better quality
in terms of its finish than a jpg, okay retains all lovely vector goodness,
Pdf's are great. Cool, now leave the same name and
hit Save, and in here,
this is drop down at the top, okay? The best one to go for, I'm not gonna
run through all the options here, if I go to High Quality Print, okay? That's gonna really for the printer, cuz
only a couple of other things will change, there's a lot of settings in here,
don't get too daunted. Just stick at a High Quality Print,
hit Export, and you will be fine, there's a couple of little
things I wanna show you, the other option you might use
in here is smallest file size. It's gonna give you a pdf
which is perfectly emailable, it might be what you want for
people to download from your website, but it's gonna keep the file size nice and
small. And basically it starts messing
around with the resolution, and makes a really small file size,
not perfect for print, but perfect for emailing and downloading from a website. I want high quality print, that's what
I want, and you'll leave all of these, the only thing I might do is under
marks and bleeds when I've talked to the printer, we wanted that we've
added bleed to the edges so what we're gonna say is, I want to
turn on you don't want bleed marks. That's a bit confusing,
okay Crop marks is what you want, okay? That'll be what the printer requires and
everything else, there's really nothing that is actually given to the printer,
these are all, they look cool, okay? But it's not what a printer needs, okay? Crop max is what we need, and we're
gonna turn on the document bleed, okay? Which in our case is an eighth of an inch,
yours might be three millimeters, but those are the only two other
things we're gonna do. If you've decided you're doing an advert
for a magazine, and they don't require bleed, okay, you can just, you can
go to high quality print and leave it. You'll see it's modified here? It's because we turned these two on,
let's export it, and have a look at the final result,
remember this? I did this earlier on on page
three I left the text over set, over set text means is a text box and
there is too much text in the text box and we can't see it, remember the little
red Plus and a nice little warning. So this is super handy to be like, phew. Okay I had it there on purpose, so I hit
Cancel now and go and adjust that box, I'm gonna leave it, I wanted to show
you the warning, Kick back, relax. Now on my particular computer,
it opens up the PDF once it's finished. So let's open it up in Acrobat,
yours might not, if it doesn't, you need to jump to your desktop, find
the PDF that got made, there it is, okay, so, it's on the desktop, under
the InDesign tutorials, that's the pdf. Double click it and open it,
if it's not opening and your computer is I don't even know
what this file is, you might have to download the free Acrobat Reader Program,
okay, but here it is here. So things I wanna show you,
I'm gonna zoom out, is these are the crop marks,
okay, I'm gonna zoom in again. All a crop mark is we know that, so if we
cut it from this line all the way down joining other line,
this bit is gonna end up in the pen, but it means it's gonna
have a nice clean edge. So it's showing you the bleed, and
it gives it to the printer, and if they follow these guillotine lines,
they'll be able to cut it down, it will be perfectly US letter once it's all trimmed
up, and they'll print it on a slightly bigger bit of paper, so that they can
trim this off of when they're finished. Okay, I'm gonna zoom out, I'll go to the
next spread, I didn't turn spreads on, so, I'd wanna turn spreads on sending this to
the printer, ask them they might not want spreads on, they might depends on
how they paginate the document. But let's say I do,
I'm gonna close this down, jump back in here,
File Export, yes, Replace and over here, I'm gonna switch it to spreads. Some printers I deal with don't want
spreads, they'll deal with that, some of them do, just gonna explore over
the top, I should fix the over set text, here we go, you Page two, is the spread. Two pages together and
this now, see how big it is? Is ready to go to the printer,
so it's 1.8 megabytes, it's crazy small how small it gets, okay? Once it's being turned into a PDF, and
that my friends is how you explore a print ready PDF,
you shouldn't have any problems with it. And if you do,
reach out to your printer and if they kind of bring up some confusing things and
bits and pieces about color profiles and all sorts of other things that
might be specific to their process, just say, look, I'm new to this,
I'd love your help, can you help me? And make the necessary changes to the PDF,
send that out to them, and if this is your first job and you are printing 10,000 of
them, make sure you get a proof first. So get a proof, it'll cost you a little
bit of money, might cost you $50, or a $100 dollars, but you'll get a proof
back from the printer, it'll take a little longer, but at least you'll have a copy in
front of you and go, phew, that looks ok. Or it comes back and it's horrible, you'll
be like, what do I need to do to fix this? All right, my friends,
that is exporting documents from InDesign, let's get into the next video where
we look at sharing our files. Hi, everyone, this video is all about packaging and
sending your working documents. What do I mean by that? It means, I've got this InDesign file and
I need to send it to someone, okay? Not as a PDF or as a JPEG, I need to
actually send them the InDesign file, all the images that I've used,
any links, all the working documents. And you might be sending it to them
because they are a colleague and you need to give them all the files. They might be a client and
they requested all the files. It might be that you're
working on one computer and you need to start working
on a different computer. You can package them all up, okay? Get a folder. Inside of this folder we have all the
things we need to make this document work. And we can zip them up and
then just email them to someone or share it via some sort of file
sharing service like Dropbox. The other thing we'll look at is
you'll end up back saving it as well. So you'll end up with this IDML file. That means you can send it to people that
are using and older version of InDesign. It's a handy little
byproduct of this listen. All right, let's jump in and
work it all out. Okay, so to package this all up,
we need to go to File. Make sure it's saved first. So File > Save, okay? If it's grayed out, it just means
you have already saved, okay? It means that you're done. You don't have to click it again. So we're gonna go to File and
go to this one called Package. There it is there. Okay, click on Package, and
we're gonna click on Package. And this is gonna open. It's gonna say,
where would you like to put this folder, cuz it's gonna gather all of our
documents up, and all of our images, all the fonts that we've used,
and put them into one folder. And it's just used the name of our
brochure and added the word Folder to it. Well, it works for me. These are all on by default. Let's click Package and
let's see what we end up with. Before we do that, we get this. It just says be careful
when you're sharing fonts. Cuz there's a gray area
of I've bought a font or I've licensed it using my Creative Cloud,
using Adobe Fonts, okay? And so you're kind of paying for
those fonts through your license. And it's just saying, if you share
your fonts with other people and you're not meant to, so
please don't do that. So we say, yes, sir, we definitely won't. We'll click OK,
our warning's back again, okay? I should go and fix it. I'm not going to cuz I like to show
you all the warnings, and I'm lazy. Okay, so what's happened? Nothing, well, something has. Let's check our desktop. So Finder on my desktop, my InDesign
Tutorials there's this folder, he's new. Inside of there is a couple of things,
okay? One is there's a PDF? It made a PDF on the way through,
which is super helpful. Cuz it phases this all up now and stick
it on a Dropbox or archive it somehow. It means instead of having to
open up the InDesign file, I can just check the PDF
to see what's in it, okay? So that's handy. This is the most important file. This is the INDD. This is your InDesign file. This is the one that we've created and
we've worked on. This one here is interesting the IDML. What this is for is this is for
people with older versions of InDesign. So we're using CC 2019 now. If you're sending this to somebody
who's using CC 2017 or CS6, they won't be able to open
this up-to-date InDesign file. But don't worry, they can try and
open up this file. And 99.9% of it will work unless
you've done something that only can be used in the latest version. So if you send this to
somebody that can't open it, it's like try opening up the IDML file and
they should be able to open that. Cool, so
that's the most important one, okay? Links are,
we looked at the Links panel earlier. So it's gonna show me all
my images that I used, and the logos that we used in this document,
okay? Really handy just to get all your files
in one place even if you don't use it for anything else. Packaging can be, if you're connected
to lots of network drives, and you're like,
I don't even know what those logos are. Okay, they're on your machine somewhere. It means you can just package it all
up and the links get yanked out. These are all copies of the originals. Your computer's gonna have
two Image2-Phil Botha, okay? So these are all copies, and
the document fonts, okay? There's the Didot that I've used,
and there's the font list. Okay, now it hasn't actually
listed out the fonts. Adobe are pretty
protective of their fonts. So if you got nothing in this list,
it means that you've used all, notice Roboto's not in there? What it's assuming is you're gonna send
this to another InDesign person, okay? And they're also gonna have
a Creative Cloud license. It's gonna open up the document and
say, hey, you don't have Roboto. And InDesign will be clever and say,
would you like me to download it for you? So Adobe don't like sharing their
fonts cuz they're a paid resource people have made. You're not meant to just
share them around, and that's how Adobe get around it, okay? They link to the fonts, but they don't
actually share them between people. If you're using fonts in your machine,
it will be listed here. If we used Arial, it'll be listed here
as a font that you can send to someone. But if the person you're sending it
to doesn't have the font, okay, and you've used an Adobe font, they'll be
warned when they open it to say there are missing fonts, and
that they can either go and buy them or if they're accessible through the Adobe
Fonts library it'll do that automatically. Cool, so fonts, links. Lets talk about this
file a little bit more. It is a copy of my original, okay? So this version that I've got open in the
background here of InDesign is not this copy, okay? We've got that here. So that's the one we were working on. Okay, I'm gonna make it green just so
you can see it. [LAUGH] There's a green dot at least. Okay, that's the one that I'm working on. I packaged it and it made a completely
new version in this folder. You see them there. So this can be a little
confusing later on. You've got two versions of it. Cuz if I make adjustments to this, there's this version kicking around
that doesn't have the adjustments. So I guess you just gotta
be really careful that you're not working on both together, okay? This guy here is meant to be maybe
right-clicked and gone to compress, okay? This is on my Mac. I right-click it and say Compress, and I get a nice little
ZIP file that I can email to someone. If you're on a PC,
I think you right-click files, and you go to this one called Send To, and
it'll say ZIP file or compressed file. You end up with the little ZIP file. It's just kinda like that folder all
banged in together to make it easy and shareable. So that is packaging your document,
file package, leave all the defaults. You're given this folder and
then you can zip it up and email it. Or archive it for yourself on to
something like Google Drive, or Amazon Cloud Drive, Dropbox,
there's lots of different files. All right, my friends, one thing before
we go, I'll just acknowledge this guy. You're like what is that? That looks like a virus or something. It is just a little temporary file. Don't delete him. He's only ever there when
this document is open. If I save this and close it,
file close, watch what happens. If I go back into that same folder,
it's gone. If I open it back up again by clicking
on the recent images, it comes back. So this is kinda like, it just hangs around [LAUGH] when this
document is opened, don't delete him. Don't worry about him. He just helps out. If your computer crashes, it means it
can kinda recover where it was up to. All right, that is definitely it for
packaging your document. Hey there, this video is all
about what happens when somebody sends me a file, okay? They send me an InDesign file and
I open it, and there's lots of warnings. There's missing fonts,
there is missing links, all sorts of stuff has gone wrong,
what do I do? That is the topic of this section. Let's jump in. All right, so
I've got nothing open at the moment. Okay, and somebody has sent us a file or
said, here you go. You can use this file or let's say
that you've joined a new company and there's a bunch of InDesign
files lying around. Okay and you're going to open them and
you're going to run into some issues. So let's work out that. Let's go to file open. Okay, and somebody has sent us in our
exercise files there's an existing files folder and this one here, so we've been
sent Interior Design Bifold Brochure. Okay we're gonna open it up and it's gonna
have a couple of issues, okay, first is, it's missing the links,
this is missing two of the images, there's only two images so
it's missing them all. So click okay.
And it's also gonna say I'm
missing some of the fonts. Let's deal with the fonts first. Now's if you are lucky,
which most of the time you're not, it means that it's gonna say,
hey, you don't have the font, but we found them on Adobe Fonts,
would you like to just activate them. So if you click activate and
both of these things can be ticked. Okay you just click activate and the fonts
will download and you will be fine. Okay, it's going to work for one of these. Let's click there,
It's just going to download and you will notice that this is going to
change in a second when it downloads. It should be this one as well,
give it a second I'll fast forward it. You can see it's appeared up here its
been activated, still thinking about it. There we go,
can you see that it all updated. But the regular version of this same font isn't accessible on
Adobe Fonts which is a pain. And this is going to happen to you a lot. So, how to get around this,
you've got two ways of going. It's going back to the source. Say a colleague of mine sent me this. I'll say, hey can you send me
the font that you were using. And hopefully they can send it to me,
I have the license to be able to use it, okay, seems I have to go pay for
this, okay? So that's one way of doing it. The other way is actually just
replacing it with another font. So what I'm going to do is actually I
am going to click on Find Fonts, okay? If you click Close, and
it's still not working, okay, you can go back to the exact thing by
going to Type, and going to Find Font. Doesn't matter whether you clicked it in
the last window, or you've closed it and come back in here. You both end up with this little window,
Find Font. You can see here, it says, all right, you can tell which one's not that one's
missing cuz it's got the big Caution sign. So we can't find it. We haven't bought it. We just wanna switch it out for
another font. So now we click on this one. And you can see here it's gonna
replace it with something. And I can pick. I can go through here and
say I wanna replace you with Museo, okay? And if I click Change All,
it's gonna go through it and replace this font with Museo. I might replace it with Roboto
cuz we've used it before. I'm going to use Roboto Regular,
perfect, I'm going to go change all. Keep an eye in the background here, keep
change all and watch what happens, done, and it looks very similar to what it was,
but it's no longer a missing font. So phase one go find the font,
either buy it or get it from the original designer,
or go and switch it out. And you might ind before you actually
found the font it was actually pink, okay, it might have been pink and
highlighted, that's a visual cue, okay. You have to be in W, so Preview Mode to
see the pink, and if you see that anywhere it just means you are missing a font, and
you go to Type, and you go to Find Font. Find the one that's broken, you click on
it and Replace With, down the bottom here. All right, so that's the fonts fixed up. Now let's look at the images. So W key with it on,
you don't see some of these warnings. You can see the question mark at the top
here, there's another one there. It disappears when the W key is on, okay? So we need to go through and find, they
look like they're there, but they're not. We got a warning at the beginning saying,
links are missing. To see our links, we can either go to our
little link icon here which might be still on from the course,
if you can't find it, go to Window, and open up links and it will pop up. Here you can see they both have little
question marks saying missing fonts. So, we're gonna relink them, okay? It happens quite a bit when
people are sharing files, okay, they'll send you files and
they'll send you the image separately. And you just need to connect them back up. If you don't have the images, say
somebody just sent you the InDesign file. They just sent you this thing but no images,
you're going to have to go back to them. You can't magic them out. They're not actually built
in to the InDesign file. They're separate. Okay, they are linked
to the InDesign files. You're gonna have to go back to them and
say hey, those images, can you send them to me please? Or you have to find new images, or
if you have got them and they're just not connected up, click on the first one,
go to this little option here that says, relink, so
the second one in little linking icon. Click on him and go find them. I've got them hiding in here special for
you. They're in existing files. There's a folder called images. You can see along the top here,
this is the 883. That's that one. And let's click open. The cool thing about it is it's found other missing files in
that same directory. So often say you open up a document
it says you have 100 missing files, you'd be like, man,
it's gonna take forever. It's almost there. Yeah, we link the first one. It'll go through and try and
find the rest of them. It's pretty clever. So my files are ready to go now. And yeah the fonts are fixed and
the images are fixed. The one other problem you might run into
is right at the beginning, I should've mentioned it, is if you open up a file and
it says, hey, can't open this file. It's made in a too newer
version of InDesign. You're going to have to go back
to the original creator and say, hey, can you save me a packaged file? So say you are using 2019 version
right now, you, in front of you, but the person who made the file
is using a lot newer version, somehow they're in the future,
they've made a 2022 version. Okay, this version 2019 is
not going to want to open it. So you have to go to them and say,
hey, could you do the file package and where is it the file package
like we did in the last session. Okay, package it up and
you want to open up the IDML file that's the one that will open up in
an old version so you'll be looking for where he is, we did that on our
desktop when we did packaging. It's in that folder. Remember that guy? Okay, if the file you've been sent won't
open, ask them to package it up and you double click the IDML file. One question I get a bit is I've got the
pdf, can I start adjusting it in InDesign? No, if you've got a pdf, you can't start
messing around with it in InDesign. InDesign doesn't open up pdfs
it only opens InDesign files. A pdf is kinda like a squished version
of it or it's not really editable. You do get stuck like that and you're
like, I just need to change the date. Open the PDF up in Adobe Illustrator. That will kind of work, but no,
you can't open a PDF in, InDesign, sorry. All right, one thing before we leave,
I just noticed down here, you can see that it's all overset text. It's because we ended up
picking up a different font. Remember we went, all right,
we're gonna use Roboto. The font is actually wider. So I'm just gonna have to make sure that
all of these things don't get me into trouble, okay? Because these text boxes weren't
big enough to fit the Roboto. So keep an eye out for overset text. Is there any more in this document? No, it's not. It should give you a warning. There's more there. Okay, but just a little note when
you are switching out fonts, they might not fit in the boxes provided. All right, that's definitely it. Let's get onto the next video,
let's look at using templates. Hi there,
this video is all about using templates. So you're new to InDesign, but
you're new to design in general, and you're like, man, this is quite hard. I wish there was some pre-made templates
that I could start with and customize. That is an amazing way to get started, and I'll show you a couple
of places to find them. So within InDesign, when you go to
either File > New > Document, or click on this New document, there
are some templates built into InDesign. So if you go to Print, and
these are kind of presets for the standard blank pages, but
underneath there is one called Templates. So say you like this one here. You're like, that could work for me. If you click on it and you hit Download,
it'll take a little while, but it will download a template ready to
go with the fonts and colors, okay? The thing that it won't
have is the images, okay? You'll have to replace it with the images. I'll show you what I mean, so
this business proposal layout. It's got a little blue tick
next to it on my version, cuz I've already downloaded it. So I click on it once, hit Download. Once it's downloaded, click Open,
and it'll open up like this. Now, when you first open
up a template from Adobe, it'll ask you to sync the fonts,
you click Yes, and it'll be fine. What you'll notice is that
they put these big gray frames in here to represent
where the image was meant to be. So if we have a look,
File > New > Document, you kinda get a sense of what
they were gonna do with it. You can hit Preview and
it will show you, you're like, yeah. And you download it and it's like,
[SOUND] let's cancel that, okay? You download it and you're like,
doesn't look as pretty, okay? A couple of things, W key gets rid of
all the working, and just work between that preview and this, to go through and
start adding your own images. So this gray box here,
with it selected, Import File. Let's go to our Exercise Files. Grab another one of Phil's images,
click Open. And then we're gonna hit Fit
into the frame, and we're there. You have to switch out for
your company logo and your addresses, but you can see how templates
are a great way to get started. One of the cool things about Envato
is that they have Envato Elements. We looked at Envato Elements earlier
on when we looked at images, remember royalty free images? Okay, so as part of that $15 a month,
you can actually go to the website, and it's part of Elements, let's have a look,
let's look at brochure. Okay, I just search for brochure,
and you're got photos, but also these templates. If I click on See More, I get a huge
variety, one's built in to the InDesign, there's a couple there, not that many. But on Envato there are hundreds. Okay, so you can go through,
you pick one, you click Download. It's all part of the same subscription
you're paying for the images. And when it downloads, it's much the same as that first template
we looked at, I'll show you one. So I've downloaded and
unzipped the download. Okay, I downloaded this
version here inside of it. They've given you some cool things
like a PDF, I can click on PDF and double-click it open it. So that's what it could look like. Just like the other one from InDesign, though, when you actually open up
the InDesign file, can you see, they've actually given you InDesign files,
so good. Try the INDD. Okay, and if it says, hey,
you need a newer version of InDesign, which one do you open up? That one there, okay, IDML. Okay, so we're gonna open up the INDD. It's gonna have a missing font. And you can see what we did
in the last video, okay? To go through and fix missing fonts and
missing images, okay? But in this case we're gonna ignore
that for the moment and hit Close. And this is the way you can
get started with the template. W key on, W key off, okay. You can just go through select term,
import file, you're gonna start adjusting it,
picking new colors, okay? Templates are just a great way. I don't know, especially when you're new
to design, to kind of get a feel for it. Get a lot of the structure in InDesign,
like standing on the shoulders of giants, I like to think. All right, so that's the templates. We've looked at brochures,
there's templates, everything. Stationery, business cards, go check it
out either with the File > New option, the limited amount in there, or
the unlimited amount from Envato Elements. All right, I will see you in
the next video where we wrap up! The end.
I'll see you there. Hi there,
welcome to the end of the course. We made it, you made it,
I'm here, well done. What can you do next? Next steps for you, this InDesign class is
a goodgeneral overview of the software, but as you can imagine,
there's lots more it can do. So remember, at Envato Tuts+,
do a search for InDesign, and you will find lots of other maybe
more specific courses on InDesign. The other thing you can do is on
Envato Tuts+ here, do a search for my name, Daniel Walter Scott. I've got some other courses,
if you're interested. There is one that is the same
kind of format as this, or aimed at the same kind of level. There is a Photoshop for beginners,
and Illustrator for beginners. Search for both of those,
if that interests you. Other than that, that's the end. I will hopefully see you in another video. I hope you're enjoyed InDesign,
and this course. Bye now.
