Essentials of Affinity Publisher on the iPad Version 2

1. Course Overview: Hi, my name is Tim Wilson from Red Rocket studio. I'm a graphics instructor and a university lecture. I would love to help you to create amazing publications using Affinity Publisher. If you can feel worried. Affinity Publisher looks too complicated or you've never even looked at it. You want to create your own amazing publications, or you just want to create a few graphics for social media, you're in the right place. I'll take you through it step-by-step, easily, small pieces at a time. By the end, you'll be creating incredible graphics. This course is designed for you in such a way that you will first cover a series of lectures and then usually a project or two to work on. These projects allow you to put the knowledge you have learned in the lectures into real-world examples. From brochures, two posters, social media posts. You will have a body of work you'll be really proud of. I can't wait to help you to learn Affinity Publisher. 2. What Does Publisher Do: Welcome to the course of Affinity Publisher on the iPad. Before we actually get going and get into the software, Let's have a look at what Affinity Publisher actually does. Now I know a lot of you will already know this, but for those who are not sure, well, the first thing it does is it allows you to publish the clue's in the name. But you can publish things in PDF form. You can publish them for printing using a PDF as well. And that could be commercial printing or it could be printing on the desktop machine or in the office printer. But we can also publish things like jpegs and other files, which once again, you could use on the Internet or for social media. There's so many things you can do with Publisher. Publisher brings in the pictures and it allows you to work with your text and graphics. So what most people end up doing is doing their pictures, sorting out their pictures in Affinity Photo and the graphics they do in Affinity Designer. And then they bring the whole lot together in Publisher. But if cos, that's three different programs, and although you might have bought only one of them, you can do a lot of stuff just in Publisher by itself. The other great thing is within publisher you can access if you've bought both designer and photo, you can access them both from within publisher. So you actually can work directly on the images in your document. Anyway, that's enough awful. Let's jump straight in and get started. 3. The Home Screen Interface: Let's have a look around the interface. When you first open up publisher, very often it might look something like this. And all of what you're seeing here are samples that affinity provides. You can open them, you can download them and have a look and see how they've made them. If you go on the left-hand side, right at the top, you can see we're in samples at the moment. But if we go right to the top, we've got a live document and this is anything that you're actually working on at the time. So if I want to see a document that I'm working on, I can just click on that and open it back into publisher itself. Will click on that little button right at the top left-hand corner to come out of that again. But what we're gonna be doing is we are going to be creating documents from absolute scratch. So we're going to be using the new button over there. We can also open up other files. You can go along and find templates that you've got. There's a very, very good help system in here. If you click on Help, it will take you into this area. If you've lost anything, you can't find anything. You can just go in and find it over there, click on it and read up to help in there. Let's close that down again. And then down the bottom, we've got the account, which is obviously this is my account. And then preferences over there, and this gives you some preferences for publisher will come into those later on. But right now, we're going to click on the New button. I'm going to go down here and just click. Okay, I'm not worried about the settings at all. All I want to do is to open up a blank document so you can have a look at the interface. 4. The Interface: So what have we got with all of the settings here? Well, first of all, on the left-hand side, we've got the toolbar. And these are the tools that we'll be working on. Then the lung, the top, we've got some more options over here and you'll see that a lot of them actually gives you drop-downs. So we can click on this little buttons to dropdowns. You'll find there's another little one here that's gives you sort of shortcut buttons or little buttons into various areas. And another one which is more like a menu that you can go down that you'd get on a normal PC or Mac. On the right-hand side, we've got our panels, our studios. And if you click on those, they will just open up in here so I can click on these and go down. Now you're going to find with some of these panels, it's not just what you see over here. There are a lot of hidden things. If you look, there's a little arrow on the right-hand side. So e.g. I'm on the Text option here. And if I was looking at the paragraph options as these ones in there, once again, don't worry about this. I'm gonna be showing you all of this in detail later. But if I click on the little arrow, it'll take me in and show me all of the justification and float options. The paragraph in there, and then you just click on that little arrow to come back out again. So once again, if I went into the lending options, I click in there and see more lending options over there. And the same goes with some of the other panels that we have in here as well. So I'll just keep flicking down. You can see we've got things like stock. These are this Pixabay and there is another library called Pexels. And these are all stock libraries which have royalty-free images that you can actually use. When you do go and search for royalty-free image, it'll probably just ask you to click the terms and conditions button. But otherwise you can just work straight from those. There's some effects in here as well. And just moving down, we've got hollered of other panels that we can bring up. Then right at the bottom, there's these three little dots and there's more options in here as well. Now, that seems like quite a lot of stuff and it's easy to forget where things are, especially when you've just got an icon. So there is a little question mark at the bottom. If I hold on that question mark, it didn't actually shows me exactly what all of these things do. So I'll just hold it with that hand over there. And I can then see exactly what the tools are over here, what the panels are. Then we've got this area over here in the middle, which shows us more stuff, e.g. the toggle preview mode. You can see that little icon is actually this little one up the top over there. So hopefully with all of those, you don't have to worry about exactly what these little icons do. Now, there's still more options that we have. And this is a, well, it's a little heads-up display that appears. And to get to it, you can either click and hold for a second and let go. And it will appear like that. Or you can use three fingers and drag downwards. And you can then get to those options that way as well. The last one that we have is at the bottom left hand corner. And we'll be talking about this as we go through. But if I go to that little circle over there, it brings up another circle. Now, this circle here. If I click on it, you can see it's actually got shortcuts, the keyboard shortcuts that you would normally have, we'll be working with those later on. There's some really, really good stuff in there, particularly when it comes to making copies that I really enjoy. Have a little look around around those, go into the panels over here, check out what's in the panel. Click a little bit further in. Remember you can always go back again. So if you've gone to something like swatches, e.g. here and you're looking at your swatch and you go, How do I get back? Just click at the top to come back in again. And then don't forget, there's also the ones along the top here. And finally, there's one that you might touch and you think, Oh my goodness, what have I done? It's a little button right at the very top in there. And then just hides all of your panels and you can click it to bring them all back again. Have a play with that, get a feel for it. And then we'll get going. 5. Studio Link: Now to show you the last little icon, I've actually opened up a document from the samples. If I go to the samples, I use this architectural document over there, just takes a little while to download, and then I've opened it up. So it's now in my live documents area. I'll click on that. The last button that I want to show you is this one right at the top. It's the little icon of publishing. If you click on that and you have designer and photo, or you've bought them and they are on your iPad, you'll be able to get to those within publisher. So how does this actually work? Well, e.g. it might be that I'm working in Publisher and I've got my document virtually finished. I'm looking at a picture like this, I think. Oh, I'd like to use one of those tools from photo to maybe darken down part of this image. Now, in other bits of software, you might find that if you do that, you would then have to actually go out to the other piece of software, do what you want, and then just link it back into the image, into the document again. But in here, all you do is you change. So I'm going to be doing something to this photo here. I changed to the photo persona. And I'm now seeing the photo tools on the side, but I'm still in the document itself. So this means now that I can go along and I can pick the one that I want to use. I'm going to use a little tool over here called Burn tool. I'll just find a brush which is fairly large. And I can then just go in and darken down the sky on that image a little bit. When I'm happy with it, I can then go back again to publisher and then carry on working in Publisher. It's exactly the same with graphics. If you want to do some sort of shape, maybe, although you can do a lot of the shapes in publisher itself, maybe you want a little bit more finesse with the shape. You can go into Designer. And then you can use all of the designer tools here to design your new shape and work with that. Once again, when you're happy with that, you just click back to publish her again. It's a brilliant way of working. Now, if you don't have the other two pieces of software and you've only got publisher, Don't worry, 99.9% of what we do in this course is going to be in publisher itself. So you won't miss out on anything. 6. New Document Intro: In this section, we're going to be looking at creating a new document. So we'll start with the document settings. And then we're going to be moving in to bring in some photos and some text. Let's get started. 7. Document Setup: Now I'm in the live document area and I'm just going to close down these documents. I'll click on that and I'll close them without saving. So if I've made any changes, that changes won't be saved. We'll talk about saving and exporting and how and why we do all the things we do. But for the moment, I'm just going to get rid of the ones over there. I want to create a new document from scratch. So I'm going to click the New button and it opens up the New Document window over here. Now, what you're going to see on the left-hand side are some presets with different sizes in them. So e.g. over here we've got the print preset. So if you're doing something, it's gonna be printed on the office printer or something like that. And you want an A4, you can go in there and pick your A4 size. If you're doing something which is for press. So you're going to be sending out for commercial printing. We've got a press option over here as well. And you can see all the different sizes. We're doing something which is gonna be printed on a photo printer. We've got photo sizes. And then down here we've got the web sizes as well. And finally, if we keep going for long enough, then we've got the devices. Architectural sizes, architectural sizes being pretty large sizes. Now we're going to be working with the website and we're going to be working with the print side in this course. But the thing is that when you go in here, you might look at this and go, Actually they don't have the size that I want. That doesn't matter. What these presets do, is they just put in the size in here automatically for you. So you can of course go in there and change those sizes to anything you like. You can also choose from landscape and portrait. Along the top there with those two little, little buttons. I'm going to go with portrait. In here. We've got some the dimension settings. So as I said, we've got the width and height in there in millimeters. And you can choose inches or anything else that you want, yards, feet, etc. I'm just going to click on there and go back to my millimeters because that makes more sense to me. And down here we've got how our images are placed. Do we prefer to have them embedded or do we prefer them to be linked? We'll talk about that in the course. On the right-hand side, we've got some more settings. We'll be looking at these later on. We'll be talking about Facing pages and color modes. I'm in there. But this is all done in the general options. If you click on margins and bleeds, we've got more options here for the margins and those are just help her guides if you like. And then bleeds that we'll talk about later on and why you might you might not need them. Once you clicked. Okay, your document will then open up within publisher like so. Have a little look at that. So it's just new checkout, the settings on the left, the presets in there, by all means, go and have a look at some of these other ones and see what you get with them. You can always change any of the settings in here. And e.g. It's millimeters or pick, or pixels, or yards or inches. Whatever you like. Click Okay, Have a look at the document. Remember when it opens up. And you then think you've closed did you haven't closed it? It's still a live document. It's sitting over here. If you want to get rid of a totally click the little X over there and close without saving. So I'm just going to get rid of those two. Yet ward have tons of open documents tried out. 8. Facing Pages, Multiple Pages, Zoom & Pan: I wanted to show you multiple pages now. So I've gone to the print setting in the New Document Setup. And across here, I have got first of all an option called Facing pages, which you can click on and switch off. Again. Now I'm going to leave it off. For this example, you can see the number of pages I put in. There are eight. I'll click okay, and that'll open up my document with a pages in it. Now to zoom around and move around the document, you can use a pinch. And the, and pinch. I'm sure it's another name for it. So to zoom in and zoom out. Likewise, if you want to move around your document, not one finger, but two fingers, two fingers will allow you to move about the document. Now, the other way that we can move around our document is by going across and finding out pages panel in the studio on the right-hand side. Now if you're not sure which one it is, because these little things here, it looks so similar. Press the question mark at the bottom right. And now I can see that it's over on the side there. There's my pages panel there. So I'm going to click on that. And in here, I can then scroll up and down. I can double-click to jump to page. I know it doesn't really show my check, so we've got a content on it. Once again, I can double-click in there as well. And it shows me my pages in the usual word way, one below the other. Now, let's get rid of that. I'm going to go and do a new document again. This time, I'm going to switch facing pages on using eight pages in there. And click Okay, when you first come in, you might think it's exactly the same, but when you scroll or zoom out and you scroll up and down, you'll see that your pages are sitting next to each other. It's just click on this little windscreen wipers at the top. And that will just take you out of preview mode so you can see the margins around the outside. It's exactly the same. When I go along here to the pages panel, I can see my first page there, then all my inner pages in my back page of that. So this is a setup for a multi-page document where you might have content that runs across the two pages and you want to design across double pages like that. Don't forget when you're doing a new document in here, makes sure that, you know, if you've got Facing Pages switched on or switched off, depending on what you want to do. The arrangement that we've got here is horizontal, but you can change that to vertical as well. Click Okay, and it's the same thing again. If we zoom out a little bit like that, you see my pages are kind of going across that way, so double-page spreads, but going vertically rather than horizontally. The last thing in there is the end. We're going to go horizontally this time. The first page is, does it start on the right or the left? Traditionally, do. Your first page starts on the right-hand side, but you can choose the left. Should you wish to have a little look at those and see how you get on. 9. RGB & CMYK: The next option that we have is down the bottom over here, and that is the color. Now, if you click on the color, you'll see this quite a few different options in here. And the one that we're going to be working in most of the time or the two that we're gonna be working most of the time, shall I say, is RGB slash eight and the CMYK slash eight as well. So let's have a look at what these are all about. Because when you go to different preset over here, e.g. I'm in print. The default is RGB. So these prints setups here are fine if you're making a document, maybe you're printing it on a local printer. I'm in the office. Maybe you're printing it to a photographic type of printer, home printer, those sort of things. We'd use RGB and there was, if you're creating something which is going to go for commercial printing. When I click on that, you'll see that it defaults to CMYK. And once again, if I go down here using the first ones, it'll go back to RGB web, we'll go back to RGB as well. So what is the difference between RGB and CMYK? Well, I've got an example to show you here. So let's have a look first at RGB. Rgb, which stands for red, green, and blue. The way that devices work. And by devices, it's an iPad or a computer monitor, a television, a smart phone that they all work with. Rgb, red, green, and blue light. Everything that you see on your screen is made up of red, green, and blue little pixels. Now, if you don't have any light on your screen, It's black. If you want white. It's a combination of red, green, and blue at 100% that gives you pure white. On the other hand, if you're sending something for commercial printing, commercial printers print with cyan, magenta and yellow, that's sort of blue, pink and yellow there. And then they have black as well. So that's why we have CMY or K, K for black. Well, it's because it's the key color. If you don't have any ink, it's white. If you have 100 per cent of those inks, then you get black. But we also have an extra black in here because it'd be a waste of ink if you had to print all your black text using cyan, magenta and yellow. So we have an extra black in there as well. 10. Bleeds: Let's go over to the margins and bleeds area and have a quick look here. Now, the margins are pretty self-explanatory, ready? It puts in a margin for you. It's a design guide. It helps you with your design. It's got nothing to do with whether that area will print or not at all. The bleed, on the other hand, is really important. And this is something that we use quite a lot when sending workout for commercial printing. If I go across to the press ready in and say e.g. choose A4. You can see it automatically puts a bleed in here. So what a bleed? Well, first of all, let's have a look at it and then I'll explain exactly what it is and what it does. This is the bleed. It's the little extra area around the outside. It's a guide around the outside. So why is it there? Well, let's have a look at a magazine. So there's a copy of Vogue. And on the cover of Vogue, we've got a photograph which goes right the way to the edge of the document. Now when this gets printed up or any commercial printing gets printed up, what we do is we print not on a piece of paper that, which is this size, but we print on a large roll of paper. So the cover and the back page would be printed next to each other. And then on the other side of that paper would be the inner page and the inner back page. And once again, it probably another one next to that, maybe another one next to that as well. On this large roll of paper, then a guillotine would come along and it would cut these bits of paper to the right size. Now, imagine if you had designed the cover of Vogue and the picture you'd put right way to the edge of the document, being absolutely perfect about it. Then the guillotine came along once it had printed, and the guillotine was half a millimeter out at tiny fraction. What could happen is if the guillotine is slightly out, you might end up with a little bit of white running down the edge of your page where the printing hasn't come. So this is where a bleed comes into its own. Because what happens is we actually print these documents slightly bigger, so we put a bit more ink on them then than the size of the page. So when the guillotine comes along and cuts into that printed area and you don't have any little white bits leftover on the edge. Let me show you what I mean by going back to a document with a bleed. So with this document here, if I had put in a picture on the documents and I'm just going to place any file here at all. I'm just looking for a quick quick picture to put in. And the trouble is there's never one when you wanted. And I will just place my picture in there. When we put it onto the document, we don't put it to the edge of the page. We move it. So it goes to the bleed mark there. And then this gets printed up. And then the guillotine will come and cut off that last little bit over there. So whether it's on the left, right, top, bottom, or going over your entire page like that. Anything which goes to the edge of the page which is going to have Inc whether it's a photo or whether it is a shape, needs to go to the bleed, not the edge of the page. Now, do you need a bleed for stuff that's going to go on social media? Not at all. Because there's no guillotine cutting off the document. Do you need a bleed for something which you're going to PDF and email around to people? Once again, usually the answer is no because there are gonna be seeing it onscreen and there's no guillotine to cut it off. Have a little bit of a look at that. When you go into a new document in there, go over to margins and bleed and look at the bleed setting in here. The industry standard for bleeds is usually 3 mm. Occasionally or printer might ask you for a five-minute meter bleed. Very rarely do we go over five millimetres if in doubt, put in a three millimeter bleed. Lastly, what would happen if you put an a bleed and you didn't need it? Nothing at all. It's absolutely fine. But of course, if you do need a bleed and you haven't put one in or you can put one in later, but it's a good idea to start right at the beginning. 11. Copy & Paste Text in to Text Frame: I'm going to bring in some text. Before I do this, a little windscreen wiper here. If you switch it on and off, you'll see it will hide and show the margins. You'll find that if you click to the right of that, you've got a number of other things that you can hide and show as well. We get more into those later on. But if you're wondering why I've got margins up and maybe you don't. It could be that that little button there is switched on. It takes you into preview mode. I'm going to go along to the type tool. Now, you'll notice there are two type tools here. I'm going to start with this one over here. It's called frame text. I'm going to click and drag a frame to put my text in your notes. I haven't been accurate. I haven't put it up to the margin. I've just put it straight in the middle. Now I'm going to go and find my text. So I'm going to go across Let's try that again. I'm I'm just dragging with four fingers as a fourth finger didn't seem to want to go down. And I found a bit of text in here. I've gone to a website and I've just looked for a little bit of text in there. And I'm going to select the text its choose a different bit of text in here. And I'm going to take this pre-history all way down to get hold of it. It's easier to use your fingers sometimes on the web. I'm going to copy that bit of text and I'm going to go back along to my document. Incidentally, there's something funny going on there. If you see these little funny things, just select them with the black arrow tool and you can delete them. I'll show you how to do this later on, but you use three fingers down and you can choose Delete. Anyway, I've clicked over there and I want to put my text in. I've double-clicked in it and you can see the little flashing I-beam over there. It brings up my keyboard on here, and I can then use my paste option. If you are working on a, on a normal keyboard, by all means, just use the normal shortcuts. Command, V to paste or Command and C to copy. I'm going to go over there and just paste the text in. And you can see it's brought it in with the formatting. You can see we've got the bold areas over there and the rest of the formatting is in, even down to these little bits in here which are in blue. Now I'm going to go up to my move tool that is the black arrow right at the very top. And this allows me to move the text around anywhere I want. And I can place it wherever I want. I don't have to go with margins. But if you do go next to the margins, you'll see it'll just snap to those margins as well. If I want to change the size of this box, I can grab the corner. Now, have a look down here. There's a little circle there on the corner, and there's one further out. I'm going to grab the inner one. And this allows me to change the shape of the text frame. You can do that from any of these corners over here. Once again, from those corners there. So what is this outer one? What if you grab the outer one? Now you're actually scaling the text and the frame the same time. So the inner one allows you to do the frame itself. The outer one is for scaling the whole thing. I can move that around where I wanted. I can pull the text app and I can get some of the text to hide. Incidentally, if you want to see it, There's a little I there, it's in red. If you click on that, that'll show you the text which is missing from there. Lastly, the little lollipop for want of a better word that's sticking out the top. This allows you to rotate. If you click on there, you'll be able to rotate your text around wherever you want it. And if you hold a finger down, you'll find it will snap to increments so you can rotate it Exactly 245 degrees. Once again, I'll click over there on the outside and I can scale it up if I wished. Now, I've made a bit of a mess there, so I want to undo it. So to undo is just two fingers. Keep undoing two fingers until I get back to where I want to be. Have a go with that, bring in some text, copy it. You can copy it from the web. You can copy from a Word document or anywhere else and pasted into a frame using that little text tool. 12. Live Prefilght: Now, while I'm moving the text around, I'm keeping an eye on one of my little panels here, and that's this little one with the green tick next to it. Let me go and get the move tool once again. This is called pre flighting. And what it does is it shows you any issues that are happening on your document. So e.g. if I move this up over there and let go, it checks the document and goes out or there's a problem. And it gives me this little red button with a cross through the middle. If I pull that down again, now I can see all the text. It's checked it again. What about if I had a spelling mistake? So I'm just going to select that and maybe change it to something like that, which you hopefully doesn't recognize what it recognizes the word L's. Let's try a different one. So in other words, over there, you can see my spellcheckers come up. And over here once again, it shows me that there's an error. If I pull this up again, checking my document and there's another error there. So how do we know what the error is? If you click on that panel, it will tell you exactly what that error is there. So it says there's a spelling mistake and it tells me which word it is. And over here there's overflowing text. So that basically means there's more texts than the text frame. When I pull this down, checks the document, and that's disappeared. If I were to change the text over here to something else, it understood. Once again, that's disappeared. So we've got this live pre-flight. It's always a good idea to keep an eye on that. 13. Change Text & Text Frame Colors: Let's have a look at the color of the text. Now, before I do that, I'm going to just move the text over so you can see that my text has got text in there, but it's on a white background as well that the words are against a white background. Now, this bit of text has got a style applied which had copied and copied something from the website that I copied it from. Now I want to get rid of that. So I'm going to go along and I'm going to go and find my text panel. You can click on the little question mark and you can see over there it's text. That's the one there in the text panel. I'm going to go in to where it says style in here or no style. I'm going to click on that. And I'm just going to choose a body style that will just remove anything which is on that and get rid of the style that had been applied. You'll see now if I choose no style, there's no style on that at all. Now we'll be talking about style in a lot more detail later on. But this is just at the moment, a quick way to get rid of the white from the background. Now, let's just go back into the text option in here. So the first thing is if you are in the text option over here, you can change the background color of the box that you're in. Let's make it a little bit smaller. And that's done down here using the Text Frame Options. If I click on that little circle with a line through it, By the way, that's circled line through it means that it is absolutely transparent. I can then choose the color that I want for the background, and I can choose anything that I like in here. Now, when I click on that, I get this color wheel up. If I prefer. I can go through to the color wheel and I could choose from the various options there. From HSL stands for hue saturation and luminosity sliders, RGB sliders, RGB hex sliders. These are the numbers. There's six numbers and letters, the makeup, hex, hex code, grayscale sliders, and back to the color wheel again, I happen to like the color wheel, but it's entirely up to you which one of those that you would like to use. Or you can click on swatches and you can see we've got a number of swatches in here. We'll be looking at these in more detail later on, but I can just pick on a color. Oh, that's very violent. That color there. My background. I'm going to just go back to color and choose something a little bit less over the top. But what about the color of the text? Well, if I go up to the top here, this is the little circle at the top. This is your color panel. And same thing again, we have a color wheel in there. You can choose the type of color that you'd like to see it with its lab gray, HSL, RGBA, etc. You can choose the color from the outside. And then you can choose the lightness and darkness and saturation in this area here. So if you want black, you go to that top corner. If you want to watch you go to the bottom corner there. Otherwise, this gives you full saturation of any color that you choose around the outside. Once again, we have some recent colors that we've used in there. And if you click on swatches, you can go into your swatches in here as well. As I said, more on this color later on. If you go along and you want to just change a certain word or sentence or paragraph. You can just select it and exactly the same, go in and adjusted the color area over there. Have a bit of a play with that. So don't forget this color up here is to do without text. You can do it on the whole text if you use your move tool and select the texture does all the text. Otherwise you can just select the area that you want to adjust and change it in there. If you want to change the box at the text is in, go down to the type panel, the text panel. And you'll find this a text frame option in there and you can change the color in here. Let's go with black text, black box for the background. Tried out. Have you ever played with that? 14. Fonts & Size: Now my text looks pretty awful. I'm going to use two fingers to just undo all those changes that I made until I get back to my standard text. So let's look at a few other options in here as well. I'm going to go down to the text options, the Texts Panel. Click on that. And we'll look at styles later on. But I'm going to click on the font or the typeface that we have in here. Because I've used my move tool and I've selected the text frame, I can very quickly just change the typeface for all of that text that's in there by just picking any of those options. Well, as you can see, there's tons of them down here. Let's go back to Avenue. Then. Under that, we then got things like italic, bold, very light. All of the styles. And to the right of that is our size in points. And I can just choose different sizes in here. By the way, if you're not sure about how big points are, there are on a computer, 72 points in an inch. So it kind of gives you an idea. If you're trying to do a large title for a poster, if you made your type 72 points to text would be an inch high. Very quickly. Check that out. 15. Add Some Images: Let's start bringing in some pictures. Now. I'm going to use my move tool. And in fact, I'm going to just leave that right at the top over there and click off of it to de-select it and we're close that little panel down. Now I'm going to go in my tools about two-thirds the way down to the little photo and click on that. And this is my place or import option. I'm going to say place from files. And over there this little folder, or if you've got anything in your library, your picture library on your machine, you can use that. But I'm going to go to Place from files. And the pictures that I'm using are the pictures that you've got as part of this course. But if you want to find your own pictures, that's absolutely fine. If you want to go to I use unsplash.com as the picture library to get the pictures. All these ones in the course come from there because they're all royalty-free. But otherwise, these images are part of your course and you can just go to the assets to get them. So I'm going to go along over here to this images to use folder. And there's a number of different pictures in here. And as you can see, they've all popped up. I'm just going to choose one and it's going to get this cat over here. Now. It says Place Image. And all I have to do is to click and drag to place my image into the page. Once I've placed it, I can then go along and move it around using the Move tool. Once again, I can rotate it exactly as we do with text. If you use a finger on there, you can get it to rotate in increments. And I can change the size by grabbing the corner, like so. So let me get rid of that. I'm going to use three fingers drag down and choose Delete to delete it. Let me do that again. So I'm going to go and get another picture. Click on the little picture icon. Place from files. Find the picture that I want over here. And I then just wait for that place to come up, click and drag to bring the picture right in. Now, once I've got the picture and the text in there, if you click on this little windscreen wiper, this is a preview area. It will show you how this image would print out. Even in this mode, you can still move things around. But we can click it off to go back to the normal editing area to see that. I'm margins and any other guides that we've got. A bit of a go bringing some pictures, move them around. You will find that it's easy to squish them if you grab them from the side or the top. So grab from the bottom or the edge, shall I say corner, corner. Grab it from the corner to bring it in. And you can bring as many of these as you'd like. Just go back into their choose the picture that you want and bring that in. And then you just click and drag to bring it straight in and preview it. At the top. Have a go. 16. Create a Simple Shape & Change Fill & Stroke Color: I'm going to get rid of some of these. So I'm going to use my move tool and just click and drag over them. Now you'll notice when I clicked and dragged, I get it to touch the dog and the cat. But if you look at the top, it's not actually covering the whole of that cat picture. So when I selected, it's only selected this one. So if you click and drag, make sure that you cover all the ones that you want to select. And once you've done that, you can then do exactly as before, three fingers down and choose Delete. It will do the same with this three fingers down and delete. Now, lastly, let's have a look at creating some graphics, some simple shapes. And if you go up to your toolbar and across about halfway down, you'll find if you click and hold on the little square there, not the one with a cross through it, the one just above it. There's a number of pre-made shapes that we have in here. I'll start with a rectangle. And I can then click and drag to make a rectangle shape. Now, you'll notice that the shape is, well, it is a rectangle. But if I wanted to be a perfect square, I put a finger down and that will make a perfect square for me. Now that we've got the shape. If we want to change the color, if I got to my color over here, I can then choose any color that I like. For that shape. You'll notice that it's filling the fill of that shape, not the line around the outside. The line around the outside is often called a stroke. And you'll see that there are actually two little shapes up the top, the circle, which is filled is the fill color. And if I click on that one, this is the stroke color over here. Now, the stroke color can be changed. If you click on that, you can then change the stroke color as well. So I'll make that a bright green. Now, the stroke is very, very narrow at the moment. I'll be showing you how you can change that shortly. But you need to know that am I on the fill or am I on the stroke? Incidentally, it's very easy to actually flip those around so you can just drag across them if you want to change the fill to the stroke color. Now to change the width of the stroke, you go along just below the fill to the little line. And over here you'll see I can actually adjust the stroke with. So I'll just adjust that a little bit. Let's go back to the fill color. And I can then change the color of the stroke to anything I like. I can click on the fill and change that to anything that I like as well. Obviously there's more to the stroke than I've just shown you. But do have a little bit of a go with that, just using a basic shape. And then I'll show you how to use some of the other shapes and the options that you get for them as well. 17. Simple Shape Controls: I want to get rid of this shape. So three fingers down, Delete. And I'm going to go across and click on there. And you can see we've got so many other shapes in here. Now, a lot of these shapes have got options. So let's have a look, e.g. at the star shape. If I click and drag out the star over here, It's got, well, five points. But you'll notice that there are little red dots on there. If either this top dot, I can actually change that from corner to round. If I go to these ones here, I can adjust the inner shape as well. You'll find that with a lot of these tools, we can actually just adjust them in various ways. Kind of like that as a, as a shape. Let's use the Move tool and just move that up and just scale it down a little bit. So I'm going to go in there again. And by the way, if you can't get these things to appear, you just click and hold. So just clicked down and hold on. I'm gonna do that again. Click down and hold. I'm going to go down to the doughnut. And I'm going to click and drag a doughnut shape out. You can see it's remembered my colors, when to change the fill color to something else. Let's go with yellow. And the stroke I will make blue. Now on this one, there are two little red things, and this inner one allows me to change the inner area. This one here allows me to break it up so I could do shapes like that. And I can still go back to that one and move it around. By the way, I'm still on the Shapes tool. When you go over to the Move Tool, those little things will disappear. 18. Project: Creating a Brochure / Newsletter Intro: It's project time, my favorite. I love doing projects and I hope you will as well. This first project, we're going to create a single page brochure or newsletter. Now, subject matter, you can decide to do what ever you want with it. There are some pictures that you can use, but you do what you, what interests you. So we're going to put in a number of pictures on the page. We're also going to get some texts going on there as well. So let's just jump straight in. Can't wait. 19. Project: Make New 1-Page Document: Onto our first project, I'm going to click the New button over here. And what we're going to do is we're going to create a simple one-page newsletter. Now, although we're going to use the print setting, this is the type of newsletter that will be emailed around so people can print it off if they want. But generally we're just going to be e-mailing out. So I'm going to go to A4 over there. I've got my A4 sizes. I'm making sure that I'm using portrait rather than landscape facing pages. I want that to be switched off, and I only want one page in there. The color format is going to be RGB because people are going to be viewing this on their screen. If we go into margins. I don't really need a bleed for this because it's just going to be for screen use. But the margins, I'm going to change and I'm just going to change them down now going to switch on little link. So when I change one, they'll all change. I'm just going to make them 15 in there because I think that 25 is a bit too big. Once I've done that, I'm going to click Okay, and my document is all ready for us to start. So have a go with that. Get your document ready. And then we'll start to put some content in. 20. Put a Photo Into a Picture Frame: Now my newsletter is going to be about a surf and yoga school. You could do yours about whatever subject you like, although the pictures are surf and yoga pictures. But if you want to go to something like unsplash.com or one of the free picture libraries. You can just download any picture that you want to use. Now, when I showed you before that you could bring in a picture. We just brought it straight in, but this time I'm actually going to use a picture frame. So there's a little square picture frame there. I'm going to drag the picture frame into the area that I want. You could see as I'm dragging it to the middle, it tells me I've got to the middle over there, which is absolutely perfect. Now I'm going to bring my picture in. So now I'm going to go up to the toolbar. I'm going to choose the picture icon placed from files and find the picture that I want to use. So I want something, I think maybe like this one over here with the waves. And you can see it's popped it straight into that area. So how would this be any different if I didn't make that a little frame first, what if I just went straight in and brought in that picture and clicked and dragged. You can see it brings it in as a whole, whereas this one is actually inside a frame. Now, I know we haven't got two layers yet, but you can see the difference over here in the layers. This one, this picture, he has got little arrow. And if I click on the arrow, there's actually a frame that I can use and I can see the frame and the picture separately. If I click on this one, the picture is by itself. So we want to make sure that we've got one in a picture frame so that we can adjust the picture frame as well. Now I'm going to use three fingers down. Let's try that again, three fingers down and choose Delete to get rid of that picture. Now that I've got this picture in a frame, the first thing I want to be able to do is to scale the picture around. And as you click on the picture, you'll notice that it'll scaling option appears over here so I can scale it up to the right size. I can also go separately to the picture frame itself, and I can adjust the picture frame around. Now, if you try to do that using just the picture without the frame, you'd actually end up messing up the proportions of your image. Lastly, with a picture frame, light, text, you've got an extra little circle at the end. Then if you do that, you can scale the whole thing proportionately. So try that, bring in a shape, put your picture into the shape, and then we'll do a little bit more of this shortly. 21. Draw a Graphic & Sample Color on Main Photo: Now let's bring in something else on this side here. And I'm going to make a shape just using the normal shape tool. Over there. I'm going to go to the rectangle. I'm going to draw in a rectangle from here or way down. Now, you've got to be careful like that. I've clicked on it and I'm going to use two fingers to undo it. It's very easy even if you're on the one tool to select something else. Very often I drove from the other side to get my shaping. And I can then just go and get it right up to their Zoom in. And using the move tool, just move it into the right position. Like so. I'm going to have this as a particular color. I'm going to go across to my colors over here. But I want to sample a color from this picture. So rather than just kind of guessing the colors in here and hoping for the best. I'm going to go along to the little eyedropper over here. I'm going to drag the eye dropper on top of this picture and you can see it's sort of finding those colors. When I get to the color that I want, I wanted to kind of a darkish green. I can let go. And then you click the little color next to the eye dropper. So it's now used that color in here. Let me do it again. I'll pick a slightly different color. So drag the eyedropper over, going to find a sub, a lighter green, and then click the little color over there to get that color to go across. Have a go with that, make another shape, and use the eyedropper tool to sample a color off of your main picture. 22. Add a Second Photo & Scale it Up: I want to bring in another picture. So I'm going to do the same thing again. I'm going to go and get my picture frame. I'm going to draw in the frame. Once I want something, maybe just down the bottom over here. And I'm doing all this by I haven't set up any guides at all at the moment. And then I'm going to go and find the picture that I want to use in here. I like that one over there, the stretching before surfing. So I'm going to bring that one in. A pretty happy with that, but I'd like to zoom in a bit on that. So using the Move tool, I can use my zoom option and scale that up a little bit. So let's just go down a bit there. We want to be able to see the board behind him, that's y's over to the left. So bringing another picture. 23. Add Artistic Text & Duplicate it Twice: What I'm going to do now is to bring in some text at the very top of my document. So I'm going to go along not to the Text Frame tool, but to the Artistic Text tool. That's the fifth little icon. Down on the side. With that tool I can click and drag. And you can see it brings in this large a, it's actually not an edge just showing me the size, the type will come in. And I'm now going to type in what I want. So this will be surf. It's a bit on the large side. But the easiest thing to do with this is to go back to your Move tool. You can grab a corner and just scale it down. Like so. I want surf and then an ampersand and yoga at the bottom. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to get this to the right size and choose the right typeface. I'll go onto my text over here, go into my typeface and decide what sort of typeface I want for this. So I'm thinking of something quite, quite delicate, if you like. Which might be, might reflect on the way that Yoga is. Or it could be something really bold. You want the bold from the crashing of the waves, whatever you need. It honestly doesn't matter what you what you do as long as it works for you. I think I will go with my bold italic in there. Now, the next thing is I want to make a copy of what I've done. I'm going to do that by using either three fingers down or just click on the desktop like that one, the page like that, and choose Duplicate. Now I've got two of them. If I move this one down, I think got a second one in there. I can select that and go in and change that to my new bit of text. I've got the word yogurt in there. Let's use the Move tool and move that into the right position. And then I'd like to have an ampersand between these two. I'm gonna do this one more time. Click on that. Click, Get up this little heads-up display. Duplicate that again. Move that up. And I'm going to select that and do the ampersand there. Now I don't like that ampersand. I think i'd, I'd like to actually change the typeface on there. So I'm going to go in here and change to something a little bit more interesting. We say. So let me just make sure that that is selected. Sometimes a few clicks and, or click and drag will get it. I'm going to go over here and I'm going to change the typeface to Dido. And I'm going to make that bold. Then I'm going to make this a lot bigger. So I'm going to pull this right out over here, moved across, this is going to go between those two. And I want to then start to change the colors. Now, get your text in first and then we'll do the colors and we'll send things to the back and bring them to the front as well. 24. Use Move to Back to Change Stacking Order: So I want to change the colors on here. I'm going to go to my surf, got to my colors, and use a color that I've had already in my recent colors. I've got that green. Now there might be too much of that green in my document. So I think I might just darken it down a little bit. Over there. Once again, you can see my new dark greens gone into my recent colors. So when I go to yoga, I can then pick that color up very quickly. Now, the ampersand symbol, I'm going to do exactly the same thing. Use the same color, but pull this up so it becomes quite light in the background over there. Now that's in front of the surf and Yoga. I'd like to move it behind. Couldn't make it just a little bit bigger for that. And then along the top we've got some options. And this option here allows me to move things to the back or move back one. So it could be one object back or could be moved right to the backup all the objects. I'm going to say move to the back. You can see it's moved behind my text now. I'm moving into position where it will look the best. And even at this stage, if you don't like what you've done, well, change it. E.g. if I thought that typeface just doesn't work at all, what I would do here is I would select this one with my move tool over there. Just go into delete, delete that, change this. I'm going to go in there into my typeface, change that to something else. Let's try a different word in there. There we go. That's looking quite interesting. And do the same thing again. So click and hold. Duplicate that and change that to yoga. There's no right or wrong here. Just have a little bit of a play and see what you can do with the text as well. You can always change the sizes as you're going along. Try it out. 25. Add Some Frame Text: Now I want to bring some texts in on this side here, and I've got some text in a Word documents, so I'm just going to go into this Word document and select the text that I want to use. So I want this a little bit over here, and that's a little bit in there. You can take your texts from where ever you wanted, whether it's from a Word document or wherever you can copy it from. You can just copy that. And then once again, go back into publisher and we can bring it straight in. So I'd like to now the text in there. So I'm going to use my text tool and I'm going back to the frame text tool. And I'm going to draw in a little frame over here for my text. Make sure I've clicked in it and then I can paste my text straight in there. Now my text I want to format slightly because i'd, I'd like to be a little bit bigger than that so we can select it all. And if you just keep clicking, you'll find that you can select it quickly. I'm on the Text option here, which is your text panel. I can then maybe just change the size up a little bit. Like so. Bringing your text, have a go. 26. Add More Text & Change to White: Now I went to a website and I've copied some text and I've popped it into this area over here. And you can see I can move it around and do the usual things with it. Two problems. First of all, sudden my text is missing. There's the last little word. It's popped up. Secondly, it's got a white background on it. So I'm going to go across to my type. And in the styles here, I'm just going to choose a body style for that. So that'll get rid of the white background. As I said, more of these stars will look at them in detail later. But I'm gonna go back now because I'd like white text on there. So I'm going to go and choose the color for my text. And just next to the font in there, there's a little circle. If I click on that, I can go and change the color of my text in there. You don't always have to go back to this little icon to change your type color. So I'm going to just drag it out to make it a little bit larger. But if you want to match the text over here, normally we would use a style and set up a style for this. But for the moment, I'm going to do this the long way around. I'm going to select the text. I'm going to go over here and I'm going to have a look that's 15 points, ariel in there. I'm going to double-click on this and select all the text. Once again go and change that to 15 points so it matches. Now we can still use the move tool to pull the text in a little bit, like so. I'm just gonna get the text running down over here. Remember if some of your text is missing, you'll see a little eye there. You'll also get a warning on the right-hand side. So I'm just going to pull that right down to there. 27. Add More Artistic Text, Lock Layers & Change to White: Now before I put my next bit of text in, which is going to be the title over here. What I'm going to do is just lock this text at the top so I can't move it by mistake. It's really easy to select by mistake. If I select all those items in there, you can see from just click and drag over them to select them. When I go along to the layers area. Now, to get two layers, once again, just use the little question mark there and you can see which one is your layers. You can see I've got these different layers in here. So I'm going to go to the yoga, yoga object. And I'm going to click on the three little buttons at the top. And this gives me more options for that particular object. I'm going to choose to lock it. Let's go back in there again. I'll do the same with surf, lock that and once again down to the ampersand and lock that one as well. So that means that I can't by mistake, select things and move them. And I could do the same with the green background. If I click on the green background, I can see there it is there. And I will just go in and lock that as well. It's a really useful feature to build, to just lock things as you go along. Now I'm going to use my Artistic Text tool and click and drag to put in my text in here. And I'm going to have yoga guru in there. The color of my text was the last color I've chosen. You can change that if you want. And then let's move this a little bit of texts down a bit. And I want the same thing here saying surf guru. But it'll be much easier if I take that. I'll use my click finger method and use duplicate or remember, it could be three-finger drag as well. I've duplicated that. I'm going to pop that over there and that text, I'm just going to use a darker green. Match or offset it. If you want to bring in any more pictures, by all means, do so. Just go and get a picture frame and you can bring your picture. I'm going to just pop one at the bottom over here, go in and place my image in there. So I want something which is sort of a nice background type of scene, I suppose. And I've got my image in there. You can see if I pull this out, I could see the whole image there. We can also scale it around as well. So you can use the scale option to just scale that as much as you want. Now, I'm just looking for sort of a little bit of the edge of the water there. So something along that line down there. Now I do want to see my document to see how it will look when it's printed up. So I'm going up to the little windscreen wiper, the Preview button. I'm sure they don't want us calling it the windscreen wiper, but the Preview button over there. And that will show me how my document will look when it is finished and PDF. Have a go, add some more text in ads, more pictures if you wish. If you want to add in anymore shaped by all means, go for it. Just adding the shapes. They're choose a different color. I'm just going to put another little shape at the top here and just pick a different color over there to kind of match what I've got down there. Always check it with the preview to see if it works. 28. Save as Editable File & Export as PDF: Now I'm about to export this out, but I want to show you something else because when you've been working on these documents, I said I liked the bottom of that, those waves. But if I change my mind, how do I get the little person down there? How do I move the image inside the box? Will, if you open up your Layers panel. And I'm going to go down to the picture over there. And with the picture you can see there's a little arrow on the left-hand side. So if I click on that arrow, it then shows me the picture inside the frame. So this is actually the picture, and that is the frame. And I can choose one or the other. If I click on the picture. Now I can move it down over there and get the person in the bottom as well. If I clicked on the frame, then I'd be moving the picture and the frame around at the same time. So I'm happy with what I've got. And I now want to save this out or exported. Firstly, if I just closed it down like that, it's still a live document. It's over here as a live document in there. If I were to close that, I don't want to do that, but if I were to click on that and close it, my document would be gone. You'll see if you click on the right-hand side, there's a little drop-down menu over there. I can choose to save as I'm saving this as an a if pub document. So this is my editable document that I'm saving. So I'll need to give that her a bit of a name. And let's call this surf and yoga. And I'm going to click on save over there. So it's asking me where to save it and I'm going to put mine in my documents on iCloud, but you can put it wherever you want. Got a one after that, I'm going to leave that. Click on Save. So now if I did close this live document down, I can still get to it. But it's going to because we want to PDF this so we can start emailing this around. So I'm going to go over to the drop-down menu at the top. And at the very top we've got export. If I click on Export, you can see these are all the different ways that I can export this from PNG files, jpegs, gifts, tiffs, the whole lot. The one I'm interested in is the PDF document over there. So we've got the PDF document and the preset is just a PDF for print. I've got in there and we'll come and have a look at some of these later on. But I'm going to leave them on their default for now. And just click on. Okay. Once again it says where do you want to save this? And I can place it wherever I wanted to go. Let's click on move in there. I've got into my files. There is my surf and yoga PDF. I'm just going to click on that. And here is my final document, final PDF document. 29. Text Intro: In this section we're going to be looking at text. So we'll start off with a character options, that paragraph options. But we'll also go into taking text and flowing texts from one frame into another frame and you can see how that works. One of my favorite parts is to get text to flow around a picture. So we'll be using text wrap for that. So let's just jump in and get started. 30. Controlling Text Flow Between Text Frames: I'm going to create a new document, just a quick A4. Nothing special in here. One-page facing pages switched off. Let's click. Okay. So I'm going to bring in some text. Now. I'm going to switch off the little windscreen wiper, the preview mode, and go along to the text tool. And I'm using the Text Frame Tool and just draw in a frame like so. I'm going to paste my text into there. You can see I've got quite a fair amount of texts. I took this from a Word document, but you can get texts from wherever you want. Now, I'm going back to my move tool and I can move this around and you can see at a glance that I've got text which is missing, both because in the preflight and also the little red eyes, the bottom. So if I've pulled this down, I can see the extra text if I take it up like that. If I want to keep this box this size, but I still want to see the extra text. You click on the eye to see it outside the box. But what else can we do with this text? Well, what I'm going to do now is just move this box up a little bit like that. And I'm going to click on the little red arrow on the right hand side. So just click on that. And you can see now we've got this little arrow over here. So if I were to click and drag again, my text will now flow from this box into this one. Have a look at what happens if I go to this box and I make it smaller. The text flows into that one. If I increase the size, it flows out of that one. So I'm just going to put this one down here and maybe make that the full width. And this one, I'm going to do half the width in the end, as you can see, I can just move it up and move it down into flow from one into the other. But what about if this one is still too small and I'd done something like that, will exactly the same. Again, you click on the little red arrow and you just click and drag to bring in more text. Once again, I'll click on the little red arrow and I can bring the rest of my text in over there. Just make sure that those are the same height, like so. Now what's going to happen? I start to delete some of these boxes. So if I went to the one at the top here and I delete it. So I'm just going to use the press down with my finger method and choose Delete. Now you'll see that my texts actually flowed into this one. Let's use two fingers to undo that. You can see that the text says, surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual. So if I get rid of that now, surfing is the surface waters sport in which an individual, so the text is just moved down into that one over there. And you can move any of these round. You can delete them as well. So I'm selecting that middle one. And I'm going to once again, just choose to delete it. Make sure I've selected it first. And honesty, we'll get, we'll get there. Using that Move tool. I need to select it again. And then I'll use my three finger down method and delete. The text will just flow from that one into that one. And once again, we can just pull this around. So with text flow, we just go from one box into another one. Now, if I've got some texts top and bottom there, and I thought I also want the story to flow from there into another smaller box here and then onto that one. Will. All I've gotta do is to select the textbox, all the texts frame. Sometimes I call it a box, sometimes they're called a frame, but it's the same thing. Click on the little arrow over here, and then draw in my next text frame. And you can now see it flows from there into that one and into that one. So it really is just a measure of its move that around. Clicking on the little arrow there and drawing it in and flowing from there to there to there. 31. Convert Shapes to Text Frames: What about putting text into different shapes? Well, I'm going to go over here to my shapes. And I'm going to choose one of these shapes to put some text in. I think I'll pick this triangle and we're going to draw my triangle out. Like so. Now, if I want to put text in there, what I can do is I can use my text tool or my text frame tool. And if I just click inside there, it will convert it into a text frame. You can see the little arrows have come up on either side. So that is now a text frame. And then I can go and I can add my text in. So I'll just go along my text tool, click inside there, and I can then paste text straight into that. But what about if I wanted to get text to flow from a box like that into a shape like this. Well, let's have a look because unfortunately, when you do it, it immediately doesn't work. There's something else that you've got to add in as well. So I'm gonna get rid of that. I'm going to make my shape over there. Now, if I go along to this text frame and I click on there, and I go and click on that box, nothing happens. It won't get the text to flow into that box there. So what I need to do is I need to take this box, this frame, this triangle, and go up to the top. And we're going to use conversion, and we're going to convert it to a text frame. You can see over here we've got a few options in there. We can convert things to picture frames, we can convert things to text frames. And we can also convert to text parts, but more of that later. I'll say Convert to Text Frame. This is now a text frame. And then if I go back, once again, I'm using my move tool, clicking on that little arrow and then I can click into there, and it will now flow into that shape as well. As you can see if I change this a little bit and just adjust the size. We adjust the size over here. It flows straight in. So do try that out and remember with shapes in here, you can change them into what if you want them to be? I could take a star shape there. If I want to make that a text frame, you can use your text tool and just double-click in there. Or you can go up to the top and you can use Convert to Text Frame. And likewise, you can convert it to a picture frame as well as you can put an image inside there. Have a go. 32. Custom Text Frame: What about if you want to put your text into a custom shape? So one of the ways you can do it is you can use the pen. So I'm going to go to the little pen tool over here. And the easiest way to get started with a pen is to just click point-to-point like that. Back to the beginning again. And now I can put my text into that shape. So I'll go along to the Type Tool or the frame text tool, shall I say, click on there. And if I double-click, it brings in a little flashing I-beam in here. And I can then just go and paste all of my texts straight into that shape. Now of course, we have got a line around the outside. If I go to my move tool and have a look at the text options. So that's this little one over here. Down here we've got frame, text or text frame. Let's do that the other way round. And in here I can choose the background color or none. It's the same with the line around the outside of the stroke. This is the stroke here. I can click on that and I can either choose a color for it or I could choose none, which then makes it invisible. And you'll see when we go to this little preview area at the top, I'll click on that and that just disappears. So you can use that to make any sort of shape that you like for your text. You can still scale it up as you would do. Normally. Try it out. 33. Bold, Italic, Underline Strikethrough, Tracking, All Caps, Small Caps: Let's have a look at some more type options. Now, I've gone over to the little type panel option. So you click on the little a with a twelv below it. The first thing that you get two in here is your styles. Now we'll be getting to styles later on. So if you click on it, just go back using that little back arrow. We've got the font or the typeface. And to the left of that, we have got the style, regular, italic, bold, or whatever that particular typeface has to offer. And to the right of that, we then got our size. In my case, it's 12 points. So regular body text is usually ten or 12 points. Remember, if you're not sure how big your text is, there are 72 points in an inch. Now moving down from that, we come to some little buttons over here. If I click to the right of those buttons, takes me into them. I've got things like bold, italic. Below that we've got underline and strikethrough. So let's go and select some text in here. And you can see if I can underline it, I can double underline it or I can strike through or double strike through in there. Now, moving down a little bit, we've got these options here, which is all caps. So I can force things to become capitalist or I can use small caps. So if I were to select all of this text, smoke caps, you can see it makes the capitals larger caps and everything else becomes smaller caps in there. Let's move down a little bit over here to positioning. And positioning gives you a number of options in here. So I'm going to start off With the most important one I feel, which is tracking. Tracking changes the distances between the various characters. So e.g. here, if I just put in a title, I'm just going to make my title a little bit bigger. I'll select it and go back in here and increase the size a little bit. So I'll have to keep going back until I can get to my size. I might central line it. But to give it more. But to make it look a little bit more exciting, to be honest, what I could do is I could actually go in and make that small caps like so. And then I'm going to go down to my positioning and I'm going to use tracking to move those characters further apart. And you can see how we can just get that almost cinematic look where the characters are further apart. Now you can do that on regular text as well, body text. But it's really not that advisable because it becomes quite difficult to read. I use it sometimes to change the flow of the text. If e.g. I. Have things like widows and orphans, this is just when you have a little word at the end of a bit of text or one at the top, which just sits by itself. And you can then use tracking to adjust the distances between all of your characters to force that little word to go back into the rest of the, of the paragraph. 34. Superscript, Subscript & Shear: The other thing I'd like to show you in this positioning area is something called superscript subscript. So if e.g. afterwards surfing, I put, I wanted to trademark that and I put in t m over there. I could select the TM, like so. I can go long to superscript or subscript. And if I change the superscript, it makes it smaller and go up. If I change the subscript, it makes it small and go down. No, that's great. But I don't want the underlining in there. I'll just go back over here and go back to normal. So the TM is not underlined. That is going to positioning in here and using superscript and subscript. The TM, I might also want to share a bit. So rather than just using italic, I can go into sharing in here and I can actually adjust the angle of that. In fact, I'm going to make it more upright. Haven't had lived for go with that one. 35. Glyphs, Kerning & Baseline Shift: I'd like to put a copyright registration mark on my text as well. So this is quite a common thing to do with them, copyrighted items. So I'm going to go in and I'm going to say the word waves has been copyrighted. So I click on the waves. Now, I need to find a copyright symbol. If you are in your main text panel, you can go all the way to the bottom. And we've got two options. One says decorations, we'll come to that later. But the one I'm interested in is the glyphs, browser. Glyphs are all of the characters, numbers, all sorts of things to do with text. You'll see when I click on it, it shows me that I'm in Arial and it gives me all of the possible characters and numbers and well, glyphs rarely you can think of it as coming from the word hieroglyphs. Now, I want to have a copyright or registration mark there. I'm just going to go down in here. There's a copywriting. You'll see this even a little trademark. If I just double-click on the sea, it will place it in there for me. Then I can select it. And we'll just select it like so. And I'm going to go out back again to the same settings that I was before into my positioning. And I'm going to use the baseline shift. This is the baseline here. And the baseline is the line that's underneath all the text. So if I shifted, I can actually shift that little c and move it up or down. So I'm just going to make it up a little bit like that. In fact, I'm gonna go back here to my main character area and take the size of that down. So you can see it's doing a very similar thing to what we did with superscript, but this is far more customizable. If I, once again go into here again, go over to my positioning, I can then be a lot more accurate about that baseline and just move it into the exact position that I wanted. Why we're in here. I'm also going to click between the waves and the copyright symbol. And at the very top we've got something called kerning. And I can then just adjust the kerning. That's the distances between those two characters and I can move them closer together or further apart. 36. Paragraph & Bullet Number Points: Let's have a look at some more options in the text area. Now, I'm going to go across to the second lot of buttons down. And these buttons are our paragraph options. So if I click anywhere in this paragraph, I just put my cursor in there after the word other. Then these little buttons would affect the entire paragraph that I'm in. So what we can do is we can also click on the little arrow on the right and go into more options for this. So once again, we've got a few more options over here and some more options down the bottom. Now, we're not going to be getting into all of these options because otherwise you'll be here forever and a day with a course. So let's just come out again. So those are your paragraph options, left, center, and right alignment, or fully justified, where it goes all the way across from edge to edge. You choose which you want. And as I said, click on that to get to the more options. Now moving down, we've then got some more options which are put at points, a number points. So if I wanted to put in some bullet points over here, all I have to do is to select the paragraph that I want to affect and click on bullet points. And you can see it's then popped in a bullet point for this paragraph. If I do it over here, once again, bullet point for that paragraph and for the next one as well. I'm going to just select all of the texts in here and just switch bullet points off. We've also got number points in there. So you can do the same thing again. Once again, you've got numbers and you can go into the Settings and go further with your bullet points, the type of numbers in there. There's just so many options to all of this. So have a look at those two. Over there. You've got the alignments in there and justifications, and then you've got your bullet points are your number points. Over here. 37. Paragraph & First Line Indenting: Below that, we've got some indents. Now the first thing is that you've got a little number over here. And if I increase the number, you can see how it will actually increase my indent in from the left. If you go to the little buttons over here, this just does it in increments. So you can just click in increments to go either in or back out again. If I click on that, you'll see that's 6.4, 12.7 in there. But we can of course, click on the right-hand side of that again, has always to get to more options. And here e.g. I. Could just go to the first-line indent and that gets out. Only want to indent the first line of a paragraph. Let's just take that back in there again. So do have a bit of a look at the indents in there. Very, very useful. And also go into the options and check out that first-line indent. 38. Leading & Drop Caps: I've got some text selected to show you the next thing. And this is letting. Letting is the distances between the lines. So I can just go and increase, oops, let's try that again. I can just go and increase the distances between the lines or decrease them. Once again, we can click on there to go to more options in here as well. That's a very quick one. So let's go into the next one. Drop Caps. Drop caps takes the first letter and moves it down a line or two. So you'll see what I mean when I switch it on. It's just taking that first letter and dropped that capital down. If we go into the options in here, then we can choose how many lines we want to actually drop it down. I can just keep going over there. So do check out those two options. The leading, which is the distances between the lines, and the drop caps, which drops the first letter down as many lines as you wanted to do. 39. Columns & Vertical Text Alignment: I've got my text in there. I've got a title on the top. Now for my texts, I want the text to columns rather than doing what we did before, which was moving this across, getting the little arrow, drawing another column in there. I can just go in the text options down to columns and just choose to split this particular column into two or three. And you'll see as I'm pulling it up now the texts will just flow from one into the next one. Let me just take it like that. The next thing I want to do is to go to my title. Now my title is a separate piece. You'll see if I move it around. It's absolutely separate in there. And I'm going to align that to the middle of that shape over them. And then I'm also going to go down here below the columns. And I can either align it to the top, the middle, or the bottom of that particular shape. Now, that seems a bit pointless to some degree if you've just got to plain background. But where it comes in useful is if I put that into the middle. And then maybe on my frame, I could go into the frame and I could choose a color for the frame. So I've now got the text right in the middle, just users of a bluish color. Once again, I could just select my text and go and change the color of that text up here, I'll make that white. Alright, so remember you can always see your document by going up to the little preview, switching on the preview, and that's how it would look. The great thing about doing this is that when I move this in, it will always sit right in the middle of that box. So two things, using columns over there. And secondly, getting your text to go top, middle, or bottom. If you've got more than one line of text, you can use the one on the right, which then gets it to go top, bottom, and middle, and it just spreads it all the way out. I'm gonna go with that middle one down there. 40. Decorations: Lastly, let's have a look at decorations. If I select this piece of text and go into my decorations, you can see I can do things like putting lines on the left, while the top or the right or bottom. And that gives me a little line over there. Now, if I go down over here, It's just selected again. I can then say it's relative to, and I can move that line around. Once again, I could do the same with top, bottom, or left or right. Over here. I've also got a color options. I can click on that and then fill the area with a color. Once again, it looks okay. I'm going to remove that so I can just unclick it in there. Now, what about the color that we're filling it with? If I were to choose that, I can go down to the fill over here and I can choose any color that I like for my text. So I'm going to go with a pale blue in there. That last one out. 41. Text On a Path: On the left hand side, I'm going to go down into my artistic text. So the artistic text, you click and drag and then you start typing in. You can see my text is coming with this blue background. And that's because in my decorations, I've still got those little options selected. So I'm going to select that and untick those. I think I'm going to take off that left option in there as well. I think those are all switched off now. We've still got a little bit gray behind that. So once again, I'm just going to go down and find that option. And I will move down over here to my declarations and switch that off. So where's the blue coming from? Well, if I go back here, it's because I've got blue set as my text frame. Let's just take that either to white or none in there. So watch out when you are working with type, you'll often find that something that you've done earlier then also comes onto that text as well. But there's something else I really wanted to show you here. And that is how to get text to follow a path. And we're going to use the artistic type for that. I'm going to go along and I'm going to use my pen tool and generate a path or draw a path. Now, this does tend to be a little bit difficult to master when you first start out with the pen tool. And we'll be looking at it in a lot of detail later. But for now, I'm just going to do one click there. And then I'm going to click, drag, click and drag holding one movement and you'll see it pulls out these little handles. And then over here I'm gonna click and drag again. So it's just click, drag one movement. Click drag one movement over there. And then gives me a little curve. I'm going to use two fingers to undo it and I'll do it again for you. So pen tool, one click to start off with. Then it's click drag, click drag, and click drag. Now I want to put some text onto that path. So I'm going to just move it down a little bit over here and maybe scale it up a bit. I go along and I get my Artistic Text Tool. And I just click where I want that text to start. So I'm just going to click over there while you can see it's really big. So if I go to my settings in here, I'll take it down to a slightly smaller size. Maybe smaller than that again as well. So I can now start to type. And you can see I can just keep typing and it will just flow along that shape. If I want to adjust it, I can use my selections didn't normally select things. Just double-clicking in there to select it. And I'm going to go in there. I'm going to reduce the size a little bit like that. I can also choose to central line or right align it. Over here. You'll see that there's a little green arrow on that side and a red arrow on that side. If I grab that green arrow, I can actually manually move it around on the path. You'll find with something like this, sometimes the characters get a little bit too close together over there. So we can go and we can use some of our settings. I'll go to these settings at the top here, into my positioning and maybe into my tracking. I'll just track those across a little bit to have a bit more gap in there. In fact, I really should just do this on the RNN rather than on the word waves, but we can adjust that later. So finally, how do we get rid of the line that the text is on? Well, once again, in your text options, just go back to the main area. It's this little stroke over here. Click on that and choose none to get rid of it. If you want to view it without any obstacles in the way, use your preview in there. Have a bit of a go with that. Use the pen tool to generate the shape, and then use your artistic text tool. Click on that path that you've created and typing what you want. And then just adjust the text using the options that we've looked at so far. 42. Convert Text to Curves: Let's get a bit more text. In here. I'm going to use my artistic text and just click and drag to the size I want and put pop in my next block of text. Now, this is editable text and you can always come back to it and re-edited again. Sometimes though, you might find if you're sending out a document, the printers might ask you to change your text into outlines. What they mean by that is you are converting editable text into shapes, vector shapes, which means that the printers, if you've sent them the editable file, don't need to have the font. So how do we make something into outlines? Will all you have to do is go up to the little menu at the top, those three little dots over there. And you can see it says convert to curves. And if I click on that, what it's done is it's converted my text, although it still looks like text, but it's converted it into shapes. So what else can we do with these shapes? Well, we're going to be looking at this later on. But if you use this node tool, the white arrow, you can actually go in and you can select the individual letters. Now you'll see if I click on that, it shows me all the nodes that make up the letter. And I can just pull them out and adjust the letter and maybe do something a little bit groovy like that with the curves. You can click on them and you can adjust the curves as well. But that's what the convert to curves will allow you to do a text, text, text and just makes it into shapes. 43. Footnotes, Sidenotes & Endnotes: I'd like to insert a footnote over here because I've got something which says other types of surf include knee boarding. And I just want to have a little reference down the bottom, say, beware of knee injuries. So if I put my cursor in there, you can see it's flashing after the word boarding. And I use my three fingers down method to bring up this little display. I've got three options in here. One is Insert Footnote, which I'm going to show you. Insert side note, which is the same thing, but it goes on the side and n node, which goes to the very end. So if I insert a footnote, you can see the little one is appeared in there. There's a one at the bottom. And I can just type in what I want. So at anytime I can just go in, place my cursor where I want. And once again, just use my three fingers down and insert a footnote and side note or an endnote. And I've got another one in here. And just put in, they're fun. 44. Wrap Your Text Around a Photograph: I've brought in some fresh text to show you text wrapping. What I want to do is I want to put a picture into a picture frame. So I'm going to go to the frame, drawing my frame over there. Let's move it along a little bit. And I'm going to go and get my picture. So I'll use my picture and place option and just go and find one of those pictures that I had before. Placed it right in there. Now, I want to be able to move this picture round and I want the text to flow around the shape. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go down on the right-hand side to the three little buttons right at the bottom of these panels. And click on that. And that gives us more panels in here as well. The one I'm interested in is actually the text wrapping over here. I could then choose to get the text to start above the picture and carry on underneath. And let's just pull that down a little bit like that. So if I were to move the picture around the text, we'll just stop above it and continue Android. If I go to the next one, then the texts will actually wrap around all sides of the picture as I'm moving to round. Now, when you're doing this, you'll often find that the text is very, very close to your picture and it doesn't look so good. So what you can do is you can go down to distance from texts over here. And I can increase these distances. So I'm just going to increase the left side, the top a little bit, and the bottom a little bit as well. So now there'll be a bit of a gap around where my text is. Obviously, you don't want to make that too thin because it's very difficult to read down there. But something like that might be okay. It's a preview that document. That's not too bad. But what about if we brought the text in a different shape? So I'm going to get rid of this. So use my three fingers down and delete incentive while we're in here because we're on a picture rather than text, we don't see the footnote options. We see things like convert to text frame and add hyperlinks instead. This changes depending on what you're actually doing. So I'm just going to use Delete. That's pretty much there all the time. And this time I'm going to use a circular picture frame. So I'll click and drag my circle in. She can do it quite large. Then I'm going to go up to my place, place the picture that I want. That. That's not bad except I want to move the yoga person in a little bit. So I'm going to go over to my layers. Click on the little arrow underneath the layer, and click on the picture that's just down here. And this way, I can then move, move the picture around. I'll just use the move tool again and move the picture around inside there. This is the area that I want. Once again, I will select the frame in there rather than the picture. We can just close that up. I'm going to go down to the bottom, to the three little dots and use text wrapping. And if I keep going along here, you can see we've got the start above. Wrap on both sides, but it goes around the square box. This one over here will then allow to wrap around the shape itself so I can move that around. And the texts, we'll just wrap around that shape. But obviously, if you go too far in, you'll get really weird text, you won't be able to read it. So I'm going to keep this on the side like that. And same again in here. I can then just go into just these distances away from the picture where my text is going to go. Do something along that line and check it out using that Preview button. At the top. Try that out. You find text wrapping in those little three dots over there. 45. Project: Banner, SM Post, PowerPoint Slide Intro: For this project, we're going to be creating three projects. The first one is going to be a banner and we're going to set that up for printing so you can send off for commercial printing. We'll put in all the printers marks. The second one is going to be a social media post. And the third one is going to be a slide for something like PowerPoint. They're all going to be different and all use techniques that we've looked at so far, plus a few little ones that we haven't. So let's start. 46. Make a Print Poster in CMYK: Right onto one of the most exciting parts and that's the project. What I'm going to do is I'm going to start with a new document. And what we're doing here is we're creating a banner. So although we're going to use print in here, we're actually going to change the sizes over here. So I'm going to go into my sizes and just adjust the height because I want to be A4 wide, but I wanted to be a lot higher than that. So I'm going to change this to 600. So it's going to be long and narrow. Now, this is going to go to the printers. So we're going to go to the color format over here, and we're gonna change this to CMYK. That's what the printers would require. Now when it comes to the profile, the profile will depend on the printer Israeli. And generally, you find that in states, you tend to use the web coated swap. And in the UK, we tend to work with something called photographer 39. But the best thing to do, and especially if you somewhere else in the world, is to actually ask the printer what sort of profile you should be using or have just put the wrong one in there again. So let me just click on that again and make sure select the correct profile. So I'll use the fabric 39. Now, the other thing that we'd want to do is we want to put a bleed on here. So I'm going to go to Margins and bleed and I'm going to put in my bleed. Now, January 3 millimeters is absolutely perfect for most printed work. Sometimes you'll find with a poster, particularly the printers require slightly bigger bleed and if so, you can put it in there. Now of course what you're probably thinking, why didn't I just go down to the press ready options in here and use them. Well, yes, I could have, but I wanted you to see what we'd be setting up for a printed document. I think I've got everything that I want. I'm going to click Okay, and make my poster. You can see it's long and thin, like that negative print out a few of these which I can then have put around the garden center because this is going to be for a garden center. Anyway, to try it out yourself, get that setup, and then we'll move on and add some content. 47. Add a Large Artistic Text Character: Now what I want to do here is I want a big G. The place that I'm going to do this for is going to be called the garden center. Not very creative. I know. I'm sorry about that. You can call yours whatever you like. But I'm going to have a very big G in there. And then now we haven't actually done this as part of the course yet. We're going to put a picture, a photo into that big piece of text. I'm going to show you how to do that. So let's start off with the large piece of text. I'm going to zoom right in over here. And I'm going to use my Artistic Text tool. I'm going to just click and drag to make a very large character. And then I'll type in the G that I want. I want a capital G in there. The thing is though, I don't want to use this particular typeface. Now so far what we've been doing is we've been, when we've been selecting texts, I've been telling you to go up to the side over here and have a look at the text options in there. What you might have noticed is this some quick shortcut ways of getting in there across the top. So rather than having to open that up and go through all those settings, you can just go to the top. So in my case, I'm going to click on the fonts and just go and find the type of font that I want. So once again, I'm looking for something interesting. Maybe try that one, but I'm going to make it bold. There we go. That's quite, quite nice. In there. You can do what ever you want with your character. Now, let me use my move tool and I'll just move it into the right position. Let's have a look at that. So there'll be the sort of very large G somewhere around there. You'll notice when I'm moving this around as well, it snaps to the middle and it shows me that green line down the middle, have a look. So when I do that, I know it's exactly in the middle of the page. Put in your very large character. 48. Add an image From the Stock Library: Let's go and find a picture to put into our letter. What I'm going to do is I'm going to click on the little icon here, which is the stock icon. Remember you can always use the question mark if you can't find it. And we've got two different stock libraries, pixels and Pixabay. These stock libraries give you access to royalty-free images. You might have to click on a little window that pops up just to give you some fine print. But otherwise you can use them directly. What I'm going to do is I'm going to search for an image. I've gone to pixabay and I'm going to type in flowers. And it's showing you a whole lot of royalty-free flower images. Now, I can just scroll up and down until I find the one that I want. I'm going to use the sunflower image over here. Now to use the image. You click and hold on the image until it, you can move it around and you can drag and drop it into your document. Sometimes it takes a moment to download, sometimes it's instantaneous. The only issue here is that sometimes when you drop it, it doesn't appear. If that is the case, you might find it's dropped it down somewhere else and you're in here and you can't see where it's dropped it. So what I do is if I've dropped a picture in and I can't see it, I just zoom right out. I use my move tool and then just click and drag a big box over everything. And there you can see where it is down here. So now if I just click and drag over that area, I can select it and move it up. So I'm going to pop that on top of the G. Have a go, find an image, try and find one which doesn't have too much white in it because you want something which will show up the character. And white on a white background is not gonna be too helpful. Try it out. 49. Put the Photo Inside the Character: So I've got my picture in here and I'm just going to close down the stock library. We're going to go now to the Layers panel, that's this little panel here. Once again, if you can't see which it is, use the little question mark. And the photo is above the character. You can see I've got G, then I've got the image above it. Now what I can do is I can just take this layer and drag and drop it on top of the G layer. That'll just place the image in there straight away. Now, sometimes you'll find if you drag too far on this, or if you don't drag enough, you end up sort of pushing it elsewhere and you think awareness is gone. If something strange happens in here, just use two fingers to undo. But otherwise, try dragging it until you get on top of that. And it'll just drop it in and Mascot. Now, can we still move things around? Absolutely. If I'm on the image, I can use my move tool and I can move the image around in there. If I click on the G, I can then move the g with the image in it. Have a go. 50. Add a Drop Shadow: I want to add something to this, which is going to help to get the G to come forward and lifted above the background. I'm going to use a drop shadow. And over here on the right-hand side we've got various effects. So if I press the fx button down here, I've got an outer shadow and I'm going to just switch it on. Now when you switch it on, you think, well, nothing seems to have happened. If I click on the word outer shadow. Now I can actually go in and I've got some settings here that I can change. So let's try changing some of these settings. I'll just change that blur over there and just add some more blur to it. And over here I can adjust it to move it around if I want. I don't want to do too much, but quite a lot of blur. And then finally at the top over here, I can then adjust how much of the shed I see. Now that is a little bit too much. So I'm going to take it down. All I really want is a very subtle little shadow that you can barely see just enough to lift it off the background. So I'm going to blow in there. Now, if we switch this off, you can see I can get rid of it or I can switch it back on again. So we can switch on and off in there. If we go back to the layers over here, I can then still go in. Even while I've got my effect on, sorry, it is just make sure it's switched on over here. And I can see that it's on because there's an FX next to the layer and I can still adjust things in here. Try that out. 51. Add Some Artistic Text: I'm going to put some text in the middle, so I'm going to zoom right in over here. This is going to say the garden center. So I'm going to go because this is just individual words. And I'm going to use my artistic tool, Text Tool. And I'm going to click and drag down here to put in some text. So this will be garden. And I'm happy with that. But maybe it's a little bit on the large side, so I might just scale it down a little and move that right to the middle. Like so. I then want words and center over here, and I'll do exactly the same. I'm going to use the Artistic Text tool. I'm going to click and drag, put in the and once again, I can move that into the right position over there. The top and center down here. So same again. Now, I don't know how big that is and I want to send it to be exactly the same. So rather than struggling with this and then trying to figure out by looking at my sizes if there are any different. What I'm going to do is get rid of this show. It's not there. I'm going to make a copy of the three fingers down and I'll duplicate it. I've got two of them so I can move that one down. Just double-click on this size is fine, and then put in the center in there. So we can move this around into the right position. So pop your text in and then we'll do some color. 52. Sample the Image Color: I wanted to change the color on my texts. I want to use colors from the image here. I want the word garden to be in green and then the center to be in a sort of an orange, dark orange color taken from the photo. So I'm going to use this little color area. I'm going to take the eyedropper and I'm going to move it over my picture and I'm going to go and find a dark green in here. So I'm going for something like that. In fact, that's a bit too light. Let me go and try it again and find a darker green. That that's better. Now, if I select this bit of texts, I'll just click on it. There's that green, It's in that holding area. I can click it and I've now got my green in my text. I can do the same thing again, but I'm going to use an orange. So I'm going to go and find an orange here. And move tool. Select the text, choose the orange. Over there, click on it. I've just picked up colors and it just helps tie the picture and the text together. 53. Bullets & Tracking: We're going to have some more texts at the bottom. So I'm going to use the standard text tool, the top of the frame text tool, and just click over here and then pop in my new bit of text. Now you can see that the cursor is flashing. It is very, very small. And I'm gonna change that shortly. But it's popping the new text, so new areas for you to discover. And after that I'm going to then have some bullet points. So what I'm going to say before I put in those bullet points in here is I'm going to just get this text to the right size, so I'll select it. Once again, I can either go to my text options here or I can go to the top. I'm going to keep this typeface to something very simple, like Ariel. And in here I'm then going to just click in there and change the size to something a little bit larger like that. Now that's probably a little bit too big. So I can actually use the little minuses, jessica back until it fits in perfectly. Now, my box is not quite in the middle. I'll need to use my move tool to just move it around until I can center that as well. I then wanted to have some bullet points, but before I use the bullet points, I'm going to just add in the text. So there is the tool area, the flow area, and the run out of areas and their gardening very well. So total area, flower area. And indoors. You can add as many of those in as you like. It gets some text in there and then we'll put in some bullet points. Okay, So these three lines here are going to be bullet points. I'm just going to select them. Go over to my text options and find the bullet points. Now, you can go through here and you can find your bullet points. And then you've got all the little buttons there, my bullet points buttons in here. But you'll notice you've got exactly the same quick buttons, the top. But of course, if you use these bullet points, you might then want to go into the settings in here and adjust some of the settings. So don't always think about just using those. Know that you can find them in here and you can then adjust them further. The other thing while I'm here that I'd like to do is take this bit of text in here and just make it bold. So I'm going to use this forced bold of them. Now, look what's happened when I've done that forced bold has gone onto two lines. I can either go back to the size and adjust the size slightly. I can go into my settings in here, and I can change some of these settings. I'm going to go down to positioning. And we've got tracking in there and you can see I can just track those closer together. If I keep going. Eventually it'll just pop straight in there. So you'll find that if you want to just adjust your text ever so slightly, because it won't fit. You don't have to use the size. You can use the tracking to move the characters closer together. Once can drive it out. 54. Save As & Export With & Without Printers Marks: I've just popped a little bit of, bit more texts in there to say open all week. I'm thinking that this is all a little bit too small. So if I click on it, remember this is a text frame. So if I change the frame, it will adjust how that frameworks. But if you go just outside the frame, you can use that little button right on the edge. And this will allow you to actually manually change the size. So I'm going to just drop that in there. I think that'll be perfect. Now that you've got your poster all done. If I close it, it's exists over here, but this is not saved. Remember if you close that down and delete that, it's gone forever. So what do we can do is we can click on that little drop-down over there and say Save As, and then give it a name and save it somewhere. So I'm going to call mine garden poster. And I'm going to click on save over there and ask me where to save it. I'm putting into my documents garden poster, gotten personal one as it appears to be. Let's just take out the one. And I'll click on Save in there, and that's done, That's now saved. So if I do close this down, It's fine. I can always go and open up again. But we also want to save this out for sending off to our client. And they can then use their printer indoors to print it out. One of the things that you might be thinking of is, but hang on, Tim, didn't we do this for commercial printing? We put a bleed in there. Yep. You're absolutely right. We did and we can send it to the client. Do they can print on their printer, we can also send it for commercial printing. But what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go up to the top here, and I'm going to choose to export. So this is what's going to go up to our client. And we're going to use PDF for print over there. Or some clients might say, Oh, can you just send us a big J peg? We just want to have a look at that. Once again, I could go to JPEG in there. I'll go with a PDF. All of these settings, I'm going to keep on the default setting. You can see it's picked up the garden poster over there. Then we're going to click. Okay. And I can then save it out. Like so. Now, although I put in a bleed in here, do I really need a bleed? Let's just go out of preview mode and you can see there's a little bleed out the side there. Well, technically I don't need a bleed because it's white all the way to the edge. But even so, some printers will say, give me a bleed, even though it doesn't actually need the bleed, they want the bleed in their system. So if of course I've put something on the background, maybe I'll put a color in like that. Maybe over here I had a shape. I just put an a shape down here. I changed the color that shape to yellow that you could see. I would make sure that that went all the way out to the bleed. If you don't see the bleed line, make sure that you've switched your preview off so you can see all the objects and what's going on in there. So I want to send this to a external printer who needs to bleed now going to printed commercially for me. So I'm going to go to File and Export. I'm also sending this out as a PDF, but in my settings here by the word, but to give it another name, otherwise I'll be saving over my last one. This poster Pro. Make sure that you switch on the bleed marks in there so it includes the bleeds. And most printers will actually like it if you could actually switch on all the printers marks for them as well. I'm just going to click, Okay, do the same thing again and save that PDF. That's it. It's all done and ready to go. So if I go to the garden poster, this is the one that we've just emailed around to the client to say, what do you think you can see over there? It's just a straight poster. If I go to the that I'm sending for commercial printing, you can see it's got the little marks on the side. And if I go down to the bottom, once again, we've got more of these registration marks in there, some colors over here. And you can see where the crop marks will be for the bleed. So the guillotine or cut it off there and there and the same at the top as well. 55. New Document & Add Photo: For our second project. Now, let's make a social media post. I'm going to go to New. I'm going to go in here to my web option because I'm in the print over there, but I'm going to go down to web and just pick one of these options. Over here. I can then go and change the pixel size. So I'd like to do something for Instagram. I'm going to put in the Instagram size or the Instagram square, which is 1080 pixels by 1080 pixels. So of course, these things change all the time. So do check with whichever social media platform you're designing for. This is going to go full screen. So we're going to keep the color format at RGB eight. And the color profile we're going to use what is actually the lowest common denominator, denominator profile, which is SRGB. And we're using that because almost every single browser should be able to recognize the sRGB. If you go with some of the more ones that have hold more color, you might find that the browser doesn't recognize it. So we're going with this one here, SRGB or standard RGB. And we'll click Okay. So here's my square page, ready for some content. And we're gonna get some content now, we're going to go along to the stock library as before. And I'm going to search for a dog. And hopefully we'll get lots of them coming up. So for this project, what I want to do is I want to have a picture of the dog in the middle and then get some texts to go over the top and then some text at the very bottom over here. Now as before, if you can't find what you're looking for in the one, try the other. So if I go from Pixabay into pixels, it keeps my search. And I can then go and find when I'm after. That's sort of the thing that I'd like. I'm going to take this and I'm going to drag this. Sure. I can select it, drag it and drop it onto my page. And when it comes in, it might actually be a little bit big, so we might have to scale it down as well. Now as you can see, the dog is coming absolutely huge. I'm going to zoom right out there. You can see the edges. And I'm going to pull them in like that to just make the dog a whole lot smaller until it fits where I want it to be. I'm going to zoom right in and get my dog to the right size. So I'm done with the library. So I'll just close down the library. And I'm gonna go into preview mode. In there. 56. Add Text On a Path: Now let's put some text over the top of the dog. And we're going to do this by using the Pen tool. With the pen tool, I'm going to click next to the dog here, one-click. Then I'm going to move just above it and click drag. So click down and keep holding and drag out to get a little curve going on. You can see the curve that's created. I think go down here and just one-click in there. So you click, click, drag, and then click. And now I can get my Artistic Text tool. Click on the line and put in the text that I want. So this is going to be friends for life. Now, I want to move the text around, by the way, if you can't see the text for any reason, just have a look for it. It might be really, really small in there. And you can just double-click to select it and change the color in here to anything you like. I'm choosing white for that. Likewise, you can change the size in there as well. But I want to move this bit of text around. So I'm still on my artistic tool. I'm going to grab that little green arrow and just pull it along like that until it's in the right position. We can now still use the Move tool to move it around. And if you find that, when you look into preview mode, you've still got a line there. You might have to go to the Text Frame Options and remove the stroke. So there's the stroke there. If I e.g. pink, you can just about see it in there. But we'll just go and choose none over there. Hello, go get some text in there. Use the pen tool to make an interesting curve. 57. Add a Glyph & Save & Export: As you can see, I've added some more text at the bottom, just using Artistic Text tool. And I've changed the font on that to something a little bit more friendly. I thought that area was a bit too harsh for something like this. But what I want to do now is I want to go along and put a trademark or registration mark afterward, pet photo because the client could have had that as a registered trademark. So I'll go into my Type tool. I'm going to click next to the 0 on photo. And I'm going to go to my glyph browser and then see if I can find what I'm after here. There's the little copyright symbol that I want to use. I can double-click on it to bring it in. And now I'm going to make it a lot smaller, so I'm going to just select it. Let's try that again. Select it like so. And in here, I can go and do either one of two things. I can either use superscript to make it smaller and go up or and I want to do this manually. I can actually go in and adjust my size in here. So I'm going to make it quite small. Maybe 800s, a little bit too small because I can't even see it. Let's try 36. And then to move it up, we're going to go along and we're going to be using in this area here, the positioning. And I'm going to use baseline. So I'm going to shift it up using my baseline shifts so I can move it right up into the right position. Like so. Now that I've done that, I want to save it out. As before. It's it's not permanent when it's there. We need to actually go to the top and choose Save as. And I'll give it a name in here. Let's just have something appropriate pet photo. I think I seem to have an extra.in there. Let's get rid of that. And I'll choose Save, save it somewhere. And then lastly, I'm going to go back into there again. And I want to export this for the social media platform of my choice. So I'm going to go in there. I'm going to choose Export, and I'm going to export it as a JPEG. So the sizes are all correct in there. I'm going with the best quality over here, and I'll click okay. And then once again, just save that out or export that out. Have a go. Once you've tried one, have a go at some different ones as well. 58. Create a New Document for PowerPoint & Add a Photo: Our last project in this section is going to be for PowerPoint. We're going to do a PowerPoint slide. So I'm going to click on New. And I'm also going to use the web option in here. I'm going to use this one which is 1920 by 1080. It's quite a nice size for PowerPoint. Once again, you might have different sizes setup. We're going to stay with RGB in there and sRGB as the color profile. Now, do we need a margin and bleed for this module might be helpful, but we don't need it. Bleed. Absolutely not, because there's no guillotine to cut this paper. We can just go straight to the edge. I'm going to click Okay, and my page has appeared. Then I'm going to go and find the image that I want for the backgrounds. I want a background image here and I'm going to be bringing in some text onto the picture. I'll go along and find in the stock libraries. And whether I'm choosing pixels or Pixabay, I'm going to look for fruit. Obviously, you can do whatever subject you like. With this. We've got quite a lot of fruit in here. Let's get it as you're going down. If you don't like what you see, you can just go to the other one that I'm actually looking for, some apples don't want to use. I'll go to pixabay and have a look at the apples in here. Of course, I could do a search which is a little bit more accurate and find something which works a bit better. I'm going to drag that over, drop that in, and zoom out. Let's see if we can find that. There we go. That's what I wanted to do. And I want to then get some text coming in over here. So get your size up and then go and add in your picture. 59. Add Text & Wrap It Around an Invisible Shape: I'm going to use my Frame Text tool and draw a frame in there and then paste my text straight in. So I'm just going to click inside there. Go along and paste, I copy the text from a Wikipedia page. Now you can see it's coming to the background is all sorts of formatting on there. I'm going to select all this text. And then I'm going to go over to my text option here. And I will just use a standard simple style in here, which is just the body style. And that just cleans it all up and gets rid of everything. Once again, we'll look at styles later. Now that I've got the text in there, I want to increase the size. I don't have to stay in here, of course. I can always just go and use the options along the top. So I'm going to select all the text. And in here, I will adjust the size accordingly. Let's try something a whole lot bigger. That's pretty much what I was what I was hoping for. Maybe a touch bigger than that. I'm going to change the color of the text to white. Now, what I'd like to do is I would like my text to actually flow over here. But I don't want it to touch the apple and I don't want to do this because it just looks a bit ugly. I wanted to actually flow really nicely around the edge of the apple. Now to do that, what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to use an invisible shape. Well, it won't be invisible to start off with. I'm going to take one of these little picture frames. I'm just going to draw a circle, roughly the size of the apple, maybe just a little bit bigger. And you'll find that with your shape. You might have some sort of line around the outside stroke around the outside. You can just go in here and you can just choose none, so it becomes invisible. Now the next thing that we're going to do is I'm going to take this shape, this invisible shape. I'm going to go to the bottom, three little dots right at the bottom. And in here I'm going to find my text wrapping. I'm going to switch on the text wrapping around a shape like so. Now, if I then start to move this around, you can see how it will just push that text out the way. I just move it up to there. In fact, my text could do with being a little bit bigger. And then we've got the type wrapping around an invisible shape. So you don't always have to think of how you're going to get your your text to look. If you don't have something in a circle or a square, you can use an invisible shape on top of various parts. All I want to do is put one more piece of text in it and I'm going to use the Artistic Text tool for that. I'm going to click over here and then put in my text saying Apple's. It's really, really small. But because it's Artistic Text, I can grab a corner and just scale it up really quickly. Let's move it over there. I will close this down so I can actually see what I'm doing. I'm going to have that bit of text like so. I think that text ready should be white. So I will just change that to white in there. That's already, you can save it and then you can export it. So if you're exporting once you've done the Save, I won't force you to sit through that. Once you've done the Save, you can export it. And for PowerPoint, you can either use JPEG or you can use PNG PowerPoints. Happy with either of those two. Anyway, have a go, try it out and see what you can come up with. 60. Images Intro: In this section we're going to be looking at pictures. And I want to show you how to put pictures, not just into frames, but into other shapes as well. We'll also use a lovely technique in publisher, where you can take a bunch of pictures to put them into a number of frames really quickly at once. There's also some other stuff to go as well. So let's start. 61. Linked vs Embedded Files: Let's have a look at the differences between linked and embedded files. I'm going to go to the New button and this new document here, I'm interested in the image placement method. So I'm going to choose imbedded for this first one. So the image will be embedded into the document and I'll click, okay. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to go and find an image. And I'm going to choose this one here and I'm going to click and drag. And I'm going to embed this one into the document now so that we can see which ones which I'm just going to get some text over here, over there. And I'll just put in EM, in big letters there. So I'm done with this one. I'm going to close this down. I'm going to do another one now. So that's the embedded one. I'm going to do a new one here. And this time I'm going to say prefer linked. Click OK. Same again, I'm going to go and find exactly the same picture. And I'm going to click and drag it in. And this one over here, I'll just get a piece of artistic text in there. And this is going to be linked. So I'm just going to click in there and type in LI for linked. So what is the difference between these two over here? Well, at the moment it appears nothing. But in reality, this is the embedded file, that's the linked file. This one, this document has the image inside it. This one has the picture linked to an external file. Now, when you're actually inside the document, e.g. I'm in the embedded document. If I go on the right-hand side down to the resources manager. That's second from the bottom over here. And it shows me any images that are in the document or any resources that I have. If I click and hold on there, you can see it says, do you want to make this linked because it's an embedded document. Let's look at the other one. So I'll go to the link to one. Same again to the Resources Manager. Click Hold on there and it says, do you want to embed the documents? So I can then just go between those two linked to linkage or embedded. But the real question is, what happens to files? You have linked images if that image disappears. So let's go and try that out. What I'm actually going to do now is I'm just going to come out of there. I'm going to go along to my files and I'm going to go and find that file. So what happens if I decide to delete that file? Well, I'm going to do exactly that. I'm going to delete it. And I'm even going to go as far as going into the recent deleted and just make sure that it is totally deleted from my machine so it doesn't exist anywhere at all. Now, let's go back and have a look at these two. If I go to the embedded document, everything looks absolutely fine. But if I go to this one over here, which is the linked file, first thing that comes up and says there's a missing resource. Do you want to go and find it again? So if I if I do, I can click Yes and I can go and find the image because I might just moved into a different folder. Or I can go to the Resources Manager and have a look in there. I'm going to choose know. And you can see that that image, it's there, but the quality is way down. So we can't really work with this image. So if you think that you might be moving your pictures around quite a lot and you don't have a very large document, then go for the embedded version. But on the other hand, if you'll work on a very large file and you've got lots and lots of pictures. And you might find that you've got so many pictures that when you're working on your pages, it slows down your machine a little bit. Then in that case, you might want to go for the linked option. 62. Place in Frame vs Not in Frame: Let's have a look at working with pictures and picture frames. So I'm going to go over here to my Image button. I'm going to save place from files. And I'm going to go and find an image that I want to bring it up, bring in this little girl. And I'm gonna click and drag in like that. Now, the second way that I can bring a picture in is I can make a frame. So I'm going to go over to the Frame Tool here. And I'm going to click and drag a little framing like that. And then I'm going to go along and use the same I'm button to place the file, find the same picture, and it places it in there. So what is the difference between these two? Well, let's go up to our move tool. And if I click on this one and I grab a corner and I can scale the picture up and down like that. And we go to this picture over here and grab the corner. And I can scale it. But you can see as I'm changing the scaling, scaling disproportionately if I wanted to. Whereas with this one here, it keeps the or constraints, the proportion. If I go to the side and pull it in, I will miss scale that picture. This one. If I go to this side, I'm just putting it in. So what is the difference here? Well, this is the picture directly on the page. This one is in a little frame. Let's have a look to clarify this. In the layers panel. You will see that this picture here, this is this one over here, just comes in as the picture by itself. Whereas this one is this little drop-down button. If I click on that, it shows that I can actually click on the picture and I can move the picture around inside the frame. Or I can click on the frame and I can adjust the frame in there. So I'm just going to adjust the frame size. I can go to the picture and I can change the picture inside that frame as well. Was this one here, the picture is just directly in there. And if I'm changing it, I'm just changing the scaling. I'm not cropping it down. Do try that out a little bit of a go with those two. You'll also find that when you're on a picture, you do have a little button over here. So you can zoom in and zoom out to change the size or scale it exactly as you do. Down here. Have a go and then I'll show you how we can put pictures into frames after we've already placed them onto the page. 63. Place in Frame Manually: Let's go and bring in a standard picture by just clicking on the button. Go to Place and find the image that we want. Now, I would like to put this picture into a frame. So I'm going to go along and find a frame over here. And I'm just going to use this little rectangular frame. And I'm going to draw a little frame over the area that I want to crop. Now what we do is we go to the Layers panel. If you can't find it, don't forget the little button down the bottom there to see everything in there. Go along, find the layers. And you can see I've got the picture frame above the picture. What I'm going to do is I'm going to drag my picture and drop it into the picture frame of this. I'm dragging it up and dropping it into the frame. You can see how it's in the frame. Now, if I click on the little drop-down arrow, I can then click on the picture using my move tool and I can move the picture around in there. I can scale the picture with using little scale option as well if we want. And just do that again. So I can scale the picture just inside the frame. In there. I can move it around separately as well. But not only that, I can also use different shapes. So let me get rid of these. I'm going to just click and drag over there three fingers down and choose Delete. So once again this time I'm going to go in here. I'm going to use the place tool to place the same picture. I'm going to draw a circle over here, so I'll use a little stem, the elliptical tool, draw in the shape that I want over there. And in fact, I'm going to put my finger down so I get a perfect circle. Then I go over here and I drag my picture into the frame. It's as simple as that. And this also gets around a large problem. A lot of people have with the pictures that come from the library. So if I go along to the picture library over here and I've just done, so you don't have to watch me do it. I've just done a quick search for kids using Pixabay. And I want to bring in a picture. So let's go along over here and I'm going to click and hold and drag and drop it onto my page. Now, when it comes in, you can see it pretty large in there. So I'm going to just scale the whole thing down a little bit like that. I think that was the picture that I chose. I chose a different one, which wasn't black and white, doesn't matter. Then I can do exactly the same thing over here. But let's just have a look at the layers. First image is just there, but I can then take my frame, draw in my frame, drag the picture, drop it inside the frame, and we're away and we can work with either of those. Do try that out so you can see how you can put things into a frame. 64. Use the Pen to Make a Shape for the Photo: Let's make a little custom shape over here and bring the image in. So I could use the pen tool. Now, I'm going to just click with a pen like this to make a shape. There's no right or wrong at this shape. I'm just creating little shape like that. So there's my shape. If I go onto my place tool, click Place from the file, bringing the picture. Once again, it still asks me to place it. Now. I've got the picture there. I've got that shape or Cove below it. All I have to do is drag my picture onto the curve, is placed in an exactly as before. I can change the picture in here and adjust the size in there. I can adjust the shape itself that it's in. Try that one out. 65. Place in Custom Frame: Let's have a look at putting the image into some custom shapes. I'm going to go along to the shapes. I'm going to click and hold over here. And that gives me all of these different shapes that I can use. Now I'm going to pick one of the shapes over there. I've just chosen a little hot and I'm going to click and drag that shape out like so. Now the first thing that you'll notice is while I'm still in that tool, there is a little red dot over there. If I click on that, it will allow me to adjust the shape of this particular shape. So it kind of customizes that shape for you. So let's see about bringing a picture into that. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go over to my place, find the picture that I want over here, and bring it in. I brought it in by just clicking rather than clicking and dragging. And I did that so that you can see sometimes you have an image which is really, really big. I always zoom out and I can then grab a corner to scale it down. But don't forget, you can also use this if you need to scale it as well. Sometimes when you get, when you get there, it's not quite small enough, so you can just keep going down like so I'm going to place it where I wanted. And then exactly as we've done before, just take the little layer, drag it, and drop it on top of the shape to place it in there. 66. Place in a Word: Let's have a look at how to bring a picture into text. I'm going to go over to my text, my Artistic Text Tool. And I'm just going to click and drag a little text box, type in what I want. And I'm pretty much happy with that bit of text in there. I might pull it out to make it a little bit larger. Over there. You can see my margins around the outside. Remember, if you don't see them, you can switch them on, switch the morph up the top there. So I want to now I'll bring a picture into this bit of text. So easy, we just go to place. So over here I choose placed from file. Now, look at that. It's all grayed out. Why is that? Well, it's because I've still got this text frame selected. If I de-select it. And once again go in there. And there we go. Everything is selected perfectly. I'm going to use this picture here, and I'm going to click and drag the picture across. I reckon you've guessed what I'm going to do now. I'm going to take the picture and I'm going to drag it on top of my text in there and it will just pop it straight in. Of course, I can always use my move tool. Select the text, adjust the text with the picture, go to the picture and adjust the picture inside the text. I think I'll have something like that. Now I want to delete this. So watch out when you've got a picture and a frame, which one you're on. If I'm on the text in this case, which is actually the frame, and I use my three fingers and say Delete. It will delete both the picture and the frame, two fingers to undo. Of course, if I'm on the picture rather than on the frame. And then once again, do the same. Whoops. Let's try that again. And then do the same thing and choose delete. It, just deletes the picture from within the frame, and I'd have to delete that separately. Another way to delete it, just go in here and I just flick over and choose Delete from there. 67. Working with Multiple Photos: Let's have a look at bringing multiple pictures. I'm going to go to the place button, click on Place from file. And I've got four images in here and I want to bring them all in at once. So I'm going to click on select right at the top right-hand corner. And then I can select the ones I want. Like so. And then once again, I'll go up here and just say Open. Now it's brought them in but hasn't bought them onto the page. It puts them into this little place area over here. Now I want to start with this picture here, so I'll click on it and you can see the little tick has appeared. And then I can bring that one in and say Place that there. Then I want to bring in this one. And I'm going to place that along the bottom. I think. Let's move this one across. Now in doing so and changing the tool, you can see my place has just disappeared. So let's try that one again. I'm going to select all of these. I'm going to use my three fingers down and delete them. So same again over here to place. I'm going to bring them all in. So I choose, Select, click on Open. And exactly the same thing. When I go to them, I can place it. I can place it. Place. And place. The moment you change tools, that little area will just automatically slide out of the way. Have a bit of a go with that one. It's a nice way of bringing multiple pictures at once. 68. Placing Multiple Photos into Multiple Frames: Let me bring in some pictures into some frames. So once again, I'll go over there. I'm going to choose place. Same thing. Go to my select option, get the full picture that I want, and open them. Exactly the same thing over here. I can then just click on that one. This one is going to go into that. That one's going to go into that, and that one, He's going to go in there. Now made a bit of mistake because I was in such a hurry that I clicked and dragged without realizing it, came in really small the systems and that can happen sometimes. So two fingers to undo and I'd actually have to go and manually get that picture again. So just watch when you click down that you don't like. I just did click and drag slightly by mistake. But try this one out as well. This is lovely when you've got a document set up and you've got all your picture frames in there. It's very fast to just go and bring them in and place them in the appropriate areas. 69. Multiple Photos into Multiple Frames in One Go: I've made four frames in here. Just use the little frame tool and duplicated one. I use little duplicate button right up the top over there to duplicate them and then move them along. Now what I'd like to do is to bring in pictures into there, but I want to do it as quickly as possible. So I'm going to go into Select. I'm going to go and find the formulas that I want. Open them up. And they appear on here and down here on the right. Now, at the moment, when I click on one of those pictures, what it does, it just selects that one so I can take that one and click into a frame to put in that frame. Now, for four of those, it wouldn't take me too long to go 1234 across. But if you've got 20 of them or a whole page or gallery page of 60 pictures, you can do them in one go very, very fast. If you look at the top of this place area here, there's little button on the top left-hand side. If you switch that on, that will then allow you to select multiple pictures in there. And now that I've got those selected, I can just go along to the first one of these frames. Click on that and to automatically put the rest of them in there. I can then still go into these images that exactly as we did before and edit them because they are in their own little frames over here. So I'll click on that picture and I'm just going to move that one along a bit. So we've got the child coming through there. Such a lovely feature, it's very fast if you've got to do large documents with lots and lots of pictures in them. Try it out. 70. Using the FX: Last lesson in this section, we're going to look very quickly at the effects option. So I've got a picture which I've got selected. I'm going to go down to effects. So click on FX and you can see over here we've got a number of different effects that we can use. One of those effects is going to be a shadow. And I'm going to just switch on the outer shadow. Now, by clicking on that, I've brought up the controls over here, but it hasn't applied it to my picture. I'll need to switch it on. So click on that little button to switch it on. And then I can start to make my changes over here. And we can just adjust these settings. You'll see as I'm start to pull them up, it affects the shadow. If you don't see it straightaway, just make sure that switched on and then you can start to make changes. So over here I can change the distance that the shadow is away from the picture. Over here. I can change the hardness of the shadow. I'm going to go to the very soft one. And in here, we can then make it would change the opacity, shall I say of that? I'm going to go very subtle over there. Maybe make it a little bit harder and change the distance over there so you can barely see it. Be careful with drop shadows. They can look very, very dated, but it's really easy to do. You can just bring them in and switch them on in here. So you just choose the one you want. Over there. Let's do the 3D, click on the little button and then go across and play with the settings in here. Not really, not really a fan of that 3D effect, but it shows it up. Lastly, when you go back to your layers, you'll see this little effects on there. So you can actually see that that is how has got an effect on it. And you can always go back and make any changes that you like in there. I'll just change my shadow a little bit. Like so. Try those out a bit of fun with them. Be gentle with them. They can look so tacky if you go over the top. 71. Project: 4-Page Brochure Intro: In this project, we're going to be creating a multi-page PDF document. The type of thing that you could email to friends or colleagues or clients. And we're going to be using mostly photos. We're gonna be using the type of things that we looked at in the previous classes. Now, although we're going to be mostly pictures, we are going to add in little bits of text as well. So let's just get on and start now. 72. Make Front Page: For this project, what we're gonna be doing is we're going to be creating a four-page document that can be emailed around and people can print it off if they wish, on their office printer or their home printer. So we're going to be doing all the settings with that in mind. I'm going to go to New and I'm creating an A4 print document. But I've gone to print rather than down to press ready because we're going to be doing this. Let's go to A4 using RGB. So the colors will be really bright for this because it's going to be displayed mostly on screen. If people want to print it out, they can print it themselves. But we're going to make sure that at the top here that we are in portrait rather than landscape. Down here, I'm going to prefer Embedded. We're not going to have too many pictures in here. There'll be a fair number, but I'm going to embed those pictures in there facing pages. I'm going to switch off, so we just have single pages, 1 below the other. Now over to the margins and bleeds. I'm going to keep my margins on 25 mm. The bleed I'm not going to put on because we're not doing this for commercial printing. So once I've got all of that in there, and I'll just go back and put in my fault pages. I've got four pages in there. I'm going to click Okay, and here is my document. If I zoom out a bit, you can see I've got four pages in there. And I'm going to go to the top over here. And we're going to just preview it so we can see the margins. Now starting with this first page, I'm going to bring in a picture and I'm going to use it like a watermark. I'm going to go and get a picture and I'm going to use one of these frames. And I'm going to put a frame over here. You'll notice that sometimes I make my frames that slightly bigger than the picture. Partially. It's because I'm used to actually doing things to bleed partially. It's because that way I'm sure that it actually goes to the edge rather than sometimes just going to the edge. Then even if Snap is not switched on, you might not get quite to the edge. So I'm just going a little bit over like that. You don't have to do that. That's just my own personal way of working. I'm going to bring in a picture, so I'm going to go to my place button. They're going to place from files and find the pictures. Now, one of your folders with the download pictures that you can use is full of images over here. And the images that I've got all boats, sailing boats. So if you don't like the ones that I'm using in here, feel free to go and find your own. You could either use them, do them from the picture library within the application itself. Or if you go onto the website, onto a website I use unsplash.com, you can find your pictures in there as well, also royalty-free. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use this picture here as my background. But I want it to be quite light. So I'm going to go over to the Layers panel. I'm on this layer here. And I'm going to go up to the little three buttons there, which takes me to the picture frame. And I can change the opacity. As I said, I just want this to be a very light sort of a feeling of a knot in the background. While I'm here, I'm going to lock it down as well. So I'll click on the lock to make sure it's locked. I can't move it by mistake. The next thing we're going to do is we've, we've done this before, is we're going to bring in a later. I'm going to use an S or large capital S in there and put a picture inside it. And then we'll add a drop shadow to that. So I will use my Artistic Text. I'm going to click and drag a large letter in there. And I'm going to do a capital S. Now, my letter over here, I want to actually change at the typeface or font. So I'm going to go over to the side here, choose my text options and minds come in as Arial. I'm going to change that to Dido over there. And I think I'll make it bold, so it's quite heavy. You can do whatever you want with this as well. Find a weird and wonderful font, whatever, whatever works for you. Then we're going to put a picture inside here. Now you remember how this works. We go along to the layers. Now I'm not seeing my layers because I'm still in the options. So I click that little arrow to go back again. I'm going to bring in a picture on top of that. So I will go to my place, button. Click Place, find the picture that I want. I'm going to click and drag it in above that. So reasonable size. I'll move that into the right position. And then remember we can just drag the picture onto that bit of text, which will then place it inside the text. I can still click on the picture and move it around to try and get the best feeling that I want to from that. So I'm looking for something. I think that will work really nice nicely with the votes in the middle. Lastly, with the S. I'm then going to make sure I'm on the S. I'm going to go along to the effects, the fx button. And I'm going to put in a shadow, so I'm going to use an outer shadow. Over there. You're going to have to change your settings in here so that you can see what it is that you're doing. I just want to very, very subtle shadow just behind it, just to kind of lifted away from the background. But not enough that you can really see it as a shadow. I'm happy with that. Last little bit. We're going to have a bit of texts underneath. And I'm going to call this the sale, this publication that I'm doing. So I'm going to go across to the Artistic Text tool. Now, if I start to click and drag, you can see what it's doing is it's selecting the S over there every time I get close to it. So I'm going to suggest that before you go any further, go back to your Layers. Go to the S there, got up to the options and a locket down in here. So that's just clicking on the little S or what have you whatever letter you've used and lock it so you can't touch it by mistake. Now when you go back to your Type Tool, you can click and drag and you won't select that by mistake. I'm just going to put in the sale in there. And I'm going to use that typeface. I think I'm just going to change it so it's the same width as that little character. You can move these around, you can change them and you can do whatever you want with them. Let's have a look at how that looks on the final document by clicking on the little windscreen wiper to preview it. Over there. If I don't like the size, I can unlock that I can change them around as well. It's up to you. Anyway, if you'd like to build that first page and then come back for the next lesson and we'll start on the next one. 73. Add Multiple Image Frames with Power Duplicate: What I'm going to do now on the second page is I'm going to add in a lot of pictures. So I'm going to go and I'm going to get my picture frame, the rectangular picture frame. I'm going to start at the top and I'm going to draw in shaved down what, eight pictures I'm going to draw until I see that the line in the middle, that helpful line over there. I'm not worried about the height. It really is just about getting this to the halfway point. Now I'm going to take this one and go up to the three little dots at the very top there. And we're going to duplicate it. Now, makes sure I just lost my selection. Make sure that is selected first. And then when you go up there, you can choose Duplicate, which makes a copy. And I can then just pull that copy across. There you can see where things go red and green. Then you notes in the right position. Now I'm going to select these and I'm going to do the same thing again. I'll actually make them a little bit narrower. I'm going to select them, do the same thing again. So I'll select them like so. Go up here and go to Duplicate. And then I'm going to move them down. They just snap into position. But instead of doing the whole process again, I can now just go to duplicate and will copy them down again. This is called power duplicating where you can just keep going. Now that I've got eight boxes in there, I can select them all, grab the ones at the bottom, and just pull them down a little bit. It's a nice quick way of duplicating items using this power duplicate option. Now of course I want eight pictures in here. Now I'm going to go up to the little plus button Place tool. I suppose it's actually called choose the ones that I want. So I'm going to click on Select. And I want to have 12345678. I think those ones will do. In fact, I don't want that one. I'm going to put in that one instead. Once again, we'll click on Open and it brings them in to the little area on the right hand side. And I can then switch that button on and go and select all these pictures. Down here. Go to the top-left hand, one, one-click in there and it'll populate the rest of them. And then because these are pictures in frames, I can go to any of them, go up to my Layers, open it up and select the picture. And this way I can actually move the picture around inside of that frame. Nice, easy 11 that one. But just try out that power duplicate, particularly because it really is quite nicely just redoes the last thing that you've done. 74. Add More Images on Pages 3 & 4: Now, before I move on to my third page, I want you to notice the layers over here because I'm on this page, so it's showing me the layers for this page. When I move on to this page here and click on that page, it shows me the layers for this page. Now, this one's going to be very similar in a lot of ways. It's just gonna be two pictures in here, but I'll do them using the same process. So kinda go halfway across. I'm going to make a copy of that, or should I say duplicated and then just move it across like so. Select those. Same thing again, duplicate them, and just move them down. Select all of those, and I'll pull them down like so. Now, all I really want here are actually two opposite each other. But this is a nice quick way of doing it. So I can actually take that and delete it. And this one and delete that as well. Let's try that again. Like that. Then we're going to put some text over here as well. So I'm going to use my Text tool. I'm going to click and drag a text box. Now, I've just gone to the wrong text tool, the number of times I'll do that cannot tell you how I'm going to just use two fingers to undo. Let's make sure I'm actually on my text frame and drawing my little text frame over there. Now I'm only going to do one of them because at this stage we haven't really looked at actually doing styles and creating styles for texts. So the way that I'm going to do it is by putting in text and in a certain style there, and then copying that across to there and then changing the text so I can keep the same style in there. But for now, very quickly, two pictures in here. So I will just do the same thing again. Go and find the pictures that I want to use. So I want that, whoops, wrong one. Let me undo that. Let's try it again. Over there. I want that one and that one. And I'm going to use select to select both of those. And of course I can say this one here is going to go there, and that one is going to go there. And we'll bring in some text shortly. But if you'd like to have a bit of a go, get that one running. And once you've done that, go on to the third page, this is going to be a nice, easy one. We'll just use one of these shapes again. Click over here. I'm going to put this to roughly about the halfway point in there and just place an image into that for this last page. And I'll use this, pay this image over there. Try it out. 75. Add in the Text: I want to add some text into these boxes over here. And I have got a little bit of text that you can use it as a Word document. It's with those pictures. And if I just scroll through to word, It's this little bit of texture. It's just, it comes from Wikipedia. So if you want to go and get your own text, feel free. I'm just going to take a little bit of texts are like that. Over here. We're down to that one there. I think. I'm going to copy it and I'm going to go back again over here. Now that big bit of texts actually want to go on this page here. My pages, as you can see, are out of order, but I want to show you how we can fix those later. So I'm going to use my text frame tool and just draw a little frame in there. Click inside the frame and paste the text straight in. I'm going to move this down. Over here. There's no right or wrong with this. I think just something like that will work really well. Also. I wanted to take this the sale and put it down there as well. So if I use my three finger method, I can actually copy that. And I can go along to this page over here. And once again, use three fingers. And I can paste it in over here. And I'm just going to change the size a little bit there and pop that right in the middle. Just seen I've got little space in there that I didn't want. I might have to get rid of that. And then you can add your next bit of text in there. And if you need to change the size and the fonts, etc, you can do that and you can copy it down to there and then add some more texts in that little box as well. I wouldn't bore you by going through all of that. You know how to add text into, into a box. So it gets some text in there, come back and we'll look at the next area. 76. Reorder Your Document Pages: Hopefully all your texts is looking great. I've noticed in mind this little red areas there. And also if I go across here to the preflight area, it tells me that there is a spelling mistake on page three and page four. It actually gives me the word over there, so I don't need to even go to a spell check. I don't need to zoom in. I can see them at a glance. Now. I think that those are actually correct. So I'm going to leave them like that. The next problem that we have is that these pages are in the wrong order. Now I did them deliberately so that I could show you how to change them around. But this is our front cover. This is our last page. That's the second page and the sorry, the second page and then the third page over there. So let's have a look at how we can actually reorder these pages. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go along on the right-hand side to the pages panel. Now if you're not sure which one of those you click on the little question mark. You know that by now, I'm going to click on the little icon to show the pages. And down the bottom it says Manage Pages. Over here. I can then go on to the pages and I can click and hold and I can move the order of the pages around and you just drag and drop them as you want so that one is going to go over there. I think that's the correct order that I want them in. And I can just go back and you'll see my document is now updated to the correct order. Try it out. 77. Save & Package Your Document: Now we want to save this document out. And remember, if I close it down, it's just only open in here. So I've got to be very careful that I don't then go and delete it. If I click on the top right-hand corner there, I can choose to save As, and I can save this somewhere where it'll be a little bit. Well, what, how should we say more stable? So just in case I deleted by mistake, I have done that in the past. I'm going to call the sale over there. Let's try that with an S cell one. And I will just click on save and then choose where to save it on my iPad. So I'm going to save it into my documents folder over there. Now I want to save the version that's going to be emailed around. So I'm just going to open it up again. Over here. I'm going to go to the dropdown menu, and I'm going to choose Export. And in this export area, these are all the export options that we've had. We've looked at some of them already. I'm going to go to the PDF option. But before I click on, Okay, a few things that I want to change in here. The first one is down here. I want to draw your attention to this JPEG quality. You see if you're going to be emailing, emailing this around, what you might find is the father it creates is really very, very big. So you can actually change the quality in here and you can just drag the quality of the images down a little bit. Likewise, over here, you can see it says downsample images above. So if an image is above a certain size, I can just reduce it and say down-sampling. If it's got a higher DPI, then that I would like. So I'll just take that down a little bit over there to 300 in there. So it's just saying downsample in any images above 299. Now, as I'm doing this, it's taken a while to do its thing. Once it's done, I'll click Okay and export it out as a PDF. Let's click Okay, there. Asked me where to save it, and I will do that. I'm just going to click on move over there. When I've saved this document, what happens is it saves the document and any embedded images will become part of the saved file. But if you've got linked images, they won't be. And if you delete them, you pretty stuck really. So in this particular document that I've got, what I did was I made a few of those images, linked images, and the rest of them are imbedded. Just so that I can show you what, what could happen. So how I can fix it, shall we say? So when I save this, after I've gone and done my save, I would actually go to Package. Now with packaging, what happens is it will save the document plus, it will save the font separately, plus any images. And you can see in here which images are actually imbedded over here. And then some of them says present in here. So it won't save copies of the embedded images, but it will save the other ones which aren't. So I'm going to choose package. And then to say where do you want to package this will, I'm going to put it into my desktop folder. I've got a folder there called sailing, and I'm going to choose done over there. So let's have a look at that folder now. So I'm just going to go in and find it. Here's my sailing folder. There is the document itself. I didn't say title it. I should have done, but it's called untitled. Here are the fonts that we used on that document. And there are the images that aren't embedded into the document. This way. I know that everything that folder is part of the document and I wouldn't be called short by accidentally deleting something that I shouldn't. 78. Color Intro: Color is such an important part of design. In this section, we're going to look at not just RGB and CMYK, but we'll also touch on profiles as well so I can explain what profiles are and why they're important for you. Will be going into color areas alike, the panels with the swatches. We'll be looking at global colors. We'll be looking at gradients and transparent gradients as well. So we'll start right now. 79. RGB & CMYK & Why We Use Them: Let's have a look at color. And I'd like to start off by looking at the two main color modes. One is RGB, which stands for red, green, and blue. The other is CMYK, which stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and black are now, but I hear you say it's k. What about what black in there? Well, very often it's known as the key color. So cyan, magenta, yellow, and the key color, which is black. So one of these, the one on the left hand side, CMYK is predominantly for print, and the one on the right-hand side is predominantly screen use. So let's have a look at how these work. We'll start off with doing things for print. Now, the way that most print works is that you have a white page, and then you print onto that white page using cyan, which is the blue, magenta, pink and yellow cyan magenta, yellow. And then the key color, black as well. Now, if you mix together cyan, magenta, and yellow, you actually get something which is, well, it's almost black. It's a very, very dark, dark gray. By mixing those together, you can get black. Don't have any ink, you have white and that's how printf works. So why do we have this extra black? Well, if you imagine that most printing actually is black, it's, it's text on pages. You don't want to have to make up all of your text colors using cyan, magenta and yellow ink. It would be inefficient, it would cost too much in inks. So instead we just use a black ink in there. You can also mix the black ink with percentages of the other colors to create what is called a rich black, which is a really good, solid looking black. Now, if you're doing anything for screen by screen, we don't just mean the Internet. It's anything which goes on a device that could be an iPad, or a smartphone, or an Apple Watch or a television. Anything which is a device, works in RGB. So what we have here is if we're on a device and there is no light from the device, even if it's switched off, then we're going to have black. But then we have cyan magenta, cyan magenta and yellow. We have a red, green, and blue. And those three colors of light makeup, all of the colors that you see on your device. If you're looking at this amazing color, It's made up of those three colors in there. If you have 100 per cent of red, green, and blue, it gives you pure white. So if there's no light, it's black. If there's 100 per cent of those three colors, it's white. Can see a pattern here. If there is no ink, it's white. If there is 100 per cent of those three colors there, then it's almost black and we add an extra black in there as well. So these two are actually opposites of each other. You might have noticed as well that if you have written blue and you mix together written blue, you get magenta. If you mix together red and green, light, you get yellow. And once again green and blue, you get cyan. And then of course over here we've got magenta and yellow, which gives us red, cyan and magenta gives us blue. And we can get the last color by mixing those two together as well, which would be green. So they are opposites of each other. But if you're doing anything for screen use, we almost always tend to work with RGB. If you're doing anything for print, commercial printing, we tend to work in CMYK. Now what about if you're printing on the office printer? Well, if you haven't looked at the office printer or your home printer, you'll find that it's probably also got cyan magenta, yellow, and black cartridges in it. Some home printers, especially photographic printers, use those colors, but they have some extra colors as well. Some of them have extra magenta, some of them have bright oranges. Some of them even have a bit of blue and extra blue in there as well to get the really bright colors. So what is the difference in reality between these two? Apart from the fact that this is for screen and that is for printing RGB colors because they are all about light, are much brighter and you can get much more vivid colors using RGB. This green head is no way that I would be able to create that vivid green by mixing together cyan, magenta and yellow, it just wouldn't happen. And likewise, to create this blue that I've got over here, if we mix together cyan, magenta, I just can't create that same blue, same bright blue in there. Read to some degree as well, although not as much as those two. So if you're creating something in RGB and you're going to go and print it out. Just be aware if you've used very, very bright and vivid colors, particularly the blues and particularly the greens. You might find that it's not quite as vivid when you print it out because of the colors and the inks that direction working from. So when you're creating a new document and we go over here to new document over there. That's why we choose the color format over here, RGB or CMYK in there, depending on whether we're going for print or for screen use. Have a little look at that one over there and just change that color over. Don't spend too long on it. Come back for the next lesson. 80. What Are Color Profiles & Color Management: Now underneath the color format in there, we've got the color profile. And this tells the computer how to display the colors. Now, RGB, it's telling my iPad how it should display the colors. So it starts off usually on the digital camera. And then that information, that profile gets passed on to the devices. So I can see exactly as the camera saw, the image on here. And then when I pass this on to somebody else who's looking at it on a desktop PC, let's say it will still look exactly the same. So we use a color profile and there's a number of different color profiles that we have in here. Now, if you're not sure which color profile to use, I'm going to suggest that you go over and you use a color profile called a standard color profile or an sRGB profile. Now, if we go down over here, we can find the sRGB profile right at the bottom. Why am I suggesting that profile? Well, this profile is, for want of a better word. It's the lowest common denominator. And most browsers should be able to read that profile there. If you use some of the other profiles in here, you might find that the browser can't read it. So if you're unsure, go over to sRGB. And that way what you see on your device should look very similar to what everybody else is seeing on their Macs and PCs on the desktop. Now, it's the same with printing. If we go over here to the print area, we choose CMYK. Then once again, we also have a number of different profiles in here. Now what I'm going to suggest, because this course obviously goes all over the world. And different countries and different areas have different printing requirements, is that you talk to your printer about what profile they would suggest you use on your document. Generally, if you're in the States, people tend to work with the web coated swaps. Certainly in the UK here, which is where I am, we tend to work with photography 39. But the most important thing is talk to your printer and see which one they recommend. Now, I'm just going to cancel that for a moment. And I'd like to take you to the help in here in this area, there's a little help button there. And I'm going to go over to the color help and over to Color management. So this just helps show what these profiles do. So if you imagine that you take a photograph, so looking at this top one over here, we take a photograph on our camera. It goes onto the screen. Maybe it looks slightly different. We see it on and that's on a desktop and then we sit on laptop, nasa different color in there. And you print it out. And once again, the color is totally different down there. So this is if something is not colored managed, it doesn't have a profile with it. Whereas if you use a profile and what should happen is that when you take a picture on your digital camera, that profile, when it goes to a computer, it will show those colors exactly the same. You put onto a laptop. And once again, the profile goes with it to show those colors the same. You send it out for printing. And once again, in an ideal world, it should print out exactly the same. So this is non-color managed. This is killer managed using a profile. 81. E3 the color panel: Now I've just got a rectangle over there, which I got from my shapes. And I'd like to go over here, click on the little color area and talk about some of these. The first thing is how we choose the color. And we've got two options at the top, there's the fill color there, which is the fill in there. And there's the stroke. If I click on the stroke, it brings out to the front, which is the color around the outside. Now, if I just adjust the color here, what I'm doing is I'm just adjusting the stroke color. If I click on that one, I'm adjusting the fill color in there. If you want to flick those two around, you can actually just slide your finger over left to right. They will flick from one to the other side of the stroke becomes the film, the field becomes the stroke as well. Then moving down, we have different ways of seeing how color. And if I click at the top here, you'll see I could choose from RGB sliders, red, green, and blue sliders over there. And this is quite useful if I'm trying to get an exact color and the color numbers that I've got. I can then just put put them in there. If I go over to CMYK, once again, I can actually change the colors in here and we've got our color percentages over there. Sorry, I was trying not to do that, but if you click on them, you can actually type that those percentages directly in part from those two, those are the two main ones over here. Let's just go back to it again. We also have a number of other ways of seeing our colors. Now, one of the ways that I quite like to work is using the HSL slider. And that stands for hue, which is the color on the color spectrum. Saturation from gray through to the full-blown color and luminance, which is light to dark in there. Once again, that's HSL. And the colors that you get in here, by the way, are these RGB colors in there, as opposed to your CMYK colors. Now, you can choose whichever way you want to work. Very often, I will go to the color wheel, which is this one over here. So that way I can go around the outside, so the hue is around the outside. And then I can choose my saturation and luminance in there as well by dragging around in that little triangle. You work with the way that you want to work with these colors. Now, you can see if we go down here, I've got recent colors, so it's just showing me anything that I've been working on recently in my swatches. 82. Sample Color From the Photo: If you have an image and you want to choose colors from the image, you go along to the little eyedropper over here. And I'm just going to drag onto the image and you can see it's showing me the colors. Over here. It's a little dot right in the middle over there, which is the color that I'm actually getting. So I would like that really nice turquoise there. Here's my turquoise. And if I've got a shape now, you can see it doesn't pick up the turquoise, that's still the green. I'd actually have to click on the turquoise there to choose that color. I can still go in here and adjust the color if I wanted to change that as well. So let me just do that once more. We're going to pick that blue from the yacht down the bottom. So I'm going to use this little tool here. I'll just click and drag it onto there, go into the blue that I want to choose. And then I can just click that to add it onto my document. We've mentioned this before during the course, but I thought I'd run through it again for you. Try it out. 83. Working With Swatches & Creating Your Own: Let's have a look at the Swatches. I'm going to click the word swatches at the bottom. And this takes me into the swatch area. Now, I've got a gray swatch up here. But if I click on the word grays, you can see we've got all sorts of other swatches. So I've got two colors swatch in there. I've also got a gradient swatch in here, and then the gray swatch and some pan tones. After that. I can also go to my recent colors in here and you can see that the same as at the bottom. Now when we're looking at these colors, you can either view them like this. Or if you click on the little icon just to the right of its name, you can then choose to view them where you're actually seeing more of the information about the color. So in this instance, e.g. I'm seeing the hue, the saturation, the luminance values in there. If I go to another swatch, I'll just pick a pen tone for now. So you can actually see the Pantone colors and the exact numbers in there. Once again, you can just switch between those two views. Let's just get back. I'll just click over here to the colors in there. So those are the default swatches that come with your document, but you can make your own swatches. What you do is you click on the little menu at the top. And over here, I can add a new palette, which is either an application palette or a document palette. The document palette for the swatches is going to be just available on the document you're working on. The application palette. If you add something to that, will be a palette which is available on all of the documents that you go to. If you do a new document after this one, you'd find it would still appear with the document palette would only work with this one here. You can also rename pellets and duplicate them as well. Delete them and import pallets and export palettes down here. But let me go and add a document palette in there. And then asks me for a name. So I'm just going to get rid of that. And I'll call this new color for design. And I'll click Okay. And now I've got a new palette over there, or a new swatch called new color for design in there. And we can then start to add some colors to those. And this was a document level swatch, which means that if I then go in to a new document, I'll go back to my colors, appear, over to my colors, down to swatches and click in there, that one won't appear. But if I do go back to the same one again that I was working on, obviously, you get the idea. Let's try that again. That will be in there. So two types of pallets, either document level palette or an application which is for all of your documents. Have a look at those. 84. Add Colors & Globals to Palette: I've got a new color in here and I want to add that to my new colorful design swatch. So we can just go to the top and we can add the current fill to the palette. Now, if I've got some shapes and I'm using this color here, and I've got another shape over there also with that color. I then went and changed this color. I can do that by clicking and holding. And over here, I can go into edit, and I can change that color to a different color. And we'll go back again. And you can see it's updated that. And then I would have to update that shape and go to this one and update that one. And all the way along until I've got all of my shapes the same color. So this is using just a normal color. If we use a global color though, what we can do is we can update everything at once. So I'll just show you how I can do this. Just get my page back to work to where I want it to go. And I'll just use my three fingers down and deleting. So I'm going to make a new color over there. And I'm just going to go to my back to my colors. And I'll make this light purple. Now, I want to add this color in, so I'm going to add it into my swatch. Now, when I click over here, I can't add it to the swatch. I only get the option to make that a square or a triangle. So I need to go back to Swatches, and then I can go to the menu and just say add the current fill as a global. Now, this is in the new colorful design area. You can see it's got all of these colors in here. I think this is actually InDesign being a little bit buggy because if I go to another one of those is looking, looking absolutely fine now. So just watch out with that. Sometimes it needs to update itself and you think you've got all these colors, but you might not have them. So we're going to make some shapes now. So I'm just going to get rid of that little shape there. And I'll do a few more shapes of here. Let's use something else. So it's going to be that color there. And it's that purple and that purple. And that purple. So now that I've got those colors in, if I went into here, into the global and I clicked on Edit, and I changed the color in here. Let's just make sure I'm on the right slider. You can see as I'm changing the color, it's updating all of those colors. Only one of them was selected and even that didn't need to be selected. So a global color. If you change the color on that, it will change wherever it's been used in your document. It's really useful because if you've used the wrong color somewhere, you can go back, change the original, and the whole document will automatically update. 85. What Are Spot & Pantone Colors: Now, when you are sending something to print, sometimes when you choose a color, it doesn't print exactly as you want it. So e.g. when it goes for commercial printing, they might print your design onto a brochure. And then the same thing would be printed onto a banner. And you might actually see a difference in the colors ever so slightly between those two. This is the problem with printing with CMYK when you're printing onto different types of paper and substances, the colors don't always remain exactly the same. So what we can do if you're going for commercial printing is if you have to have something a specific color and this is usually things like logos, then what you do is you get the printed a mix up and exact ink so that you know that that color will be absolutely perfect. These ink colors are called spot colors. So when the printer prints, they will print with cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, plus a spot color. And the spot colors, if I go over here, when you go into your swatches, these are the spot colors. Over here. They are made by pen tone, but there are other brands of spot colors around as well. Pantone is just one of the biggest brands. So if you look at your brand guidelines, you might find that you've got a specific Pantone color that you have to use on a design. In which case you can go in here. And I'm going to use one of these solid coated or solid uncoated options. Kosher means glassy, uncoated means matt. I'll just go to solid coated. And I can then see all of my pen tones in here. Now, if I click on that little button there, I can then see them with the numbers on as well so I can find the exact one that I want and say, well that's the exact pattern then I need to use. And I can then draw on my new shape with that particular pattern. Now, this sounds like a great idea and it is, except it is very expensive when you go for printing. Because the printers got to use cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink. Plus they have to mix up this exact color, which obviously they're getting, getting the inks from Pantone, you will find that the price of printing goes very, very high. So just be aware of that. If cost is not affected, this is great because you can make sure that particularly logos look absolutely spot on as they should have when they were designed. 86. Working With Gradients & Adding Your Own Colors: I'm going to make it a little shape. So I'm going to go along to the Star Tool. And I'm going to click and drag a star in there. And I will just give it one of these colors over here. And I think I actually want to change the shape of the star. So I'm going to go back to the star tool. And that gives me the red areas. So I can maybe just round that off a little bit like that. Maybe this one will pull in a bit like so. Now what I'd like to do is I'd like to have a gradient on this shape. So if I go to my move tool, let's move that in a little bit like so. I'm going to go down to the gradient tool down here. If I click on the gradient, it says gradient fill or the fill tool, I can actually click and drag across my document. Or the shape, shall I say? Now, how do I change the colors? While if you go to these little spots here, I can then select that spot. And I can change the color to something else. I'm going to click on this spot here. And once again, let's go back and choose a different color for that. You can eat them, click in the middle and add a new spots in there. And you can choose colors from your recent colors or your swatches. We can choose the color in here. I'll pick that blue in there. Now, if you don't like a color over here, you see if I've selected it, I can't get rid of it by just clicking on it. Like so. What I could do though, is use three fingers and choose Delete. To delete that little spot in there. Click over there, choose your new color for that little spot there. Add as many as you want. If you want to delete one of them, just use your three finger gesture. Choose delete, and you can get rid of the color really quickly. Of course, I've gone from one side to the other. But using that same using that same tool, I can just drag in any direction. Like small drag for smaller gradient, longer drag for a bigger gradient. 87. E9 fade out a shape with the transparency tool: I've got a picture in the background, and I'm just going to go over here and lock it. Then I'm going to bring in a shape. So I will just use one of my normal shapes like a rectangle over here and put the rectangle along the bottom. Now, if I want to fade shape out, you then go to the tool just below. The fill tool is called the transparency tool. And I can actually click and drag to do a fade on there. It doesn't have to be a gradient either. I could actually just have this selected or filled with a standard color. And in fact, I could choose a color like the sky, fill it with the same color as the sky. And you can then say, I can just fade that in and out. I'm going to go back to the transparency. Click and drag. You can go left, you can go write whatever you want from that. So it could be in this instance that I put that over the top. Over there. I can use my transparency tool to just fade that in a little bit. On that side. Let's go over to there, I think. And then I could put my text up the side on that document and it will look pretty good because I've used the same color from the sky. Try that out. 88. Project: Create 3 Different Social Media Posts: We're onto our last project now. For this project, we're going to create three social media posts. Now, we're doing them in one document, but each post will be different. And we're gonna be using a lot of stuff that we've done through the course for these three, including things like using overlays and having a look at multiply and color modes on the images. Anyway, enough of me. Let's just get started with this. 89. Create a New Document for Social Media: Let's start on a project. We're going to go and create a new document. And this time we're going to be using a social media size. Now you can choose any social media size that you like. I'm going to go down to the web over here and just click on one of them to get started. So I'll just choose one of these ones in here. Then I can go and put in my pixel size that I want. Now, I'm going to be using Instagram because that's the social media platform that I use. But you can do it for anything that you like. Now, if you're not sure on the size, the best thing to do is to just Google it. So e.g. if you wanted to put Dewey LinkedIn picture, you could then just Google LinkedIn image resolution. And usually one of the first results that come up is going to be the size in pixels, width and height. So I'm going to go in and I'm going to put in my size, which is going to be 1080 pixels by 1080 pixels. As I said, this is for Instagram. At the moment, things change all the time. So I've done that. I'm in pixels over here. I'm going to be embedded my pictures into the document. Don't want Facing pages and no, I don't because we're just going to be working on individual pages. The number of pages in here. Well, at the moment I'm just going to start off with one, but we will add some more later on. Down here to the color format. This is going to be RGB rather than CMYK. And lastly, the color profile, we are going to be choosing RGB over there. So it will work on most devices and look absolutely fine. Into margins and bleeds. We don't need a bleed. There's gonna be no printing going on. So you don't need a bleed at all. And the margins, you can put it in the margin any size that you like. It really doesn't matter. I'm not even going to bother with the margin. I don't need one. So once I've done that, I'm going to click Okay, and my document is now ready for me to start designing. So set your page up to whatever social media platform you want to do. Or if it's a website, just find out the pixel size, get the document ready, and then we'll start putting some content in shortly. 90. Add an Image as a Background: Now for this particular post, I want to do this for a cake company. And I want to show that their cake will go with any different type of tea. I'm going to have one of their cakes in the background. By the way, I found all of these pictures on Unsplash. But if you prefer, you can actually go along to the library here and you can get your images from Pixabay or from Pexels as well. It pretty much the same as Unsplash. I'll just close that down. I'm going to go to my place tool. Click on the folder, find the images. These are also in your assets for as part of the course. And we're going to find my background picture, which is going to be this cake over here. Now I'm going to click and drag to bring the cake in. Let's try that again. Like so. And I want it to be pretty large, so I'm going to just extend it out. I'm looking at something, maybe like that over there. Now, I could leave the cake exactly like that if I wanted to. When we just preview it, you'll see that's how it's going to be in the final result. But if you prefer, you could go and you could get one of your frames. You could put a frame in there and you could drop the picture into the frame if all the sort of excess around the outside was really bothering you. I'm going to leave mine exactly like that, but I am going to go along to the layers and I'm going to lock this layer down. So click on there, click on the three little dots and lock it so I can't move it by mistake. So choose a background picture and bring that in. 91. Add 4 Frames & Align Before Adding Photos: We're going to bring in some pictures along the bottom and I want four of them. And I want to do for little frames for them. So I'm going to go onto my Frame Tool, picture frame tool. And I'm going to draw one of those frames. Now, I want this to be a perfect square. So I haven't actually got my little helper app, but even so I can just put my finger down and just drag that until I get a perfect square. If you want to use that, you can obviously do that as well. And you can click on there and go up to the shift options around here. So I've got my first shape. Oops, my first shape in there. I'm going to go back to my move tool and I'm going to make some copies. So I'm just going to go over here, choose to duplicate it over there. Move that across a little bit, like so. Duplicate again, you can check out my next one. Duplicate again. So we had a power duplicating going on in there. Now, this one I want to move. So it's just in a little bit, so there's a bit of a gap. Remember on mine, that white line around there is actually the edge of my document. If I just preview, you can see there it is there. So I want to make sure that that's just moved in a little bit like that. And then this one over this side, I'm going to move in as well. Now just move these out of the way. So we can just work with these two. And you can see that one's there. If I'm moving this one around, it shows me when I'm actually lined up, like so, so I can just line them up in there. And of course I've got this one here and this one. Now, I want to select those four shapes. And I'm going to go up to the top over here. And I'm going to choose to align them. So when I'm aligning them, I'm going to align their bottoms so they all align up like that. But now you can see there's different gaps between them. So I'll go to my line. I'm going to say space horizontally. It'll just even out the space between them. The next bit, you know, I'm sure pretty well by now, we're going to go along to the place tool. And I'm going to find four pictures to go in there. So these are gonna be the different types of t's that will go with my cake. So I'm going to choose this one here. Now. I always do that. I click by mistake and it comes in and I have to click to put it in. So don't forget when you go back to place, goes straight up to Select, and then you can choose the ones that you want. So 123.4. And once again, I'm going to choose to open them. And those are all coming in. And they should come in just down the side over here. Remember, I want to bring them all in very quickly. So I can go along, click on this little button just under place. I can choose all of them. Then I can just say, I want them to start there and it'll pop them all in really quickly. Now, go my pictures in there. I need to adjust them slightly. So let's start off with this one over here. I click on there. I can use this little button to zoom in and zoom out. But to move the picture around, I'm going to go to my layers. I'm going to make sure I'm on my layers. Click on that little drop-down and click the picture inside there, and then I can move it into the right position, like so. I'll do the same with the other ones. Really quickly. Select that, change the size, and I will just move it into the middle. This one's not too bad at all size-wise, but I will move it around. Now. I did that by mistake. I'm going to use two fingers to undo and make sure that I click on the drop-down, click in there. I can move the picture around inside there. In fact, I will scale it up just a little bit. And last picture in here, once again, click on the picture, scale it up a little bit, and move it to the right position. Once you've got all those done, you might want to, if you've got a light background, particularly put a bit of a shadow behind or some sort of effect if you want. And just to remind you, I'm going to select those items over there. And then we can go along to our effects. And you can put in any of these effects that you want. So if I was going to do something on a white background or a lighter background, I'd probably go with something like an outer shadow in there and just adjust my settings slightly. You can see a bit of a shadow going on, but I'm going to soften it right down and reduce its intensity. Just lifts them off, very, very slightly off of that background. You can hardly see it on the dark, but it does help a little bit on the light. I tried it out. Get your pictures looking good. Add a bit of an effect if you want one, and you feel free to use any of the other effects. If you think it might look interesting on your document. 92. Add Text & Sample Color: I've put in a little bit of text in here to say that our cake goes with any T. And now that I've done that, I'm going to go along to the text options in here and find a different typeface. Choose anything you like. Particularly something that would go with this type of feel or whatever you're actually doing, whatever type of failure, what you're doing. And I quite like that. I'm going to go over here and change the color of my text. If I wanted to, I could use this little tool over here, the little eyedropper. And I can drag onto my document and find a color I thought would be rather nice for the text. Let's try something like this, light brown in. It also goes very nicely with the color of the cake. And see how that works. Now, that's not too bad at all. I am going to make this text a little bit smaller. And then also want to adjust the text further. But how big of a goat bring in some text? Color it up, and then we'll have a look at some of the other options if you wish, while you're trying that out, to try it some things like left, center, right alignment by all means, do so. But choose your, your typeface, change the color, sampler color, and see how you get on. 93. Add a Glyph: Cake over here. These actually, for my purposes or brand. So I've got this brand called cake, although it's not actually spelled CAK E. On the end of the e, There's some little dots over there. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to select the E here and then find an E that's got two dots on top of it. I'm making this up by the way, so you can do anything you like on yours. But I'm going to go down to the glyphs browser. And this will then show me all of the options that I've got for that particular E in there. So I just need to make sure that I'm actually in Bodoni, which is what I'm using in here. And I think it was Bodoni book. There we go. You can see all the Bodoni book options in here. I'm going to go down and find the E that I want over there. So it's one of these little ones. That's the one there. So I can just double-click it and it'll pop it in over there. So remember, if you do need any characters that you can't immediately find on your keyboard, you go along and you use the glyphs browser down the bottom of the text options. Have a go, make up a new brand or a new word with some little dots or anything on top. Or if you want to use any other glyph, by all means, have a go with that. 94. Add Some Shapes: I've only got the one page up here and I'd like to add a second one. So I'm going to go to the Pages panel over here on the right-hand side Studio. I'm going to go and find my pages panel. Here it is, here it shows me a while, my one-page. I'm going to click the little plus there to add a second page into my document. I'm going to bring in a background picture for this one as well. But this time I'm going to actually use a picture frame so it stays exactly where it should be in that little box area. We don't have any extra around the side like I did before. It just keeps it nice and neat. And also allows me to move it around inside that frame. So I'm going to go and find the picture. So over here I'm going to go along to the place button. I'm going to choose the picture that I want. So I'm after this one here. And I'm going to Just say no to that. That little button just came up to say, would you like to link it? Because you're getting quite a few pictures in there and your documents getting big. So there's my picture once again into the layers. I'm going to lock it down so we can't do anything to it. And this is part of the same campaign. So this is going to be a cup of tea over here. And I want a bit of text along the bottom to say what goes well with your tea or something along that line. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to put it onto a shape. So I'm going to go over here to the rectangle tool. I'm going to put a rectangle down here. And then going back to my layers again, I can then just reduce the opacity of this layer. So I'm going to click on the three little buttons there and reduce the opacity so I can see some of the tea cup underneath. Now. That's okay. But I want to move the tee up. So remember, I can always go back here. I can unlock. And then you can actually do it by clicking on the little padlock there. You can unlock it. If you can get to it. It's unlocked over there. And I'm going to then click inside here and just move my T up. Use my move tool and drag it upwards. I'm just going to put my finger there to make sure that it actually goes straight up rather than as, as funny angle. So there's my first cup of tea. I want to make a copy of this shape. Now. I'm going to go over to this little helper again. Click it and I want to use the tool is going to appear unfortunate is going to be right under my under my fingers. So if I just show it to you, it's that one there. So I'm going to use that one and also the one at the top. So this one here is going to make a copy of that. And this one is going to make sure that it actually moves exactly vertically. So the bottom one, which is the Alt key, makes the copy and then shift holds it. So it'll run vertically and I'm just going to move that down a little bit. Like so. Once I'm happy with those two, I will also lock them. It's a good idea to get into the habit of locking items as you go along. Because, well, it went means that you won't move them by mistake. Try that one out and see how you get on with that. And do try using this, the Alt key to make a copy. 95. Using Blend Modes: I've unlocked my two shapes over there because I don't like the white color that we've got. What I'd like to do is have a darker color more in keeping with the cup of tea. And then I'm going to put some white text on top. So I'm going to select these two. And I'm going to, first of all go up to the top. And I'm going to just change the opacity back to pure white. And I'm going to choose a color. So I'll go to the Eyedropper color area, drag it onto the picture and find the color that I want. I want us to a very dark brown. And once again, you can see there it is. I'll click on it to bring it in. Now it would help actually, if I select these first, before I click the button, there we go. It's brought it straight in. The next thing I want to do is I want to be able to mix this color with the picture in the background. And I'm going to go to my layers. And instead of actually using a passive t to kind of get some of the picture coming through. I'm going to change the mode over here. So it's this blend mode here which says normal. I'll click on Normal. When I start to scroll, you can see it shows different ways of actually seeing the picture or blending those two together. Color is quite an interesting one because it just changes the color of the image to tints of the color of your overlapping area. The one that I'm actually looking for in here is to use Multiply. And there we go. There's multiply over there, which is quite a dark mix of the two. And I might even change the opacity just slightly. So we can still see some of the background t in there. Of course you could do these individually, so I could go to that one and maybe lighten it up even more to start bring it in slowly. Once I've got them sorted, I'm going to select them both. And then as always, just go back into here and a lock them down so I can't do anything with them. The last thing is very simple. It's just bring in your bit of text. So I will use my Artistic Text tool. I'm going to just pop in my frame, my text. I beam over there and I'll just say any t. Once again, you can just adjust this, change the size and move it around. I'm just centering it right in the middle. Over here. Of course, you can always selected if you want, and then go up to your colors. And I could change that to maybe even a white. There we go. That looks a lot better. So I've now got two different projects over here. Well, they're actually all part of the same one to be honest, because it's all part of the same cake company. Social media posts that I'm going to be doing. Let's have a look without all the lines around the outside. I'm happy with that. We've got one more to do. So. We will bring in another page. So we're going to go down here to the pages panel. I'm going to click on the plus. So I've then got one more at the bottom. And we'll start to add something else in after that, but have a bit of a go with those shapes in there using the blends. 96. Add Blend Modes & Text: The last one over here is going to be more of a people type of picture. So this could be something to do with the management of this tea company who I want to introduce. So I'm going to do as before, make a little text frame over here, over the top of everything. It's slightly too big, so I'm going to put it in a bit like so. And I'm going to go to my place tool and place the picture that I want to use in there. So here's the management picture. More hard at work. I'm going to go over to my layers. And I'm going to click on the dropdown and make sure I'm on the picture and then I can move them across. Like so. In fact, I'm going to just scale them up a little bit like that. Now, this is not a great picture because they're not looking towards ketamine. I'm sure it's a great picture, but as far as I'm concerned, I don't have eye contact with them, so this is more of a background picture. The other thing that I have a problem with is that it's also a lot of little colors in here which draw my ion. So e.g. my eye is drawn to the little red areas on her. I'm not sure with their pencil skirt or whatever it is and the blue bits on the side there rather than to their faces. I think this image will look much better if it was in black and white. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to lock the picture down before I go any further. I'm going to put a shape over the top. And the shape, I'm going to make white. So we've now got a white shape over the top of that. And the white shape, I'm going to go into the options over here, and I'm going to change it blend mode. So down here, I'm going to choose color as the blend mode that I want to use for this. So let's go down to color and you can see how it changes that to black and white. If that was any other color. You can see tinted. Let me do it over here. So I could just tinted with any color that I liked. But I'm going to use white or black because it will make the image black and white. The second thing I want to do is maybe just to bring in some shapes over here, some color on as well. So I'm going to use another rectangle. And I'm going to draw in a shape. Once again, this one, I'm going to use my brand color for my t, which is probably one of these colors in here. Let's go with more of a red. I think. I'd like to rotate this shape around a little bit, so I'm going to grab it by the top. That little lollipop sticks out the top there will allow me to rotate it round. And if you hold down your shift, you can get it to increment in small increments like that. So that's what I want in there. Once again, I'm going to take that and I'm going to go up to my layers. I'm going to change the blend mode from normal once again to color. I'll then have this. Let's try that again. That'll just give me color. In there. You can see if I go to Preview mode, That's what I have. And I'm thinking to take this, I'm going to go and use the little button over here which allows me to make a copy. That's the one at the bottom. I'm going to move a copy across up to there. So this one, let's make that a little bit bigger. That one just a little bit bigger like that. And if we preview that, you'll see you get the sort of the two colors on there. Now these top ones, if you want something a little bit darker, you could actually change them into something like multiply. Sometimes you'll find it's actually easier to use your finger than the pencil. I'm trying to use the pencil to keep my hand out the ways that you can see what I'm doing. But let's see if I go in and find multiply this time. You can see it still keeps jumping back to color. It will work in the end. You've just got to be patient with that. Now as you can see, I've got mine to work in the end. But what I had to do is actually just use the little left and right buttons to flick through until I got it. Just right. I want to bring in some text. I want the same text that I've got there. So I'm going to select this text. I'm going to go down to the little button on left-hand side and find the Alt and just drag a copy of that down into this document. And I can then change this because I've got the right text on there. So let's just select that and we'll change that to the team. We could just make it a little bit smaller and pop it down the bottom. Do have a little bit ago just add some text in. I've done something very simple. You can add more text in as you like. And remember, even with texts, you can still grab that little lollipop and rotate it around if you want something slightly different like that. Try it out. 97. Save & Export: Now that I've got my three posts, what I'm going to do is to save them. Now remember, when we save things, we went out here because this is not stable in here. Well, it's stable but it's not a permanent safe. So you can go to the top drop-down and just choose to save As and give it a name. So I'm going to just call mine over here. Cake. And once again, I'll click on Save. It will ask me where to save it. And I'm going to go and save it on my desktop of my MIR Cloud. So I'll click on Save in there. Now, I also want to actually send this out as jpegs. So I'm going to go to the top. I'm going to choose Export. And I'm going to choose JPEG in there. I've got my sizes which are correct over here. And all I need to do now is to click the Okay button. Once again, I'm going to put it into the same desktop folder over here and just choose move in there. So that should now give me my three different jpegs. Let's go and have a look. I'm in my Desktop folder and there are my jpegs over here, this cake one, take 1.2 and cake 1.3. Those are the jpegs. This is the Affinity Publisher file, the working file itself. Those are the jpegs that I've been saved out. Anyway. Do save that out, have a go with it. Try some different pictures in there and use some different blend modes to get some interesting effects. 98. Conclusion & Well Done!: Well done. You've made it to the end of the course. I hope you enjoyed the course as much as I enjoyed creating it for you. Thank you so much for doing it. If you want to take publisher onto the next level, there's another course coming really soon, which takes you from here right away onwards. I hope to see you in that one.