InDesign Portfolios For Beginners

1. Course Introduction: Indesign is one of the best tools help architects create portfolios, professional, communicate the work. Whoever knowing the right workflow can make the difference between a few hours or few days. I'm Brandon and I'll be your instructor in this InDesign follow guy for architects. In this course, we will plan, design, export, quality portfolio and InDesign, ready to share. What a lot of people don't know is that there are basic ingredients to a good portfolio. In this class, we start with those ingredients, preparing our project for the portfolio. It can be neatly organized, setup for various project and ready for future updates. This class is for architects and designers, basic knowledge of Adobe software. I'm an award winning license architecture that made several portfolios for myself. And I'm also done for furlough reviews, colleague candidates for jobs. This everyone loved the work. But I know what firms look for, what candidates to aim for in a good with fully in this class, I aim to share that knowledge with you. So you have a portfolio of breath and just shrink. It makes a great impression. This class exercise will involve creating your own portfolio with simple setup of images and information. At the end of this class, you'll be equipped to design portfolios that express your qualifications, your best work colleagues, and potential hiring managers. If ready to get started making a great portfolio. Now let's go. 2. InDesign Concepts: It's really important for those who are creating resumes or portfolios to really have a strong sense of principles that guide them to make it easy. So you don't just start randomly changing things here and there. Everyone wants a great portfolio, but there are some standardized ways to keep getting consistent quality and results when you're making one. So that's what we're going to talk about now. Here is the principles I have for making great portfolio designs. We're going to first start off with key principles. You want to be targeting your audience, pretty critical. You want to be using outlines. You wanna be developing templates, simplifying your text and graphics, and exporting and viewing often get into those. In just a little bit of portfolio is not just simple tool, but it's not this artistic thing either. It's something that you'd have to plan and develop. And when you do it properly, it's gonna get those type of results. Here are pretty much a guide map for using, for that I have this old diagram. And it starts off with visuals, the message, and the narrative. All these things working together on the inside, I prefer that will make sure that it looks good, represents UL. It's serve that purpose with that message. And that narrative brings a sound of quality that people will resonate with it. It's what is needed to get great results from a great portfolio. So all these are going to be principles that help guide you to this great portfolio. So let's get started. The first thing we'll talk about is targeting audience, okay? So a lot of people make portfolios and they say, Okay, this is made in school. And it's going to be made to maybe teachers or to get into school. Then there's one that's going to make your first child then this would have made to your your junior level. So the idea is it's important to know what the auditors for that portfolio. And so this is something that you're gonna be thinking about on the level that you are creating, or you just showing diagrams. I've tried to show built projects. It's important to your level of development based on your audience. Don't try to put things that are in the wrong place. Don't give a student portfolio if you're looking for a job as a senior architect. We also have to consider things like what are the proper images to show? It's, it's, it's obvious that your images are going to resonate with the audience or not based on not it's, and that's part of the reason for having that clear message. And that's going to determine those graphics. And finally, you wanna make sure to know what is the narrative that's needed. That means you writing words telling your position or you just showing images. Artists, if you're just artists, what maybe art commissioner something, you might just show images. But this one is where you're showing words for the most part that work with the purpose. So if you're tiling, if you're describing your senior position, that's what you're gonna do when you're targeting your audience. The next thing you're going to need to do is to get used to making outlines. Make outlines. I wanted essentially you're going to structure your content before you do it. So you already have those. Yeah, okay. I'm sure this project, this project, this project. And you even outline out that particular images. It's a born because it will help you define those sections early on. You won't be getting to your portfolio and then coming up with ideas. You want to have that early. You also are going to be able to set a proper order for your outlines based on this. And finally, you'll be able to estimate the proper time needed because you say, okay, look, I have ten images. Like I need to be developing those ten images. It's going to be communicating best. So this is gonna be a really great thing to be putting into your workflow for making portfolio so that you'll be on the way very, very early off. Next thing you want to be thinking about is developing templates. This is both templates you can find, but also tendons you can start creating for yourself. And it's a really powerful skill. It will help you be very effective and make your work look very consistent. It helped you standardize sections. The idea is you're gonna put your name, your title, and that it's gonna be helped right from the start, will help you utilize a similar format when you're making it. And I'll also just really be targeting you to be effective overall. Because you're just, every time you're going to update it, develop it, you're gonna go straight back to a template or setting up a template. So you'll be just working on the template and simple pizzas of content. You're not gonna be randomly coming up with everything. That's going to really help your workflow and making portfolios. The next thing you're going to really find valuable is the act of simplification. You'd be simplifying the text and graphics. Where the point of communication, the idea, you're not just showing people, oh, this is cute project. The idea is you're trying to focus different graphics that till particular story. This also will make you think about just like that piece of cake. Something is simple. You want to avoid excessive imagery, excessive texts. Anything that helps avoid blurring your message, you're gonna be aimed at that and that takes effort. That's something that you're gonna be pushed that and that's going to make a difference if you just keep that going. So that's gonna be some of the principles for simplification. Finally, it's important to be exporting and reviewing often. This is where you're going to be. First of all, your outline, you've put them into z and in fact, you want to put your images and rather quickly so you can export it started reviewing hated these images really work with a friend. You find out, does this really work? And then as you go back in your computer, you keep coming out versus having a persistent error. And it's also good to separate those times that you're working on Peter versus off where you may be reviewing and saying ideas because it helps you fix errors without being in the work. Sometimes it's easier to be in the work and miss a lot of things. The next thing it's going to help you refine your message. That means if you have a good message, double down on it, make it even simpler, make it even more precise techniques that are distracting away from your main portfolio message and the message of each of the projects. So those are some critical ways to help you as a architect, as a designer with the portfolio. Portfolio design is made in essentially two. It can be something that is putting you in a place for communicating your work the best. It will require you to definitely see that maybe you haven't had such great portfolios and maybe you had some great ones. You're trying to figure out, replicate it with your current work. It's gonna be based off you being more systematic and structural and you'll have a great reserve by putting in that effort, taking it through the whole process. And as you are developing and finalizing it, making sure that you're getting the goals for your portfolio. 3. Example Portfolio: Let's take a look at a portfolio that will be making for the class. I've already sort of pull it together. It's essentially a base portfolio. And it's gonna be several pages that are pretty much communicating the architect. The ability for an architect at a more of a junior to senior level. You will see a page where it talks about the candidate name, no place for resume. And then we'll have section for a little bit of studies. And also place just maybe two page for each project that's going to be shown. And this is going to be done showing you different workflows and methods that you can be putting into you. And you're working with InDesign and all the Adobe sequences that are available as you deal with this. So if you're ready to get started, Let's go. 4. Folder Structure: We start our project off by having a very clear set of organization and our main folder. So essentially, we're gonna make portfolio and we only really need the images that are going in. And we'll have our InDesign file. So these are just placeholders right here and maybe archive file. We have some old things that we need to change our image folder. I've made a folder for each project. I will also add some major images are sort of base images that I put in the main folder. But inside of these folders, either I've put a PDF from the project, I put like a render. And the same thing happens for this other modern project. And the idea is, these are gonna be all sort of splice into my presentation. You can, of course, can also import Photoshop files as well. There's a variety of logic can be placing into your file. So this is where we're starting. And we just need to make sure that we are staying along the lines of keeping this structure intact. So if we're going to add new images, we just replace these. We can make an archive folder within one of these. If replacing an image, just keep it simple so that we can keep our project concise. 5. Chapter 2: Starting The InDesign File: To get started with our InDesign project. When it go ahead and go to New, we're going to create a print format for this. Obviously you can use A3 or other sizes. I want a typical tablet and I'm going to use a horizontal orientation. All the rest of these are pretty fine. They're going to be facing pages because you don't want to print out. It'd be really nice to have those organized in that way so that there are some templates that are usable, but we're just going to make everything from scratch, so really get the best from that. So the first thing I'd like to do is like you can go into outline mode or presentation mode. I really want to just put a little outline of things I'll put in this portfolio. I'm going to start off, let's make it so I can read this. I'm just going to make this little outline. So I'm gonna do my cover page. My resume says Statement page for Turiel studies, low research-based. Then I'll do project one, project two. And so that's going to be this format for what we're going to make. I already have an idea ahead. What sort of images we go on each one. So I'm going to start off with just really choosing things like my font. And I'm going to organize the project. So knowing those pages, I already know I'm going to have my general no cover page. I'd like a master and I'm going to have a B master. Now let's put that there. So what's gonna be for the main page once could be the next page. And I'm going to go ahead and start inserting few pages. So right now, I'm going to just go ahead and do five or four. So it will be total five. 6. The InDesign Interface: Before we get started, I definitely want to talk about a little bit the interface order for InDesign. So again, it's pretty much similar if you've done with any other Adobe product. And your five opening, closing. And now the edits important, obviously, we'll go into some things that we can use with edit. Layout will help you organize how you're going to go to your page. Navigation there for things like your margins, we will alert. Your type will help you figure out things for your text. Object obviously is between what a lot of objects in your drawing. We also can create tables and change the view and the window or get help. But one important thing is obviously working on the window. That's gonna be like our main thing of working with this InDesign project. We want to have a good workspace and it gives you the ability to sort of tile or Shoo, Shoo how you arrange your workspace if you have multiple documents, we're going to only work on one document. And I think we're going to first look at advanced. Because the idea is I'm going to be working with some types of texts in different alignment. So it is going to be important to see little more information. There are other popular workspaces for if you're working on a book. They'll just give you a little of the different tabs for different things you would work with in the book. There's a, there's tabs for all the way from essentials. The classics is actually pretty good as well because it includes all your menu and different than these. But also you have for if you're printing and proofing, that'll help you figure out the right colors. So you have every type that's available for you. Again, we're focusing more on either advanced or Essentials Classic. So we can be working on our book. And we're just going to be making sure we follow the outline and start putting things into place. 7. Setting Up The Portfolio Cover: So right now we want to start setting up our project, so be ready for everything we wanna do. We wanna make a layer for a title. You want to make a layer for some formatting. And then with that a little bit lower. You want to make a layer for graphics. And then we also want to have just a layer for text. And we are keeping these as our layers, so we will pretty much make sure nothing is below a layer of it needs to be on top. For instance, a title that's gonna be really critical for this project. The main pages where they just gonna be like a cover. So we'll have just like some text and a main image. So it's not gonna be that complicated. We're going to go ahead and start by tiling our work. And instead of just going straight into titling, we want to make sure if it's not put in our project yet, that our type and our texts are gonna be available here. So having our character, we're just going to, and this here, adding our character and adding our paragraph, help us organize some of the things we're about to put it into the document that was obviously very easily just add it from your window. So I want to make sure to use for tour in this project. However, my main title that's going to really need to be a little bigger. So I'm gonna go ahead and choose my BT, B, D, C and B t. Is we think that's going to be like pretty large. And I want to make sure that that's gonna be nice and readable. And I'm actually going to use the set guide to sort of organize with that. It's gonna go here. And I might even change the color. And the idea is I'm gonna make it work with the image, but I'm going to just start by laying it out and I'm going to use out as I drag this text just to copy it. And I'm going to put the name Robert Smith. And that's gonna be the starting point. I can come back, select both of these. And the text is set in the image. I'm going to make that text and then double-click on it. I really wanted to be white. You can set the color and several ways you can set it here. We use scroll up and set that color. You also can set the color. Here. We can just choose paper, it's color. Now, one of the things that I'm sending it that way is because I really want to create a background image. And we're going to add that image using a rectangle. So we'll get to, when we place the background image, it'll go ahead and fit straight in there. I'm going to make sure this background doesn't have any border. When it closes. The press Control D, I'm gonna be placing the image and then go to my images folder. And the project I want to have really in the portfolio background is gonna be this one is the standard stock image. What I'm going to do to make sure that it's properly fitting into the window. I'm going to click on fitting. And I'm going to start with feel content proportionally. So that's going to give a little bit of a space on the side. There's also options to Content Aware Fill. And that's what this letting us to be closing the edge. But I think the best way to do for me just scale this image and I'm selecting the inside image. You see that ClO, I'm just going to be making sure to press Alt and Shift. And I'm just going to scale that image inside. So that's a nice little image press Tab to get like a full-screen. Okay, so now we want to make sure, sure that this is going to be on the proper layer. And I'm going to put this on. Make sure I'm selecting outside objects. So you see it's blue. I'm going to put that into the graphics layer. And so I'm going to make the Arctic's portfolio texts also white. And so it obviously read a little bit better because of this being white over this color. Right now, we want to have something to bring out the title and the name of the architect for its portfolio cover. So I'm going to create a rectangle. And the way we're going to add a gradient, this is a basic rectangle. That menu. You want to make sure that it doesn't have any border. I haven't, like it's black now, but I'll click now the Gradient Swatch tool. That'll let me choose how this swatch will work. I'm gonna go to Effects so that I'm going to add that from the window here. Put that in our little bar here. I'm going to make sure that it's multiplying. I see it's a lot better adding this. I'm going to make sure this on the appropriate layer, the graphics layer above the bottom graphic. And I'm going to go ahead and copy it and rotate it. Do the same thing at the top. So great with this. Gonna be in that graphics layer and I'm going to go presentation mode. We see it's coming out a whole lot better. We're starting with our cover. We've just been very simple. And I think we're ready to go into our subsequent pages. 8. Setting Up Page Templates: Now we are looking to make sure to get the templates for our following pages. The critical thing I'm turning off presentation mode is that we need to have a title. This is for Robert Smith portfolio. And you can see here from the cover and then go back to the master. Now what I want to put is on one side, we Robert Smith, once that'll be architects portfolio. So I'm gonna put architects were followed over here. I'm going to make sure that I have the right font. This font, it will be the same for this. I'm going to use a couple of different apps for Torah. This is gonna be black and it's going to probably be closer to 18. I'm going to put architecture port folio. I might just increase that just a tad. Come off a little bit from that top. I'm going to make sure that this is going to be an appropriate layer. I'll put it on the tidal layer. And I'm going to drag it with the l or out buttons, make copy. And I'm going to go and put Robert Smith EIA. And so I'm going to just drag it to the edge, come back off. There, we have a little graphic. This will work nicely. So below here, I'm going to go into the layer formatting. And I'm going to go ahead and make a little box. This is going to actually be a white box. Go ahead. So that all up here, Custom. Now this little white box here. And then the formatting layer, you can't see it now. But I'm going to make it to be 50% opacity. And we'll just copy it here. Bring it into this page here as well. So we're gonna go ahead and have that as our base. And I want to have a similar starting element for an unplanned on a guide by clicking on the ruler. I'm going to have it in the same place for all the pages. So they all my text is going to begin here. And that's gonna be really useful to have that common graphic. Though my first, second page is there gonna be a little different? Alright, so I'm going to press tab and go to the full mode. I'm going to go back to our pages. I want to make sure that our mass was applied to Beijing. She'd AAA. So you can see it's already set up right now though. I'm going to have a B for the pages below. That's going to require me to come back up here. All these little items that I've set up here from my title and my guides. Now go to the B master, copy those. And those of course, should also still be in the same layer. Now, somehow this title to the form any layer but wouldn't make sure it's coming back. Staying in the right layer. The little spacing is going to inform my own layer. Make sure here it's on the right layer and is now my architects portfolio. I have appropriate tiling on each page. Now I'm going to create a layout for how this page is going to look. 9. Importing Images: We're now going to start by adding some more unique things to our, our pages. We're going to start with filling our placeholders. And where you're going to press Control D to place. And what I'm gonna do, I actually, I'm not going to really even touched a lot of these, but I'll explain. For these sort of imports, you have options to import. In particular ways you don't have just important to us as it is. And I'm going to also make sure to include an image that will handle it. Now we're going to add the placeholders for this resume page. When to start here. The first one we're actually going to do is a pitcher. And I have done is of course, this made it fit inside of the place holder. Now I'm going to expand it by holding Alt and Shift. So it's proportional centered up on here. So that's nice, sorry just getting that set up here. And for my second placeholder, I'm going to do a close-up of a, of a project. So this again is whichever project you'd like to show. Or even if it's a model, you want to make sure to sort of highlight some of your best work. So this is something to sort of go along with the theme of the architect. And what I also like to do here, we're sort of doing like a background image. You know, maybe make it a seventy-five percent or something. And just maybe two some of the negative space. But even just do like a picture of a small project or something. But we're going to just keep going from some of the basic of this to build up the project. 10. Setting Up The Resume/Summary Page: So now we're going to work on our second page of our portfolio, which would be the resume page. I'm sort of a little bit about me grading and place holder box. And I'm going to make sure it doesn't have it can be full. It is going to be replaced when I get the proper imagery. Pretty much I'm going to just duplicate it and have one on each side. So now we have our two placeholder box on both sides. For the resume, I'll just sort of block out the areas where I'm gonna be placing text. I'm going to start here with the name. Name is gonna be a little bit larger. This will be the same use for other sections. So that would be really helpful. Robert Smith, AIA. So just come down and drag different textbox and just sort of do the different sections. So this would be more like 14 And I'll do summary. You got to remember the size. This is gonna be tabloid, So it's not gonna be that small. The other font I will be using, It's gonna be a few Tura, be kBT. You can see here now that I'm adding a little bit of texts, that this is our textbox work. So we've added our title, going to come down and add some of the other texts. We can sort of identify where it's located to help us out. Make sure that's gonna be 12 when to use futuro, be kBT, be writing a summary. Then we're going to scroll down and really just saying experience. And the way I could do it, of course, it's just have these to be a little bit larger. Then come underneath with a little bit of a section. Now I'm not really going to be doing too many complex things with texts right now. So I'm just going to make a title for these. And then I'll make a content area. I'm just dragging and duplicating these. And I'm gonna make the summary a little bit taller. Then come back in here and make it about 14 and make this one to be more involved in when it comes down to the second one. So, you know, maybe talented architect seeking to create beautiful spaces. And something like that would be like a nice little sort of method and are, in fact, I'll just go back to presentation mode to see how this looks. Looks pretty nice. I'll just duplicate that for my experience section. Leave a presentation mode. Press W for experience and do a little bit different. Because we're gonna be making sure that they know. Beyond this, there's going to be like a time. And I'm going to move this far. So when we put in the experience, there'll be like the years maybe 20162, 2020062016 to 082022. So for experience wouldn't change this section. I'm just a little bit because I'll have a title. Maybe I'll put like project architect. They don't have the company. And I'll put this all in the same texts. This bill, little easier. This the name is Olivia little bit different. Xyz architects. Then we'll make a description. Now, I just want to highlight a couple of bullet points for the description. And it's very simple to do that. You just will go up to type and make sure you just put bulleted or numbered list. But adhere. Code research, developed construction documents. And I'm adding a third one now is a little bit just say administered, instruction administration. So I have just a simple set of information here. Even now. Basically when they were that role. I want this to stand out. The wave futuro can work. They can just look for more bolder font within the Fedora collection. So I can use heavy. So all I need to do is be like grab all these. Just add another one. Alright, next, write down. And so that would just be the second one. Then I can create my next section which is education. Education. And I just gonna put Notre-Dame and just put b Arc. I actually can just take off these bullet points. Pretty simple. You can also if you want. But this area, you're going to just remove the bullets here as well. But I'm trying to lead that Notre-Dame and I could just put B arc Presidential Scholarship. And go ahead and put here another role. In turn, architect, ABC Architects, schematic design, rendered project entries. Just change the date to go before that previous date. So maybe this was 62012 to 052016. For here, graduation could be 201252012. And so this can this up. We have our summary or experience education and we can now just add a final section of skills. To help organize this project better. We're going to make use of the Gap Tool. The Gap tool really helps us organize different words just as well as spaces. One of the things we're going to start here, as well as to add appropriate guides to make sure that this section is going to come out the way I want it right now. And I'm seeing things were a little bit not aligned. And orange to do to get things aligned is really, of course could just click on the line command, but definitely want to make sure I'm keeping things together. But you could also just come and click on a guide. And you just saw. Make sure that it's even. You say, This needs to align left. Here's my line menu right here. Same thing is here. You just want to be of course, just conscious that aligning might work by several other things. For instance, why Allied these, you know, it will put all things at the same edge. I don't need that. So really my line, it would be maybe selecting all my titles here and just making my Align to left. But I also have the ability, of course, align to the middle. I'm also I could align something to the middle of the page. So right now I just want to have this at the top. But if I wanted to maybe make this centered, I always could just come and not just make a copy of it. You see that it's nicely underneath that level. These are all in the wrong layer right now, so that'd be something to adjust as well as the fill. These are all definitely needing to be on the text layer. Now we're going to go ahead and take this, this one to x and this undo. Have any issue here. So we're going to make this centered. And what we're gonna do now is we want this to be centered on the page. If we wanted that option, you just come here and make sure we're wanting to the page. Now that's gonna be centered in the page. What we're going to add now is before we finish our section, what we're going to add our skills. I'm just going to be dragging that down, Alt copy of that. And like that it's gonna be just this section. And I will just be these. And I'm going to turn it into a bulleted or numbered list. I'll say SketchUp Photoshop. So that's adding my basic set of knowledge for the resume. Look pretty nice. 11. Adding Page Numbers: We want to add a page number, this section. And it's going to actually edit the template. So the template where we can take out of presentation mode. I'm going to just add a little text box. And we're going to add first, make sure we're using the right font for Torah. And we want to make sure that it's for Torah became a book. And it's gonna be centered. And we're going to use is a special character marker, current page number. And so it's just listed as a there. And we're going to add just a little bit of a box behind it. We get a neat going to be too big long. So what I'm gonna do it, both of these is make sure that they're gonna be centered and that the sintering is going to be on the page. So there it is. I want to make sure that the color is white and it's going to be 50 per cent right now. And this, this actually can go the text, can go on the tidal layer, and the box itself can go into formatting layer. Okay. So when I take this one and now you remember we have multiple pages. We're going to drag that similar elements to my next page. And I'm gonna make sure to hold out, copies it and make sure that it's doing the same, aligning to the horizontal center. So I'm going to take both of these both of these pages. I'm going to comment on the go to the B master. And I'm going to press Control Shift Alt V. It's copied one, but I need to cap the other one. Copy of this. Do that same thing. Now, one thing that's for sure that's important is needing to make sure these are all going to be the title formatting layer. It'll be fine if these are both on the formatting layer, but the texts of course has to be above the box. Elaborate that a little decision that's gonna be the requirement, okay? These are that way. You can also just turn it into a group. That's one way to make sure that that doesn't change. I'm making things on one layer the other. But the idea is as long as they're together, that's the critical element. So now we can just go back into the document and see now we have our page numbers. So we see that on T3 for when we start adding your images and that will of course make a bigger difference if we have a color or something. 12. Chapter 3: Setting Up The Case Study Page: First, second page or third page of our portfolio, we going to be really aiming to bring the same sort of language, but it has a different purpose. So moving on a copy, that original texts line, what this is going to be is showing a material search study. And what I'm gonna do. He is going to first create boxes that are going to really sort of show where things are gonna be. I'm gonna have like four boxes that are going to be a raid. Click Alt and drag this box. I'm going to click my right arrow. Griddify this object. You see it made for equal plus boxes. And these are all just placeholders. I'm going to make sure that I'm having them as placeholders. And what I'll do is now go into each one of these and just replace them. Now there's other ways of course of doing this, and I'll go ahead and show it. Go variation. What I can always just do the course, just make sure to try different types of get, make these Phil's work. So Content Aware is pretty nice. I can have things all filling out these spaces. And I always zoom in using my out. Things are not too big. So essentially, these are some material studies. 13. Linking And Populating Paragraphs With Gridify: And what I wanna do is give a title to each one of these. And this is again, sort of showing a little opportunity to maybe do some sort of research presentation within your portfolio. This is just for an option. Again, you can choose the order that you would like. And I'm going to put this to be a little bit larger. Just material study. And when it come down below here, now I'm going to do one thing a little bit different and I drag that and copied it. I'm now going to do the tour light. Now this is going to have a little more text to it. Now, what sometimes we will do because of saying, Hey, look, I want this to be in four places. Maybe I want to actually continue sort of a narrative versus really talk about each of these individually. So maybe this is like a little bit of a report and you just want to add multiple columns. So what I could do for that is there's, there's always this ability to drag a text box to another text area. And what I'm gonna do here is just duplicate this. Now this texts. I am doing very simple thing I'm going to be dragging and duplicating maybe the title. And that's fine because that just changes for each one. But if I wanted to have four columns, there are two ways to do that. I could of course, just duplicate one of these. And then click this little box. And I'll be linking these things together. I could just go ahead and just use my type and fill with placeholder text. And you can see these are all connected already. You also could just start your textbox and use that same arrow just to the right arrow. And do that same hole filled with classic texts. And just make sure that of course, set it to your desired font. And I'm doing for tour light. So these are both same methods only for this method, I didn't have as much control as ever, the ones where I just set the size. But I still can come down and operate with my gap tool to align these areas of corn. Again, you will be mining if you are pressing out. And then this area is a little different from that area. So I can always because there can be shifting the whole image. That's one thing of having control by creating it and then linking them. So those are different methods for getting the similar result. Then again, you just want to make sure it's using the right size. So I'm going to actually take away these Griddify. And I'm actually going to just duplicate these. And what I'll do is make sure to link these. So now they're all linked. And it will identify if you go over set any of these. But essentially, this actually might be a little bit confusing because you're trying to make a dialogue to talk about a few of these Vs talk all these. You can always just come back and take these and just sort of expanded out here. And it's just saying I'm talking about the whole things. So that's this nice little research partner you can put in. We go into presentation mode and see it comes out nicely. And will we also can do shoes and a material research. That can be one of our ways of presenting that particular area. 14. Importing With Gridify: Now there's another way I wanted to show you for making these textbox. So I wanna go ahead and show you that. And I'm just going to go ahead and create a little bit of a hidden layer. I'm going to make sure this goes on the graphics layer. So it'll make a little temporary layer. So the idea is when you're wanting to import several items, it is actually made pretty simple. In design. You can make that placeholder text, but you can do that same. You click right. You see that actively spaces them. So I can have my four images and all I need to do is going to fit in. I could say fit the frame proportionally. That'll get the same thing. Only difference, of course, is you don't control that spacing. My end. What do you want to do for spacing if you're trying to do that? Well, first of all, as it's already connected, when you do something like this, it doesn't really get what you want. It, It's sort of moves things. But if you press out when you are spacing and it will resize it. If you press control. When you're spacing out. It will just change that little m between these couple of different ways of how you can get similar result. But I really wanted to keep a particular link between and that's one of the reasons why I did it the way I did it. So I just wanted to show you that that a thorough way of getting these in here, obviously that this way is quicker. You just don't want to come back in later and set up your spacing. And also I want to perfect some of the spacing here. I'm just going to align these things. Obviously it's, it's also a nice sometimes to have your texts to go in here. Have your texts justified. These things can be placed in that way. 15. Chapter 4: Setting Up A Project Page: Our project pages are going to need to be a little more organized than the pages that we had for just looking at the resume because obviously you can do several project pages. And one of the things I would be informed by this is making sure that I'm going to have a project title, maybe a cover image, teach project. And then like a description area and a title. For my initial starting point of time during the project, I'm going to make sure that I'm using my Futura. Did my BT or B, D, C, T. I'm just going to make sure that's pretty big. And I'll just say this project is to be modern house. Now, I'm doing this in the biomass, which is to locate everything. I'm going to actually copy the text style. But I was just wanting to locate where my text is going to be. I think maybe 36 is fine. So I would be fine to just leave it sort of in this particular area. So since I'm going to use that particular way, I'm going to just locate where I'm going to be happening, things meshed and go back in here. Now in here, paste to the same place, patrol, shift out. That's what I'll be tiling that. And now I'm gonna go to my my, my section for my title. Again, I'm thinking about how my pages relate. This obviously has to be a little bit smaller. Make sure I have the right font setup for it. So this would be heavy. And the way I'm organizing this section is gonna be the title for the candidate. What did we do in that role? And then underneath it, I can just put a little bit of placeholder text to describe maybe my role or something or what I did know. This all can be very easily done in the light. And so Project Architect, level description, maybe the project. Then down here, this could be going into bullet points. Several bullet points is each one talking about how great you were in something for this, you could just delete everything else. So placeholder is really fun, obviously to help you organize where things are. But okay, so I've organized, that's worrying them. My title, this is where I'll have a description for the project. Since mike over image, there's a possibility of putting a white behind it. Right now. I'm just going to leave it where it is and I'll put my locater there. I'm going to go back into the image, pasted the same place. Now, we're going to be ready to be putting images that we'll be working with these. So I'm going to make sure that these both are on the right layers, both contexts. So now I'm going to be shifting to my graphics layer and importing images. Now for our modern project, we're going to first put in, I'm going to a modern project folder or cover image. Now again, I don't just click anywhere because I want it to be a certain size. And I could just go to here. Now it's a little bit bigger than my page. So what I'm gonna do that actually crop it. And it's pretty much works for me. We have our page number here and we have our title. So I think it's pretty readable. Now here we're gonna be putting in plan and elevations. Other company here for my first set of these, I know that I have plans, elevations, and they're all sort of big pages. So what I wanna do is select these two and the thing is I want them to be at the same scale. And so I'm just going to select these two out. Press Open. And I'll do that same element of Griddify or just look at it. And I click the right directional arrow. And the thing about it is, even if it's this way, both of these are going to have to be increased in size. So my way of working around just that limitation is you can just simply be working on that bounding box by just clicking those edges. Now, the thing about it is it's, it'll move these, but it won't. Change the image, which is great for what I'm trying to do. Then I'm going to resize it to fit better on the page. I'm going to bring them a little bit closer together. Bring them close to the edge of this project. Make sure I'm selecting the outer box. And I'm going to press Shift and Control to scale it out a little bit. So now as I go in, I can start to take off parts of them into one or one way, of course, to make sure I'm seeing everything to my scale and change that display performance, high-quality display. And I zoom in, you know, it seems a lot better. And what we can do here, you see that maybe we can be doing some alignment to make things look a little nicer together. So there we have it. Just simply placed her are items in here. We might want to take out maybe a particular part of the graphic. For instance, if we want to separate these elevations, we can simply do this. This copy it, paste to the same place, and then just pull it up. This drawing will not be including any of those little titles. So let's take a look at our spread for this project number one, we have our timing and what we did probably want to move the plan to come out a little bit more. That obviously we have lots of room to grow. I think we can add some more detail to show like some more advanced part of this project. So we have some room to grill and they go ahead and select all these presser Shift and Control. C shift and control should only do that. This makes sure we're going in the right direction, I guess. Pull him down and now shifting to draw. Just have a little bigger footprint. In terms of adding some other elements to this page. I wanted to add a detail. I'm going to go on this page. I'm going to make sure to show that I'm on the proper layer, graphics layer. Here I'm going to press Control D. Now I'm going to select the section. Now, the thing about this is again, I'm going to go ahead and just show some of the input options. Were fine with sort of how the preview is. I did want to show you like you have the option to choose different color profiles and et cetera. We're fine with how it's coming up. We didn't have it as this size. This is going to fill the page. However, we're just going to crop and choose to these. Define the project a little bit. And what we're gonna do for presentation wise is just turn both of these into a multiply. Because you still want to read it. I think adding a white box is the way to go in this scenario. I'm just going to put in that box there, making sure here clicking the white swatch and making this to be 50 per cent, 50%. And the way I want to do is make sure that goes to the bottom and do the same to that image. And make sure the, the drawing, it's gonna be on top. And we've just select that. Let's go ahead and look at the high-quality display. And we see here, you know, it's, it's just reading the detail. It's not getting too much into it. Maybe it can close off the callout tag. Okay. So we just had a simple way of just making sure to show some of that detail on this page. I think that it definitely gets the message across. And I'm not putting too much on this page. Again, there's different ways that we might do it. You might, you know, it's a built project. You can put some photographs, maybe a little collage or something that I feel this describes some of the key things that are happening. Another thing you of course could do is the project. We have some details. Maybe this little area could be for showing some of those details. And so I could just come in here from here and also show everything. But it could be selecting that area that I want to show. I put that it's feasible and I can just go into the display performance. And then you had to keep the title. I can just drag. And now just really focused on getting maybe another interesting section from projects. So obviously, to see the type of project, it is interesting to see what's happening on the roof. Showing this as a useful. So that's filling a page, not being too much in the page. But that's our first project. And as it looks like it's not fully and filling the page, we can always just come down. Scale it up a little bit more. Okay, That's our first page for our project. 16. Project Page 2: So now we're going to add our next project to its portfolio. Weird, we're not really having too many. Wanted to show you, definitely get one and they're pretty nicely with you. Our second project, a little bit different when I go to the pages. You know, what we could do is duplicate spread. I think maybe more effective ways is maybe just create two new pages and just maybe copy the similar texts. This come down here, paste that to the same place. And maybe put that right title. It's an architect and this is gonna be our traditional house project. And I'll make sure that I'm on the right layer. And I'm also going to make sure that I have the right template, AAC, it's already set to be masked. So that's great. And again, you can always come in here actually and change the name of these. You don't have to leave it as B can have it like vertical scale or anything. You of course, can even put some of the other information in there. You could change it instead of master to template. That's also possible and we can have multiple pages. It can be based off another view. For instance, if it's based off of a, will be using some of the similar elements from a. But i've, I've not done that because of its focus on different elements in each page. So I just left it that way. But you can inherit an element like a page number from our template page item. And so that's always a useful thing to be putting your projects. What we're gonna do now is my graphics layer. Come in here. And now I'm going to the traditional project and just put that render and give me those options that come out. Scuttled bigger than the page. Then just crop it right here, and crop it right here. So now that we have that little effect where it's doing black on these pages. That's fine. If it's not reading well enough, you can always add a little bit of a gradient swatch. Okay, so we have that cover. Now, we're going to add those drawings of the house, like about the graphics layer. Now, the way things are worked in this file is that everything is all in one place. So we have the choice of which layers will bring in. Just bring the whole thing in. And I'm just going to crop out things that I want. So I'm really just going to take the plan and the front entry. So what I'll do to get that is I'll just copy, paste it. Just deflated. And be trimming that to get to the view that I want from that project. And the great thing about it is it, it's gonna be the same scale. So I'll just be holding on these. Make sure that the high-quality display so I can see what I'm saying. So do is obviously just that similar effect for this this one. This copy, paste, copy. This. Make sure I'm getting that. So now I have my insuree. My biggest concern right now is that there make sure to press Control Shift same time. My biggest concern is that they are matching. Though of course it's, it's nice to have the ability to get the precise scale that you're going to be working from. But for the purpose of this presentation, you have the ability to either import that skill in. Right now. I'm just trying to put them in here for the basic organizing them neatly. And I will try to probably keep the same format of plan on the left. So this be moving these things in that, that wise. This project doesn't have a lot of the details for it. But they sent me it gives me what I'm trying to get and basic, so that's, that's useful. And obviously if you look at these and say, Hey, maybe that's not the most interesting view of the house. You can always say you bring another one M. So I have several views in this file. So if I wanted to come and get that one, so this is what happens when you have them on the same page. But the fact these are the same scale is really important. So this is our second project. Keeping a similar aesthetic. One is a more developed projects. Obviously one is the earlier project. So it's not trying to do too much. Obviously, we can show some more information that's gonna be important. These elevation tags are not showing fully here. So we want to this so we can get that will make sure that these images are not overlapping. You see that there is an overlap right here. So we're coming in and change that. And this one, this actually lower overlapping this. So it's sort of funny. But I can move this out of the house. Edges are not the same. It'd be nice to have a little closer. So that's a nice way of just getting out a basic set of plans. 17. Adding Diagrams: It's now one thing that can be done. Of course, there's maybe add some more intrigued to this project, is maybe even just making a little diagram. And 11 thing I could do now is this versus that one could create a diagram layer. So this is where you're starting to add some things in InDesign, you're saying, oh, maybe the project could really use some interesting things like this. So I could just come in here, maybe in the built space. And they could be saying, Okay, this is a diagram of the house. That's a mirror that makes it useful to get this done even quicker. You take that and come over here. And maybe even just do that 50% of the scale. And instead of gray, instead of black, make it a gray. Even just do that from the color menu. Now you see this is more the private and public spaces. So you can always just added a diagram to add to the communication of the project. Just add our text records in my right to be k BT private. And I could just make sure that this is centered the paragraph and just centered on that object. And I'm just copying it over here. Public. And I'm just going to center that on this object. Already know, noting that makes sure that these are at the same level. I'm just going do a different level of gray for this house organized. So that'd be something that could be very useful. People watch it. Hey, look, this is how it's organized and you can also use a similar system and you can see it's very simple to make diagrams right off your projects. You can even start saying how we see here that this part of the house is the part that is public and this part is the part that is private. I can just always as come back in here and do a similar sort of thing. So diagramming it, we just scale that. So most lot of study here. Just going to use the eyedropper tool. Press I for that. This, drag these over here and make sure that these are gonna be at the front. So some of these all up adding some diagrams to express some of the, the way this has organized. Obviously it's not an academic project, but if that's something that's useful would be adding that information. And also of course you could in your your, um, your program, you could always be taken out and just showing the plant and just showing the titles. So all these things are things that decided to bring into the project. So this is the interesting way of just adding that information that's valuable. 18. Adding Labels: One thing we can now add this project as of course, the meticulous to add the imagery is to really start putting in proper titling to these images. And that's something that is not too difficult to do. Right now I'm even looking at the fact that now I have my fire safety plan here. So obviously, that's a great reason to your titling. You can go ahead and just make sure you're using the right image. We just would come in here, click on right image, and slowly, There it is, That's the floor plan. And I could just create one set of texts to describe. Maybe the salted be few Tour became vt. And I would just try to create a similar aesthetic to each of these. And then just carry that through my just be dragging this, making sure that everything is coming out right. So like I said, for like, if you're showing a based on the principles, like what are you going to show right now we've seen that this is looking at an elevation. That's why everything going on. Maybe I'll switch to elevations. The way in the project. This view right here is where I'm really saying is sort of the Southern Northern view is really what I would want this to be really deal based off that. This being a Northern view. I'm going to really want to see instead of the East, I want to really look at the West view. So I'm going to say west elevation. And because of the way these drawings are, I'm just going to Control D and I'm actually going to replace the image with a drawing that I want. Click it and then took over the same position. So that's obviously really great. Okay. So my my west elevation is what I'm using. Come back up here. I'll put this for my north elevation. And it's interesting for sure because I also want to see what's happening up toward the South. That's really feature. If these views on what they have too much. Maybe I'll just actually go ahead and cut them out. You do that is this roll that down. Lonely, interesting views are really the North and the South for the type of information that's seen. So you'd just be shown up there. And this project is using like stone panels. So it's interesting to definitely highlight that the details and I could just put here is a particular type of details. So this detail right here is of course, our IV detail. And I can make that a little bit smaller. Again, I think it's nice to always have this aligned with something in the image. I just have enough detail. Just have a parapet detail. And obviously if the left justification works here, but it doesn't work here, There's no reason not to. Changes to now be centered. You detail, purpose, detail. Maybe give some space to, it, goes up a little bit. And so in presentation mode, having those titles does look a lot nicer. We can go ahead and just duplicate some of these to label the wall section. And this to make sure these are on the same location. And just very simply actually sort of even rotate it. We don't need that. We can align it back to being straight. And now that's good for that. Let's add these labeled down to a project here. And we get this field labeling our plan. Plan. And again, you can add it. It'd be centered on something in the image. And then you can of course have described this diagram for diagram. Just lower that here. Even this, pull this, all this area all up. Let me hear. You say this is more of an elevation diagram. This spread it out. We could say the clearer view we're looking at here. We can say this one is our south elevation. In this view here will lift us up again. Just drag it is. Match that spacing. Always just create a little box to make sure precisely that it's the same spacing. This right here. East elevation. 19. Chapter 5: Reviewing and Exporting The Final Portfolio: When we finished adding all our information to our project, we're looking presentation mode we just reviewed right through. This is this was done pretty quickly. I'm just getting the ideas into the project. We definitely are not seeing the things we want to change. Like this template being overwritten to the front page. That's something we probably don't want to have. We can make some of those initial changes. Just go here, makes sure the first page does not have any template, just comes out as it is. And then we can just go ahead and export it out. Then we can review it afterwards. I'm going to save the project. And let's go ahead and export this. Exporting the folder and projects from InDesign is pretty simple. Just sort of choose a location. We're going to just choose this name, save it, and then we will get a bunch of options. Now this is a better way though. You could print your Adobe InDesign projects to PDF. This is best because it's just a lot quicker. It will take time obviously, depending on what's images are there. I typically always check and make sure that it's doing my proper range. You can choose which pages you want to print. I have it as a high-quality setting. So the presets, presets pretty good. Obviously, if you want the smallest size, if you're gonna be sending my email, is one way you can do it right here. You also can do that through Adobe Acrobat. And you of course can if you're trying to get it printed out. So these IOPS, you won't have them printed. I can add the marks to be printed out. But typically, it would be going to a place to have them doing that. And you can make sure it's choosing the right colors. Advanced. I think we're all good to go, so we're gonna go ahead and export. 20. The Final PDF: Now we're looking at that printed out portfolio, which tend to look pretty good. The images are coming out in ice. This organization between each one. What I would suggest to do is just going and getting it printed out. So you could also look at it one at a time. And then you just sort of see what you could do doing to each page. 21. Packaging The InDesign File: Now that this project has been exported, there's something that's useful, of course, for continuing in this project. And that's going to be actually going into this project and making sure that you can work on it again. Because if you change locations, some things could get out of place. So one way to do that is to package the file. And you go package from the file menu. And it will give you some options about what do you do with fonts and show you what's in the file, the lakes, etc. Ideas. You want to internalize it to the file. And you also can get some problems if there's an issue. So it gives me an error immediately by saying that it is not really giving too many issues is just gives me like this, this here that there's nothing modify, messenger and accessible. So everything should be there. And think everything should be good from this report and I'm little headedness package it. The way I do it is it just tells us where I can put the new patch file. It actually will create a folder, but I'll just to make a folder despite that. And it's going to make it into the portfolio one, Packaged. That's gonna be the name. You give me a couple of options here. I'll copy the length fonts, etc. So these are all going to be in here. Let me go ahead and package. It, will look at that folder. It says there's some issues from some of the fonts. So be mindful of your, your font might be copyrighted. And you have that option. You just open it afterwards. When creating a PDF in addition to all the files. And you just open that. Now in this package folder, you see that it actually is taken everything organized it in two particular folders. And it has a InDesign file, a portfolio file. And also like this IDML file, which is the markup document language file. So you can find all the drawings. It doesn't have as much organization of the IPv4, but it's nice to have that all set up there. So if I ever needed to send to someone else to work on, it's easily accessible. So that's a great way to when working with other people or if you're sending it to a recently it to someone to print out your file. You can just send them this package document. They can deal with everything directly versus just sending a PDF which might give them the font. 22. Refining The Layout: To better look at our rebellion and give me an organized thing. We're going to have to clean up a little bit of our organization and that's what we're just going to be going through and cleaning up a little bit right now. Maybe add a little bit of a roof pitch to this, which this can now just very dry and they're just subtract this using the pen tool. Subtract this point as I add these. In other Pen tool allows you to subtract and add points. I could even just make sure that this point is going to get where I need it to be. Lower. This we have our labeling here. And this needs to probably come up to match where this is. So let me go ahead and now for this to get out of presentation mode, I'm lower a guide where this lower level is and this coming there. Now, we'll take care of that. Again. There's too much crowding over here where all the information as we go, Let's just come and take some of these down, maybe make them into groups. So it's not overcrowding the image. Make it a group, drag it out over here. The same thing. Sure, It's just this area, this a group. Maybe this makes sure that the ICC and then I'm taking these these items and have the ability to I just move this up. These are moving up at the same time and matching the location, the edge of the wall on these. So that's how I'm getting those. Okay. They're just little organization to be adding to the project. So now we have all of our drawings title, we have our numbers on the page. I think this is looking like a good portfolio. 23. Conclusion: Congratulations on completing this InDesign portfolio guide. In this class, you took the time to set up and complete equality. For further, you'll learn how to organize the project and present your work and then officials play. If you have any questions or comments. This course, feel free to leave those in the comments and messages. This has been Brandon, I appreciate being are structured. See you in the next class.