Level Up with Adobe Express – Intermediate Graphic Design & Video Projects

1. Welcome to this Course!: Hi, my name is Tim Wilson. I'm a senior trainer at Red Rocket Studio. I would love to help you to create beautiful professional work in new Adobe Express. Not only if I trained for some of the world's leading companies including Disney, Nissen, BBC, NHS, the times. But I've also spent many years as a lecturer in graphic design at the university. We'll start at the very beginning and I'll take you through everything step by step. You're not left on your own. I'll be there all the time to answer your questions. I've crafted this course as a series of projects by the end of it. Not only will you be an Adobe Express master, but you also have nearly 20 separate projects that you will have created. These are some of the real world projects that we'll be working through in the three levels of this course. Social media documents, flyers documents, print and screen slow animated posts, video posts, multimedia documents, infographics, and so more. I'll be showing you tons of pro tips and tricks as well as some basic graphic design principles to help you create really beautiful, professional work. Start right now, I can't wait to help you to learn new Adobe Express. 2. Introduction to Create an Instagram Reel: This is such a cool one. We're going to be taking a letter and we're going to get Adobe to actually make the flowers on the G for us using its built in AI feature. There's so many things we can do with that. I'm doing flowers because I've got a ballet dancer in there as well, but you can do whatever you like. We're also going to be taking a piece of video and cutting the video out so the ballet dancer is actually a cutout. And Express has done the cutout for us really easily. And then we'll obviously add some sound in there as well. But it's a lovely one and I'm sure you'll enjoy it. 3. Make a Letter with a Text Effect: Let's do an Instagram reel. I'm going to go to video, and of course down to Instagram reel over here. And we're going to create something obviously from scratch. Now the first thing that I want to do is to put in a background color. I can click on the background over here and I can choose a color in here. I'm going to go to my custom colors and I'm going to choose something which is slightly off white in there. I found white by itself is a little bit too harsh. Then I'm going to bring in a letter in here. The one that I'm doing at the moment, as you've seen from the intro video, is a letter G, which is full of flowers because the company is called Flora G. I'm going to go along and put in some text, but I'm not going to use the add your text. I'm going to go down here to Text Effects, click on Text Effects, Go and find something that I like in here. There's some flowery ones there. I think I rather like that one with all those little flowers. I'm going to click on that. You can see it puts in a Word and it's rendering that. Now I can actually change that, so I can select that. I'm just going to do a G in there and I'm going to make it bigger. So because that's going to go up in the middle. You'll notice now that there's also some options that I've got over here. So if I didn't like those flowers, I could start working my way through these ones and trying them out as well. I can load some more. Sometimes they are faster than others to come in. Well, while I'm waiting for that, I'll just try this one over here. That's rather nice. Let's click on that one. Well, they're honestly pretty much of a muchness to be honest. So I'm going to go with this one over here. Now that I've done that, I'd like to actually put a slight shadow underneath it, very subtle. So I'm going to go to text effects and just go back again to my normal text with the selected. I'm going to go down to shadow and put a shadow on. Now you'll notice that when you get a shadow, it looks nasty. This classic shadow is absolutely horrible. So I'm going to go a little bit further with that and customize it. So click on Custom. The blurring over here can stay for the moment, the distance. I'm going to move it back to the shape itself. Let's make it a little bit less distant, but it's still a very harsh shape. I'm going to go along to my color. I'm going to choose the background color, so I'm going to sample the background color, go to custom and then just darken it down slightly from there. You can see if I darken it down a lot, then I can just control that shadow slightly with that color. Quite like that actually. You can even do glows like that as well. Which look? But I'm just going to go with a little bit of a shadow slightly darker over there. Then of course, I can change the blur depending on how much blur I want from that. Have a bit of a go get the letter up over here. Just use a very simple letter in there. Remember, you can always change it. It is still editable. I can double click and change it to anything else that I want, and you've just got to wait and it will eventually update with that effect for you. There we are. But I'm going to go back to the G because it was a rather nice shape. 4. Cut Out and Edit Video: I'm going to add my dancer in. So what I'm going to do with that is I'm going to go to media video and I'm going to search for a dancer. In fact, I'm going to search for ballet. This one works quite nicely. I have tried that before, and that one works well if you are on the paid for version, but if you're on the free version, there's a little dancer and a little girl down here, and I'm going to actually use them. So I'm going to take them and scale them up. Then what I want to do is I want to remove the background. So I just want the dancer, so I'm going to choose a remove background. And then you just sit and wait. Now I have cut that bit down. It was longer than it appeared for you. If yours does take a while, don't worry about it. That's the way it is. I want to have the dancer, but I don't want this, this little girl in there. You'll see if I play this. We've got the dancer who jumps like that and then the little girl jumps as well. But I'm interested in the adult. What I'm going to do is I'm going to double click on the video that takes me into crop mode, so I can actually crop it down. And I'm going to use a free form crop, which will then allow me to drag this in and just adjust it to the bit that I want I'm really interested in. You can see how the little girl disappears out there. I'm interested in this section over here until she comes to a stop. That's the bit that I want over there. So I'm going to shorten the video down over to there so we can play that. And let's have a little look. She's going to jump like so, and that's what I want. Now when I click off of it and play it, you can see some of that hand is missing right at the beginning. I might have to juggle this around a little bit. I'll double click and maybe make it a little bit bigger over here. She's going to go in the middle anyway. So I just need to be aware of what's coming and what's going. Now, I did something very silly there, and I'd love to say that I did it to show you what you shouldn't do, but I didn't. It was a genuine mistake. I moved this, which moved the video inside that crop to move the whole thing around. If you click out, you can then move everything around like, so you're going to have to just fiddle around with this until you get what you want. So I want something like that over there, but if I double click, I don't want the child in there. Let's move that over just a little bit. Let's see how that, how that goes. She's going to do that. We're actually going to stop the video about there now. I don't want to stop everything, I just want to stop the video. I'm going to click the Sal Show Layer Timing button at the bottom. Now what this allows me to do is to actually say, well, for the video I want the video to be whatever length I want to be, but the bottom can be pulled out as much as I need. The video will just be this section in there. Let me play that and have a quick look. She's going to do that and come to a halt over there. Now the next thing is I also want to get her to fade in and fade out. She's a bit sudden, comes in there very quickly and disappears quickly. I'm going to click on the video layer, or the video here. I'm going to go over to the video options, scroll down to the bottom, and there's an animation option down there. Click animation in the animation area, I'm going to choose fade out. I'm going to fade using those two buttons in and out. Fading in. What will happen now is when she comes in, she'll fade in quite gently. She moves into the right position and she fades out. I've still got the child coming in, so I'm going to have to look into that and see what I can do. I'll double click. Let's see if I can try and change that a little bit more. I'm just going to move it in ever so slightly. I think that works. Let's find out. She'll jump over there, come to a stop, and fades out. That's perfect. I also want to fade G in once again. I'm going to click on it in the text options, I'm going to go down to Animation, choose in and Fade, and we'll fade it out as well as I'll click on Out and fade. Let's have a look at how this works. Now over there, they both fade in. The dancer comes in and jumps. In fact, I'm going to take the dancer, I don't want her to come in to start immediately. I'm going to move the whole clip over a little bit. There'll be a bit of a gap before she comes in once again. Let's play that. Look at the timing she comes in, she jumps at this stage, we'll bring in some text in a moment, but do have a go with that. Try it out. You might have to fiddle around a little bit with your video to get everything right. If you've got this video, by all means, have a bit of a go with that. If you're on a paid for version, try this one. It's also quite an interesting one as well, and you can just get rid of the background with those. 5. Add Text & Sound: Now this cutting out video tool is such an amazing tool, It really is very good. It's not perfect. And you might have noticed when you tried that out, that there are still funny little bits. So over here, as her arm gets close to her dress, a little bit of the background still comes in because of the color. It's very, very similar to the color in there. It's just unfortunately, one of those things you're going to have to look out for. I don't think anybody will notice that because it's very quick. As this fades out, I want to then start to bring in some text. Anyway, at this stage here, as she's fading out, I'm going to go across to text. I'm going to find some text in there. So I'll just add my text and this will be the name of the business, which is going to be Flora in there. And I'm going to make it a little bit larger. Move it down, so that's going to kind of come in over there where she is now. You can see it's there all the time. I only wanted to start where she is fading out, so I'll drag this along to there. Remember, if you don't see these options, make sure that you're actually showing your layer timing in this, that you can see what you're doing with that timing. Same with the last video as well. Feel free to try different type faces for that. I'm going to find a typeface that works based on the colors that are in the document already. Because this is all about a florist, I'm going to go and pick a color which would be appropriate for a florist. Maybe something a little bit green here. Let's see if that darkish green works on that background, yet it actually works really nicely and it matches that over that. And then I need to bring in some more text over here. So I'm going to add some more text in. And this is going to be your flower needs. For all your flower needs. Same. Again, select that. That's quite harsh, that text because it's very bold and yes, maybe it is their brand, but we need to take it down a little bit. So I'm going to go and choose something which is a little bit less harsh, like that one over there. Move that down to here. In fact, I'm going to put that over two lines and let's have a look at this over two lines. So I'm going to move along, just do a return on there. Maybe select that. Go into my settings over here. I'm going to change the distances between the lines. I can move that closer together. That's the tag line for all your flower needs is right in there. Of course, I don't like that being green. With that being green, I'd like to use one of these other colors in here. Same as before. I'm going to go to my color for the use the Eyedropper tool and just pick a different color that I think might work in there. Let's go with the pinkish color. I think that seems to work. Now we're almost there with this, but we of course, need a little bit of sound. I'm going to go and find some sound by going to media in the audio. I'm going to go for appropriate sound and I'm going to search for some ballet sound and see what I can find. I think that one works quite well. I'm going to click to put it in, and let's have a look at the whole process now. I've just realized that all your flower needs is there all the time. I only want to appear after fluorig has come in. Florigene needs to come in first, then that needs to come in. So I'm going to click on that. Once again, I'm showing my layer timing, so I can move that across to there. Remember with these bits of text, we can go and we can go down to our animation and just in, and fade them in to make sure that fluorig is fading in as well. Fade, Let's have a look at the whole thing and see if it works. I'll click on that to hide that, so we can see the whole process. Lastly, I think I'd like to fade that out as well. So once again to Ed a timeline. Let's click on that and we'll go down and use the same thing, Animation, to fade it out. Let's get the other one, all your flower needs, that's going to fade out as well. Same go down animation. Fade out, but I want that to fade out before the floor. A G fades out, so I'm going to pull that in like so one last time to see the timing of the whole thing. Experiment with some different designs. Try cutting out various bits of video. See how you get on, and then of course, don't forget download. And we're downloading this as an MP four, so hopefully this one shouldn't take too long. 6. Introduction to Make a Poster for Professional Printing: For this project, we're going to make something which is press ready I. It's ready to go for commercial printing. Now, Express is not ready made for that, but I want to show you how to do it. We're going to have to use some extra features which are not really made specifically for printing. What I'm going to do is I'm going to show you how to make a bleed in Express. Also, how to take it out and convert the RGB document into CMYK which one needs for printing. We'll do that by using acrobat. Or if you don't have acrobat, there are some online websites that will do it for you and if the word bleed and CMYK and RGB just went whoosh over behead, don't worry about it. It's not something that comes up in normal, everyday life, and I'll explain as we go along how to do it. 7. Create a Document With a Bleed: For the poster we're going to make, I'm going to go across to marketing and down to poster and I'm going to say Create from scratch. Now we need to figure out what size to use. And you can see there's a little re size button over there. If you click it, that takes you into the size over here. And I can see this is 11 by 17 ". Now I want this to be a three. So I'm going to be sending to a printer. The printers told me three. What's the size of three? Well, if you're not sure I like to work in millimeters, what I would normally do is just have a quick look on the web. I'm just going to type in size three in millimeters. There's my size over there, 297 by 42297 by 420. However, when you're creating something for print, the printers also require you to have a little bit of extra space around the document so that when they print it and they cut it up with the guillotine, they just chop off the extras if they've only printed it to the exact size of the document. When you use the guillotine, you might end up with a tiny little bit of white down the edge. We have an extra area on a document and this is known as a bleed. Now, most printers will usually ask you for a three millimeter bleed on each side. I'm going to add 6 millimeters to my width, which will take me to 6 millimeters will be 33, 6 millimeters over here to my 420, which is going to take me to 426 in there. Now I've got the extra space so I can tell the printers, well actually I've made a bleed in there. It needs to be printed to three. Have to go and create your document and get it to the right size over there with the bleed in it. 8. Colour Overlay Blends: Now that we've got the document to the right size, I'm going to put a picture into the background. So I'm just going to go and search for something. The poster that I'm doing, as you've seen from the original one, is to do with gears and oiling the gears of industry. Or lubing the gears of industry. I've done a search for gears and I'm just going to go and find something appropriate in here. I'm going to choose one of these black and white ones, because I want something which looks black and white. However, if you find an image and you think, wow, that's just what I wanted in there, I'll just click on it in here, I will just set that as a background. You can of course, go into your effects and just choose gray scale to make something black and white as well. I didn't want that picture. I'm going to go back and I'm going to choose a different one. So I'll go to media. I rather liked this one over here, which looks quite interesting. Or there's another one very similar further down, that one over there. Now you can see as I'm doing this, it's just putting them in. Every time I click on them, I'm going to go and remove them. I'll get rid of that one there. This one I'm going to make my background. I'll say replace background over here. Now I also want this to be the other way round. So I'm going to go and rotate it or flip it using this little button over there. So I kind of get the gears down at the bottom. You can flip things left and right as well. And the color looks quite good, but I'm also going to experiment with some other color on that. Just go to the effects and see how to look with gray scale, It's okay. What about with this orangy yellow tint that looks really good? Actually, it looks very similar to the original where I can colorize it with a different color. And you can see, I can just flick this little button here allows me to just flick through different colors. I'm actually going to either use the original or this tint over here. I like that tint. The gold looks great. Now the second thing I want to do is I want to make this a little bit more graphical. To do that, I'm going to use some shapes. Now I'd like to show you on the web how these colors are used quite often. I'm going to go in here and I'm going to type in best brochure designs. Now of course, you might get different results if you tried this yourself. But generally, if you go to images, what you'll find is that there's a lot of designs in here, and a lot of those images have got pictures with color on top of them. Here's a perfect example where we've got the red, dark red with a black and white picture. Underneath. This technique that I'm going to show you is used a lot. There we go. We've got another image with a dark picture behind, another dark picture behind there. In a photo on the top, you'll see we've got another one here, another one there. It just keeps going on and on. And you'd be amazed how easy that is to do. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to go along and I'm going to go to my elements. I'm just going to use a rectangle and I'm going to make that rectangle a lot bigger. Oops, let's try that again over there. Maybe bigger still. I'm going to rotate it and I'm going to place it over my document like that. And then I'm going to fill that rectangle with the color that I want. And I want to use red because I think it'll go really nice here with the gold. So I'm going to go to custom color. Pick the color that I like, I want to a deep red, something like that in there. I think that's perfect. Finally, to get that result, I'm going to go down here to my blends. And I'm going to change the blend from normal into multiply. And that gives you that lovely effect over there. I'll just move it along a little bit like that, so it's not quite touching that edge. Of course, I want another one down here, so I'm going to hold down the Alt or the option key dependent, or the Mac or PC and just drag a copy of that down to there. You can see when we look at those best brochion designs, that's pretty much how some of these are done. Look at this one over here. It's got the red on top, black and white underneath, and the red over there at a nice angle. It's such a useful technique and so quick to do. I can still go back to my background picture over here. If I thought it might look better with black and white. I can try by going to the effects and having a look in black and white over there. To be honest, I like the original or that tint over there. Have a bit of a go get yourself a background picture and then just use some shapes to get this lovely color effect going on. 9. Add Some Text: Let's put some text in here. So I'm going to go to my text, I'm going to add some text at the top. So this will be glue the gears. Now I want to look a little bit more interesting. So I'm going to pull this up a little bit and go down in my text. If I just click on the text, I'm going to go down here and I'm going to choose the dynamic text over there. When I do pull this down, you'll see I can get that to go over a few lines like that. No lube, that doesn't work for me. Lube the gears. I like that. So I'm just going to pull that out like so I can then go and try some other type faces in here and see, well, what Adobe recommends. I'm going to just select all this type, and I've clicked a few times to select it. Have a look at some other options in here. Now I like to click on View. All that way you can see the recommended type faces down here. The downside is that sometimes they do take a little while before they actually appear in here. So I'm looking for something fairly simple that will do want anything which looks like it's actually rusted and old. We're talking about loubing the gears. I'm going to go with something like that. So fairly straightforward. And I'm going to move that up a little bit. I've just moved just to the edge. Pop that up to top. Then down here we're going to have some more text. This is going to be pretty straightforward. I'm going to add my text in, make it a whole lot smaller. And this is going to be all about the course, the lube, the gears online course that I'm promoting in here. Now I'm not going to get you to watch me put all the text in because this is very straightforward. Just add your text in. If you want to click in your text, you can then go in here, choose a font over there, whatever that might be. And then pop in some more details down the bottom, whatever you want to put in with your poster. And I'll be back showing you my final result in a moment. 10. Line Spacing: I put all my text in. As you can see, I've changed the font in here. I didn't like the last one, and I've also corrected my spelling, just in case you were wondering about that. The font that I'm using at the moment, if I just click in, it, is something called Poster Gothic con ATF. But that doesn't really matter. Whatever works for you, I put a little bit more text in here. So this is another little text frame and I want to move this up close to that there. And I'd also like lube the and gears to be really close together as well. On this text frame or text box, I'm going to go over to my text options. Click this little button and this allows me to change the spacing between the lines. Now I've got to be really careful because I'm on the wrong one. Make sure I'll click on that over there. So I've selected Load the gears. And then let's do that down here. And the line spacing, I can just move that closer together or further apart. You can also change your letter spacing in here as well. I want this to be fairly close together, so it looks like it's got that gears feeling about it with lots of bits close together. I'm going to move that into the right position and move this one up a little bit like so. Now be really careful when you're putting text near the edge, because remember there's 3 millimeters all the way around this document That's probably going to be cut off when the printer prints this out and uses the guillotine on it over here. I'm also going to go along to this text and just check that I'm not too close. 11. CMYK: Now this a little bit of text here. I've also moved that closer together using the same option in there. I'm having a little bit of trouble reading the word business and our free, I could probably get away with it like that, but I want to make it a little bit more readable on that bit of text. I'm also going to go down here to my shadows and I'm going to add a little shadow behind the text. Now, I just want a nice soft shadow and I could try that. I could try the hazy one classic. I'll just go with a classic shadow in there. As you can see, it just lifts that text up a little bit. It's not enough to really see the shadow much, but it just pulls it from the background. Now, I'm going to go and download this. I'm downloading this as a PDS. I'm going to click on Doop here. My download is starting and it'll take a few moments and then we're going to have a look and see what we can do with that because it's still not quite ready for the printer. When you have a document in here, the document itself is an RGB file and the printer needs a and YK file. Let me show you this very quickly. I've just got an example here you can see anything which goes on screen needs to be RGB, which is red, green, and blue. Because that's the way that screens work if you're sending anything for print printing tends to work with sine magenta, yellow and black. And why K? Now you're probably thinking, why is it K if it's black? Well, it's because it was called the key color. If you're printing, you print on a white background. If you're seeing anything on screen, it's almost always on a black background because there's no light. This is about light and that's about ink. Now that I've made that into a document, I need to convert it into CMYK. And that's something that Express just doesn't do. Now, you can do it on your own by basically going in and using either acrobat or an online converter. Here's my document. I'm going to open it up in acrobat. In acrobat, if you have it, you can go to file and go down to save As. And then we're going to save as a press ready PDF. Now when you're in here, you can also click on the settings over there. We're on PDF X. Click on the settings and if the printer tells you to use a specific PDF X file, you can choose it in there. If the printer tells you about a specific profile, these are called profiles. You can choose it from here as well. Now, once you click Okay, this will then save that out as a CMYK document, and also some of them will convert the images into CMYK as well. The other way that you can do it is to just do it online. I'm not going to give you any specific website to go to, but I would just suggest that you go in to the web, just Google online, CMYK converter, and a lot of them will appear in here. Just pick one to do a conversion that should be ready to send to the printers. The printer needs two things. It needs to make sure that your document is in CMYK and also that it has the bleed around the outside edge. You'll have a happy printer. Have a look at that. 12. Introduction to Generative Fill - (Now Called Insert Object): You're going to love this one. It's so easy to do and it's so effective. We're going to open up a, one of the templates. But what we're going to do to the picture, we'll have a look on the side here. You can see I'm going to show you how easy it is to change images using Express. 14. Change a Photo with Generative Fill: Let's have a look at changing images. And we're going to do this on CV, and we're going to use one of the pre made CVs as well. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go along to document over here. I'm going to look at education or personal. Either way I'm looking for a resume or a CV. Now I'm going to say, Browse from Template. And I'm going to look through these templates here to find a template. Now I'm just looking for a specific one to demonstrate on. And I'm going to find one that is not in the premium version so that those of you who are in the standard version can follow along as well. This one here, I'm just going to click on that one now, I want to make a few changes to this because it is a template and a free template. I can go and do that fairly easily. So for example, I can click on the shapes, I can change the colors over here, and I'm just going to update the color on there. And these ones I'm going to select them, I'm using the shift key, so I can select all three shapes together. And then once again I'm going to change the color of that, but I'm going to adjust the opacity so they're a bit lighter as well. And let's go to the top here. And change these around as well. So once again I'm going to go to my Phil, pick a color that orange looks a bit too much. I'm going to actually just change it to black or gray. Yeah, I'm happy with that. Now, the big problem with this and once I've done this, is I might be looking at the the picture of that person. I'm thinking to myself, do you know what, since that picture was taken, he's shaved. He hasn't had a beard for a number of years. I want to update that. I want to make him look a little bit more friendly as well. Let's zoom in a bit over here. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go along and I'm going to use a tool that will allow me to change his face. This is known as generative fill. We've got a generative fill tool here. I've clicked on him. I'm going to go to my generator fill tool and click it. Then first of all, it says brush size. So I need to take a brush and I'm going to paint the area that I want to change. Now, I want to change where his beard is over there and his mouth, that section around. Then I'll just paint it right in. Let's have a look and see what we can do. So I'm going to say remove beard, give him a smile spells correctly. Let's click on Generate and see what happens. And it's going to give us a few options over here. And if we don't like the options, we can continue on to have a look at some other options. We'll find out what happens sometimes. You've just got to wait for a little while. I'm going to click on this one here and you can see it's removed his beard. Let's try that one. A bit of a beard there. That one's okay, but he's now got a double chin. I'm going to load some more and I can just keep going with as many of these as I want. Just keep reloading them and trying out until I get the one that I like. So we look at that, that's a little bit better. He doesn't look quite so, so serious anymore and it still looks like him just without the beard. So this is a great tool too to work with, just taking out the bits that you want. I'm going to do one more over here, so I'm going to select the top of his head over there and I'm going to say make him hold, hope. Let's try that again. If he's had his head shaved since that picture was taken, generate that. Sometimes it takes longer to do this than others. Once you've had a go and you've tried sensible ones, look at that, that's amazing. Once you've tried sensible ones, you can then just go wild over here. I'm going to just do a really silly one now let's that I saw some really weird hair sticking out from the top of that. I'm going to replace his head. Replace head with a frog, frog's face. Let's see what happens now. These are a little bit weird over the top, but you get the idea with how they work. Anyway, he probably won't get a job as a plumber with that picture in there, So I'd better stop. But anyway, do have a bit of a go with that. The serious part of this is that you can take one of these templates, especially the CV ones or the resume ones, and just adjust them to how you want it to be. But the second part of this tutorial is that we can then go and adjust pictures as well, not just in CV's, but any picture at all. Just choose a picture, paint the area that you want to change and tell it what you want. It's as simple as that. 15. Introduction to Creating Menus: Two projects this time. One's going to be easier than the other one, but they're both going to be really cool. We're going to be making menus. Obviously, you can adapt this to anything you like real. But as you can see, we've got a simple one to start off with and then a two page one after that. Let's get started. 16. Create a Simple Menu: Now we're going to create a menu. I'm going to go to Documents. This is for a business. I'm going to go across to business. And I'm just going to go over here and find the menu option. All it does is gives me a preset size so you don't have to use this. You can create your own size and your own document. But, uh, uh, there's my menu. I'm going to say create from scratch. And if I go in here, you can see with Re size, I've got five, 7 " in there. But I can change the size to anything I like. Now what I want to do is I want to bring in a background. So I'm going to go and find an image, and I'm just going to search for jungle birds because I want a sort of a jungle theme to this. Nothing too scary, just very gentle birds in a jungle. Looking at some of these pictures over here. They're great, but they don't make a good background. So the other way that I could do this is I could go along to my elements and where we've got design and shapes. I'm going to go to backgrounds and I'm going to search for jungle birds in here as well. Sorry about my slow typing. I'm going to press Enter. And there we go. I've got some lovely ones. That's a really interesting picture over there, but that's not what I want. This is the type of thing that I'm after. Now, once again, this is one of the premium images, but there's lots and lots of free ones in here as well. If you don't have the full version and you want to try it out. I've got my background in there. The next thing I want to do is to bring in some text. I've got some text and I've got it here in a Word document. This is the menu that I'm going to be using. I'm going to start off by taking the whole of the menu, with the exception of the bits at the top. Copying that I want to go in here, do some text. I'm going to go to add your text, and I'm going to paste the text in there. Now as you can see, it is huge. I'm going to pull this up a bit. Keep going, oh my word, this is really, really big. That's better. And let's pull this out a little bit over there. It's going to go in like that. But I'm going to select all the text. I use command A, or control command and a control LPC to select all the text. And then over here I'm going to change the color of my text to white so it can be visible on there. I'm going to go and find a font which will work quite nicely on there. Now I'm going to have a look and see what they actually recommend before I try my own. So let's select some of this text over here, and I'll say View All. Now I'm looking for something fairly delicate. This is a real nice font for a menu. I think that might work quite well. I'm going to pull that in over there. But you can see the problem straight away. Nobody's going to be able to read the menu on that background. I'm going to do something else. I'm going to go once again back to my elements, into my shapes. And I'm going to put a shape in here. This shape, I'm going to just rotate it around a little bit like so hoops want to go 90 degrees and I will put that over the background. Let's move it over there and there. And then I'm going to take it, I'm going to drag the layer below the text. So now we can actually view the text on the menu. But it does look a little bit too dark and dreary. If I click on that black background, I can then go in and change the capacity on that so we can have some of the birds coming through underneath. And that gives us a much more classier look to the whole thing. The last thing I'm going to do in here is to bring in the bit of text at the top. So same again. I'll just go back to Word, copy this little bit of text and paste it straight in there. So I need to go to text, first of all, add some text, paste that text in. It's a bit on the large side. I'm going to take it down a bit. I think I'll move it right up to the top over there. This bit of text might have to come down a little bit. You can sit and fiddle with yours as you go. And when you try it out, by the way, the menu, there's nothing special here. I just went online and found a menu and copied it into a Word document to show you. Of course, we can always pull that out to get a few more bits coming through. Right, I'm going to go to this one and once again change the type face. The typeface I was using here was bt small. I'm going to go along to that one and choose the same thing when I click in here, it should be one of the top ones which says in use if I click on that. And then we can just increase the size of that a little bit. That's done. All I've got to do now is go to download. And depend on where I want to save it out to a PNG best for images in there. I could save it as a J Peg or a PDF if I'm going to be e mailing it around to people. Do have a little bit of a go with that. It's a really nice, easy one for this. Really, the whole thing of this was to show you about copy and pasting text in from other documents and also just using these backgrounds to won't be able to see your text on them. If you wish, you could actually change your text color and I'm going to make my text color black. And then I could go to my background and I could make that white and do the reverse. Same again on that background. Just adjust the capacity to whatever allows you to read the text properly. I prefer it on black, so I'm going to just undo that. I'm using command and z or control and zed on a PC. Have a bit of a go with that one. Nice and easy, and quick. 17. Add 2 Pages & Cut Out Images: Let's do a second menu now, a little bit more complex. This one, I'm going to go to Document. And I'm going to choose the menu. I'm creating this one from scratch. Just going to check my sizes. So if I go to resize over there, once again, I don't like five by seven, so I'm going to go all the way down to the bottom. And we've got all sorts of other pre made sizes I could do is a flyer or a poster. 11 by eight, a two. I think that's quite a nice size. So I'm going to choose that and resize it like so. But unfortunately you can see it's the wrong way round. So what it actually needs eight, a two by 11, which would be the flyer size. Let's resize that. Now, I'm going to be bringing in a picture over here and I'm cutting it out. This is going to be the main dish for the cover. This is a two page brochure. So I'm going to go along to my, once again the media. I'm going to say upload from device. Now, I provided this picture for you in the assets, so you can use it. It comes from unsplash, so it is copyright free. Go along to unsplash this, loads of pictures on there that you can download without having to worry about paying for the copyright all above board, it's absolutely fine. They make their money by having some of the pictures as it's called, unsplash plus pictures and you have to pay for those, but otherwise the other ones are royalty free. I'm going to choose this one here. Melissa Walker Horn. Click on open and it's bringing in a picture that I want to use for the cover of my brochure, or my menu, shall I say. It's not really a brochure. It's a menu. It's going to be two pages, so I want to have this plate on the cover, but I don't want the table all the rest of it. So I'm actually going to double click on it to have double clicked on the picture. And in here I can choose to crop it to any size that I like or any shape that I like. From these shapes, I'm going to choose shape in there and I'm going to go and move the edge or the circle until I can get that absolutely spot on on that plate because it is a very round plate. When I'm happy with that, I click on the page and it's now cut out. Now there are some ways of cutting out there. The other way to cut out is if you got your add ons. There's an add on in here which will allow you to do other cut out shapes. This is it, it's called clipping mask. I'll click on that and you can see we've got some pre made shapes in here that you can actually use now. If you want more shapes, you can then pay to use the full upgraded version. But there's just some, a few basic ones down there. I don't want to use that. I'm going to close it down and just go back to this. But the other thing that I'd like to do is I'd like to bring in the knife and fork. So I'm going to use a different method for that. Again, back to my images upload from device. Bring the same picture in. Again, I'm just going to resize it to roughly the same size over there. This time I'm going to use the removed background. With the removed background, it will try and get rid of all the stuff that it doesn't think is right. As you can see, you can't really do this for the plate itself because, well, it's made a bit of a mess of the plate. But it has written nicely cut out the knife and fork. So I can just crop that out over there. And I've got my knife and fork here, which I'm going to rotate around. I just want it to be dropped just over there underneath the plate. If I move the layer below that one, here it is. Now this is very stark on this white background. I'm going to go to my background color. I'm going to use my sampling tool to sample a color from the plate. Maybe I can click on Custom and then either make it darker or lighter than the plate. I think that looks really quite classy, actually. I'm happy with that. You can move this if you like. If you want it on the plate, that's fine too. Do a bit of a cut out, do a remove background over there and have a look at the add ons if you want to go in and lasted Again, there it is, clipping mask pro. 18. Add In the Text: I want some text in here. This menus is for a little restaurant called Quick Bite Cafe. So I'm going to go and do the usual over to text, add my text in. I'm just going to put in the word bite and make that quite large. Maybe that's a little bit too big. In fact, I want it to be all in caps, so I'm going to type it all in caps. And I want quite a heavy duty typeface for that. So I'll quickly check my recommended ones and see if there's anything in here that jumps out at me. Mm, not really. So I'm going to just go back in here and go into my dropdown menu And find something in here that works. That's the sort of thing that I'm looking for that looks tacky. It doesn't work for me anyway. So once again, I'm just going to keep going down until I can find something like that. Right. I've got that little bit of text in here. Just move it into the right position. I think that that seems to be just about in the middle. I want the word quick at the top. That'll be a lot easier to do. Once again, add in a bit of text. I'm going to change this font to something a little bit less in your face. I'm going to go and find something else in here. Once again, either there all from the recommended options, so to be quick. And then we're going to have cafe in there as well. Rather than me typing it again. I'm just going to take this bit of text, hold down the Alt to the option key, and copy it across me. Do that again now. Sometimes you have to deselect it, then hold down the Alt key or the option key and then drag it to get the copy. I'm going to place that one over there, maybe make this a little bit smaller. I'm just looking for balance here. We've got this one at the top over there and that one down there, which is balanced. Now the other thing that I could do as well, which works sometimes, is actually make this one smaller and put it on top of that bit of text. And then change the color. I'm going to change the color of this text so it almost looks like it's cut out of the. I'll go to my fill sample, the background color, and that will then give me the quick a negative inside there. It's up to you that you can just keep fiddling for ages. I'll make that a little bit smaller so it just fits on the end of the E like that. You don't have to just use text like this if you've got big chunky text, why not take a shape to extend it? If I move that quick out of the way for now, I'll just put it over there. I'm going to go across to my elements. I'm going to just make a shape element here. The shape, I'm going to make white. So I'll go to my fill, choose white. And then I can go and place that over there. So I'm just going to put it on the bottom of the E there. I'd like to zoom right in for this. I'm using the command and plus, or control. And plus to zoom right in. That bit is going to go on the bottom of that text there. And this bit is going to go over here. And then I can pull that, and to look like the E is elongated, if I can get hold of it, these things are on the way. It's going to pull that in a little bit like that. By the way, if you close those down, you can just go back up to here again to show them as well. There we go. I've got my super long and I'll go put my quick in there. Now the quick has disappeared because it's behind that shape, so I'm going to pull it above it and let's make it a little bit larger. But of course it's not going to say quick there, is it? It's going to say cafe. So, I should change that. I think that will, that'll do quite nicely. We just move that along to the edge like, so let's get a bit more text in here and I just want a little bit more text there which says street food with style. So I'm going to once again hold down the alter the option key, make a copy of that, change the text, and I'm going to get the text to be left aligned and Yes, I know I've misspelt that, haven't I? Let's try and get an H in his All right. Now, color wise, it's quite bland, and I really want to brighten it up a little bit, so I'm going to select this bit of text. I'm going to go once again to my colors for the text, And I'm going to try and sample a color off of the document. And I quite like this orange color over there. So I've then got the street food in orange, which is great, but it doesn't balance the top. Maybe the quit should also be in that same orange. Always look for balance in your document. So if you've got one color heavily on one side or at the bottom, think how it would actually work on the other side. So I'm just going to sample that color from there. Get it right in the middle. So I've got the quick over there. And maybe even the cafe. Although I was going for a negative effect, I think it would look a lot better if I actually chose that orange color. There we are for that. Anyway, do have a bit of a go with that. Put in a bit of text, play with a text. Use shapes to make your text look a little bit different or more logo like. Remember about balance. Always balancing colors throughout the document. Don't try not to use too many colors. Keep them nice and simple and have fun. That's the most important part. Try it out. 19. Duplicate for Page 2: Let's do the second page now. I'm going to click on the Add button, and I'm going to add another page. What I'm going to do is I'm actually going to duplicate this page. I've then got the Quick Bite Cafe all ready to go. I can take all of these bits and just delete them. I'm not going to delete the street food text, I'm just going to keep it on the side. But I will get rid of those two bits in there because we're going to use this text in a little while elsewhere for the title. Now I want to bring in another picture on the bottom, same as before. I'm going to go back to my media. I'm going to say upload from device and I'm going to bring in this other little image over here. Once again, I will just select that and resize it appropriately. I think that works okay. May be a little bit smaller in there, so we have the whole plate. That will be fine. Now the other thing I could do at this stage is I could actually change my background to match this background here. If I click on the background up there, use the eye dropper tool and move onto that dark area. And click that, I can then get the rest of my background to match the photo. Now that might be fine for this particular document, but of course, don't forget that you've got two pages in there. Does it work when you've got that gray there and you've got a darker color in there in this case? Yes, I feel that it does. Now, I'm going to bring in some more text. I'm going to go along to Word. This document has been provided for you or you can make your own. It's absolutely fine. And I'm going to just select my menu items in there. Going to copy them over here. I'm going to go and add some text Add. Now I'm going to make this text bit smaller before I go any further and just paste the menu in there. Now the menu itself is going to be left aligned, so I'm going to choose left aligned. Over here, I think shrimp cocktail and crispy duck should be on another row. I'm going to zoom right in. That should be on another line like that. In fact, the crispy duck is actually going to be over here. Let me sort this out. Now, I'm going to just get it to the right size. Now as you can see, my text is all bold. I'm going to take it back so it's normal, non bold. And I'm going to hold down the alt to the option key and make a copy over there. This one here. I'm going to remove shrimp cocktail up to pea soup. This one here, I'm going to remove shrimp cocktail. But they are getting my two areas. Then of course, I might want some prices in there as well. If I hold down the Alt to the option key and just pull that over, I can then remove all of this text and just start putting in some prices. So this is going to be 1022. For that 12 fish in the day is going to be 21 and the Av is going to be eight. I can then move that into the right position, all lined up for the exactly the same. I can then hold down the alter the option key. Move a copy all the way to here. And then go and change the numbers for that. That's going to be seven pea soup. Caesar salad will keep at 12. The chicken is going to be 18 and the shrimp cocktail will be So ten in that. Have a bit of a go putting in your text and just split it right up. And then once you've done that, you've got some text over here. So we can just change this little bit of text and call it food of the week or anything you like to be fair. I'm just going to place that right in the middle down there. And then take all of these. So I'm just going to select all those bits of text and move them down quite a lot. Now, there's lots of space over here, over my picture, so that's absolutely fine. Let's move that one into the right position like so we're going, then we'll put in some lines on this and a few other little minor bits as well. 20. Add Lines: Now there's a lot of yellow in this. So I'm actually going to go to the text for the menu. And I'm going to change it and I'm going to make it white. So I think I'll choose white for that and white for this. And I think that will look a little bit better with a nice balance of yellows and whites. But as is always the case when you're working on something, somebody says, oh, could you just go and change whatever it is? And I'm going to do that to you as well. I'm going to say, we don't want food of the week, we want to have brunch and lunch. And then we need to split it up somehow, so it's obvious which one is which. We're going to do that with some lines. So I'm going to take food of the week and I'm going to change it to brunch. Let's just pull that in a little bit like so. And that's going to go over here above that one, you see all my little helpful lines that pop up. And I'm going to hold down the old key and make another do this, it's just de selected first. Hold down the alter the option key, drag it to make another copy over there. There we go. I know that's perfectly lined up and this one is going to be lunch. Now, I need some lines to break this all up. I'm going to go along to my elements. I'm going to go to Shapes down here. I'm going to go and choose the lines. Now they are in here somewhere. There we go. Lines and arrows. Click View All. And I want to use this straight line over there. Here's my line. I'm going to click on it in the border. I can then go and choose the colors. I'm just going to sample the color right off the yellow text over here. We can go and change the thickness of that line. So I just want a line that's going to run from here, maybe up to about there. Then another one, Hold down the Alt to the option key. Hold down the Alt to the option key, and drag a copy of that across for the other side there. Actually, this could be done with moving over a little bit, maybe that could move up to there. Then exactly the same. Again, we're going to hold the alter the option key, drag another copy of that, spin it around to 90 degrees, and that's going to go between these over here, you can see it shows me the distance between those two. I can then pull this up until it meets that, and pull this down until it meets the top of that text. 21. PDF & JPG Saving: I'm done with this, I want to save it out. And I'm going to save it in two ways. One way is I'm going to save it because I'm going to be sending it to the cafe and they are going to be printing it out on their own printer. I'm going to go to download for that. I'm going to save it as a PDF. They can also upload this to the website, can be downloaded by people. I'll just choose a download from there. Then once again, when I'm finished with that, I can also go to download and I would download maybe a J peg for their website over here. I'm going to go to all pages. I didn't check that when I did the PDF. You might have caught me out there all pages over there. And once again download the J Peg as well. I'd better do the PDF just in case. Make sure I'm on the PDF all pages and I will just re download that again. It's all done and ready to be passed on to the client or uploaded to the web or wherever you want to put it. I'll just double click to open it up. Over here you can see the whole thing in a PDF document. So there's one and there's page number two over there. And really, I should actually go through and check all my spelling on here. Sometimes when I'm talking, I'm not watching my spelling. So if you see weird words, that's probably why have to go with that and do that two page document. Then try other ones as well using the same techniques. 22. Introduction to Create a Brochure and a Flipbook: This is one of my favorite projects. It's quite a big one. We're going to make a brochure with multiple pages, and I'm going to show you how to lay them out, how to make copies from one page to the next. Then in the end, we're going to take that brochure and we're going to save it out as a PDF. And we're going to also save it out using something called slow. What this does is it allows us to publish it online, but actually have pages which animate. When you click the button, it's really, really good, and I'm sure you'll love it. Let's get started. 23. Create a Cover Page: Let's make a really cool multi page brochure. Now I'm going to go along to Document. I'm going to click on Brochure and I'm going to be creating a brochure from scratch. I will check my size first. I'm going to go to Resize. And 11 by 8.5 I think that'll be absolutely perfect. This particular brochure is not going to be printed out, it's going to be on screen and we're going to do some really cool stuff with it at the end. So I'm happy with that. And what I'm going to do now is to start bringing in a background picture for this first page. So we'll start building the first page and they will copy some of the pages as we go. Now I want to do this brochure about Cyprus. I've got a soft spot for Cyprus. You can do yours about any place which makes you happy or anything that makes you happy. It really doesn't matter, but I'm going to go along and find an image. So I'm just going to search for my photos. I'm going to search for Cyprus. No, not cyber punk or cyber. Let's go Cyprus. There we go. Lots of Cypress pictures. And I'm looking for one as my cover picture because this is my cover page. Really like that one in there. And what I'll do now is just click it and make that the background. I'll set that as a background, and that looks really, really good. Now I want to bring some text in here and I want to have some lines, just some little key lines, which will really make it look a little bit. Well, I mark it for want of a better word. I mean, it already looks great, So let me do my text first. So I'm going to go to the text tool. I'm going to add my text. I'm going to put in Cyprus, and I'm actually looking for a typeface or a font which we, it'll have that nice sort of friendly feeling to it because it is a lovely, friendly island. So I'm just going to view all and see if I can find something which works. I'm looking for more of a hand drawn feel to this. That one's okay, but I might change it shortly. So I'll just go back from recommended and have a look in here and see if there's anything that jumps out. I'm not going to spend too long looking for these. That's what I wanted. Something nice and friendly like that. Then I want to change the color of the text. I'm going to go along to my text color. I want to choose a color based on the documents. I'm going to go to my sample tool and I'm going to go and try and find a goldish color in there, But that's not really gold, so I'm going to go over to custom and see if I can find something a little bit better. Maybe something along that line there might have to be a bit darker. Once again, this is something we can tweak as we go along. Now a quick trick that I do is if you're looking for something like for example, I'm looking for gold there, what I do to find a color is I'll actually go and search for a gold item and then sample from that item. If I go over here and let's say gold, there's so many different colors of gold, you can see I've got an interesting gold over there, so I can just put the gold in. This gives me an idea of what color I'm really looking for. I wasn't too bad. I was fairly close in. Let me go to fill again. I'm going to just sample now off of that and find a nice yellowy color in there. Let's pretty good, we'll just pop that into the sky like so. Then I want two lines, two key lines. So I'm going to go along to my elements. Going down to the shapes, it's going to find the lines and arrows. And the lines over there, it is popped in a quick line. And once again, I can just choose a color. In here, I'll be showing you a little bit more about colors and how you can create your own branding colors later in the course. But I'm just going to sample this gold that I've got in there. I might have to make the line a little bit and I'm going to move it across the top over there. Let's pull that to the other side. I'm going to hold out my option key and just drag that down, so I'll get a second version near the bottom. And that just kind of gives a really upmarket feel. As I said before, I'm still not entirely happy with the text that I've got in here. I might go and change it. I might even sample an experiment with White and see if White works there. No, that doesn't either. But I'll have a play with that while you get to this stage, and I'll tell you which typeface I ended up with as well. 24. Duplicate and Panoramic Image: Let's add a second page. I'm going to go along to add, I'm just going to add a copy of this page. I'm going to say duplicate. I'm going to go and first of all get rid of the picture in the background. I'm going to say detached page background and delete that. You can say I've got my Cypress word in there. I'm going to change the color of that so we can read it in here. And I will use the fill and just sample that gold. Once again, I've got my Island of Dreams in there. Now I'm going to actually go along to these little lines and I'm going to pull one of them across to that side there. I'm going to take this one and pull it across to that side there. Then I'm just going to put a little bit of text next to each of those. I'm going to have Island of Dreams up there. I'm just lining it up with that. And then I'm going to hold down the option or the old key. Make a copy of that. Then this one here will just say Cypress. You can see I changed my tight face over here and I'm now using something called Adore you, which gives me that really nice flowy lines that I was looking for. I'm going to pop that down over there and I'm going to change this word to something else, which is going to be appropriate for the picture, and that's going to be romance. I want to have a picture along the top and then some text about the island down here. Why am I sort of breaking this into these weird bits? Well, I think it will, just having one huge page. I like to sort of have bits of text and then larger words just to give people the idea of what's happening on this page here. So a huge romance in there. They can see the romantic picture and then there's a little bit of text about it. Anyway, let me go and get a picture. I'm going to go to Media. I'm still on Cyprus in there, so I'm going to go and find a picture which will be appropriate for romance. Obviously need some people in it. I presume that one looks absolutely spot on. And I'm going to take this picture, and I'm going to put it over my document like that, We get this really lovely panoramic type of feel to the image. Now remember, you can always double click it and you can move it around if you want. I don't think we actually need to really see their legs. Let's just move that down so we can see a little bit of sunset sky, not the sunset, the sky in there as well. That looks lovely. I'm going to go and get some text. I'll use the text tool. I'm going to add my text in, and I'm going to choose a typeface for this text rather than that little bit of text in there. I'm going to go and choose something. Now, I want this to be very readable and I'm not going to be using one of these two main typefaces that I was working from. I just want something which is going to be very simple and readable. I'm going to try this one over here. I'm going to make my text a lot smaller. I'll just go in here and just reduce it there or put it in like so I've copied some texts so you can just get wherever you like, whether it's from an e mail, from a website, from a Word document. I'm just going to paste my text into there that I've already copied. I think we'll make that a little bit smaller as well, a little bit text like that. I'm going to go and align it using the alignment here to the left. It does look very, very harsh, that text. I might either go in here and see if there is a lighter version of it. When I click in there, it's a light version, which still looks good. But I'm also going to change the color from black. Now normally you have black text, but I'm going to go to custom and just pull that up so until it becomes gray. And once again goes on with a very delicate feel that I'm going for in this particular brochure. Romance is looking a little bit large, so we'll size that down, pop it in the middle over there. And these can be moved around to wherever you want them to go. Anyway, do making your second page here. But remember, make it by, first of all, going up to the ad and making a duplicate. Duplicate. Making a duplicate, so that you've got those lines in the same position as the first page. So when I do that, they will be in the same position as that one over there. 25. New Picture Layout: Now I'd like to actually, just before we make the next page, change the color of these two bits of text. That one and that one. Once again, I'm going to use the gold because I think they'll look a little bit more market that way. There we go. That looks so much better. Now I want another page which is going to be very similar to this. So I'm going to go along and add another page. Duplicate this one, this time. I'm going to get rid of that over there. My text, I'll just move that out the way for the moment. And this one is going to go up there. I'm going to go and do a page about adventure. I'd like to have some divers, I think over here. So I'm going to go into my media and let's do Cyprus shipwreck. We've got some really nice pictures, diving pictures in there. I'm going to start off with this one over here. Bring that in. I'm going to pull that out to about halfway over the page. Something like that there. Then I'm going to do another one. Let's bring in another image. There we go. That's rather a nice one there. Same again. I'm going to do that on this side and pull that over like, so I've just got these two images which are roughly overlapping. I'm looking at this distance there and trying to get it the same. On that side, we've got these lovely blues, which are going very nicely with the gold. Now I'm going to put the text in over here, but I've got some new texts. I'm going to select that over there. Paste in my new bit of text into there. I think that's all the text fits in perfectly, and my page is done. How quick was that? If you find that that is a little bit on the large side, you might take it down just a little bit. Don't take it down too much. Otherwise, you'll notice the difference as you go from page to page. Have to go with your adventure page. Pop that together. 26. Shuffle Pages: Now for my next page. I don't want to use this lout. I'm going to click on this button here to go back to the previous lout. And I'm going to make another copy of this page. I'm going to click the ad button up there and say duplicate this page. I'm going to change this around a little bit so I'm going to have the text, I think on the right hand side, this is going to be on the left hand side. I'm just going to say blue sky, blue skies. I've got some text. I'm going to replace that bit of text. They all selected. You'll notice when I'm clicking on my text, click a few times until it selects. If you just a couple of times it'll select a word. But if you keep clicking, you'll eventually get to select all of the text. I'm going to paste in my new bit of text in there. I need to now change this picture because we don't need this one anymore. And I'm going to go to my media. Let's say Cypress. I'm looking for, once again, a picture which has got a really nice blue sky in there. Something quite gentle. That's rather nice. I want to make sure that it's the same size as that one. I'm actually going to pull that out to that size. Get rid of the big picture in the background, and then just pull this out. Like I think I'm going to double click and pull that down so we don't even see those beach things, we just see the sky over there. That was quick, worked really well. This page now comes before that one in there. If we go up to this little button here, you can see it says this, four pages. I can view all my pages. I'll click on that and it'll show me the pages that I've got so far. I can take page number four and I can drag it to the left of page number three and just re order my pages. Now that makes more sense. 1234, that's looking a whole lot better. Once again, try that out to get out of here. By the way, you can just go and double click on one of your pages to jump back to it as well have a go get another page in. 27. Add 2 Photo Page: Let's create another page. It's going to be a copy of this one, so I'm going to click Add. Duplicate it over there. I'm going to have two pictures in here. I've got some text all about fresh food from Cypress. I'll just select this. Paste my new bit of text in there. You can see by pasting over the last text, it always picks up the same font and color that we had in there. And this is going to say seafood. Then I just want two seafood pictures over here. Once again, I'm going to keep that one there so I can, then I'll just do seafood. I can find the pictures and get them to the right size. Let's see if we can find something that looks rather good. I'm going to place it over there, pull it out, and then I can get rid of the bottom one like So let's have another seafood picture in here. That one will do nicely. Once again, up to the same height, pull it out until they both match. That was a really quick one. If you'd like to do any more pages yourself, by all means add a few more pages. We've just got the back page to do after this one. But can I suggest that your total number of pages is not more than ten for this particular example? Because when we do the flip book, the free version has a maximum of ten pages in it. If you pay for it, you can have more anyway, do another page like this. 28. Exporting to Flow Paper: Now for the last page, I actually want to go back and use the first page up here. Because I want those lines going across top and bottom. I'm going to just click on that. Let's click a picture by mistake. I'm going to duplicate this page. I'm going to create a duplicate of it on my duplicate. I'm going to get rid of this back picture that I've got in here. So I'm going to say detached background picture. Delete it. This little bit of text, It's going to go in the middle. I'll get rid of that cypress in white and I will just change it to gold. Let's go to Phil and use this gold up here. Once again, that's it. I have to put in a little bit in here about the freedom of speech. I'm going to do the same thing again with some text. Now to do my text, if I go into my text, click on the text, add the text, and you can see it's so big in there. I'm going to just undo that. I'm going to go to another page where I've got some text on already. Hold down the option key and make a copy of that. Select all the text in there and paste my new text into that one. So now I can copy this text frame O, copy that. Or cut it, to be honest. Probably better if I just cut it. Go back to this page and paste it in over there. So this bit of text, I think really should actually, because it's going right in the middle, be center aligned like. So just a little bit of text about their freedom of speech act. So I'm going to change this over there to Freedom. And I think the Cypress logo I'm just going to make very small and pop in the corner like sir. Now of course we go back to our pages and this is in the wrong position, so I'm going to drag it down, drop it after page six, so that now becomes my end page over here. That's page six there, 54321. All ready to go Now, this is the fun part. I'm going to go back to the document, I'm going to go along to the add ons and I'm going to find a little add on in here which will allow me to make this into a document which has got pages that will flip in a sort of a three D manner. Of course, if you don't want to do that, you can just go straight to download and download it as a PDF. That's absolutely fine, but I'm going to use the flow paper and you can see mine is installed. If it's not installed, you might have to click the install button over here. It just shows you a preview of it. Now in the past, I have had a few problems with the preview not happening. And I've actually had to restart Express to just get it to work. So if it doesn't appear in there, don't worry too much. You can just get to restart. Or you can actually go to flow papers website and take your PDF and do it directly within flow paper itself. But I've got that. I'm going to say export to flow paper. It just takes a moment to export it. What it'll do then is take us into an area where we can actually adjust how the three D thing works. And there's different ways in flow paper that you can get it to work, right? Well, now it's done. I'm going to click Explore Flow Paper. And that will open up a new tap and it's importing it via Adobe Express into Flow paper. You can see the website is Flow Paper.com over there. It's just going through all my pages, optimizing them, and then bring it in. Now this is flow paper and there's so many things that you can do, but I'm going to leave it on the default. But let's have a look at how this works. If I go over here and click from one page to the next, you can see how it just opens this document beautifully like that. You can have a maximum of ten pages in here in the trial version over there. If you want more, you can of course upgrade in there. But I'm going to publish this now. I'm going to go over to the top right hand corner. I'm going to click the published button and I'm going to do cloud hosted for there. I'll just start the upload. It's now publishing it online. Then when it's done, it'll give me a little link over here. This is the link I could send. I'll just copy that link in there. And I can get rid of this. I can send that link now to anybody that I like. Here's the link over there and this is what they will see. They'll see the document there when they click on it, they'll get this lovely page flow like so. 29. N8 web page: Let's create a quick and simple web page, which is going to be a supporting page for our document. I'm going to click the plus button. I'm going to scroll all the way down to the bottom, and then up a little bit until I get to web page. Now this takes us into a new area. You can see over here, we've got this big gray area there. That's where I can put in my hero picture. Now for my main document I use Cyprus. I'm going to click on Photo and then go and find Cyprus pictures in here. Do bear in mind though that these pictures change all the time. Adobe keeps updating them, adding more, subtracting some. Yours might not always be exactly like mine are. I've found the same one that I've used there. I'm going to click on that and add that one in to the background. Now it really is a bit fuzzy and out of focus. It will update soon. It's just updating itself. You can see the little thing going round and round. I'm going to add some text in here. I'm going to add a subtitle as well. Then we've just got to sit and wait for that background to update itself. Let's go scroll down a little bit. What we're going to do on the next bit down is we're going to add some more content. I'm going to add a split layout. You can see on the left here it says as your image. I'll click on that, and once again I'll choose Cyprus. I think I'm going to go with that. It's a bit different, but it looks really good. Then on the right hand side, I click on the Plus. And then I can choose either to have another photo there or text a button, a gift, or a video. Well, I'm going to put some text in there. I've copied a bit of text, so I'm going to paste that text straight in there. Let's move down again. I'm going to click on the Plus. This time I'm going to put in a video. I'm going to choose a video in there. I'm going to go a copy the RL. Go back, paste the URL in there, and click on Save there. We've got the video in the document. We can just keep going. I can click over here and I can add all sorts of things. We've got things like photo grids where you can have multiple photos in there, a glide show where the images will slide over each other. You can just experiment with various parts of this. Now I'm going to go along to the top and have a quick look at one of these little buttons. There's like a little magic wand over here. Now this is for themes. You can see I've got a certain theme going on there with that particular text. If I click on the theme option, it gives me more themes in here that I can choose from. If I thought something a bit more heavy duty might work, I click on that theme over there. Personally, I don't like that dark background. I'm going to go with the crisp over there. It's a bit more modern with the white background behind it. There are ways where you can actually create your own theme. If you click on Create a New Theme, you can make a full theme in here with H1h2, your headers and your paragraph text styles in there as well. Just click on them. Go in and you can change them in here, including the color of the text as well. I'm going to just click back again. Over here you'll notice that it does say head and foot to customization is coming soon. This will be something else that they'll add in. I'm going to cancel that and go back to my document. Now, finally, I want to share this. I'm going to click on the Share button. This will then allow me to publish it to the web. I click Publish the Web, and I can give it a title if I want. I'm going to call it Island of Dreams in there, putting credits if I wish. And I'm going to click on Create Link. Now this is publishing my project, and it will give me a URL link. So I can then send that to somebody else. Let me just copy that over there. We could also publish it onto Facebook, linked in, et cetera, but I've copied that link in there. Let's go and have a look at that. And this will be live. Now, I'll just make a new browser window, paste it in, press return. Here is my website. Absolutely live. And I can then just scroll up and you can see the whole thing works, including the video that will then play. Let's just go back again over that. Do try that out. Don't forget to click on the Share button and add a URL link in there. 30. Well Done & Thank You!: You got to the end of the intermediate level, that is fantastic. I'm sure you're creating incredible work now. But go on to the next level and we've got some really good stuff for you in there. But don't forget, leave us a review because it helps us to help you with better courses.