Next Level Adobe InDesign CC

1. Introduction to this Next Level InDesign Course: Hi, my name is Tim Wilson. I'm the senior trainer at retro-rockets studio. I would love to help you to create beautiful and professional looking documents in Adobe InDesign. Now, not only have I trained for some of the world's leading companies, including BBC, Nisan, Disney, Adobe. But I've also spent many years as a university lecturer in Graphic Design. If you want to learn Adobe InDesign, this is the course for you. This course takes you on to more advanced features. Speed up your workflow. I'll be showing you tons of pro tips and tricks throughout the course, giving you all the skills you need to make beautiful InDesign documents. I'll take you to everything step-by-step. You're not left on your own with this course. I'll be there to help you. Throughout the course. I've put together projects for you. And these will help you to practice what you've learned and cement all the information into your memory. You can of course, use these projects for your own portfolios. Here's some of the real-world projects that will be working through. Multi-page documents, Interactive documents, as well as using InDesign to create icons and logos. Right through to complex infographics. Start right now, I can't wait to help you to learn Adobe InDesign 2. Introduction to Customize InDesign: Into the more advanced parts of InDesign. And we're going to start looking at customization. We're going to customize your interface. We're going to look at how you can set up your own Shortcuts. And we're gonna go into the preferences as well a bit, basically making InDesign how you wanted to be, not what the Essentials gives you 3. Custom Workspaces: Let's have a look at getting InDesign to look how you want to look, and we will customize it. The first thing we're going to do is to look at the layouts. So there's nothing wrong with the layout that they give you. We've been working with the Essentials Layout. And that's great because that's got properties, has got pages, it's got the libraries in there as well. But maybe there's some other things that you want to have up all the time. So I'm going to go along to the Window menu. And for example, I might want to always have my Pathfinder app Over there. And maybe the Pathfinder I want to put in with something else. I'll, I'll go to the libraries and I'm going to drag the Pathfinder and I'm going to drop it in with the libraries now I'm going to just go above that over there. So you can see I can place it in. Obviously, if I go to pages and properties that's still in there at the same time. Let me put my alignments in there as well. So I'm just going to once again take them in and I'm going to drop them right at the top over there. You can move things around as you want. Now, maybe I also prefer to have my tools in a different way. I'd like to have the tools like that. And I want to put them up the top over there. Now that I've got this layout, I can go to the Window menu down to workspace, and I can go then and make a new workspace. I'll just call this. Tim's weird. Because it is a bit strange space. You can call it anything you like. But you'll notice here that it actually gives you or captures the panel locations and any menu customization we're going to come to menu customization later on. So remember any menu customizations you can have specifically in a workspace, because you can have different menu setups with different workspaces. I'm going to click Okay, so now how does this work? Well, let's say, for example, that I went back to my essentials workspace and I'm just going to reset it over there. And I've moved around a little bit like that and they suddenly think, oh, I'll use the other workspace. Well, I can go to Windows workspace. There it is, right at the top, Tim's weird workspace. And it will just take it to how I had it or how I saved it. But of course, if I start moving things around in this workspace, I can still go back to window workspace and I can reset, in my case, Tim's weird space, back to how I saved it. Now I did make that into quite a weird space. So I'm going to go along to my essentials and just reset essentials in there. You can always delete workspaces. So if you go to the Window menu workspace, you can go down here to delete workspace, choose the one you want to get rid of, and click delete, and it's gone. To try that out, have a bit of a go, and make a workspace that works for you. 4. Custom Shortcuts: Let's have a look at what we can do with the menus and the Shortcuts. I'm going to go along to the Edit menu. And I'm going all the way down to the bottom two keyboard shortcuts. Now, mine is just off the screen, but it is called the keyboard shortcuts. When you go to look at yours, I'm going to choose that. And then what we have, our different sets of keyboard shortcuts. So for example, if you're, Shortcuts are in a different language, you could then or your keyboards in different language, you could choose different Shortcuts in here. You could, even for example, if you are coming from the Quark Express stable, you could use Quark Express Shortcuts in there or pacemaker. Now I'm on defaulted the moment. And in here I can see all the Shortcuts. Now I have to go to the area. So this is, for example, the application menu. But let's say that I was trying to change something in the Object menu. I would just in the top here, go down to the Object menu. And then I can see all my shortcuts in the Object menu. So down here, I could then go into something like Arrange and bring forward or send to back that you can't change the default set that urine. It just won't allow you to. What you have to do is you have to make a new set. So I'm going to just change my shortcut in here, but I'm going to do that by making a new set. So I'll click the New Set button over here. I need to give it a name, so I'm going to call it Tim's new set, Tim's test that we go, Let's go with test. And I'm basing it on my default set. So I'll click Okay, and I'm now in Tim's test. And all of the settings are still the same as the default, but it now allows me to make changes. So if I go to the application menu or the product area, shall I say, I'm going to go down over here to the Object menu. And I'm going to go and change, bring forward over there. Now, you can see that the default shortcut is Command Plus the right square bracket. Now, I can keep that as, as I liked or I could change to something else. Now, if you're on a Mac, sorry, on a PC, that'll be control and the square bracket. But if I want to change it, Let's say for example, that command and square bracket, I want to do Shift Command a square bracket. I can click on that. I can remove it. And then down here, I can put in my new shortcut. So I'll use Command Shift and right square bracket in there. You can see it says it's currently assigned to arrange Bring to Front over there. So it's actually assigned to that one already. So then I'd have to think, okay, well, I can't do that. Let's try something else. So if I just assigned it over there, and then winter this one. And once can you can see now that I've gone to bring to front or bring forward. So bring forwards is Shift Command. And that one, Bring to Front doesn't have anything assigned. Send backwards is Command and left square bracket. Send to back is Shift Command and square bracket. What I'm getting at here is you can assign whatever you like in the Shortcuts. But do bear in mind that a lot of them will have been taken up already. And if you use one of those, you will then delete the one that is being used at the time. Now, if you've done this and you then think, oh, I want to get rid of that set that I've created because I've made a complete mess. What I can do is I can go along here to just delete set. And that'll just delete that Shortcuts set. I would just click. Okay, I'm going back to my default set in there. Have been of a play with that, but do make a new set that you can just mess around with. Dried out 5. Customize Menu: Let's go back to the Edit menu and I'm going to go all the way to the bottom. And once again, I'm very aware that you cannot see the item that I've gone too, because my screen is just not recording the whole thing, but it's the word Menu at the bottom of the edit menu. So I'm going to go to menus. And what this does is it allows me to change my menus along the top. So first of all, I'm in the default set in here, so the InDesign defaults over there. Let's just make sure that we are actually in that set there. So I mean, InDesign defaults in there. And over here I've got the category, and I've got the application menus or I've got the context and Panel Menus. So as the, as you open up your panels, you get a little Menu drop-downs in there. And then this is my main menu that you see along the top. So I wanted to change some of these things. So I'm going to go along to the Object menu. And let's say, for example, that in a range, and I'll click on a range, I don't use bring forward or send backwards very much at all. So what I can do is I can hide those two. Just that I've got bring to the front and send send to the back available. Now to make it even more interesting, I think I'd like to highlight sent to the back because maybe I use that quite a lot. So I'll click in the color. I can then give it a color. Let me give that red over there. Let me do another one over here. So I'm going to just close that one down a little bit over there. Go to Object. And I'm going to go along to File. And I'm going to highlight save. So I'm going to have save in a color. And it's make that blue in there so I can see it very, very quickly. I'll click Okay. And now you'll see that if I go to the Object menu and arrange, you'll see I've only got bring to the front and center the back and sent to the back is this pinkish color. But if you want to see all the items particular the ones that I've hidden, you can say show all menu items. And it'll go back to how it is normally. You'll also see now if I go to file that I've got Save in blue. So this is quite nice feature because the things you use quite a lot, you can just give them a color so it's easy to find them very, very quickly. And then of course, you can hide the things that you barely use at all and customize your whole menu system. Try that out. Once you've had a bit of a go with that, remember, you can always go back in to the menus. And if you don't like it, you can just go back to your InDesign defaults in there. So I've just gone back to my InDesign defaults. Click Okay, and you can see if I go to Object and Arrange, it's back to normal and once again, save. It doesn't have the blue on it anymore. Remember, when we were actually making new Workspaces in here, and I'm just going to go to New Workspace there. One of the options was, do you want to include the Menu customization? And that's what we've just done. 6. Preferences: Let's look at the preferences. Now. If you go up, if you're on a Mac, you'll preferences will be in the InDesign Menu and you'll find them there. If you're on a PC, you'll go to Edit and your preferences will be at the bottom. I'm on a Mac, so I'm going to go to file a to the InDesign drop-down and choose preferences there. Let's have a look at a few of the preferences. There are so many of them in here. It honestly doesn't matter which one of these you choose, because you'll still be able to get to them on the left-hand side over there. Now, I'm going to go to the interface because that's what we're looking at. We're customizing the interface. And you can see that I can then choose different colors for the themes in here. And I'm going to keep mine on this of darkish gray because I find that's easier for me, but it's entirely up to you. What do you want to do? You can just work your way through all of these options and have a look and see what is there. For example, in the interface and scaling, I could change my interface size over here, so that might tools and everything were, were bigger. Likewise, I can have the anchor points bigger or smaller. Some of them which are quite useful, units and increments. And you can see that the rulers, in my case, in millimeters, if you find that your zones some, something else that you don't get on with, just change them into millimeters. The Stroke in my cases in points. But if you prefer millimeters, feel free to change that. We've got grids in here and we've got something called the baseline Grid. Now, we're gonna be covering the baseline Grid later on in this course. But there's also a Document Grid in here as well. Now, once again, try changing the colors. Switch on your, on your grid and see if you like it or not. There's no right or wrong here. These are your own personal preferences. So plenty more down here for you to have a look at. Just check them out. We will be coming back into here as we go through the course. But try to few which are obvious 7. Introduction to Document Changes: An important part of creating Document is to be able to re-size it for different uses. For example, you might create an A3 document, and then all of a sudden you needed to be a five, but you want to be landscape and not portrait. So I'm going to show you how you can go about that and also about creating alternative Layouts. So we've got quite a few things in here, and it's a fairly short section. 8. Resize Document: Let's have a look at changing the size of an existing document. So this is a very simple one-page document, which is portrait. And I want to make it landscape. Now, if I go to my Properties, I could go over here and just click on the landscape button. But what that does, it changes the page, not the content. So by clicking that, I'm just changing my pages size or orientation to landscape. Likewise, I could go in here and choose A3. And you'll see exactly the same thing. It's made it a three in there. Now I'm going to undo those two because that doesn't really do much for me. So what I'd like to do now is instead of actually using the properties here, I wanted to go to File and down to not the document setup because the document setup is the same as what we've just done in properties. But to adjust layout. Now, when we get to adjust layout, over here, I've got things are like the page size, which in my case is set to A4. And I want to make that a five, so it's going to be much smaller. Now, I also want to change the orientation to landscape. And then I'm going to go down here. I'm going to leave the bleed exactly the same, but I'm going to adjust the font sizes as well. So when, because we're scaling this down, obviously the font only to fit in, so we're scaling them down. But this is an important thing. If you switch on set font size limit, you can say, well, my fonts are gonna get smaller, but I don't want anything to go down to smaller than six points. So if you imagine you've got a A4 document, you are having the size by going down to a five. If you've got ten point type on there, all of a sudden that type could become five points. So this will make sure that nothing gets smaller than six points because it's almost what's very difficult to read anything smaller than six points. So I'm going to click Okay on there. And you can see how to just change my document and everything has been set up. So it looks correct. Let me do that again. I'm going to undo that Control Z or Command Z to undo. And once again File down to adjust layout. And this time I'm going to go the other way. So instead of A4, I'm going to go to a three and I'll keep it the same orientation. Adjust font size. I definitely want I will switch this on, although to be honest, I don't need it for this because everything is actually just getting bigger. And I'll make sure that I adjust not locked content as well, just in case I've locked anything, I want to make sure it gets it gets adjusted to. I'll click Okay. And we'll zoom out a little bit over here. And you can see now I'm on an A3 document. If I just select a bit of text here, you can see that my type size is 20.2 points. Whereas if I undo this and go back to the A4 document and click in there, my type size was 14 points in there. So try this out. This is unbelievably useful. Being able to just adjust the size and the format of a document and still have things looking reasonable. Now, just to warn you, it doesn't work every single time. There are some times where you might still have to go in and juggled things around a little bit. But it gets you most of the way there. Try it out. 9. Page Tool & Liquid Layout Basics: Another way to change the size of a page is to use something called Liquid Layout. And the page Tool. If I go up to the page Tool now that is 123 down on the left-hand side and click it. You'll see I get a little handles around my page. I can actually just pull out that page to change the size. What's really strange when you first do this as you pull it out and you go, I want a page exactly that size and you let go and it just snaps back to the original document. If you wanted to stay over there, hold down. On the Mac, it's the Option key on the PC, it's the Alt key before you let go, and that will then stay at that size. Now, I'm going to undo that because you can see the problem is that nothing is happening to my content. Well, if we go along to Layout menu, we've got an option here called Liquid Layout. And at the moment, this says controlled by Parent. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go over to scale. And now you'll see when I do this, the content will actually scale around on the page as well. Once again, let go, it will snap. I could also do another one here called object-based, and you'll see if I pull this one out now how the objects themselves will just move around at the same time. Hold down the Alt or the Option key if you want to keep them exactly where they are. Dried out 10. Alternative Layouts: What about if I wanted to have two different layouts? So I wanted to have a vertical and horizontal version of this document. Well, if I go along to the Pages panel over here, you can see I've got one version which is my vertical version. I can then go across to my layout and I can create an alternative layout. And this one here is going to be my horizontal version. I'm going to click on Horizontal in there, keeping the page the same size. Then what do I want to do with the lout of that page where I can either use Scale or I can use in my case, guide based or object-based re, ordering of the objects. And I'm going to click Okay, so now I've got to Layouts. So we have got this layout here, and I've got this Layout which is down the bottom over then you can see how it's pulled the page around still needs a little bit of work to fix it. So I might have to then start to move these things around and get them sort of looking as I would like them to look. Now, once I've done that and I've just got everything as I wanted. I'm going to just move that across there. I think. And this picture can go in the corner there. I think my texts might need to move across a little bit as well. It's not ideal, but with a little bit of work, I could get that looking. Okay. Let's just take that picture, pop it in there, and I'm going to scale it. So right, So if I'd done that and I thought, Okay, that's great. I'm happy with what I've got in here. It's just that one little red orange line that I think needs to move across as well. Now, I then realize on my main layout that this shouldn't be called architectural news. It should be called Architectural Digest or something else. I can change this one over here. This is the Parent Layout. I, if I change this one to architect digest, so I'll just use DIG. There. Now look what happens down here. You can see this still says architectural news, but there's a big warning symbol there. If I click on the warning symbol, it will just update the text on the other one as well. 11. Page Shuffle & Create a Tri-Fold Document: I'd like to create a Brochure which has got folds in it. Now, there are two ways I could go about this. I could create an A4 document was to Pages. And I'm going to switch facing pages off. And ever here, this is going to be landscape. So what will happen now is I've got two pages like this. And then the document is going to be printed and then folded into three sections. So I could try and then for my own Layout, figure out exactly which bit of these I want for which folded section. And I'll probably do that by taking a guide from the ruler here. Now, I've worked out that this is 297 over there. So I could then take this up and get it exactly as I needed. So one-third there, the next third over here. I've got quite good, quite in the right place, but you get the general idea. So I can just divide this into three sections. Then the next problem is that I need margins that would go over there and there to help with my design. You can see this as getting to be a lot of fiddling around in a lot of work. So there's a much better way to create a document like this. I'm going to close that down and I'm not going to save it. And I'm going to go to New File. And I'm going to create the document to the right size for just one of those folds. So in here, I'm going to take this out and I'm going to make this over here. That's Chapter nine to 6 mm. I'm going to make this the size for DL, the width for deal. Now, it depends on the printers. You might have to look into that to see exactly what it's going to be. But I'm going to put in 99 for now. And it's got a height of 210. And I just wanted to one page. And I'm going to go portrait for that. I'm going to click on Create. And there's my first page. Now I want to bring in some more Pages and I want these pages to be next to each other. Now, if you were to bring in a page in the Pages panel, Over here, we drag a page in and I drop it, and I try and drop it next to that page. You'll see a kind of goes next to the page and just dropped down over there. So the first thing we need to do is to make sure that we have got our Allow Document Pages to Shuffle, switched off. And then when I drag this in and put it next to that page, you can see how this a little icon just appearing. I can actually drop that page next to that one. I can do the same with this one. Over here. I've got three pages next to each other. And I can do the next page down here and just do 12.3. So just be careful where you're dropping those is again, to make a new document or not, because we've got to allow Pages to Shuffle switched off. These won't be a problem. You can just drag and drop them next to each other. And this is the same technique that would used if we were doing a document with a Fold-out page in the middle. So now I can just Design on individual pages here or put an image all the way across. All of them. Send it out to the printer and tell them exactly what I want. And obviously it's going to be printed and folded accordingly. 12. Introduction to Next Level Typography: Earlier on in the course, we looked at simple text. We're now going to delve into the deep bits. Haven't you look at a lot of the settings which we glossed over before. So hopefully this will take you a Text stuff to a whole new and deep level. 13. The Character Panel: Let's bring in some texts and have a look at the Character panel. Now, I'm going to go and get some text from a Word document. So I've just copied some text here. And I'm going to use my Type tool, just the standard one. There. You'll see this two of them. And click and drag a text frame in here and paste my text straight in. So we're going to go and look at the Character panel in the properties first of all. And if you can't find it in here, you'll find that if you go to the Window menu, you can also go down to Type and Tables and you can find the same character Panel there. Or you can go to the Type menu and you'll find this a Character panel here as well, and they pretty much look the same. Now, you'll notice that there's a few more things in this one here. And that's only because in here they're hidden. Click on those three dots to show all of the options. The options that we've got down the bottom here can be gotten in this little panel by going to the top. And that's where I can choose things alike, caps, small caps, all caps, etcetera. Now I'm going to go to the title over here, select that title and I'm going to increase the size of the Fonts. I'm going to go with 36 points and I'll just center it in the middle. So tracking is all about changing the distances between a whole bunch of characters like that. So I can just increase the distance or I can decrease the distance in here and we can just go to false, a negative figure like that. I'm just going to take it up. So I'm going to go with the hundred in there. I quite like it for titles it gives things are very cinematic, important type of feel for larger titles. You probably wouldn't want to do it on your body texts because when you do, and let's just say for example, we made that 200. It just becomes so very difficult to read as you can see over here. I'm going to undo that. Just go back to there. So just be careful with that. Now, there are other uses for it as well. So for example, I've got a paragraph over here. And you can see the word saying is just sitting all by itself over there. And I want to make this a bit cleaners. I want either to have more words on that line. So maybe and day sailing. Or I just want to absorb that word into these three lines here. So I can very subtly change the tracking to do that, you can see as I increase the tracking just a little bit, I can actually get more words on that line. Or I could go the other way and decrease it just a little bit until the word sailing goes into there. But you don't want to do too much because otherwise you're going to find that the text will look a bit strange. But just occasionally like this, you can do it. You often find that people talk about widows and orphans where you have little words or by themselves. And this is one way to get around that problem. To the left of that we have the kerning. Kerning is the distances between individual characters. If I go and I'm going to zoom into this little bit at the bottom where it says from Wikipedia, that's where this bit of text comes from. Creative Commons. Zoom right into that. Sorry about this. The text is going all over the place. I can change the distances between individual characters. So over here I can go between the high and the K. Just put my cursor between those two. And then I can go over here to my Kerning. And I can either increase that distance or I can decrease that distance. In there. You can see it's a very, very fine and subtle distance. Now we're going to use that later on when we bring in things like copyright symbols and we do fractions, we'll use that to manipulate how our characters are sitting. Below that we've got two options, horizontal and vertical scaling. That's these ones over here. If I took the word Wikipedia, I could actually scale it vertically. Parking fact that I forgot to do the a, and I can also scale it horizontally as well so I can make it tall and narrow. Remember with these two here, you're actually changing the shape of the type. And you might end up make it look really bad because it wasn't designed at that shape. To start off with two more options down here. One of which is incredibly useful. If I take a word like that or I could do it on individual characters as well. I'm going to take the word commons. I can use this. This is called the baseline shift and I can actually move it above or below the baseline. Then to the right of that we've got shearing where we can actually Angle things around a bit like italic. But you can go either way, so I can do a negative on there to get it to go that way. Lastly, for the moment, we've got the spell checker language down here. We'll come to some of these other bits shortly, but have a bit of a look at those. Try them out, make it a bit of a mess of your text doesn't really matter. You can always bring it in again and make sure that you feel comfortable with what those things are doing. 14. Character Panel & Glyphs: Let's have a look at some more options. I'm going to go up to the word sailing. And I'm just going to select it over there in the Character panel down the bottom, we've got something where we can make everything, all capitals, or we can go with smaller Caps as well. So the main capital is a bigger Caps, and then the rest are smaller Caps in there. We've also got superscript and subscript. So for example here, if I wanted to trademark the word sailing and if I had TM, After that, I could select that. And I could use a superscript to make it small and go up, or subscript to make it small and go down. Lastly, I'll just get rid of that. We've also got the ability to underline in here or strike through the middle. Now you might find that some of these things in here seem a little bit, well, not that delicate. And you're going to find that there's more options than we're showing at the moment. And when we go into the styles, we'll be looking at more of these options in here so you can do a lot more with the characters. But for now, let's move over to a special character, or special characters. Let's say, for example, that I wanted to find a word over here. And maybe the, a head, two little dots on the top. Sorry, I said word, I'm in a letter. I've got sailing and there's two little dots right at the top there. How do I find that particular letter? Well, what do you can do is you can go up to the Type menu and find Glyphs there. Or you can go to the Window menu and go down to Type and Tables and you can find Glyphs in there. Either way, it's exactly the same thing. So what we have in here is all of the characters for the font that you're into. I'm in Montserrat at the moment. And this shows me every single option for months rat in there. If you were in times that which are you all the options for times. And then I can just go and look for that particular character over there. So I want an a over here. So we've got some A's at some shapes on them. I think I might need to find the lowercase ones. There we go. There's an a with a two little dots. That's what I want. I've highlighted the as I could just double-click and it will replace it for me. So this is a fast way of working. It's also great when you're looking for things which otherwise are more difficult to find. For example, if I was looking for a registration mark, you know, the little are in a circle. Well, once again, I can go in here and I can find the R or registration mark there it is over there. Double-click and it brings it in. Now of course that's too big so I can select it over here, go over to my character Options, and then choose superscript to make it small. And go up. Don't forget when you get your you think, oh, that's a little bit to a bit low. I could actually still go in here and I could use my baseline shift to force it up even further. I can click between those two characters. And I could use my kerning to move it closer together so I can just move it in like that. Now, in here we've got so many different options and it really depends on the font that you're actually in. A monster. It's got lots of options in here. It's, for example, if I need something like a simple fraction, there are Simple fractions in there. But what about if I wanted to create something which was maybe not quite so simple in terms of fractions. So I'm going to go down here. And after Creative Commons, I'm going to put in a little fractions. I'm going to click down here and zoom right in. And we move across a little bit there. I'm going to click after Creative Commons. And I'm going to put in five-sevenths. I don't know why, but I have so what I can do is I can take the five and I can go to my superscript, and I can take the seven, and I can go to my subscript. Now, that's not a very nice-looking fraction that the five maybe could do with going up a little bit. The seven could definitely come up a little bit more. But of course, at this stage, I can just go in, select the seven. And I'm going to zoom in a bit. Difficult to select these things when you are far out. So I'm going to go to the seven and select the seven. And I can use my baseline shift to just move it up a bit into the right position. Once again, the five, if I needed to move that, I could select that, maybe up just a fraction. Then I could take the five and click between the five and the forward slash and use something like kerning to move them closer together. Maybe with a seven. I'll put that in just a little bit as well. Do have a bit of a play with this. Try out these little buttons. They're pretty obvious. But the thing that's less obvious, but far, far more useful sometimes, is going to Type and finding Glyphs. And this will show you all of the characters for the font that you're in. I'm in Montserrat, so it show me all the characters for the font that I'm in. When you want to use one, you can either click and drag over the character that you want to replete, Replace. You just double-click the one that you want. Or you can click between characters. Once again, double-click in here to get that character dropping in the right place. And if you find that you're not seeing what you want in this particular typeface. Well, let me just click over there. And I can just go and change to a different typeface completely. I'll go to movie. I'm seeing all of Boolean here. Once again, I can just choose one of those characters. Have a play with those, get used to them. And especially nowhere Glyphs are 15. Paragraph Panel Align & Indent Text: Let's look at some of the paragraph options. I'm going to select all the text in here, and I'm going to go down to paragraph. Now, once again, you might not see all of these options, but if you press the little button with the three dots that will show you all of them. Or you can get it from the Window menu or from the Type menu, like we did with the characters. Now, what do we have here? Along the top are the alignments. So I don't want to select the title. I just want to select all of this text in here. And with my alignments, I've got Align, Left, central line, right align, or pretty straightforward. Then we've got all lines justified. So what it's doing is it's taking all the lines here and making sure they all go right way across on both sides, except for the final line. Now let me show to you on one paragraph. Select that again. Over there so you can see the final line over here from a moving vessel is aligned over to the left. If I do this one, it's aligned to the middle. If I do that one, it's aligned to the right. Or we can use this one here, which aligns up all of them. So all the lines are lined up. But unfortunately what it's done is it moved the text around so it's no longer very readable. You'll see if I just undo that. If I were to undo that and then select all the text and zoom in a little bit over here and use this one. Sometimes you get very big gaps between the text. Sometimes it's really close together as well. So you need to be very careful if you're going to use this one. Because it can look a little bit strange. But of course, it's entirely up to you. Now moving down a little bit, the next thing that we have is the ability to Indent the paragraphs. And once again, this works on a paragraph by paragraph basis. So if I were to just select this paragraph here, you can see I can go along and I can Indent that paragraph from the left or I could indented from the right. Indent from the right makes more sense if you're aligned to the right. But it can be done from both ways. Let me just reset that back to zero. The other thing we can do below that is to Indent just the first line. So over here, I can Indent that, but if text in there, now I'll just take that back again. I'm going to take that back to zero. So one of the ways that people differentiate between paragraphs is by having the first line indented. So you, as you're reading through, you can see, oh, it's indented, it's a new paragraph. Once again, some people like that, some people don't. The other thing we can do though, is we can Indent the text and leave the first-line set next to the margin. So let me just select all this text again over there. And I'm just going to go here and type in zero again. So what I can do is I can Indent the text, all the text in there. I'm going to go with 8 mm. But then I can go back to the first-line and I can put in minus eight. So it will move the first-line back to the beginning. You can't go further than the edge of your Text Frame. You'll see if I go one more. So I go to minus nine. Remember, my Indent is eight. If I try and go minus nine, it just comes up with invalid Indent value over there. Once again, we can also Indent the last line over there. Try those out, see how you get on, make sure that you understand what they are actually doing. And then we'll move on to the other option down here. 16. Paragraph Panel: Space Before, Space After, Drop Caps, Border & Shade, Hyphenate: My paragraphs are really close together. So in the paragraph options, I'm going to move down. And I've got a space above or a space below option. And if I increase the space above, what it does is it increases the space above all of the paragraphs. Now, I'm happy with what I've got there, but I never want to go and change the title of this heading over here. So I can then go across to the right, which increases the space. After. Now, could I move that bit of texts down by increasing the space before? No, I couldn't because it won't actually change the spacing unless this text above it. So these two options are really useful for just adjusting your text and the distances between your paragraphs. Let's go into this first paragraph here. Moving down a little bit in the paragraph options, just going to scroll down here. And this little option here is called Drop Caps. Now it's set to zero at the moment. And because I've got my cursor in this first paragraph, if I choose one, nothing will happen. I haven't actually told you what it does yet, but when I do too, you'll see straight away, it's going to take the first letter there and make it two lines. Hi. If I go to three, that first it will become three lines hi for, and I can just keep going like that. Now, not one queen change the height of those Drop Caps, but we can also choose how many characters we want to effect. So I could actually have the whole word sailing in there, maybe make that three lines. Hi, I think that looks awful. I'm going to go back to one letter in there and just make it two or three lines highlights. So no right or wrong. Just do what you think works for your Document. We can also, if I clicked in this paragraph here, put some shading around a paragraph. We can go along to paragraph and we could put a border around it. And you'll find in here you can change the colors of those two. Lastly, down the bottom, we have hyphenation. Now there's a lot more to hyphenation than just switching it on and switching off. And we'll be looking at this when we do our Styles. But for now, if I just select all of my Text and I'm going to go and switch hyphenation off. There's no hyphenation on my document at all. It's a personal thing as to whether you want hyphenation or not. As I said later, we'll be looking at how we can actually change it. So we only Hyphenate very long words. If you wish. Try these ones out there. 17. Baseline Grid: I've just brought that Text and again, and I've got it to go from flowing from one column into the next over there. Now, the issue that you can see is the second column here. It doesn't, the text doesn't quite line up with the text on the left. Now, I could sit here for a long time and try and get it absolute exact. Or I could just use an option which is a grid. I'm going to select all of my texts in here. And I'm going to go along to the paragraph and switch on this little grid here. It's called the base line Grid. And when I switch it on, you'll see that the texts will just immediately jump down. Now, if I start to move this up a little bit and I'm just going to do this one here. You can see the text tries to remain perfectly aligned to the other bit of text. Now this seems absolutely fine and really nice and easy to do. The problem is, if I then go in here, select all my text. I'm just going to select all my text in there. And I change my, the size of my text from ten points to 12 points. Look at that. The type has just jumped and we've got big gaps between it. So I think, Okay, no problem, I know what to do. I'll go over here to my distances between the text called the letting. And I'll just reduce it. And it's called reduces, but it's a bit too close because that's 12 point text with 11-point letting, that doesn't really work. Let's try that again. 12 points, not so good. 14 Points and it jumps again. So what's actually happening in here with the text? Well, what we need to do is we need to look and see the baseline Grid itself so that you can see where that Grid is. And I'm going to go to the View menu. I'm going down to my guides and grids, and I'm going to show the baseline Grid. And there it is in then you can see the text is going to every second line in there. So the reason it's jumping is because of the size of this baseline Grid. So we can change the baseline Grid. And I'm going to do that by going to my preferences. Now I'm going up to InDesign Preferences. If you're on a PC, you would go to Edit and Preferences. I'm going to go down over here to my grids. This is where I can change the size of that baseline Grid. So remember, at the moment that baseline Grid is set to 12 points. So when I've got 12 point text in there, and I've set my distances between the lines, the lending to 14. Well, it goes well, there's not enough room, so it just goes to every second line. If I were to increase this to 14, technically it should be 14.4 because that's 20 per cent on 12. But I'm just going to say 14. Click. Okay. And you can see now that the, we select all the text again. The type is 12 and the lettering is 14. So it'll all work absolutely fine. Of course, if I increase this to 14 and change this to 18, it will just jump to every second line once again. So just be aware of that. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to using the baseline Grid, I just wanted to give you an idea of how it works. So the baseline Grid is this invisible or visible, but it does, it just doesn't print non-printing Grid where your text will jump to. And you can change the size of the grid by going into your preferences, into the grids. And you can change your baseline Grid in there. Try it out and see how it works with different sizes of texts and different letting settings. 18. Spell Check; Find & Replace Fonts: The first thing we're introduced to go to the View menu, down to guides and grids. And I'm just going to hide my baseline Grid. Then I'm going to select all the text. Just keep clicking until I've selected all of it. And down in the paragraph options, I'm going to switch off the baseline Grid. And lastly, so this is all on one, a frame. I'm going to click on this frame deleted and pull my text across. I've just gone back to the standard text that I had in the first place. Let's get in that last line over there. Now, if you've got some text in your document, obviously, one of the things you want to do is spell checking. And we had a look at the little option down here in the Character, which allowed you to choose the language for your spell checker. So how do you switch your spell checking on, off auto spelling, all of that good stuff. Well, all you do is you go up to the Edit menu and we're going to go down and find the spelling, which is about three-quarters the way down. So there's dynamic spelling and when you switch that on, you'll see it'll just show you words that it thinks are misspelled. Now, maybe that one is misspelled. I don't know, but definitely kite surfer is I'm sure one word. Anyway. We've also got, if I go back to edit, to spelling and autocorrect, now that will correct things as you're going along. Be careful with that one. It can be quite dangerous and you can end up having all sorts of weird words spelled out. There's also a Check Spelling option here. So you can go through your document or your story. If you have a look right at the bottom, it says, what do you want to search? Do you want to search the story or the Document or all the open documents? And it will just go through and Replace words for you. So for example, sailboat it's found and I can just replace it with two words, sale and boat. And I can change that in there once again. So for I'll make that well, actually I'll I'll hyphenated I think and changed that didn't go through once it's done. It's done. And that's done your entire document. Now, the other thing that we can do is we can also change the text. So I know what you're thinking. We've just done that Tim in the Character panel. But if there's a whole document and you're not sure, maybe a few words are different typefaces. So this word over here, I'll just select it. Maybe that's something else. Maybe that is merely and this one over here. Maybe that is Montserrat. So what I can do is rather than looking for them, I know there's a movie in there and a monster yet. I can go along to Type. And I can say, change the font or Find and Replace the font. In here it says, Are, they say Minion Pro is Montserrat and is merely that I really only want to have Minion Pro in there. So if I click on Montserrat, I can then change that to Minion Pro. And I'll just say change. Now watch what happens. It's over here. I do change. Actually it was the other one down there. Let's do really bowled over there. Once again, we'll change that to pro. I can change all in there. So it just allows you to find various typefaces and change them. You could change your entire document. So over here, although that's Minion Pro, I could choose choose to change at all to Monster ahead. And once again, we just change all and the whole Document Changes. Have a look at those options. They're nowhere the spell checker is. And in the Type menu, know where you can change or Find and Replace your Fonts. 19. Find & Change: Now one of the things you might want to do with your document is to change things throughout all of the text. I'm going to change some words. So you might Document are referred to this as sailing. But maybe I want to say wind power. So whenever I come across the word sailing, I want to replace it with wind power. And we could do that really easily by going to the Edit menu and going down to find slash Change. All I'm going to do is tell it what to find and I'll do sailing and tell it what to change it to. And I'm going to have wind power. So then where's it going to do? Is it going to search the entire document or just a story or to the end of the story or all the documents. I'm going to just do this document over here. There's a number of other options that we've got in here for finding and changing as well. But this is probably one of the most useful ones to get started with. I'm just going to say change all. And you can see it's searched, found 14. I click Okay. And when I choose Done. Now that says wind power at the top. When pound ploys the wind, wind power, warships, it's all change to wind power. Have a go with that. It's edit. It's down to find slash Change. Put in what you're looking for, putting what you want to change it to, and decide in here what you want to do, which area you want to search to replace. Tried out 20. Vertical Justification & Ignore Wrap: I've got a little bit of text over here. And what I want to do is to look at some Text Box Options. So this bit of text, it's black text in there and I want to put the text in the middle of the box. Now, that's pretty obvious because I can go along to paragraph and I can move it to the middle like that. But what about moving it down in this box? You see, it's all very well to move this around, but maybe my text frame has got a color to it. If I go along to my appearance in here, and I chose a blue, the text is still sitting at the top. So what do we can do is we can go along to the Object menu and we go down to a Text Frame Options. And in the Text Frame Options, one of the options we've got is vertical Justification. So rather than going left and right, this goes up and down. And you can see my alignment at the moment is to the top. I've got centre bottom and justify. If I go to center, that will then put my text in the middle of that box. I've got my text to my box. And let's say that I've brought it in over here. And I want to do what we did before in the course where we got the text to wrap around the photo. And I want this bit of text to wrap around this box. Over here you can see I can still change the oxide. The texts will always sit in the middle. So to do that, we need to get our text Wrap open. So I'm going to go to Window, I'm going down to Text Wrap. And I'm going to choose this option here. And this option will push the text away from the shape. And I can then just increase that. The distance away, left, right, up and down. I think I'll do the left side a little bit like so. So now I can move that around and the text we'll just wrap around it. So one of the options we have is under Object, Text Frame Options. And you can choose where you want your vertical alignment to be. Now sometimes you might do things slightly differently. You might take a shape like this. You've got a circle. And I'm going to go to the Object menu, sorry, the Window menu. I'm going down to my text Wrap. And I'm going to force the text to go away from that circle shape. So I'll use this one over here. There we go. That's looking good. But then I want to put a bit of text in the middle of this. So I'll make my text over here and let's just getting quick bit of text in there. Wind power. I want to put that little bit of text right in the middle of that circle. So I do that, I move it across and we'll just disappears. Let's move that out again. It's back and it disappears and black, you can see the problem. So why is that disappearing? Well, it's because this bit of text here is also being affected by the Shapes saying, push text away from itself. So how can we work with that? Well, if I've got a object like that, that I want to not get affected by the text wrap. I can go to the Object menu. I go down to my Text Frame Options. And there's an option in here which says Ignore Text Wrap. Click it on switch. Okay? Now when I've put it in there, you'll see the texts will be there, quite happy. I'll just press W so you can see the effect that I'm going for there where I can have a little word in the middle and text wraps around it. If you've done it like this, where the textbox is actually the object, you don't need to worry. But if you used another shape and then brought text in, you might need to stop it from being affected by the text Wrap. Do try that out. There's two options in there. It's the Text Frame Options. So one is looking at the vertical Justification, the other one is looking at ignoring text Wrap 21. Column Rules & Balance: I'm going to get rid of this little bit of texts in here and the shape and that one over there. Now I'm going to go back to the Object, Text Frame Options and have a look at some other things. If you remember that we could actually go down to the bottom of the properties and we could change things like the number of columns will you could do that in here as well. So I could change this into, for example, three columns, black and also forced the columns to balance over there, so they're all balanced along the bottom. Now, the other thing we can do is we can insert spacing. So over here I can just insert spacing. And that's inserting it all the way round. This Text Frame you can see it's pulled it in like so. Once again, this is useful. If you've got Text, we've actually changed the color of the frame. And you want the text just inside that frame. Like so. I'm going to go to object. Once again Text Frame Options. And I also want to now move over to the column Rules. Now, that's Rules is not, you can do this and you can't do that. What it means, it's rulers. So if I go to Column Rules, I'm going to insert column Rules. And you can see it just puts these rulers or lines between the columns. I can adjust things like Length, horizontal position, the width, the color of those lines. I'll click Okay, as I increase the number of columns in here and I'll just go down to the bottom. To do that. You see it will just continue to keep my rulers in their. Incidentally, if you go to this Text Frame Options and we did look at it in the first course. I'm going to move across to the Options here. And that opens up the Text Frame Options anyway, so I can just go in and change things in there. You don't have to go to your main Object menu to try that out. 22. Text on a Path: Now this next bit is in exciting one because this is where you can get to put Text onto paths. To do it. I'm going to start with a little pencil now. You can't see the pencil. It's well, it's about a quarter the way down. If you right-click, it could be in with the smoothing tool or the Erase tool. I'm just going to take my pencil and I'm going to draw a little Curve like that. Now you can see my curve has got a fill. So I don't want to Fill. I'm going to choose none for my fill and Stroke. I'm going to give it a color so that we can see it easily. I'm going to make it black. Now I'm going to go across to the Type Tool and I'm going to right-click and I'm going to choose the type on a Path Tool. If I move over to the shape, you'll see when I go over the shape, a little plus appears, and I can click on that line. Now, here's the little flashing I-beam, and I can just put in my text. Now I've got the text on a Path, but maybe I want to move it around. So if I go up to the black arrow tool, that's the Selection tool at the top. You can see there's a little line and I'm going to zoom in. You can see this a little bit better. There's a little line over here. And there's another line in the middle. And there's one on the right-hand side. Those are your left, center and right alignment margins. So if I were to go into my Text tool, click on my Text, and I went along to my paragraph options. You could see I can left. I could write a line or I could center align the text on the path. Now, I can continue to type on there at any time I can go in and change it. I can also select my text and use pretty much all of the options that I had in here before. Whether it's changing the typeface, whether it's adjusting the size, maybe even moving it using the baseline shift and move it above or below the path. But what about if I wanted to actually move it along the path? Well, what I need to do is I'd need to move my left margin in a little bit. Now, I need to make sure that select just the margin. I'll pull it in. And you can see how the text is kinda moved to the center. Then I can move the right margin over here and move that one in as well. Now as I'm moving these in, I'm all I'm doing is moving the left and, or the right margin. And I can then get the text to align either to the left or the right. I'm going to go back, select the text again and just align it left, center, or right in there. You can also move the text using the little centre line over there, So that's left, right and center alignments. You can see there's just little line there. And if I click on that, I can actually move the central along and move my text anywhere along the path. Now, it is a little bit delicate to try and grab it, but you can do it. You can move once you get hold of it. If I drag that little line, that little center line underneath the line ventral put by text on the other side, the path. So grabbing that and just putting it to one side or the other. Have a little bit of a go with that. So remember, you just make it a little shape like that. Put your text in by clicking on a Path. And then you can move the left, right, or center alignments using the black arrow tool. To be fair, even the white arrow tool will do the same thing as well. Dried out 23. Text on an Object: Don't do the same with shapes, so I can go along and I could get an ellipse, drawing an ellipse in there. It's got a fill, but that's absolutely fine. I'll get my text on a path tool. So type on a path, click on my shape and put in my text. And then same again, I can use the selection tool. And now you can see that there's two lines together in there. So this one over here on the right-hand side, that's actually my left margin. If we went all way around, that would be my right margin. And my center option is over here. So if I were to take this left margin and drag it around, you can see that's the left align. I will just go long, select the text or clicking the text. And then down here, I could choose right align or central line to get to go to the bottom. And it's exactly as before. You can also drag it by the little line if you can see it in there. Said it's always a pain to try and get hold of it. I often prefer to use the white arrow tool because I find it easier to grab that little line in there and pull the text around. Let's move that around as well. All right, so now what about the text color and all the rest of that? Well, if I select the text, I can go into the appearance and I can change the color of the text. And all the rest of those options. If I'm on the selection tool and I click on the shape, now I'm dealing with the shape. So if I didn't want anything, a shape there, I could just choose none. Over there. I can go to the stroke and I can either choose a stroke color or none as well. I'll just press W and you can see the text is still going round that shape. Try it out. 24. Introduction to Project: Fold-out Brochure: We've got a really cool project to do now, this skydiving brochure, and you can see a few of the pages over here. We're going to work through that and I'm going to show you how to do different layouts in there. How are we going to use a lot of other things that we've done already, but a lot of new stuff as well. Let's get going. It's gonna be brilliant 25. Create Document with Fold-out Pages: As always, let's set up a document. I'm going to create a new file. And I'm going to go over to print. And I'm going to choose A4. This time I'm going to go with a landscape option. And I'm going to put in my pages in here. I'm going to do eight pages with facing pages switched on. Now, as far as the columns go, I'm just going to leave them on the default, but I am going to go and add in. My bleed has always. I'm going to click on Create. Let's zoom out a little bit over here. Now with this particular document, what I want to do is I want to have a page which is an extra page which folds out in the middle of the document. So I've got the front cover. Then you open up the document and you see these two, but you then open this page and it folds over to there. You see three pages together. And then when you go back to this page here, if that page was still open, it would come out over here. If it's closed, you would just see those two in there. So first of all, I'm going to set this up. I'm going to go to my Pages panel. And right at the top, I'm going to go down and I'm going to switch off, Allow Document Pages to Shuffle. When I add my new pages in, I can drop them next to the other pages. Over here. I'm going to add another page. I'm going to drag it in. And rather than putting it to the right of that page, I'm going to put it right up against it. You can see if I go up against at my little cursor changes and then allows me to add that picture in on the right. I need to do the same on the left as well. So going here and just add in that little page on the left-hand side. So now this is my cover. I then open the document. Here is the spine down the middle. Open my document at the left page, is there, the right pages there. And you can open that up to this. And then when you go to the next page so you turn those pages over, if that Pages still left open, it would be a three-page like this. If it's closed, it would just be to two pages in there. Have a go set that up with 3.3. So it's 1,332.1. And then we'll come back, we'll put some content on this 26. Bring in Photos: Let's bring in some pictures. I'm going to zoom in to my first page. And in fact, I'll use the Pages panel to just double-click to go into it. There. I'm going to make the frame and it's going to go from bleed edge to bleed edge. And I'll then go and do the same with the next page here. So onto the next page and just bring that in. Zoom out a little bit for that one. Now, I'm having a little bit problem trying to get everything in. I'm going to press tab on the keyboard so I can actually see the full-screen now go from one side of the bleed to the other side of the bleed because that's going to be one huge picture across three pages. The same here. I'm going to take this one here and drag it across. I get one large picture over the three pages, the Fold-out down to here. And the last one, there seems to be a picture. They already I'm going to press Tab. I must have mistaken you brought it in before. I'm going to once again go and put in a frame across all of that. Now, let's go back to seeing the whole document here. So now can bring in my pictures. I'm going to go to File and Place and find this one here. I'm going to use that one. I think I need something like this. And that, and maybe this one. Click on open this image first. I'm going to put that down here. This one, I'm going to put in that one. So it's gonna go across three. I think this one is going to go across all of those. That's going to go at the bottom. And this would be my cover picture. And then working through the properties into the Properties, I'll just use Frame Fitting to very quickly go in and get them to fit those frames. That one there. And lastly, this one here. Zoom in a bit and make sure everything is in the right position. So I'm going to hover over it and move things around until they work. I think I just want those to outside canopies and then the chap in the middle of the person in the middle. This one, there's just a pair of legs dangling from space. So I'm going to click and hold. And once again, drag that down until I see the whole of that skydiver. So they're in there. And this one is perfect. We've got the little canopy over there and the plane in the background bringing some pictures. They don't have to be the same ones that I've used. Do whatever you like for this. And then we'll move on and start with some text. But can I suggest that when you get to this stage, because you've done quite a lot of working good of File and Save. I'm just going to use Save As over here. We'll call the skydive. And I'm going to save it somewhere. And also so that I don't move things by mistake or put a picture in that I didn't intend like you. So I Done then I'm going to lock things down as I go. Now the shortcut for locking is either control or command L, depending on with your PC or Mac. So I can just go through the pictures very quickly and lock them into position. Like so 27. Set-up Fold-out Pages: Now this is going to look fantastic when that folds out with those three pages, this huge panoramic. But what would it look like before people fold this section out? Well, they'll see that page there. And they'll see the back of this page there. The back of this page is actually this page there. So the C that and that over there, that will look a little bit strange. So we're gonna do something really exciting here. We're going to take some of this image, put it over there and blended into this one. So when people see this page before they've even folded out, they'll actually be seeing what looks like these two pages here. Let me show you how we're going to do that. What I'm going to do is I'm going to just unlock. So on here, I'm on this page at the moment. And the first thing you'll probably says, Tim, how do you know which page you're on when you're seeing all four of them, will look over here at the rulers. You can see when you click on a page that one of the appropriate numbers just goes brighter. So I can actually see if I click on that page, them on that one there, some on this page here, I'm going to go to object and unlock all on spread. So it unlocks them just on the spread them out on these ones here are still locked. I'm going to copy this. So I'm gonna hold down the Alt key. And I'm just going to drag a copy over to here. Now, this page still remains the same. And in fact I'm going to lock it again. And let's move down now to this page here. I'm going to move this picture here because at the moment you can see those two are identical. That one's, whoops. This one here is actually on top of that one there, but there are identical. So what about if I were to move this one across to there? So in fact, this page here over there, that little bit there is the same as that a little bit there. And I want to get rid of now the bit at the end, so I'll just pull that in. You don't have to do that, that statement. Now you can see that that would actually match that page there. Now of course, we've still got the problem of this suddenly going to that picture there that doesn't look very nice. So we're going to use little tool here called the gradient Feather Tool. And with a gradient Feather, if I were to click and drag over here, I can just get things, no fade outs. I'm going to do something like that to just get those two to fade across. So when the document when you've opened it to this page here and this section is closed, you will see that page there. Plus this one here. You might see a little bit of the sky in there as well. I'm UQ can just keep going in other directions if you want to make it more interesting. Then when you open it up, you will see those. When you turn over to the next page, you will then see this as your folded out section because that folds back onto, onto that page there. Or you can have it open like this. So have a bit of a go, I noticed, seems a little bit fiddly. What do you could try to do if you're having problems with this? And I've done this before, is actually cut it out of paper and do a rough drawing of each little piece like that and put it together and see how it works so that when one page goes over the other, you can see what will, what will appear. Or of course just print out on an office printer and then have a go manually with that as well. Try it out. 28. Color Overlay & Track Type: I've zoomed into the front page and I'm going to put in some graphics. It's very simple, little squares and some text as well. So I'm going to go along to the shapes and I'm just using the rectangular tool. And I'll just draw in a little rectangle over there. And I'm going to fill it with color. Another color I want to use is something which will look really good with a blue. And I'm going to go for this bright red over here. Now, I know what you're thinking. It's a little bit over the top, but do bear with me. Because I'm going to take the Move tool over here and I'm going to move this across and I'm going to angle it, I'm going to rotate it. And I'm looking to rotate it kind of at the same angle as the planes trail, the aircraft trail there. I'll do something like that. I'm going to put it up a little bit and across. I'm actually going to take it over that shape. Maybe down to about the corner of the page somewhere like that. And put it out. I'm covering this top half of the page over there. Then I'm going to make a copy of that. So I'm going to hold down the Alt key, make a copy of that, and put it down to them. Now, I've pulled it too far, so it's actually gone on to this document here. Let me put it up again and drop it in there. Just make sure I move it. If you happen to drag over that area, it'll move it from one to the next. So I'm happy with that. I might make this a little bit bigger. Now that's very bright red in that one, something a little bit darker. But I also want to be able to maybe see a bit of the sky in the plane behind this. If I go to my opacity and change the opacity, you can get some of it coming through, but I don't know that the red, so it looks a little bit washed out. So instead, I'm going to click on the word opacity here. I'm going to go to normal and I'm going to choose a multiply that, multiplies the red with the photo below. Let me do it on this one as well. So once again, Opacity, Normal and multiply. Let's have a look at that. If I press W over, then you can see we've got this really nice, strong, deep red. A little bit sort of replicating what we see in there. I'm going to bring some text in. So I'm going to use the text tool. Click and drag a text frame over here and put in a skydive. I'm going to select the text and then go across and increase the size so I can see it. I'm going to change the typeface to something else and I'm going to choose movie in there. You can use whichever you like. I'm going to make it paper or white. And I think also in this character area, clicking on the three little dots to maybe change this. So I get small caps in there. I'm going to move it across. Then just place it along the top somewhere. Now, I want something which is a little bit more exciting, a little bit more cinematic, rather than just the text over there. So I'm going to zoom into it. I'm going to select the text again. I'm going to experiment with this option here. This is called your tracking, and I can track it so I get further apart or closer together. Now, I'm not really happy with this small caps. I did it to show you about small caps. So I'm going to go into full caps in them. And I'm going to use my tracking to pull the characters further apart. So I get something which is maybe a little bit more cinematic. Let's have a look at that skydive. There we go in huge letters in there. I think I'll place it right near the top. Like so. Let's press W to have a look. I think it can move, maybe I'll move it up just a little bit like that. You can always play with this, change, the tracking if you want to increase it or decrease it. I'll try a little bit more. There we go. And that's looking a whole lot better. Have a go, try it out, putting some color and change the the type as well makes something which looks interesting or that you enjoy 29. Change Color & Create Paragraph Style: Now the great thing about these overlays is that you can always click on them and then just go and change the color. So if I wanted to experiment with blue, I could try it out or the blue and red together. I quite like that option actually, but it's nothing set in stone because later on I could always change my mind and maybe go for full blue. I'm going to keep that on red down the bottom for now. Now, the next thing is we're going to make some styles for our text. We want a body style, we want a heading style. So I'm going to go to the Window menu. I'm going to go down to Styles and Paragraph Styles. And I'm going to make a new paragraph style down here. So I'm going to click on Paragraph Styles, Paragraph Style one. And in now I'm going to double-click it and give it a name. I'm going to call this body. Then over to my basic character formats, I can choose the font or the font-family in them. And if, if I go to the latter, I think that's what I'm after. I want a lighter version of that. Then onto my size, I'm going to leave that at 12 at the moment, I might have got a little bit smaller depending on how much Text I bring in. The tracking is going to remain the same. You don't really want to do some tracking with your body text because it can be very difficult to read. Then to the advanced Character Formats. I'm going to check that my language for my spellchecker is set to the country that I'm in or the language that I'm speaking. I'm going to go to indents and spacing. And my alignment is set to the left in there. If you wanted to be to the right, that's absolutely fine. And then we can go down and have a look at some of the other options. I'm going to go down into hyphenation for now. And I don't like hyphenation, so I could switch it off. But rather than switching off, maybe instead, I could say, I only want a Hyphenate really long words. So I can have words which are at least nine letters long. Anything shorter than that won't Hyphenate. Moving down. I'm going to go into the Character Color and I'm going to choose paper because this is going to be text on the white background. And then click. Okay. Now for my next Style, which is gonna be the header, I'm going to click again, double-click. And I'm gonna make sure that this is actually based on the body. So it'll pick up all those Body things that we've got. Once again in here, I'm going to give it a name, Head or header. And exactly the same. I'm going to work my way through, but because this is the header, I'm going to make sure that it's slightly bigger. And instead of light, I'm going to choose a bold for it. Colors going to be exactly the same. It's going to pick up the color from the last one, hyphenation. Well, we really don't want a Hyphenate any headers. I'm going to switch that off. Click Okay, and that's done. Now can start bringing in my text. So you can bring in any text you like. But I've got a Word document, and the Word document has got some stuff to do with skydiving. This comes from Wiki. And so I'm going to bring in a little bit of text here and I'm going to take this bit of text about the, first of all bad the, the artistic events and the accuracy of landing. And I'm going to take those in. So I'm copying that. I can then go into here, use my Text tool to click and drag a text frame. Now, I am going to go into standard Mode in the moment, but I'm just going to paste that in because I want to paste in with the body. I'll click in Body. And when I pasted, it will bring in all those Body options in there. As I said, I'm going to press w's that I can actually see where my individual margins are. Those margins are they really are far too small for the document that I want to use. I'm going to go over here to the properties and I can increase the margin size on my entire document. So I'm going to look at something more like that and that will look a hollow better. Now, the problem here, of course, is that this is a long bit of text to read all the way through. So I will go in to my paragraph options. Good, add to my frame. I'm going to pop that into two or three columns. I'm also going to click on the Options button. This is the same as going to Object and Text Frame Options. Click on Options and I'm going to get my text to balance out. So I'll use Balance columns in there. Now remember that some of these, for example, these headers over here, if I click on them, they need to be headers that's ahead of their. And there was another one. I think it was the accuracy landing in there. Once I've done that, I can then go back in and change various bits because obviously the paragraphs themselves are too close together. So I might deselect that, go back into Body, go over to my indents and spacing and use these Space Before Space After. If I just change that a little bit, you can see how it's moving the distances between the paragraphs further apart. I'll click Okay. Now, of course, maybe the headers, I want more of a gap between the headers and the body. So I could go to the header, go into the, once again, the same thing, indents and spacing. And I could say Space After. And to just change the gap after the header. Bringing your Text, try it out, press W to see how it's going to look. We're going to have to deal with this little bit of texts which we can't see very shortly. Tried out 30. Format Text: Let's fix this text. The first thing I wanted to do is this accuracy landing. I'd like to move that little paragraph there in the header over to that side. So I'm going to put my cursor just in front of accuracy landing. I'm going to go to the Type menu down to insert Break Character. And I'm going to put in a column break, which will force it to go to the next column. You can see it's sitting up there. Now. The next issue that we have over here is that some of these things don't look quite right. Look at the lines. You can see those lines there are lined up perfectly, but this line here, but it's a little bit all over the place ready, so you've got a line there and then it goes up to that bit. So what I want to do is I want to make sure that all of my text sits on the same line. And to do that, we're going to use a baseline Grid. Now, I'm going to go to the View menu. I'm going to go down to guides and grids, and I'm going to switch on the baseline Grid. So I'm gonna say show baseline Grid. And we'll zoom in a bit over there to try and see it. Now you can't see the baseline Grid. I'm going to go to the Window menu, find Layers. And in my layers, I'm going to hide the picture. And now you can see the baseline Grid is over there. But this is a bit of problem because if I have the picture on, then I can't see the baseline Grid. If I switch it off, then I can, but I can't see my Type. On the other hand though, if I select all my type, then you will see where it, where it is. So I want to make sure that you can see exactly what I'm doing. So I'm going to just change my type color into black temporarily. So I'll hide that. I'm going to go to my header, sorry my body. Double-click the body and change the color down here to black. And of course, because the head is based on the body, it does the same as well. Now this is just a temporary measure since you can see what happens with the baseline Grid. By the way, if you zoom out far enough, the baseline Grid will disappear. You need to make sure you've zoomed in and you can see it's all over the place, the baseline, the baseline of the text. So I'm going to go along to the body, double-click on the body Paragraph Style. And I'm going to go to the advanced Character. Sorry, Let's try that sentence again. I'm going to go to the indents and spacing. And I'm going to say align the text Grid. I'm gonna choose all lines here. So now my type has aligned to the grid. But the issue is that, okay, it's Line to the grid, but it's actually jumping to every second line. Now, the reason for that is to do with the size of the text and the size of the distances between the text, which is called her letting. You can see my type here is 12 points and the letting is 14.4. So that's the distances between them. So the issue is that this Grid is actually smaller than the letting. I'll show you what I mean. I'm going to go to, to InDesign Preferences. Now, if you're on a Mac, on a PC, sorry, you will go to Edit and Preferences. And I'm gonna go along and find grids. In here. You can see my baseline Grid has got an increment every 12 points. So although this is setup to be 12 point text, the distances between them is 14.4 points. So what I need to do is to change this. If I change this to 14.4 and click Okay. Now you'll see that my baseline Grid is 14.4, so the lines will work in there perfectly and everything just lines itself up exactly as it should. There is one more option, one more thing that I want to do in here, and that is the bit of texts that comes right to the top. I'm going to click in there and I want to move that text down manually. Now, if I were to do it with a return and clicked on there to do a return. You can see it jumps with two lines at a time. If you use shift and return, this is known as a soft returns, so it doesn't change, it doesn't make it into a new paragraph. We could do a soft return there and another soft return over there to get into the right position. What all of those things absolutely fine. I'm going to go back to my body and just change the color of my text back to white and click Okay. And then I can go in, find my layers and switch on my picture. And that text looks a whole lot better than it looked before. I'll just press W so we can see it without all the bits and pieces around it. 31. Text Format Again: I like to put some lines between the columns. So I'm going to select the text. And by that I'm in the frame. I'm going to go to Object Text Frame Options. And we've got an option here called column Rules. And I'm going to insert column Rules. Now, initially it's just putting these black Rules down the middle. I'm going to go along and Change this. I'm going to change the rule Length. And you can see how I can either decrease the rule Length or I can increase it. We've got to start and end option in there. Because they're linked together, they're both to it at the same time. So I think the start, I might take this down a little bit. Let's try the other way. Over there. I'll unlink it and the end. We'll take that along a little bit as well. Then over here we've got an offset so I can actually offset it to the left or to the right. I'd like to change the color of that. So I'm going to try red in there and click Okay. Another thing that we've got with a Text is this little word over here, which is the winner, winner, which is just sitting on its own. And what I'd like to do is I'd like to change that. So I'm actually going to override the Paragraph Style. I'm going to go in to this area here. This is our tracking. And I can either increase the tracking. There we go. You can see what you just a tiny ten in there. It's increased in tracking, move some of those characters around. Or I could try decreasing the tracking until it's right. I'm actually going to keep it and just increase the tracking just a tiny bit to make sure that I've got a few more words on that line. Do try that out. Have a look at this subtle Column Rules that you can put in. And if you have got any of these little things that just sit all on their own, this called widows and orphans. If they just sit all by themselves, we can just change the tracking to make sure that you've got a few more words in there. Try it out 32. Text Wrap: I'm going to be bringing some more texts into this page. So I'm going to press W so that I can see the guides in there. I'm going to bring my text in now. So I'm going to take the Type tool, click and drag a Text Frame. I'm going to paste my text in. I've just taken some more texts from this little document in here. So paste my text in. Now, when I pasted it, I'm going to make sure that I'm using the Paragraph Styles and I've got the body Style Selected. When it comes in, it comes in the body Style. This is then going to be a header. That's going to be a header. And I'd like to take my text and get it to go over two columns over here. Now, because this bit of text is setup to go over these columns, three columns in there. I'm going to do the same thing here. I'm going to go down to the bottom and choose two columns, three columns. And then I want to force the text out of this column. So just goes in those two columns over there. Might need to pull it down a little bit. So I'm going to zoom into the text. Put my cursor in front of the sea for canopy. I'm going to go along to the Type menu down to insert break character and put in a column break. And that'll just force the Text into the second column over here. Now, I'd like to then get the text to actually float around that person's hand over there. So I'm going to draw a little shape. Now for ease of use, I'm going to use the pencil. I'm going to double-click my pencil and set my smoothness to about 50 per cent. Then I'll draw a shape around the skydiver. There, maybe around his foot as well. Don't need to be too accurate about this. We're just doing a rough shape around the bit that we want to get the text to avoid. And then I can make sure that this new shapes that I've drawn is selected. And I can go in to my properties down to Text Wrap and choose the third option around, which will then force the text away from that shape. You can of course, move it further with this little amount here if you wish. I'm pretty happy with where it is at the moment. Of course, I've got my formation skydiving in here. So I think what I'd like to do is to move that across to the next column. So I'm going to go to Type inserts, Breaks, Space, break characters, shall I say Column Break, force it to go up to here. I think most of the text looks okay. Once again, is the word more all by itself. So I'm going to select that and maybe change the tracking just a little bit to get a few more bits of texts on there. You can barely see the difference between the tracking on this and on that. Have a go with some more texts, try it out and see how you get on 33. Create an Override: This bit of text is quite difficult to read, so I'm going to change it to black. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to select all the text, so I'm just clicking a few times in here to select it all, and then I'm going to change my fill color to black. I'm not changing it in the style because obviously, that will affect all the rest of the text in the whole document. But look what happens over here to the body in the header when I do that. I'm going to change that to black there. Now, if I were to click on this text over there or select a little bit, you'll see that there's a little plus that comes up. And if I do it to the heading, once again, there's a little plus that's come up there as well. That's known as an override. It's where we've actually overridden the style with something else in here. And it just shows you when you click on little plus, that there's something which has been overridden. Now, it's quite useful because sometimes you might want to go back to the style. So even if I'm clicking India and it tells me I'm on the body style. I want to change it back again. So what I can do is I can select all the text again, and to remove the style, we have a little button at the bottom. So this one here, we can just click on that and that gets rid of the override and takes us back to the style here. Now, sometimes you might have an override and not even realize it. So for example here, Maybe without realizing it, I've gone from light to thin with the text. You can see there's an override on there, and if I click on there, there's an override. Now, looking at the text, I can't really see that very easily. So how can I see if there's any overrides on my text? Well, there's a little button at the top over here, if I click on that button, it shows where there are overrides on your text. So it means that I can then go to this little bit of text here and then clear any overrides that were on it. That's what this does. It just shows you that there are overrides. By the way, you won't see that if you are in preview mode, you must be in the normal working mode. Anyway, for my document, I'm going to select it all, and I'm going to go over here to fill and just choose Black. As my fill color, you can see my overrides come on. I'll just switch that off for now. Try that out and do an override on your text. 34. Add Text on a Path: Let's get a bit more text on this page. I want to have a word over here, just a really large word, something like freedom or flight. So I'm going to use my Text tool. I'm going to click and drag a text frame and pop it in. I'm just putting the word freedom. I'm going to select it. And I've got bold in there. I could keep making it bigger like that. But I'm actually going to go to the corner. Hold down. Now, if you're on a Mac, it is Command and Shift. If you're on a PC, it's Control and Shift. And I can click and drag that corner out to just resize the text very fast. So Command and Shift or Control and Shift to bring out like so. Now I'm going to put that I think across the middle. And we'll just move it manually. I'm using the arrows on my keyboard to move it into the correct position where I wanted. If it looks too large, once again, I'll do the same thing and just take it down just a little bit. Now when you using the arrows on the keyboard, if you hold down Shift, it will move in larger increments. Then if you just use the arrows, what I'm gonna do with this is I'm going to go across to my appearance and down to the opacity. And MGS can change the opacity so you can barely see it. It's almost like a watermark. So you've got the freedom watermark in the sky. What I'd like to do is to put some text over the top of the canopy. So I'm going to use the Pencil Tool. And I'm going to give myself a bit of a Stroke on here. So I'm going to my properties and it just changing the pencil to a Stroke color. Now, when I look over here at the properties, I can't actually see the Stroke Options come up when I'm on the pencil. So how do I change it? One of the ways I can do it is to just go to Window down to Color and Swatches and find the Swatches in there. And that's where I can then pop in my color. I'll just use black for the moment. I'm going to change it later. I'm going to zoom in a bit over there. Let's move some of these things out the way. And I will just click and drag along there. Now not clicking and dragging yet, because I'm going to double-click on the pencil, make sure my smoothness is pretty high. Doesn't have to be 100%, but pretty high. And then I can draw that line in over there. Now, if you're working on a track pad like IM, it can be a little bit wonky, but hopefully the smoothing, you can see the smoothing, smoothing it out. Of course, I can still use the white arrow tool to click on the points and move them around if I need. So I'm going to just move that point there and this point over here. And it's moved that one into the right position. And that one down a bit, it doesn't have to be perfect, we're just getting it roughly correct. Now, if I select this shape, I can then go to my Text tool, Type on a Path. I'm going to click on the path and put in the text. So the only way to fly in case you're wondering, I have never parachuted in my life. I think I'd done yeah. I don't think it's something I could do anyway. But I like the, I liked the idea. So I'm going to select the text, go along to the Character. And although we've got a Style on that, I'm going to override that Style and increase it in. Then just keep going along like that. Now, I want to get rid of the little black line underneath that. So as long as I select the text with a black arrow tool, I can go down to my Stroke and I can just choose none for the stroke. If you want to move the text away from the line, you can then go along and look at things alike. Baseline shift. If I select all my text in my character option, I can use the baseline shift here and just move the text slightly further away from the line. Or if I wanted on the actual canopy, I can move it back to there. I'm just going to try and get it so it's sitting just on the edge of the canopy. It's have a look at what that page looks like. Once again, I might even go in and change the opacity. So it's not so over the top. No pun intended. Anyway. Have a little bit of look and try some more text in there. 35. Add Image to Multiple Boxes: I'm going to go to my last page and add some pictures over the top or a picture, shall I say not some pictures, but a picture? I'm going to use my little rectangular frame tool. And I'm going to click and draw a rectangle over the picture. I want to split this up into parts. So I'm going to press the up arrow twice and the right arrow three times. So by doing this, what I'm actually doing is breaking up that shape. I also still holding down the mouse button. Don't let go the mouse button or this little arrow thing won't work. I'm happy with that. Then I'm going to go in and say, well, some of these I don't want I don't want that one there. That one. That one or that one. I want to just have these ones over here so I can put a picture in these. But then still see that some of that picture underneath, It's a really nice effect. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to select all of those. So click and drag over them. I hadn't selected the picture in the background because that's locked. If you haven't locked it, you might find that you'll need to deselect that one if you selected. That way. I'm now going to bring in the picture that before I do that, if I'm bringing the picture, it'll try and just put it into one of those little frames. So I have to go along to the Window menu, down to object and Layout and the pathfinder. And I need to unite all those into one shape. And you can see over here, this little thing says combined select objects into one shape. They're not touching, but they're all one shape is a cross through the middle of them. Now when I go in and find the picture that I want to place in there, and I'm just going to go and pick a different one. And I can then just resize it and maybe move it across a little bit. Try it out. And the trick here is to make sure that you use the pathfinder first instantly if you don't like the picture or doesn't go quite and drag position, you can't move it like I've done. Just go in, find another one to drop in there. So I have got another picture that I'd like to use in there. And it's gonna be that if I click and hold, I can then move my people around wherever I need them. Anyway. But if experiment tried out until you get the right picture for you in there 36. Package & Export: Now, if I'm finished with my document, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to File and I'm going to be exporting as a PDF. But firstly, I need to save it, which I've done. I also want to make sure that I'm archiving it. So I'm going to go along down to my package. Now you don't have to do this just for archiving. You could do this if you're going to send it to somebody else. But I'm going to go to package. And by packaging it, I'll have a folder with not just the editable file, but all the pictures and any fonts that we used in there as well. I'm going to go over here and click on package. And this then brings up this window. It says, whatever the name of your file is, plus folder. In here, it's going to copy all the fonts except for Activated fonts from Adobe. So it won't do those Fonts which come as part of your cc package. It also copy Graphics. Links are linked graphics and pictures. And it also actually makes you a PDF and you can choose which type of PDF you want in there. I'm going to click on package. And the warning pops up. This warning is saying that Fonts are actually copyrighted items. And if you pass this onto somebody else, they should buy in those Fonts themselves. They shouldn't, you shouldn't just be able to pass them over to other people. So we'll just click Okay. And that's done. I'm going to go and find where I saved it and I've got it over there. There's my skydive folder. If I open that up, I've got my skydive in D, D far the InDesign file. I have got the IDML file, which is for older versions if I passed onto somebody else and I've got any links that I've used in here. Now the fonts that are used with part of the Adobe CC set. So it actually hasn't made a folder with Fonts and if unused, a weird and wonderful font that maybe I'd found on the Internet or wasn't part of the cc, sweet. Then there'd be another folder in here which said Fonts and would have those fonts in there as well. Lastly, you can see there's a little PDF in there. Now I'm going to go back to InDesign. And finally I'm going to go to File. I'm going to export this. I'm exporting this for print. So I'm just gonna put onto the desktop. I'm doing PDF for print in there. Click on Save. Now in the pages option over here, I'm going to choose All Pages. And do I want them as individual Pages or spreads? Well, I'm going to send this to the printer, so I'm going to choose spreads. Then I'm going to go down over here to compression. Now we haven't looked a compression at all, but I just want to mention one or two things here. If you've got really huge Images that you found some way or somebody has given to you and you've used them quite small. In InDesign. What can happen is that the resolution of those images could be something like 1,000 or 2000 pixels per inch. So this little compression, rather than using those huge Images in the PDF document, allows us to reduce them. And you can see where it says color images. It says any image which is above 450 pixels per inch, just downsample it to 300. So it'll just make sure that all of those huge files are a reasonable size. You can of course, reduce that number if you wish. Good of marks and bleeds and I'm putting on all the marks and bleeds for Printing, I'm going to go to Output. And in here I'm going to convert to destination. And as we've done in the course, I'm going to use my working CMYK over there. I'm also going to click on the ink manager and just make sure that I don't have any pantone style used by mistake in here. So the Printing will be done with cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink in here. Isn't option here to change any spot colors that you've used. A pen tones, for example, into process colors into CMYK as well. If you've got them. Let's click Okay, and I'll export that out. And that should give me my PDF file. A quick look at that. I'm going to just zoom out a little bit over there. So when I flip through the pages, I can see all of these pages already for Printing. Have a go. Don't forget to package your document. If it's something you're going to be using later on, it's, it makes sense because that way, if you've changed the Images or you've lost the images, you end up new problems when you open the document later on. Try those out. 37. Introduction to Advanced Vector Shapes: In the course, we looked at simple Vector Shapes and I explained the difference between vectors and bitmaps. Now I want to take your Vector knowledge so much further and we're going to look at how to create custom Vector Shapes. We're going to use things like the Pen tool. We're going to mix shapes together and really enable you to create the absolute perfect shape that you need. 38. Fill and Stroke Options: In this section we're going to be looking at Vector Shapes. But before we actually get onto the shapes, Let's look at what makes up a shape. I've gone over to one of the shape tools. I've just used an ellipse. And I'm going to click and drag. And the shape itself is made up of a fill color which goes in the middle, and the stroke, which is the line around the outside. Now, you've obviously come across this already, but if you go to the Appearance panel, you can change the fill color in here. And we'll just go down and pick a different color. And you can go to the Stroke. Now, I'm clicking on the little icon, the word that's quite important, click on the icon and choose my stroke color. If I then move across, I've got the width, or it's often called the weight of the stroke. In there. It isn't points, but if you selected over here and we'll get rid of that 13 points, I can type in whatever I want with the appropriate value extension. So for example, I could go and type in here 8 mm and just press Enter and it will convert it to Points. For me, it's like that throughout InDesign, if you just type in with the appropriate value, it will convert it. And then over on the right-hand side, we've then got the types of line over here from sort of solid lines through two dotted lines through to well, all sorts of things including wavy lines as well. I'm just going to take that back to the solid line. And let's have a look Stroke option here. Now, first of all, we repeat the weight. The weight is there as well, and the type of line is in here too. But then we've got some other options down here. Now, some of these won't work on a circle. But I'm going to go to the one that will, which is the Align Stroke. And I can either align the stroke on the middle of the line. Now, to do that, I'm going to just change the color of my stroke to yellows that you can see the blue line there. I can align on the middle, I can align it on the inside, or I can put it on the outside of that. Now, if you have as shape same for example, I've used the pencil, I've just done a little upset sought to pencil. Let's try that again. So if I use the pencil tool, I just do a little line lack of that. And once again, I'll increase the stroke weight. Put on a fill over there and go to the stroke. We can then align that on the inside of the outside or one side or the other. Now, let me get rid of these to look at some more options in there. So I'll just remove those two and I'm pressing Backspace or Delete on the keyboard to remove them. What I'm going to do this time is used the pencil again and just draw a little pencil line in them. Increase the stroke weight. Let's make it pretty, pretty big. And I'll just make it a bright color that we can see properly and we'll zoom in a bit onto that. So going down to the Stroke, we've got Caps. And these are the two ends over here. So I could have them rounded off or I could have them extended, extended, extended Caps. I like those ones there, but it just extends it the same distance as half the width over there. I'm going to take the Pen tool over here. And I'm just going to go click, pick and click to make three little points. In there. We're going to be doing the Pen tool and a lot more detail later on. And I want to now go over to the stroke. I'm going to increase the weight of the stroke over here. And I'm going to take it to something that which is quite thick. And what we have here is something called a miter limit. Now, sometimes you'll find, if you click and you do a point-like that, you get a really nice corner point. Sometimes it cuts it off like that. Well, this is to do with the miter limit. If I go back in there, if I increase the miter limit number in there, you'll see it just snaps into a corner. So why have they done that? Well, if I take a shape like this and I go there, there and then make quite a, quite a sharp or an acute angle. I'm going to increase the stroke on that. So over here, just increase the stroke write-up. And let's say that there wasn't a miter limit. If I increase that number. Keeps going for awhile. You can see how that shape actually whizzes right off of my page. And this can cover up other options. So the default is when you have an angle which is actually quite acute, like that, it cuts it off automatically. You will see if I were to take this shape here, click on there and actually make that more acute in there. It will just cut it off. But you can always get around that by going to Stroke and changing the miter limit. On there. I'm going to just delete those two shapes by pressing Backspace or the Delete key. Let's move on. Now, if I've got little shape and over here I'm going to go over to my shapes and use the Rectangle tool. Click and drag a rectangle in there back to the Stroke and will increase the stroke width. Then in here we've got the joins. So we've got cornered joins, rounded joins. Or the last one, which is the beveled edge, which just almost like it cuts it off as well. Now, After that, we then got start and end and these are our arrowheads. Let's get rid of what we've got on the page. I'll just remove that. If I took a little line over here, the Line tool and clicked and dragged. And I went along once again into my stroke, increase the stroke weight value. And then down here I've got the start and the end. So I clicked and dragged from there up to there. So if I go to the start and put a little shape on here, I'll just use little arrow. It will come on the start point. If I go to the other side, I could then put a different arrow on there. That's the end point over there. I'm going to change the color of this is that you can see exactly what I mean by the next thing. And if I've selected this subtle line over there, you can see the arrows or stop at the edge of the line. And that's another option we can change because you can go into here and you can choose to get your Arrows to extend from the over the edge of the line or stop at the end of the line depending on what you want. We can also increase the scale of the arrows. And that's based on the line width that you've got. So we can increase the scale on the start or the end one. We've got a gap color down here. Now, if I go over and I choose one of these dashed lines are the dots in there. I could then go long and I could put in a color. Finally, I can tint the gap color so we can lighten it absolutely. Just about gets some color coming through Halford of a play with those. There's a lot of options in there. And just make sure that you feel confident with all of those 39. Pathfinder Tool: Let's start to make some interesting shapes using the Shapes Tools. Now, this only a rectangle, an ellipse, and a polygon that we've got here. But we can make so many different shapes out of those three basic ones. I'm going to start off with a rectangle. If I click and drag with a rectangle, I'm going to go over here and just give this a fill color, ready to make it easier for you to see. I'll just choose an orange fill. And my stroke, I'm going to make a little bit thicker. Once again to that you can see what I'm doing. Now. I've got this shape here. And if I were to put another shape in there as well, once again, different color on that, maybe a different stroke width. I can get these two shapes to either Unite or cut one from the other. The way I do that is using the black arrow at the top, which is the Selection tool. Now with the Selection tool, obviously we can move these shapes around. But if I were to click and drag, to touch both of them so that they're both selected. I can now go down and find my Pathfinder. Now the pathfinder you'll actually see is down here. But what we're going to do is we're going to go to the Window menu, object and Layout. And we're actually going to choose it from the Window menu. So there's a few more options that we have in here. But as you can see, these ones are the same as those ones. So using the button on the left-hand side, if I click on that, what he does, it combines those two shapes into one shape. I'm just going to undo that. So it's controls it on a PC Command Z on a Mac. You can see it takes the color of the front Object and combines them both into one shape. Let's undo that. The second button takes the front object and it cuts it from the back Object. Now, this second button is the opposite of the fifth button. Along here, this one cuts at the other way. So it takes the back object, which it cuts from the front one. So this one cuts the back object from the front. This one cuts the front object from the back. The next one that we have over here, which is the third button, intersects and we're not click on that. It just leaves that overlapping area in there. And this is the last one which actually gets rid of that overlapping area and just leaves the other two colors in there. You can see it's taken on the color of the front object. When I've done that, 40. Pathfinder Tool Example: How could these pathfinder Shapes be really useful? Well, you could use them to make custom shapes for pictures or for text. For example. I could take a little shape like this. And I'm just going to do a shape like that. And I'm going to fill this with orange. So I'm gonna go and find my orange in there. Not a very bright orange. I'm going to double-click on the orange and just make a little bit more brighter. Really, because I want to have, make this into an orange. Then I might just have some leaves at the top. So I'm going to take a little circle, like so. I'm going to Make a copy of this circle. So to make a copy, I go to the very middle, hold down the Alt key and drag a copy over. So the reason I'm going to the middle is because this shape doesn't have a fill. You'll see if I click over here, it won't actually select, so I'm clicking in there. But if you are on the line, on the middle, then you can move things around. So I've made those two shapes. Now I'm going to select them both. And I'm going to go to my pathfinder tool, and I'm going to have the overlapping shape leftover. So that leaves this little shape over here. So there's my one leaf for the orange. Make it green. And I'm going to rotate it round. So go to the edge, just off the edge, click and drag to rotate it. And there's my leaf there. I'm going to hold down the Alt key and drag another copy and rotate that one around as well. And just scale it down to make it a bit smaller in there. And there's my second, it'll leaf in there. So we can do quick graphics like that. And then I can use my text tool. Over here, go into the Type tool, click inside this shape. And this is where I can put my text. So now I just want to put in some placeholder text. So I'm going to go to the Type menu and fill with placeholder text in there. I don't have to keep the stroke on there. I could go to the Stroke and just remove the stroke from that. And we can also go to the Object menu down to the Text Frame Options. And I could actually change at the inset spacing. So it'll push the text further inside that shape, like so. So we can use the Pathfinder to generate all different types of shapes. And I'm going to be showing you more of these in the projects. We're going to be doing some really cool projects with some exciting shapes in those. But have a quick, quick of a simple example using the Pathfinder tool. Now 41. Direct Selection Tool & Beziers: There is another way to change shapes, and that's using the white arrow tool. I'm going to go along to my rectangle, click and drag a rectangle. Remember the black arrow tool at the top. This Selection tool allows me to scale the shape around. I can also rotate it around if I want as well. By the way, if you hold down the Shift key when you rotate and rotates in 45 degree increments. The white arrow tool, which is known as the direct selection tool, allows me to select individual points. So I can click and drag over a point like that. And I can then move that point around. Let me do that again. I'm going to click and drag over those two points. Now you'll notice that those two points are solid and those ones are empty. So now I can actually move those two points around and we can adjust the shape like that. Now, it doesn't just work with square shapes. I can do that on any shapes I could take an ellipse like so. Once again, go up to my selection tool, which is the direct Selection Tool. I will click and drag to select that point. I can then move that point around like that. But what about these little handles? Well, when you have a curve like this, a vector, this is known as a Bezier curve, I believe was named after Bezier who invented the maths behind it. So when you have a little point like this, by the way, some people call them nodes, but Adobe called them Points. Same thing. They have handles out. And you can take a handle and you can drag the handler round to adjust the curve. And what it's doing is it's keeping that as a nice smooth line there. Says I'm dragging this one around. It keeps that as a smooth curve going around. I can still move the middle point around wherever I want. The last thing that we can do with these handles is to actually pull them out individually. You can see, if I pull this one further, I'm smoothing out that line in there. If I went to this one, I could pull it out. Once again to really get a nice sharp curve on that. So you can pull them in and out independently. But by default, when you twist them, they twist together. Let's have one last look at a different shape. So I'm going to take a poly, click and drag a polymorph. Poly happens to be a triangle still, if you don't remember that, you can go along to your polygon tool. Just click once. It will allow you to choose the number of sides and a star inset. Using the direct Selection Tool, I can select the individual point over there and move it around wherever I wanted. By the way, there is this little blue box which appears as well. And now we're gonna be looking at this later on, but this allows us to anchored objects to other things. So we'll get to that later to try that out using this Direct Selection Tool and changing a few shapes 42. Direct Selection & Pathfinder to Make Car Shape for Photo: Let's look at it. A little example of using combination of the pathfinder and the Direct Selection Tool. I'm going to make a little shape to put a photo in. And I'm going to do a little very simple, almost cartoony Car Shape. I'm going to take an ellipse and draw a little elliptical shape over there. And this is going to be the front and the back of my car. Then I'm going to take another shape over here, which is the rectangle. Click and drag a rectangle over there. And I'm going to select both of those using the pathfinder Tool. I'm going to subtract the front object from the back object. So this is the body of the car. Now I need the top with a Windows go. So I'm going to take a rectangle and draw my rectangle out. But as you can see, the windows are two upright. So I could use the direct Selection Tool to select this point here and pull it out to more of a sudden angled window shape. And maybe the back angle that around as well. Or I could take this one and pull it in. So once I'm happy with that shape, I can put that. So they sort of overlap in there. Select them both, then unite them together using the pathfinder Tool again into overall Car Shape. Now, we need some wheels in here, so I'm going to take an ellipse. I'm holding down the Shift key when I draw the shape in there, and that gives me a perfect circle. Don't forget when you do this. Always let go of your mouse before you let go of the key on the keyboard, which is otherwise, things just snap back to how they were before you held down the key. Now I want two of those. I'm going to hold down the Alt key or the Option key and make a copy. So that one's going to go there. And this one get the line is going to go there. I'm going to select all three of those Objects. Now we haven't done this yet, so I've got three objects selected. What will happen if I use this cutting tool where it will take all the front objects and cut them from the back object and the wheels or the front objects. So it cuts all of them out like that. And then over here, I'm going to use my Shift key to make another little wheel in there. Pop that over there, hold down the Alt key to make a copy and drag my second we'll the back. Now, these ones here, I'm going to fill those with black. And this one here, I'm going to fill it black as well. And let's zoom into that a bit. And then I can take this one and I can put my picture in assam going to go to File and place. Over there. I've just used the shortcut, by the way, it's Control and D on the PC or Command and D on the Mac. To just very quickly put a jump into place. I have got some pictures of cars over here. So I'll just use that car in there and use my Frame Fitting to fit it straight in. That doesn't work too well. So I'm going to undo it. So Control Z or Command Z to undo and do it again, you can multiple undo. And if you then have this little thing which is attached your cursor, you can just use Escape to get out of it. Let me do that again. I'm going to use this picture of a tree. Over here is I've got this green car, if you like. Now, look what's happened. This image looks a little bit fuzzy. If I go back to my Frame Fitting, I can click on that button to get it to fit in perfectly. If you find that pictures not as good a quality as you'd expect them to be. You will need to go to the View menu, display performance, and check your on high-quality display. Bit of a play with that. Use some pathfinder, use the white arrow tool, combine the two of them. Once you've done that, you can always go onto the shape itself, grabbed points, and you can actually start moving them around, as well as you can adjust the shape as you need like that, and then just refit the image into the shape. If it's missing, try it out. 43. Place Photo into Multiple Frames with Unite: Now what about if you said to me, can we put this picture in not just a car but into the wheels at the same time? Yes, we can. But what we're gonna do is we're just going to remove the photo first. Now to remove the picture. If you just click on the picture in a frame and you were to press Delete or Backspace, it would remove both the picture and the frame. What do we have to do is we have to get to the picture. The easiest way to do that is to either double-click. And you can now see I've got this of brown frame over there That's from the picture. Or you can use the white arrow tool, the direct Selection Tool, and click on the picture to Selected. Now the picture selected, I can press, Delete or Backspace and it will keep the frame there. What we're going to do is we're going to select all three of those items. So I've used the Selection Tool again, the black arrow tool again, select all of them. I'm going to use the Pathfinder tool to unite them all into one shape. So now they're all actually one shape in there. I know they're not touching, but there are a single shape. If I now go to Place and I find that picture and place it in, it will place it in all three of those shapes at once. So once again, I'll go to my Frame Fitting and just fit it in there. And I'm going to get rid of that stroke. I don't like the stroke around the outside, so we'll just choose none for the stroke. So it's one picture in all of them. If I click in here and move the picture around, you'll see it'll move it in all of those shapes. Now this is quite useful technique, not just for silly cars like this. If I got rid of that, let's say for example, I was doing a document and I wanted to have one picture over a number of shapes. And I'll just use my rectangular frame tool. I'm going to just draw a little shape over there. Go up to my Selection Tool, hold down the Alt key and make a copy. Alt key, make another copy of their old Key, make another copy down there. If I selected all three of those, I could then unite them altogether using the Pathfinder. You can see now the crosses through all of them. Then once again, when I place, it will place it one image into all three of those shapes. Like so. Now there is a slightly shorter way of doing what I've, what I did then. And that is if you use a shape, any shape or Tool, if you click and drag, don't leave Curve the mouse, whatever you do, do not have gov the mouse until you're finished. Use the up arrow on the keyboard. You can split things up. So I can split that into four separate shapes. And if I use the right arrow, I can split it that way so I can just keep going. I've now got four across and 123455 down over there. So 20 little shapes in there. Now, if I tried to put one picture in the moment, it would only go into one of those shapes. But if I unite them together, use the Pathfinder. Now when I place into there, it will put them into all the shapes. And I get that sort of effect over there. It doesn't just work with squares either. I could use an ellipse. So I'll go to my elliptical shape tool. I'm going to draw one big ellipse over there. I haven't let go off the mouse. That's really important. Press the up arrow to split it one way, the right arrow to split it the other way. And then let go, united into one. And then use your place to place one picture into Multiple Frames. Tried out 44. Pen Tool & Convert Direction Point Tool: We're going to have a look at the Pen tool. Now, if you can't see the Pen tool, it's in with the add anchor point tool, the Delete Anchor Point Tool and Convert Direction Point Tool. We're going to start off with this tool. This tool is all about creating custom shapes. So I've gone down to my fill and Stroke. This is the same as the Fill and Stroke that we get on the right-hand side. I'm going to click on the fill and make sure I'm on none there, that little red line through there. And the stroke, I'm going to have black in there as well. So now what I can do with this tool is I can just click point to point. By the way, you can still change it over here point-to-point to create a little shape. And you don't have to finish the shape or you can leave it like that. You'll see if I were to put in a Fill. It just fills it up in a Stroke goes around the bits that you've been clicking. That's okay, but we need a bit more detail on this, so let's get rid of that. So one of the things we can do is if I click with this tool, we'll just go round a little bit like this over here. And back that point there. Firstly, I can use the direct Selection Tool to move the points around if they're not quite in the right place. But I can also go in with the Pen tool to the Convert Direction Point Tools. Bit of a mouthful, isn't it? Convert Direction Point Tool. This allows me to go to any point and click and drag it into a curve in create Curves like that. Now sometimes when you click and drag, you might find that it twists the whole thing up. Don't let go the mouse just untwisted. Like so. Let me make little simple flower using this technique. I'll use the Pen tool. And I'm just going to click and do this star shape over here. You could of course do this with the Star tool as well. Up to there. Oh, I missed. Now I'm going to use Command Z or Control Z to just undo that one and redo that point back to their. Then I can go across, I'm right-clicking on the Tool. I can go to my Convert Direction tool and I can click and drag to make my Curves. If you click and drag and things go wrong, don't worry. Just keep holding down and twist it around. If you find that you clicked and dragged new and oh my goodness, I've made a mistake over there. If you happen to grab that point again, what will happen is it'll it'll get even worse because it just breaks those points up. We're going to be looking at that shortly. So I'm going to suggest if you do make mistake, just use Command Z to go back to your initial sharp point. And then, well, once again, I've done it the wrong way and then twisted around until it's correct. Lastly, if you are twisting things around a life than you think, oh my goodness, I've made a mistake. You can click back on point and that'll take you back to a point again and you can redraw it. So this tool does to think well three things. Actually. One is it makes curves like this. Secondly, if there is a curve, you can click on the curve to go back to a point. So it's sort of toggles things between Curves and Points. And lastly, it allows you to break those curves so you can actually change the shape of that corner. Let's do that on existing shape. I'm going to take a little ellipse, like so. And I'd like to make this ellipse into an eye shape. So I'm going to go across to my Convert Direction Point Tool and just click there and click there to get that. I shape, if you like. I know it's not exciting it but bear with me. We'll get, we'll get to making more interesting things shortly. You can see I can just keep going with those until eventually become a rectangle. I can click and drag to get it back to a curve. Same again, I can take a rectangle and I can use that tool to just make things into Curves. Should I need, once again, just try dragging one way or the other until you get what you want. Have a bit of a goat that start to get used to that Tool. And also using the Pen tool to just click, It's just pointer points, click, click, click, click, click around, like that. Tried out 45. Create a Fish Text Frame: Let's use the pen to create a very simple shape. And I always like doing Fish with this shape because, well, any weird shaped can be called a Fish. If you try hard enough, I'm going to go click, click, click to make the head of the fish. This bit here is going to be the top fin. The body, the fishes going to go down there. This the top of the Fish and then the tail up there. I'm just doing this all with clicks, point-to-point over there. One more there, and back to the beginning. So I've got this very it looks like it's been done by a five-year-old type of fish. And I'm going to now go over to my Convert Direction Point Tool. And I can then go to these bits I wanted to round off and I can just click and drag to round them off. Now I don't need a round of one over there. This one here are round that off. This one I'm going to round off and I'm going to go to the runway by mistakes, I'll go, oops, wrong way and just pull it around. So this one can be rounded off to smooth that off, this needs to be smoothed off, obviously the middle bit on the tail as well. And I can just work my way around here now, if things don't look exactly as you want them to look, don't worry about it at this stage because you can always go back to your direct, direct Selection Tool. And we can then go and click on any of those points, move them around, and adjust the handles. So once again over here, I can pull that in a little bit. Maybe I'm thinking the head looks a bit funny. Over there. I can just pull that down a bit. In the move things around. Nothing is set in stone. You can just adjust it as you want it to look. I'm going to pull that out a little bit. Remember, once you've created this, you can put text in there. You could put pictures in there. So for example, here, if I had an article about fish, I could actually just go in, use my type tool, click inside the shape. And I'm just going to use placeholder text in there. And let's make that text a lot smaller. So I'll just select it all. Make that text very small, should look a little bit better in that shape. Then just copy and paste it in a few times over there and then I can get rid of the stroke around the outside. So once again, I select the Fish and remove the stroke. Then that just gives us text. That happens to be in the shape of a Fish. Not very readable. I know, but it can be done. Or you could put a picture in there as well. Anyway, do try that out using the Pen tool around, make the rough shape and you don't have to do a Fish if you've got something else in mind. And then use the Convert Direction Point tool to smooth things out. And then you can use the white arrow over here, the Direct Selection tool to go and move things around as you want them. And remember with that white arrow tool, you can always go back to her shape, click on it and adjusted if it isn't quite right in there, even if you've got text or a photo inside the shape 46. Create Curves with the Pen: Now one of the things with the Pen tool is that it's not just about straight lines. If you click once and then move over, move the pen along without holding down the mouse button, and then just click down and drag. So it's one movement, clicked down and drag. You'll see what it does is it makes these little handles and it changes the curve there. If I do it again, so click down and drag to make a curve, down and drag to make a curve. Rather than just having the points. I can click and drag all the time to make Curves. Of course, at any stage, if I just click, it'll go back to those points there. So click down and drag and don't take over the mouse. You can just move that handle around wherever you want to make the curve. So going back to our fish for a moment, I could click over here. Then I could click down and drag to do the head. And then click there at the base of the fin. I can click it down and drag and then click up here. So what I'm doing radius, cutting out the middleman clicked down and drag, click, click down and drag. Click. This, by the way, is exactly how Illustrator works with its Pen tool. So if you learned in InDesign, you'll be well ahead if you go into Illustrator. And yes, I do course in Illustrator and yes, you do draw a Fish in that course. Of course, there's a lot more to it than just that. But I always like fish because there's such an easy way to get started with this tool. And honestly, you can take any shape and go, yep, that looks like a Fish to me and nobody can argue with you. So what I've done really is just cut out the middleman. Now, is there any right or wrong to this? No, not at all. Doing this way is just a little bit faster with the Pen. Try that out. So it's click and then click drag over there. And you can continue to click drag as you go along. Or you can just click drag and then click, click drag and then click. Remember that flower that we did a bit earlier? Well, I could have done it the same way using this Pen tool. So using the pen, I can click, click, drag, click, click, drag, click, all the way round. To make the flower. One last one, click drag, and back to the middle again. Try it out 47. More Pen Curve Techniques: We can actually take this a lot further, because if you click and then you click and drag, there are two handles over here. And obviously the next time I click, it will try to follow this line over there of the handle wherever I go. So if I click there, it will give me a smooth curve going that way. If I click down here to give me a smooth curve going that way. But what about if I didn't want a smooth curve, if I just want a straight line from there. Well, what I can do is I'd go back to the last point and click it and you see that remove that second handle. So now I get a straight line. Let me do that again. If I click and drag, and I don't want this to follow the curve round. I can click to get rid of that second handle. And now I can go straight over there. So I can click and drag, get rid of the second handle. I can actually click and drag again and just keep getting rid of this second handle in there. So back to the fish exercise. Again, I'm sorry, this is the last Fish, I promise. For now. I'm going to go to the Pen tool. I'm going to click, go up to the fin, click and drag, and get rid of that handle. Click and drag, get rid of that handle. And I'm just gonna go all the way around the fish again by clicking and dragging and then getting rid of that handle. You can see how much faster this is than the first method. It does take a bit of getting used to. I will say that, but once you are into it, it'll set you up for all sorts of tools. I mentioned illustrator because it uses the same process. But then again, sodas Photoshop. There is a Pen tool in Photoshop and it uses exactly the same principles of using the Pen tool and clicking and dragging. Now I've got to my last point over here, and I'm just going to pull that down to get to the bottom of the fish. By the way, InDesign illustrators, Pen tools are almost identical. Photoshop is ever so slightly different in the Geoff to hold down a key when you click to break handles and things. But that's another story. Do try that out. So let's click, click, drag, go back to last point and remove that handle and keep going. Like so 48. Add & Delete Points: If we have created a shape using the Pen tool, and I'll just put a little curve there. Or any of these other tools in here. We can always add and subtract points from them. I'll just do a little rectangle over here as well. So if I go over to the Pen, I've got an Add Anchor Point Tool over here. I could just add another point in there and another point in there. I could do the same with the rectangle, and I could do the same with this curve to add in more Points. You can see if I use my Direct Selection Tool, I can then adjust those individually. Like so. Now it's exactly the same. If I can get hold of it, I could adjust it. Let's try that again. So select and move. It's exactly the same with deleting. Use the Delete Anchor Point tool, and you can just go in and get rid of any points that you don't want. Remove that. And this one here, I'll click on and remove as well. Try that out nice and easy this time 49. Add Points to a Text Frame: I've got a bit of text over here and I've just used some baseline shift, if you remember that to move that overlap and the other one down. I'm gonna move this text over here. So what I want to do is I want the text is stop where that bottom always and always have bit of a gap where the wires. So what I can do is I can use the pen with a plus on it over there to just put some Points. Since I've put a point there, point there, and a point over here, I'm going to do some more over here, 1111. I've just done them. There's that you can see what I was doing. And if I move that up a little bit like that, now can use the direct Selection Tool and click on this point. So I only want to select just that one over there and just pull it downward. Just make sure I'm on the right Tool. So click on that one and pull it downward. And the texts love course, have to move around it. Same over here. This one can move down to there. That point can go to there. And this one could move across a little bit in there. So that's another use for the pen with a plus, you can just add Points to your text frames as well. I'll just press the W on the keyboard so you can see how it's working. And maybe I'll move that up a little bit if I want to get that other line to come across. So don't forget, it's not just about doing graphical shapes. You can use the plus, minus and the other Tool, the little Direct Selection Tool on text as well. 50. Pencil: Smooth & Erase: A lot of people just don't get on with the Pen tool and they prefer the pencil. If I click on the pencil tool up here, this is a free hand version of the Pen. It still creates your vector lines, Bezier curves, and you can still edit them. But it does it in a more free hand way. It's great if you've got something like a webcam tablet or who he on tablets, the drawing tablets. If you have never used a webcam tablet before, just to warn you when you buy it. This about two or three days, you want to just throw it out the window. They do take a bit of getting used to, but once you use to them, they are so, so good. Now, using the pencil tool, as I said, it's all free hand. You just click and you just draw your line in and you can see it's smooth it out. So even if my line is a little bit wonky like that, it just smooths it out for me. I can still use the direct Selection Tool to select any of those points and move them around and they are handles on there to adjust as well. Now, you'll find that even if your line is not that smooth, you can still go in because there is a smoothing tool with the pencil tool and you can smooth out those lines as well as I can just click and drag over those lines there to smooth them out. I'm just clicking and dragging like that. Lastly, we have an Erase tool. So I can just erase out the line. If I've gone too far as well. Sometimes it's easier than deleting Points. Try those out. And if you find that your pencil is not smoothing as much as mine is, double-click on the pencil tool and you'll find you can change the smoothness in here. So I'm going to take my smoothness down to zero. Draw a little line over there with a few little funny kinks in it. And you can see it's pretty much done what I drew compared to taking the smoothness right up, click, Okay? And then when I draw the same sort of line with a few little funny kinks in it. You can see how just smooths it out. So much better. Try that out and I'll show you how you can edit lines 51. Add to Selected Line: I've got some text in here. It's just placeholder text. And I want to adjust this line here now I showed you before how you could do it with the add anchor point tool, but you could also do it by using the pencil tool. As long as this is selected, I can start on the line. And if I go down the line like that next to it, then I can move all over the place. Once again, finish running parallel on that line. And you'll see how it will just affect the shape. And you can do that to any shape you like. I could take even a shape like this little ellipse over there. Once again, use my pencil as long as that's selected, start on the line and move along parallel with the line. And then you can go and do whatever you want. And then Finish once again parallel to the line. If you start and you cross the line and you carry on and just leave it like that. You might end up either, in my case, deleting it or getting some funny shapes. Have a go with that one. 52. Scissors Tool: Let's look at cutting shapes up now. I'm going to take little shape. And by the way, this process is the same whether it's a shape or Frame. And I'm going to use the scissors. If I go to the scissors, I can click on the shape, on the edge and on the other side. And that will convert this into two shapes. You'll see if I use my black selection tool that's now to shapes in there, I can do exactly the same with the frame. I could take one of these rectangles exactly the same. Go into the scissors. Click at the top, click at the bottom. And I've now got two separate shapes 53. Introduction to Project: Create Icons: Another project, and this is also one of my favorites. We're going to be creating these to Icons. Over here. One looks 3D, but it's not actually true 3D. It's just drawn that when I'm going to show you how to, how to do that. And don't forget at the end, save these to Icons because we're going to be using them in another project later on. 54. Create Body & Head: I'm going to start off by creating a little circle. That's a good start, that's a square. Let's try that again. I'm going to go down to the Ellipse tool and click and drag to make a circle. I'm holding down the Shift key so that as I'm creating it, I'm getting a perfect circle. I'd like to give it some color. Any color, it doesn't matter, we can change it later on. Then what I want to do is to move it so it sits in the middle of my document across that way. So if I grab it and move, I'm just going to wait until you see that little pink line that appears in there. If you move something, when it gets to the middle, the pink line will appear. If I go down this way, I can get it exactly in the middle if I wanted to. It doesn't matter with up and down, but left and right is important for this. Let me make another little circle here. This little circle. Once again, I'm going to drag that to the middle. And then I'm just going to go down a bit. Today. I'm going to use the top circle to cut from the bottom circle using the Pathfinder, this option here. And we've got a number, a little buttons, but the second one along cuts the front object from the back Object. I'm going to put in the head now. So I'll use the circular Tool, the elliptical tool, draw my circle whilst holding down the Shift key and move that to the middle. I can just pull it down a little bit. Or if you want, you can use the arrows on your keyboard. I'm going to give that some color now as well. So same again, filled with color. And then the last part over here is to chop the bottom of the body. I'm going to do that with a rectangle. Click and drag across like so. Select both of those objects and then use the Pathfinder second button along to cut the front of the back one. So there's the body in the head and we still need to do a telephone. But if you'd like to get up to that stage and then I'll show you how we can make the telephone and then cut that away from the shape as well. 55. Make the Phone: I'm going to make a telephone using some circles. So I'll go to ellipse tool, draw a little circle here. I'm going to give it some color and it's find a color there. And then I'm going to Make a copy of that. So back to my selection tool. Down to the shape, hold down the Alt or the Option key, and drag to make a copy. And you can see I can make sure that it's right in line with that one. Now I've got these two. I want to then put the handle of the Phone over there. I noticed circle. I'll deal with that shortly. So I'm going to get another circle, draw another circle here, but mine's more an elliptical shape. So it's gonna kinda go over there. I'm gonna hold down the Alt key to make a copy of that. You can see I've got these two copies now. I'm going to select them both. And let me move this out. Yes, that you can see exactly what I'm doing. Select them both and subtract the front from the back, which just leaves this nice little shape in there. And I can then go and put that back onto the Phone. I'm gonna give it some color. Let's go with that petrel blue again, select both those objects. I might need to move along a little bit. I've realized it's not quite in the middle. Select those three objects and unite them into one using that button. On the left-hand side. I'm going to continue to cut out these parts using the lips. I'll make my little, little, little elliptical shape. I'm getting tongue-tied there. And I'm going to just drag it up. And this is going to be the thing that's going to cut the shapes out. So drag it up to about there. Select both those shapes and then use the second button long to subtract the front from the back. Here's my little telephone. And I'm going to drag it around. And it's going to go up there somewhere next to the person 56. Add a Stroke to the Phone: To give the effect of a cutout here, I'm going to go to the telephone and I'm going to go to the stroke. I'm going to put a paper stroke on it and just increase the stroke weight until it gets to the size that I want. Move that across. Now you can see the problem. The stroke has made the Phone much, much thinner. So I'm going to go to the Window menu, down to the Stroke panel. Over here we put some options. I'll just make sure the furnace Selected first. But you can see the align stroke allows me to align the stroke to the middle on the inside, or this is the one I want, the outside. So the full Phone shape is there with a line going out from there. And I can then just adjust the width of that Stroke to anything that I like. Have a go and make some exciting different people. Not just with phones but with hats or anything else which is appropriate. 57. Create a 3D Look Box: I'm going to go to File New Document as before. I'm just picking a very blank document like so. I'm going to bring in a picture. So I'm going to go to File and Place and find this image. Now, I have given you this in your resources. If you want to find a different one, that's absolutely fine. So this is the box that I'm going to create. I'm going to go along first of all and lock this down. So going to my layers, if I can see them, I can go down to Layers. And in here, I will just click on the little padlock there, or where the padlock will go next to the eye. Now, I'm going to zoom in that and I'm going to draw this using the Pen tool and I'm just using the standard Pen tool, the pen on its own. I'm going to go through this little shapes here. So I'm going to start there and just go click, click, click, click all the way round to make that shape. And let's fill that with a color. I'll come back and fix these colors later on. Then we're going to do another one. Now, if I were to go over here and start my next shape there, you'll see what it does. It just actually removes one of those points from there because the two changes as you go over something which is selected, let me show you that again. If I've selected this, go back to my Pen tool and then move over that point. It becomes a little minus. So it can actually just remove that point like so. Now we don't want that. So I'm going to start the next shape over here. And then I can go click, click. It doesn't matter if I touch that shape again. That point against, let's say we are, Let's give that a different color. I'll do this one here. Now. Look at that. Why did that one disappear? It was because I clicked here, but it didn't do a proper click. So I must make sure I click properly. Oh, to that point. Same again. Up to them. Give that some color. Same again with this one. But if color for that. And then these ones at the back, the ones tobacco, I'm actually going to go from that point there to there. I'm just going to go down here across and up. And I'm going to fill that with color. Then I'm going to go to the Object menu. Or I can do it in my Layers panel and just move that below the others. I can take that object and move it behind the others much faster to do it that way. Same over here, few little clicks around, back to there, and then color it in here. Just take that object and move it behind the others. Now we're nearly there. You can see how simple this is. I'm going to get rid of the picture. So I'm just going to drag the picture and drop it into the bin. And then we need some colors for this. So I'm going to be using shades of blue. I'll go into, select one of them. Down here. I'm gonna go in and find the blue that I want to use. I'm using this sort of petrol blue. And if I go onto this one here, let me click on that shape there. Once again, choose the petrol blue. You can see that the same color. But what about if I went to one of them? I changed the tint tint this to lighten that up a little bit. And let's make that a little bit lighter there. In fact, what I'll do for speed is I'm going to select all of those, change them all to blue, and then just go through them to lighten and darken the map. So these to hear that kind of seeing a lot of the light coming down. So I will lighten them up using the tint quite a fair amount. And these ones over here gonna be darker because they're facing downwards. This one here, maybe that's going to be a little bit lighter. You can just experiment to get different results as you want. We'll zoom out a bit on that. You see there's my little box. I want to keep it all together. So I'm going to select the whole thing and go to the Object menu And a lock to lock it down. That's fine if I don't want to move it. But if I do want to move it, it's unlocked it I would go to Object and Group. And that way it's grouped together, but I can move the whole thing around. I'm going to scale it up. So grab a corner and just scared it up. A Mode down the Shift key by the way. Like so. Unlike a bit of a shadow underneath this box. And what I'm going to do his cheat a little bit. I'm going to take the Pen tool. I'm going to draw in a little shape over there. And I'll fill that shape with a color so that you can see what it's going to, going to do. I'm not going to keep that color, don't worry. And then I'm going to go along to the Effects. Now the easiest way to find the effect is in the appearance panel here, click on Effects. And I've got different of shadows and glows and all sorts of things. I'm going to go with a drop shadow. From that. I'm going to move this up and I'm then going to move that down. So I'm going to move the Drop Shadow down a bit over there and increase the size of it so it's gonna be really soft. The reason I'm doing it on this shape here is I don't want it to affect, I don't want the drop shadow to be affected by these to have a sort of a shadow coming out the side there. All I have to do now to take that and move it underneath my group. And that gives us the little shadow in there. Now, if that shadow is a bit too harsh, you could always go into your drop shadow settings and change it. We can also change the opacity to affected as well. I think that'll look a whole lot better. That way. While we're here, we Merge will put it a little bit of text on here. So I'm just going to click and drag putting the word go. And I'm going to select that. Find an interesting typeface. I'm going to make it a whole lot bigger. Let's grab a corner and pull that out. Then. Place that on the box where I where I wanted to go. And I'm going to change the color to white. So I'm going from frame to Text and then to paper in there. And lastly, to give it a little bit of depth, I'm also going to go and add an effect to this as well. Now, we just select that again over to Effects Drop Shadow, but this time a very, very, very subtle shadow in there where you can barely see it. Like that. Have been. If we go sometimes with shapes like this, Boxes, squares, rectangles, it's easy to do with them with the Pen tool. Just make sure that once you've done them, you change the colors appropriately and I use the tint to get different tinted colors in there. Give it a go. 58. Introduction to Blends, Effects & Align: This is going to be quite short, but really important section. We're going to do things like creating Blends with objects. We're going to add effects to the objects. And we're going to look at how we can align things. So just making sure that all the bits and pieces that you're doing are looking really good. 59. Effects: Let's have a look at the effects. Starting off with a simple shape like this. If you want to add an effect, you can do it in two ways. You can either go to the Appearance panel and you'll see the effects. Are there. The effects are there. Or you can go to the Object menu and I can go down to effects and choose them from here. It's pretty much the same thing either way. Now, a lot of these effects are very similar in the way they work. Let's start off with a very simple one, which is just the Drop Shadow. So as you can see, the drop shadows appeared and if you can't see, it makes sure that you've got the preview option switched on in this little window. Now I'm on the drop shadow there, it's ticked. And these are the options for the Drop Shadow. So for example, in here, I could go along and I could affect the distance and move the distance further away from the shape. I can go to the offset as well, and I can do it vertically and horizontally. I can go to the size and change the size of that. And I can go to the opacity and adjust the opacity of that Drop Shadow. Now, if you are going to use some of these effects, try to be well gentle with them. They can look really over-the-top very quickly. And the rest of them work pretty much the same. This drop shadow there, There's an inner shadow which puts on the inside glows in a glows bevels and embossed with beveled edges on items, and a few others. I'm not going to go through all of them. I've just want to show you where they are and when you choose one, as long as you click on the word in a shadow, for example, these are the inner shadow Options. If you just click the tick, although it applies it, it doesn't show you the options. You have to click the word to see the options. But this is another way to apply an effect and this is one of my favorite effects. It's gradient Feather effect down there. If you want to apply a gradient Feather, the easiest way to do it, it's got to the gradient Feather tool. There's a specific tool for this effect. It's down here, it's called the gradient Feather tool. Don't get confused with the Gradient Swatch tool and it's an easy mistake to make. Then all I have to do is to click and drag to make something fade-out. And that's what it's doing. It's actually fading out. Now you can't really see that unless I had a second object on top. If I go and put a second object on top of that, and I will fill that with a different color. Use the gradient Feather. And I can then click and drag. Let's try that with the right Tool again tracked over there, click and drag. And you can see how it will just fade out. Or I can click and drag in this direction to fade it in and out. You can go up, down, left and right. You can also actually go to the gradient Feather Options in the gradient Feather area. So you can see it shows that the gradient Feather switched on. And in here, I've also got some more options. So I can change the angle in here rather than using the tool. I can go with a linear gradient or a radial gradient. And in here you can even move the gradient and make it smaller so I can pull it closer. Like so. Try that out and then we'll do it on some Photos now show you how we can or the effects that we can get from that 60. Gradient Feather: I'm going to bring in a picture over here. So I'm going to use my Frame Tool. And I'm just going to put the picture over my entire page. Then find the pictures I'm going to go to File and place. These pictures are actually in your resources. Although you can use any pictures that you like for this example, just going to find this picture here and fitted into the frame. Now let's say, for example, that this image was a cover of a brochure. Or maybe this was a something like a social media posts that I was trying to do. What I could do is directly on the picture, I could use the gradient Feather tool. And I can just click and drag on the gradient Feather tool to get that image to fade out the further app I start more of a gradient I can get. So I'm just taking out like that. So I can then put my text and the bottom. I'm going to undo that. But with a dark picture like this, it would probably look better if I faded it too dark. So instead, maybe I could use a shape, put a shape over the top of that, the bottom part of that picture. Give it a color here. And I'm just going to choose a darkish color from here. But okay, that color doesn't look great in there. What about if I chose a color from the photo? Well, I can do that by going along to the eyedropper tool and clicking on the photo. So I'll use the eyedropper tool. Click on the photo and you'll see it's picked up the color directly from the photo. Do bear in mind though that that color, because the photo is RGB, that color is RGB as well. If you're in a CMYK document, you've used an RGB color inside your CMYK document. Now I'm going to go along to my Feather Tool and just click and drag up a little bit to get it to fade out. I think I'll start it from there and stop over here. And I can always change this color as well if I didn't like it. Back to my eye dropper tool, find a much darker brown that probably looks a lot better. And I can then put my white text over the bottom. But let's take that one step further. Instead of having a photo at the bottom, I'd like to Blend another picture on top of this one. I'm going to lock this picture first, so I'm going to click on it. I'm going to go to object and lock. So I've locked it's I can't move it. I'm then going to use the rectangular frame tool, draw another frame on top of that picture, and place my next picture in there. So I've got some coffee beans over here. And I'll just get them to fill that frame up like so. Now I'm on the top picture so I can use my gradient Feather and just click and drag on that top picture and it will make the top picture goes semi-transparent so I can blend the two of them together like that. Or if I went along to the gradient Feather options, I could change that to be radial. Now, that's the wrong way round. It's going from the middle out. But up here you'll see this little button which actually allows us to flip it around. So now I've got the bottom picture in. They're going out to the top picture. I could just keep dragging to the area that I want. I'm interested in what he's doing and a little bit of his face, I think I'm going to blend it like so. There's no end to what you can do with these. I could then add another picture on top and Blend and a third or fourth or fifth, how if Menu want, blend them together. But I would suggest locking the pictures. As you go. Remember, Command Z or Control Z is your friend. If you've made a mistake, just go back again. Like that. I'm happy with that. Try it out. 61. Blending Modes: Now for this example, I'm going to do a new file. I'm going to go over to web, and I'm going to create a web post. So in here I'm going to make mine 1080 pixels. By 1080 pixels. I can get that one selected. 1080 pixels square. So this is ideal for Instagram at the moment. All these things change. So in six months, Instagram might just change the sizes. But at the moment, that is perfect for Instagram. I'm going to click on Create. And then I'm going to bring in that various to picture. So I'm going to use the little rectangular frame tool. And I'm going to pop that maybe up to about the halfway mark over there. I'm going to place the picture in there, so File and Place bringing the picture and fit it to the frame. Now, the problem here is that he's looking the wrong way. He's looking out of the picture and he really should look into the picture. It's just would work so much better. So there's a little button up here in the properties. If you click that button, it will flick a picture round. Do be careful though, because it does mean that his son, his tattoo is the wrong way around. Maybe I'd need to actually make him a little bit bigger to cut off that tattoo. I could do that by using the white arrow tool, the direct Selection Tool. I can click on the picture, go to the bottom, hold down the Shift key, and just scale that picture up a little bit. Like so. And I think that's I think that would would work over there. So nobody Hopefully now can tell that he's the wrong way round. Now, I would like to make this picture black and white. So I'm going to use a little rectangle and put the rectangle over the top of the picture. I'm going to make that rectangle white or paper. So if I click off of it, you shouldn't be Eclipse. If I click off, you shouldn't be able to see anything over there. Now, I'm going to click on the rectangle, the Overlay, which is white. And I'm going to go just above the effects to opacity. If I change the opacity on here, you'll see how it adjusts it. So you can see through the white becomes semi-transparent. I want to show you that, but that's actually not what I wanted to do. I want to go to the opacity and I want to change the setting in here which says normal. These are our blending modes. If you've used Photoshop, you'll probably be failure, failure. These blending modes because they do the same thing. Illustrator has some very similar Blend Modes and most graphical packages do as well. I'm going to click in there and I'm going to go to the 1 s from the bottom called color and see what that does is it just knocks the color out. If I were to take the shape and just pull it in a little bit like that. You'll see where the Overlay isn't. It's just still the color image. So it's just this little shape here that is blending that the two of them together to make them black and white. Let me do another one over here. So I'm going to take another shape and I'll just put another shape down here. Let's go over that subsection. Just up to them. Quite like that orange actually. And if I then do the same with that, go to Opacity Normal Color Mode. You can see how it colorizes it up with that orange. Let's get another one in here. So I'm going to go and make a copy of this. I'm holding down the Alt key to make a copy, will make that one a bit smaller. Bring that in and change that to a different color. Again as well. Looks quite good when you press W in there. Do try that out. The Blend Mode that we're using is Color Mode. And you get to it by going to opacity and from normal, go down to color. When we do a project. Later on, you'll find that we'll experiment with some of the other ones like multiplying screen. And I'll show you what they do in our project 62. Align & Distribute: I'm going to take some shapes and put a few shapes over here. I'm going to have that one there, another one there, another one here, and one more down there. Now, we can align shapes using the alignment options very quickly by going to Window, object and Layout and Align. And if I select those shapes, I'll just pull them into the middle here. You can see that I can align them either to their left, the center, or the right. Now obviously if I had them horizontally, I could use these ones to do the same thing. Then we've also got distribution, so I can distribute things based on the tops centers or their bottoms. Now this seems really strange because they're not actually distributing them out really. It's using the middle of the objects, in the bottom of the objects. So the other thing we can do is to distribute things based on space. So I can distribute with space in there. And that'll make sure that I get the same amount of space between the objects. Now I'm going to increase the spacing in here. And let's go with say 50 and then distribute with space. And you can see how I get more spacing between them. I'm gonna get rid of those. And I'm going to do another little shape over here. So I'm going to make a quick shape and I'm going to make some copies. I'm holding down the Alt or the Option key to copy this a few times. In there. I wanted to distribute these objects down on the right-hand side here, starting at the top in the margin and going down to the bottom. I'm going to select all of them in here. I'm going to line them up, which is fine. But then to distribute them, I'm going to change my Align to click in there. I'm going to align it to the margins. So now when I use Distribute, it will actually look at the top and the bottom margin and distribute them evenly. That way. I could also then go over here and say, well, let's make sure that all lined up across the page over there. So it's kind of distributing them with both margins. 63. Align to Key Object: We could have few different options in the aligned to, Align to Selection means it will just look at the Selection, look at all of them, and average the position out. Align to margins as you've seen, will align to the margins. We can align to page, the edge of the page. Or we can align to a spread which is two pages together. But what about the align to Key Object? Well, let's say that some of these had moved around, and this one was over there and that one was maybe there. This one had moved to that position. And I wanted to align all of these. But I want to align them to this one which is over here. So how do I do that? Well, if I select all those objects, making sure to make, to make sure that my photo is not selected as well. You'll see if I were to align them to the Selection. And I'll just choose central line or left align. They just align up to each other. But if I decided to go to Align to Key Object, I can choose any one of these objects and say align to that object. So here, for example, acts I want to align to this object and they're all align to that one there. Or I can click on this one and say align to that object over there. Make sure that when you're using your Align tools, that you know what you are aligning them to. Are they looking at the objects themselves? Are you actually choosing which object you want to align to or are you aligning them to the page of the margins or the spread? 64. Introduction to Project: Build an Infographic: Another really brilliant Project. This is an infographic that we're going to create. As you can see, we're using some of the icons that we created in the last project. And it looks really impressive. And it doesn't take as long as you'd think it would. And once you can do one like this, gone Google have a look at all the infographics that are out there and you'll see how easy it is to create what looks really complex. So let's jump straight into it. 65. Create Swatch Colors: I've got a document up here now, mine is in RGB. So when I went to file a new, I chose from the web option. But if you want to do something for print, that's absolutely fine. You can choose the CMYK print option. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to go along to the Window menu and make some colors. So I'll go to Colors. I'm going to go to Swatches. And I've just got the default Swatch in here. Now, what I want to do is to make some colors up. And I can do this in a few ways. If for example, I'm doing an infographic which is going to be with an image. I might want to take Colors from that image. So for example, here, if I went to File and Place and found an image, and I've just picked a bright image over here. I could pick the colors from that. I'll just zoom in a little bit over there. So I could go into my eyedropper tool and say, well, we want some sort of red in there. You can see that pink, I can just drag that in like so. I can then go back again and find another color in there. We've got a lime in and I can work our way through the Colors. And then of course, I can always go to the colors themselves, double-click them, and darken them down. Now as you can see, it's quite difficult to dark and when you actually just working in RGB. So I like to change to HSB. That means that I've got a slider for brightness. I can actually dark and things down like that really easily. I can either intensify the color or knock the color back. Like so. Be careful if you're picking a color and you've done that and you're in CMYK. This little warning sign here says that this color won't work in CMYK. It will be that color for this particular green, he won't notice any difference. The other way that you can make a color is to just click over there. Ignore the fact that you've got a picture up and double-click your copy and make your color up in here. Or using HSB, I'm not gonna be prescriptive about the colors that we're going to use. I've created some already, so i'm, I will bring those in while you make up some colors. Have a go. Oh, by the way, make sure your colors aren't too bright or light. We want to be able to solve dark and enlighten the color. So a medium color would be quite good. 66. Create Rectangles & Scale to Middle: I've made myself for darkish colors over here and I've named them. So if I double-click on one of them, you can just change the name in there. If it doesn't allow to do that, just untick the name with color value button. So those are the colors that I'm going to be using. And I'm going to have lighter versions of those as well. Now, what I want to do is I want to start off by creating a little rectangle. I like that. And I'm going to make that rectangle a reasonable size. We're going to have four of them in here. I want to move this rectangle down. So I want four of those, one below each other. So one of the ways I could do it, this is not overly accurate, but it's good to hold down the Alt key and drag down until it just touches the one below. You're going to be quite accurate to make sure it's absolutely perfect. Another way to do it is to go along and you can choose to Step and Repeat. So there's an option here called Step and Repeat and duplicate. And what Step and Repeat does is it allows you to make a number of different copies. I will just switch on preview over there. And I want three copies of that one. You can see here the vertical, I can actually offset that until they're all spot on. I can do them horizontally as well. I don't want to, but you can do them horizontally. And if you've got create Grid on, you can go horizontally and vertically. I'm just going to keep mine on Repeat. Three of those has three copies of the first ones. I have four altogether. I'm going to take this down to zero and just make sure that these are just touching like so. Click Okay, I'm going, I've got for exact copies all the way down. Now we're getting to just color those. So I will just give these some different colors in here that'll reveal purple. I'll make that one orange, and that will be my petrol blue. At the bottom. I'm going to select those four. So I've just clicked and dragged over them. Hold down the Alt key and make another copy. Over here. We've got to these lines of objects. Then these ones are going to be made smaller. So I'm going to go along and grab end and pull it in. Now you can see when I'm pulling this in, it's kind of offsetting them from those ones. Then I want them to actually to be scaled to the middle. So if you hold down the Alt key when you do that, you can actually scale things down to them centre point. I'll do that again. So without the Alt key, it just scales down like that. With the Alt key, you're not clicking on the object. Otherwise, I will think you're trying to make a copy. But if you just go to the top there, hold down the Alt key and drag. That will then make a scaled version, but it scales from its Middle out. And once again, I'll just scale this one up over here. If you'd like to get that to that point there. Don't forget Step and Repeat or just copy them down. You want four down there. You want a copy them across another four and you want to scale those to the middle. There's four of them, so Scale It's to the middle. So those to line up in there. Try it out. 67. Make Different Length Arrows: I'd like to make these into arrows, so I'm just going to go along and change the length of them slightly. Before I do that, I'm going to have some shorter ones. And some longer ones. I think I'll make this one actually but shorter still there. Maybe this one. So now to make these into arrows, I'm going to use the pen with a plus on it. It's the add anchor point tool. Just going to go right in very, very accurately on the middle of that line there. As you'll see, just guessing where the middle is. I'm not working it out perfectly. Once again, on there, click on the line. Now, sometimes if it's a pain to click, you might want to just deselect the other one and then just go and select it. And you can then click on it. A lot easier. But it still doesn't mean that it's gonna be perfect. Or very often, I zoom in to try and get onto that line and click it. There we go. Took a few girls to do that one. You shouldn't have to. But sometimes it's just easier to zoom right in and click the Line. Here we go. Let's do that one. And we'll do this one as well. Good. And now that I've got all of those with extra points in, I'm going to select the points. I'm going to use my white arrow tool, that is the direct Selection Tool over them to select that one, hold down the Shift key and select this one Shift key and select that one shift key and select that when I'm just clicking and dragging over them to select them. Then on my keyboard I'm going to hold down Shift and then press the arrow key. If you don't hold down shift, you do it in very, very small increments. So I'm just using Shift with you, the arrows on the keyboard. And that's it. I've got those all done. I'm happy with that. Try those out, get some arrows going? 68. Draw Middle with Pen: I'm going to be using the Pen tool. I'm just going to go from zero pointer points are startup, then do click, click over there. They're there. And back to that one again. And then I can move on to the next one. Now, I'm not going to click on that point there because you can see as I go over it, it thinks I want to delete that one. If I start here, 12, then it gives me a new line. You might want to zoom in a little bit for this, if you find that it's a bit more difficult. Once again, I'm going to start here. One, it doesn't matter whether you go clockwise or counterclockwise when you're going round. And the last one over here, they're join that, join that. You can start to see this slowly taking shape. And now I can go onto my colors. So before I do that, I think I'll just put in the appropriate fields, so that's gonna be purple. This one is going to be orange. Nope, wrong one. Let's make sure I select that one first. That's going to be orange. And the last one over here is going to be my teal. I think I've got it as petrol blue there we are. Now some of these I want to be lighter than others, and I think I'm going to do these ones here. So I'm going to hold, click on that one, hold down the Shift key to select both the outer two, not the inner ones there. Then I can just change the tint on that and lighten them up a little bit. Now, I find it's easier to actually have the swatches open all the time. So I can just go up here very, very quickly. So I'm going to click on there, click there, and then change the tint on that. Doesn't have to be too much. It's just enough. The impression that that's 3D. Last one over here, that one there, one there. And change the tint on that. Go with that. And drawing those shapes using the Pen tool. And then just ever so slightly tint these lighter. So those ones are darker. Or if you've got very light ones anyway, you might want to go into the individual colors. You can actually make a copy of the color, double-click the copy, and then you can change it in here using HSB. And I could actually darken it down if I wanted to. Black. So with this as a separate colors, actually find it's entirely up to you 69. Adjust with Direct Selection Tool: If you want to adjust the length on any of these items, used, the white arrow tool, I know it sounds a bit strange. But if you use the black arrow tool, the selection tool, what it'll do is it actually Scale the objects themselves you'll find to Arrows get longer as well, and they might not get longer proportionately as well. So I tend to use the white one. Over here. I could go into any of these arrows and I can select, say for example, those three points there. And then use the arrows on the keyboard to make that longer or shorter cycles adjust the distances. I'm going to take these three here and once again, just adjust them. Now, look what's happened. By doing that. I've unfortunately select that line as well. So I'm going to undo that. I'm using Command or Control Z to undo that. So when you are selecting this, try to be accurate about getting those points exact. Sometimes you can drag around, sometimes you may need to be a bit more exact like I'm there and now I can move that one around without affecting the others. So let's try moving it up a little bit there. I'm happy with that. If I want to make this bigger here, I can select just the points at the end, once again using the white arrow. And I can move them around that way. If I wanted to move this distance here, this middle, I could select all of those points. So it selected four points there plus two points from that. And then once again, using the arrows on the keyboard, I can move that closer or further apart depending on what I wanted. I'm think I'm happy with that. I could even maybe try these middle ones here, move them in a little bit if I needed a bit more room. Now, now that I've got that, I'm going to select the whole thing and I'm going to go to Object and group to group it together. And I can now move that around wherever I wanted. By the way, if you want to have your Infographic like this, that's great. But if you want to, you can also go to the corner and you can rotate it around, hold down the Shift key, and rotate it into an infographic, which is that way up. It's entirely up to you. The last thing I'm going to do is just make sure that I've centered it roughly in the middle of the document over there where I want the final result to go and I will go to lock it as well. Just that I contacted by mistake 70. Paste in Icons and Re-color: Icons, and I'm going to select the box, copy it, go back in here, and paste it in. I'm gonna make it a bit smaller, so I'm just holding down the Shift key and scaling it down. That's probably a little bit large side, my text is disappeared, but that's fine. I don't want that in there. I'm just going to scale it down a little bit more. Taxa. I think that's about the right size. Yeah, That's perfect. But now I want to change the colors on this box as well. So it'll look a little bit better against the darker backgrounds because you can barely see it on some of those. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to ungroup it because it's probably grouped together. We did group ID in the last project. I'm going to ungroup it if yours isn't, it doesn't matter. And then I'm going to go into my if I can find them into my swatches. And I'm going to start to change some of the colors. So this is these two here. I think I've probably going to be the darkest ones. So I'm gonna make them black. But I'm actually going to tint it right way through. So they're almost white, so I'm gonna make them slight gray. This one, once again, I'm going to make it black and I'm going to tint that, so it becomes a lighter gray. This one here, same again, using my black and tinting it to a slightly different shade of gray. And these two here, which at the back, once again into black and I can make them lighter color there. Maybe this one here needs to be lighter still. You just play with these until you get what you want from them. Right? There's my box. My shadow has disappeared. I'm not quite sure where it's gone. I've probably lost it somewhere along the line, but I'm going to select the box over here and group it together. I'll just move it out as the RDAs, my shadow over there, you can't really see the shadow from it at all. Probably because I scaled it down. So I might need to go to the Drop Shadow. Let me just put it back. Just that I can see it for now. I might need to go to my Effects and go along and have a look at the drop shadow. Over here. Maybe I've made the size too big. Let's try that again. Drop Shadow and change the size. You can see it's sort of come in at the bottom. Over there. I can change the distance as well, and I'll move that up a little bit underneath the box. So we've still got that little drop shadow sitting under there. And I can select them both. And once again, group them together. Now, once you've got your first box in there, I'll just play setting the right position. All I need to do is to make some copies going up or down. Now I find it's easiest to go from the top downwards. You can hold down, your old can do it, or you can go to Edit. Remember this Step and Repeat. And over here, I'm just going to repeat those, not horizontally. You can see my boxes are going horizontally. I want zero in there, but vertically. And I can then just keep going until they fit in perfectly. And I know that they're all the perfect distance apart. Like okay. If you want to do something with your icon, the little character there, once again, copy that, bring it in. And maybe I just wanted to have a Phone icon on the end here. Well, I'm gonna paste it in. You can see we've got the outline over there. I'm going to go along and I'm going to remove the fill from that whole thing. So I'm going to choose none for the fill and the stroke. I'm going to have as paper, I'm going to increase the width on there just a little bit. And I'm going to scale that down. Now if we move that up there, you can see how thick that Stroke is. So I'd have to actually probably go in and adjusted to something which looks a little bit better. I've done something weird to my phone. Not quite sure what I've done there must have clicked and dragged. A bit funny, I really should actually do this again to, to fix it. There we go. It looks a bit better and we'll just move the Phone up to the ear. That same again. Once you've found, once you've got it right, just select all those parts and go along to object and group them together. You'll notice that this one, the Phone goes on the outside, those are on the line itself. I could adjust those using the Stroke panel if I wished. I'm going to leave mine like that though 71. Add Background and Numbers: Let's put in a darker background. I'm going to make a shape over here. I'm going to start from the sand in there and create a shape. I'm taking it up to where the bottom of those little lines go. And I'm going to make this a very dark gray. So I'm going to go to black and change my tint to get a dark gray on there. Then I'm going to make another copy of this. So hold down the Alt key. Make another copy, which That's right up to that one there. But make it a lot narrower. So it also goes up to the next area of the infographic and hold down the Alt key and make one more over here, which goes to the end of the document. This middle one, who's going to be a slightly darker gray. And this will give us once again, a bit more 3D effect. Now, if I select those three items, I'm going to go to object, arrange and send to the back and that'll move it underneath all of those shapes. And you can see it's almost like these arrows are dropping down an area before continuing on. You don't have to do this, but if you want, it gives you quite an interesting look. And then I can take my little telephone man. I'll put person and put it over there. Now we need some numbering on here as well. Before I go any further, I'm going to select those three shapes and a lock them down. So I contacted them by mistake. I'm going to go over here and do some numbers. And once again, use the Text tool. Now I've got to be very careful. You see how when I go over that shape with a Text tool, it thinks I want to use the shape as a Text Frame. I'd probably end up doing it here. This is why you need to make sure your background is locked and put in my number. Let's have one over there, which I'm going to select. Choose a typeface that will work on here. I'm going with something fairly, fairly thick. Marvin's maybe a bit too small. I think I need something really chunky for this. So it's very difficult to see what your typeface looks like when you're actually using just the number one in there. Let's try last. However there and I'm going to make it bigger. I think it's quite a quite a nice chunky shape. And I'll move it across onto the box. I could try making it white because the box is not quite white and this will be very, very subtle. So I'm going to my text, choose white, and you can just about see the white in there. If this front of the box was slightly darker, that would work. But at the moment it isn't. Um, you could also try. It may be using one of your colors like that you've used on your shape. So in this case that was funky green. That'll probably work. I'm gonna hold down the Alt key and just make another copy. Halt and copy. Holton copy. Or you could use that Step and Repeat process that I showed you before. So this one here is going to be number two. And same again, I will just pick, make sure we selected. I'm going to pick the funky purple, groovy purple. There's a number three. And that's going to be the orange. And number four. Number four is what is number four? Number four is petrol blue. Press W to see how it's going to look at the moment. And that's, I think that's looking pretty good there. We've got a lot of depth to this document. And then over here we're going to use this light Tim somewhere and put in a bit of text as well. Anyway, if you'd like to get on and do those backgrounds and the numbers. And then we'll continue on. 72. Use an Object Style Shadow: I like to put a little drop shadow under these arrows just to lift them away from the background a little bit. So we're going to use a slightly different techniques. Do that though. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to first of all unlock everything so I can get to them. So Object, Unlock All on spread. These objects here are all grouped together. So I'm going to go to Object and Ungroup or so I can go to the individual objects. Now I'm going to move this page along a little bit so I can see what I'm doing. What I want to do is I want to actually create a style for the drop shadow. So I don't have to do four of them and try and remember the settings. I'm just going to do one. I'm going to go to my Styles, Object Style. And in here I can make a new style. Now I'm just going to select this object first. I'm going to click on the plus to make a new Object Style. Double-click it to go into it. Let's call this Drop Shadow. And down here, I'm going to switch on the Drop Shadow. So I've clicked on the word Drop Shadow. You can see there's a Drop Shadow. Now I'm going to move the angular round a little bit, so it's going more in that direction. There to the right. I'm going to change the size of it, so it's pretty big. And I'm going to reduce the opacity in here to make it a lot more subtle, you find is not quite right. You can just still angle some of these around. Maybe change the distance a little bit if you want to move it further away from the shape. Once you've done that, also makes sure because we don't want to pick up the green there. So you want to untick the fill over there so we don't want anything on that fill. And in fact, we don't want anything on transparency with Fold-out shouldn't actually make any difference. You really don't need any of those. I'm going to click Okay? And here's my Drop Shadow. Now, all I need to do is to click on the next shape and then add the drop shadow effect, that one there, add a drop shadow. And this one here to add the drop shadow in like so. I've now got the little shadows all the way underneath. If you find that the background is still making this look a little bit bland, you can always go in and either lighten or darken depending on what you like. I'm going to try mind going a little bit darker. I think they show up against a darker background. And the middle one here, I'm going to go even darker still. So once again, darker on that. No right or wrong. You just try as you want. Remember to keep pressing W to see how it's going to look with the final result. 73. Add Text and Drone Logo: Now, as you can see, I've added some texts in, and it is very simple. I'm not going to go through it with you because all I've done is taken some text, pop the text in. I went over here to the character. And I used this option here. Instead of having all caps, I use small caps in there. And then I took that bit of texts and copied it down a few more times and changed it. And then exactly the same text I used over here with a little icon. And up the top over there as well. And below it, It's the same text, just changing the size of the font. As I went this bit of text over here, I drew a textbox and I went to the Type menu and I filled it with placeholder text so that when I'm ready or store the company is ready. They can put in their own text in there. These numbers. I copied from those numbers there. And then I made them white. So let's do one more thing in here. I'm going to go up to the little deliver X at the top. And because this is a drone delivery service, I want to make the x into a little almost a drone icon. Very, very simple, not too many details. So I'm going to zoom right in over to there. The first thing I want to do with this X is to move it slightly away from the word deliver. So I'm going to do that by going over to my kerning option and just changing the kerning. In this, I've clicked between those two characters. And then I can then adjust the kerning in there and get the distance exactly where I wanted to make it into a drone while I'm going to do is put some circles on the end so it looks like the propellers. I'll go over here, get an ellipse, drawing a little elliptical shape. Hold down the Shift key so I get a perfect circle, not too big. I'm going to get rid of the fill and I'm going to choose a non fulfill. And then the stroke, I'm going to choose paper. And I'll make it a little bit thicker over there so it matches the weight of the text. I'm going to go along and get my arrow tool, my selection tool, and move that across to that point. And I'm going to hold down sorry, I bumped the microphone there. I'm going to hold down the Shift and the Alt key or the Option key and make another copy over there. And another one over here. And another one over there to get that to a drone, look. Once again, it might be a little bit too close. I might have to click between the R and the x and move it across. So once again, I would use my kerning to just adjust that across a little bit. And then I'd have to select the wing, the propellers. Once again holding down the Shift key to select all four and use the arrows on my keyboard to move that into the right position. Now, this has done. What I'm going to do is make sure that I've saved it and we should be saving as we, as we go along. So I'm going to call this drone infographic saving it as a InDesign document. Then because this is going to go onto a website about the drone delivery, I'm going to go to File and Export. I'm exporting it as a JPEG file. So J peg down there. Click on Save. I want quite a high resolution of this because it's going to be quite big on the page. And I'll let the word developers sort out the final size later. But I'm going to increase the size over here to 150. So rather than the 72 default, I'm also going to make sure the quality is set to maximum so we get the best quality out of this JPEG. That's it. Click on Export. And your document is done. 74. Introduction to Export, Publish & Booklet Printing: We're going to save our document now in this section, but we're going to be doing it to Online publishing. This is something that we really haven't gotten into yet. But this is really great way to share your work with colleagues or to send it to a client by just having a little URL link that they can click on. Because some other bits and pieces in there that would go through as well to do with saving and packaging your Document? 75. Preflight and Package: I'm going to save my documents. So I'm going to go to File and Save As and I'm going to call it classic car. Savings isn't InDesign document. Now, before I start to send this out to the printers or PDF thing it or anything like that. I want to check my document for errors and I can actually see some onscreen. But that's because I'm only looking at one page. If there were 50 pages, I wouldn't want to go through every single page to check to see if there was an issue. So what we've got down here is a little option called preflight in. Mine says there are two errors on my page. I'm going to click on the drop-down menu next to preflight ING. And over here I'm going to choose preflight panel. Now what this does is it brings up a Panel and shows me exactly what the problems are. You can see, first of all, text, it says there's overset text on page number one. So it says there's a Text Frame problem there. And I can see that. And if I go there, pull that down, that's fixed, that problem has disappeared. The second thing it says is a link image problem. It says there's a missing link. Once again, over here tells me which image is missing and it's on page number one. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go along, There's the missing image there. And I'm just going to click and go and find that image. Now, I know that it was in one of these folders here. So it's Where's the little preview? It's that one. Over there. I'll just click it again. Click Open, and it just updates that. You can see there's no more errors in there. So I'm gonna give this another Save once again. So always check your document for errors. Now, I want to save this so that I can always come back to it. And the problem is that I've got images over here, four of them, which are linked to external files. And you saw that I'd actually managed to lose one of them a moment ago. So if I save my document, it doesn't save the images with the document they are wherever I've left them on whatever drive I've linked to. So this could be a problem, especially if I go and delete one of those images. So what do you can do is you can do something called packaging, which takes you Document and it packages it up and makes copies of all the important things that you need for your document. Now I'm going to go to File and Package. By the way, you need to save this document first. I'll go down to Package over there. And in here, we're just gonna go down to the bottom part and say Package. Now it's going to create a folder and it's going to call a classic car folder. You can call it anything you like. It's also when we do it, it's going to make a PDF file so you can choose what quality of PDF file you would prefer in here. And I'm going to click on Package down there. Now this little warning is saying that although it's saving the Fonts for you, if you're passing this onto somebody else, they need to buy the Fonts themselves because Fonts are copyright items. So I'll just click Okay on that. And now what I've got, let's have a look at it is this little folder over here. I'm going to open it up. And inside that folder we've got a few things. First of all, we've got the in D D far that's the InDesign document file. That's the same as the other one that I saved. There's another one in here called the IDML file. And this is for people who aren't older versions of InDesign. I've got a PDF of that document. Although we're going to be PDF thing separately and goes through our own settings. I have got Document Fonts. If I open that up, you see, you can see this two fonts in there that I used in my document, protect that big castle on over there, which is what all the text was. Then lastly, over here we've got the links folder and these are copies of all of the images that I've used in the document. I just copies. It hasn't moved the originals. So they're still exactly where I left them. That way I've got a folder with everything I need. I could archive that and come back to it in six months time and everything is still there 76. Publish Online: I've added a few pages to my document. And you can do that by either go into the Pages panel and dragging a page in like that. Or you can go to the layout Pages and add a page in there. Now, all my pages, what I did was I put in some text over here. I put in a little shape. Now this shape is actually filled with black, but I've changed the opacity so we can see some of the car behind it, but it's also dark enough so the white text shows up properly. And then I've got little shape over here. I've put the shape in the same place on all these photos by copying it. And then go into the next page. And using edit. Whoops, If I can find edit and paste in place and that paste it in the same place there was copied from on the new page. So I've got my full pages in here. I've just used the color from the car for this shape by using the eyedropper tool and sampling the color directly from the picture. Now, I'm going to save that. What we're going to do now, something special, we're going to go along to File and we're going to publish this Online. Now this is really cool and I love this feature. So by using Publish Online, we publish this to your space on the Cloud. And then when you want to share it with somebody, you don't need to send them to Document. You just send them a link to this and they can see it on their browser. And if you set it up correctly, they can also download it as a PDF on their end. So I'm going to choose Publish Online. You won't believe how easy this is to do. In here, we're publishing a new document I've called mine classic car four page. That's it. We've got the option for either single page or spreads. And we've also got the option to allow the viewer to download the document as a PDF for print. Now, there's general settings. There are some more advanced settings in here as well with the quality that you can change. But I'm just going to click on Publish. And that really is all there is to it. You can see what it's doing now is it's uploading my document to the Cloud. And once it's done that, it will give me a link. So here's my link over here, and I can just copy that link in there. And I'll close that. Now if I send that link to somebody else, or they have to do is to put into a browser. And I will just paste mine into a browser over there. Press Enter. And you'll see that this is now live on the Cloud. So how do we get to the other pages? Well, you just use your left and right little buttons over here. And you can then flick through the document to the various pages. Like so. Now, we're going to be looking more into this later on because we're going to be using some interaction. And you can use this for interacting. Say for example, you've created buttons in there, or you've brought in video and you can play video in there as well, but it is ready, very easy to do. Now, the problem lies in the, once you've done that, you think, oh my goodness, I really liked that, but I've lost the link. All you have to do is to go to File, go down to publish Online Dashboard. And there is a little dashboard that you go to. I'm logged into my account over here. And you can see any other bits that I've published recently down here, and there is my document. So of course, if they don't like it, I can delete it from here, this little drop-down menu at the end to LA to delete it. I can also just click on it, go back to it, and then copy that link. Once again in their to send to people. Such a nice way of working and being sent and allowing you to send stuff out to clients or people that you just want to check the document with. You can be very quick with it. Finally, if I then people come back and say, Oh, that was great Tim, but we just don't like that car. Will all I've gotta do an InDesign is to change it and I'll just replace it with something else. What happened? I used yet, I don't think I've used that one over there. And then I'll just do a quick Save. I'm going to go to File Publish Online. And I can then just say either published as a new document or I can the existing document over there. So click on Publish and it's going to update, update the last link in there. Once that's updated, we will just have a quick look at it. Now, what do I copied the link in there? That's what I could get the link, you can just click View Document over here. Here's the updated version. And there it is. There was the new picture in there. Do try it out. It is a fantastic feature in InDesign 77. Booklet Printing: I'm on this four-page documents and if I wanted to print it out well, it's the same as printing. Anything else you can go to File, go down to print. And you've got all your print settings in here, including adding marks and bleeds, should you want. But what about if you want to print out a Booklet? Well, if I go over to another document now I've done the same thing that I had there. I've just put in some pictures in here. But this particular document is made up of spreads, so we've got two pages at a time. Here's the cover of the document. When you open it up, you get this double-page in here. Then you go to the next page. You get the double-page there, double-page and the last or the back Page over there. Now obviously this is eight pages, so it's gonna be printed on four pieces of paper, front and back. Well, actually it's actually going to be two piece of paper because we're going to be Printing front and back on them. So our eight pages in here, we'll go into two pieces of paper, which will be then folded or stapled down the middle. Now, this process is known as saddle stitch. So you print, in this case, this is an A5 Document. You printed onto an A4 piece of paper. So you get to these per piece of paper. And then once you've done that, it gets folded in the middle and stitched down the middle. But of course you can't just print it up as it stands like this, because otherwise you'd be Printing, well, just these on individual bits of paper. So what we can do is we can go to File and we choose print booklet under print. Now, in print booklet, we've got a few options in here. Not depends on what you want and which Printing setup is. But I'm going to choose the Booklet Type being a two up Saddle Stitch. That's where you've got this stitching down the middle. That although it says stitch that most of the time it's actually stapled. There are some other options in there as well. Now I'm going to click on Preview so that we can see what it is. But before I do that, I'll just mention the print settings in here. Remember, I'm going to be printing this on an A4 printer, on A4 piece of paper. And so I'd set up my printer to have a four pages and Printing both sides. I'm going to click on Preview, and this is how it will print out. You can see on one side of the first piece of paper, it prints the cover and then the back Page next to it because that's gonna be folded together. Then we look at the next page there. So then we open the document and we've got page two in there. But because there's gonna be another piece of paper folded inside that we don't actually have page three over there. This page will actually have the second page in there. So the idea behind this is that when we put this whole thing together into a document, everything will just work properly so you can print it out, put it together, stapler down the middle, folded in half, and the whole thing will work as a booklet. You might need to go back, change your print settings in here, setup the perfect piece of paper for it. You might need to change it from landscape to portrait in the print settings. But if you've got a printer and you'd like to try it out, have a go start with a tube saddle stitch and work on from there. But always check out your preview to make sure that things are looking as they should. 78. Introduction to Nested & Object Styles: In this section, we're going to take our styles onto a whole new level. So what we're gonna do is we're going to look at things like nesting your Styles. So you can have one style within another, will always have a look at me called object Styles and I'll show you why they can be quite useful. 79. Nested Paragraph Styles: I brought some text in here and we're going to look at taking the Styles so much further. And we're going to be using a paragraph style with this. Now, we've done this earlier on in the fundamentals part of the course. But when we did it that way, what I did was I got you to actually make the sauce Style up your text first and then you can make this Paragraph Style afterwards. We're gonna do it the other way round this time. I'm not going to style the text at all. I'm just going to make the Paragraph Style first. Then we're going to nest some other Styles inside the main Style and show you what happens. We're going to go to the Window menu. I'm going down over here to styles. We're going to go to paragraph styles. Once again, I'll pull it out. So it's right in the middle of the area. Now I'm going to make a new paragraph style. By the way, I have clicked off of this. So this is not actually selected. You can of course do it with its selected and that way you will see what you're doing. But for now, we're gonna do it blind. I'm going to go down. I'm going to make a new paragraph style by clicking the Create New Style button at the bottom. And here's my new style. I'm going to start at the bottom with the body text. So I'm going to double-click this and I'm going to call this style the body Style. Now for the body Style, I'm going to go over to the basic characteristic paragraph format. I'm going to choose the typeface that I want to use. Now, you can choose whatever you like. I'm gonna go with Montserrat. And because this is going to be readable size text, I want to keep the font style on regular and the size I'm going to keep at 12th points there so it's readable. It's not too big to small. And once again, the lending is at 14.4, which is 12 points plus 20 per cent in there. Look, we've got it to auto. Tracking is set to zero as well. The case is normal. Everything in here is pretty much the default, apart from me changing the font. If we work through over here, you've got some advanced Character Formats. What I'm doing here is I'm checking that the language is set to whatever language I want the spell checker to check in, and you can choose whatever you like. I'm in the UK, so I'm going to stick with UK. We can move down again and we've got indents and spacing for the moment. We're going to keep all of this set to the default. However, if you are using baseline grids, you can then switch on your baseline Grid in here to either lineup with the first-line or all lines on the baseline Grid. If you can't remember the baseline Grid or you're not sure about the baseline Grid. Going to have a look at the lesson on the baseline grids. And when we go down to the color, I'm gonna keep this as black for now. Now remember, I can always change this as we go along. There's one more thing I want to do and to check from my body texts and that's go along to hyphenation in here because I don't want small words to be hyphenated. I want to make sure that it's only really big words that get hyphenated. You could switch it off completely if you didn't want any hyphenation. But I'm going to go with word started at least Well, I think sort of 88 or nine letters long of this, that's a reasonably long, long word. Anything less won't get hyphenated. So you can customize your whole hyphenation area in here. And I'm going to click Okay, so there is my first Style. Now I've got the body Style. I'm going to also do a header style. So I'm going to go down to the bottom. Click on the header, click on the new Style button. Here's my new style. I'm going to double-click it. I'm going to call it header or head or anything you like really. But I want you to notice in this general area that we're actually basing it on the body Style. Now what this means initially is that when I go in here, it will have picked up Montserrat automatically. I can say, well for the header, I want to use Montserrat, but I want to use bowled over there. I'd also like to make it a bit bigger. So I'm going to increase the size over there to maybe 16 points. And you can see because this is set to auto, it automatically sorts out my living for me. Now for the case over here, I want to make sure that my headers are in small caps or all caps or normal, it doesn't matter. I'm going to use small caps there. So the first letter will be capitalised, big, and the other ones will be capitalised, but there'll be smaller. You can choose to underline things strikethrough as well. Once again, in my advanced character Format all of these, I'm going to leave on the default. Once again, checking on my language, it should still be the same because I've based this on the other Style, indents and spacing. We're going to come back and have a look at this over here shortly. Once we've applied it to the text. Moving down, hyphenation should be nine because that was what I said before. If I go down here to my character color, that's still on black. Now let me click. Okay, I've got my two styles in there. I can now start applying them. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on the Text Frame and apply the body to everything. Now, then I can go through to the individual paragraphs and just apply the header to those paragraphs. In there. I've done it this way because it's just slightly faster than doing it the other way and applying it to each individual paragraph. Let's have that one there as the header. So this all works pretty well. But what about if I then thought I need to change something? If I go back to my body Style and I'm going to make sure by the way, that I've clicked off of this. Otherwise it'll change everything. I'm going to double-click on my body style over here. And I'm going to go into my Character Format and I'm going to change the font, the font family to be more precise. And I'm going to take that down. I'm going to try something very different. I'm going to go into, let's try Times New Roman. I'm going to do Times New Roman Over there. Remember I'm changing the body Style. You can see the moment that I did that, because the headers are based on the body, it automatically updates the headers as well. If I went to the body Style and I went to the Character Color, and I changed that. It would automatically update the headers as well. Now I don't want that, I want to keep that as black because it's all about classics. I'm going to go with the classic font family, like Times New Roman. I'm going to click Okay. But what about if I went to the header? We'll go into the header. The header is based on the body. So if I go in here and I changed something in here, it will only change the header. I'm going to go to the Character Color, and I'm going to choose a different color for my header. So let me go with that. Red, your darker red. Over there. I can even go along to the Character Formats. And although that's bold, I could change that to bold italic. And you can see it doesn't do anything to the body. So anything I'd change in the header only affects the header, not the body, but anything in the body will affect the header. I'd like to make my headers a little bit larger in there. So I've got my headers and my buddy in there. Now, what I'm thinking here is that there's some, some sort of gaps where we've got a paragraph and then the next bit of in the next header. But I want to change those. I'm going to do that from the header. So I'm going to go into the header. In here. I'm going to change the paragraph options. Before I do that. I'm just going to cancel this. I'm just going to put in another paragraph in this one. So let's just go back onto there and just make sure that that is a paragraph in this, there's actually two paragraphs, is this one here and this, this one there. Right? Let's go and do that now. So I go along to my Body, sorry to my header. Look what I did. Honestly, that was a genuine mistake. I'm going to cancel that and undo it. I had this still selected when I hit the header, it obviously changes everything. So make sure you de-selected first. I'm now going to go to the header and I'm going to go to the indents and spacing, and I'm going to change the spacing after the header. So I've got Space Before. I'm going to go to Space After and just adjust the distances after that header over there. I think I'll also changed before as well, so I can move that down a little bit. You notice it doesn't do anything. I've mentioned this before, it doesn't do anything at the very top. But what about if I wanted to adjust the spacing between these two paragraphs here or if I've got another paragraph over there as well. Well, in that case, I'd go to the body, double-click on the body, and go to my indents and spacing. And same thing again over here. So if I adjust the distances here, look what happens. You adjust in the body. It does adjust the body, but unfortunately it's also adjusting. My head is as well. You have to be very careful what you're doing in what order you're doing things in. So in this case, what I might have to do is to actually just go back. Let's reset that to zero again. Go back to my header. Let's reset this one to zero and start at the bottom. So we'll start at the body first. Do my adjustments on the body down into indents and spacing. I will just do a space before and I'm just looking at the spaces over here. And the spaces, they're getting them right. I'm happy with that. Click. Okay. Now I can go to my header and I can then adjust my header individually after that or I lifted onto, I didn't realize. I'm happy with that. I will click OK. Last one. Last thing that I wanted to do here is I want to change the columns into two columns. So I'm going to go over to the properties down to the bottom, make two columns in there. I want those columns to be balanced. So I'm going to go to Object Text Frame Options. By the way, you can also click the options over there. And I'm going to say Balance columns and click. Okay? Do be careful though with things like this, where you have single lines which sit all by themselves at the very top. Now, we'll talk about that later on how to adjust those little bits. We can put in certain features to stop that from happening. Haven't bit of a go with the body and the header in there. If you want to make another style as well, you can have a main header, which is then based on your header, or you can based on your body. Try it out. 80. Bullet Points: Let's look at doing some bullet points. I've got a bit more text in here. And this is going to be my bullet points over here so that over 15 years the removal fenders, high emissions, few safety features. I want that to be the bullet points. And this is gonna be the header. So I'll click on there and I'll choose Head for that. Now, these bits here I'm going to make into bullet points. So let me create some bullet points. Once again, I'm going to go into here and I'm going to add a new Paragraph Style, double-click it, and you can call it bullet points. You can call it anything you like. I will call mine be Points. I'm going to go down to Bullets and Numbering and switch on Bullets in here. You've got Numbers and you've got bullet points in there. And I'll just click Okay. Now let me go and apply that. So I'm going to select those three different paragraphs and apply my bullet points to that. Look what's happened. It's just gone really, really mad. I'm going to go and double-click on my bullet points again. And the reason that happened is because this was based on the header. There. If I'd based on the body, then you can see it uses the body's Style as the base for those bullet points. They're not very pretty. So what else could I do with these? Well, I'm going to go over to my bullet points again. I have deselected everything. Double-click on my bullet points. I'm going to go down to Bullets and Numbering. And the first thing that I've, I'm thinking here is that I need to move the bullet points in a little bit and Align all the text up properly as well. We do that using our indents over here. Now, everything is aligned to the left, which is perfect for what I'm doing. But I'm looking at the left indent and the first-line indent. By the way, this is the same as if you go to indents and spacing. Then you could do lift Indent and your first-line indent there as well. It pretty much does the same thing. So if I used my first-line indent over here, you can see I can push the Bullets in. If I used my left Indent, it moves everything. So I'm going to move everything in. But I'm actually going to go back with my first-line indent. Like so. I've gone in ten and minus five. So this line here has gone in ten, and the first line is minus five from that ten. That way, That's looking better. But I'd still like to change the little bullet points into something else. So to change your bullet point, what you do is you go along to the bullet character here and you click Add. Now this is going to take us into the Glyphs. You remember the Glyphs from earlier? Those are all the characters from all the typefaces. And I can go down here and try and find something else which looked interesting. Now, in Times New Roman, I'm not going to find matching the way of bullet points. I can choose from a different font family. And I'm actually going to go down to font-family called web dings. And there's all sorts of different interesting shapes in there that I could use. Now, I'm just going to go down and find something very simple. Over here, like these little warning symbol. Click Okay, to add it in. All you do is you click it and it will update in there. Now I don't like that, so I'm going to go and add again. So let's go back into here again. Instead of Wingdings, I'm sorry, instead of web dings, I'm going to get a win Wingdings. Oh my goodness. I'm getting so tongue tied with all these things. In here. I'm just going to find a little shape like that. Maybe it's a larger square. Click, Okay, you have to click it in there to get it to work. That might be a little bit too much. So once again, back into last time, I promise. I'll go to Wingdings and I'm going do the same thing, but something a little bit more delicate, like that one there. That'll, that'll work. We'll click Okay. Have a bit of a go with that. Try them out. You can always go back when you look at this, you think that actually looks like tick boxes and I don't want that. You can just go, double-click, go back in and change it to something else that looks a little bit more interesting. Have a go with that. 81. Color Your Bullets: How do we change the bullet points color? Well, if I go back into my bullet points and I'm going to go to the Character Color and choose a different color. You'll see what it does. It changes the bullet point, but it also affects all of the text at the same time. So we don't want to do that. I'm going to click OK or Cancel this window. The way we do it is we make a Character Style. I'm going to go to the Window menu, down to Styles. And I'm going to choose Character Style. And in the Character Styles, I'm going to make a new style. By the way, I've got nothing selected in here. Gonna make a new Style, double-click the Style, and I'm going to call it BP Color. And I'm going to change the character color to something else. And let's go with this lime green click. Okay? Now, obviously that doesn't do anything yet. But if I go back in here and back to my bullet points, when I go into my bullet points and Bullets and Numbering in there, I'm just going to choose a larger shapes that you can see what happens. Down here it is. What Character Style do you want to use for your bullet points? Well, I want to use my BP color and that will just change the bullet points in there. Click Okay. So to change the bullet points, you can go in or the color, you can make a Character Style, and then you pick up that character style for your bullet points. Try it out. 82. Number Points: I've changed the texture slightly so the second part says removable features. And then I want to list fenders, headlights, vertical grill, underneath removable features. Now I could just do that with another bullet point, but I want to use number points in States. I want these to be numbered. And then I want fenders, headlights and vertical Grill to be ABC in there. Let's have a look at what we can do. So the first time we're going to do is just change the bullet points over here from Bullets to Numbers and you can see automatically just picks it up and Numbers them down like that. But I want to then have a second level of numbers which will be alphabetical actually, which go down 4 ft for headlights, fenders, headlights and vertical grill. So how am I going to do that? Well, what I do is I'm going to Make a copy of this bullet point and make those bullet points Level two. You see if I look at these bullet points here, they're actually Level one in there and the numbers Style on numbers in there. So if I made a copy of this bullet Points and I'm going to drag it down onto the new button there that makes a copy of that style. This style here. I want to apply to those areas. So I'm just going to deselect that. First of all, I'm going to double-click this and I'm going to call this VP level two. In reality, I should, shouldn't be calling bullet points, I should be called at number points. So I'm going to go into my Bullets and Numbering. And this one is going to be numbers, but it's going to be level two in there. And the format I'm going to change from Numbers into a, B, C. Click. Okay. Now let me go and apply this saga removable features. I'm going to do a return over here. Let's try that again. Removable features. Make sure my cursor is and the right place. Do return at the moment. That says fenders. And let's do headlights and vertical grill. You see how it's just remembered those this one here for some weird reason is picked up that so I'm just going to go back to my bullet points. So now I can go to fenders, make that Level two headlights, Level two, vertical grill, Level two as well. Of course, those might need to be indented a bit. So I can always double-click over here, go into my Bullets and Numbering. And I'm just going to indent them in a little bit like so. I think that's seems to work out quite, quite nicely there. Let's click. Okay 83. Object Styles: I'd like to create a Object Style, and I'm going to do that on a new page. I've just added a new page. Remember you can do that by going to the Layout menu Pages and add pages in there. For this Object Style, I want to have a little shape like this. And I want to have it filled with a color. I'm just going to choose the color that I want to use. I'm going to use this dark teal color. And maybe I want to round off the corners. So I'm going to go to the Object menu down to corner Options. And I'm going to make sure those are unlinked. And I'm going to round off two of the corners. So I'm actually, I'll do the ones on this side, I think. So we'll go to this side here, round that off. And this one will be rounded as well. I want to be slightly more rounded, so ten on there. And ten on there. I'm going to click Okay. And maybe with the shape. I also want to always have a little drop shadows. I'm going to go to Effects Drop Shadow to put a very subtle drop shadow on this. So my distance, I'm going to move back just a little bit and then reduce the opacity on the Drop Shadow so you can barely see it. It's just enough to lifted off the ground. So here's my little shape. Now, this might be a shape that I'm using quite a lot in my document. So I'm just going to make it a little bit shorter over there. So it could be that it's constantly coming in all over the place. So I'm going to make this shape into a style so I can always use it whenever I need. What don't need to do is I'm going to go up to the Window menu, down to Styles, and I'm going to make an Object Style. In here. We've got a few more objects, are few more basic than we had with the paragraphs. But that doesn't matter. I'm just going to click on the little plus button over here. Here's my new Object Style. I'm going to double-click it and I'm going to call this teal round rectangle. I'm going to click Okay, in there. So what happens now if I go and make another shape? So if I do a little shape over there and click, you can see it makes it teal. And it does round off the corners, but it doesn't keep that shape there. It's just doing rounded corners, Drop Shadow, teal color for whatever shape I'm choosing. Which might be just what you need. But to be honest, I always wanted to be this exact size and shape. We can then go back into here. So I'm gonna be using that one. I'm going to double-click over here. And then we've got so many options that we can change for the actual shape itself. I'm going to go to size and position Options and the size. I'm going to choose width and height or height and width. And put in my width and height in there. Click Okay. Now this means that when I use this Object Style, if I clicked on an Object, you can see they've all jumped to the same shape in there. If I were to do this. You see it's just going to make that style there. Let me go back to a sort of a standard shape like that. Once again, every time I do this, it's going to jump to that particular Style unless I choose none on there. And then I can make my own shapes. The moment I attached that, I will get my news new shape up. So it is a really useful feature if there are certain things that you have to do, time and time again, you can just make an Object Style out of it. Don't forget with a style. If you don't like the style, you can go back and you can delete it. Or if somebody comes along says, great, we love your document. But all of those little so funny lines and you got sticking out there, there really aren't too dark. Well, you can always go back in here again and you can change any of the options in here. I could knock off the Drop Shadow if I didn't like that. Take out any transparency. By the way, when you're doing this, I always suggest switching on preview that you can see exactly what you're getting in here. Moving over to the size and position, I'm thinking it's too big so I can just take it down. It will affect absolutely everything in there. I'm going to go to the fill and change the color to gold. Click. Okay, it updates everything throughout my document. Really useful feature, tried out 84. Paragraph & Column Rules: I've got my body text here, and I've got my header text in there. I've got paragraph styles for both of them. What I'd like to do though, is I'd like to underline certain things in the header. So I'm going to go over to the header, double-click the header, and I'm going to use Paragraph Rules. Now, when you think of Paragraph Rules, you think, well, you shouldn't do this and you should do that. What this actually means is it's a ruler, it's Align. And I can put a line above or below an item. So I'm gonna do rule below and click the ruler on. And you can see now how these have now got. The ruler is just coming underneath them. You can change the color to anything you like. I'm going to just go and pick up maybe a red for that. If I then wanted a real above as well, I can go to rule above and switch that on at the same time. Now, I'm going to go through below. We've got the weight here, we've got the color. But down here I can choose the width of the ruler or rule. If I click in there, it's the column width. At the moment, I could choose to just be the width of the text. I'm actually going to go with the width of the column in there. Then we can indented as well. So I can actually indented a little bit. I'm going to move this down a bit so that you can see, I'm going to go over here to the left indent. And you can see I could indented from the left side. That doesn't really work very well for this. But the right side might say if I go to a right Indent and just push it in a little, a little bit. Really doesn't go all the way across. And then I can also offset this. So I can actually move it down a little bit as well. So there's a bit of a gap underneath the text. Do have a look at that. It's just going to the Paragraph Rules and make sure you switch it on before you try it out. I'm going to move that up and click Okay. If of course you want lines between the columns, we did have very quick look at this before. You can go along to your Object Text Frame Options. And this is where you can actually go in to the column Rules and insert column Rules between the, It's if Text. Once again, you can change the colors and the weight, etcetera in there. So when I press the W key, that's how my text is going to look. To try those out. They are really useful and makes the text look a lot better because it's in little sections now 85. Anchored Objects: I'd like to have some different shapes ready for my bullet points. And I actually want to use a little logo over here. Instead. I'm going to go and find the Logo. Now I've got an Illustrator logo. I'm going to do a little Frame. There. I'm going to go to File and Place find the Illustrator logo. And this has been included in your assets. And I'll just get that to fit. I'm going to use the second back into make sure that all fits in there. And that's going to be my little icon. Ready for the the bullet points. It's a little bit on the large side. I'm going to zoom in a bit over here. And there's a little trick if you want to actually change the size of the object inside a frame, you can just hold down if you're on a Mac Command and Shift, or Control and Shift on a PC. And you can just drag it automatically like that, that works with Text, works on anything. I'm going to bring that and move it across to here. So I've got this Next to my bit of text in there and I could copy it then I could copy it there, which would be okay. Unless I then move my text around and then these bits would be totally in the wrong position. So what I can do instead is I can take this little character and I'm going to move up to the little blue square root, the top. All I need to do is to take that and drag it, Drop it next to the texts that I wanted to be attached to or anchored to. It really is a Simple as that. And that means now that if I went back and I thought, you know what, I need another bit of text in here. So I can just do a return put in Menu bit of text and you see how that moves down with the text. I'm just going to do that again. I'm going to go back here. And I'm going to take that down to this. I'm gonna put one there. I think that'll go just over there. Hold down the Alt or the Option key and make a copy for the next one. Alter option for this one here. And then I'm going to go through them one to time and click on them, get the blue box and drag it onto the beginning of the text. Same with this one over here. Let's just make sure we click on it. Blue box, drag it onto that bit of text. This one blue box dragging out to that but of texts there. So now it means that if I've got some more text in here and I go to, and the usual vertical grilled treatment, say. And let's make sure that's in the right place. And also older tires. You can see this bit of texts would automatically move down as will the object which is linked to it or anchored to it. Try that one out. It's great for putting little either Photos or logos in as bullet points. 86. TOC, Index, Sections & Layers: In this section we're going to be looking at Table of Contents and indexes all those things that give you a document that really professional look. And then we'll also go into layers. And we'll start working with layers and you can see why you need them. Well, why it's really useful to work with them. You have to use layers in your document, but it's certainly makes your life so much easier 87. Column and Page Breaks: I've got some text in a frame. You've seen this text before. It's the modelling classic car text. I want to sort this out a bit and get some texts to go onto different pages and different frames. Now, obviously you can do that by just going down and making a new frame. And I'm going to do that here. So let's say, for example, I want that bit of text on the next page. I can click on that little plus. And I'm going to click and drag the frame in there. That works absolutely fine. But let's take this a little bit further. Because what I'd like to do is I would like to This go onto two columns. Now, we've done this before. I'm going to go down to the bottom to my text frame and put in two columns in there. Now for this particular example, I've got the text, modern classics going down to the CC CA, I want that to be in this column. And then I want fraud to start on the next column. So how can I do that? Well, if I put my cursor after CCC, a bit of a mouthful, isn't it? I can go up to the Type menu. I can go down to an insert Break Character. These are different Breaks that you can actually force in your text. And I'm going to force the text to go onto the next column. So I'm going to use the column break in there. You can now see that the fraud starts over there, Effects I'm going to get rid of that space. So the word fraud is right at the top. Then when we get down here to safety, I want this to go to the next page. So I'm going to click in front of safety. I'm going to go to Type, Insert Break Character. And I'm going to do a page break in there, which will force that to go into the following page. That a little bit of text that appeared, there was just something weird on my, on my screen. You'll see that. Move that up and down, so clear. Now all the text is going onto this page. Over here. I'm going to do the same here once again, this bit of texts, I'm going to put over two columns. And I want to force this, the classics at a glance onto the next column. So I'll click next to it. And I'm going to go to Type, Insert, Break Character. And then once again, I can use the column break in there. You'll see that there's a number of different Breaks that you can actually bring to your document. I'll just put in the Column Break, like so. Try that out on a bit of texts that can be very, very useful. 88. Table of Contents: I've opened the document which is included in your course. It's called the classic car eight page for TOC. Of course, you can make your own if you if you wish. And this document has got well, a number of pages in here, including page numbers. It doesn't have any Styles at all. Well, apart from the basic ones, I'm going to go to Styles and Paragraph Styles. As you can see, we just got the basic paragraph style there. Now, before we do a TOC, which is the Table of Contents, we need to have some Paragraph Styles Setup. I'm going to set up a paragraph style for the headings here. You can see on this page three, we've got classic. On that page, we've got one called fins, where it's on page four, and there's a few others in here. And that's what I want to pick up with the style with the Table of Contents. So I'm gonna make a style thing. I'm just going to take this a little bit of texts which I have Style using the character and paragraph options. I'm going to make a new paragraph style. I'm gonna double-click it and I'm going to call it my header or Head. And I'm going to click Okay on that. Then maybe we need another paragraph style over here for the body text. So I'll select this bit of text over here. I'm going to pretty much use everything that's in there. I'm happy with that. I'm going to make a new paragraph style for that. Once again, double-click that and call that the body. And I'm not basing this on any Paragraph Style at all. So it's just based on no paragraph style in there. I've got those two bits of texts. I'll just go through my document and you could do the same on yours and just apply the text or apply the style to the text. So I skipped all that text in there and apply the body to that. Same again over here. This one is going to be the header. And that will be the body. Just make sure that might be different. Paragraphs in this. I bet a Selected all and apply the body to that. I think that's all, it's not quite one more here. Apply the header to that, and all of that will have the body Style on it, the body cells less important. But I thought while we're here, we may as we'll put that in as well. Now, I'm going to close down my stars. You can see there's a body in the header style in there. I'm just going to close that down for a moment. We're going to go to this page up here, which is page at number two. Now, if you're wondering how I've managed to get my page numbers on top of the background pictures in here. When we get to the area where we do Layers, you'll see that I've actually create a second layer. So the page numbers are on a different layer and in front of the basic pictures. But we'll get to that when we have a look at the Layers option. I've got a white shape on top of the photo and I've just locked it down so I won't do anything to that by mistake. Why don't need to do now is I'm going to take my Table of Contents Tool. So that's in, up here in the menu. So I'm going to go along to Layout, down to Table of Contents. And this opens up the Table of Contents window. Now, it does look a little bit complicated when you first go in, but I'll take you through the Options. So first of all, this the title over here, this is what will be at the top. Contents or page Contents or you call it whatever you like, really classic Contents, maybe I could call it, but I'm going to leave it like that. And the style for the Contents, we can choose any style that we like. From in here. We've got the basic Paragraph, got the body, you've got the header and one that you haven't seen yet, which is the TOC title in there. So we'll have a look at some of those Styles shortly. I'm just going to keep it as no paragraph style for now. Then. The most important part is this little area here where I'm including the Paragraph Style. So this is saying, which style do you want to use to pick up the Pages? I'm going to be using my header style, and I'll just add that in over there. Once again down here, we've got the Style of the head and we can change that as well. Now I'm going to change this to the TOC Body text style. Once again, this will all become clear when you see it. I'm going to click Okay, we'll come back to this shortly. Now you can see it attaches it to the curse and I'm going to click and drag to make my table of contents. Now there it is, the little table of Contents. And if we zoom right in, you can see it's picked up classic fins Chrome and the new vintage. And of course, that we've got two page numbers in there as well. Now before we start to make this look a little bit more interesting and exciting, what would happen if I change something? Let's say for example, on here. If I change the fins to, I'm going to just change it to modern. I've got modern fins in there. And I'm going to actually move all of this across instead of page four, I'm going to move it over to page five, so I'll place it in there. So what happens now to this where you can see it's still says fins on page four, it doesn't update automatically. You can update it by going to Layout, going down and just choosing Update Table of Contents. And that'll just updated for you. It's this, it's been updated successfully. And you can see now we've got modern fins on page five in there. At any point we can still go back again over there. So we've got the contents up there in which is used the white Style. I'm going to go to Layout Table of Contents. I had that selected first. And Over here I could choose a different style in there. Let's just use the body Style on that. Click. Okay, and you can see now it's picked up the body Style in there. So all of these are based on Styles. Before we go any further and make this look exciting, have a bit of a go on your document or on this one. And getting that Style in there and just learn to go backwards and forwards between Table of Contents. Changing a few things. In there, I'll go back to the header style for that. And also updating it. Try it out. And then we'll make this look a little bit more interesting shortly. 89. Add Styles to TOC: Let's have a look at the styles now. So at the moment we've got this one here and I'm going to go to the Window menu down to Styles. And I'm going to find the paragraph style in. You can see now I've got my body, my header. I've got a TOC Body text style in there as well. That's for this area here. And if I select that, you can see it highlights the body text style. What about the top one? Will the top one is actually a header style which I'm using over here. But I'd like to change that header style because, well, this is set up to be on a black background, whereas I've got a white background here and I'd like to use a different color for the contents. So I'm going to go back again. So I'll just make sure I select this. I'm going to go to Layout down to my table of contents. And over here in the styles, I'm going to choose TOC title. Click Okay, and Okay again, and once you see now is it actually makes a new TOC title header for me or style. And that of course, I can then change so I can double-click on there. I can go in. I'll leave it called TOC title because that makes perfect sense. But look what I've done. I've made a horrible, horrible mistake. I'm going to cancel this because you can see how it's actually done. All of those at the same time. I'm going to undo this. So I'm using Command Z to undo or Control Z. And what I did and honesty, this was a genuine mistake. I'm not just doing it to show you the the issue is I actually had this box selected when I clicked on the TOC Title. I should have had nothing selected. That really was a genuine error. I'm going to go back to TOC Title, double-click it. And I'm now going to go in and change the sum of these options in here. And I'm changing this one to the, well, the style that I've got, which is this last style that I'm using in the rest of the document. If we preview that, you'll see it'll update it in there. And maybe that's a little bit large, so I might take the size down. And then I can do all the usual bits and pieces. In here. We can go through all of these settings. I'm going to go to indents and spacing. I'm just going to align it to the left-hand side. And I can go down to my character color as well and maybe pick a different color that I'm using in the document like that. Color there. We'll click Okay. Now what about this little area here? Well, this is the TOC body texts are once again making sure that nothing is selected. I'm going to double-click on TOC body text. And this is where I can then go and change it because although I'm using the same body text style that I started with with the rest of the document. I'd like it to be a bit bigger. It's a bit smaller for a title, so I'm gonna make it a little bit larger in there. The next thing though is I want to get these numbers across to the lined up on the right-hand side. So I'm going to move down two tabs. Tabs will allow me to actually move the numbers. Now in tabs, we've got all of these little arrows over here. And this is just how things align. So are they aligned to the left, to the center, to the right? Or are they based on a decimal point? I'm going to use the one on the right. And I can just go over here and I can just click in there. And you can see how to automatically move the numbers across. You'll find you can actually move that around to move the numbers about a bit. The second thing is unlike maybe some dots going along so I can see which is modern fins in which is Chrome. So I can go to the leader in here. I'm going to put in a dot or a point and just say repeat. And it repeats it all the way along, like so. Once again, I'll click Okay in there. So do have a bit of a go with that. Check out those TOC styles. If you want the title style app, you'll need to go back to Table of Contents and makes sure that the style for the title you choose TOC title for that. Have a go with that. 90. Numbering & Sections: Now the numbers are a bit strange on here because I've got this page here, which is actually technically page one, then page two, and page three. Now what I would like to do is I think to actually start at my page one over here. I could take an unpaid and I could drop that onto page two, which gets rid of the page number because it's in the Parent, but that's still start at page three. So instead I'm going to double-click on page three. Over here in the Pages panel. I'm going to go along to Layout. I'm going to choose numbering and section options in here because I'm on page three, I'm going to say start at the page numbering at one. On page three. Click Okay. And now you'll see that my page numberings actually start from page 123 correctly. What isn't correct though? Here's my table of contents. So all I have to do is to go along to the Layout menu down to update table of contents and updated. So you can see my numbers are correct. In fact, I've lost my style for that. I'll need to go and put that back. That was just because I undid something when I was recording this video and I ended too much, yours should be there exactly as it was before. Try it out. 91. Add an Index: Now the table of contents because right at the beginning. But we've also got an Index which goes at the very end. And that'll show us where certain words are on certain pages or certain topics. So I'm going to create an index with this extra texts that I've put in. Now I'm using the classic car for Index file, which is included with your course. And I'd like to Index a few words. Let me start off by finding one of the words I want to Index. And I'm going to use the word Classics. I'm going to just select the word classics in here. And I'm going to go to the Window menu. I'm going down to my Type and Tables, and I'm going to go and find the index Panel than the index panel, we're going to stay in reference. And because I've got that selected, I'm going to click the little plus at the bottom over here. So in here it says, well, the word that I've put in, which is Classics, It's just pick that up. And then over here we've got the area that it's looking at at the moment, it's looking at the current page. You can see we can choose from the current page to the end of the selection to the end of the document. This sermon, different options in here. I'm going to leave it on current page for now. And then I'm going to say Add. Now. If I just add it in, what it will do is it'll just add in that instance of the document, sorry, of the word. If I click add all, it will find all those instances and I'm just going to choose Done now. You can see in my index now, if I go to see, it's got classics. And it shows me that on page seven, There's two versions. We're on page seven. At the moment. Let me go to classic. Again. That was classics. This is classic. I'm going to click the little plus down there. Once again, classic in there. And down here, I'm going to say to the end of the story. Once again, add them all in and choose Done. Now you'll see over here, under classic, it shows me the whole of the document over there wherever the word classic has been used. So you can either do page, you can do the entire story, you could do the whole document. There's so many options in there. Let me go and find another word. I'm going to use American. Once again, click on the plus in there. And I'm going to use to the end of the story over there, add all the instances of that, and click Done. Once again, when I go back there to the a, you will see American. I've got all of those pages where there is an instance of that word. Now, how do we actually apply this? So that's the easy part because I'm just going to scroll down here to a blank area. Over there. I'm going to go along to the little button at the bottom which says generate Index. Click on that. And OVR can give it any name I like. I'm going to call it index. And you can see there's an Index Title style that's been generated. Let's click. Okay. And I'm going to click and drag my Index in there. And there we go. It's showing all the pages where I've got those options. So classics is just on page seven. Classic is on all of those pages there. Do try it out 92. Story Editor: Sometimes when you're editing text, can be quite difficult to see the whole story. Because it might go from one page to the next to the next. You never really sure whether all of your text is in there as well. So what InDesign gives you something called the story Editor. I'm going to go along to the Edit menu and just say edit in story Editor. So just click on the text, makes sure it's the frame is selected and go to Edit and editing story Editor. You can see my whole document is come up here. What I'm going to do that I can see both of these are the same time is I'm just going to move my text in InDesign across a little bit to that side there. And I'm going to get this little window up over here. And we can put it across if we like. So now I can actually edit directly in this Editor window rather than editing on the document, and it will update automatically. So for example here where I've got 15 to 25 years and the ranging 15-25 years. If I change the 25 to 30, you'll see straight away that it just updates on my document. And once again over here, if I went into what we need a bit more space, I can put another return in there. And there we are. And it took awhile, but it got there. Now it also shows me which stars I'm using the header, the body Style in here. And one more thing which is quite interesting is if I go to the bottom, I can actually see that I've got some overset text in here. I'm going to go into my document. There we go. You can see there is some texts missing in there. So I can click on this and drag it out. Or we can just go to this text frame and double-click on that middle one, and that'll bring it back in. You can see the overset text has now updated in here. So you can work in either one or the other. You don't have to work in story mode is just a helpful thing that some people prefer 93. Understanding the Layers: In this section of layers, the first thing we're going to do is to go to the Window menu and go and find the Layers panel. So as you can see, it's about halfway down. Now, if you are used to Photoshop, then I'm afraid is the Layers are going to be very, very different for you. If you used to Illustrator, that's great because they're almost identical to illustrators layers. Let's have a look. I've got a four page document here, so just for simple Pages. And what I'm going to do is bring in some pictures. So I'm going to start off by making little frame over here. And there's my first frame. And I'm going to place an image into that frame. So you can use any pictures that you like for this, I've just downloaded a few breakfast at Type pictures and I'm going to fit that into the frame. Is units breakfast, I don't know. Anyway, you'll see in the Layers panel now, when I click on the little dropdown that it shows that picture, the linked file in the document, and I can show and hide it with the little eye over there. But that's fine for this page. But what about when I go to this page here and I click on this page, you can see that object disappears. If I go back to here and click the page, it comes back again. The Layers are working on a page by page basis, so you won't see anything which is on a different page. Let me zoom out a bit and I'm going to go and get some more pictures in here. So I'm just going to go and do a little picture frame over there. I'm going to copy it. Go to this page, pasted in place on that page as well. By the way, we could do this with a Parent Pages. Well, but I'm doing it a slightly longer way round. So I'm going to use edit and paste in place on that page and then click on that page and do the same. Again, paste in place. And now I can very easily go and find the three pictures that I want. So mother breakfast pictures, is that one there? And we can never see what you're looking for when you look for it in a hurry. So I've used that one and I seem to have lost my other breakfast pictures. Well, I'll change them in a moment. So I'm just going to go with this one here and that one there. And I'll click on Open. So now I can actually just go in and click, click in there, click in there. And of course, I can just select them and use my Frame Fitting very quickly over there. So why am I putting in four in there? What I want you to see how when I click on the various pages, it just changes to show the page in there. Let me bring in some texts. I'm going to go to this page over here. I'm going to lock the picture down. Now. Up until now we've gone to the Object menu. We've chosen lock in there, but now you don't even have to select it. You just go next to the eye and click Network padlock that little image in place. I can then go and put in my text over here. Just got the word breakfast in, then I'm going to make it a bit larger. In here, I'll just choose a different typeface. And let's increase the size of that a bit. So once again, you can see over here that I've got the layer, it's come up. And then we go and put one more thing and that's gonna be a little shape. So I'm going to go in here and I'm going to put in ellipse on the side over there. And I'm going to put in a picture into that ellipse. Now you can see I didn't use my frame, I just used a normal shape because I wanted to show you. You can of course, always just add pictures straight in to any shape you like. Once again, select that and I can move her around maybe into the middle. Like so. So that's going to go down there. And of course you can see that's popped up over there. Now. I can lock layers and I can unlock them in here. I can also show and hide them. I can select them in here. And this is where, particularly for your photoshop uses, things are gonna get a bit weird. I'm afraid. If you go in here and you click on one of these layers or one of these objects because it's actually inside a layer. It's not a layer by itself. We have this layer here. It doesn't select it. You can see I've got, I've clicked on breakfast there, but if I clicked here, I can move this around and breakfast still stay selected. So how do we select things in here? When you go along to the right-hand side where these, these little squares. And if you click on the square, that will select the object for you. So you can use the clicks to click and select those particular Layers. I'm going to select the word breakfast and just move it across over to there. Now it's underneath the other layer. So I can move it up and down, above or below. Sorry, I keep saying layers, but I mean objects were only in one layer. If I take that breakfast and drag it above the other object, you can see we can move it around. So I still, I can click on these objects, move them around, and I haven't lost that selection. So that's one of the reasons why it's done in that way. If you want to lock down everything on that layer, I'm getting the word right this time Layer, you click next to the layer and everything on that in that layer will be locked. If I go over to this picture here now and click on this page, you can see that page is locked as well because I locked the entire layer. It locks everything down on the whole document. If I unlock it, it unlocked everything on all the pages. So if I want to lock specific items, go in and do that, to lock just on that page. Make it Document, bring in a few pictures and some text, and just have a bit of a play with the Layers panel to get used to it. Knocking things, unlocking things. Remember, everything is in layer one at the moment, these are objects in Layer one. So try not to think of them as layers, especially if you're a Photoshop user, because it will confuse things otherwise. And don't forget. You can show and hide and you can select from those little buttons on the right. Try it out 94. Creating Your Own Layers: I've got my first page over here and there's a picture in the background as you can see over there. There's the word healthy up there and the word lifestyle over here. And Layers make perfect sense for this because I've got one layer and three objects in the layer. It's easy to work with. No problem at all. Let's go down to the second page over here, slightly more complex. When I click, you will see this quite lot going on here. I've got the background photo, which is this one here. I've got all of these pictures. Then I've got a rectangle over there. And then I've got some text over here, three lots of text. Now, it will be a lot easier from a managing my Document point of view if these, when different layers. So I'm going to do that now I'm going to start and I'm going to have three layers. One for the pictures, one for the shapes, and one for the text. Now I'm going to start off by renaming this particular layer here. It's called layer one. I'm going to double-click it and I'm going to call this Photos. Now we're going to go back to this page here. You'll see my layer is also called photos. The names remain the same. So I've got my photos layer. I'm going to make a new layer by clicking on the New Layer button down here. And this one I'm going to call graphics or Shapes. I'm going to do one more over here and I'm going to call this Text. Now can start moving these objects around. So I'm going to go to my rectangle, which is this one here. If I selected, I can move that rectangle by dragging it and dropping it into the Shapes layer in there. And you can now see It's in the Shapes layer. The other giveaway is that when I select these objects, you'll see the blue ones are in the blue layer, which is photos, the red ones with the red surround on the red layer. Now I also want to move these bits of text up there as well. So if I've got a lot of objects in here, and we've closed those down rather than trying to go in and figure out what's going on in there. I can actually select them in here so I can click on the text to Selected. And I'm going to hold down my Shift key and select that but of Text. And now this is problem to try and select this bit of texts, but I can just about get it over there. And you can see in the Photos Layer, they're all selected. Instead of actually going in and dragging them up, I can drag this little blue dots here and move that into the text layer. And now that's moved all of those into that layer there. Do the same over here. I'll go over to here. I'm going to select lifestyle and healthy. And I'm just going to drag it up into the text layer over there. So now those two are in the text layer and my photos on that layer over there. So you can make new layers, you can rename layers. You can hide entire layers. Down here. I could just hide all of my text. Or if I wanted to see what this looks like without the shapes, I could hide the shapes in there. Remember to press the W key so that you can see what the final printed results would look like when you're showing and hiding in here. Try that out and make some, some different layers on a document. Put some text and pictures, some graphics in there as well. And then put them onto appropriate layers and show and hide them and get a feel for the Layers panel 95. Layers & Parent Pages: Now when we start working with Parent Pages, layers are actually very important. I'm going to go to my Pages panel over here. And I'm going to double-click on the Parent. And you can see it takes me in to this area here and there's nothing on any of those layers in there. Now, if it was on the Photos layer, and I then decided that on the Parent, I would like to have a color. On the back of the page. What I can do is I can go in here and I can draw in the color. So just a little box like that. I'm going to fill the box with a color. So we want something nice and fresh and Orangi, that's perfect. And you can see that's on the Pages itself. When I go back to my document, that will be on every single page over there. So even though I put it into the Pages panel comes in right at the back because in the Parent or the master page, depending on which version you're on. Firstly, I was on the Photos Layer. When I put it in there. It by default comes under everything all those pictures that are there. So how could I do this? If I wanted to have page numbers? You see the problem's going to be if I put in a Text Frame like that and I put in my page numbers, so that's gonna be Type. I'm going to go down to my insert special character. I'm going to Markers and Current page number. I'm just going to select it and make it a whole lot bigger. So it's easy to see. And it's used something fairly large for that. I'm going to center it and I'm going to change the typeface to something else. I like that I was using. I'll use this muffin typeface. And I'm going to keep it as black. Now because it's down there. When we go back to the Pages, you can't actually see it because to actually underneath all the pictures on every single page. So what about if I went to the Pages and I moved it here it is here. And I dragged it from there onto the text layer. So now it's on the text layer. When I go back again to my pages, you can see all the page numbers in there apart from these ones because it's black text on a black background. But that's not a problem, will change the color a little bit here. So I'm going to go back to my Parent. I'm going to select it. And I can do that in there very quickly. Change the color. And let's use a slightly brighter color this time. But something that can be seen on both will go with a lime color. And I might even move this down a little bit because I noticed it was a bit high app. I'm using the arrows on the keyboard plus shift. So what that does is it moves it in greater increments. Back to my Pages. And here all my pages, I'm going to press W so that you can see them a little bit better. Over there. There's my page numbers on there. So using the Pages panel, you can make sure that you're on the Layers and you can then get things to come above or below other objects which are not in the Pages. Master or the Parent tried out. It is really very helpful when you start working with parents. 96. Introduction to Tables: When I first started InDesign, I hated Tables, I really did. I struggled with them. But once I learned how they actually work and what all the options do, I'm really into them now, using them for Well, whenever I can to be honest. And there are some different styles that you can make once you understand how the table works 97. Create a Simple Table: To make a Table, we go to the Table menu at the top and choose Create Table. Now, this opens up a little window here which asks you how many rows and columns you want. You can change this later if you wish. We also have a header row and a footer row in the All Rows. And I'll show you how they work later. And then we can choose Table styles. These styles are very similar to the stars and we have for things like paragraph styles and character styles. It's the same principle. Now I'm just going to leave that on my default, which is four by four and K. And what happens is we have the cursor changes to show a little mini table there. And all we do is we click and drag out the window for the table. Now, this is the table here, and you can see the cursor is flashing in the top corner. It's because I'm still on the Type Tool and I can then start to type in anything that I want put in January there, FEB, etc. as we would do do with the normal table. Now. So you don't have to watch me put all those details in. I'm going to delete that. And here's one I created earlier. So very simple. Just four-by-four. And we've got some text in there. Now, the first thing is that if you're using the selection tool, you will find that you've got a little box around the outside of your table. Now, this is kind of like a combination of a Text Frame and an image frame. You'll see what I mean by this. You see if I pull this out, nothing happens. This doesn't automatically scale. If I pull it in. Now this is where things get weird. The table is still stays that sticks out on the side. Now, what about if I pull it up? Well, if I pull it up, you see that it just disappears. So it just cuts off the table, like texts websites just straighten up a bit. So I can just cut off the table like text. Like so. So why is this happening? Well, the reason that that happens is because sometimes we want to have a really big table and we want to continue the table, not just in the winter that it's in, but in another window or another page. So for example here, if I pull this up, we've got now got January in there. You can see like texts, we've got the little plus on the side. I can click on that and I can continue the Table down there. And like text with the way it flows. If I pull this out, you can see how the table just flows between the frames that it's in. If I delete this one, obviously it just all flows into their and I can pull that back. But this here doesn't actually do anything. It doesn't crop anything off. On that side. Trotted out, make yourself a Simple Table like that and get to know how that works. 98. Header & Footer Rows: Now let's have a look at the other option when you're creating a table, the header rows and the Footer Rows. Well, I'm not going to recreate this again, but if you create a header row, what happens is that, well, the top row over here will repeat itself when you make a second frame for your texts. Let me show you what I mean. You don't have to actually go back again and recreate this. All you do is you can select the road, the top. You can go to table, and you can actually converted to a header in there. And it's exactly the same as making it as a header right at the start. Now, nothing, nothing seems different at all. But the difference is when I pull this up, if I then go and do another frame for my table, you'll see the road, the top will always be right at the top. And I can continue on over there, another one over here. And they'll always be a header right at the top of my table. So the footer is exactly the same, but it's the last row in your table. At the bottom. You can convert things from headers to, to body texts or from footers to Body by just going to Table, convert Rows. And I'm going to convert that back to a body again. Tried out 99. Centre Text and Color Cells & Type: Let's have a look at changing the colors of the text and the table itself. What I'm going to do is I'm going to select various Frame. Now you've seen me do it very quickly. I used the Text tool and I clicked and dragged over the individual cells. So we can click and drag that way. We can click and drag downwards. Or you can actually just move your cursor to the very edge and you'll see a little arrow. Then if I do that, I can click. If I move it this way, I can click there, or if I go to the top left corner, you've got to get right in the corner there and clicking it will select your whole table, all of the cells. Now I want to change the text in here a little bit. So I'm going to move across to the Character Options. By the way, if you've got Paragraph Set-up, Paragraph Style setup, you could use those in here as well. I'm just going to change this to something else. And I'm just gonna go with Montserrat in there and maybe make them a little bit larger. And then I'm going to go to my paragraph options and I want to center some of these objects. So I think I'm going to center these ones here. So I'm going to just choose that, that, and that you see, I've just clicked and dragged across like that. I can then centre all those in the middle. Now, that's all very well by centering them that way. But what about centering them in the middle of the cell itself because they're not there right at the top. Well, if I select all those objects, I'm going to go up to the Table menu. And down here we've got quite a lot of options for Table Options. For cell Options. I'm going to go to the cell Options. Now it Grid doesn't matter which one of these you choose. They all take you to the same place. I'll just start with the text in there. And you can then see I can get from text to graphics Stroke all those options that we saw back there. And then I'm going to go down to the vertical Justification. And instead of a lining into the top, I'm going to align the text to the center. Let's just switch on Preview so that you can see what it's doing. I'm happy with that. I'll click Okay. And up to the top, we're going to change the color now. Now, when I go into the Appearance and click over there, you can see it says none. And that's because that's the fill color for the Cells or choose a different color. Let's go really wild here and choose yellow. I know that's gone blue there, but because it's selected so it's showing the opposite color. Now I want to change the color of the text. So instead of applying this to the frame, I'm going to apply it to the text. And now you can see my text is black, so I'm going to choose a red for the text. If I click off of this, you'll now see I've got red text on a yellow or yellow frames. So when you're selecting items, and we can do this just on single Rows or single columns are single cells. You go along there. You can choose, first of all, the Frame color. Let's do blue on there. Then you can go up here, you can go to the text and you can change the text color as well. So I'm going to change that to white. I think I'm going to go into my character and make that bold. Try that out. Have they have a go with those colors and just get used to going in here, selecting all of the cells are the rows or columns that you want. If you do want to do a single word, by all means, just select the word and then you can change it like you would with normal text in there as well. Try that out. 100. Add & Delete Cells and Merge: Now you'll find this little table. It's called fruit salad.in D, D, in with your course assets, if you want to open that up or you can make your own. So I've got some months down here. And then over here I've got the products, the oranges, the apples and pears, and then I can go and fill in the amounts in there. But before I do that, I would like to actually add a nother cell at the top to say Fruit sales. And I also want to put in August at the bottom. To do that, what I can do is I can go along to the Table menu and we can insert rows. Now, why is that grayed out? Well, you need to actually be in the text tool over here. And I'll just select that particular row over to Table insert. And then I can insert a row or column, but I'm just going to say a row. And I wanted to be above the one that I'm in, and I just want to put in one in there. So it's exactly the same at the bottom. I can go to the bottom. And once again, Table insert row. And this one's going to be below. So I can then put in my next month and it's pulled that down. Here we have August. But I'd also like to take this, whoops, wrong one, this row, this row here, and just make it into one. I want to merge all of those cells into one cell. I'm going to go to table. And then down here we've got Merge cells. How could just merge them altogether into a single cell and its fruit? Sales? In and of course, don't forget, you can use all of your editing areas for character and paragraphs to make this look as you wish. So we can add Cells, we can Delete Cells, we can Merge cells together. You can merge a number of them. I could take all of these, for example, maybe January, February and March. There were no pair sales. So I can select all of those, go up to Table and merge them together and just put in none in there. And then of course I'd want that none to be right in the middle. So as long as I'm Selected that little cell there, I could a Table cell Options over to the text and just align that to the center of that box. Like so. Of course we can always align things this way as well. Try that out, add some cells, Delete some Cells, and Merge themselves together 101. Alternating Color: I'm going to select these cells over here that I've got the content in them. Once again, Well, I haven't put in my content, but that's where it's going to go. And then I'm going to go up to the Table menu. And I'm going to go to the table options. And these are all options which will affect multiple cells at the same time. And I want to go down to alternating fills. So rather than just using a standard Fill color here, I'm going to choose alternating fills. You can see once again, I can get to all of these options in here. But I'm going to go to Fill and I'm going to then do alternating every other row. And any, I'm going to choose the colors that I want. So I want us to go from, let's say, a blue like that. And maybe I'll, I will tinted. But just a little bit, I'm going to say 50 per cent blue in there. And then over here, I'm going to choose a different color. And let's go with a yellow over there. Once again. I'm going to then tint that is a paler yellow as well and click Okay, you can see what's happened is because I went to the table and table Options even not just affected these ones here, it affected every single row in that table. So once again, if I select some of the table, I'm going to go to table, table options and the alternating fills. And I'm going to take that and say none. You can see it affect the whole table in there. What about if I did want to have the top two rows a different color? Well, I can override those alternating fills by selecting the two rows that I want. Going onto my Appearance, clicking on the fill, and then choosing a color in here. I'm just going to pick on that red for now. 102. Custom Fill & Stroke: I've added some numbers in here, just arbitrary numbers. And I've changed the text a little bit, made that bold, centered it in the middle. Now, I've got to be honest, my table looks like it's been created by a five-year-old with the new pack of crayons. So what I'm going to do is just remove all those colors. I'm going to select it by going to the corner. Select everything. And I'm going up here to the table, down to table options and the alternating fills. And I'm just going to choose none on there. Then I'm going to go to my appearance, and I'm going to choose none for the fill color. Let's have a look now at what we can do about the lines are the strokes around the outside of the individual cells. Well, I'm gonna select all of these Cells and I'm going to go to table cell Options. And in here we've got strokes and fills. Now there's a funny little shape over here. This is a representation of the table itself with the line around the outside representing the line that goes around the outside here. Then the vertical and horizontal lines are the vertical and horizontal lines in there. So maybe I don't want any of the vertical lines. So if I tick some of these other lines here, now, the way that you do it as you click on them, and you can switch them on and switch them off. So now I've just got those three lines active in there. I'm going to keep them black, but I'm going to make them a little bit thicker. You can see how they've got slightly thicker over there. And maybe I don't want them at all. So I could go over here and I could choose to make them none. And that would get rid of them. So I can just be left with those lines in there. Let's just click Okay and have a look at that for the moment. Now, to see this properly, I'm going to press W, so you can see how the final result would look. In fact, having those three like that doesn't really look very good when you've got all three together. So what I might actually do is to select those three cells. Go back again to the table Menu and unmerged the Cells over there and that'll put them back. Then I can then put in my zeros in there. Try those out, have a go, and experiment with selecting individual cells or multiple cells. For example, here I could go along to this cell. In there, got up to table cell Options, down to my strokes and fills. And just for this one, I could say, I'm not going to select that one. That one and that one. Those are the ones around the left or right and the bottom, but just the top one. And I'm going to take that to none. So when I click OK, that'll get rid of the line along the top. And you can of course, select individual ones and increase the size on those. Now, once you've had a bit of a go with that, Make a copy of your table. And the easiest way to do that is to hold down the Alt or the Option key and drag it to make a copy. Then you can try something different with this one. So once again, using the same technique, I'm going to go in there. I'm going to go to Tables, down to cell Options, Stroke and fills. And for this one, I think I'm going to select all of those. And I'm going to make them white or paper. As though they're all gonna be paper. And I'm going to increase the size to make them a reasonable size in them. And then I will go down to the self Fill Color and I'll give them a fill. So you'll see what I'll get this time. It's kinda reverse, so I'll have the the fills but no strokes. Try those out 103. Import Excel Spreadsheet: Now we're in Excel at the moment. I wanted to show you how you can bring in an Excel spreadsheet. We've got a spreadsheet over here. It's called daily sales and there's just some very simple numbers in there. Now, once you to notice a one or two things here, first of all, we've got Delhi sales, which is on one line there. And the numbers are all aligned are formatted over to the right-hand side. So just bear that in mind when we go into InDesign. The other thing is I haven't got any calculations in here because InDesign doesn't support calculations unless you get an extra plug-in for it. So that's been saved out as a normal Excel document. And I'll go back into InDesign now. I'm going to bring it in. Now we're going to use File and place to place it. The important thing here is to show input options down here. So if I choose Show Import Options, when I click Open, it'll open up the input Options over here. And we're interested in the formatting. So I'm going to go to the Formatting and you can see we've got formatted table and formatted table and unformatted tabbed text. So if I bought in this unformatted tabbed text and click TO K and brought it in like so. What this has done is it just brought in as text with tabs between it. If I were to click on this, you can see it behaves just like text would know Cells in there. Let me bring that in again. So I'm going to go to File and Place. This time I'm going to bring it in. Let's just select it again. And I'm going to use unformatted Table. Click OK. Bring it in once again. You can see it comes in. Remember daily sales was all on one word and the numbers were all formatted over to the right-hand side. So this is an unformatted table. Lastly, I could bring it in. Let's just place it. Same again. You'll find this file is in your course assets if you want to use that or you can make, make your own. Click. Okay? And this time I'm going to use a formatted table. Click OK, bring that in again, and you can see it'll be formatted exactly as it was in Excel. But both of these are just like a normal table. You can select the individual cells and you can format it using all the things that we've looked at for the Tables done directly from InDesign, tried out 104. Add Images into Cells: Not only can we add Text to Tables, but we can also add pictures. Let me show you why that's quite important. I'm going to make a little table over here. And this table, I'm going to have six rows and three columns. I'm going to click Okay, and we're going to drag this down. Now what I can do is I can bring a picture in here and then I can put some text next to it. So why have I actually put a row in between? Well, this little row here is gonna be the gap between them. So I'm just going to move that in like that and pull this one out to their so how do we bring the text in? Well, that's sorry, the pictures in. That's really easy. You just go to File. Choose place, find the pictures. I've put some pictures in the course for you. I'm going to select all of those pictures. I don't want to show any input options. With this. Let's click Open. That goes in there, that goes in there. And you can see how fast this is to add Images into my table. And then if you wish, you can still go along to the individual images, click on them and move them around in the table, is to move her head down a little bit like so. She can also move a bit in there as well, down to him. Well, he's a bit small. So using the white arrow tool, if you click like you would any other picture in a Frame, click on there. You can grab a corner, hold down the Shift key, and just scale it up a little bit like so. Move him into the right position. Over there. He looks a little bit on the large side, although unfortunately, I think I haven't got much room on the edge. So he'll just have to move down. And this one will just also have to move down as well. Then over here, of course I can go in and I can put in any texts that I want about those people. Pop a bit more text in here. Now, that looks okay if I press W, you've got the lines around the outside. But of course, if I select the table and I'm just going to go back to my text tool over here. Go to the corner. I could do exactly what we did before. Going to table down to cell Options, Stroke and fills. Select all of the strokes. And I'm going to just choose none for those. That'll give us something which looks like that. Try it out. It's really good for Images 105. Introduction to Project: Café Menu: Project again, what we're gonna do now is we're going to create this Menu. And with this menu, we're going to be putting in, you guessed it, a Table. And you won't even notice that it's a Table. It could have been done with just text, but it's so much easier to control when it's a Table. And then all sorts of other things like Images into circles and change the color and get colors from the document, etcetera. But let's get started with it. 106. Create Grey Background: We're going to make a small Menu now. We're going to do it for print. So I'm going to click on Print. I'm going to view all presets and choose a five in there. Now the facing pages are gonna be switched off because there's only going to be two pages and I'm going to pop in my two pages here. And then I'm going to go down and just put in some columns. I'm gonna put in four columns in there. Not that we're going to have four columns worth of texts, but it'll just help me with my overall design. We need to make sure that we've got our three millimeter bleed in for the document and click on Create, and we're now ready to go. The first thing I want to do is to put a background color onto my document, and I want that to go on both pages. So the fastest ways for me to go to my Parent Page, double-click the Parent Page and put the color in here. I'm going to use a rectangle drawn from bleed edge to bleed edge, like so. I'm going to fill that with black, but in fact, I don't want this to be black. I want this to be a sort of a dark, maybe it's of a slightly greenie black. So I'll make a copy of black. Double-click the copy. And this is where I can then go in and adjust the colors. I'm going to add just a little bit of green to that and then make it really quite dark. So I can always change this later on by going back to my parents, back into my main pages and I'm ready to start adding some pictures. 107. Add Photos: I've got two pictures to go into the menu. This is going to go on to the main page. And what I want to do is I want to put the photo into a circle so the circle cutout just the plate and get rid of all the background. And then the other one that I want to do, he's going to be on the second page and it's gonna be this one and just kind of fade out into the background. So let me start off with the first page here. I'm going to just zoom into it. I'm going to go along and again to get lips. And I'm going to draw a large ellipse on my page. I'm holding down the Shift key so I can get a perfect circle. Then I'm going to go to place. I'm using the shortcut, by the way, which is Control D on a, on a PC, command D on a Mac to place, find the image that I want. And this one here. Now, I'm going to actually get it to fit into the frame by clicking on the Frame Fitting button. But you can see it's still not quite the right size. So I'm going to use the white arrow tool to click on it and then grab a corner and start to scale it around until It's the roughly the right size one, move that into that position there. I'm going to scale a bit more. I'm holding down the Shift key while I'm scaling it, by the way, to make sure that it's absolutely fine. I'm using the arrows on my keyboard now to just move it around into the right place. And I think that looks really good now. But I do want to lift it from the background a little bit. So I'm going to click on there and I'm going to add a bit of a Drop Shadow. And this is going to be a subtle ish Shadow. I'm going to make the size get bigger. And over here in the opacity, I'm just going to take the opacity down a bit like so let's press W so that you can see how it looks. It actually looks like the plate is on my Grey Background. The second page over here is going to have the other image. So I'm going to once again draw in a rectangular frame. And remember to go from your bleed edge to your bleed edge. If you've got a bleed on your document. And then I'm going to go and bring that picture in, place. This one over here. Once again, change the Frame Fitting. I'm also going to scale this up a little bit. So using the white arrow, the direct Selection Tool, I'm going to click on their scale it up using my Shift key to make sure I constrain it. I think something like that. Over there. I can use the arrows on my keyboard to move it around. This quite a lot of sort of a fork in there, although it does help to lead the in. And then going back to the Selection tool, I'm going to use the gradient Feather and just click and drag upwards to just blend the picture out into the background. Try those out and get your pictures in there. 108. Add Branding: Let's bring in the main Title. The Cafe itself is called a byte, and it's gonna be the quick bite of Cafe. So I'm going to use my text tool. Click and drag a text frame up here. I'm going to put in the word bite. I'm going all caps for this. I'm going to go and find, once I've made it a bit bigger, a well at typeface which is big and chunky and I'm actually using Lato. And I'm going to go down to latter black. So it's going to be quite a heavy duty type face. You can use anything you like. You don't have to use the same. I'm going to change the color to paper, so it becomes white in there. Now I want to Customize this text a little bit. So I'm going to go to the Type menu. I'm going down to Create Outlines, which makes it into outlines. Now I can grab the corner and just scale it up to whatever size. I wanted to be. Just going to slightly centered that in the middle. But I want to, as I said, customize this. I want to take the E and pull the E out a little bit. So I'm going to use the direct Selection Tool, the white arrow, and click and drag to select just those two points. And that can use the arrows on my keyboard to move them out. Like so. Now we just need a little bit more Text. I'm going to have quick at the top there and Cafe over here. So once again, small amount of texts quick. And I will also choose the same typeface for that, but maybe not quite so. Begin bold. Let's just go with bold rather than black. I'm gonna pull this out a bit so we can see the text. I'm going to move to the right position and give it some color. Now, I can also experiment with either full Caps or small caps. In there. I'm gonna go with a small caps. I quite like that as you've probably noticed already. And I might choose something like a red or sampler color directly from the document. But if you do that, be careful that you have got the CMYK version, not the RGB version of that color. So I'm happy with that. I'm going to hold down the Alt key and make a copy of that over here. And this is going to say Cafe. We'll just move that into right position. Down there. Once you've done that, select it all and copy it. Go to your other page. And use edit and paste in place to paste it in exactly the same place that you had already. Try that out. 109. Add Text & Glyphs: As you can see, I've made a few changes. I've put in some more text over here. I didn't want you to have to watch me putting in text, you know how to do texts, easy. I've also changed the colors of my text along the top just to match the text down here. And I'm really looking at the Colors. I'm looking at the color in here. So this piece of quiche, I think it is, I've taken the orange from that bit in there. I've found that the reds I was thinking of red from the tomatoes would look good, but it didn't look really as good as the orange, which really brings out the text. Now, right at the bottom, I've got the telephone number. Let's scroll down to it. And what I want to do is instead of writing the word TEFL or telephone, or phone or something like that in there. I wanted to put in a little telephone icon. I'm going to go up to the Type menu, down to Glyphs. And I'm going to find a telephone icon in here. Now. I know that there is one, and it's not in the latter typeface. But if you go in there, most people have got this on their machine. If you go down to near the bottom, something called a web dings. In here, this a little telephone somewhere. Usually down the bottom somewhere. It's always difficult to find. But there's definitely one in here. There it is. Over there. I'm just going to double-click it and it'll pop it straight in over there. I can then maybe put a space between it. I can select it and adjusted in younger, actually going to adjust its scaling a little bit to make it slightly taller and thinner because I think look better like so. Anyway, do have a go with your text, pop some text in any texture like and also don't forget to try out using a glyph in your document. 110. Create a Table: I'm going to use a table in here to put the menu and I'm going to go to Object. Now I'm not, I'm going to go to table, create table, and I'm going to do minus seven by six. You can obviously use more or less columns in there. And I'm going to click Okay, and draw my table in. Exact size. Doesn't matter yet. But what I want to do is I want to start off putting some information in here. And I'm not going to get you to watch me do the whole thing because otherwise you'd just be watching me type. So once you've got your column in, you can then start populating yours as well. So make your, make your table and then come back and you can see exactly what I've put in mine. 111. Put Text into Table: As you can see, I've populated my table a little bit over here, so I've got breakfast and brunch, and under breakfast I've got the various meals and then prices in here. And obviously I've just put the same price in all of them. I will adjust those later on once I hear from the client how much things cost. What I'm going to do now is to change the width of some of these columns that these are in. I'm going to start off with the breakfast column here, so I'm just going to select all of those. And then I'm going to go and find a place to change the size. Now, one of the easiest ways to do it, although you can go to the Table menu and you can go to your table in your cell Options. I'm going to go to the Window menu. And I'm going to go and find something that we don't really use very much anymore because we've got the Properties panel app. So I'm going to get to do is I'm going to find, and in the Essentials Classic, it's the easiest way to get to it. It's this little bar along the top. This little Options bar changes, like the Properties panel changes. What it's doing is it's showing me some of the text options over here. Once again, similar to the text options there. But over here we've got options for the table, and there's more options than you actually get down the bottom in the table options over there. So what I'm after actually is this option over here which allows me to change the width of the cells. And you'll see because I've selected those cells, I can then go in and increase them to whatever size I want. So I think I liked them to be 38. And then obviously this one here would also need to match that needs to be 38 as well. Then I can go into the pricing columns. I'm going to change that. That's gonna be 14. This one here is gonna be 14. These middle ones over here, the gap between them. I'm going to take that down quite a lot as well. So I've taken that to 14. I might even go a little bit less on those. Now we could do the same thing with the height as well. So for example here I can take all of these and I can go to the height, which is that the top here. Instead of saying, at least, I can say I wanted to be exactly and I choose the height of the cells in there. I'm just going to move them in a bit. I'm going with 10 mm in there. Now, don't forget with your text, you can then left or right align it. I'm going to write a line, the numbers over there and left align the titles of the dishes. We can also move the texts into the center as well. So if I selected all, I can then get up to the top here and I can central line it or bottom align it over there. So it's top, middle or bottom. I think with the breakfast and brunch, I'm going to leave them where they are. A bit of a go. Put in your menu items in there, give them some color. I made mine white and, and the orangey yellow color. But have a bit of a go of selecting the Cells. And then using this little bar along the top here, you can go and change the width of the cell. And then if you've got them selected, that way, you can go along and you can change the height of the cell instead of saying at least go to exactly and then put in the height of that you want in there. You can get to this easily by going into the Window menu and going down to workspace and choosing the Essentials, Classic workspace 112. Format Cells: Let's just go back to workspace and the essentials workspace and that gets rid of that control option bar along the top. You can still bring it up in this workspace. It is called control. If you go to the Window menu and you can find control in there so you can have the best of both worlds. Now, what I'm going to do is to do some color or, or get rid of some color, shall I say, on my table, I press W. You can see it's all surrounded by black in on those particular cells. So I'm going to select all of the table. And the easy way to do that is good the very corner until you see that arrow turn to going diagonally, click and that selects everything in your table. Along the top, we've got an option here. Now this is the same option that you see when you go to the Table menu in the cell Options, I can switch everything on in here or switch it off. I find sometimes that it can be a little bit annoying. It's very difficult to get to everything. But now if I go in there and I'm going to choose zero for my stroke width. You'll see now that if I press W, It gets rid of those strokes on all the cells. But I want to do a little bit more with this. I'd like to have the breakfast and brunch underlined. So I'm going to do it in this mode here. I'm going to select breakfast cell and the next cell. And then I can go along to once again over here, switch everything off except the cell that at the bottom of that cell. Then in here, I could choose to have a Stroke and I could pick the color of my strokes. I'm just kinda go down to that orange. I've got over there. You can see there, it's there, it is little line in there. Once again, I'll do the same width branch. I'm going to select Brunch cell and the cell next to it. Go up to the top, make sure I've only got the bottom one selected. I'll do that one point and choose the orange in here. Now, don't forget, of course, you can always move these things up and down. If they're too far away. I'm going to go over to the middle Cells. And that was why ahead. Whoops. I had so many Middle cells here. And select all these Cells. And I'm going to switch off everything except the center. And then do the same thing again over here. So I'm going to put in one point which is down the middle. And I'm going to make that orange as well. There's no right or wrong here. I just want to show you how you can use these cells in different and interesting ways. It doesn't look like a Table per say, it just looks like a list of items. Anyway, have a bit of a go with that on your table and see if you can get that sorted out. Just move it around as you need 113. Imbed Photos & Export with Preset: Before we do our final save, there are only two pictures in here and I'm going to go to the Window menu down to the links. Because when I save this, I don't want to have to package the whole thing up only for two pictures. I'm going to select the two pictures that are in here. You can shift select them if you wish. Right-click them and just embed them into the document. So now, even if I open this up in three months time, the pictures are imbedded straight into the document. The rest of it is exactly the same. File Save, File Export. And we can just export this as a PDF for print because it's going to go to the printers. I'm going to come on Menu. I'm going to click on Save. There are going to be two pages over there. We don't want to miss spreads, they're just individual Pages. And then I'm going to go to my compression and just check that my compression is correct. So anything which is over 450 pixels per inch will be taken down to 300 marks and bleeds for all of the printers Options. The output, I'm going to go to convert to destination and working CMYK. And if I then want, I can actually save this as a preset because I'm gonna be using it quite a lot. So I'm going to say PDF, print with marks. Click. Okay, so now I've actually got a Preset in InDesign, which has got everything in there. Don't forget to check the ink manager and make sure that there are no Pen tones or spot colors that you didn't want. Click on Export, and you're done. 114. Introduction to Project: Interactive Gallery Feedback Form: Onto our last project. Now I've got something special here. We're going to create an interactive user experience. So when people go to this document, they can click on different buttons to jump to different pages. And based on where they jump, you can then give them other pages to go to. So you'll see this document and I've got here is all about Feedback for a Gallery. And if we click on some of the buttons, they'll go to certain pages. If you click on other Buttons, I go to other pages. So depending on whether the person chooses where they've had a good or bad experience. You can click the appropriate or take them to the appropriate page. Let's get started. And it'll become clear as we go 115. Setup Parent Pages: Let's start a new Simple file. This is going to be for web. So I'm going to click on Web. And I'm going to put in a file size here, which is HD size. So that's going to be 1920 by 1080 pixels. It's going to be landscape. I'm not worried too much about any of these options here. Margins, I'm going to put in two columns, just so that I've got something in the middle of my document that I can work from the center if I need. And Pages I'm going to put in seven pages. Now I know that's an odd number. If you're going to do this for print, you probably wouldn't want to use seven pages if you are going to be stapling the documents down the middle. But because this is digital and this is going to be an interactive presentation, seven is where I'll need. I'm going to click Create. And here's my documents. Sorry, here's my pages. In the Pages panel, the Parent Panel, I'm going to double-click on the Parent, making sure that I'm in the Parent. I'm checking down here that I'm in the Parent. I'm going to put a frame in all the way across. So this is a photo or picture frame to go all the way across the document that I can very quickly put the pictures in. Each page is also going to have a white area. I'm just going to draw a little white shape in there. Now you can see it's not quite lined up in the middle, so I'm going to move it across. That was why I put in some columns. I could see where the middle was easily. I'm going to fill that with white. You'll see why. He later on. When we do that. I'm also going to change the opacity down to about 70% or thereabouts. We can change this later. Let's put in the Branding in here. So I'm going to go and do a character. So over here I'm just going to do a capital G, which I'm going to select, That's the name of the Gallery. I'm going to make it a lot larger. And I'm going to go up to Type and Create Outlines out of that shape. I can put it out. So I've got my big G there. That's going to coat the bottom left-hand corner. I'm gonna give it a color. Of course, we can always change this later on. So let me go with this of a funky green for that. And I can then change the shape as well. So I can use my white arrow tool to click on any of those points and change them. So I'm going to select those two points there. And I'm using the arrows on my keyboard to just move them out like that. Then I'm going to once again gets more text in here and do Gallery for the people. So it is quite small. But I'm going to scale it up a little bit. I'm gonna tell want this to appear on every single page. And I'm going to make that slightly bigger, the texts slightly bigger in here. I'm also going to increase the tracking so the characters are slightly further apart to give more importance. I think it might have to be a little bit bigger ones go all the way to of the GI, right? I've set up my basic page and then I can go into the Pages and bring in the pictures, will do that next. But setup your basic page in there. Don't forget you want a photo frame in the background. Over here. You want a white box, which you change the opacity of and then make yourself some form of logo. Down the bottom there 116. Place Images & Change Layer Order: I've come back to my main pages, so I've double-clicked and check that was on one of these pages over here. Then I'm going to zoom out a bit and bring in my pictures quickly. So I'm going to go to File, Place or use your shortcut if you note, find the image is now on seven images in here. So I'm just holding down Command on the Mac or Control on PC to select the ones that I want. Unfortunately, I selected five and then double-clicked without realizing it. But that's okay. I can just pop them in here. Now, makes sure that when you're doing this, you are putting them onto that background shape. Right? How many you got left? Two more left over there. So I'm just going to find the last two, that one and that one. Click on Open. That goes in there. That goes in there. So be careful you don't put them on anything else. Now that we've got those pictures in there, you can see the problem that we've got. And that is that in the Parent, although the G is in front of that, when I've put the pictures in, they go in front of anything which is on the Parent. So let's sort that out by going into the Window menu down to Layers. And in here, I'm going to choose the rectangle and also the G over there. I don't, I don't want that sort of background picture things. So the G and the rectangle, I'm going to make a new layer. This layer here is going to contain the, the Branding and white square. I'm looking at the keyboard, not actually what I'm typing. Anyway. You get the idea with that. And then I can move that from there by just clicking on that little blue dots. You can see this is all selected on the blue dot and moving it up onto that layer. So the Branding and the white square on now on the top layer and layer one has the pictures on. Want to get back to my document, you'll see now that it all just works and the white square is in front of all the pictures. Now the reason for that white square is that we can put text on there. And if I zoom in a bit, you should still be able to see a little bit of the photo in the background over there, but it's enough so that the text will show up really nicely. If you find that it's not quite right, go back to your Parent, click on there and change the opacity in there. Just make it a little bit more white. Back to my picture again. There we go, and that's a little bit less transparent. Have a go with that. Brings some pictures in 117. Understand the Q&A Setup: The way this is going to work, is this going to be some questions for the people who visited this Gallery? And on the first page it'll say How was your visit to the gallery today? There'll be two buttons, a good button and a bad button. Now, if they click on the good Buttons, It's going to take us to page which says, can we contact you for a review? If there's same bad, then it's going to take us to page which says, what can we do to improve? Now, if they've said good and they've gone to the can we contact you for a review page? If the answer is yes, we can contact you for a review. Then we'll take them to this page here, which is please go to our trust padded page and they'll click on that and go to trust palette. If you've said No, we don't want to contact you for a review. Then they'll go to the page which says, thank you for your visit. Maybe next time. It's not as bad as it seems when I'm going through this, I promise. So going back here to this way, if they said the visit was bad, and then we'll say, what can we do to improve? Do you want better exhibits or a bigger Cafe? If they choose better exhibits, we'll say, we'll be adding to our collection sun. And they can see the Online plants here and they click on that button to take them to the website which shows the plans. If they decided that it was the cafe, that was the problem. You want a bigger Cafe? We text them to a page which has, we will be extending the Cafe next year. Now I know it seems very, very complicated when I go through it like that. But hopefully it'll make sense as we get into it. Now, I've given you all of these texts so you can copy and paste it in. But you need to make sure that the answers are Buttons. So good needs to be a bit of texts by itself, Bad needs to be a bit of text by itself. Yes and no, once again, bit of texts by itself. Now rather than you watching me, I've put it all together in mine over here, and I have done this on a new layer over here called text. I've locked down my other layers and I've done this as a new layer called Text. Just that I don't end up putting things underneath the white and it makes it easy for me to show and hide other things as well. So here's my first page. How is your visit to the gallery today, good or bad? And that's a Text Frame? That's a Text Frame. Same over here. Can we contact you for a review? Yes. No. Please go to her transplanted Page. Trust palette. Once again is a Text Frame on its own. Thank you for you visit maybe next time. Text over here once again, we've got three lots of texts. One for can we, what can we do to improve best exhibits is a Text Frame. Bigger Cafe is a Text Frame. You getting the idea here. That's Text Frame there. This is a Text Frame over here. Text Frame in there. So if you'd like to go and do all of that, if you go to the Word document that I've provided, all of this is kind of in order of the pages that you'd want to put them in. If you get them out of order, it really doesn't matter as long as you know what the order should be. And do make sure that the answers Over here are individual text frames, not just one great big text-box, including everything. Popping the Text. And then I'll show you how we can set the Buttons up so it'll actually work 118. Setup Buttons: Let's get on and Set-up these buttons. I'm going to go to the Window menu, and I'm going to go down to the Interactive. I want to find buttons and forms. So let me start with a good button. So if people click on the good button over here, How was your visit the gallery? Good. I'm going to make it into a button. And then I'm going to go over to the actions here. And I'm going to say if that is true, then I want to go to a specific page. I can then choose which page I wanted to go to. Now, I want them to go. Page number two. Can we contact you for a review because they like the Gallery. So that's going to go to page number two in there. That's done. Let me do bad. So if they have they if they didn't like the visit, we go to the button, we add an action to go to a page. And if they didn't like the visit, we want them to go to this page over here. What can we do to improve? Now that's actually page number five. You can see it over there. So that's going to go to page number five. Just make sure that I'm still on that page number five in there. So this one here takes us to page two, that takes us to page number five. Let's move down a little bit. Can we contact you for a review? Yes, we can. Once again, the button. If we can contact them through for for a review, they're going to go to the page about trust palette. So they're going to go to page number three. Will have page number three going in there. If we don't want to contact them or they don't want us to contact them for review. We'll take the button. We're going we're going to go to page and we're going to send them to thank you for you visit maybe next time. Which Over here is page number four? So that's going to be page number four. In there. Over here. We're going to come back and click on the trust Pilot and sort that out soon. But let's get back to the top. So let's say, for example, that the bad if they, if they didn't like the Gallery and it was bad, then we're sending them to this page here to say what can we do to improve? Well, better exhibits. We're gonna put a button on that. And that's going to go to a page over here which we'll say we're going to be adding to our collection. That is page number six. I'm finding these by just looking at the previews on the right-hand side. If they wanted a bigger Cafe. Well, once again, I'm going to go to the page and that's going to send them to will be extending the Cafe next year, which is page number seven. Now, you one other buttons that we've already got to do or this one over here. So trust trust pilot. If they click on that, I'm going to go to the button. I'm going to add a link in here. I'm going to say go to URL. And then I can type in the URL in here. Now that I'm make sure I get it right, I'm just going to go onto the web and do a new document here. Trust pilot.com. So back into here again. Trust palette.com in there. What else have we got? What we've got one more thing here. And that is Cl Online plans here. And so maybe they going to go to some sort of on our website, we've got some plans for it. I'm actually just going to take them to a big Gallery for now because I don't have a website setup for this. So I'll do the same thing again. I'm just going to find a large site. I'm going to go to File new window over here. And I'll put in the British Gallery, National Gallery. And there it is over there, the National Gallery. I'm going to just highlight the top copy that go back in here. This is going to be the same thing again. I'm going to click a button. I'm going to go to, go to URL. And I'm going to just remove that and paste it in. That's already to go if you'd like to put in all of those links in there. And then we can do a test drive on it. 119. Test & Restart Buttons: I'm going to go to File and I'm going to use Publish Online to publish it. Online really. I'm just going to click on Publish. And this shouldn't take too long. It uploads the document. If you've got video in your document and of course you put in Video at the same way you put it in a picture. It might take a little longer. And in here I'm just going to either click Copy or view the document, which then puts that URL into my browser. So let's have a look. If how was your visit to the gallery today? Good. Carried contact you for a review? Yes. Please go to our trust pilot Page, trust palette, and it takes us to trust palette in there. So you can see it is working. The only thing is if they get to this stage and so I want to do it again. Do you have to go back all the way through those Buttons? We'll fix that. If they said it was bad, what can we do to improve will better exhibits? And we can see that Online plans over here. And that takes us to, in my case, I put in the National Gallery. What do we need is a button that will allow them to jump back to the beginning page all the way through. I'm going to do that over here by just taking let's just close that little window down. By taking a bit of text. I'll just take this bit of texture, hold down the Alt key and change it to Restart. I'm going to place it in the corner somewhere. Now. I need to get rid of that. Make this a little bit smaller. I would have Restart up the top there. Now, Restart is going to take us always back to page one. I know I'm on page one at the moment, but we'll fix that. So I'm gonna say down here button, I'm going to go to Actions, and I'm going to go down to go to page one in there. Now. I don't need on page one because I'm already on page once. I'm going to cut it. So I'm going to go to Edit and cut. I'm going to go along to page two now. And then just start pasting it in. So Edit Paste in Place. Go to page three. Edit paste in place all the way through the document. And the the actions on it will go, will be copied as well. So edit, paste in place. Edit paste in place. And then onto the last page over here. Edit and paste in place. Okay, quick check to see how it's working. Publish Online. Now we can just update the existing document. I'll click Publish. All right, There it is. View the document. So if they said bad, I can go to restart again. Any of these. I can always restart back to the first page. Once again. Try that out. 120. Roll Over State: Let's create a rollover with this. And what I'm doing this, I want to show you something else when you go to your actions, the actions were using, which is animation, go to page, go to state, or these actions over here, awful Publish Online only. If you're doing something for PDF, then you can use the ones at the top. And you could use these ones down here as well. But just be careful that these ones here when you're using them, therefore, ePub and Publish Online only. So the one that we've just done here wouldn't really work for a PDF document. There are other ways that you can actually get around that for a PDF document, although we've got FirstPage and last page, you've got to go to destination. There's ways to set it up. You can jump to specific pages, although we're not going to be covering that here. Now, I've just clicked back on my good button here. What I want to do is I want to change the color when people roll over it. So it goes blue. And then when they roll Over the bad one, I want the bad text to go red. So we add an appearance in the rollover state. So over here where it says appearance, remember I'm still on that button. I've got the go-to page two there. I click on rollover, and that then puts another state in there. I'm going to click a few times to select my text. I'm still in the rollover stage. And this is where I can change the color of the text to something else. I'm going to change that too. Funky green. Let's go back in there again. You can see if I'm on the normal state, it's black, the role of estate. It's green. Do the same with bad. I'm going to add a relevant state by just clicking in there. Make sure I'm on the role of estate Selected. Go and change the color and just make that a read. That's done. And once again, it's normally black, but it'll go read when we wrote over it. Let's test this out again. So File Export, Publish Online. And I'm going to just update the existing Document. Right? So there's good if I hover over it, you can see it goes blue. If I hover over bad, it goes red. So those are our overstates. Once again. Try roll Over State 121. Thank You & Well Done!: Well done. You've got to the end of the course. I bet you're creating amazing stuff now. Don't forget to look at our other courses. And especially if you've enjoyed InDesign, have a look at Illustrator. There's a lot of things which are very, very similar. I'll see you in the next one.