Non-Scary Adobe InDesign for Beginners - Design, Layout & Publish Like a Pro

1. Introduction to this InDesign All the Essentials Course: Hi, my name is Tim Wilson. I'm the senior trainer at Red Rocket 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 goes through all the Essentials you need to create stunning documents. And then it takes you into more advanced features to 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 will start from the very beginning and 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 we'll be working through from his simple Newsletter through to brochures, social media posts, catalogs, multi-page documents, interactive documents, as well as using InDesign to create an icons and logos. Through to complex infographics. Remember, there's a money-back guarantee. So what have you got to lose? Enroll right now. I can't wait to help you to learn Adobe InDesign 2. Introduction to The interface: What are we going to be doing in this first section is looking at the interface. I want to show you where everything is so you know where to find them and you won't get lost. I'll show you a few Shortcuts, not too many. I don't want to overwhelm you. And we'll be doing shortcuts as we go through. But really it's about setting up your, your Workspace. So let's get started with that right now. 3. Tour of Workspace: When you first open up InDesign, you usually have something which looks like this. This is the welcome screen. And there are two main buttons that we're interested in over here, the new file and the open file. Now, the other things that you see in here are some presets and work that you've been working on already. And you might see that work either as a list like this or as individual files like that. What I'm going to do though, is I'm going to click the New File button. And very quickly just go down to the bottom and say Create. We'll be looking at this in more detail later. But I'm just going to use the basic setup that they give me and that takes me into InDesign. Now, in InDesign, once again, you would usually have something that looks like this. And I say usually because you can move things around as you like. Now, if you're used to Photoshop or Illustrator, you'll find that this is pretty much the same. You got tools on the left-hand side and you can pull them out. You can grab them right at the top and just move them out and put them wherever you want. But you might find your tools are a single row like mine. Or you might find, if you click on that little double arrow that they go across, or if you click the double arrow again, there are a double row. Whichever way they're all the same tools. You just set them up as you like. Now in the toolbar, you'll see that some of the tools have got tiny little arrows on the bottom right-hand corner that shows that there's more tools in that set. So for example, if I go to this little square with a cross through the middle, I'm going to right-click it and it'll show me the other tools that are in that set and I can choose one of them. You can see that now the default tool in there. So let me do that again down over here, right-click and I can see the other tools in there. If you don't have a right-click, if you're on a Mac, for example, you can use Control and click as well. Or you can just click hold. And if you click and hold, it will show those tools to. On the right-hand side, we've got some panels. And you can drag your panels out and set this up to whatever you want the look to be. So for example, I could have my tools over there on the right-hand side. I can just drag them across to the right. Make sure I get the right thing to drag them. There we go, and drag them there. And I can then put the properties on this side. There are lots of panels in here, not just the ones that you see. If you go to the Window menu, all your panels are listed in the Window menu and some of them are hidden. So for example, if I want the Swatches, swatches to do with color, so I can go to the color and then across to Swatches and then open that up. And once again, I can move any of these panels around wherever I want them to go. If you lose any panels. So for example, I close those down, even close down the Tools. I can still go back to the Window menu and find them in here. 4. Resetting the Workspace: If you've got lots of panels all over the place and you want to get back to, well, the neat setup that you had in the first place. You can go along to the Window menu and you can go to Workspace. And on the right-hand side here, I've got all these different workspaces. Now we've started off in the Essentials Workspace. You might have actually started in a different workspace. But we're gonna be working with the Essentials Workspace initially. Because it's ticked. If I go down here it says Reset Essentials. Now when I click on that, it'll just reset it to how it was in the first-place. Really nice and is cleans everything up for you. Now if I went to the Window menu and I chose a different workspace, let's say for example, I went to this Typography Workspace. You can see that it's a totally different Layout. And same again, if I've moved some of these things around, like that, made a mess of it. I can then go to Window Workspace. And because I'm in Typography, it now says reset Typography. And I can just reset that to the default loud for Typography. Once you've had a bit of a play with that, with a workspaces. And you've, you feel confident with them. Go back to the Essentials. Later in this course, we'll be looking at how you can actually make your own workspaces. Because you can see I've got one over here that you, I'm fairly short, don't have it's called tools right now. Show you how you can make your own workspaces. But I'm just gonna go back to Essentials over there. So we've got properties, Pages and the libraries in there, and the tools on the left-hand side. By the way, there are two Essentials. There's one which is Essentials, and there's one which is Essentials Classic, which gives you some more stuff along the top. We're going to be starting off with Essentials in there. Half ago, reset your panels 5. Zoom, Scroll & Tab Shortcuts: Let's have a look at some Shortcuts. I'm not going to bombard you with too many shortcuts, but there's a few which are really useful. The first one is actually zooming in and zooming out of your document. Now you can go down to the little, well, it's called the Zoom Tool magnifier. And you can click to zoom in, or you can hold down the Alt or Option key, depending on whether you are on a Mac or PC. On a Mac, it's usually called the Option key on a PC, it's called the Alt key. Hold it down. You can see the plus goes to a minus and I can click to zoom out. But there's a much faster way which is used throughout the Adobe range. And that is to hold down Control or Command that depends on whether your PC or Mac and minus at the same time. So I'm holding down Control and minus to zoom out or Command and minus to zoom out. And I'm holding down Command or Control N minus to zoom in. Now, the other way or the other thing that we can do is we can move the page around. That is a very annoying to have to use these little sliders down here to move the page into the exact place that you wanted. It's very time-consuming. There is a little hand over here that you can use and you can actually just drag the page around. But once again, if you're working in one of these tools here, you don't want to have to keep going down to the hand to move your page around. So the fast way to move around is to hold down the Spacebar. That's the same on the Mac, same on the PC. Hold down the Spacebar and whatever tool you in, except the type tool. You'll be able to just click and drag your page around. When you let go of the space bar, it goes back toward ever told urine. Let's say for example, I was in the pen tool over here, hold down the space-bar, and that gives me the hand I can move around. And when I let go of it, it goes back to the tool that I was in. I can carry on working. Now, there's one more shortcut that I want to mention right now because it's one of those things that can happen to quite easily. In my case, it usually involves the cat. I know that sounds really strange. But if I'm working on my laptop, the cat likes to walk across on my keyboard. And when he does, sometimes you'll press a key and all of the panels and tools just disappear. Well, that little key is the Tab key on the left-hand side. Now that's usually for keys up on the left you've got the Caps Lock and then above that is Tab and Tab will just show and hide your panels. If you don't remember that, you can always go to the Window menu. You can go down to Workspace and just say reset the essentials workspace and that'll bring them back for you. Anyway. Try that out. And Tab is very useful to. First of all, it just allows you to see everything without all the panels all over the place. Try them out 6. Introduction to Creating Documents: In InDesign, we can create different types of documents. We can create things for print, whether it's offers printing or commercial printing. We can do books, magazines, brushes, you name it. We can also create things for the web, for social media. We're going to be setting up a document now, and I'll take you through a few of the options. Obviously, we're going to be looking at all of that stuff later on. But for now, I'll show you how to set up a document and we'll just put in some margins and some columns into that 7. Create a New Document: I want to close down this document so we can do it in two ways. We can either go up and click on the Hex there, or you can go to the File menu and you can just choose close at the top. I don't want to Save, it, will be saving things later on. Now what I want to do is I want to create a new file from scratch. So although we can click on the New File button there, we can also do it if you don't see this new button by going to File and New over here. And then we've got three options. You've got a Document, a book, or a library. Now we're going be working on documents. But just very quickly, books are collections of documents. So you can put a whole lot of documents together into a book. We'll be talking about the libraries later on. So you can either go to Document there or you can click new file over here. Now we need to do that. You get what looks like quite a complicated area. But it's not as bad as it seems. Firstly, we've got a little menu along the top over here which says Recent saved Print, web, or mobile. What these do is they give you preset. So if I click on Print, I've got some preset sizes over here. And I've also got some templates that Adobe give us down there. These ones all free, but you can get some board templates as well. Now, if you don't want to see those templates, just click on view all presets and that'll show you some extra sizes in here. And to same with web. If I click on Web, I've got some premade web sizes or some templates further down. Now, this also mobile option here, and you'll see that we've got things like phones, iPads, surfaces, all the different devices in there. What is the difference between the Print and the web? Well, the biggest difference between these two is if you start with print, your document is set up for CMYK. Now this is something we'll talk about with color later on, but it stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. And those are the inks that we use when we're printing. If you go to web, it, basically set your document app using the RGB color mode, which is red, green, and blue. That's how Screen works, whether it is a computer screen or a television or a smartphone, they will work with red, green, and blue light. So does it mean that if you do produce of Print? No, not necessarily. You can just change it at a later stage, but it's best to start off in the correct area. The other difference between these two is if you go to print, the default is in millimeters physical size. If you've got a web, the default is in pixels. Once again, all of those things will come to later on. So saved means that you can actually use some of your saved documents so you can go along and you can save a preset in here yourself. Recent or any documents that you've already been working on. You can see I've got quite a few in there. I'm going to click on print or go to A4. And you see it automatically puts in my width and height for me. If I, for example, into a tabloid size, it would do the tabloid size. If I went along here to A5, A3, it's just putting in those sizes for me. If those sizes don't work for you, you can manually put in your own sizes in there. If you are used to Working in something which is not millimeters, well, you can change it to all sorts of different value systems in here as well. From points, pikas, inches, etcetera to some that I can't even pronounce. We'll leave it at that. The orientation is landscape or portrait makes sense. And the Pages, we're going to start at one page, but later we'll be adding pages. We can add them at the start, we can add them in later on. And I'll explain about Facing pages later on. We're going to leave that switched off for now. Now we're going to come to the rest of these bits very, very shortly, but I'm just going to click on Create over there. Now I've got my document. If I'm on my black arrow tool, that's called the Selection tool at the top, this two of them, there's the black one over there and there's a white one over there. The black one is the Selection Tool. The white one is the Direct Selection Tool. It's very confusing because they look the same and they've got almost the same names. But most of the time, we're going to be on the Selection tool. And I click the page, my Properties panel over here shows me the properties of the page. Now you're going to find that the properties change depending on what you'd actually doing. So if you're working in text, like so, you'll see that the properties and now changed to Text Properties and it says text insertion up there. If I click on the Text Frame, it it takes me to the Text Frame. If I've clicked on the page, It's properties for the Page, everything has got its own properties and it just automatically updates in here. So if I made a mistake and I want to be landscape, I can change this in here very easily. I could also add more pages in here, and I can change the margins size as well. We've also got the option to do Facing Pages, switch them on and off from that. Now, we're going to be looking at these in more detail later on. But there are rulers and grids that you can switch on and off if you want to use them. So you can see I've got my rulers that I can switch on, off there, as well as guides. But don't worry too much about them now, we'll get to them later on. Anyway to happen if a go File New Document and just try a few of these little settings out 8. What are Facing Pages: Let's have a look at some of the other options. I'm going to go to File and New Document. And one of them, especially if you go over to Print, which pops up automatically, is something called Facing Pages. Now Facing pages, when you have two pages next to each other, Let's have a look. An example. I've got a little document over here, and this has been designed without Facing pages on. So I've got the Cover, the Document there. Then here's the inner Page there. And we're going to the second page. You can see this picture there and the rest of the pictures over here. So that would be a two-page spread next to each other. And this one on cats, this a double-page spread for this. So the rest of the pictures on that side there. Same again over here. We've got this picture here and the rest of the picture comes on the Facing page until we get to the last page in there. Now, designing documents like this is quite hard. If you've got to put a picture over half a page and then the rest of the picture on the other page there. So that's without Facing Pages switched on. You can see it's switched off over here. If I go to the same thing again, now this time, Facing Pages was switched on for the design. And you can see there's my Cover picture over there, just one page. When I scroll up, now that I've got Facing Pages switched on, I can have my two pages next to each other. And I can design a lot easier like this because I'm seeing what the final result is going to look like. Here we go, we got a cat picture which goes over both Pages over there. Once again, same with this. The picture goes onto the second page in there. And finally we get to the last page in there. So sometimes you want Facing Pages switched on, sometimes you wanted switched off. It depends on the document that you're working on. But do have a look at that. Go to file a new document. Create a Document with Facing Pages switched on. Putting a, let's say eight pages, for example. Click on Create and you'll see how your document is then over multiple pages, front and back page or individual. And if you switch that off, now you'll see that the Pages or one below the other, tried out 9. Columns and Margins: I'm going to File New and Document again. And let's have a look at some of the other settings. Now once again, I'm going to start with print because we really are talking about printed the moment we've looked at the Facing Pages, I'm going to scroll down a little bit over here to columns. Columns are here purely as guides to help you with your design. I'm going to put in three columns in my document. And then I've got a gutter in here which I can change. I'll click on Create. And you can see I've got three columns there. Now, if you're wondering what the gutter is, this is the gutter distance over here between the columns in there. So when I'm bringing in text or pictures or whatever, I can use the columns as a help to design my Document or I can completely ignore them. It is absolutely up to you. Now, one of the things that you'll find if you go to the properties is that in your document, you can actually change the size of the document. You can do the width and the height. You can go to the Margins and you can adjust your margins size. In here you can see I can adjust my margin over there or I can switch off the Link and adjust them individually. But one of the things that doesn't appear here are the columns. So what's happening will firstly, if you are in the properties here, this property is to do with your entire document, every single page. If you adjust the margins in here, it will adjust every page. If I create a new document and I create this with eight pages. Over there, I've got three columns in there. Click on Create. You can see if I zoom out a little bit, I'm using my shortcut. So you can see a few of the Pages. When I'm adjusting these, it's adjusting it for every single page in my document. Now, if I wanted to adjust the columns, I'm going to click on this page here. I can do it, but I go to Layout, Margins and Columns. And in here I've got previous switched on. I can then adjust the number of columns, but it's only for the page that I'm on. Likewise, if I go to the Margins appear and I adjust the margins, It's only adjusting them for this particular page. In here. Using the properties here, it adjusts for the entire document using Layout, Margins, and Columns. It adjusts for the page that you're on. Does that mean that you can't adjust your columns throughout your whole document? Well, it does because you can't do it here, but there is a way round when we are talking about Parent Pages later on, we can have a look and you can adjust your columns in the Parent Page, which will affect multiple pages throughout your Document. Have a little bit of a look at that. 10. What are Bleeds: I've got a document here. Very simple. Just a bit of text on a blue background of Photo and some text in the middle. Now if I wanted to send this for commercial printing because they're going to be printing out 10,000 versions of this. The way it works is when it goes footprinting, they don't print it on individual A4 piece of paper like this. It gets, gets printed on very large rolls of paper. And then a guillotine comes along and cuts all of these out to the desired size. Now, in the theory, this should work perfectly. However, imagine if this is printed onto a roll of paper and the guillotine comes along to cut the edge over here. And there's a, the guillotine is slightly, slightly off. What could happen is you could actually end up with a tiny little white line like that. I've just done in there to show you how it would look. You just don't want that with Photos or things like this where you might have a color in there and you end up with little white line like so. What happens with printing is we actually make the Document bigger than the page itself. You can see over here that I've actually made This Background bigger than the Page and the photo is bigger than the page as well. And in fact, this little red line, which it goes up to. Now what happens is when this goes for printing, they will print not just the document itself, but all that up to the red line. And then when the guillotine comes, it will cut to the inner line, to the page size and cut off some of that printed area just in case the guillotine is out. And then you won't have any nasty little white bits of paper around the outside. Now this extra area that we print out is called the bleed. And the red line is the bleed guideline. So if you go to File and a new document in here, and I'll just go to Print. And I go down here. I can then put in a bleed on my document all way around the outside. So what size should you use for a bleed? Well, the industry standard for Bleeds is usually 3 mm in there. Occasionally a printer might ask you for up to 5 mm, but if in doubt, 3 mm is usually the way to go. Once can you click on Create and you've got the little red line that goes around the outside. So when you put in a picture or a graphic or anything which goes to the edge of the page. You put it right up. So that line. What about if you're creating something for Screen Use, which is going to be displayed on PowerPoint, or maybe it's going to the web or something like that. Do you need a bleed? No, not at all. Because there's nothing to be cut off with a guillotine. If you create it with the bleed, it'll be fine because that will just be cut off when you make it into a JPEG or PDF it. Once again, just have a little bit of a look. Go to File New and Document, put in a little bleed in here, 3 mm, click on Create and just have a look at how that bleed appears on your page. 11. Add Pages: Now I'm going to go to a new file over here. I'm just going across to Print. We will get to web. Leave me. At some stage, I'm going to switch my Facing pages of in. Then I've got one page and I'll click on Create. Now what about if I want to add more pages to my document? Well, one of the easiest ways to do it is to go up to the Layout menu, to Pages. And you could just say add Page, and that would add in one page for you. If I zoom out, you can see I've now got two Pages. Or once again, loud and Pages, you can say Insert Pages. And this way, I could choose women. New Pages are coming in. And how many of those Pages I want I want to put in another two pages in there. And I want those new pages to come after Page number one. So it'll actually put them in the middle. Not that you'll see it at the moment because we don't have any content in there. We go. I've got all my new Pages straight in there. Try it out 12. Introduction to Adding Text: This section is all about text. I'm going to show you how to bring it in, copy and paste it, make text frames. We're also going to take text and get it to flow from one column into another one. So there's so much stuff to do with this. Let's start 13. Add Text via Copy & Paste: Let's bring in some text. I'm going to do a New File, and I'm going to keep this really simple. I'm going to Print and I'm going to switch off my Facing Pages. I'll put it into columns and click on Create. Now in order to bring in the texts, we have to have a text frame. So I'm going to go along to the T tool over here. And if you right-click, you'll see it's called the Type Tool. And I'm going to click and drag a Frame into my document. Now you can see sir is flashing up the top left-hand corner there, so it's ready for me to put the text in. I'm now going to confine my texts and I'm going to get it from a Word document. There is a Word document with some text in, in the resources in the course. I'm going to copy that. I want you to notice though that the text I've got here has got some formatting in this, some italic bits, there are some bold bits, there are some underlying bits in there as well. I'm going to copy it. So I'll go to Edit and Copy. Then I'm going to go back into InDesign and I'm going to paste it in. So I'm going to go to Edit and Paste. Obviously it's Control V or Command V to paste if you are on a macro PC, PC or Mac, sorry, control, PC command is Mac. Let's paste that in. And you can see straight away that all the formatting has disappeared. Indesign strips out the Formatting when you Copy and Paste. Now I could have been copying it from an e-mail. I could have been copied from a website. It just strips it straight out. And now I can use the arrow at the top, the little black arrow called the Selection tool. And I can click and I can move that box around wherever I wanted so I can place it over here so it goes right up against columns. I could put it down. Then you can see how the text just flows in there. Once again, I'll pull that out. I can pull the bottom-up like so. You'll text could be over on the side. It actually well, I'd say it doesn't matter, but it will print like that, but it would print off the edge and you have some text missing. So do be careful you don't have to put text into the Margins 14. Place to Keep Formatting: I'm going to get rid of this bit of text. I'm going to click on it once again using the selection tool and press Delete or Backspace on the keyboard to remove it. What about if we wanted to Keep that Formatting in there? Well, in that case, instead of using the copy and paste method, you can go to File and we go down to place. We're going to be using this for pictures and other things as well. Then I just need to find that bit of text. Here's my sample text over there. And right now I'm going to say show the import options at this little button at the bottom. It looks slightly different on a PC, but you will find it there as well. So I'm gonna show my Import Options and click Open. And now window pops up. I know it looks kind of scary in some ways, but there's only two buttons that we need. Do we want to remove the styles and formatting from text and tables? Or do we want to preserve the styles and formatting from text and tables? Because we want to keep the Formatting this time. I'm going to have used that one there. I'll click. Okay. Now the text has come through. It's attached to my cursor. You can see it says sailing, setting employees, the wind. And all I have to do now is to click and drag that bit of texting. Now you can see we've got the bold area there, we've got the underlines, and we've got the italicized text down the bottom. And there's still works the same. We can then pull it in, move it down, and pull the text frame around wherever we wanted to go. Try that one out as well. Sometimes you'll want one, sometimes you want the other. You'll find with this particular method, what's happened is it's brought in a style from a word with that text in it. And we'll be talking about styles a lot later in the course. 15. Text Flow in a Frame: I'm going to suggest you start at a nice fresh Document now. Because otherwise, the style that you brought in that you didn't really know about yet could be affecting the next thing that we're about to do. So I'm going to do a new file. Once again, going over to print in here Facing pages of one page, one column, click on Create. Now when I bring my Text and I'm going to use the same process that ended initially by going to the Type Tool, clicking and dragging a Frame. And then I'm going to go down and copy the text and from the Word document and pasted in there. Now, what do you notice about this is that some of my text appears to be missing. Now, how do I know that at a glance? Well, there's two ways that we can tell. The first way is this little red square over here. Look what happens if I pull this down. Still Red Square there, down to there. It goes blue and it's clear. So it says there's no extra text in there. If I pull this even above that, the Wikipedia information at the bottom, it goes red. So that way I can tell at a glance that there is overset text, it's called. So more texts than there is Text Frame. The other way I can tell is to check something at the very bottom. So at the moment you can see that this says it might document that there is one arrow. I'm gonna pull this down and you'll see it'll check my document. It says there's no errors. Once again, if I pull this up, it's going to show an error. This at the bottom we look at later on, but it's called pre flighting. And it just shows you any areas that you have in your document. And you can actually go in there, the preflight panel and have look and see exactly what the problem is in there. So do try that out by making sure that you either show or hide some of your texts and check those two ways of seeing if there's any overset text on your document 16. Flow Between Frames: Well, what about if I want to get text to flow from one part of my document to the other. So I wanted to go from here and I want this paragraph right up to the word day sailing over there at the top. And then I want the rest of my article to appear at the bottom. What do we can do is we can go along to this little red plus, now bear in mind, I'm on the Selection tool, the black arrow. I've made sure that I've clicked once in this Text Frame, so it is selected. And I'm going to click on little Plus once as well. And same again, you can see that my text is now attached to the cursor. And I just moved down to here and I just click drag another rectangle in there. You can see now my text flows from this frame into that frame. What about though? If I pulled this text up, like up to the word capital? You can see as I'm doing it, the text automatically just flows from one frame into the other. Now, maybe I've gone along to this bit of text and I've deleted, remember, my text starts at the top saying sailing, sailing employs the wind. So if I delete that top one, Backspace or Delete on the keyboard, it now all flows into here. Make sure you're always on that Selection tool when you're moving these things around. So doing this again, I could pull this up to age of sail and I'm going to stop over there. Then I can go and I can click on that little red plus. And I can continue my story over here. And I think I'm going to take that up to you. I think where it says downwind over there. I'll move this up a little bit. I'm going to click the little plus and then drag again for the rest of my story. And in fact, I'd like the Creative Commons thing to be right at the very bottom. So I'll move that up, click over here, and click and drag again down the bottom. So at anytime I can go and move any of these around, if I were to move them about, I could delete that one. The rest of my story will just flow into the next frame. Like so. Try it out. And once you've done that, have a bit of a goat sort of moving things into columns. So you can do that. And I can have this one is another column over here. And just drag that one down there as well. 17. Text Threads: I'd like to bring in some more columns. So I'm going to go to the Layout, menu, Margins and Columns. And I'm going to put in two columns in here. Now, as you can see, the columns don't automatically pick up my text. I'm going to have to manually move them around into the right position. And maybe this one is going to go over here. And maybe this one will go down here. And let's have a look. Maybe something else. Maybe this one can go over here. And I can move these around as much as I need and try things out and go oh, let's see if that goes there. That goes. But it gets to the point where I think, what have I done? Have I changed my story around? Does it actually read correctly? Does it read from their to their, to their, to their reading all over the place. So if you want to see how your story reads, you can go to the View menu. You can go down to Extras. And there's something in here called Show Text Threads. And this shows me how my story reads. I can see from the bottom of the story, it then goes to that one. So it's reading from their to their, from their to their, and from there to that one. So really that should go there. And this should go over here. You might not want these on all the time because they can get a bit annoying and getting the way. So you might of course, just want to switch them on when you really need them. Especially if you've got text which is flowing from one page into another. So it's View extras and show or hide your text Threads 18. Multiple columns: Now there is another way to get your text to go into Frames are columns, shall I say? I'm going to remove those two, that one and just pull my text down a little bit over here. So the other way to put your text into columns is to actually go and onto the properties. Make sure you're using your Selection tool. You've selected your Text Frame. So the little box comes up around the outside. And in the properties over here, scroll down till you get to the bottom. This will allow you to take a Frame and just divide it up into two columns or three columns, however many you like. And I can then pull it up. And in fact, even if I change the size of this text frame, it will still always be in three columns. So what about if I made that quite small? And I went over here and clicked on the little plus and then did another one. Well, this one will go back to one column in the text. Sometimes people use this method. Sometimes people use the draw the individual columns and do it manually. It's up to you which one of those you want. While you're in here, have a look at the options down here, because we've also got a gutter option. So I can actually increase the gutter between those bits of text as well. Once again, try it out 19. Character and paragraph fundamentals: Let's have a look at a simple little bit of text formatting. So I'm going to go along to my type tool, the T tool, and I'm actually going to zoom in. So either control Plus or Command Plus to zoom in. Now, be very careful if you want to move down the page and you hold down the spacebar, if you've clicked in your document with that tool and you hold down the Spacebar, you'll end up just putting in spaces. So do watch that. I'm just going to get rid of my spaces that I've put in there by mistake. So in this case, I will just use the sliders on the side to move the text into position. If you've got a trackpad that supports it or a wheelie mouse, you can use those to move the document up and down and around as well. Now, I'm on my Text tool and I want to select a little bit of this text. I'm going to start off over here by clicking into the tech. You can see I've clicked once and my cursor is in that bit of text. Now to select, if I double-click, it will select just that word. If I triple-click, it will select a line. For clicks. Will select the paragraph. And five clicks. Quickly together, we'll select the entire story. So you'll see when I start to select things, you might see me just clicking a few times to select a piece of text. Now, I'm going to select all my text to start off with. So I'll just keep clicking over there. Because the text is selected. The properties, show me the characters option. Here. And down about halfway, you'll find the characters settings. The first thing I've got here is the typeface or font. Most people call it a font. You occasionally find designers who we'll call it a typeface or font family. It's pretty much all the same thing. Although technically the typeface is the more correct way of talking about it, I'm going to choose monster at as the typeface that I want. And underneath that you'll then have the Style. Now some typefaces have got more Styles than others. This one has got quite a lot, but occasionally might come across one which may be just has regular. So I'm going to keep all their texts the same. But I'm going to go and I'm going to select the heading. I'm going to make that bold. So let's go with bold in there. And I'm going to increase the size. So we've got the text size down here. Now my text is 12 points and 12 points is readable size Text, ten or 12 points for most Body Text. But I'm going to increase that quite a lot. So how big is text in reality? Well, 22 points doesn't make, well, it's, it's difficult to imagine what 22 points is. There are 72 points in an inch. But the thing is you don't even have to know that because you can go in here. And if you select this bit, I could say, I want this to be 14. Mm. And when I press Enter, you'll see it will convert it to points. For me. Incidentally, I've said there are 72 points in and that is a computer. If you go further back in time, you'll probably find that 72.27 to be exact in pre-computer Text days. I'm happy with that, but I do want to move it over to the middle. So I've clicked in the heading and I can go down to my paragraph options over here and just centered right in the middle. So we've got the sizes over here. Now, what about the texts? Because the Body Text yet is maybe it's too close together or maybe it's too far apart. If I select all of this text over here, what I did there, by the way, I just clicked and dragged. I can then go across the right and I can change something called the leading. Leading is the gaps between all those lines of text. You can say I can move it further apart or closer together. So what sort of size letting should you use? Well, normal leading is the size of your font Plus 20 per cent. So for example, ten point type, if I did, ten points, would have a normal reading of 12 points in there. But you don't even need to know that because all you have to do is if you're not sure, click on the drop-down and choose Auto, and that will put in the normal size for you. This is quite useful, especially if you've used a point size of 27.3. How do you figure out 27, 20 per cent on top of that? So you can change that. There's no right or wrong here. Just make sure that it is totally readable. Now, moving on a little bit, we have got just below the leading something called tracking. And tracking. I'm going to select this word here. The sailing word allows me to move the characters further apart or closer together. So in this instance, maybe I want to move them further apart to get more of a cinematic feel to the whole thing. Next, I've got a problem with this bit of text being too close to the text below. And even these bits of texture, all the paragraphs are really, really close together. So I'm gonna select all of my text. I'm going to go down to the paragraph options. Now you'll see this three little buttons down there. If I click on those buttons, we can move down and we can find something in here. If you're not sure of these things, just hover, hover over them. And I'm going to choose space before. And this allows me to add space between my paragraphs to move them further apart. I could select just the word sailing and then go to space after and increase the gap over there as well. Now, we've got a lot more options in here, and there's more options in the Character area, but it will come to those later on. Have a little bit of a play with those ones. Try them out. Make sure you feel comfortable with them. Before continuing with the next lesson. 20. Missing Fonts: Sometimes when you open up document in InDesign, you find that there are problems with your Fonts. I'm going to open up this document. Over here. You can see it says that there are missing Fonts. Now there's two buttons down the bottom. The first one allows you to just skip it. If I say skip, you'll see all of my text has actually got this pink background behind it. And that's because this font is not available on my system. But if I select the text and go along to the properties, you can see that this little option here, the pipe papyrus condensed, has got square brackets around that says that it's not available on my machine. I could change it to prepare us regular, which is on my machine, you can see the brackets have disappeared and now the text goes back to normal again. But what about if we want to do the whole lot and change the whole lot of, well, I'm going to open that document again. And I can say replace Fonts instead of just skipping them. And in here, I'm going to go to the papyrus condensed and then I can replace it with, now it's just defaulted to Minion Pro. But I can go down in there and I can find pirates regular. Missing the p's here. Papyrus there it is. But Paris, and I'm going to change it to regular in there. I'll just say change all. And then when it brings it in, it'll brings him without that pink background and with a font which is on your system. 21. Introduction to Working With Pictures: Now we're getting into Pictures and we're going to be bringing Pictures. We're going to make picture frames. I want to show you how to get your pictures in and resize them, make them look really good in your document. We can also put pictures into other shapes as well. And you'll find out later how we can get things into circles and all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes. But for now, just bringing some pictures 22. Place an Image into a Frame & Fit: Let's bring in a picture. Now we're going to use the same method that we used when we placed the text down here. I'm going to choose, and I'm going to right-click on this tool, the rectangular frame tool. And I'm going to click and drag a Frame. And now I'm going to go along to File Place. I'm going to go and find the images. Now, these images here, you can use your own, but these ones here have been provided for you in the Assets folder. I'm just going to take this one over here. When you're placing the moment, make sure Show Import Options is switched off. Otherwise you'll have one more step to go through which you don't need. Let's click open over here and you'll see it'll just pop it straight in, but it's not showing me the whole picture. So remember the photo is in a Frame. This frame is very small and the Photos really huge in that frame. So I'm going to go down into my properties because this property is for a linked file, the pictures are linked file. I'm going to move down to the Frame Fitting, and it's quite near the bottom. I'm going to click the button under the word Frame. And what this will do is it'll take the picture and it will force it to go into that frame over there. It doesn't distorted, but it does make sure it fills up that entire frame. So what would happen if I wanted to change the size of it? Well, if I went along to the Selection tool and I grab the corner, remember, this is a photo in a Frame. When I'm adjusting it, all I'm doing is adjusting the Frame. If I pulled by Frame out and said what? I actually wanted us Frame to go all the way across my page. Like so. I could then go down to that little button, click it again, which would then get the picture to fill that frame. We did this once more. I'm going to make it a bit smaller, like so. Click the button to get it to fill the frame. What would happen though if you wanted to have the whole picture in there? Because at the moment some of its cutoff. Well, the second button along allows us to make sure that all the content is there. But you can see we've got some blank areas in a Frame like so. If I pulled this out like that, if I use the second button, once again, we see the whole picture, but there are some bits of the Frame leftover. It's up to you which of those you want to use. If you use that one, it will fill the frame or fill the picture will fill the frame. If use the second one, you will see the whole of the picture, but it might be some bits the Frame leftover. I generally use the first one here to fill my Frame. If I'm using a photo, if I'm doing a logo or use the second button because you don't want some of your logo to be cut off. If you've gone onto the third one, it actually gets the picture to fill up that Frame entirely. But it does distort the picture. Not a really good thing for a photograph. If you want to get rid of it, click on it with the Selection Tool. Use the backspace button. Let's run through this again. Go over here to the shape. This time we'll use a different shape, so we use an ellipse this time. Draw your shape in File. Use place. Make sure that you've switched. Show Import Options off. Click on the picture that you want and click Open. Now you've seen just part of that picture. So you can go to the Frame Fitting and you can choose the button on the left to get the picture to fill the Frame 23. Move Photo in the Frame: I'm going to bring up photo into this frame. So once again, I'm going to go to File Place, find the picture that I want. And I'm going to click Open. I'm going to use the Frame Fitting button to get that picture to fit in the Frame. As you can see, some of his ear is actually missing. From that. I want to move him around inside the frame. I'm going back to my black arrow tool, the selection tool right at the top. When I move over the document, you'll see or over the picture, shall I say? Over the picture, a little circle appears in the middle. Now if I click somewhere that's not on that circle, what I'll be doing is I'll be moving the Frame and the picture inside. If I go along to the little circle, now when I move, I'll be moving the picture inside of the Frame. You can see how can move it around like so. Now when you're doing this, it's a little bit Hidden Mrs. to getting it quite right because you click and move it. And then you can't see what you're doing. This a little trickier. If you go to the circle, click and hold down, don't move, just hold it down for a half a second. Then you'll actually see a preview. And you can now move this around within that preview, showing you exactly what you're getting. So moving onto it, if you click elsewhere, you are clicking or you're changing the frame with the picture. If you go to the middle, you click hold, wait until you see the preview, and then you can move the picture inside the frame itself. Dried out 24. Resize with Direct Selection Tool: Of course, you might want to scale the picture up inside the frame. Now, at the moment we've been using the selection tool. And when you click on the picture, you get this blue line around the picture. Now, if you go over to the other one, the Direct Selection Tool. Now if you click on the picture, it actually highlights the picture inside the frame, that brown line or orange line Around there is the picture in the Frame. If I grab a corner of that and I start to scale, what are we doing is I'll be scaling the picture inside the Frame and you can see how it miss scales it totally. What you need to do is to hold down the Shift key. And then you can scale it proportionately. Just the picture. We can still move that around. Inside the frame. You can always go back to the Selection Tool, just a de-selected first and then do exactly what we did before. Continue moving the picture in the Frame. Like so. Try that out. You use the black one or the Selection tool to work with the Frame. You use the white one to work with a picture inside the Frame. And you can tell the difference. The picture has got orange, a line around it. The Frame at the moment has got a blue one. Try it out 25. Relinking Images with Links Panel: Pictures that you bring in to InDesign aren't actually in InDesign there actually external. And what you're seeing is a preview to that picture. So how can we see what Images we've got linked to where? Well, if we go to the Window menu, there's a panel in here called Links. And the Links panel shows me a lot of information about the image. So you can see over here it shows me this little picture which is that one there. If I click on it, it gives me all this linked information below it. So although we'll talk about some of this later on, things like the color space, RGB or CMYK. There's the effect of pixels, the resolution of the image in InDesign as well as the original resolution. This profile information in there. And there's even a path to where the picture actually sits on your machine. So what would happen though if I were to delete this picture? Well, if I go out and I'm going to go and find the folder that's got the picture in it. And there is the picture. I'm actually going to delete it now, so I'm going to remove it, put it into the bin on my machine, and I'm going to go back again into InDesign over here. Now the first thing you'll notice is as great, big question mark to say, actually, there's a problem with the picture. It seems to be missing, but we're still seeing a preview of it. So we can't really do too much because we don't have the original. And if you tried to print it out, you'd get a low-res File here. Same over here and the Links panel, you can see we've got the image there with a question mark. It still shows me all the information because it remembers it. So how can I get it back? Well, I would have to go and find the picture and I'm going to do that. So I'm going to just go back again onto my desktop and find a picture which happened to be in the bin. And I'll put it into the onto my desktop. And let's go and see what happens. Well, it still doesn't know where it is. But if I were to go in there and all I've gotta do is double-click on that and say, where is it? I can find it. There it is on my desktop. Click on Open and it's founded, and it's really linked that picture once again. So all your images by default are linked images. And if you lose the original image, you're going to have to go and find it. Now, this is quite useful thing. I know it sounds like a real pain, but it's actually quite useful because it means that if you go and update the picture in something like Photoshop, it will auto update in InDesign for you as well. It'll tell you, but it will automatically update it. And yes, there are ways where you can embed the picture in that we'll be looking at a later stage. And there's also things that we can do about getting InDesign to save all of our pictures that we've used new document in a certain folder 26. Embed vs Link & Display Performance: What about if I did want to change this image for a different image? Well, I can do that in this little Links Panel really easily because we've got some buttons along the bottom over here. And you can see this a little. Well, what is that? It's a chain link. If I click on that button there. So what do you want to change this for? And I can just go and relink the image to something else. You can see the images come in. I might have to change the fitting to get it to fit in there perfectly. Although talked about linked files earlier, what about if we wanted to change this into an embedded file so we didn't have to worry about losing the other file. Well, all you have to do in the Links panel is to right-click on the picture in the Links Panel and just say embed link. You can see little icons come up. They're showing an embedded icon, and this image is now part of the InDesign document. So why would you want to have linked files over imbedded Files? Well, as I mentioned before, if you've gotten a linked file, you can always change the original and updated. Of course, that might be a problem for you. You might not want that. You might want to change the original without updating it in InDesign. So you would embed the file. The second reason is if all of your images were embedded on a really big document, you might find that your computer slows down because there are so many high-resolution images in the Document that the computer just can't cope. So having the lower resolution files linked would be a lot better way to go. Now, although your originals or high-resolution InDesign by default will show you a slightly lower resolution. When it comes to printing, there will be absolutely fine. It will still print out the linked high-risk files. But if you look at an Image and you think to yourself, you know what the original looked so much better. You can always go to the View menu down to Display Performance. And you can change it from typical Display to high-quality display. Occasionally you might get a job in from somebody else. And instead of a picture, you just see a gray area. That's because it's set to fast Display like this. So that's fast Display. This one is typical Display. And the last one is the high-quality display. You choose the one that works for you if your machine is starting to run slowly because of so many pictures, you might want to go with a typical display. But if you worried that the image doesn't look the same quality that you saw changed from typical to hi. Have a look at those 27. Text Wrap Around Photos: Now I'm going to clean up my screen. So I'm going to go to Window workspace and just reset my Essentials. And then I'm going to close this document down. Not save it. I'm going to start a new documents. So file new document in there. I'm going to go with web, Print, shall I say. Facing Pages switched off one page in there. And over here I'm going to put in two columns just to make my life a little bit easier with this. And then down here, I'm going to put in a bleed. This is going for Print. So I want a bleed mark on here. I'm going to click on Create. And I'm going to bring in some text. So I'll go to my type tool. I'm going to click and drag to make a text frame. And I'm going to copy and paste. I've already copied the text, I'm going to paste it straight in to there. Then I can format that if I wanted to. But now what I'd like to do is I'd like to have a picture on this side here. And it's, the picture is going to be in a circle. So I've got a picture to put in the circle. So I'm going to use the Elliptical Frame Tool and click and drag an ellipse out like so. If you want to be a perfect circle, hold down the Shift, give you a perfect circle. In there. I'm going to move this a little, cross, a little bit like that. So now that I've got this here, I want to bring in my picture. I'm going to go to File and Place find the picture. It's this picture of the yacht. And I'm going to click on Open in it comes are good onto my Frame Fitting and just fit it in. But of course, as you can see, a lot of the yotta is gonna be left out. So I'm moving to the middle, holding down the little button in the middle and putting it over into the picture. Now, it doesn't matter that it's cut off there. This bit is never gonna be seen on the outside. This is what I'm interested in. We're going to move my text in here as well. So the text is going to be over there. And maybe down to the bottom. What I want to do is I want to get the text to flow around this shape. Let's take it up a little bit over here. So I wanted to flow around that shape there. Now we do that using something called text wrap. And you apply the text Wrap not to the text, but to the picture. If I click on this picture here, I'm going to go up to the Window menu. I'm going to go down to Text Wrap and I'm going to open up this text Wrap window. By the way, you'll see some shortcuts to it over here as well. We've got various little buttons along the top. Now the one on the left is just normal text. If you click the next one, it actually forces the text away from the box shape itself. You can see if that was smaller, it would force it away from the Frame that the square, not the circle. That's fine for rectangular images. If I go to the next one, the text will now actually wrap around the edge of that shape. It looks like it's actually behind it. It's not very clean. So I'm then going to go down over here. I'm going to increase the gap, the distance that the text is away from the picture. So I can now move my text around in here as well until just flow around that shape. Let me do another one. So I'm going to bring in another picture. So same again over here. I'll use a rectangle this time. I'm just going to put a rectangle in over there, bringing my picture. So File and Place. Find the picture that I want. I'll use that other boat picture. Make sure I fit it into there. I can then move onto the picture itself. Click and hold and move the picture down to the area that I want. I want that but there. And same again. I can then go to the picture and choose from the text, Wrap the second button along, which will then force the text to go round it. Now, I made a mistake that I was actually on the text, not on the picture. It's an easy mistake to make. So make sure you actually on the picture. And then you can use that button in. The text will then just flow around it. In fact, I'm going to just pull this out a little bit like that. I think I've got all of my texting, not quite. This might have to come up a little bit over there and I think that's pretty much got, got it all in. And now I can quite happily move this picture round and the text would just wrap itself around the picture wherever I place it. And you can always move in. And we've your picture inside the Frame. Remember, None of this will be printed on the side. Now, one last little shortcut here, while we're doing this that you haven't seen yet. And I really like the shortcut because it allows you to see the document as it will be printed out. And I'm going to call this a wow key because when you press it, you look at your document, you go, wow, that actually looks quite good because when you look into like this and you're moving things around, you thinking, oh, maybe, maybe it looks okay, maybe it doesn't look so great. You can't tell. The reason I called the WACC is also because it is just W on the keyboard. Make sure you're not in your Type Tool. Press W, and we'll show you how your document will look when it's printed out. Now straight away, I can see a problem. I can see that if I click on this picture here, the text is too close. So I might have to go in here and just adjust the distance away from that picture. I can also see that my heading doesn't look very good. So I can then select the heading. Maybe I'll increase the size a bit. And I could even go in here and aligned to the center if I wanted. So do try that out with a few pictures. Click on the picture, use the text wrap options in there. If things go horribly wrong, make sure that you're on same as clipping for the Contour Options. Try it on a rectangular image and you can actually unlink them. And you could do the top, bottom, left, and right, independently of each other. Make sure you do to the Text, sorry to the picture and not to the Text. Try that one out. 28. Introduction to Project: Create a Newsletter : It's project time. My favorite time. What we're gonna do is we're going to make a Newsletter. We're going to use the stuff that we've looked at so far. We're gonna be bringing in texts into our Newsletter, Pictures into the Newsletter, and a very simple graphic. So let's get started. 29. Create Document & Add Shapes: We're going to make a Newsletter and we're going to make it A5 size. This Newsletter, it's not going to be printed. That people could print it out if they wanted on the office printer. But we're just going to make it so that we can email it around to people. So I'm going to go to new file over here. And I'm going to go across to Print. And I'm just going to choose A4 in here. And I'm going across to the right-hand side. Now, if you've done any sort of commercial printing, you might know that by choosing Print in here, we're actually work on a CMYK document. Whereas if you're doing something for Screen Use, you use the web option over there. But don't let that worry you for the moment. We will convert it into Web. Later on, we'll be converting to RGB. If they're just went over your head. Don't worry about it at all. You will get further into that in the course. So I've chosen a width and height in here by clicking on the A4 option. I'm doing this as portrait. I'm going to switch your Facing pages because we haven't got onto them yet and we're only doing one page. And down here I'm going to put in three columns in there. Now, moving a little bit further down, I could change the column gutter if I wanted to, and I'm gonna make my gutter a little bit bigger. I'm going to go with 8 mm in there. And my Margins, I'm going to make a bit smaller and I'm going to go with ten. Now, there's nothing right or wrong about what I'm doing here. This is just a design choice on my part. And lastly, where we've got the Bleed and Slug, just leave all those set to zero. We're not doing this for commercial printing. We don't need them at all. And I'm going to click on Create to get my document. Now, we've got three columns here and what we're gonna do is we're going to have a photo over here. We're going to have some text in this third column, which is going to be on a black background. So we're going to be using white text. And then over here we're going to have black text on a white background. And then three Photos along the bottom. And along the top we're going to have the heading. Now I'm going to start off by just doing a very simple design using the shapes that I've got. So I'm going to start off by going over here, although we haven't really done much in the way of graphics yet, I'm going to use a rectangle tool. And I'm going to draw in, I'm going down, oh, about a quarter. You'd have to be exact maybe a fifth of the way down. I'm going to draw a shape in here all the way down, maybe to halfway through that little gutter them. I'm going to change it, this shape to black. So I'm going to go to my appearance, clicking, fill, and choose black for that shape. Now if it's not quite the right size, you can use your arrow at the top. That's the Selection Tool. And you can just grab a tub, move it up and down. Really, we just want a little bit of space over here where we can put in our title. So as you can see, that's probably, maybe about a fifth of the way down. You don't have to be exact about this. We're just getting roughly right. Now that I've got that, I'm going to go up to the Object menu and I'm going to lock it so I can't move it by mistake. That's really important to lock it down. And then the next thing I'll be doing, pins, I'll be putting in some boxes for the pictures as well. But if you'd like to get that far and then watch the next video to go into the next stages. 30. DP2 Add the Photos: Now I'm going to make some picture frames. So I'm going to go onto the Frame tool sets, not the solid one, it's the next one up. And I'm going to right-click and I'm going to choose the rectangular frame tool. And I'm going to draw in a Frame over here for my top picture. So I'm just going to click and drag to draw it in. Now I've been very fortunate. I've got to just about right in there. But if it's not quite in the right position, you can use that black arrow tool and just move it up and down until it's in exactly the right position. Now you'll notice it does actually snapped slightly when it gets parallel with that other one at the top. If you want to, you can use your ether controlling Plus or Command and plus to paint with your PC or Mac to zoom in to make sure you in exactly the right position, you can see once again, I'm move that down, move it up until it goes snap onto there. And once again, I'll use Control or Command Minus to zoom out. Or you can use Control zero or Command zero to get your page to fit back into a screen size. This doesn't have to be an exact size. We're just doing things very free hand at the moment. Now I want another picture down here and then I want it to more over there. So I'm going to use same, same tool again to draw in a little picture frame at the bottom. Then I want to copy this twice more. So using the Selection tool, the arrow at the top, I'm going to go into that shape. I'm going to hold down. If you're on a PC, it's the Alt key. If you're on a Mac, it's called the Option key. You can see when I hold it down, we get this double arrow. Now, if I were to click and drag, you'll see it'll just make a copy of that shape there. So I'm going to copy that across. In fact, this one now needs to go into the middle of that and hold down the Alt key and copy it again over to there. And I'll pull that one out. Like so I'm just getting three shapes in there. The middle one is slightly smaller than the two outer ones because they've got the margin as well. But once again, that doesn't matter. Let's bring in the pictures in here. So if you go to File and Place and find the pictures that you want, now, I've got a folder which is part of your assets from the course. Minds obviously in a slightly different place, but you can go into your folder then find the projects. And the one that I'm going to be using, the bicycle ones here. So this is all about the newsletters. You can do this with any pictures you like. If you've got other pictures you'd prefer to use, that's absolutely fine. I'm going to start off with some of these pictures here and I'll just do the one that I want to use for the top, which is actually going to be that picture. There's quite a dark one I know, but it works with the black. So I'll click on Open. And I can click into that box. And then down on the right-hand side, I can use my Frame Fitting to fit the bicycle in. If it's not in the right position. Remember, you can always hover over it. Click on the little circle in the middle. You click and wait. And you can then drag that until it gets into the right position. I'm just dragging mine down. Now, if for any reason you can't see that little circle in there, you can go to the View menu and you can go down to your extras. And it's actually called the content grabber. So if you can't see it, you can actually go in and show the content grabber. And there. Now for these three, I'm gonna do them all at once. So I'm just going to go to File Place. I'm going to find as three pictures that I want. This one, this one and this one I'm holding down. Once again, see the control on the PC or Command on the Mac to select those three items. Click on Open. Now, this picture here is going to go there. This one, the black ones going to go there. And that one is going to go over there. As you can see, they're not quite fitting correctly. So let's go and click on the picture. Just make sure I select that. And we'll fit that one in. Click over here for this one in. And finally, Fit that one in there as well. If you feel happy with your pictures, you can select them all. And once again, go to object and lock. It, just locks them down so you can't move them by mistake. So have a go put in your pictures. As I said, you don't have to use bicycles or use the pictures that I've given you. You can use any image for this particular project. Have a go 31. Add the Body Text: Let's bring in some text. I'm going to go to the Type Tool. And I'm going to just click over here and dragging a text frame. And I'll just drag it into them. Now I'm going to go and find the text. I have given you some text, it's text I've taken from Wikipedia. But as always, if you'd prefer to use your own texts, that's absolutely fine. But I'm going to go across to the Word document and I'm going to bring in this bit of text over here, which has got the Frame at the top bicycle frame. So I'm going to select that there's two sections. One is the Frame, the bicycle, and the others a history of the bicycle. I'm going to copy that. So I've used Command C or Control C to copy it. I'm going back into InDesign. I'm going to paste it in there. Now if you know your shortcuts, which is Control V or Command V, that's fine. Otherwise you can go to Edit and Paste in there. And I've Paste in the text. Now, this bit of texts, I would actually like it to go over to columns. And the easiest way for me to do that is to use my Selection tool. Make sure I've selected the Frame. And then I'm going to go over to the properties and scroll all the way down to the bottom and choose to Frames. In there. You can see that my text actually goes down that side and then sort of down there, but it stops short of that bottom section. Now, there's nothing wrong with that. We can leave this as a bit of negatives whitespace. Or if we wanted to two of them to match up perfectly, we could just pull this Frame app a little bit like that. Just down a bit until we can get them to match. The last way that we could do this is to actually go to the Object menu. You can go down to the Text Frame Options. So text frames are objects, so Pictures when you bring them in, arts of treaters objects, graphics or treaters objects, we go to the Text Frame Options in there. And I move that over. I can say balanced columns, and that'll automatically balance those two columns out for me anyway, I won't have to worry about trying to move this around. Let's do the next bit of texts that's going to go in over here. So once again, I'm going to use my Text tool. Now. Before you do this, do make sure that you've locked that background object. Because if you don't, you might end up by clicking into the shape and then attaching the, the text to the object itself. So just be careful lock that object first so you don't have any sudden weird things happening. And then you can draw in a little Shape. Now, if you're not sure where the block that are not, you could even put your frame over there and then paste your text in there and then move it across. But otherwise you could just move it straight on there. I'm gonna put my text into the frame on the side and then move it across for you. Let me go back to my Text. And I'm going to use this one, the history over here of the bicycle. Copy that and go back again and pasted in there. Now, the one great thing about pasting on the side is that I can actually see it here, see it's black text and if you had black text on the black background, you would never see it. So by having on the side I can really see it. I'm now going to make the text white. So I'm going to use my text tool over here. On the Text tool there. If you right-click, you'll see this type on a part in this type tool. I want the Type Tool. I'm going to click inside the text. And in fact I'm just gonna keep clicking. So click, click, click, click until it's selected. All the text for me, it's all selected. Now I can go to the appearance up here. Click the little appearance T there. I'm going to choose Paper. I know it looks like it's gone black, but in fact it's just reversed because it's selected. If I use my selection tool again, I can then move my white text into the right position. I'm going to move that in a little bit like that and make sure I'm getting all my text in. And I'm going to have that bit of text up near the top. Somewhere over there. You can use your arrows and the keyboard to move shapes around as well. At anytime you can just pull this out. If you need to make any changes, move them about. It's up to you. The other thing that I'd like to do in here, so I'm going to click in there and after the 1 billion, I'm actually going to put another returning because that should be a separate paragraph in there. 32. Create some Headlines: Now I've got the Body Text and let's bring in the headlines and the header right at the top. We'll start off with one right at the very top here. I'm going to go to my Text tool. I'm going to click and drag a text frame all the way across OV to put in my cycle text in there. I'm going to highlight it to select it. So I'm using the Text tool or the type tool to highlight it. And I'm going to go across to the Character panel over here that pops up. I'm going to make it a lot bigger. So let's try 70, 72, I think I'll use. I'm also going to go down here in the paragraph options and choose to center it right in the middle. Now, I'd like a slightly different font in there or typeface. You'll often hear them called typefaces or font families. I'm going to go across to the character. Click on the character, and find the typeface that I want to use. I'm going to use latter. You can use anything you like. And instead of regular, I think I'd want this to be quite a bold or heavy, maybe not quite that bold. Let's try something like just bold rather than heavy in there. So I've got the word cycle in the middle. And I would like to now have history there. And over here I want to have the Frame or that bicycle frame. So instead of redoing the text, I'm just going to hold down the Alt or the Option key and drag a copy of that text over. Make my Frame bit smaller. Select the text I'm using the Type tool. You'll notice I just keep clicking a few times to selected. I'm going to take down the size of that text, can go back 36 in there. So that's going to go I'm going to place that one over there, move it across, maybe down a bit. You'll notice that not too worried about where these frames are actually overlapping. Now I can select the text and change it, and the size would be correct into the frame. In there. Then you can do exactly the same thing over here as well. So I make a copy of that to hold down the Alt key, Make a copy of that. This is going to be history. And I can move that into the right position. Now remember it's black on black text. So if I select the text, I'm going to change that text to paper or white. Let's use the Move tool now. Just pull this in a little bit and place that there is. Move that across to them. I'm using the arrows on my keyboard to just move it down a little bit. Try those out and bringing those Headlines 33. Create Red Lines and Save: Do you know what I forgot to put the word news in there, but that doesn't matter. I can take this, the Frame, hold down the Alt key to make a copy. Change that to news. And I'm going to make it a whole lot smallest. I'm going to select the text and just take the size down. Oh, that's maybe a little bit too small. Something like that. I can make this frame a bit smaller. I'm going to move that somewhere over to there. I'll just use my arrows once again to just move it into the position that I wanted to be in. I'm thinking because there's a big C over here of what we'd news on that side. It's just balancing that bit of texts out nicely. The few other things that we need in here are really to just give a bit of life to this, maybe a little bit of color. I'm going to do that by adding some lines. We haven't looked at Lines yet, so this will be a new thing. And I'll show you how to put them in later on in this course, we'll go into them in more detail. But for now I'm going to go down under the Type Tool, this subtle line tool with a line till you can click and drag to make a line. Now when you're dragging, you can see that I can go at any angle that I want. If you hold down the Shift key on the keyboard, you'll find you can then get your line actually go in 45 degree increments. I can make sure it's perfectly horizontal or vertical. Now, I'm gonna do that again. So I'm going to go to the line tool. I'm going to start out here and I'm going to click and drag. And I'm going to hold down my Shift key until I make sure that the line is running Absolutely. Horizontal. I think I'm going to stop it over there. Now. It hasn't gotten any color in it yet. So I'm going to go to the appearance and a stroke. The stroke is the line width. I'm going to choose this Red. I'm going to increase the width. Over here. I don't want to be two to solid. You'll find that if you use this, if I break it really thick, you can actually change it to different options in here. So different thicknesses and thicknesses and we've got diamonds, we've got all types of different shapes. But the one I'm going to use very simply is just a solid. And I'm going to make it a little bit smaller because I think it's a little bit too thick in there. Now, it does look a bit strange because I've got this word cycle. The y's just about touching the top of that. Indesign. If you find that you've got two objects which are just touching each other, it causes a point of tension. And we don't want any tension in this title. I'm going to zoom in a bit over here. And maybe I'm going to take my line and I'm just, I'm selected with the black arrow tool. By the way, I'm just going to use my apparatus and move it up a little bit. So this actually the Y cuts through it. So there's no more tension. Now, I'm going to take the news, I'm going to move the news app, I think as well. Maybe two sets of parallel with the top of that line. It's almost like we've got the cycles of sitting on a road. But I wanted to take the cycle and move it in front of that red line. So I've just one-click on the Frame that's got the word cycle in it. And I'm going to go to the Object menu, Arrange, and I'm going to say bring that word a cycle to the front. So bring to the front in there and it'll move it above the other shape. Now once you've got one of these in, of course, you might want to have some more in there. So I'm going to select this, the line, not the word cycle. Let me just zoom in a bit cycle actually select the line. There it is. Just zoom out a bit more. Hold down the Alt key and I can click the line and make another copy. And I think I'm going to put my other copy down over here. Maybe it'll be something like that. There's no right or wrong here. You can just experiment and see what you can get if you don't like it there. Try something else, maybe I'll place it under under that one there. It doesn't matter that it sticks out here if you've got things which are sticking out the outside, absolutely fine. But what you will want to do is you want to see how this is going to look when it's finally printed. It's quite difficult moment because there's all these little lines floating around all over the show so you can't really see exactly what you've got. So this is where we're going to use the W key, Wow key as I like to call it. So when you press something, you look and you go, Wow, that looks really good. It's easy to remember W as well. Now you don't have to hold down Shift or Alt or anything like that. You just press W and that will take you into preview mode. You can have a look at your document and see what it's like. Now that I'm in here, I can still actually work in here. And if I'm thinking, you know what, That doesn't look right there. I can go knock and move it. I'm going to move that. Maybe place it somewhere down there. I think that looks a little bit better. I know the bicycles are behind it, but that's fine. I'm happy with that. Make sure to save it. So File Save As and we're going to save this as an InDesign 2023 or fewer, an earlier version or later version, whatever it is, you're gonna be saving it as that Document. I'm going to call mine cycle and click on the Save button. In there. I've saved mine on my desktop. You can save yours wherever you like. Have a go with that. And then we will go in and export this as a PDF that can be then emailed around 34. Export to PDF: I'm going to export this now. So I'm going to go to File and Export. And I'm going to be exporting it somewhere. I'm going to put it on my desktop. You can place it wherever you want. And then in this format here, it says, how do you want to export it? Now we've got PDF, interactive, PDF, Print, then a number of other options, and we're going to be going through a few of those in the course as well. I'm going to use PDF interactive. I know the document doesn't have any interactive elements in it, but it is going to be emailed around. And by choosing PDF interactive, it will make sure that the documents saved out as an RGB file. If you want to, you could use PDF for print. But this is generally used for commercial printing where you need CMYK. If those two statements don't make any difference, don't worry about it. Just use PDF interactive for the moment. I'm going to click on Save in here. Now there's lots and lots of options that we've got. But for now, I want to go to just one of them. And I want to go down on the left-hand side to something called compression. And I'd like you to set your compression here to JPEG. Lasse. Lasse, by the way, means that there is a loss of quality. You got lossy and lossless. Options lasts less means there's no loss of quality, but it's such a slight loss of quality if your quality here is set too high or maximum. By the way, the default is minimum and 72. And if you use those settings, your images will look, well. You'll get a very small file size, but it won't look that great. So we're going to set that to hi, and I'm going to take the resolution up to 144. You can experiment with different settings here. The higher the resolution and the higher the quality, the larger the final file size will be. So just, you have to find a happy medium between high-quality and smaller file size. I'm going to click on Export. And that's done. Let's go and have a look at this. So here's my document, There's my PDF. I'm going to double-click on it. And it's opened up in Acrobat. We can open up in a web browser if you don't have Acrobat. Over there, There's my finished document. Now, if you want to open up a web, a web browser, something like Chrome or Firefox, you can just drag and drop it into the web browser. If I went into Chrome, for example, if you just move this over, I can drag and drop it into Chrome and open it up straight in a browser. Try them out, and then we'll do a variation on this document. 35. Dark variation : Now for this Variation, I'd like to change the color over here of white to maybe a dark gray, so the whole documents quite a darkish color. So to do that, I'm going to take this little shape over here. So not the rectangular frame tool, but the rectangular tool. If you right-click it and make sure that you choose rectangle rather than the lips or the polygon. I'm going to just click and drag to drag out a little Shape over my entire document. I'm going over to the fill and I'm going to choose black. I want this to be gray, although I've chosen black there. I can now go to my Tint at the top. And I can change the tint to any shade of gray all the way through to White. And I'm going to go with a medium darkish gray color in there. Now, I need to actually move this shape underneath everything else. So I'm going to use the same thing that we did with a line. I'm going to go to object, arrange and I'm going to say send to the backup by the way, you sent them back, not send backwards, send backwards one moves at one object in the stack. Sent to the back goes right way to the back. And you can see how everything has now appeared in front. Sorry, I shouldn't have clicked that. Now. Of course, some of the text doesn't look so good. So I'm going to use my type tool to select some of the text and just change that to Paper. So do the same thing over here. Let me just select this news. Sometimes if you might have problems selecting like I did, zoom right in to be able to select just that little individual but of text in there. Once again, I'll change it to paper. And let's move down to here to the Frame. That's also going to be Paper, so that'll be white. This text here. I'm going to keep clicking until I can select all of it. Change that to white. And the last bit over here, oh, that's White already, so that's, that's perfect. Let's have a little look at this now. So we'll just zoom out a bit, press the W key, and then we go, I've got a variation on this. You can try different variations with different pictures, different texts, different backgrounds. One-step background is in there. You could go in there and change its fill color. So I could change that to a different Tint if I wanted. Maybe something quite dark like that or an entirely different color, if I thought it would suit the Document 36. Introduction to Graphic Vector Shapes: Graphical shapes are such an important part of getting are designed to look amazing, whether it's a square or something more complex. We're gonna be looking at Vector Shapes Now using the shapes in InDesign. And I'm also going to tell you a little bit about vectors versus bitmaps. Now if you haven't heard those terms, don't worry, I'll run through them in detail. At start. 37. Bitmap Pixels vs Vector: I've got two circles here. The one on the left is a pixel image, so it's like a photograph. When you bring in a photograph and you place it. That was how I did this one here. I'd made it externally and brought it in. It's made up of little pixels like photographs, which are little squares. Each one is a different color. On the right-hand side, I've got a circle which I created using one of these circled tools in here. I use the elliptical tool in there. And this tool is a vector. So first of all, if I click on this picture here, you'll see it has a Frame, a picture frame around it. If I do that, it crops it off. If I go to this one, there is a box around it, but if I grab the box, it's actually going to re-size the vector shape in there. So what are the differences do we have apart from the way that the box around the outside works? Well? Most importantly, it's to do with scaling. And the way that vectors work, you can scale them to any size you like. Let's have a look. If I zoom into this picture over here and we look at the edge, you'll notice it's got a very smooth edge when I've zoomed in. It is Wu, Let's try and get that right. It's got a very nice smooth edge over there. Whereas this one, which is Pixels, you can actually see the little pixels along the edge. And this one has resolution, so you have to be aware of your resolution for that. That's how many pixels you have in an inch. Whereas with a vector, you don't have to worry about resolution. You can change this to any size you like. As a general rule of thumb, you'll probably find the pixel image is almost photographic images. And graphics like these circles would be tending to be more the vector style of image 38. Draw Basic Vector Shapes: Let's have a look at making some graphical Shapes. I'm going to go to the toolbar. And over here, underneath the Frames, we've got some Shapes. And if you right-click on them, you see this rectangle. Yours might show the rectangle by default, there's an ellipse and a polygon. And polygon, we can actually change the number of sides on that. I'll show you how you can do that. Let's start off with rectangle. With a rectangle, I'm going to click and drag to drag out a shape. And by default, it usually gives you a color in here. If you don't see a color or you're colors different to mine, it doesn't matter. Go across to the appearance panel, which is in the Properties. Click on the color and you can change that to anything that you like in there. Now I'm just going to pick a green for this. Now, when you drawing your Shapes and you click and drag out with the Shape tool so you clicking and dragging alike. So when you let go, it makes the shape. You can then go back to your black arrow tool, that's the selection tool right at the top. Grab a corner, just change the size of your shape. If you grab a corner, you can scale it around. You can also grab these middle sections over here. Now, when you're scaling a shape, you'll see it scales all over the place. If you want to keep the proportions correct, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard, and that will keep the scaling proportional. If I go to this one here, hold down the Shift key and you can see how it's keeping that absolutely proportional. Now there's another nice little shortcut here. If you are scanning something, you'll see it scales to the opposite corner. But if you hold down the Shift key to keep the proportional, and then either the ultimately option kids the Alt key on a PC and the Option key on a Mac. That'll actually scale from the middle outwards like that. That can sometimes be really, really useful. Over here we've got the elliptical tool. And once again, I will just click and drag a little Shape. I'm going to go and change the color on that to something else. If you don't have the same colors that I do, don't worry, I'm going to show you how you can make your own colors later. Now, same again. Get the black arrow tool right at the top. And I can move it around and I can change the size and I can scale it. What about our last shape over here, the polygon. With the polygon. Before we actually click and drag, I want to show you how you can change the number of sides. So if you were to just click on your document with the polygon tool, it opens up the polygon options and it gives you the size, width, and height of the shape that it would make. But it also allows you to change the number of sides. So you'll probably start off with something six-sided like that. And every time you draw a shape, it will be a six-sided polygon. Let me just move up my page a little bit here. But if you were to go to that polygon tool, click on the page and then say, for example, changed it to three. I find three far, far better because I usually want to triangles rather than six-sided police. Click. Okay, now whenever I drove that shape, I will get triangles. Like so. Now, not only can you do triangles, if I go back there again and click, I can also use a star inset. So if I have a few more points in here, I'm gonna go with eight points. And then I can put in a percentage for my inset. What will happen is now every time I draw, I'll be getting stars. Don't forget, you can always go in here and change the color of the Shape. Do try that out. You will find with the other tools you can click to get to the options. But all you get is the width and height in there. Same with that, with the ellipse, same with the rectangle. But try it out in particularly Try the polygon tool. I always leave mine on three sides over there and the star inset to zero. But you police yourself, do whatever you feel will be the most important for you. I'm going to take mine back to three points in there. So every time I draw now, you'll see I'll be getting triangles 39. Drawing Lines: Another shape that you might want to use quite a lot is just a straight line. And there is a line tool over here. In my case, I'm using a single row of tools and it's down underneath the type tool. So I'm going to click on that. And then to change or to create the line you just click and drag. Now my line has just disappeared. Why is that? Well, the line works with a stroke. The stroke is the thickness of the line. And I'm going to go over here. I've got a fill on there, but I've got no stroke. So if I click on the stroke and choose a stroke color, I'll just choose black. Now you'll actually see my line. And then I can go across here and I can increase the width or weight of that line. I can also choose from any of these align options. So I could go with say for example, thin, thick or dots or any of these. Rarely. I'm going to stick with a solid line. Now, if you want to, when you're drawing your line, make sure that it's absolutely horizontal, vertical, hold down the Shift key. And that will make sure that when you're drawing it, it will actually snap to 45 degrees. So you can see straight up 45 degrees or going horizontal. Don't forget, it won't work with the fill. You have to go to the stroke and add a color for your stroke. And then you can go and choose the width of that stroke. Tried out 40. Add Arrow Heads: Now, the other thing that we can do with lines, we can put arrows on the ends. So I've got a little line over here. The color I've chosen, well, I'm going to choose red for it. And I've got a width in here in my case, I'm going to make that eight points. Now I want to move over to the word stroke. So not the actual little icon, but the word itself. And I'm going to click on that. And there's quite a few different options that we have in cannot be running through some of them with you later. One of them that you'll notice already is size at the top is the same as this size here. And the type over here is the same as this type of stroke. But what I'm interested in is just below the type we've got to start and an end for the arrows. And if I click on one of them, I'm going to the start. You'll see I can choose one of these little arrow type icons now, I know then don't look like arrows, but that's a little circle over there. I could go to the other side and I could maybe choose a barbed triangle for that. Or if I don't want anything on this side, I could just choose none. Or I could have arrows on both sides. If I wished. Below that, we can actually change the size of the arrows. I can go into here and I can actually increase the scale on the arrow on the left-hand side. Now, I said on the left-hand side and that's because when I drew this, I start on the left and drove to the right. But if you've drawn yours the other way round, these will be the opposite way. Lastly, my line is going from there to there, so the arrow is part of the line. I could choose to actually extend the arrows so they start at the end of the line. Let me show you, is this one here. So I'm going to click on this one. Remember that's where my line goes from there to there. I'm going to go into stroke. I'm going to add an arrow at the start. So I'll just put an arrow like that. And then in here I can align it either too, so it's inside the shape where the line starts. Or if I click on that, you can see it makes it bigger. So my line starts then the arrow extends further out. Have a look at those. Those arrows are very, very useful. 41. Rounding Corners and Convert Shapes: Let's go back to some of these little shapes. I'm going to use the rectangle tool and just draw a rectangle out. Once again, pick any color you like. It really doesn't matter what you choose. But I want to go down past the stroke to the corner option. And you'll see if I go to the right, we've got different types of Corners in here. So if I started with a rounded corner and that increase the size, you can see how that's going to round off those corners of my shape. I could go in and I could choose on these fancy Corners in their beveled corners to cut them off this inset Corners over there. And inverse rounded corners as well. Personally, I just prefer the rounded one, but it's up to you. Now that does all the corners at the same time. What I can do is I'm going to take this back to none. If you click the word corner, it opens up the corner options. So now I can actually go and change the ones that I want. You will see at the moment, these are unlinked over there. If I click on them, it Links all four corners together. So I'm going to have them unlinked. I'm going to do the top left-hand corner and I'm going to change that to rounded. And I'm going to increase the size of that. I'm gonna go with 16. And you can see only that one is affected. In fact, I could keep going quite a lot on that. Let me go to the opposite corner now. So same again. I'm going to do that one rounded and then increase the size on that quite a bit as well. Now this is a shape that you'll actually come across quite a lot. Indesign and it's so easy to do. It's just rounding the corners off using the little corner option. Over here. Click the word corner, make sure they're unlinked and change them individually. I'm going to take a simple rectangle like this. And you'll find that you can actually Convert Shapes from one into another. If you go to the Object menu, all these things are objects that shapes or objects. The text frames are objects. So I'm going to go to the Object menu down to convert Shape. And I can convert that shape to any of these options. In here. I'll just change it to triangles that you can see how it works. It really is as simple as that. Try it out 42. E6 Paper White and None Opacity vs Tint: I've got a shape over here. It's in front of another shape. And what I'd like to do now is to change its fill. So I'm going to go along to the fill in the appearance panel and click on there. And you'll see I've got my colors. Now, as I said before, we'll be looking at making new colors in here. If I click on paper, you see what it does. It cuts out the one that's underneath it. We just have the white or the paper background. If you choose none, then you have a transparent object in there. Won't be aware the difference between Paper. Paper will give you the white background with None is totally transparent. Now, the other thing that we can do in here as well, and I'm going to choose a color for this. So I'll just pick on this. Blue is at the top. We can change the tint of the color. So for example, here if I go in, I can change the Tint and make it a much lighter blue in there. Now, the Tint just changes the color, but you don't get any transparency and that's just the Tint of the colors you've chosen. This is as opposed to the Opacity. In the Opacity. If I change the opacity, you'll see that the older the blue is getting lighter, it's actually becoming more transparent. You can't always see this if you don't have an object behind the one that Jeran. So for example, here, if I've got two versions of this circle, this one here, I could go into my fill and I could change the tint. But this one, I could change the opacity. And they both look exactly the same. But if that one moves across, it hides what's behind it. Move this one, you'll see the transparency through there. So be aware of those two Differences. 43. Introduction to Project: Make a Brochure: Let's Make a Brochure. Once again, favorite part of mine projects. Remember with all of these projects, if you don't like the pictures that are supplied for you, use your own, use your own subject if you want as well. Make it personal. But we'll start 44. Create a Document and Add Shapes & Photo: Let's start this Brochure by creating a new file. Now, this is a Brochure that's going to go for Print. So we're going to go over to print so that we're going to create something which is CMYK. And I'm using A4. I'm also going to go over here and I'm going to make this landscape rather than portrait. Now, we don't need any Facing pages for this is just a single-page Brochure. Moving down. When it comes to the columns, I don't actually need any columns in my document. I'm going to move down to the Margins. Once again, I don't need any margins. We're going to have most of your picture, but they will help slightly when it comes to aligning the Photos. I'll I'll leave them on. But what we do need to make sure we've got is a bleed. And we're going to use a three millimeter bleed, which is the industry standard for are Bleeds settings. I'm going to click on Create. So here's my document. Let's move that out the way. The first thing we're going to do is put in a background color. So I'm going to go along to this shape here, this rectangular shape tool. I'm going to click, I'm going to drag a shape, a rectangle over this. You'll notice I've gone from the bleed to the bleed all the way round. I'm going to go and just choose a color for that for the moment. Now we'll change this color later. So just, you can just pick anything that you want for now. I'm choosing green, but you can do whatever you like. Then I want to bring in some more shapes in here. Oops, didn't mean to do that. What I'm going to do by the way, that happens if you're on one of these Shapes tool and you happen to click, it just opens up a box too. If you clicked okay, to try and make another box for you. Be careful. What I'm going to do this, I'm going to make some circles. I'm going to zoom out. So I'm using either Command or Control and minus to zoom out. I'm going to go over here and I'm going to get the elliptical tool, and I'm going to draw a big ellipse. Now, I'm going to make mine a perfect elliptical shape or perfect circle, shall I say, by holding down the Shift key, I'm going to fill that with paper. There we go. You can see the idea that I've got there. And I'm going to move that across a little bit like that now we can still make it bigger by grabbing the corner, holding down the Shift key. And you can make that bigger if you want. And I'm gonna go with something like that, I think because this whole thing is about waves and surfing, we've got that feel of the thing going over the top. If you wish, you could pull this out. If you need to, make it a little bit more interesting, feel free to just do whatever you want with that. I'll move that in a little bit like so. Now I'm going to make another one of these shapes. So I'm going to hold down the Alt key and copy that shape. And so that you can see what I'm doing. You don't have to do this, but you can see what I'm doing. I'm gonna give it a different color. Because what I'm looking at here is this white shape there, which is the background one. And I want to change that. So it looks interesting, almost like a wave that's coming up over there. Now you can use your arrow keys to move it around. Remember, I think that'll, that'll work quite nicely. And lastly, now before I stop, I'm going to put in a picture into this area here. So I'm going to go to File and Place, find my surfer. Once again, all of these pictures are in your Assets folder. But if you want to use your own, that's add refund. You don't have to do a surfer here. Click on Open. Here's my surf and now he's quite large. So I'm going to click on the Frame Fitting button. And then in there I'm going to click and hold on the middle, grip that and just move them around into the shape. Now you notice that I've then got this kind of area out here. That doesn't matter. If you press W, it shows you what the final result will be. And what I'm trying to do is to get him with his surfboard in that area there. Just press W again, just make sure that it covers that Bleeds. Have a go with that, get you picture and get it to circles to make the shape like that. And then we'll change the color of this green and, or whatever color you've got and we'll get it to match part of this picture. 45. Sample Color from Photo for Background: Now to get this color to match something in that picture, I'm going to select the shape. And I'm going to go along. I'm going to find little Tool over here, which is the eyedropper tool. So I can use the eyedropper tool. Now remember I've got that selected already. I go to the eyedropper tool and I'm just going to click on the color that I want to select. And you can see how it's now made that the same color as well. I've clicked on, I'm done with that tool and I can then de-selected. If you wanna do it again, reselect it, go along to the eyedropper, and click the color that you want to select. Now, just be careful if you don't just keep clicking like that because it won't work. If you click a second time, you might need to deselect and go and do it again from scratch. You're going to take a slightly darker green in there. Now, we've got this green over here. That's looking great. Let's see what it looks like. If I press W, That's fantastic, That's exactly what I want. Try that out 46. Add Photos Using Multi Shape Trick: I want to bring in some more pictures. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use this little rectangle shape. I don't want to show you a little trick here. I'm going to zoom in. So using Command or Control with Plus to zoom in. I'm going to go down here where I want my pictures. I'm going to click and drag. Now. I know it's quite difficult to see, but I've just got one shape in there. So although I'm going to put in the pictures in the bottom, I'm going to do this at the top so that you can see what I do. If I click and drag like that, it gives me one frame. Now I haven't let go of the mouse button. I'm still hold down the mouse button. That's really important. But what I'm holding down the mouse button, if I press the right arrow, you can see how that's splitted into two shapes. If I do it again, it will split it into three Shapes. And that gives me three little boxes. Let me do it over here. So for example, if I did that over there, I could click on the right arrow key. Remember, don't let go of your mouse, keep holding it down. And you can split these into as many shapes as you want. I can use the up-arrow to split it that way if I wanted a whole bunch of boxes, like so. Anyway, I'm going to do that at the bottom. So I'm gonna put my pictures in the bottom. So I'm going to click and drag over there, press the right arrow twice to break this up into three little boxes like so. Then I can go along to File and Place, place over here. And I want to use this one, this one and this one just hold down either Command or Control D opinion with your Mac or PC to multiple select items. Click on Open. I think that one's going to go there. That's going to go there. And that's going to go there. As before, just select your pictures. I'll shift select all three of them. So I held down the Shift key to select them all. And then I'm going to go down here and use my Frame Fitting to get them to fit in. I can't see the surf boards in there, so I'm going to click and just drag upwards until I can see all the surf boards. Now, let's have a look at what this looks NYK, make sure that nothing is selected. Press W. This is how it's looking. So far. That's not too bad. We're going to bring in some text and we're going to make a logo very shortly. Have a go with that so far 47. Add Text: I'm going to press W to go back to the working mode. And I want to put in some text along the top. I'm going to use my Text tool. Now. Have a look what happens when I move over the green area. Can you see how the cursor changes from a rectangle to a circle. If I go on the outside of changes back to a rectangle on the cursor. Now, this is because it wants, if I click, it wants to make that green area there into a text frame. So I don't want that. Now. I can get around that in two ways. I can either go in and lock that down or I can put my Frame over the outside here. It's too easy to click on there by mistake and actually make that into a Frame. So just to Text Frame, so just be careful with that. So I'm going to put it on the outside. I'm going to call this waves not very creative, but it will be perfect for what I'm doing. I'm going to select the text and go into my size over here and make it pretty large. I'd like to change the typeface to something a little bit more modern. Not something too much like that. I'm just looking for a very simple typeface like lotto or Montserrat. I'll go with Monster ads in there. Then I can change the width of the type. I'm going to go and make it quite thin. And I think I'll make that the text Paper, which is white as well. I'm then going to put that bit of text over there, so that's going to go in on that side. Now, I haven't got the text yet from my client. And I said commas. So this happens quite a lot when you're designing something, you're still waiting for somebody to give you the text. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use my Text tool. I'm going to click and drag another frame in there. I'm going to fill that frame with placeholder text until I get the text from my client. Once again, I can select all the text. I'm going to change it to paper. And I'm going to change the typeface to something else. Once again, I'm going to go back and I'm going to use Montserrat, which I had, and maybe a slightly lighter version in there. Let's move that across and see how that works. I think that'll be okay for the moment. I'm just going to move it up. I'm using my arrows on my keyboard to move it around so that's ready for me to get the final texting. Lastly, I'm going to put in a little logo, so I'm actually going to make a quick logo. I'm going to do that with some circles because remember, we're looking at this shape here. So I want to Logo which is kind of that shape. So I'm going to make a little circle here. I'm holding down the Shift key to get a perfect circle. And I'm going to fill that with paper. Then I'm going to make another copy of that. So using my arrow at the top, I'm going to hold down the Alt key and drag a copy down. Like that. You can see where that other one is at the moment. That's what I'm really looking at, is that sort of shape over there. If I select both of those Shapes, I can go down to the properties and something called the Pathfinder. We're going to be looking into this in a lot of detail later, but I'm going to use the second button along to click. And that'll just cut the front object from the back object. And there's my little wave in the back. I can just squish it a little bit. So it's a bit more wave-like. I want to use the same texts that I've got here. So hold down the Alt key to make a copy of that. And I'm going to just size it down a little bit in there, and I'll move that in there. So let's have the waves and a little wave logo and maybe another bit of text underneath that to say modern surfing. I'll hold down the octets, Make a copy. Change this to modern surfing now, it's really as big. So I'm going to select it all and then just change the size and take the size down. Let's get all of that text will take that size down a bit as well. So this my third bit over there. I'm going to pop that underneath, like so. I'll select all three of those objects and go to the Object menu and choose to group them together. So now when I move one, they'll all move at the same time. And we can move that in there. Now, how can I resize this? If I grab a corner and pull this in, you can see the whole thing resize in a very weird way. What we'll be looking at this later on. But there is a nice little shortcut you can use. If you hold down Control and Shift on the PC or Command and Shift on the Mac, you can grab a corner and just resize items down really quickly. So I'm going to just resize a bit more. So hold down Command and Shift or Control and Shift depending on whether your Mac or PC. And resize all of that down a little bit like so. Let's have a look and see how that's working. Press W and well, that needs to be moved up a little bit over there. Maybe. It's getting there, getting to where I wanted to be. Obviously, I'm still waiting for the information. But while I'm here, I'm, what I'm thinking to myself as Gino would be interesting is if I could get the text to wrap around that shape over there. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to move the text out a little bit like that. I'm going to click on this shape here. And I'm going to apply it text wrap to that shape. The text Wrap there. I'll click over there. And that forces the text around the edge. Now you can't see it. But if I increase the distance of that text away from that edge, there we go, That's looking a little bit better. And maybe for the text itself, I could even do something like aligning it to the right-hand side. No, that doesn't work. Let's go to the left-hand side. Once again. There's no right or wrong, just habit of a play with that. Brings some text in, Make a little Logo, use the Pathfinder tool and move things around until you feel happy with your design. And then we're going to save this out 48. Save As PDF for Print: Now what I'd like to do is to export this, to send it to my Printers. So I'm going to go along to File and Save As so I'm going to do a Save As first of all. And I'll call this waves. You can call it anything you like and just save it as an InDesign document so that I don't lose it. Then I'm going to go along to File and Export. We're going to be exporting this for Print. So over here where you've got the format, Adobe PDF, remember, it's the same on a PC, it might be just in slightly different place. We're going to choose PDF with Print in brackets. I'm going to click on Save. Now in here we've got a lot of different options, but we're going to go down and first of all, look at the marks and bleeds. And we're just going to switch on all the Printers Marks for them. So this is more than the printer probably needs, but that won't complain if you give them more than they need. I'm also going to say use the document bleed settings. So remember we put a nose bleed settings right the beginning. It will use those. One more thing that we want to do in here. We're going to go along to the output. Because although we haven't actually ready talked about this yet, we've got a document here which is going to be output to CMYK, but we need to make sure that the images get converted to CMYK rather than being RGB. So we're going to make sure that there is a conversion going on. I'm going to say Color Conversion. And where it says no Color Conversion, I'm going to say convert to destination. The destination here. We're just going to choose from right at the top, the Working CMYK or the documents CMYK. So I'm going to pick one of those. Now, what I would suggest is to talk to your printer and ask them what profile they would like. These are different profiles in here. So they might say particularly, I'm in the UK at the moment. So they'd probably say, you, you need to use Fugger 39 when States you might find that they go with something like the web swap coated us. Web swap coated. I won't tell you which one to use. The most important thing is that you are actually using one of them. And it is one of those CMYK profiles. I'm going to click on Export and that'll export that out. Now is a little warning sign that's popped up on mine, might not appear on yours to say that there's overset text on this page. And that basically means that there's more text than there is textbox. So there's more texts than the Frame itself. Now this doesn't matter for mine because I've only got the testing text in it. But on the final version, that would be quite important because I'd have to actually have to go back and go, oh, actually, I'm missing some text out and sorted out first. It's just warning you that you might be losing some text. I'll click. Okay. And there we go. It's now save that out. What I'm going to do is to just open it up to show you. I'll go down and find it. There it is there. And you can see it's putting all of the Printers Marks around the outside. If I just zoom out a little bit of this, you can see the whole thing. It's also put in the crop marks that the printer will need. So the guillotine will cut into that little area over there to make sure there's no nasty White Edges. Save then out footprint. And it's PDF for Print is the one you want. Have a go 49. Introduction to Exploring Color: Color, where would we be in InDesign without it? We're gonna be looking at color. We're going to be looking at RGB and CMYK. If those words are a little bit, don't worry about it. I'm going to explain all. We're going to be looking at Spot Colors as well. You might have come across them as pantone. We're gonna be looking at where to find your Hex colours, Gradients, swatches the whole lot. Let's get started. 50. CMYK vs RGB Plus Spots: There are two main color modes that we work in in InDesign. One is called CMYK, that you can see the one on the left-hand side here. And one is called RGB. Now, it's actually stands for, in this case, red, green, and blue. On the right-hand side is RGB. Cmyk stands for cyan, magenta and yellow. So you've got cyan, which is the blue color. Magenta is the pink and yellow CMY. But then we've got black. And over here, it's actually K. Well, the reason it's K is because it's the key color. Also, if we use CMY be for black, black might get confused with blue for RGB. So it makes more sense to have CMYK. Now. Cmyk is primarily for printing. So if you send anything to the Printers, you've external Printers, they will Print most likely using cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink. If you do something in the office, your office printer uses cyan magenta, yellow and black ink. A lot of home Printers usually use cyan magenta and yellow and black ink as well. There are some exceptions to this. Some of the photographic printers use extra inks as well. But generally for commercial printing, we work with CMYK. What about RGB? Rgb is for any device which has got a screen on it. So for example, the laptop or computer or tablet that you're looking at this course on. Every color that you see in that is made up of red, green, and blue light. Televisions. Apple watches, digital cameras. They all work with red, green, and blue light. And using RGB or red, green and blue light, you can make up all of the millions of colors that you see on screen. Now, with RGB, if you don't have any light, your laptop is switched off. It's black. Then when you start to mix together RGB, if you mix together three of those colors at 100%, that gives you white. So for example, on this page here where you're looking at this white area down here, it showing on your screen because there's 100 per cent of red, green, and blue light. So CMYK is made for printing, RGB is made for Screen Use. If you look at RGB, you've got a black background. If there's no light, it's black. Print. If you don't have any ink, because this is all about ink. It's white. So they're kind of opposites of each other. If you mix together cyan, magenta, and yellow, you actually get her. Well, an almost black in there. If you mix together RGB, you get wide. Once again, we've got opposites of each other. This question that will probably occur to you very shortly and that's if we can mix together CMY to get black. Why do we need the black ink as well? Well, so much printing has done with black, particularly text, that you wouldn't want to have to mix together cyan, magenta, and yellow all the time just to print a Document with black writing on it. So over here we can use an extra blacking. Also using CMY and K. Combination of those can give you a very, what is called rich black, a really dense black on your document as well. So how does this affect us when we're creating a document? Well, if I go to File and New Document, if I go to the print area here, the Document by default is CMYK for Print. If I go to web, the Document by default is RGB, say with mobile because that's also a device. There are a few other differences between these. 21 of them has to do with the color itself. Because we're working with cyan, magenta and yellow mixing colors together. There is no way, for example, that you can mix those colors and come up with something as vivid as this green or as bright as this blue. You find that a CMYK colors are a little bit more or less saturated than some of the RGB colors. And the colors are particularly the reds, but more so, the greens and blues. Rgb colors are much, much brighter. Now, if you go look a whole lot of magazines, you don't go in there and say, Oh my goodness, those magazines look so dull. Bits because you've got nothing to compare them to. So don't worry too much about thinking that, well, if I use CMYK, everything will be a bit dull. You won't notice the difference unless you actually took that magazine printed image and put it next to something on screen which was in RGB. There are some other color inks that we can use as well. And these are known as Spot Colors. Spot Colors are extra inks that the printer can mix up so that you can get an exact color to match the way that the designer had designed it. And these are made by different companies. One of the companies that you'll come across in here, quite a lot of a company called pantone. So if people refer to pantone, they're talking about extra inks that you can use. So you Print cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and then another mixed up Color, Inc as well. Do be aware though that this does cost more at the printing stage. And I'll be showing you where those pan tones and the other brands are. As we go through the swatches, 51. Swatches: Let's have a look at the colors. I'm going to go up to the Window menu, down to Color. And in the color sub menu I can find swatches. So these swatches here are the same as when you are creating a shape. And you go along to the fill in. As you can see this at the same things are in there. It's just easier for me to show you while this stays open as a separate window. I'm going to just pull this down. You can see I've got quite a few different colors in mine. Now. You've probably only got these ones in here, but I'm going to show you how you can make your own. First of all, let's have a quick look at the colors that we have here. I've just got a quick shape up and I'm on the fill option. You can see there's a fill option there. Or if I click on that, I'm now on the stroke. So it'd be like clicking the stroke down there. So I'm gonna click on the fill. And we've got our basic CMYK colors in here. And that's because I've created a document for Print. If I went in and created a document for web, and once again clicked on Creating there. You can see now my colors actually say RGB, it's all the same colors. But we've got RGB colors there compared to CMYK colors over here. So I've got my colors in there, I'm on my fill. We've looked at Paper already and we've looked at None. So None is no, no fill at all. Then we've got a black in here. And if I click on black, we've also got another black, which is called registration black. You shouldn't be using it on your document for an area like this because Registration black when it prints out, will print out not just the blacking, but 100 per cent of sine hundred percent magenta hundred percent yellow as well. It really is aimed at Printers to put the Printers Marks on the Document when they are doing the printing. If you use it on a document and send it to print, there's a large chance that it'll be so much ink on the paper that it'll cause problems. Now, there is another black that we can use as well, because this particular black that I've got is just 100% of black ink. But you get another black that you might come across called rich black. And that is the black ink plus a small percentage of cyan, magenta and yellow. And that does give you a very, very rich black 52. Creating Custom Colors: How do we make our own colors? Well, what I'm going to do is I'm going to pick one of these colors over here. And I'm going to go down to the bottom. There is a little plus at the bottom it's next to the bin. If I click on that, what it will do is it'll make a copy of whichever color you've chosen down the bottom. Now the reason we do that it because otherwise you end up changing an existing color that you've got in there. Now, if I were to double-click on that color, it opens up the Swatch Options. And I can then go in and make up my new color. So I want to sort of a purple color here. So I'm just going to drag this across maybe into the blues. That's actually not very purple. I think. More of a teal color really, isn't it? Well, let's go with with this. They'll go, that's a bit more purple. Now I can either name it with the values of the CMYK or I can switch that off and I can give it my own name. I'm going to call this one groovy purple. I'm going to click Okay. And now got gravy purple in there. However. And this is a big however, if I go to File New Document, I'm going to create a new print document. Over there. Click on Create. You'll see that my groovy purple doesn't exist anymore. It's still exists in this one, but not in the new document. When you making new colors like this and you'll creating them. It's only for the Document that urine. It doesn't appear on any new documents. So I can see you're looking at my screen and going yes, but Tim, you've got all those colors in there. They come up all the time. How do you do that? Well, I'm glad you asked. So I'm going to close this down. And if I close down everything and now go to the Window menu, Color Swatches, I don't have a document open. And now I can go in and put in my new color. Oh, I've seen, I've already gotten groovy purple in there that I created before. Anyway, I'm going to go and choose a color. Click the plus. There it is. I'm going to double-click on it. And I'm going to make a bit of a maybe it's of a orangey, orangey brown color in there. I will name this and I'm going to combine orange brown. Click. Okay, now this will appear in all the new documents that I create. So when I go to File and New and I go into Print and create a new document there. When I'm making a color, you'll see that I can go into here. And there's my orange brown right the very bottom over there. If I go and I'm making new document for Web, remember I created that color in CMYK. But even so, when I go into here and do a web document, if I'm creating a shape. Even though there's colors are when CMYK first, it's now just showing me them in RGB. Try that out, make some colors for the document that you're in. But more importantly, closed down everything. So you don't have anything open. And then you can go in and create colors that will be there all the time. And if you're working for a company or you've got your own business, what I would suggest, he is going through this mode into Swatches over there and putting in your brand colors in there that you'll be constantly using all the time. 53. RGB Hex & Spot Colors: If you want to create RGB colors, it's exactly the same. If I pick a color, I'm going to take that gold. Click on the plus. Even though I'm going to seem like a document, I can double-click and I can change CMYK into RGB. And once again, I can then go and pick the colors that I want. Now to just show you something while I'm in RGB. You can see I've picked this very vivid green, but a warning sign has appeared down here and it says, out of gamut, if you hover over it, that basically means that this color is RGB compliant. This is what it looked like if it gets printed to CMYK. So be careful. You'll find with a vivid greens and the vivid blues, there's quite a difference between them. Now the other thing that we can do in here is we can put in Hex numbers. So if you get given a hex number, it's combination of letters and numbers, six of them. It usually has a hash symbol in front of it. What you can do is you can just type it straight in there. The other thing that we can do in here is we can go in and we can choose from any of the Spot Color Books. Now I did say that a lot of people use pantone because they're one of the most popular spot libraries in there. But there are other companies that do them as well. You can see we've got H KS and focal tone and toya. Well, you just pick the one that you want. I'm going to take CMYK coated, by the way, coated uncoated. It means glossy and met. Then I can type in the number if I know the number and I'll just type in a quick number in there. Pick the pen tone that I want, and click Okay, and there we go. I've now got my new pantone in there. So to make a new color, you just make a copy of it. Double-click, go in, choose from your RGB CMYK, you got some other options in here. There's one called Lab, which stands for lightness, and then the color spectrum is over a and B. All you've got. And this will look a lot more familiar. Hsb, which is the hue, the color on the color spectrum, and then the saturation of that color and the brightness of the Color 54. Creating Gradients: Not only can we have solid colors in the swatches, but we can also have Gradients. I'm going to go to the Window menu to Color, and I'm going to find the gradient panel. Now, I'd like to draw a little shapes that you can see what happens with these Gradients. And I'll just draw a little rectangle alike that if I go along to the gradient panel here and click on the gradient, use it, we'll apply that gradient to my Shape. Of course, that's just a black and white gradient. But if we want to make some colors in this gradient, It's actually really easy. Pick the color that you want. And I'm going to take this gold and I'm going to drag it and I can just drop it into that. It'll gradient in the gradient panel. Same again, I'm going to take this Red Rocket red and I'm going to drop it over there on top of the White. And let's take this lime and drag it over here, and I'll drop that on top of the black so I can replace the black with that. Then maybe undecided, I don't want the red, so I could just pull it downwards. When you want to save this gradient, drag it and drop it into your swatches. Now, if you want to change the anchor of the gradient, you can actually use the gradient tool on the left-hand side and I can just click and drag. So if I drag from them, from the bottom to the top or the top to the bottom. You can see how that gradient is going to change. I can change this to a radial gradient which goes from the middle outwards. Or we can reverse it so I can get it from green going into gold. When you're happy with the gradient, drag it and drop it into your swatches that you can keep reusing it. And don't forget, this is the little tool that allows you to change the gradient in the shape 55. Introduction to Project: Social Media Post: Let's do this amazing project for social media. We're going to be using pictures, we're going to be using color. We're going to be moving the text onsite, be doing variations on it. This is a good one. 56. Create Document & Add Image: Let's do some social media posts. We're going to create a new file. And I'm going to go across to web because this is for social media. So it's going to go onto the Internet or onscreen. We're going to use Web and we're going to be using RGB mode. Now, I'm going to go along and change the size of here because I want a specific size. Now, these sizes change all the time. So it's always a good idea to just Google what size is optimum for the particular social media form that you're going to put the images onto. I'm going to choose 1080 pixels by 1080 pixels. Which at the moment is perfect for Instagram. You can pick whatever size you like and you can make this for any platform that you use. It's entirely up to you. Just Google the sizes over here, minus square. So it really doesn't matter if I go with landscape or portrait. I've got one page in there. And just to help my design, I'm going to go to the columns and I'm going to put in two columns. And I'm going to change my column gutter to zero. So what that'll do is it'll just put a line down the middle of the page so I can see at a glance very quickly where the center of my page is. Because the first one I'm going to do is going to be two parts, left and right side margins. You can make them as big or as small as you like. And we don't need a bleed because there is nothing to cut off this document. It's not going to be printed and need to be Guillotine. So we leave that are set to zero. I'm going to click on Create. So here's my document. You can see now I've got this little line down the middle to help me. So I'm going to be bringing in a picture on the left-hand side. So I will use my rectangular frame tool and I'm going to draw a shape, making sure I go right to the very edge of the Document and up to the middle over there, it should slightly snap to that hedge. If in doubt, make it slightly bigger than I've missed on mine. You probably looking at are going to be careful. I'm gonna pull this over a little bit so I get it right in the middle. Over there. I'm going to bring in the picture. So I'm going to go to File and Place and find the image that I want to use. Now, once again, I provided some images here for you. And you can use your own. If you don't like these, you could do a totally different subject. It's entirely up to you. But what I've got here is some hands with some coffee. So I'm going to go to my Frame Fitting in there. And I think I will just click and maybe move that around. Now, looking at that, you know, I think that this picture should be slightly bigger, maybe just a little bit. So I'm going to zoom out. I'm going to go over to the white selection tool and click. And you can now see very clearly have got the orange box around the outside. I can click and scale it up. Now, be careful when you scaling because you can miss scared your picture so easily. So hold down the Shift key. And that means when you're scaling it, it will keep the proportions, correct? I think I'm going to do something like that and then move the picture into the right position. Might have to be a little bit small, I think. Too much, but just a little bit like that. No, I'm I think I'm happy with the way that looks. Well, zoom back in again. I'm going to stop there now so that I don't move the picture by mistake. I could always go to the Object menu and just lock it down in there. If you'd like to get up to that point to find a picture or use one of mine that I've provided and bringing the picture, half the Document. And then we'll put in some colors, and we'll sample some colors from the picture 57. Sample Colors for Shapes: Now, I would like to have a few little shapes along the bottom here. Just for the Design, which again to be reflecting some colors from the picture. I'm going to go along to my rectangle tool. I'm going to make sure that I'm on the rectangle, not on the circle of the poly. I'm going to draw in a little shape in there, so little square like that. And then I'm going to make copies of that. Now, when you copy this because it doesn't have any fill or stroke, you can see there's no fill, no stroke there. There's no phyllo stroke there. Make sure that when you try and select it, you select right in the middle on that little point. Once it's, once you click on the line and you selected, you can then select that middle point and move it around. If you click elsewhere, it just de-selected. So just be aware of that. I'm going to click on there to select it, go to the middle, hold down the Alt key, and start to move it, and then hold down the Shift key as well. That'll make sure that it moves exactly horizontal. Let me do that again. So go to the middle, hold down the Alt or the Option key, start to drag it and you can see it goes all over the place. But if I hold down the Shift key, it'll make sure that even if I'm going up and down, but it's going absolutely horizontal. Doesn't matter about the sizes for the moment, will change those shortly. What I'm going to do though, is to now fill it with Color from the picture. And I'm going to choose some of these colors because they go together really nicely. I think this of the, the brown from the beans, the slightly orangey pink from the hands. And this subtle green would make three nice colors. I'm going to click on the first box over here. Once can you just click on the edge to select it? I'm going to go along and get my eyedropper tool, and then move over the picture and click to choose the color. Now, chosen the color, it hasn't appeared in that box. Why is that? Well, I was a bit sneaky and I told you to lock the picture so that I could show you this issue. Because the picture is locked, It's not picking up the color. I'm going to go to the Object menu, unlock all on spread, and do the same thing again now so click over there, go along to the eyedropper tool, go to my picture and sample it and you can see it'll grab that color and pop it in there. Let's deselect that one and go into the next one. So over here, once again, I'm going to use the eyedropper tool. I'm gonna go to the handle. I'm going to find some sort of orangey color from the hand that works quite nicely. Sort of a pinkish color. And then onto the last one here. Once again, I'm going to choose a brown from the coffee beans. I think that might need to be a little bit darker. It's just deselect that and try that again. So make sure that I select the object first. Go over to my eyedropper tool and find a slightly darker brown. I'm looking for something, maybe. Still not. Not quite right. Sometimes I find, I've actually got to zoom right in to see what I'm getting. There we go. That's a bit easier to see what I'm doing now. And I'll go along and get the eyedropper tool, find the dark brown that I want heavier. If we move over there, It's a nice dark brown in there. Now I want those to come all the way across the bottom. So I'm going to select all three, grab one of the edges and just pull it out and they'll all scale it the same time. I have a go with that. Pop in some colors, sample the colors from your, from your picture. If you've locked it, remember, you have to unlock it before you can use the sampling dried out 58. Add Text Color Shadows: Now you can see I've brought in a little bit of text in here. So I've got three text boxes. This one over here, which is, the text is all in bold typeface again, but regular and medium, or that one over there which is smaller once again, the same typeface all the way through. And then I've got another typeface over here. I chose something called Marvin, but I wanted something which is PFK-1 and a light and slightly light-hearted for my beans. I want to use these colors over here on my text. So if I go to opening soon and I'd like to use the green on opening soon. You can see when I go to my appearance, that green doesn't actually exist in there. So what we're gonna do is, I'm going to click on the green square here. You can see it's right at the very top there. And I can just drag it down and drop it into my swatches. I'll do the same with the pink color. Select that, go in there and drag it into my swatches. And lastly, the brown over there and drag that from there into my swatches. Like so. If you don't have a color in your swatches, but you can click on something with that color. This is a quick way of getting it into your swatch for that document. Okay. Means now that I can just very quickly go through and change the color, that's gonna be green. Over here is going to be Brown's. It stands out as well. And then this just less important is gonna be the pink. One last thing, this a little bit of text I've got here. It's kinda getting lost in the pink slightly, not, not a huge amount, but just slightly. I wanted to stand out a bit more. So I'm going to go over to the appearance. So I've just selected the text frame. I go to the appearance in here, and I go down to the effects. That's the little FX button down there. I'm going to choose a drop shadow. And I'm gonna put under Drop Shadow now when you first start putting your drop shadows in, usually find they look a little bit over-the-top to be honest. So what I'm going to do is to change the distances here. You can just adjust the distance of that shadow. I'm going to bring it right in. It's not too far away. I can change the size of the shadow so I can make it softer or harsher. And then I'm going to change my opacity and take it right down over there so you can barely see the shadow, but it's enough to lift the text of the background. If I press W, you can see my finished document. But you don't really notice the shadow there. If the shadows so harsh that you look at and you go, Oh wow, that's definitely a shadow there. I can see that in instant. You might want to go back in and just adjusted or change the opacity slightly. In fact, minds a little bit too harsh like that. Anyway, bring some text, save you colors, try that out 59. FP4 Variation with full photo: Let's make a variation on this. I'm going to go to the Pages panel night. If you can't see the Pages panel, you go to the Window menu and you find Pages in there. Very often it's just in with the properties over there. What I'm going to do is I'm going to make a copy of this page. So I'm going to take this page here. I'm going to be dropping it onto this little button down the bottom. So I drag that page like so down there and I drop it onto that button. And that makes the second page, you'll see if I zoom out now. I then got to Pages. So let's go into the second page here. And I'm going to start to move things around. I'm going to take the text and just move it out there. A bit of text as well. You could just leave things around the outside. These three little shapes here. I want to make sure that they always stay together. So I'm going to go to the Object menu. I'm going to group them. So when I select one of them, they'll all move at the same time. I'm going to get my picture and I'm going to put it over the entire documents. I'm going to move the Frame. I mean, just grab the corner of the Frame to try that again, the edge of the Frame there and pull it out. And then I can go into the picture, click and drag to move the, move that around to where I wanted to go. I think something like that. Then I'm going to take this text and put it across the top in really big letters. Now, I'm going to use the cheat method of making this text bigger. And the way that we do that is if you go to a corner, hold down. If you're on a Mac, it's Command. If you're on a PC, it's Control, Command and Shift, or Control and Shift. And then you can click and drag out to scale that Text up. Like so. I can just keep going. You can see my shadow scales at the same time. So Command or Control Shift and just drag it out like that. Want a really big beans on there. Then this little one down here, I'm going to put at the bottom. And then we're going to put the text on top of that. So I'm going to move that to the bottom, place it in there, pull that out. I've got my three colors coming along in there. And then I can take my text and put that on there. Now the text in order for it to be seen will probably need to be something like white. So I can change it to white. I'm going to go to my Properties, and I'm going to click on this particular bit of text here, the opening soon Text. Now you'll notice if I go in Heads has no fill or stroke. And if I change to Paper, just changes the background, I'm going to just undo that for a second. If you want to change the text quickly in a text frame, you can go there but change the applied to from frame to Text. And now I can change that quickly. So these ones here, I can select them, go to Fill and choose text rather than Frame, and do them at the same time. I could have done all three together, but I want to show you individually. So this is going to put my opening soon. I'm going to pull that out. So it's gonna be a single line like so. By the way, I want to get this little bit of this frame to go right to the top there. If you double-click on that in the middle, it'll just take it up to where your text is. Just makes it a little bit neater than that. So let's have that in the middle. I'm going to pull this out it to the edge or to the margin. Because my text is central line, it'll automatically centered in there. Right? So coffee, coffee and cake, I'm going to pull that one out as well. Now, I might need to remove that. It'll return. Same again. Just double-click on there to neaten it up and pop that in and go edge to edge on that. I might need to actually go in and make this a little bit bigger. Let's move that. That's how this a little bit up like so. And that could come down there. You can sit and fiddle for age is just trying to get everything perfect. And then Victoria Park, I am going to move that down to the bottom. Once again. Just pull it out. Like so, place on the bottom. Let's get rid of that return. And same again. There will just pull it out and double-click. And that can be moved down because it's less important than the other press W and we were getting there. Now, this background that I've got it over here is missing with these bits of texts like the beans was. So in here I might take opening soon and coffee and cake. And I won't worry about the Victoria Park. And I'm then I'm going to go and apply a bit of a drop shadow, something really subtle over there, but to just lifted away from that background a little bit. In fact, I think Victoria Park and move over the brown anyway. Anyway, incident, fiddle with that for, for ages. Try that out, have a go with this variation 60. FP5 Variation with Vertical Text: I'm going to go and do another variation now. So I'll take this one and drag it down onto the New button down there. I'll press W to just get back into normal editing mode. And I'm going to move my text around a little bit as well. So this time, let's do the same thing. I'm going to take beans though. I'm going to rotate beans onto its side. Now you notice when I rotate it, it it snapped, it just jumped rather than just rotating like that. And that's because I was holding down the Shift key over there so I can get beans over there. I'm going to place that on the side. I can use my arrows to once again move it up or down into the right position. So roughly in the middle. And then with this one I think I rotate that as well. So I'm going to rotate that holding down the Shift key when I'm doing it. I'm going to play sat on that side in there. And I can move it in just a little bit. Like so. I think what I'm going to do on this is to also change its opacity. So I'm going to go to the properties and just adjust its opacity slightly so you can see a bit of the picture coming through underneath. Lastly, then this is the simple bid. All I've gotta do is to get this text onto the appropriate areas in there. I'm going to just do some returns over there. And we'll have opening soon to put on the large side. And this time I will actually just selected and change the size over here I'm gonna go with 70, bit less than 72. Let's try 60. 60 in there. And that can sit in the middle of that. And then coffee and cake. Once again, I will make that 60 to match that one. And we'll have coffee with an ampersand. You can't see it. So I'm gonna pull this down. And it's have cake under there. I think that's that'll work in there. And then the address finally over here. And put that in the middle of that. Just need to move them around until they centered roughly. Press W, have a look and see if you're happy with it. Right? Try that one out. 61. FP6 Variation with Hidden Text and Export as Jpg: I've done another variation over here, and you can do as many of these as you like. Just let your mind go free and just start moving things around. This is a combination and you'll see I've just put in the text on one side of made it even bigger than the Page, copied it over to the other side, and then move the text around in the middle. And this a little bit comes from the first one that we've done. So when you press W, it'll crop off that bit of texts and you just left with almost like a pattern over there, but it is part of that beans logo text. Anyway, make as many options are always many Variation, shall I say? As you like in here, by just copying them down. Now, if you are copying something from one to another. So let's say, for example, that I did want to copy this opening soon over here, so I'll do the Copy, I'll go to Edit and Copy that. And I wanted to put it onto this page here. So I'll make sure I go back to that page and I've clicked on this page. If you just pasted, if you go to Edit and Paste, it'll paste it right in the middle of the page. But if you use edit and Paste in Place, then plus pasted in the exact position that it was copied from. So that's quite a nice feature and really useful. You can actually just make a brand new page in here and then Copy and Paste in place the items that you want. Or I find it easier to copy the entire page and then just move things around. Now once you've made a few more versions and you've saved it. So you need to go to File and Save As. And you can call it anything you like. I'm going to call mine beans social. I'm saving it as an InDesign document. I'm going to now go to File and Export. And in here, we can choose before we went to PDFs, but we can choose JPEG or PNG for the web. I'm going to pick JPEG. I'm going to go to Save. And then in here we've got the Pages. Now I'm saving all of them. So I'm going to choose all down here. We've got the image quality and I'm going to keep mine at high or maximum. And over here in the resolution, I'm going to change it to 72. This will mean that when it actually exports the Document, it will export it using the sizes that I first started out with. So I started out when I made my document, I had 1,081,000.80 Pixels. As long as I choose 72 in there. When this Export, it will export it out as 180 Pixels. If, for example, I chose double 72 or we're not quite doubled, but close to it, 150 in there. Once again, it would increase the number of pixels in the documents, so virtually doubling it. I'm going to click on export over here. And that should be done. If I go back to my images now, you can see there, there are all finished. And I'm just going to show you the size. So you can see over here, we've got the size, which is the dimensions, is 1080 by ten at. Now, I'd like to just show you that using a different setting. So if I go to File and Export, and I'll call these Social Media big. Once again using JPEG in there. But I was to change the resolution 250. Then click Export. Now when we have a look at those, this is one of the big ones. And we'll look at the size. You can see the dimensions are 12th, sorry, 2,250 rather than the ten it. So do watch that resolution as you increase it, you'll be actually physically changing the number of pixels in the final document. Save it out, posted. Have FUN 62. Introduction to Save & Export: One of the most important parts is saving your document out for different reasons. So we're going to be looking at saving your document for commercial printing. And we're going to have a look at how we can put in all the Printers Marks will be looking at saving down as PDFs for non commercial printing, as well as saving out for things like social media and the web, doing JPEGs and PNGs. 63. Save INDD, INDT & IDML Files: I've got this document that I like to Save. So I'm going to go along to File and Save As. And I'm going to give it a name I've called mine News. And I'm going to just save it onto my desktop. You can save yours wherever you like, whatever the Document might be. But in here we've got the format and this three options in here, there's a document format, which is the editable version. So if you're saving this new and Occam, continue with it tomorrow or next week. You'd save it as the InDesign document 2023, or whatever date the software puts in there. Below that though, we've got another one which says InDesign 2023 template. So what is the difference between savings a document or a template? Well, if I save this as a Document and I'm going to click on Save, and I'll just replace the one that I've got all already because I'm receiving it. If I wanted to open it up again, close this down. I can go to File Open and I'll be opening the same document. Again. You can see there it is. It's called News dot INDD, which is the InDesign file. So what about if I save this as a template? Well, I'm going to go to File, Save As, and I'm going to call it news temp. You can call it anything you like. I'm just putting that there so we can see it easily. I'm going to save that as a template file and click on Save. So once again, when I close, this may be the following month. After I've done the first document. I want to do another document again. Maybe just change the text in there a little bit. If I go to File and Open and open the news template file, which is an INDT File, not an INDD File. Open that up. All that happens is the document appears and you think that looks exactly the same as the last one and it is. But if you have a look here, if you save it, it will actually get you to do a Save As it brings it up as an untitled file. So you're not opening the original file and then saving over it. This is making sure that you save this as a new file. Now, the other thing that we need to have a look at is what happens when we save. And I'm just gonna go once again and open up the original file in there. When we save this document, what happens with the autosave function? As you work on your document when you do your first Save of the document. From that point onwards, InDesign makes a little temp file. And it puts it well wherever you've saved the Document. And this means that if you happen to crash or the machine crashes, shall I say not? You crash. The machine crashes. When you open up InDesign, it will be able to bring back exactly what you would doing. Now. You don't need to worry about that temp file that it makes for you, for the autosave, just make sure that you do save before you close the document down. Don't click the down Save button because she thinks that it's also saved. The autosave function is kinda like an insurance policy. It's there just in case you needed. It's still a very good idea to Save As you go. The last one in there. And if I go to File and Save As again is a file called IDML. And this is if you're going to save your document and you're going to pass it onto somebody is going to continue to work on it. But they've got a much earlier version of InDesign then you've got, so you can save that file and they can then open that document up 64. Export for Screen Use: I'd like to export by Document out now. I want to export it for well, viewing onscreen rarely. So I'm going to go to File and I'm going to choose Export. And once again, I will give it a name. And I'm going to call this news for email. So I can email it around to people. They can view it on their screens. And down here, I'm going to choose PDF interactive. Now we don't have any interactive elements in this particular document. Or if you're saving a different document, obviously, you won't have any either. But that doesn't matter. What happens is when you choose PDF interactive, it will save the document out as an RGB file. If you choose PDF print, it saves it out as a file for Print, which is CMYK. So I'm going to choose PDF interactive, and I'm going to click on Save. In here. We have got a few options and we're not gonna go through all of them, but there's just a few that I want to make sure that you see. First of all, the pages, are we exporting all of these or just a range you could put in one hyphen two or something like that to just do the first two pages. If you've got a multi-page document, all we export in this Pages, individual Pages, or will it export them as double-page spreads? The second thing is looking at the compression over here. Now, this is about the quality of the images that go in there. I'm gonna do two saves over here. I'm going to do one with the default setting, which is the JPEG quality is minimum and the resolution is 72. I'm going to click on Save now and Export cellas say not Save. The second one. I'm going to go to once again, File and Export. Exactly the same thing. This will be news e-mail. And I'm gonna put HQ for high-quality so we know which one is, which. Once again, it's the PDF interactive, and I'm going to click on Save in there. So exactly the same settings, but the compression this time is going to be maximum. And I don't want to highlight here no gains go to 144 for the resolution. So I'm showing you to sort of reasonable extremes. And I will click on Export. Now I'm going to go and open up those and I left them on my desktop over here. And there they are. There's one and there's the other one in there. Don't forget to this first one. And I'm going to open it. So I'm going to just double-click it to open it up. You can see there it is. And this is the lower-quality one. I'm going to open up the higher-quality OneNote as well. Initially, when you look at them, they look well, pretty much the same rarely. But the moment you start zooming in, this is the higher-quality one. Let's have a look at the image over here. And let's see the same one for the lower-quality one over there. And if I flick between the two, you can see the quality of the second one is just not as good as it is on that one. Look at the difference there. So it's a little bit blurry. That one looks great. Let's go and find a different picture. I'll go down to this one over here. So this is the high-quality one. Let's go with EMC what it looks like on the low quality one. Look at that. That is awful. That's the high-quality one, that's low quality one. So if you find that you are exporting your PDFs for Screen Use and the Images just don't look as good as they could. Chances are, it's because you've actually used the wrong settings and need to go and increase the settings in there. So why don't we just do everything at the, at the highest quality setting to do with the file size. If you have a look at this file here, this is the lower-quality, sorry, the lower-quality one is 61 K, but the higher-quality one is 224. So you can see the file size is so much bigger. It's up to you to use a combination of, do you want a small file size but maybe slightly less quality? Or do you need the high-quality images and a larger file size and just find a happy medium between those two. 65. Export for Print Printers Marks: I want to save this out for Print now. So I'm going to go along to File and Export. And I'm going to export this using the PDF for Print option. Now what this will do is when exports it, it will export it as a CMYK file. I'm going to just name this news Print. And once again, I will click on the Save button. Now, a slightly more complex window appears in here. But the few things to start looking at is the Pages. Are you doing all the Document or you just doing a range of Pages? And are you exporting it as single Pages? Always spreads. Now, we're also going to have a look down here and I'm going to start by going to marks and bleeds. By clicking on marks and bleeds. This allows us to switch on all of the Printers Marks that they need. I'm also going to switch on the bleed over here. So that will then use my three millimeter bleed that we might have put in in the Document. I'm going to click on Export. Now that I've done that, I can open it up. So I'm just going to go and find it over here. Use for Print. And you can see it's got all the Printers Marks in there, as well as these little crosshairs in the middle. Those are little targets over there. Or what the printer needs to register the plates. We've got some Colors and we've got the little crops. And I'll just pull this up so that you can see it, these little crop marks here. So this is the edge of the Bleeds. The outer ones are the edge of the bleed. The inner ones are where the guillotine is going to cut the Document up to. So everything that the printer needs in their Try save net out or exporting a Document and switching on those Printers Marks. And we're going to then have a look at some other options or settings for Printers 66. G4 Export for Print Convert to CMYK: I've gotten incredibly simple document here. There's picture in the background which actually goes over the page. And there's a little bit of text up the top here. I don't want to save this out for printing. Now, I've forgotten to put in a bleed in here, so I want to show you what happens when you do forget. I'm going to go to File. I'm going down to Export. And I'm exporting this, once again, call this sale. I'm exporting it as PDFs for Print. I'm going to click on Save. So when I go to marks and bleeds, I can switch all of those on. But I don't want to use the document bleed settings because well, it doesn't have any. So if I switch them off, I can then put in my own three millimeter bleed in here. So by exporting it out, it will now have the bleed. Let's go and have a look at that. I'm going to go in, open it up. There we go. You can see the crop marks come in there. So it's put a bleed on for me. This still a problem with this because the colors that I've used in this CMYK document are actually RGB colors. This photo that green there. The image itself isn't RGB file and it's inside a CMYK file. So what can I do about that? Well, what I'm going to do is when I go to File and Export, I'm going to once again give it a name. Exporting out, or let's call this sale CMYK. I'm exporting it as P for Print. And I've got all my Bleeds sorted out, That's fine. I'm going to go to Output. And in here I'm going to use a color conversion. So I'm going to say convert to destination. Now, the destination that we have, the profiles here, you get so many different ones. And it really depends on where you are in the world as to which ones you can use. Now, what I can do is if I scroll right to the top, I would probably go in and use my Document CMYK profile because that's probably set up correctly for the part of the world that you're in. If you are in any doubt, talk to your Printers first. And for the profile inclusion policy, I'm going to say Include Destination Profile. Now, there's another little setting here called ink manager. And if I click on that, that shows me that this is going to be printed out in CMYK. If you have any well, Spot Colors, I was about to say pan tones, but Spot Colors, they would appear in here as well as you can see that you've actually using Spot Colors and the printer is going to obviously be charging you more. They always around that where you can actually change the Spot Colors to process colors in the Spot Colors. Get them to be CMYK. Let me click. Okay, we don't need that. I haven't got any Spot Colors in this document, but I'm going to export it out now. Let's have a look at this one as well. So I'm going to go in and open up the one that I've exported. Now the first thing to notice here is the text. This text here, I used RGB Text, an RGB color in the CMYK document was this one. You can see how it's converted it to a slightly darker, which CMYK compliant blue. The sale over here, which is very green, compared to the sale that's been converted to CMYK, you can see a very obvious difference that way. So I have gone very extreme on this. I painted the sale very quickly with a little bit of bright green, knowing that it would look absolutely awful. But it means that I can then convert any colors which are RGB to CMYK by going through those little settings in your export for Print option. Don't forget those. Not very exciting, but very, very useful. 67. JPG & PNG Export Differences: I've got an image that I want to save out for. Well, Screen Use radian, that could be for the website, it could be for social media, it could be for PowerPoint. And we're going to save it in two different ways now say save what I really should be saying, he's export it. So this image over here is just an Image. And we've just got a little bit of text in there. But what I'm going to do to make it a little bit more interesting is I'm going to go to this picture. I'm going to go along to our gradient feather tool. I'm just going to start here and click and drag from just past the middle out to the edge like that. And what this'll do is we'll just save a sorry, it'll just fade the picture out. If I just move it up a little bit, you can see how that picture is actually fading out slowly like that. So I want to save this out in two ways. Let's start off by doing a normal Save. So I'll just do the normal Save As we've done before. I'll call it forest. And that's a document in there and now want to export it. So I'm going to go to File and Export. This time I'm going to choose the JPEG file. Will cause forest. That's absolutely fine. I'm saving it onto the desktop. And I'm going to click on save down here. Now, it brings up some options over here. And I just want to save the one-page because that's all that I've got. So I just choose the range of one-page in there. And the other thing I'm interested in here is the quality that I'm going to take this into PowerPoints. I do want maximum quality for this particular image. We are in RGB over here. And I'm going to click on Export. Let me do it again. And this time I'm going to export it as a PNG file, since you can see the difference. So here's a PNG file over there. And I'm going to click on Save. And once again, I'm just using the page that I'm on in there. And the quality I'm going with maximum. Of course we are in RGB. While I'm here. I'm also making sure that transparent background is switched on. Now, let me click on Export and we'll have a look at this image in PowerPoint. Powerpoint open. I want to bring these images in onto my slide. I'm going to go up within PowerPoint and I know this is not really a PowerPoint tutorial, but I'm going to do it till tell you how I'm doing it anyway. I'm just going to go to Insert. I'm going down to picture and I'm going to find the pictures from file. Here's my JPEG. Let me bring that in. An inserted and you can see we've got the JPEG in there. And it basically takes over this slide. It takes over that green background that I had. And you see it exactly as you saw it within InDesign. Going to get rid of that. So this is my background that I've got. And I'm now going to go to once again the same thing. Insert picture, picture from file and use the PNG file this time. Now you can see the difference is with a PNG file, anything that was the Page becomes transparent. Now this looks a bit strange on this PowerPoint slide, but it does show the process. And it's a great way of putting slides together where you want to keep some of the background or you want to layer up different exports from InDesign in here and get things to come and go as you need. Anyway. Let's come out of that and back into InDesign. Within InDesign, anything that is your page. If it's saved out as a PNG and you've got that transparency options switched on will become transparent 68. Introduction to Text styles: When you're working with your documents, one of the things you've want to do is to start speeding things up, especially if you have a lot of Pages. We're going to be looking now at Styles, Text styles. So you can create a style and then reuse it throughout your document, whether it's two pages or 200 pages, it really will make life much better for you. 69. Overview of Styles: Let's have a look at some Styles. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to the Window menu and down to Styles. And as you can see, there are six different options for Styles. Now we can break these up into smaller categories. So for example, we're going to be using some text styles to start off with. The Text styles are either Paragraph Styles, which is a style that you can pre make and apply to an entire paragraph. Or a Character Style, which is more limited than you applied to just words or a number of words. We also have objects styles here now, objects styles or if, let's say for example, you always making a shape and you want to always have a specific coloring, specific stroke. You could set that up as an object style. If you're working on tables, you can use cell Styles and table starts to speed up your workflow. Lastly, there is Style Packs in here. I'll show you these later on, these a pre-made sets which you can just apply to your work. Now, I'm going to start off with paragraph styles, and I've made some Paragraph Styles so I can show you how they work once you've created them. So I've got to Paragraph Styles in here. I've got one for the Body Text and one for the headers. Now, if I were to click on this, but if text here, so I've just clicked on the Text frame. I can then go and apply this orange Body Text to the entire frame. If I were to go in and select a paragraph E, this header here, I can then apply the header just to that. Don't do the same thing over there. Click on there and click on there to apply that. So let's have a look at this bit here. If I click in this paragraph, I can then apply the Paragraph style. Once again in their apply that same with the headers because the headers are actually paragraphs by themselves. I can apply those very quickly. I'll do the same here and apply the body texts there. And the header over there. A little bit of my text is missing down here, but I can just pull that down a little bit. Maybe like so. I'll have to fix it. But the great thing about Paragraph Styles is once you've applied them, if I looked at this and thought, You know what? Orange texts looks awful, I can actually go into the Paragraph Style, double-click Paragraph Style, and go in and change it. I'll show you how to do this later on. So I'm just going to get take that back to black. In there. You'll see that it affects every single area that that Paragraph style has been used. When you bring in text and you Paste text and you don't realize it, but you're actually using the Basic Paragraph style when you bring it in. Anyway. Once you've got an idea of that, we're going to go into the next video. And I'm going to show you how to create your own Paragraph Styles 70. Create Paragraph Styles: Let's make a paragraph style. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to the Window menu. I'm going to go down to Styles, and I'm going to go over to my paragraph style. I've removed all the styles that I showed you in the previous video. So you should look something like this where you've just got the basic paragraph in there. Now, if you go and you change any Text, and if I just changed, for example, the size of that, you can see a little Plus appears in there to say that you've actually changed something different to how that paragraph was. You can just hold down the Option or the Alt key and click on that basic paragraph with a plus on it. That'll take you back to how the original Style looked. Now, I want to create a simple Style and there's a number of ways to do it. And I'm going to start off by using a very visual way of doing it. I'm going to take a paragraph over here, select the paragraph, and by the way, you just keep clicking until you select what you want. So if I do a double-click to select a word, three for a line, for, for a paragraph, and five for the entire story. You can serve what this paragraph selected right here. Now that I've done that, I'm going to style it as I want. So I'm going to go across to my Character panel. And I'm going to choose a typeface that I like. I like Montserrat in there. Maybe make it just a little bit bigger, maybe 14 points in there. I can move down a little bit over here and just check that I'm on the correct language for the spellchecker, so I'm in the UK at the moment, so I'm using the English UK, but obviously you can choose the spell checking language that you want. I'm also going to move down to the paragraph options down here. Now, if you can't see these extra options, there's a little three dots which just appear. These allow you to show and hide more options in those panels. So I'm going to click on this little dot here. And I'm moving down in the paragraph options and hovering over the third one down. And this is called space before. And what this does is it puts space above paragraphs. So I'm moving the distances between the paragraphs. I'm also going to go to my color and just choose a different color for my text. And I'm going to go with this groovy purple. I'm happy with that. So I think that's okay for the text side. So with the text selected or even with your cursor just put into that text paragraph. You go to your Paragraph Style and you add a new style. And this takes what you've done in there and makes it into a new paragraph style called Paragraph Style one. Now, Paragraph Style one doesn't make any sense to anyone who's actually going to be working on your document. Or even if you've got ten different styles in there, you don't want the decor Paragraph Style one-star, two-star three. So I'm going to double-click on paragraph style one. And I can rename it. And I'm going to call this Body Text. Now, you'll find that sometimes when you double-click, especially if you don't double-click right on the text, you double-click over here. It actually opens up the paragraph style options. You can change the name in the top there as well. I'll just click OK. So now that I've got that, I can apply that style to the other paragraph so I can click over here on in that paragraph and apply it. I can click in this paragraph and apply it. Let's do this one over here. This paragraph over here, with the same style. So That's the basics of creating a paragraph style. But then what about making a second style in there? Because I want to staff my headers as well. So I'll do one of them first. I'm going to select this one. I'm going to make a new paragraph style. And now I've made a bit of a mistake because I've actually selected, I've gone to Paragraph Style and made a new paragraph style first. So if you happen to do this before, you've actually made your changes, you can either go in and just been this over there, or you can make a new paragraph style, you can double-click it. You can do the settings in here on the left-hand side. Now we're not gonna do that. I did want to show you what happened if you got it wrong. I'm actually going to do it by bending that Style. And I'm going to just set this up as I wanted to be. So I'm going to use the same font that I head over there. Maybe a bold version of that. Make it a little bit larger in there. And I'm going to change the color to something else as well. So I'm going to just use that orange and I've got so now that I've done all those things, I can go and make my paragraph style. So you style it as you want. You then make your Paragraph Style. I'm going to double-click where it says Paragraph Style one. I'm going to call this orange header, orange head. Now I can just go to my paragraphs, which are the headers, and just add that in. I click on History, add that in. I'm going to go to this as Art. Adding Oh, no, I've added the wrong one. It doesn't matter. I can just click on that one. You can see how easy it is to just change these as I go. Now, if you need to change anything at all in here, you can always go back into the Paragraph Style and change it. For example, my orange headers, they look okay, but they seem to be very, very close to the the paragraph that they are under. So I'm going to make sure that nothing is selected first. So nothing is selected in there. Otherwise, it's really easy to actually just add something and if you didn't intend to, so nothing is selected. I'm going to go to my orange head. Double-click it. And in here on the left-hand side, we've got all the different options that I've made sure that previous switched on. So anything I'd change in here, I can actually see live on my document. So I can start at the top here, and I've got things like the month, Montserrat and bold, and 13 points, if I thought, I wonder would look like with 14 points, I can just change it in there and it will affect my entire document, not just a pager on, but if you've used this style over 600 pages, you can change it in the Paragraph Style and get to affect all 600 pages. I can go to my advanced Character options. And if I didn't get the language right, I could then change the language in there. I'm going to actually go to the indents and spacing because this is where I can change the spacing. I'm going to say I want some space before those space before. And you can see how tool then just push those down a little bit. Like so. If you space after, then it's space after. The shape. By the way, this space before doesn't push text from the box. For the top of the box, it only moves it when this text above it. And I can go to my character color if I wanted a different color. Experiment now with different colors and see what would, would work. Well in there. I'm actually going to stay with the orange, I think. Then go and close this down. Click Okay. And I think it's virtually done. Maybe I need to move this text around a little bit. There. I can sit and fiddle with this for hours, but I'm going to stop over there. So do have a bit of a go with it. Make some Paragraph Styles, apply them to your text. Don't forget when you're clicking on these Styles and I've made this mistake so often I've had something selected and I've gone over here to click on the style. And of course it makes all the texts the same Style and go, Oh, I didn't want that audience. The whole thing goes wrong. Or you click Basic Paragraph as well. So I'm just going to use Command Z or Control Z to undo. So do watch that, that you don't have anything selected before you start clicking on those Paragraph Styles. Lastly, the Paragraph Styles are here. Just for this particular document. They don't, if you make a new document, they won't exist. That new document, it's kinda like color where it's only for the document that you're working in. Pretty much the same thing as color. If you want Paragraph Styles to be there all the time, you can close down all your documents and make Paragraph Styles from scratch without a document open, and then they'll always be in your document. Let me stop talking so you can try it out. 71. Create Character Styles: What about the other type of style, the Character Style? Well, let's say in this document they might be certain words that I want to highlight. And maybe those words are bold. Maybe they're italic, maybe they're a different color. But I can't do that to the Paragraph Style because if I do it will affect the entire paragraph. For this, we can use a character style. I'm going to go to the Window menu down to Styles and find Character Styles. They, they all work pretty much the same, but they are much more simple. I'm going to just close that Style Packs for now and close the paragraph style as well. So let's say that I had the word architecture or architectural. I'm going to just select it. I'm going to style it as I want. So over here, I'm going to go in and I'm going to just change the color to red. And I'm going to maybe make it bold or bold italic. There we go. Then I can make a character style from that. I'm going to double-click that and call this red bold, italic. Click. Okay, now the thing is I can at anytime just go along and choose a word, and I'll pick that word there and then put my character style on it over here. Let's have civilizations put the Style in their architecture down there, put that Style in there. Now this, of course, is something you could do by just highlighting the word or the words that you want and making the changes in the properties. But the difference with this is that when I then looked at this document, I thought, you know what? I don't like the way that I've done that with that color on my character style. So of course, I can very quickly change it if I just deselect everything. So I've just clicked off of that. I'm going to go back to my red bold, italic. Double-click it. And I think in the Basic Character Formats over here, bold, italic. I like that. That's okay. But I think it's the color that's a problem. And I don't want that deep red. I wanted to go back to the lack of then you can see straight away how it changes it automatically. At anytime. You can just go back-and-forth and update things in your texts that would affect everything in there. Let me try this with more of the Groovy purple color that we had on there before. That's better. Definitely an improvement. Try that out, make some Character Styles 72. Use Style Packs: Let's have a look at the pre-made styles. I'm going to go to the Window menu, down to Styles. And over here I'm going to choose the Style Packs. Now, these oldest pre-made Style Packs that you can use, and obviously you can change them as well. But I'm going to go down to the second page and I've got some text in here. I want to try applying some of these styles to them. So you'll see in my text right at the top there's the main heading. And then each paragraph has got a subheading over here. Now, if I were to click on this bit of texts, by the way, Adobe recommended you have at least 1,000 words when you're going to do this procedure. So I've clicked on the text box itself, the Frame. I'm going to go and find the one that I want to try and apply. And I'm going to go down to this one over here. Now we've got a little download button, so make sure that you download the Style Packs over there. So it's downloaded it and look what happens it just because I had that selected, automatically applied it over there and each one of those parts is available. So this is the heading that is the subheading. And this is the Paragraph Style. We didn't use lists in this at all. But once again, if they were list, it would pick them up and apply the style. I'm going to undo that. So I'm just going to use Command Z or Control Z to undo. Let's try another one. So I'm going to go in here and I'm going to try this one over that one over there. I think I'll have a go with that. Click on the Download. And because this is selected, it just applies it automatically. And I can then still go in here and do my edit. So it's just a fast way of creating a document which looks quite good very, very quickly. Have a go with that. 73. Introduction to Parent Pages: Another way to speed up work on your document is to use something called Parent Pages. Now, Parent Pages, or they used to be called master pages, will allow you to create a template or multiple templates of Pages and then use them in your document. It really does make things faster, but it also looks better because the template will keep consistency throughout a multi-page document 74. Parent Pages Overview: Now to find the parent Pages, we go along to the Window menu and go down to the Pages. And that will show you Pages over here. Now as you can see, I've got a document in here. My Documents got a front cover and then there's Facing Pages. So spreads all wear cross to the back page over there. So what do the Parent Pages do? Well, in my Pages area here, you can see my document is set up, but then I've got the a Parent Page up the top. Now this is like a template page. If you look at my Pages, you'll notice that a lot of the Pages have got these little Colors. There's kind of a brown color on the left and a turquoise color on the right. Some of their brown left, turquoise on right, turquoise and write Brown on, on left. Not all of them have, but those ones do. So those colors are actually on the Parent Page. Likewise, the numbers, so I've got some numbers in there. If I just move it up, you'll see this page to page three is Page seven over there. So the Parent Page controls both of those items. I'm going to go to the Parent Page and double-click it. You can see anything that's on the Parent Page will be replicated on all of those other pages. So the idea behind this is if I then realized that I didn't like that brown area over there, I could go in there and I could change it to something else. So it's sort of brown. I'm going to change it to or what else would go with the turquoise, probably a bluish color as well. I'll change it to that. And I can go down to my page numbers here, and I can select the page number, go to the color. I'm going to just change that to read so that you can see what happens there. So I'm going to have read on the left-hand side Page Number and turquoise on the right. So if I do that on the Parent Page, when I go back to my document, you'll see that all of my pages have been updated. So we've got blue, turquoise, read, and turquoise. They're same over here, the blue and the turquoise in there. There's the turquoise once again and blue on the other side. So anything that you do, any change that you make to the parent will be reflected in all of the Pages that it's used in 75. Create a Document with a Parent Page: Let's make a new document. I'm going to keep it very simple enough to Print. I've chosen A4. I'm putting in for Pages in here. And I'm going to go to the Pages area, the Facing Pages area, and switch that off. The rest of that, I'll just leave on the default settings. So I've now got four pages that if you can't see your Pages panel on the right-hand side, go to the Window menu and you can then selected in there. Of course it might just be behind the Properties panel over there. Now in the Pages panel, I can double-click to go or to jump to a page or you can't actually tell what page I'm honored mode because all of my pages are white. So I'm gonna put some pictures into these Pages. I'm going to go to File and Place. I'm going to find some images in here. I'm just going to go along. These images are, have been provided for you. So if you want to use the same ones or you can use your own images as well. I'm going to find four different images. And I've got some cars over here. I'm going to click on Open. And you can then see I can just get as FirstPage over here, drag that in. I'm just scrolling up to the next page. Once again, I'll just click and drag. Keep going down. Another page here. Drag that one in the last one. Now this is going to make a whole lot more sense now with this whole double-clicking thing. Because if I double-click, you can see how I can now jump to the appropriate page in there. The other thing I can also do here is because on page three, I'd would like this to be the first page. I can just drag a page from there up and drop it on the right-hand side. If I drop it on the right, it'll come in as the second page. If I drop it on the left of the first page, it'll come in as the first page. So you can see now that's Page one in there. So you can just reorder your Pages very quickly. What about the parents? Well, the Parent Page is like a template. So if I double-click on the Parent Page, I've now gone into the Parent. You get so fed up with me saying double-click all the time. But it's so important because it's easy to just click once and think you're on that page. I'm not on that page. I'm still in the Parent Page over here. So make sure when you're using this Pages panel that you just double-click wherever you go. Now on this Parent Page, I'm gonna put in a little simple graphics. I'm just going to put in a color down the side. So I'll use my graphics Shape. And I'm just going to click and drag little color down that side there. I'm going to go to the properties and choose a different color for that. I'll use this deep red Color and I will deselect that. So that is on my Pages panel, sorry, on my Pages parent. If I double-click on my main page, you'll see that that's been added to every single page of the Document. So the idea is that I can keep going back to the parent and you're just putting things in there, which will be then added in to all of my pages. I'm going to double-click on the parent again. And maybe I'll have another little graphic down the bottom here. I'm just going to do something, maybe that size there. Let's find another appropriate color. That's definitely not noted. I'm gonna go with this dark teal. I like that combination of colors. Once again, when I go back to the pages, double-click on the pages that'll have been added to all the pages. You can add in logos, you can add in text. You can add in anything you like in that Parent Page, really. I'm gonna go back to the Parent Page. And at the top I'm going to put in some text. So I'll make little text frame there. And I'm going to put in classic cars. And I'll make it a little bit larger over here. So I'm going to go to Properties and increase the size over there and find a typeface or font which kind of looks like classic cars. I like that. I'm going to center it in the middle using the paragraph options. And in the color. I'm going to keep it black, but I'm going to tint it. So it will actually go a gray. So I'm going to tint it right down to 35 per cent. I get that light gray once again, when I go back to my pages that will appear on every single page, you press the W key. That's how it would look. When it prints out. Try that out, have a bit of a go with that. And don't forget, always double-click to go into either the parent or to go into any of these pages in here. But keep your documents simple. Make sure that you have Facing Pages switched off for this. Otherwise, it can get really, really quite complicated. And you'd have to use my pictures in here, find your own pictures, and place a few of them in the cube to about four pages as well. 76. Add and Delete Pages and Add None Pages: I'd like to add some more Pages into my document so I can go to the Parent Page and I can drag one of these parents and drop it next to the page that I want the new page to come in after, if that makes any sense. Basically, if I go to page three and I drop it on the right of page three, it will come in after Page three except I missed and I got to page four. But that doesn't matter. I can just reorder it very quickly. Let me do that again. So I'm going to go over here, go to the right of page two and my new pages come in after Page two in there. If you want to get rid of a page, you can just drag the page and drop it into the bin at the bottom. Now, I'm going to bring in a new page, and I want this to be my cover page. I'm going to drag it to the left of page one. So here's my cover. But on the cover, I want to have just the word classic cars in the middle. I don't want to have this blue area down the bottom here. What you'll find is that when you try and click on these items, I am on page one there. I'm not in the Parent Page. I'm on page one. When I try and click on them, you can't select them. So I can't move this. If I move it in the Parent, it'll move it on every single page. So to get around this problem, we have to use a keyboard shortcut. Now, on the Mac and PC, it's going to be different. So on the Mac you hold down Command and Shift, and then click on the area that you want to move, and that will release it from the Parent Page. And I can now move that down, even place it in the middle. Over there. On the PC, it's Control Shift. And then click and you can move things around or I can just delete them like that. Let me do that one more time. So it's either control or Command depending with PC or Mac. Shift. And click and then we can delete or do what we want with that. So there is my cover page over there. Now. I'm going to bring in a few more pages as well. So I'm going to bring in another Parent Page down here. And this one's going to be from my back page of this. I've got pictures all the way through. This is going to be my last page. In this particular Online document. I don't want the Parent Page on this page, I just wanted to have a little bit of texts and middles saying, thank you for looking at the cars. So how can I get rid of this? Well, I could do it the long way round by doing either Command Shift or Control Shift and clicking through all the objects. Or I can take this None Page Up here. If I drag the none paging, you'll see I can actually drop it on page six, on top of page six in the Pages panel. And that will get rid of the Parent me due to this page here, if I dropped it on page five, on top of page five, not next to it. You can see it gets rid of the parent. Now, I've realized my mistake. I want it back again. I can go to the Parent Page and I can drop the Parent Page on top of page five to bring it back. Likewise, I could do the same with Page six, drop it on top of that to get it back again. As happens, I just want that to be blank, so I'll drag and drop that right in there. So you can drag-and-drop your parents and your None Pages into this area here to either add Pages or replace an existing page with a different Parent Page. Try it out 77. Add Page Numbers: I'd like to add some Page Numbers to my Pages now. So I'm going to go up to the a parent or if yours is a master, it's the same thing. Double-click on it. So I've gone into my parent, so I can tell that because it's gone blue there, but I can also tell on the left-hand side of the page, I can see I'm actually in the a Parent in there. I want to add some Page Numbers. I'm just going to put them over here for the moment. The way that you add Page Numbers is you go along to your Text tool and you draw a little text frame in there just like that. When you see the little flashing I-beam over there, that's when you can go and add in the page numbers. So to add the Page Numbers, It's not difficult, it's just a well-hidden rarely. I'm going to go to the Type menu because it is to do with the type. I'm going down to special characters or insert special characters. I'm gonna go across two markers. And then finally, I can get to add to current page number. Now when I do that, all it does is putting the subtle a over there. It's somewhat disappointing after you've gone all the way through that menu, but this is for your page number. Now, to make it a bit more interesting, I'm going to highlight the little a. By the way, you can't just type in an a there, it won't work. You have to use that special character. I'm going to go into my properties over here, find the typeface that I want to use, and I'm going to increase the size a bit so you can see the, the Page Numbers a little bit better. In fact, I'm going to change that from more simple typeface as well. You can, of course, in this stage, always go in and change the color if you wish. So there's my page number over them. Now, when I go to my Pages, have a look at this page to page three. For all my Page Numbers are in there working. There's no page number working on this page here because this is a non page. If we go to our front page, you can see the Page one is there as well. So what's gonna happen if I remove that Page one from this page? Well, I'll use the same technique. I'm going to go to Command, Shift or Control and Shift on it and delete it. But look here, this still says Page two. What about if I decide to change the order of my Pages? And I took Page five, which is this page here. And I dragged it up to the left of page two, so it becomes the first picture in the set. Once again, when I go up there, you'll see the page numbers are just working. It just sorts them out for you. So even though I've got Page six there, which is a non Page, if I dragged another parent in after Page six, it will come up with Page seven. And I can just keep going over there and get my full eight pages in there. Now, at any time, you can go back to the parent and you can change this bit of text around as well. So I'm going to double-click to select it. I'm going to go to the properties and I'm being to make it white paper. And I'll use my move tool, my selection tool. And I'm just going to move it across on top of that color. And hopefully that'll look a little bit better when I go back to my Pages. There we go with a page numbers down there to try that out. 78. Introduction to Project: Build a Catalogue: It's project time again. Now we're going to make a large ish Catalogue. You can make yours as big as you like. Mind's going to be a sensible size because obviously I don't want to spend all the time just going through page after page after page with you. But you can see by using these fast methods, whether it is Parent Pages or whether it's Styles, how will you bet to create a multi-page catalogs really quickly? Anyway, this is what we're going to be doing. And I hope you enjoyed. Remember you don't have to use my pictures. You can use your own 79. Create the Document: Let's get asked Catalogue started. I'm going to do a New File and I'm going to go over to print, as this might be a printed catalog. I'm going to choose a full. And over here, I've got my Pages all set up, so they are in portrait. I don't want Facing pages for this. This is going to be individual pages, but I do want eight of them. So we're going to have eight pages in there. I'm going to go down to my columns. And to help me with the design, I'm going to put in four columns. You'll see as we go through it, how I'm using those. Moving down a bit. I've got my Margins in there, one of my margins a little bit smaller. And then lastly at the bottom, I'm going to put in a bleed 3 mm. And click on Create. Get to that stage. And then we'll take it onto the next bit. 80. Make Parent Pages & Add Photos: I'm going to go and set up my Parent Page. And I don't have to do everything in this Parent Page, but just getting the bits that I want to start off with. So I'm going to go to the parent, double-click the parent until that goes blue. Now, you'll notice that you don't see any difference in here. So be very, very careful. It's so easy to think you're in a Parent, but in fact you're on another page. So without looking at what is in blue in here, how else can I tell if I'm in the parent? Well, by going down to the bottom, you can see I'm actually in Page Number two there. If I double-click over here, it says that I'm in the a Parent. Keep an eye on that. Don't just click once. Even though Page three and Page four of blue, I'm still in the parent. It's all to do with the name or the number on the not with what is actually blue on the page itself. So make sure I'm in the parent and I'm going to put in my bits and pieces to get started with. Start with a background color and I want the background to be black. So I'm going to go over to the properties and over to my rectangle tool and draw rectangle in. All right, so into my parents and choose black over there. Never use registration if you're doing anything foot for printing because registration will put too much ink onto the page for commercial printing. So stay away from that one. Just use black in there. If you do wish to have a more solid black, you can make a new black by going down and making a copy. Double-click the black and Add a percentage of CMYK or sorry, CMY. Let's see if my case MY over there, and that'll give you a rich black. Now, I've got my black in there. I'm just going to lock it. And then I'm going to put in the area where I want my picture to go. So my picture is going to go over here. Remember, I'm still in the Parent. I'm going to use a Frame. I'm going to draw in a little frame in here. I wanted to go halfway through that column and halfway through that column, like so. But I also want to be a little bit more interesting because this is all about antiques. So I'm going to go to the properties. I'm going to give the stroke around the outside of color. Now, if I click in here, I want to have a sort of a goldfish color. Now you might not have gold in your swatches, but you can take any color you like. Make a copy of it. Double-click the Copy. And I can then go and try and make a gold in here. So all I'm doing is using some of these sliders to drag around until I get something that looks gold, ish. I think that looks sort of gold. And I can untick the name. And I can call it antique gold and gold. Click. Okay, now I've got an end gold in there. I'm going to zoom in a bit so that you can see what's gonna happen with these. Because I'd like to increase the stroke around the outside. I'm going to go along here and I'm going to choose maybe a thick and thin option for the line. Now, if I press W, you can see that's what the Frame around the picture will actually end up looking like. Let's press W again to go back in there. While I'm in here. I'm also going to put in a few other little lines. Remember, this is all about antiques has got to look oldish and lots of gold and black and things. So I'm gonna put in a line along the top. And I'm going to use the Line Tool. Click and drag my little line. I'll just do it up to the middle of that one there, that column or the middle of a gutter. Because I want to put some text in over here and go to my stroke, find my and gold. Increase the width. And if I wanted to academic, once again, choose one of those options in there. If I want another one at the bottom. Same again, I can just take that. Hold down the Alt key and or Option key depending on what you're in and drag it down to the bottom. In fact, I'm gonna get those to go out the edge. And this one is going to go out the edge as well. Then I can then put in my name that's going to go on every single page. The top as well. I'll use the Text tool. I'm going to draw a little Frame over there and put in the old world. I'm going to select that bit of text. And you can choose any color you like. I will use the gold once again. And just find a typeface which is sympathetic to the field that I'm going for here. So probably something really all the wealthy there rather than to modern at typeface. I'm just going to scroll down and see what I can come up with. I'll try this one. For now. I'll probably end up actually changing it. But for now, I'll have something like that. I'm going to go back to my Pages and double-click any of these Pages, press W. And you can see, that's what all my pages looked like. You can see this does look really bad. That little old world. So I will have to change that to something else. Now that I've got that, I want to bring in my Pictures and this is where it's going to be really fast. Because I'm going to have pictures from page to page eight or seven Pictures. Page one is actually going to be the Cover. To bring them in. All I need to do is to go along to File and Place find my pictures. These are part of your assets. However, as with everything, you can do this if you don't like if you don't like antiques, do snowboards or cakes or anything really. So you can use your own pictures. 1234567 pictures in there. In fact, I won't use that one. I'm going to use that one there. Click on Open. And you can see now that they are all loaded into my cursor. So I can actually just go down and say, Okay, well this want this same machine goes in there. You just go and click where you wanted to go. The books. Well, I'm going to have that on page two. That's gonna go there. Some of them, I know they don't look like they've actually gone in. But that's only because we need to still go back and sort out the the the Frame Fitting so I can go and then do my Frame Fitting on all the pages. So 81. Create Outlines for Cover Character: My first page, I want to do something else. I don't want to have all of this detail from the Pages panel. So I can either get rid of it by taking a None Page and dropping it on top of that first page. Or I'm going to go and get my Parent Page and drop it on top of that one again. The other way I can do it is to hold down either Command and Shift if you're on a Mac or Control and Shift if you're on a PC. And you can then select the items that are locked into the Parent Page and delete them. So same again over here. I'm going to actually take that old world and just put it down there for now. I'm going to go along to that line at the top. Control Shift or Command Shift, click it and delete it. Control Shift or Command Shift, click there, Delete or Backspace. So I've now got my first page in there. It hasn't affected all the other Pages. All the other Pages are still exactly the same. It's just allow me to edit the master objects on this page here. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to bring in a big W. I want to have a big W for the Cover. So I'm going to go along and get my Text tool. And I'm going to draw in the W. Now, black on black text doesn't really work very well because I can't see what I'm doing. I'm actually going to do it over here. So I'm just going to do that. Put in a capital W, you can do whatever you like. I'm going to select the W and go to my Properties and change the size. So it's easy for you to see. Okay. I'm going to choose a typeface which is once again sympathetic to the rest of the Document. I'm going to be using this academy engraved typeface. Now, one so that you can see it. And it's the only reason I'm changing it. I'm going to change that to paper or white. You can do any color you like it. Honestly, it doesn't matter at all. There we go, CagA with yellow. I'm going to select the W. And I've just selected using the black arrow tool, the selection tool over they're not using the Type tool. I'm going to go to the Type menu. I'm going to change that into Outlines. I'm going to say create Outlines. Now what this does is it makes the text into Shapes. So this is no longer editable text. So why have I done that? Well, first of all, it allows me to very quick scale this up so I can hold down the Shift key by the way, and scale it. And have pretty big W in the middle. There. We can still change the color. You can see there's a fill color there. I'm going to place that just slightly underneath the center line them. Then this is the Copart. With it selected. Once again, I'm going to go to the edit, and let's try that sentence again. I'm going to get a File and Place. And I'm going to go and get my books. Click on Open. You see what it'll do is it'll actually put that picture into the text. Now I can go to my frame fitting and fit it in there properly. Unfortunately, when I look at that, you can barely see that there. I mean, it's subtle, it's very nice. But I'm going to select it, go to the stroke. And I'm going to put the gold stroke around the outside. And I can just choose a very thin stroke over there. So you can see when we look at that, it just got this thin line around the outside. And you don't have to do that if you've got a lighter picture, it's absolutely fine. I've just got my little bit of Old World text. I might put somewhere like that. You can then move it around. You can do whatever you want. With that. Do have bit of a go with the Cover and choose a letter, character, or number, anything you like. And you use the type and create Outlines. But you must make sure that you select the text with the Arrow tool, the black arrow, the selection tool first, just one click on it. And then you can go to Type and create Outlines. Have a go with that. 82. Change Cover Photo: If you want to change the pictures or moves the pictures around, it's pretty much the same thing, like a normal text frame. So I'm going to just click on my picture. I'm going to go to File and Place, find a new picture that I want. I'm going to use this old record player comes in. And if I zoom in a bit, when I actually go over the picture, you can see there's the little circle. Sometimes it's quite hard to find. Now click on that and I can then move the picture around inside that frame. Our press W so we can see the whole thing that looks a lot better, all the gold bits on the W there. So if you're not happy with the picture, try different one in there, move it around until you get into the right position. 83. Add Page Numbers: Let's add some Page Numbers. I'm going to go back to my Parent. And I'm going to, well, first of all press W. I'm going to use my Text tool. And because of that black background, I'm gonna do my page number Frame over here. I'll just use my type tool. Do a little Frame. Go to Type, insert Special Character Markers, and Current page number. I'm going to select that and then go over to my properties. And I'll make that gold as well. So I'll use my and gold. And I'm going to change that to a typeface that I'm using already. So I might make it a little bit bigger so it's slightly easier to see. And I can then move it into my document. Let's zoom in a bit over here. And I'll just place that down there in the corner. That's it. Back to my pages. Double-click on my document. And you can see page to page three, page four, etcetera. But go back to my main title page. The one is coming in there. I don't want that. So I'm actually going to zoom in. Now. I need to move my text app a little bit so I can get there. I'm going to go along to that hold down Command or Control and Shift. Click it to release it from the master page and get rid of it. You'll see my page numbers are still all correct. They still start from two. The other thing I'd like to do is just change the order of some of these pages because I want to actually use the the books over here, this page as Page number two. So I'm going to drag it up. Then I'm going to drop it next to Page one. And then I'll change the order of the Pages. But the numbers are still correct. So this one here is now still Page Number two over there. So you can just drag your Pages round as you need. Have a go with some Page Numbers 84. Save & Add Paragraph Styles: Let's do some text. But what we're going to do is we're going to go to the Window menu down to Styles. And we're going to use a paragraph style for our texts so the type will be consistent throughout the Document. I'm going to make a new paragraph style, so I'm going to do it by creating some text first so that I can see what I'm getting. And then making the Paragraph Style. After that, I'm going to press W to go back into regular mode. And I'm going to put in my text frame over here. So I just need a little bit of texts. I'm going to go to the Type menu and fill with placeholder text in there. And I'm also going to zoom into that. So I can then highlight the text and set it up as I wanted to be. No, I've been using that sort of all the world typeface at the top. And I probably want something which is still fairly old world or antique looking for my main type. All you could go the opposite way and do something a little bit more modern. It depends on your subject. Typing in there. I've got the size that I want. I'm going to go to 12 points for now. I've set up my spellchecker because I'm in the UK to English UK. And yes, I know I do spell a certain words in the American way, like Color, you might have noticed. But I am in the UK, so I'll use that. And I'm going to then change the fill color to, well, let's try gold to start off with. I know this seems to be a lot of golden in this, but we can change it. So if I'm happy with that, oh, there's one more thing I want to do. And that is if I had a paragraph like that, maybe I wanted to have the Paragraph slightly further apart, so I'll go to my paragraph options here. Go down to the space before and just change that a little bit. And even while I'm here could experiment with things like drop caps. Do I want us to have heavy drop cap at the beginning of every paragraph. I'm going to go with that for now. So now I can select some of the text, go to my paragraph styles, and click the little plus to make a new Paragraph Style. Double-click it, and I will rename this as a Body. Click. Okay. Let me do another one for the header. So I'm going to just do a little bit more text in here. Now. I'm just going to go back to the body that's there. Because I don't want to use the Good Drop Caps for the header. So I'm going to remove that. Incidentally, if you can't see all these extra settings, just make sure you click on those three little dots over there to see the extras. I'm also in here going to make sure that I'm using capitals for the headers. So I'm going to use bigger with small caps like that. So it's called small caps and it means it gives you small capitals for the lowercase characters. And I might change the size of that and maybe make it bold in they're going to select that. Go into here again, do a New Paragraph Style, double-click this and call this the head or title or whatever you wish. Click Okay, so now that's all done and I've got my styles in here ready to go. I can then start to put the text into the Document. I'm going to go and get my type tool. And I'm going to draw in a text frame in here. Now I haven't got the text yet from the people, but I know that this section is going to be called books. And I'll just select that and then go to header over there. Let me do a return again. And I'm going to fill this with the placeholder text. And this bit of text over here is going to be the Body Text. Now, I'd also like to actually have this over to columns. So in the Properties I'm going to go to the bottom all the way down here and just choose to columns. I want these columns to be balanced. So I'm going to go to the Object menu, Text Frame Options, and choose balanced columns. In there Now, that's okay. I don't actually like having the title in with that. I in fact, I'm going to remove it. And maybe I'll have a different frame for the title. So I'll go over there and do a different frame. In the pop my title in. So this is gonna be books. And choose header for that. I'd like the title is to always be in the middle. So I'm going to double-click on the header. And I can go into my options over here. And these are the same options that we did initially on the properties. And I'm going to go to my, um, my settings and just change it from left aligned to central line. So let's go down here to indents and spacing. And in the alignments, I'm gonna do central line in there. Let's click. Okay. Lastly, I don't like to, the gold is just so much gold in here. So I'm going to make sure that nothing is selected. Double-click on the Body and change the color. And that's down here, the Character Color. I'm going to go to White or paper for that. Now you'll notice that because I changed the body, it changed the header as well. And that's because the header, we double-click it is actually based on their bodies Style. So if you go and change something in the body, it will also update and change in the header. If you don't want that to happen, you can just say based on no paragraph style in there. So now that I've done that, I can then go through the rest of my document now, I'm going to actually go in, select those two, go to Edit and Copy. And then I can go into this page here, double-click it and Paste in Place, sets edit, and paste in place. There. That was also books that one there. Let's click on this page. Paste in place there. There is a little shortcut which is either Control, Option, Control, Alt, Shift, and V. It's a bit of a mouthful to be honest, on the PC or Command Option Shift and V on the PC. So this will be lighting. And once again, through my document over the outcome change the names just now. You can see how quick this is now getting. So this would be Sound. This was machines plucks here. And finally watches in the press W to see how it's going to look. And remember if you don't like anything about that, you can always go into your Paragraph Styles and change it. Or you can go to your Parent Page, double-click your Parent Page and change any of these items in here. I'm just going to see what this looks like without that great big gold stroke around the outside. I'm just going to choose None. And then go back to my Pages and look about Pages like that to see if I preferred. Don't. So I'm going to just use Control or Command Z to go back again to those big old gold Frames. Anyway. Have a go, get up to that stage and then we'll be saving it out in a moment. 85. Save & Export: Before I go any further, I'm going to save this. So I'm going to go to File and Save As. And I'm going to call this my Catalogue. Old-world. Save it somewhere, but I can find it later. But then what about if somebody said, What could you change this page here is interdependent one picture we want for Pictures. Well, what I'm going to do is I'm going to delete the one that's there. I'm going to go over to the rectangular frame tool. And I'm just going to draw in another shape like that. But I'm not going to let go of the mouse. I'm holding down the mouse. I'm going to press the up arrow and you can see how that splits it into two. And the right arrow, it's going to split it into, to the other way. If you hold down the Shift key, you will get a perfect rectangle, I sorry, a perfect square. So I've now got four of them. And all I need to do is to go across to my Properties, go down to my stroke. And I can then choose the stroke color, which is my antiques gold. I think I had a six point Frame on there and I would use the thick, thin frame. Now, exactly the same. We can just go to File and Place, find the new pictures. So I've got 1234. I think that's right. No, that one's not right. It's that one there. I'll click on Open and I can then just pop them in. Really quickly. Select them all, and go down to my Frame Fitting and make sure they all fit into those frames. There we go for Pictures in there very fast. Now, I want to then save this out to send it to the Printers. And let's say, for example, that I've got my text, my final text in there, so I'm ready. I'm gonna go to File, and I'm going to go down to Export. I'm going to be exporting this as a PDF for print because it's going to the Printers. I'm going to click on Save. If you Print her tells you certain presets for PDFs, then that's what you should do. Along the top, we've got some different presets. Presets, and your printer might say, Oh, could you send me a PDF X1, a file or a PDF X4? If they don't, then you can just go with a high-quality. I'm going to choose all the pages. And we need to go over to the marks and bleeds and switch on how Printers settings and the bleed settings will also go to the output. And in the output under the Color Conversion of Convert to destination. And I'm going to choose the destination once again that the printer has told me or one of the CMYK versions. So I'll just use the Working CMYK in there. I'm going to click on Export. And that's Done. So now we should be able to find it. It's there it is. There's my catalog. And I can just zoom out a bit there with all my Printers Marks. Ready to go to the printer 86. Well Done & Thank You! Now Try Level 2!: Well done. You've got to the end of the Essentials section. I bet you're creating really cool work. Don't forget to move on to the intermediate, advanced course as well. I'll see you there.