InDesign CS4 Getting StartedWelcome| 00:00 | (Music playing.)
| | 00:05 | Hi, I'm Deke McClelland. I make books and videos
about computer graphics and electronic design.
| | 00:11 | And I grew up laying out pages.
| | 00:14 | I began my professional career at a newspaper,
designing ads and articles more than 20 years ago.
| | 00:20 | I know, I look like I'm 17.
| | 00:23 | It's hard to believe.
| | 00:24 | Which might be why I've loved Adobe
InDesign from the second I saw it.
| | 00:28 | I wrote the very first book on InDesign,
InDesign for Dummies of all things.
| | 00:32 | And I'm the only person who's written either a book
or recorded a video on every version of the program
| | 00:38 | without exception.
| | 00:40 | It's like I found my calling or something.
| | 00:42 | So here's the skinny.
| | 00:44 | InDesign lets you assemble type and
graphics into a multipage document.
| | 00:48 | Take any magazine, newspaper, online PDF file;
| | 00:52 | more likely than not it was laid out in InDesign. These days
it's not just about print publications; it's a whole lot more.
| | 01:00 | The publication has to transcend the page,
exist online, be available for download,
| | 01:05 | which is why InDesign is the perfect program.
| | 01:08 | It lets you make any document for every purpose.
| | 01:12 | In less than two hours. Not even two hours! That's it.
| | 01:15 | You'll learn how to start a document, make a text frame,
apply character and paragraph level formatting attributes,
| | 01:22 | set up style sheets, import, crop and scale artwork.
| | 01:25 | Set up master pages for repeating footers
and folios, wrap text around a graphic.
| | 01:31 | This is your chance to get your bearings,
| | 01:33 | decide whether InDesign is right for you
and determine what else it is you need to know.
| | 01:38 | In the meantime, get ready
to get started and enjoy.
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| Starting a new document| 00:00 | InDesign allows you to assemble text
and graphics in order to create multi-page
| | 00:05 | documents whether bound for print or
the web or some other electronic medium.
| | 00:10 | In fact, a single document can be
re-purposed for many mediums if you like.
| | 00:14 | In this exercise, I am going to show you
how to create a new document in InDesign.
| | 00:18 | I am looking at the Welcome Screen,
which appears each time you launch the
| | 00:22 | program and whenever you have no
document open inside the program. If you are
| | 00:27 | not seeing the Welcome Screen, you can
get to it by going to the Help menu and
| | 00:31 | choosing the Welcome Screen command.
| | 00:33 | Notice that you can open recently
created documents over here on the left side
| | 00:37 | of the screen just by clicking these
links. Of course, your recently created
| | 00:41 | documents will vary.
| | 00:43 | Over on the right side of the screen,
you can create new documents, including a
| | 00:46 | standard multi-page document, but
InDesign permits you to create a couple of
| | 00:51 | specialty documents including a book,
which appears as a floating panel and
| | 00:55 | allows you to combine, say, chapters
into a single book so that the chapters
| | 00:59 | are continuously numbered
and share common index entries.
| | 01:04 | You can also create a library; it too
appears in the floating panel. It allows
| | 01:08 | you to collect type and graphic elements
that you use on a regular basis, things
| | 01:12 | like logos and folios for example.
| | 01:15 | Also, if you are creating a new
document and you want some help, you can go
| | 01:18 | ahead and click on this From Template
button in order to see some templates
| | 01:22 | that Adobe has created for you in advance.
| | 01:25 | I'll go ahead and click on From
Template. Notice that InDesign launches the
| | 01:28 | Adobe Bridge, which ships with all
versions of the program. The templates are
| | 01:32 | organized into folders.
| | 01:34 | Let's say, I am interested in
creating a newsletter. I'll go ahead and
| | 01:37 | double-click on the Newsletters folder,
and then I'll use this slider triangle
| | 01:41 | down at the bottom of the window to
make my thumbnails bigger. And finally,
| | 01:45 | I will double-click on the
newsletter template that interests me.
| | 01:47 | Note that these templates will open
as untitled files, so that you can save
| | 01:52 | them without overwriting the original.
| | 01:54 | All right, I am going to switch back to
InDesign, because I want to create a
| | 01:57 | brand new document without anything in it.
| | 02:00 | So I'll click on the Document button.
I could also go to the File menu and
| | 02:05 | choose New Document or press Ctrl+N,
Command+N on the Mac, and that will bring
| | 02:10 | up the New Document dialog box. If
this is a regular document like a brochure
| | 02:14 | or a newsletter, you probably know how
many pages it's going to be. But don't
| | 02:18 | worry if not, you can always
add and delete pages later on.
| | 02:22 | If your document has a spine as with
a book, then you have left and right
| | 02:27 | pages, turn on the Facing Pages check
box. Don't worry about Master Text Frame,
| | 02:32 | it's not something you need
for most of your documents.
| | 02:34 | Next is the Page Size option. If I
click this down-pointing arrowhead, notice I
| | 02:39 | can select from common paper sizes,
such as those available to us in the States
| | 02:43 | and overseas. You can also select the
common screen size, perfect for web pages
| | 02:49 | and kiosks and so on.
| | 02:51 | However, what I would like to do is
enter some custom sizes. Now notice that my
| | 02:55 | width and height values are represented
in picas, where six picas fit inside of
| | 03:01 | an inch. So when we are seeing 51p0
that means 51 picas 0 points, and there are
| | 03:06 | 72 points in an inch or 12 points in a pica.
| | 03:11 | If that doesn't appeal to you, if
you want to enter your width and height
| | 03:14 | values in say inches, you can override
this value on the fly just by typing in
| | 03:19 | 8in for example, because I know my
books are eight inches wide, let's say. And
| | 03:24 | then after entering that value I would
just press the Tab key, InDesign will go
| | 03:29 | ahead and covert it to picas on the fly.
| | 03:31 | Next I would enter something like 9.75"
also serves for inches, for the height
| | 03:38 | of my document, and press Tab to see
that value update on the fly as well.
| | 03:42 | You can also enter mm for millimeters or cm
for centimeters, lots of different ways to go.
| | 03:48 | All right, I'll set that back
to what I had there, 9.75in.
| | 03:53 | The orientation will be
automatically specified by your width and height
| | 03:56 | values, but you can change it if you
want to by clicking on the horizontal
| | 03:59 | option, for example. You can
also select a number of columns.
| | 04:03 | Again don't get too hung up on this,
because all of this can be changed later on.
| | 04:07 | But I'll go with the two-column
design and I'll enter 0.25in as a Gutter,
| | 04:12 | which will translate to 1p6 points.
| | 04:16 | My margins are currently set to 3
picas a piece; these are the margins around
| | 04:20 | the outside edges. And notice that the
link is turned on, so all of the margins
| | 04:24 | will be the same. I am going to turn
that off, and I am going to change the top
| | 04:28 | margin to 4p6 which is three quarters
of an inch. I am also going to raise the
| | 04:32 | inside margins, so we get away from
the spine a little bit. I'll take that up
| | 04:36 | to 4p6 as well, otherwise
these options are great.
| | 04:40 | Now if this is the kind of document
you are going to be creating on a regular
| | 04:43 | basis, definitely save yourself some
time by clicking on the Save Preset
| | 04:46 | button, and I'll go ahead and call
mine One-on-One after my One-on-One books
| | 04:52 | and I'll click OK and that now appears
as a document preset that I can select
| | 04:56 | in the future.
| | 04:57 | When I am done I'll go ahead and click
OK, and I now see the first page of my
| | 05:02 | new eight-page document that I have created
using the New Document options here inside InDesign.
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| Understanding guides| 00:00 | In this exercise we are going to talk
about how to work with rulers and guides
| | 00:04 | inside InDesign. I am looking at an
eight-page empty document with the
| | 00:08 | two-column design. If you'd like to
open it, it's called Eight-page Empty.indd
| | 00:13 | found inside the Exercise Files folder.
| | 00:16 | Notice that I have a ruler at the top
in the left side of my document window.
| | 00:19 | If you are not seeing that ruler then
you can go up to the View menu and choose
| | 00:24 | what would be Show Rulers command.
You can also press the keyboard shortcut,
| | 00:27 | Ctrl+R or Command+R on the Mac.
| | 00:31 | Notice that all measurements
currently begin at the upper left corner of a
| | 00:34 | two-page spread, and I can tell that's
a case because that's where I am seeing
| | 00:38 | the zero point on both of the rulers.
| | 00:41 | If you'd like to change that zero
point, for example, let's say you want to
| | 00:44 | move it to the top center of the
spread and the spread is two side-by-side
| | 00:48 | pages, a left page and a right page.
Then drag from the intersection of the two
| | 00:53 | rulers and go ahead and drop this
point right there at the top center of the
| | 00:59 | spread, and now all measurements are
going both left and right from this 0-0 point.
| | 01:05 | You can also change the unit of
measure from the ruler for a specific ruler
| | 01:10 | just by right-clicking on that ruler.
If you don't have a right mouse button on
| | 01:14 | the Mac then you press the Ctrl key and
click, and I could, for example, change
| | 01:18 | the measurement to inches. Notice
that it just affects that one ruler.
| | 01:23 | If I want to change the other ruler, I
would need to right-click on it and choose
| | 01:26 | inches as well.
| | 01:28 | Now let's talk about the guides for a
moment. Notice these violet guides right
| | 01:32 | here, the darker purple guides, those
are the column guides and they indicate
| | 01:37 | where you are going to pour your text
into columns throughout the document. You
| | 01:42 | can also see these magenta guides at
the top and the bottom. They actually go
| | 01:46 | up the right and left sides of the
page as well, it's just that they are
| | 01:49 | covered up right now by the violet
column guides. These are the margins guides
| | 01:53 | and they trace the page margins.
| | 01:56 | Now let's say you want to change these
columns across both pages so the inside
| | 02:00 | column is wider than the outside column.
If you are going to do that across the
| | 02:04 | document then you want change your
guides on the master page. To get to the
| | 02:09 | master page, you go to the Pages panel
and you can do that either by clicking
| | 02:14 | on this little Pages icon right
there or by going to the Window menu and
| | 02:18 | choosing the Pages command. Notice you
also have a keyboard shortcut, F12, and
| | 02:23 | I'll switch to A-Master by double-
clicking on the words A-Master there inside
| | 02:29 | the Pages panel. Now I'll hide the
Pages panel by clicking on this double right
| | 02:33 | arrow icon.
| | 02:35 | Now I want to make sure that I am
sizing my columns equally. So I am going to
| | 02:39 | give myself some ruler guides to help
me out, and I am going to create these
| | 02:43 | ruler guides automatically by going
up to the Layout menu and choosing the
| | 02:47 | Create Guides command. I want to
preview what I am doing, so I'll turn on the
| | 02:51 | Preview check box.
| | 02:53 | I want the gutter to be 0.25 inches to
match the gutters I have already created
| | 02:58 | for the column guides, and I am going
to increase the number of columns to 5,
| | 03:01 | and then I am going to fit them to the
margins as opposed to the page. So they
| | 03:07 | end up looking like this, and you can
actually nudge this number value if you
| | 03:11 | want to by pressing the Down arrow key
to reduce the number or the Up arrow key
| | 03:15 | to increase it, and you'll see the
changes reflected in the background provided
| | 03:19 | that the Preview check box is on. Then
go ahead and click OK in order to accept
| | 03:24 | that change.
| | 03:25 | Now I have some guides to use to
position my column guides, but if I try to
| | 03:30 | move my column guide, notice that I
can't. It just won't move and the reason
| | 03:34 | is because it's locked down. So I
need to go up to the View menu and I'll
| | 03:38 | choose the Grids & Guides command, and
then I'll choose Lock Column Guides to
| | 03:42 | turn it off.
| | 03:44 | Now I can drag this column guide into
place, and notice now I have one column
| | 03:49 | that's essentially three columns wide
next to another one that's two columns
| | 03:53 | wide, if we count each one of these
gaps between the ruler guides as narrow columns.
| | 03:59 | I'll go ahead and drag this column
guide over to the left in order to snap it
| | 04:03 | into place as well, and that's a great
thing about guides inside InDesign, is
| | 04:07 | they snap your objects. So they ensure
proper alignment throughout the document.
| | 04:13 | Once you have done that, you can go
ahead and lock your guides back down,
| | 04:16 | because presumably after this point
you are not going to want to modify them.
| | 04:19 | So go ahead and choose the Lock
Column Guides command to turn it back on.
| | 04:24 | Let's go ahead and add another column.
I am going to drag down from the top
| | 04:27 | ruler like so in order to add a
horizontal guide to my document. Notice that,
| | 04:32 | thanks to the Smart Guides function in
InDesign CS4, I can see a measurement
| | 04:37 | that's telling me exactly where this
guide is falling. I wanted to land at a
| | 04:40 | position of Y:2in, meaning it's two
inches down from the top of the page.
| | 04:45 | I am also going to press-and-hold the
Ctrl key or the Command key on the Mac so
| | 04:50 | that horizontal guides spans both of
my facing pages and then I'll release in
| | 04:55 | order to make the guide, and of course,
then I'll release the Ctrl key on the
| | 04:58 | PC or the Command key on the Mac.
| | 05:01 | Now I've got one guide going across
the entire two-page spread. To change the
| | 05:06 | color of that guide, I'll go up to the
Layout menu and I'll choose the Ruler
| | 05:10 | Guides command, and then I'll switch
that guide from cyan to, let's say, light
| | 05:14 | gray, and then I'll click OK in order
to accept that change. Now that affects
| | 05:19 | that selected guide only; it doesn't
affect any of the deselected guides.
| | 05:22 | If I click off, you can see
that it's a light gray guide.
| | 05:27 | Now I'll switch back to my standard
pages by going back to the Pages panel, and
| | 05:32 | then I'll double-click on this little
2-3 right there to switch to the 2-3
| | 05:35 | spread. It's not going to look any
different on screen, but I am now working
| | 05:39 | inside pages 2 over here on the
left and 3 over here on the right.
| | 05:43 | And thanks to the fact, I made my
changes to the master page, it is now
| | 05:47 | affected all other pages inside the
document. And that's how you work with
| | 05:52 | rulers and guides inside InDesign.
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| Getting around the Document window| 00:00 | In this exercise, we'll talk about
how to get around inside of InDesign,
| | 00:04 | meaning how do you zoom in, how do you
zoom out, and how do you pan the page.
| | 00:08 | I am working inside of a document
called Token text.indd found inside the
| | 00:13 | Exercise Files folder. You can see that
this document is largely empty with the
| | 00:18 | exception of a little bit of token
text, that's going to serve my future
| | 00:21 | training purposes here.
| | 00:23 | Now currently I am taking in an
entire two-page spread, but that means I am
| | 00:28 | pretty far zoomed out. I can see up
in the title bar that I am seeing my
| | 00:31 | document at 78% of its normal size.
If I wanted to zoom in and take in the
| | 00:36 | details on the page with more clarity,
then I need to go up to the View menu
| | 00:40 | and choose the Zoom In command, and if
I wanted to farther in, I would go up to
| | 00:45 | the View menu and choose Zoom In again.
By the same token, if I wanted to move
| | 00:50 | out, I would choose the Zoom Out command.
| | 00:53 | The problem with choosing these
commands is it's fairly labor-intensive, going
| | 00:57 | up to the View menu every time you
want to change a zoom level, better to
| | 01:00 | memorize the keyboard shortcuts,
which are shown if you look up here in the
| | 01:04 | View menu, they are shown as Ctrl+Equal
that's Command+Equal on the Mac and Ctrl+Minus
| | 01:10 | that's Command+Minus on the Mac. That's
actually true, but I prefer to think of
| | 01:13 | Zoom In as Ctrl+Plus that's Command+Plus on
the Mac. So let me show you how that works.
| | 01:18 | This is what it looks like to press
Ctrl+Plus or Command+Plus on the Mac. This is
| | 01:23 | what it looks like to press Ctrl+Minus or
Command+Minus on the Mac and notice you zoom
| | 01:28 | in and out incrementally. The problem
with this approach is that you are always
| | 01:33 | centering your zoom on the portion of
the document that was already centered
| | 01:37 | inside of the document window.
| | 01:39 | If you want to be able to zoom in on a
specific point inside of your document,
| | 01:44 | then you want to use this tool down here,
the Zoom tool, and notice if I click
| | 01:49 | with the Zoom tool on this O, for
example, I am going to center that O inside
| | 01:53 | of the document window. Then I click on
another point center that point. If you
| | 01:58 | want to zoom out, you press-and-hold
the Alt key on the PC or the Option key on
| | 02:02 | the Mac and click, and that
will also center your zoom.
| | 02:06 | The Zoom tool is so great that you
can access it when you are using other
| | 02:10 | tools. I'll go ahead and switch back
to the standard Selection tool. Notice
| | 02:15 | that I can get to the Zoom tool by
pressing the Ctrl and spacebar keys at the
| | 02:19 | same time; that's Command and spacebar
on the Mac, and then I click to Zoom In.
| | 02:23 | So I still have Ctrl and spacebar down;
that again is Command+spacebar on the
| | 02:28 | Mac. If you want to zoom out, then
add the Alt key or the Option key on the
| | 02:32 | Mac. So that's Ctrl+Alt+spacebar+
Click to zoom out. On the Mac that's
| | 02:36 | Command+Option+spacebar-click to zoom out.
| | 02:40 | If you want to zoom way in, then
hold down Ctrl and spacebar on the PC or
| | 02:44 | Command and spacebar on the Mac,
and then drag around a portion of your
| | 02:47 | document. That portion that falls
inside your dotted marquee there ends up
| | 02:51 | filling up the entire document window.
| | 02:54 | All right, I am going to zoom out a
little bit just by pressing Ctrl or
| | 02:57 | Command+Minus. Once you are zoomed this far
into the page, you are going to need to
| | 03:01 | be able to pan around, and you can do
that using the scrollbars, of course,
| | 03:05 | just like in other applications, but
you are better off taking advantage of the
| | 03:09 | Hand tool, which is also available
toward the bottom of the toolbox. But rather
| | 03:14 | than selecting the Hand tool, here's a
better way to work. Just press-and-hold
| | 03:17 | the spacebar and that gets you the Hand
tool on the fly, and then you can just
| | 03:21 | drag the document to a different location.
| | 03:25 | Now this doesn't quite work if text is
active. Let me show you what I mean. If
| | 03:29 | I grab the Type tool and then I click
inside of my type to make it active, I
| | 03:34 | can't press the spacebar and expect to
be able to get the Hand tool, because
| | 03:38 | instead I'll enter a space character.
So when text is active, you have the
| | 03:43 | option of pressing the Alt key or the
Option key on the Mac to get the Hand
| | 03:47 | tool. So it's spacebar when text is not
active, Alt or Option when it is active.
| | 03:53 | That's hard for a lot of folks to
remember of course. So they came up with a
| | 03:57 | better solution, which is to press both
of those keys. So if you press Alt and
| | 04:01 | spacebar together or Option and
spacebar together on the Mac, you always get
| | 04:06 | the Hand tool under any and all circumstances.
| | 04:09 | All right, I am going to go ahead and
switch back to the Selection tool to
| | 04:13 | deactivate my text.
| | 04:15 | Finally, I'll show you couple of other
commands up here. Under the View menu,
| | 04:19 | you can choose Fit in Window in order
to fit a single page into the window or
| | 04:25 | you can choose Fit Spread in Window
to fit the spread, and to get to those
| | 04:29 | functions from the keyboard, you press
Ctrl+0 or Command+0 on the Mac to fit a
| | 04:33 | single page and that's Ctrl+Alt+0 or
Command+Option+0 on the Mac to fit an
| | 04:39 | entire spread.
| | 04:41 | Finally one more pan method. If you
have a scroll wheel on your mouse, you can
| | 04:45 | use it. You can scroll down and up
with that scroll wheel, just as you would
| | 04:50 | expect to. If you want to scroll side-
to-side and all you have is a scroll
| | 04:54 | wheel, because there are mice that
have a little button on top that allow you
| | 04:57 | to go back and forth, but if you have a
standard wheel, then you can press and
| | 05:01 | hold the Ctrl key or the Command key
on the Mac, and then scroll up to go to
| | 05:05 | the left and then scroll down to go
to the right. So that's the function of
| | 05:09 | having the Ctrl or Command key down.
| | 05:11 | If you wanted to zoom in with the
scroll wheel, then you press-and-hold the Alt
| | 05:15 | key or the Option key on the Mac and
then scroll up in order to zoom in and
| | 05:20 | then scroll down to zoom out, so that's
the function of having the Alt key down
| | 05:24 | on the PC or the Option key on the Mac.
Just a few ways to navigate inside of
| | 05:29 | your document, so that you feel
comfortable and fluid when working in InDesign.
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| Making a text frame| 00:00 | InDesign requires you to place your
text inside frames. I am going to show you
| | 00:04 | how to create a couple of text frames and
fill them with placeholder type in this exercise.
| | 00:09 | I am working in a document called
Page 2 for text.indd found inside the
| | 00:14 | Exercise Files folder, so called
because we are looking at page 2 of this
| | 00:17 | document and it's ready for us to add text.
| | 00:20 | Notice that I already have a couple
of text blocks inside of this document,
| | 00:24 | I'll click on this headline text to
display its frame. The frame is surrounded
| | 00:28 | by eight handles which are the
smaller white squares. If I drag one of the
| | 00:32 | handles like so, I'll resize the text
frame. InDesign will then re-wrap the
| | 00:37 | text in order to fit inside the frame.
| | 00:39 | Notice that this particular text is
aligned to the bottom of its frame. You can
| | 00:44 | change that if you want to by going to
the Object menu and choosing Text Frame
| | 00:47 | Option or pressing Ctrl+B, that's
Command+B on the Mac. The B is for text
| | 00:52 | block. I'll go ahead choose the
command in order to display the Text Frame
| | 00:56 | Options dialog box, also make sure the
Preview check box is turned on, so I can
| | 01:00 | see what I am doing.
| | 01:01 | Notice that this Vertical Justification
option is set to Bottom. If I change it
| | 01:06 | to Top, the text will rise to the
top of its frame which is the default
| | 01:10 | setting. However, I want to leave mine
alone, I am going to Cancel out here,
| | 01:13 | because I want the bottom-lines of
these headlines to align to each other
| | 01:17 | regardless of how many lines
of text each headline consumes.
| | 01:21 | Now I am going to go ahead and scale
the text frame back to its former size.
| | 01:25 | Notice that my cursor snaps into
alignment with the intersection of these
| | 01:28 | guidelines. Now let's create a new text frame.
| | 01:31 | One way to make your frame is to select
the Rectangle Frame tool or press the F
| | 01:35 | key, and then use the tool to draw a
rectangle inside of the page. Now assuming
| | 01:40 | that Smart Guides are turned on, you'll
see these arrows showing you that you
| | 01:43 | filled up the area between the
guidelines. You'll also see the dimensions of
| | 01:47 | the text frame listed right next to
the cursor. I'll go ahead and release the
| | 01:51 | mouse button in order to make my new text frame.
| | 01:53 | Now you can just leave it, sit there if
you want to. You can leave it empty, go
| | 01:57 | ahead save out a template and allow
other people to fill in this text frame in
| | 02:01 | the future, or you can fill in
the text immediately if you like.
| | 02:04 | To add text, go to the Type tool, which
you can get by pressing the T key, and
| | 02:08 | then click inside of the frame. Now
notice how the cursor changes. When outside
| | 02:14 | of the frame, the cursor looks like an
I-beam inside of a dotted square, when
| | 02:17 | it's inside of the frame the I-beam
appears inside of dotted ellipse, and that
| | 02:21 | indicates that you are going to
add text to the selected object.
| | 02:24 | I am going to click and there is my
blinking insertion marker, ready for me to
| | 02:28 | enter text from the keyboard, which I
can do of course just by typing. I can
| | 02:33 | also add placeholder text if I want, by
going up to the Type menu and choosing
| | 02:37 | Fill with Placeholder Text.
| | 02:40 | You'll frequently hear this kind of
text called Latin or Greek or something
| | 02:44 | along those lines, but it's really
just gibberish text. It's just intended to
| | 02:48 | fill in the space, so you have
something there that's someone can then select
| | 02:52 | if they want to by dragging across it,
and then replace with their own text.
| | 02:56 | All right, that's good for now though.
In order to accept your changes to the
| | 03:00 | text block, you press the Escape key
which not only deactivates the text as you
| | 03:05 | can see there, but also switches you
back to your primary Selection tool.
| | 03:09 | Another way to make a text frame and I
think an easier one most of the time, is
| | 03:14 | to just do it with the Type tool in
the first place. So I'll select the Type
| | 03:18 | tool and I'll drag with the tool to
create a new text frame. Notice that, and
| | 03:22 | see those Smart Guides helping me out,
showing me that I am filling both the
| | 03:26 | horizontal and vertical area between
the guidelines, and then I would add my
| | 03:30 | text either from the keyboard or once
again by going up to the Type menu and
| | 03:34 | choosing Fill with Placeholder Text.
| | 03:37 | Then I press the Escape key in order to
complete the text block and I'll click
| | 03:41 | on an empty area, the pasteboard, the
aread out side of the page in order to
| | 03:45 | accept my changes.
| | 03:46 | We have now created a couple of text
frames and filled them with placeholder
| | 03:50 | text here inside InDesign.
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| Character-level formatting| 00:00 | In this exercise, I am going to
show you how to apply character level
| | 00:03 | formatting attributes to text
inside InDesign. Now by character level
| | 00:07 | formatting, I mean things like typeface
and style and size and other attributes
| | 00:13 | that affect just the
selected characters of type.
| | 00:15 | I am working inside of this document
called Placeholder text.indd found inside
| | 00:21 | of the Exercise Files folder. I am
going to switch to my Type tool or another
| | 00:26 | way to get to you Type tool very
easily in InDesign is just to double-click
| | 00:30 | inside of some type with the standard
Selection tool, and notice that not only
| | 00:34 | switches me to the Type tool, but it
also does the double duty of adding my
| | 00:39 | blinking insertion marker.
So the text is active.
| | 00:42 | Now I want to go head and select some
text to format. You can select text in a
| | 00:46 | variety of ways. You can drag over it,
like so; you can double-click on a word
| | 00:51 | to select an entire word; you can
triple-click to select an entire line of type;
| | 00:56 | or you can click four times in a
row quadruple-click to select an entire
| | 01:01 | paragraph. And you don't have to
click particularly rapidly, you can click
| | 01:05 | those four times in a fairly leisurely manner.
| | 01:08 | Anyway, what I want to do is I want to
select just the first two words in this
| | 01:12 | paragraph, Alis reconteurs, and I want
to make that text bigger and set it in a
| | 01:17 | different font. So I am going to double
-click on one word, and on the second
| | 01:21 | click I'll drag to select the second
word. So that's a click, click-and-drag
| | 01:26 | essentially to select those two words.
| | 01:28 | Now I'll go up to my Control panel and
notice and that all of the options in
| | 01:33 | the Context-Sensitive control panel
have switched over to Text Formatting
| | 01:36 | Options, which is great. So InDesign
is smart enough to know that most likely
| | 01:41 | what I want to do at this point is
change the formatting of my text.
| | 01:45 | I can click in this first item right
here in order to activate the typeface,
| | 01:50 | which happens to be a font called
Trebuchet. Now I can peruse the fonts in my
| | 01:53 | system by pressing the Arrow key. So
if I press the Down Arrow key, I'll
| | 01:57 | advance to the next font
alphabetically. If I press the Up Arrow key, I'll
| | 02:02 | advance to a previous font,
again alphabetically in the list.
| | 02:06 | I can also, of course, click this
down pointing arrowhead and choose a font
| | 02:10 | that's available to my system or if I
know the font that I want to use, I can
| | 02:14 | go ahead and type it in, and I know
that I want to use a font called Myriad
| | 02:18 | Pro. So I'll just type Myriad P, and
that's all I have to type in to get the
| | 02:23 | entire Myriad Pro string right there,
and then I'll press the Enter key in
| | 02:27 | order to apply it. So InDesign will
help you locate that first font that starts
| | 02:31 | with the text you enter.
| | 02:32 | Now I am going to increase the Type
Size by selecting a different type size
| | 02:36 | from the list like 18 point might
work nicely. I can also, of course, enter
| | 02:40 | specific value if I want to and that
value can be highly-specific down to a
| | 02:44 | decimal point. You can use these
buttons right here in order to increase the
| | 02:49 | size or decrease the size of the font,
and here's is the keyboard shortcut that
| | 02:54 | I find to be terribly useful. If you
press Ctrl+Shift+. or Command+Shift+. on
| | 02:59 | the Mac, you'll increase the type
size incrementally, and you can think of
| | 03:04 | that, by the way, as Ctrl+Shift+>,
because the greater than sign shares
| | 03:08 | the key with the period. That's
Command+Shift+> sign on the Mac. To take
| | 03:12 | the type size down, press Ctrl+Shift+Comma
or Command+Shift+Comma on the Mac.
| | 03:18 | That would be Ctrl+Shift or Command+Shift+<.
| | 03:20 | I am going to take this font up to 24
points like so, and then I also want to
| | 03:27 | make it bold and italic. Now inside of
another program you might find Bold and
| | 03:31 | Italic buttons. We don't really have
that here. We do have an All Caps button,
| | 03:35 | so I could click on the All Caps button
to make this text all caps if I wanted to.
| | 03:39 | I am going to go ahead and undo that however.
| | 03:42 | What I would prefer to do is make it
bold and italic, rather than clicking on
| | 03:46 | buttons though, you choose the font
that you want to use from the Style list
| | 03:50 | right here. The great thing about
this list is InDesign is only showing you
| | 03:54 | those styles that were made available
by the designer of the font. So you may
| | 03:59 | not see a bold-italic style depending
on the font, or you may see much more
| | 04:03 | than you bargain for. In this case,
for example, we are seeing all kinds of
| | 04:06 | variations including Bold, Condensed,
Italic, which is what I'd like to apply.
| | 04:11 | Finally, let me tell you something
about line spacing, which is called Leading.
| | 04:15 | I am going to go ahead and quadruple-
click in this paragraph down here, and
| | 04:20 | I'll change it to an outrageously large
size, like let's try something like 24
| | 04:24 | point, and that's going to make the
lines of type overlap each other, because
| | 04:28 | they are spaced too closely together.
That's a function of this value right
| | 04:31 | here, the Leading value.
| | 04:33 | Notice it's currently set to 15 points.
If ever you find your text overlapping
| | 04:38 | and you need to fix it fast, go ahead
and click this down pointing arrowhead
| | 04:41 | and choose the Auto option and that
will go ahead and solve all of your spacing
| | 04:46 | problems right away.
| | 04:47 | Now I'll go ahead and press the Escape
key in order to accept my modification
| | 04:52 | and if I didn't like those last
couple of changes, I could press Ctrl+Z a
| | 04:55 | couple of times in a row on Windows or
Command+Z a couple of times on the Mac,
| | 04:59 | and that gives you a sense of how to apply
character level formatting attributes in InDesign.
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| Paragraph-level formatting| 00:00 | In this exercise I am going to
show you how to assign paragraph level
| | 00:03 | formatting attributes with your text
formatting attributes that affect entire
| | 00:07 | paragraph at a time.
| | 00:09 | I am working inside this document
called Lorem ipsum.indd found inside of the
| | 00:14 | Exercise Files folder. So called
because it begins with words Lorem ipsum,
| | 00:19 | which are the first two words of
classic placeholder text. I am going to
| | 00:23 | double-click inside of this text block
here with my Selection tool in order to
| | 00:27 | switch over to the Type tool and
activate the text and then I am just going to
| | 00:30 | drag over this region of text here so
that I have some portion of all of the
| | 00:37 | paragraph selected.
| | 00:39 | Notice your paragraph formating options
on the right side of the Control panel.
| | 00:43 | You can switch the side of the Control
panel that they appear on by clicking on
| | 00:47 | these buttons here. If I click on
the Paragraph icon, then I'll switch to
| | 00:51 | paragraph level formatting attributes
upfront and I'll send the character level
| | 00:55 | formatting attributes to the right. If
I click on the Character icon, then I'll
| | 01:00 | switch them back to the way they were before.
So it's a matter of assigning precedent.
| | 01:05 | Notice these options right here
control alignment. For example, you could
| | 01:08 | center the text if you wanted to or you
could make it flush right. In my case,
| | 01:14 | I prefer to go ahead and justify the
text or leaving the last line flush left,
| | 01:19 | like so. The paragraphs are little hard
to distinguish at this point; we could
| | 01:23 | better distinguish them by adding a
bit line of first line indent and as
| | 01:27 | opposed to doing that using a tab
character or multiple spaces your best bet is
| | 01:31 | to change this value right here. So
I'll click on this option in order to
| | 01:35 | activate that value.
| | 01:36 | Now I'll press the Up Arrow key just to
nudge that value over to the right. Now
| | 01:41 | once I find a setting I like, I can go
ahead an press the Enter or Return key.
| | 01:44 | But I'll tell you what, I think there
is a better way to distinguish paragraphs
| | 01:48 | in first line indent. So I am gong to
go ahead and change that value back to 0,
| | 01:52 | and I am going to switch to this
option right here, which allows you to apply
| | 01:56 | space before each one of the active paragraphs.
| | 01:58 | I'll click on this option to active its
value, then I'll press the Up Arrow key
| | 02:03 | in order to raise that value, and
something around 0p6 looks pretty good, which
| | 02:07 | is to say, 6 points or half-a-pica.
| | 02:09 | Now let's go ahead and add a Drop Cap
to the first paragraph of Type. I'll do
| | 02:15 | that just by clicking anywhere inside
this first paragraph, then I'll go up to
| | 02:19 | this option right here that allows me
to specify how many lines of type I want
| | 02:23 | my drop cap to consume. So I'll click
in this value and I'll take it up one,
| | 02:28 | two, three lines of type like so.
InDesign goes ahead and drop caps the first
| | 02:33 | character, but you can raise that
value to drop cap two or three or four
| | 02:37 | characters if you like. I am going to
take it back down to just the first A.
| | 02:40 | Now notice how the A, because its set
inquirer at this point, it's overlapping
| | 02:46 | into the text in the third line. I
don't want that, so I am going to nudge the
| | 02:49 | text over a little bit by clicking
between the A and the S in this first word.
| | 02:54 | Now the formatting attribute that I
want to apply is not visible by default, so
| | 02:58 | I need to switch from the
Essentials workspace by clicking on the word
| | 03:01 | Essentials, and I'll switch to
Topography, so that we can see some more type
| | 03:05 | options. Notice that several options
got added to the Control panel. Thanks to
| | 03:10 | the fact I am working on a narrow
screen, I can't even see the paragraph
| | 03:13 | formatting attributes anymore, so I
would need to use these buttons to switch
| | 03:17 | back and forth.
| | 03:18 | I am going to go to this option right
here, which is called Kerning. It effects
| | 03:23 | the amount of space between two
characters of text. I'll click on that option
| | 03:27 | to select its value, then I am going
to press the Up Arrow key to nudge that
| | 03:30 | text and the two lines below it over to
the right, and we get this effect right here.
| | 03:36 | Now I'll press the Enter key in order
to assign that value, or the Return key
| | 03:40 | on the Mac, then I'll press the Escape
key in order to deactivate my text and
| | 03:45 | switch back to my Selection tool.
And there you have it, a primer of sorts on
| | 03:50 | paragraph level formatting attributes in InDesign.
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| Coloring type| 00:00 | In this exercise, I will show you how
to assign color to characters of type as
| | 00:04 | well as the text frame that contains
those characters from the Swatches and
| | 00:09 | Color panels. I am working inside a
document called Coloring type.indd.
| | 00:14 | Notice that I'm working on page two of this
document. Let's say we want to change the
| | 00:18 | color of the word TURIORUMQUO, which
is the first word of this paragraph.
| | 00:23 | I'll select the Type tool here in the
toolbox and then I will double-click on the
| | 00:27 | word to select it.
| | 00:28 | Now, color is a character level
formatting attribute in InDesign,
| | 00:32 | but you wouldn't know it from the Control
panel, which offers no color options whatsoever.
| | 00:36 | Instead, you assign color from either
the Swatches panel or the Color panel.
| | 00:41 | Let's start with the Swatches panel
which contains saved colors. I am going to
| | 00:45 | go up to the Window menu and choose
the Swatches command or I could press the
| | 00:49 | F5 key or I could click on this
little Swatches icon over here on the right
| | 00:55 | side of the screen. Any of those
options will bring up the Swatches panel.
| | 00:59 | Now, the Swatches panel contains
those colors that you've taken the time to
| | 01:03 | save, as you've been working inside of
a document. After selecting the Type,
| | 01:08 | you want to make sure that the Fill is
active. So this little black T in the
| | 01:12 | background here, I am going to click on
it to make sure that I am changing the
| | 01:16 | Fill color which is the color of the
interior of the letters, and then I will
| | 01:20 | go ahead and assign a color by clicking
on it. For example, I am going to click
| | 01:24 | on this green right here, and that
changes the color of the type to green.
| | 01:28 | Now, it looks like it's rose in our
case, but that's because the Type is
| | 01:31 | selected and so the color is inverted.
In order to see what the color really
| | 01:36 | looks like, I will press the Escape key,
which de-selects the text and returns
| | 01:40 | to the Selection tool, and now we can
see that TURIORUMQUO is indeed green. If
| | 01:45 | you want to change the color of all
texts inside of a text frame, select it
| | 01:48 | with a Selection tool, then make sure
the Fill is active here in the Swatches
| | 01:52 | panel, which it is for me and assign
your color, I'll go ahead and click on
| | 01:56 | this bright violet.
| | 01:58 | Notice, however that; that goes ahead
and assigns the color to the frame not to
| | 02:02 | the text, that's a function of this
neighboring option right here, formatting
| | 02:07 | effects container which when I hover
over, it tells me that the formatting will
| | 02:11 | effect the container, meaning of
course the text frame. I will go ahead and
| | 02:15 | press Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac
to undo that modification. To affect the
| | 02:20 | text, instead of the text frame, I
will click on this T icon and notice that
| | 02:24 | tells me formatting will affect the
text. And now I can see that the fill of
| | 02:30 | the text is this dark blue, green
color right here, I could change it to any
| | 02:34 | other color I like, for example, I'll
click on this light brown right here.
| | 02:39 | Now, that's not really what I want,
and in fact none of these swatches really
| | 02:42 | interests me. So I am going to dial-in
my own custom color and I can do that by
| | 02:47 | going to the Window menu and choosing
the Color command or I could press the F6
| | 02:51 | key, the neighboring function key or I
could click on this little Paint palette
| | 02:55 | icon right there, and if I do, I will
bring up the Color panel. If I am working
| | 02:59 | from a Swatch, I will see just one
Slider labeled T for Tint, which allows me
| | 03:04 | to make this color lighter,
which is not what I want at all.
| | 03:07 | So, I am going to change it back to the
darkest version of that color. Instead,
| | 03:10 | what I want are the RGB sliders, which
allow me to dial-in the red, green and
| | 03:15 | blue color primaries, which are
appropriate for a screen document like the one
| | 03:18 | I am creating here.
| | 03:20 | So, I am going to go onto this menu
icon, in the upper right corner of the
| | 03:23 | Color panel, I will click on it and I
will choose RGB. Now, I have these Red,
| | 03:28 | Green and Blue sliders, which is prefect.
I am going to reduce the Green, take
| | 03:33 | the Red down a little, take the Blue
down as well, I want to get kind of a rich
| | 03:36 | red brown going on and this looks
pretty good to me, it's something fairly
| | 03:40 | chocolaty. And you can see it applied
to the text on the fly, you can see the
| | 03:45 | modifications your changes will make,
live and updated here inside the Color panel sliders.
| | 03:53 | All right, this looks pretty good to me.
Now imagine this is a color that I might
| | 03:56 | use in the future, I should save it
off as a Swatch. So I will return to the
| | 04:00 | Swatches panel by clicking on this icon,
then I will go to the bottom of this
| | 04:04 | panel and click on this little page
icon in order to create a new swatch.
| | 04:09 | InDesign even goes ahead and names the
swatch for me automatically. I think I
| | 04:12 | will move this swatch up to live up
here with my RGB colors, instead of my CMYK
| | 04:17 | values then at the bottom and then I
will close the Swatches panel by clicking
| | 04:21 | on this double arrow icon.
| | 04:23 | All right, now you might think it's
kind of odd that InDesign favors the text
| | 04:27 | frame over the text inside of it when
applying color to an object selected with
| | 04:31 | a Selection tool. In fact it
makes a lot of sense under the right
| | 04:34 | circumstances, I am going to scroll
down to page three of this document and
| | 04:39 | notice this headline right here. It's
at inside of a large text frame, what I'd
| | 04:43 | really like to do? Instead of it
being black text against the white page, I
| | 04:47 | like it to be white text inside of a gray frame.
| | 04:50 | So, I will select the text with the
Selection tool, then I will bring up the
| | 04:53 | Swatches panel once again, note that
the Fill is active and so is the Container
| | 04:59 | icon. Now, let's drop down to this gray
color and click on it to assign it, and
| | 05:03 | that changes the color of the frame.
| | 05:04 | Now, let's change the color of the
text by clicking on the little T icon and
| | 05:09 | switching it from black to paper,
which is the same as white. And there you
| | 05:14 | have it, that's how you assign color
to text and text frames inside InDesign.
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| Making a paragraph style| 00:00 | In this exercise, I'm going to show
you how to create a paragraph style,
| | 00:04 | which allows you to collect and
replicate the character and paragraph level
| | 00:08 | formatting attributes that you use on a
regular basis. I am working inside of a
| | 00:13 | document called Paragraph style.indd
found inside the Exercise Files folder.
| | 00:18 | Notice that I am working on page two
of this document. You can see that I've
| | 00:22 | properly formatted the text in the left
column, but I haven't done anything to
| | 00:26 | the text on the right column, it's an
inquirer and I don't have any paragraph
| | 00:30 | breaks. I can make the text on the
right match the text on the left with the
| | 00:35 | help of a paragraph style.
| | 00:36 | For starters I need to identify a
paragraph that contains the right formatting
| | 00:40 | attributes. So I will double-click
inside of this top paragraph to switch to
| | 00:45 | the Type tool and place my
blinking insertion marker.
| | 00:48 | So that's all you have to do with the
Type tool, you don't have to select any
| | 00:51 | text, you just need to place your
blinking insertion marker some place inside
| | 00:55 | the paragraph, then bring up
the Paragraph Styles panel.
| | 00:59 | Now, the best way to do that in my
opinion is to go up to this workspace
| | 01:02 | option, which says Essentials in my case.
Click on it and choose Advanced and
| | 01:07 | that's going to bring up some more panels,
including the Paragraph Styles panel.
| | 01:12 | If you want to know how to get to the
panel from a command, go up to the Type
| | 01:15 | menu and choose Paragraph Styles or you
can press the F11 key. I will go ahead
| | 01:20 | and click on the word Paragraph
Styles over here on the right side of the
| | 01:23 | screen in order to bring up
the Paragraph Styles panel.
| | 01:26 | Notice that it's telling me currently
it's just a basic paragraph, fine. If I
| | 01:30 | want to make a new style, I will drop-
down to this little page icon and click
| | 01:33 | on it and it creates a new style
called Paragraph Style 1, I could then
| | 01:38 | double-click on this style in order to
name it. Problem is, I really don't like
| | 01:42 | this approach because if you have a
lot of styles you have already created,
| | 01:45 | it means you've got to dig around and try
to find this new Paragraph Style 1 and
| | 01:49 | if you already have a Paragraph Style
1 sitting around there, then you get
| | 01:52 | Paragraph Style 2 and 3 and so
on and you can get fairly chaotic.
| | 01:55 | So, I will press Ctrl+Z or Command+Z
to undo the addition of that style. Here
| | 02:00 | is a better way to work. I will press
the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac,
| | 02:05 | and then I will click on this little
page icon and that forces the display of
| | 02:10 | the New Paragraph Style dialog box.
Then I will assign a name to this style,
| | 02:14 | I'll call it Lead Paragraph and then
I'll click OK to create the style,
| | 02:19 | and there it is here inside
the Paragraph Styles panel.
| | 02:22 | If I click on Lead Paragraph, I've
now assigned this style to this text and
| | 02:28 | that way any changes I make to this
Lead Paragraph Style will affect the text
| | 02:32 | that I have applied the style to.
| | 02:33 | Now, let's say I want to assign this
new style to the rest of the text inside
| | 02:38 | of this frame. I will drag across the
other paragraphs to select some portion
| | 02:41 | of each one of them, then I will click
on Lead Paragraph to assign this style.
| | 02:46 | Notice, that kind of messes things up,
because after all we don't need drop
| | 02:50 | caps for each and every one of these paragraphs.
| | 02:53 | So I will click in any one of these
paragraphs to make it active. Then I will
| | 02:56 | go up here to the Control panel and
then I will change this value right here,
| | 03:00 | which affects a number of lines
assigned to a drop cap. I will change it to 0
| | 03:04 | and press the Tab key and that's all it takes.
Completely gets rid of the drop cap now.
| | 03:09 | Now, let's make another paragraph
style that's based on Lead Paragraph that
| | 03:14 | affects the other paragraphs, any
paragraph that doesn't have a drop cap in it.
| | 03:18 | And I will do that by once again
Alt-clicking or Option-clicking on that
| | 03:22 | little page icon down there at the
bottom of the Paragraph Style panel and I
| | 03:25 | will change the name of this style to Body Copy.
| | 03:29 | Notice that it's based on the Lead
Paragraph Style, which is great, I'll also
| | 03:34 | say Apply Style To Selection and then
I'll click OK. And now this paragraph
| | 03:40 | right here has been updated to Body Copy.
| | 03:43 | Let's go ahead and select these other
two paragraphs and switch them to Body
| | 03:46 | Copy as well. Then another change I am
going to make, is to drag across this
| | 03:53 | text, I will Alt-drag my page over a
little bit so we can see what we are
| | 03:57 | doing. That would be an Option-drag on
the Mac. Bring up to Paragraph Styles
| | 04:01 | panel again and click on Body
Copy and the text is now formatted.
| | 04:05 | Now, my only concern is that this
frame is too narrow to accommodate justify
| | 04:10 | type. We end with a lot of big spaces
between our words. I am going to fix this
| | 04:14 | problem by changing the parent style
which is lead paragraph and that way all
| | 04:20 | of the text inside of the document will
change to match. Here's what I mean, I
| | 04:25 | will go ahead and click in this top
paragraph with the Type tool. In order to
| | 04:28 | make it active, then I will go up here
to the Control panel and I will change
| | 04:33 | the Alignment Setting from Justify
with last line aligned left to align left,
| | 04:39 | which will align that text to the left.
| | 04:42 | Now, notice what's happened in the
Paragraph Styles panel. The words Lead
| | 04:45 | Paragraph are now followed by a plus
sign to show me that I've made some
| | 04:48 | sort of modification to the active paragraph
that doesn't quite match the style definition.
| | 04:54 | Let's go ahead and make it match by
going to the little menu icon, clicking on
| | 04:58 | it, there on the upper right corner
of the panel and choosing this command
| | 05:02 | right there, Redefine Style.
| | 05:04 | That not only changes the Lead
Paragraph style, it changes the Body Copy style,
| | 05:09 | which is based on Lead Paragraph and it
changes all of the style text to match.
| | 05:15 | It's just amazing, how much time and
effort you can save by creating and
| | 05:19 | applying Paragraph Styles in InDesign.
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| Bullets and numbers| 00:00 | In this exercise, I'm going to show you
how to setup an automatically bulleted
| | 00:04 | or numbered list in InDesign. I'm
looking at a document called Grun news
| | 00:09 | April.indd found inside the Exercise
Files folder and I'm currently looking at
| | 00:15 | page four.
| | 00:16 | Notice this text in the right-hand
column. Let's say that this first block of
| | 00:21 | nonsensical text is the introduction to
our list and then the other paragraphs
| | 00:26 | represent the list. I'm going to go
ahead and double-click inside of the second
| | 00:29 | paragraph to switch to the Type tool
and activate the text and then I'm going
| | 00:33 | to drag down to select parts
of all but the first paragraph.
| | 00:37 | Next, I'll go up to the Control panel
and click on this far right icon in
| | 00:41 | order to bring up a menu of
advanced character and paragraph formatting
| | 00:45 | options. Then I'll go down to this guy,
Bullets and Numbering, a very useful
| | 00:49 | command in InDesign.
| | 00:50 | I'll move the dialog box over to make
sure that the Preview checkbox is turned
| | 00:55 | on so I can see what I'm doing. Then
I'll change the List Type from None to
| | 00:59 | Bullets. So let's say that first
we are looking for a bulleted list.
| | 01:03 | You can select the kind of bullet you
want to use, but a round bullet is fine
| | 01:07 | for my purposes. Don't worry about
these other options; they are set correctly
| | 01:12 | by default. You want to drop down to
this option right here and you want to set
| | 01:16 | it to however far in you want the
text after the bullet to be indented.
| | 01:21 | So let's say I want just a single pica.
I'll just enter 1 and then I'll tab
| | 01:27 | down to the next option, First Line
Indent, and I'll set that to the negative
| | 01:32 | version of that left indent value.
That's all you do; just set it to negative
| | 01:36 | whatever you set for Left Indent. And
in my case, it'd be -1. Then press Tab.
| | 01:42 | The Tab Position option should go empty
for you. Leave it empty, you don't want
| | 01:46 | to mess with it and then you go ahead
and click OK in order to accept that
| | 01:50 | modification and from now on InDesign
will go ahead and add bullets to other
| | 01:55 | items in the list as well. So if I
press the Enter key at this point or the
| | 01:58 | Return key on the Mac and type in
some text then it gets a bullet.
| | 02:02 | I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+Z a
couple of times, Command+Z on the Mac, in
| | 02:06 | order to undo that modification.
| | 02:09 | Now, let's say we want to work with the
numbered list. I will once again select
| | 02:12 | portions of all, but the first
paragraph. I'll go up to the menu icon in the
| | 02:16 | Control panel, click on it and
choose Bullets and Numbering.
| | 02:21 | Notice that it remembers that the List
Type is set to Bullets, because after
| | 02:24 | all it is, Preview is still turned on,
I'm now going to switch from Bullets to Numbers.
| | 02:29 | Now, numbers take up more room than
bullets do so we are going to nudge things
| | 02:32 | over a little bit. So I'm going to
take this Left Indent value up to 1p6 like
| | 02:38 | so, and I'm just pressing the Up Arrow
key to make this happen. And then I'll
| | 02:42 | tab down to the next value and I'll
press the Down Arrow key until I get -1p6,
| | 02:48 | so it matches.
| | 02:49 | Again, we just want parody between
those two values, Tab Position, leave it
| | 02:53 | alone, and then click OK in
order to accept your modification.
| | 02:58 | Now, the great thing about having
a Numbered List is that InDesign
| | 03:01 | automatically keeps up with the
numbering. So if I were to delete one of these
| | 03:06 | items, so I'll go ahead and quadruple-
click inside of this paragraph and then
| | 03:09 | press the Backspace key or the Delete
key. Notice that InDesign goes ahead and
| | 03:13 | changes the numbering for all the
remaining paragraphs automatically.
| | 03:17 | You can also add an item to the
numbered list, I'll go ahead and Undo the
| | 03:21 | deletion of that previous paragraph
there, and I'll delete a little bit of text
| | 03:25 | there, enter a period, press Enter
or Return key, and notice that again
| | 03:30 | InDesign has gone ahead and
automatically updated that list, so I don't have to
| | 03:35 | worry about it at all.
| | 03:37 | So not only does it automate the process,
it also prevents you from making the
| | 03:40 | kinds of mistakes you would make if
you are manually numbering the list, and
| | 03:44 | that's how you create bulleted
and numbered lists inside InDesign.
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| Navigating pages| 00:01 | In this exercise I'll show you how to
navigate between pages in InDesign,
| | 00:05 | that is advance from one page to another,
as well as how to add and delete pages in
| | 00:10 | a document. Along the way, I'll be
sharing some shortcuts. You can feel free to
| | 00:14 | ignore those shortcuts if you like, but
if you take the time to memorize them,
| | 00:18 | I think you will find yourself
moving between pages much more quickly.
| | 00:22 | I'm looking at document called Facing
pages.indd found inside the Exercise
| | 00:27 | Files folder. I am currently looking
at page one of an eight-page document.
| | 00:32 | How can I tell it's an eight-page
document? By going up to the Pages panel,
| | 00:36 | which I can get to by clicking on Pages
icon here on the right side of the screen,
| | 00:39 | or I can go to the Window menu and
choose the Pages command or press the
| | 00:43 | F12 key. And notice I can now see thumbnails
of all eight pages inside of this document.
| | 00:50 | Currently page 1 is highlighted,
so it's the active page. If I wanted
| | 00:55 | to switch to a different page, all
I'd have to do is double-click on its
| | 00:59 | thumbnail here inside the Pages panel.
| | 01:01 | So I double-clicked on the thumbnail
for page 5. That centered page 5 inside
| | 01:06 | the document window. If you'd rather
center an entire page spread, by which I
| | 01:10 | mean two facing pages, usually made up
of a left page and a right page; also
| | 01:15 | known as an even page on the left and
an odd page on the right, based on the
| | 01:19 | page numbering.
| | 01:20 | Let's say I want to go ahead and
center the spread for pages 2 and 3. I would
| | 01:24 | double-click on the numbers below the
thumbnails and we know see pages 2 and 3
| | 01:28 | inside the document window.
| | 01:29 | Now, I want to show you a few keyboard
shortcuts that I think will make your
| | 01:32 | life easier. When the Pages panel is
out of view, you can switch between pages
| | 01:37 | as follows. If you press Shift+Page
Down you will advance to the next page.
| | 01:41 | So I'll go from page 3 to page 4, for
example. If wanted to go to the previous page,
| | 01:47 | back to page 3, I'd to press Shift+Page Up.
To advance to the next page spread,
| | 01:51 | you press Alt+Page Down or
Option+Page Down on the Mac.
| | 01:56 | To go backward you press Alt+Page Up or
Option+Page Up. You can also advance to a specific
| | 02:02 | page by either clicking on this option
down here in the lower left corner of
| | 02:06 | the screen, notice there's page
number right there; you can select it and
| | 02:09 | dial-in a different page number if
you like or you can press Ctrl+J or
| | 02:14 | Command+J to jump to a different page.
I'm going to enter page 7 and press
| | 02:19 | Enter or Return to advance to page
7 here inside the document window.
| | 02:23 | Now, you have the option of going
back and forth between a couple of pages;
| | 02:27 | like I could go back to page 2
which I was just looking at by pressing
| | 02:31 | Ctrl+Page Up or Command+Page Up on the
Mac. Then I could go back to page 7 by
| | 02:37 | pressing Ctrl+Page Down or
Command+Page Down on the Mac.
| | 02:40 | The nice thing about all these keyboard
shortcuts is they are all listed in the
| | 02:44 | Layout menu. So if you're having
problems remembering a shortcut, just go up to
| | 02:48 | Layout and then take a look at these
commands. There is Shift+Page Up for
| | 02:51 | previous page. Shift+Page Down for
next page, and we have Alt+Page Up for
| | 02:56 | previous spread and Alt+Page Down for
next spread. Ctrl+J to jump to a page and
| | 03:01 | then of course, go back and
go forward or listed as well.
| | 03:04 | I'd like to end things by showing
you how to add and delete pages in a
| | 03:08 | document. I'll go out to the Pages
panel once again. If you click on this
| | 03:12 | little Create New Page icon at the
bottom of the panel, you will add a page
| | 03:16 | after the selected page. So I had
page 7 active, I just added a new page 8
| | 03:22 | before page 9.
| | 03:23 | Now, that could be a little
disconcerting, because you don't really have the
| | 03:26 | kind of control you need to add pages
to a specific location and you can be
| | 03:30 | caught by surprises as I just was, and
I've got a page 8 instead of a page at
| | 03:34 | the end of the document.
| | 03:35 | So I'm just going to grab that new page
that I just created and I want to make
| | 03:39 | sure, I only grab the one page, not
both pages in the spread; so I'll switch
| | 03:43 | back to the 6-7 spread just to be sure
and then I'll drag this little page 8 to
| | 03:48 | the Trash Can to get rid of it.
So that's how you delete a page?
| | 03:51 | Now let's say I want to add a page to a
very specific location. For example, I
| | 03:55 | want to add a new 4-5 spread after 2-3,
so that 4-5 are empty and then the
| | 04:00 | others advance accordingly. I'll press
the Alt key or the Option key in the Mac
| | 04:05 | and then click on the Create New Page icon.
That brings up the Insert New Pages command.
| | 04:09 | I want to insert two pages after
page three and then I will click OK
| | 04:15 | and I now have a new 4-5
spread ready for content.
| | 04:20 | Now you know how to navigate pages,
both from the Pages panel and from the
| | 04:24 | keyboard here inside InDesign.
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| Placing and flowing text| 00:00 | Let's say that you've written and
formatted an article in Microsoft Word or
| | 00:04 | some other word processing application.
You can then place it into an InDesign
| | 00:08 | document and flow that text into
multiple columns. And I am going to show how
| | 00:13 | that works in this exercise.
| | 00:14 | I will start by creating a new document
here inside of the welcome screen and
| | 00:19 | I am going to go ahead and accept
these settings that I have established in advance.
| | 00:24 | Notice that the number of pages is
set to 8. To create that new 8 page
| | 00:27 | document, I will just click on the OK
button. To import the article from the
| | 00:31 | word processor, go up to the File menu
and choose the Place command.
| | 00:36 | Then select your document.
| | 00:38 | In my case I'm working with an RTF
or Rich Text Document file. If you are
| | 00:43 | working along with me, select formatted
document.rtf from the Exercise Files folder.
| | 00:48 | To place the file, click the
Open button. That loads your cursor with
| | 00:53 | text and that text that you are seeing
on screen there, those are the first few
| | 00:57 | words from my article.
| | 00:58 | Now, I'd move cursor up to the upper
left corner of the first column and I'd
| | 01:02 | click in the order to fill that
column with text. So InDesign automatically
| | 01:07 | draws a text frame for me, that
exactly matches the size of my column.
| | 01:12 | Notice, this red plus sign down
here in the lower right corner of the text
| | 01:16 | block, we also have this error message
down at the bottom of the window. If you
| | 01:20 | double-click on the error message,
that brings up the Preflight panel and you
| | 01:24 | would go ahead and use these arrows to
expand this text message right here and
| | 01:29 | you are going to see, you have
something called Overset text, also known as
| | 01:32 | Overflow text, meaning there is too
much text to fit inside the frame and there
| | 01:36 | is some amount of story leftover.
| | 01:38 | Let's go ahead and close this Preflight
panel, and let me show you how to solve
| | 01:43 | that problem. Go down here to this red
plus sign and click on it, and then move
| | 01:47 | your cursor up to the top of the next
column and click again. The text now
| | 01:52 | flows from one column to the next and
to see how it flows, you can go up to the
| | 01:56 | View menu and you can choose Show
Text Threads, and you now see this thread
| | 02:01 | between the first column and
the second column on the page.
| | 02:04 | Let's keep flowing the text to the
other pages by clicking on this plus sign
| | 02:08 | again. Loads the cursor, I'll go ahead
and press Alt+Page Down or Option+Page
| | 02:13 | Down on the Mac in order to advance to
the next page spread, and I will click
| | 02:17 | in the first column of page 2, and I
now have a thread that's linking the last
| | 02:22 | column on page 1 to the first column on page 2.
| | 02:25 | There are other ways to work .You can
also click for example on that plus sign
| | 02:30 | and drag inside of a column or outside
the boundaries of the column if you want
| | 02:35 | to, in order to create a custom frame.
If I click again on that plus sign and
| | 02:40 | move my cursor lower in the column,
I will start the next frame at that
| | 02:44 | location. There is also ways to
automate this process, if I click on the plus
| | 02:48 | sign to load my cursor and then I
press the Alt key or the Option key on the
| | 02:52 | Mac notice, that the top left corner
of your cursor changes, and what this
| | 02:57 | means is, if I Alt-click or Option-click,
I will both flow a column of text and
| | 03:02 | reload my cursor, like so, and I will
go ahead and Alt-click or Option-click
| | 03:06 | again. Press Alt+Page Down or Option+
Page down on the Mac to move to the pages
| | 03:12 | 4-5 spread. Then I would Alt-click
or Option-click again to proceed.
| | 03:17 | Another way to work is to press-and-
hold both the Shift and Alt keys, and I
| | 03:22 | want you to notice something, down
here at the bottom of the screen, notice
| | 03:24 | that we have no errors in this
preflight area, so we have a green light, that's
| | 03:29 | about change. I am going to press the
Shift and Alt keys or Shift and Option on
| | 03:34 | the Mac and click and that goes ahead
and places all of the story that will
| | 03:39 | fit inside of this document.
| | 03:41 | So if I go up to the Layout menu and
choose Last Page in order to advance to
| | 03:46 | the last page of the document, page 8
here, you can see that we still have a
| | 03:49 | red plus sign and now we have a
preflight error. It's the same errors we saw
| | 03:53 | before we have overflow text. So
let's take care of that using the final
| | 03:58 | automation technique.
| | 04:00 | I'm going to click in this last column
here and I'm going press the Backspace
| | 04:04 | key or the Delete key to get rid of
it. Now that may seem like a drastic
| | 04:07 | measure, but all I did was delete the
text frame. I did not delete any text
| | 04:12 | from this story. That way have
some room to work in this last column.
| | 04:16 | All right, now I am going to go the red
plus sign, which is moved over here to
| | 04:19 | the first column, I will click on it
to load my cursor and I am going to
| | 04:22 | press-and-hold the Shift key and only
the Shift key and that gets me the final
| | 04:27 | autoflow cursor, which will not only
place the entire story, but it will create
| | 04:31 | as many pages as is required to hold that story.
| | 04:35 | So I will Shift-click and we have no
errors, notice that because we have no
| | 04:39 | overflow text at this point.
| | 04:40 | If I go to the Pages panel and scroll
down, I will see that I now have 19 pages
| | 04:45 | in my document. So I will go ahead
double-click on 18-19, in order to advance
| | 04:50 | to that final page spread and
there is the end of my article.
| | 04:54 | One last item, that I want you to note.
I am going to move over here and click
| | 04:58 | on the Paragraph Styles icon to open
the Paragraph Styles panel and notice that
| | 05:03 | I have two styles, Body copy and
Headline, and we have these little disk icons
| | 05:07 | next to them. That indicates that
those styles were imported along with this
| | 05:12 | formatted document. So the text is
not only formatted with character and
| | 05:15 | paragraph level formatting attributes,
but it's also styled so that we can
| | 05:19 | modify the styles and update the text
according to the needs of our document.
| | 05:24 | You have now seen that how to take an
article created in a word processor and
| | 05:28 | both place and flow that article here in InDesign.
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| Using master pages| 00:00 | In this exercise, I will show you how
to exploit master pages, which allow you
| | 00:04 | to replicate text and graphics across
multiple pages inside of a document
| | 00:09 | as well as create repeating
footer and folio information.
| | 00:12 | I am working inside of a document
called Grunbyteartwork.indd found inside the
| | 00:17 | Exercise Files folder and notice this
artwork at the top of the page. Let's
| | 00:21 | say I want this artwork, this
Grunbyte Inc. artwork with eco-friendly
| | 00:25 | technology and all that, to repeat
across every single page of this document,
| | 00:30 | all eight pages.
| | 00:32 | If I were to press Alt+Page Down or
Option+Page Down on the Mac to advance to
| | 00:36 | pages 2 and 3, you would see that
they don't have that artwork at all.
| | 00:41 | Now, I guess one solution would be to
copy the artwork and then paste it on the
| | 00:44 | page 2 and paste it on the page 3 and
paste it on the page 4, and so on, but
| | 00:49 | not only would that be time-consuming,
it would also be inflexible, because if
| | 00:53 | you wanted to make a modification to
the artwork, you would have to perform
| | 00:56 | that modification on each and every
page of the document. Better to assign the
| | 01:02 | document to a master page. That way you
only to have make any changes once and
| | 01:07 | all of the pages update in kind.
| | 01:09 | All right, so let's see how that works.
I am going to press Alt+Page Up or
| | 01:13 | Option+Page Up on the Mac in order
to advance to page 1. Armed with my
| | 01:17 | Selection tool, I am going to draw
Marquee around this artwork and by that I mean,
| | 01:22 | I will drag from an empty portion
of the document, like so, until I
| | 01:27 | enclose all the artwork objects that I
want to select in this dotted rectangle,
| | 01:31 | which is the Marquee itself. Then I
will release. And notice I went ahead and
| | 01:35 | selected all that artwork. I selected
a little bit too much though because I
| | 01:38 | also selected this blue bar down
the left-hand side of the page. I will
| | 01:41 | Shift-click on that blue rectangle to
de-select it and now I have selected just
| | 01:45 | the artwork I want to replicate.
| | 01:47 | I will go up to the Edit menu and
choose the Cut command or I could press
| | 01:50 | Ctrl+X, Command+X on the Mac, the
standard keyboard shortcut for the Cut
| | 01:54 | command. In order to remove that
artwork and send it to the clipboard.
| | 01:58 | Now I am going to bring up to the Pages
panel by clicking on the Pages icon on
| | 02:01 | the right side of the screen and notice
these options up here at the top of
| | 02:05 | Pages panel. None, which indicates no
master page, and None is the master page
| | 02:10 | that's been assigned to the pages
inside of my document so far. Then I have
| | 02:15 | this default master page called A-Master,
which is the master page I intend to use.
| | 02:20 | So I will double-click on A-Master to
switch to that master page. Notice, that
| | 02:24 | I've already added some footer and
folio information. Folio being the page
| | 02:28 | number. In order to paste the artwork
in place, I will go to the Edit menu and
| | 02:32 | I will choose the Paste In Place
command. That goes ahead and places the
| | 02:36 | artwork exactly at the location from
which it was cut. The reason that it looks
| | 02:41 | like it's off, because we copied the
artwork from a right-hand page and we are
| | 02:45 | pasting it onto what is essentially
a center page, because this is just a
| | 02:49 | one-page master. We will solve that
problem in just a moment, but for now
| | 02:53 | I am going to Shift-drag the selected
artwork over to the left until it snaps into
| | 02:57 | place, and by virtue of the fact I
have the Shift key down, I am constraining
| | 03:01 | the angle of my drag to exactly horizontal.
Then I will release when it looks right.
| | 03:05 | All right, we now have a single page
master page set up. Let's go ahead and apply
| | 03:09 | it to pages 1-8 of this document. I
will click on page 1 and Shift-click on
| | 03:15 | page 8 to select all of the pages.
Then I will go to this little icon in the
| | 03:19 | upper right corner of the Pages panel,
click on it to bring up the Pages panel
| | 03:22 | menu and I will choose Apply Master
To Pages. Inside the dialog box, I will
| | 03:28 | change Apply Master from None to A-Master.
I'll make sure pages 1-8 are active.
| | 03:33 | They are, and I will click OK. And
that applies the A-Master to all of the
| | 03:38 | pages. As you can see by the
indication of these little As in the corners of
| | 03:43 | each one of the thumbnails.
| | 03:44 | Now, I will double-click on 2-3 in
order to switch to that spread and notice
| | 03:48 | that the artwork is indeed
duplicated across the top of all of the pages,
| | 03:53 | that's totally great. However, I'm
going hide the Pages panel for a moment.
| | 03:57 | Notice the Footer and Folio, they
should be toward the outside of the facing
| | 04:02 | pages to draw them away from the
spine so that they are easy to read. The
| | 04:06 | left-hand page is set up properly, but
the right hand page is not. So we need
| | 04:10 | to create facing master pages, so that
we can move this right-hand footer over
| | 04:16 | to the right side of the page.
| | 04:18 | All right, so let's go back to the Pages
panel, double-click on A-Master to make
| | 04:22 | it active and I'm going to go onto
the Palette menu icon, click on it and I
| | 04:27 | will choose Master Options for A-Master.
Among the options in this dialog box
| | 04:32 | is the option to change the number of
pages and I will change it to two, so
| | 04:36 | that we have facing pages. You can also
change the name of your master pages if
| | 04:40 | you want. I am just going to click OK
in order to add a page to my Master.
| | 04:45 | Notice now that I have a facing page
on the right, but it's empty. So that
| | 04:51 | means that every one of the right pages
which are the odd number pages like 1,
| | 04:54 | 3, 5 and 7 do not have any Master
Page objects, and you can see that by
| | 04:59 | double-clicking on say 4-5, 4
is properly setup, five is not.
| | 05:04 | All right, so let's go back to A-Master
and let's work on that right-hand page. I
| | 05:08 | will go ahead and hide the Pages panel,
I will Marquee the artwork, then I will
| | 05:13 | press the Shift and Alt keys, this
would be Shift and Option on the Mac and
| | 05:17 | drag the artwork over to the right
page and release. The fact that I have the
| | 05:21 | Shift key down constrain the angle of
my drag, the fact that I had the Alt or
| | 05:26 | Option key down allowed me
to duplicate the objects.
| | 05:28 | So now we have the artwork, setup
properly. Now, let's work on the Footer and
| | 05:33 | Folio, I am going to press Ctrl and
spacebar that would be Command and spacebar
| | 05:37 | in a Mac and I am going to drag around
this area of the page in order to zoom
| | 05:42 | in on it. Then I will double-click in
the word Page in order to switch to my
| | 05:46 | Type tool and place my
blinking insertion marker.
| | 05:49 | Notice, we have the word Page, but we
do not have a page number. So I will
| | 05:53 | press the spacebar in order to create
a space between the word Page and the
| | 05:57 | page number. To add an automated page
number go up to the Type menu, choose
| | 06:02 | Insert Special Character, choose
Markers and then choose Current Page Number,
| | 06:07 | you really have to dig for this one.
And that will add what appears to be an A,
| | 06:11 | but that A stands for A-Master. When
we go to the other pages, we will see 1
| | 06:16 | for Page 1; 2 for page 2, and so on.
| | 06:19 | All right, now I am going to switch back
to my Selection tool and I am going to
| | 06:23 | zoom out from the page, so that we can
take in the whole spread and I want to
| | 06:28 | make sure that we have a guide setup
on the right-hand side. So I will drag a
| | 06:32 | ruler guide out from the vertical
ruler on the left side of the screen and I
| | 06:36 | will drop it into alignment with
the right margin on the right page.
| | 06:39 | All right, now I am going to press the
Shift and Alt keys or the Shift and Option
| | 06:44 | keys on the Mac and I am going to
drag this footer all the way over to the
| | 06:49 | right page like so, so it snaps into
alignment with that right ruler guide.
| | 06:53 | Then I will double-click inside of the
text to switch to the Type tool and make
| | 06:56 | my text active, I will go up to the
Control panel, click on the Paragraph
| | 07:01 | Formatting Controls icon and then I
will set the alignment of this text to
| | 07:06 | align right, and it looks like that,
that's perfect. So we know have our
| | 07:10 | footers and folios for the
outsides of the facing pages.
| | 07:14 | Now, let's checkout the pages themselves.
I'll go back to my Pages panel and I
| | 07:18 | will double-click on say, 6-7,
something we haven't seen so far.
| | 07:22 | Hide the Pages panel, we can see the
artwork across the top of the page and we
| | 07:27 | have the footers and folios across the
bottom of the pages, and if we wanted to
| | 07:30 | make any changes, all we do is go back
to the master page, change the element,
| | 07:35 | come back to this page and see our
change is applied. You won't believe how
| | 07:39 | much you can automate your designs
and how much time you can save by taking
| | 07:43 | advantage of master pages inside InDesign.
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| Placing an image| 00:00 | In this exercise I'll show how to place
a couple of images into an InDesign document.
| | 00:05 | I'll also introduce you to the Links panel.
| | 00:08 | I am working inside of a document
called Open space.indd found inside the
| | 00:13 | Exercise Files folder. Notice that I
am working on page 3 of this document,
| | 00:17 | which has some room left
open for a couple of graphics.
| | 00:21 | Anytime that you want to place text or
graphics into a document, you go up to
| | 00:25 | the File menu and you choose the
Place command. I want you to notice this
| | 00:29 | keyboard shortcut, it's Ctrl+D or Command+D on the Mac.
| | 00:32 | Now, D doesn't really stand for anything,
but it is used consistently for both
| | 00:37 | the Place command and the
related Links panel as we'll see.
| | 00:40 | I'm going to click on the Place
command to bring up the Place dialog box and
| | 00:45 | I'm going click on a couple of graphics here.
| | 00:46 | First, I'll select Colorimeter.psd
and then I'll Ctrl-click or on the
| | 00:51 | Macintosh side I would Command-click on
Monitor.psd to select both those files
| | 00:57 | independently of any of the other files
inside the list. Notice that these are
| | 01:01 | both layered Photoshop files, hence
the extension PSD, but when images are
| | 01:05 | concerned, they could just as easily
be JPEG files, TIFF files and so on.
| | 01:10 | I'll click Open in order to import both
of these images. Notice the appearance
| | 01:14 | of my cursor. First of all it appears
as a paintbrush, which indicates that I'm
| | 01:18 | about place a photographic image. I
can also see a preview of the image that
| | 01:22 | I'm about place and I see a 2 inside
parenthesis, which shows me that I have
| | 01:27 | two images loaded and ready to go.
I can switch between those images by
| | 01:31 | pressing an arrow key, notice that.
That will take me between those two image
| | 01:35 | files and I can see a little
preview, which is very handy.
| | 01:39 | I'm going to click in order to set the
location of my first image and then I'll
| | 01:43 | click again in order to set the location
of my second image. Then you can drag
| | 01:48 | the images as desired to place them
exactly where you want them. You can even
| | 01:53 | nudge them from the keyboard. I am
pressing the Up Arrow key a few times in a
| | 01:57 | row to move this monitor image upward.
Then I'll click on the other image and I
| | 02:01 | will press Shift+Left Arrow to the
nudge the image by a larger increment and
| | 02:06 | I'll press Shift+Up Arrow as well.
Then I will press the Left Arrow key a few
| | 02:09 | times to get it exactly where I want it.
| | 02:12 | Once, you're done placing your images,
you can manage them from the Links
| | 02:15 | panel. I'm going to this little chain
icon over here in the right side of the
| | 02:19 | screen and click on it to bring up
the Links panel. I could also go to the
| | 02:23 | Window menu and choose the Links
command, and notice there is a keyboard
| | 02:27 | shortcut I was alluding to earlier.
Ctrl+Shift+D on a PC or Command+Shift+D on
| | 02:32 | a Mac, and notice, there are my images
Colorimeter.psd and Monitor.psd, both of
| | 02:38 | which are located on page 3 as
you can see here in these links.
| | 02:42 | I can also hover over the name of my
file to see its location on disk, because
| | 02:48 | InDesign doesn't actually place the
file into your document, it links the file
| | 02:53 | so that your document doesn't grow
too big. You can also find out other
| | 02:57 | information about the file, its name,
the format, the color mode, the size of
| | 03:02 | the file and so on.
| | 03:04 | If any of these file names has a
warning after it, then we can go ahead and
| | 03:08 | relink the file, by clicking on this
chain icon down at the bottom of the Links panel.
| | 03:13 | You have now seen how to place
multiple images and manage those images
| | 03:17 | from the Links panel inside InDesign.
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| Framing a picture| 00:00 | In this exercise I'm going to show
you to frame an imported photograph in
| | 00:04 | InDesign, using a combination
of a stroke and a drop shadow.
| | 00:08 | I am looking at an image called
Gnarled tree.indd found inside the Exercise
| | 00:13 | Files folder. I am looking at page 2 of
the document and I am zoomed in on this
| | 00:18 | imported image of this tree.
| | 00:20 | Now, let's say that we want to take
the tree and we want to give it a thin
| | 00:23 | black outline and a drop shadow. I
will click on the tree with my Selection
| | 00:28 | tool to select it, then I will bring
up my Swatches panel and I will click on black.
| | 00:32 | Now that didn't appear to do
anything. The reason is, because I just
| | 00:37 | went ahead and filled the frame that
contains the image with black and then the
| | 00:41 | tree is covering up that black
fill, which isn't what we want.
| | 00:45 | So, I'm going to change the Fill
back to None, which I can do by either
| | 00:48 | clicking on None or I could press the
Slash key, which looks exactly like that
| | 00:54 | red line for None.
| | 00:56 | Next, I am going to switch to the
Stroke. See these little icons right there;
| | 00:59 | there is Fill, there is Stroke. If you
click on the little Stroke icon or if
| | 01:04 | you press the X key, notice the X key
will switch back and forth between Fill
| | 01:09 | right there and Stroke. Then you will
make the Stroke active and then you can
| | 01:14 | apply black as the Stroke as I have done here.
| | 01:17 | Now, I'm going to hide the Swatches
panel. We are done with it and I going to
| | 01:20 | zoom in on the graphic so that we can
take in this stroke. Notice that it's
| | 01:24 | pretty darn thick in so far as things
go. I will click off of the graphic for
| | 01:29 | a moment so that we can see it.
I will also hide my guides and I am going to
| | 01:33 | hide my guides, by taking advantage
of this option right here down at the
| | 01:37 | bottom of the toolbox. Notice we are
looking at the document in the Normal mode,
| | 01:41 | but I can switch to the Preview mode.
Which will show me a preview of how the
| | 01:45 | document is going to print. So it gets
rid of all the guides and all the other
| | 01:49 | falderal that's not printing inside the document.
| | 01:51 | And we can see that we've got a pretty
thick outline. Even though if I go ahead
| | 01:55 | and reselect the image by once again
clicking on it, we will see up here in the
| | 01:59 | Control panel that the outline known
as the Stroke Weight is set to 1 point,
| | 02:04 | which is just 1/72 of an inch, but believe it
or not, 1/72 of an inch is a pretty thick outline.
| | 02:09 | I am going to switch this to half a
point, by clicking on the 0.5 pt option.
| | 02:16 | And notice that gives us a slimmer
stroke around the tree. That's going to look a
| | 02:19 | lot nicer when we print the document.
| | 02:21 | All right, now I'll zoom out so that we
can take in more of the tree at a time.
| | 02:28 | Now, I'd like to add a drop shadow, and
I'll do that by going up to the Object menu,
| | 02:32 | choosing Effects and choosing Drop Shadow.
| | 02:37 | Once the Effects dialog box appears on
screen, make sure Preview is turned on,
| | 02:41 | so you can see what you're doing. I am
going to reduce this Opacity value to
| | 02:44 | 50% and press the Tab key, so that we
have a lighter drop shadow. Then I'll
| | 02:49 | reduce this Distance value to 0p6
which is 6 points or half-a-pica and I'm
| | 02:56 | going to tab my way down to the Size
value and take it up to 0p6 as well, so
| | 03:01 | that the Size and Distance values
match each other. And I will click OK in
| | 03:05 | order to apply the effect.
| | 03:06 | If I click off the image you can see
how it's now nicely set off from its
| | 03:11 | greenish background. Thanks to our
ability to frame a photograph using a stroke
| | 03:16 | and a drop shadow in InDesign.
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| Controlling display performance| 00:00 | In this exercise I'm going to
introduce you to the notion of display
| | 00:05 | performance in InDesign.
| | 00:06 | I am looking at a document called
Imported images.indd, found inside the
| | 00:12 | Exercise Files folder and I'm
currently looking at page 3 of the document.
| | 00:17 | Notice that I am zoomed in on an
imported photograph and it looks pretty choppy.
| | 00:21 | The farther I zoom in the
bigger the pixels get. Which is misleading,
| | 00:26 | because the image isn't going to print
this choppy at all. It's actually going
| | 00:29 | to print super smooth. It's a very
high-resolution image. But InDesign is
| | 00:33 | trying to save itself time and effort
by displaying the image at a lower quality.
| | 00:38 | If you would rather trade up for
higher quality, here's what you do. Go up to
| | 00:43 | the View menu and choose Display
Performance and then choose High Quality
| | 00:47 | Display. And then notice how much
better the image quality gets on screen.
| | 00:53 | You also have the option of assigning
image quality for a single image.
| | 00:58 | So let's say in general, you find that
InDesign is working better if you have
| | 01:03 | it set to Typical Display, but you
want this one image to look really great.
| | 01:08 | Then you'd right-click or if you don't
have a right mouse button on a Mac, press
| | 01:11 | the Ctrl key and click, then choose
Display Performance and choose High Quality
| | 01:16 | Display. That will affect this one
selected graphic and nothing else. Notice
| | 01:21 | this graphic over here still
appears in Typical Display.
| | 01:26 | In addition to graphics, text can also
be affected by the Display Performance.
| | 01:31 | I'm going to zoom way out from this
page and you will notice at a certain point
| | 01:35 | your text turns into a bunch of gray
lines. This is known as greeking. If you
| | 01:40 | don't your text to greek, and really
it doesn't save InDesign much time or
| | 01:44 | effort, then go over to the Edit menu
and that would be the InDesign menu on
| | 01:48 | the Mac. Choose the Preferences
command and then choose Display Performance.
| | 01:53 | We are currently looking at a Typical
mode and we want to change the behavior
| | 01:59 | of the Typical mode, so that there is
no greeking ever. So I am going to set
| | 02:03 | this Greek Type Below value to 0 so
that we won't have greeking in the feature.
| | 02:07 | I will also change this setting for
High Quality Display. So we don't see
| | 02:13 | greeking when we switch to high quality
either, and then I'll click OK and now
| | 02:17 | my text always looks like text. You
may not be able to read it this far away,
| | 02:22 | but you will be able to get a
sense of how your page looks.
| | 02:25 | And that's how you adjust
display performance in InDesign.
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| Cropping and scaling| 00:01 | In this exercise I am going to show
you how to crop and scale graphics in
| | 00:05 | InDesign. I am working in a document
called Imported images.indd found inside
| | 00:10 | the Exercise Files folder. Notice
that I am zoomed in on this photograph of
| | 00:14 | this large screen monitor. Let's say I
want to make the monitor bigger so it
| | 00:18 | fills up more space.
| | 00:20 | If I click on the graphic in order to
select it then I see a series of eight
| | 00:24 | handles in the corners and on the
sides of this image frame. To scale the
| | 00:28 | graphic you press the Ctrl key on the
PC or the Command key on the Mac and you
| | 00:33 | drag one of these handles.
| | 00:35 | I am just going to go ahead and scale
the graphic taller or like so, and that
| | 00:39 | ends up stretching the image, so I will
press Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac to
| | 00:44 | Undo that modification.
| | 00:45 | Let's say that we want to scale the
image proportionally, you would do that by
| | 00:49 | pressing both Ctrl and Shift or Command
and Shift on the Mac and then dragging
| | 00:54 | one of the corner handles and that
makes the image considerably bigger in this case.
| | 00:59 | Now if you are concerned about dropping
the resolution of your image which you
| | 01:03 | should be every photographic image has
a resolution associated with it and you
| | 01:08 | don't want to scale the image to the
point that it starts appearing choppy. You
| | 01:11 | can go to the Window menu and you can
choose this command right there, Info;
| | 01:16 | and that will show you not only the
actual resolution of the image which was
| | 01:21 | 366 ppi, that is, pixel per inch as
said in Photoshop, but now thanks to my
| | 01:27 | modification, it's gone down to
exactly 300 pixels per inch and that's just
| | 01:32 | fine. So we have plenty of resolution to spare.
| | 01:35 | Generally speaking you can go as
low as 240 pixels per inch without
| | 01:39 | encountering any problems. All right,
notice that this image has transparency
| | 01:43 | associated with it, so it's
overlapping this line quite nicely right here.
| | 01:47 | It looks darn good.
| | 01:48 | Now at this point let's say I decide,
I also want to crop the graphic, I want
| | 01:53 | to get rid of this monitor that's
surrounding the image and I just want the
| | 01:57 | image in the colorimeter
to appear in the middle.
| | 02:01 | So I do that by just dragging the
handles. So rather than pressing any keys you
| | 02:06 | just drag the handles in order to crop
the image and I am cropping the image
| | 02:10 | like so, I am just dragging these top
and bottom handles and the side handles
| | 02:13 | as well until I get the image framed as
I want it. Then I would drag it down a
| | 02:18 | little bit in order to better center it.
| | 02:20 | You also have the option of moving the
image inside of its frame and you could
| | 02:24 | do that by switching to this tool
right here, the Direct Selection tool.
| | 02:28 | I will click on that tool to select it,
and then notice that my cursor changes
| | 02:33 | to a hand, I can now drag the image in
order to move it inside of its frame.
| | 02:40 | But I actually had it cropped very nicely so
I'm going to press Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Z a couple of times.
| | 02:44 | That's Command+Z, Command+Z on the Mac.
| | 02:47 | And if I wanted to I could now go ahead and
assign a Stroke in order to draw a frame
| | 02:51 | around the graphic. I would go over
here to the Swatches panel, I would make
| | 02:55 | sure that my Stroke was active, I would
click on Black and then I will go up to
| | 03:00 | the Stroke Weight in the Control panel
and I will change it to 0.5 point. I now
| | 03:05 | have a nicely-stroked graphic just the
image inside the monitor, the monitor is
| | 03:10 | now gone and scaled, thanks to a
combination of cropping and scaling in InDesign.
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| Making a background| 00:00 | In this exercise I will show you how
to add a slight gradient background to a
| | 00:04 | page and how to adjust the stacking and
layering order so that everything looks good.
| | 00:09 | I am working inside of a document
called Needs background.indd, found inside
| | 00:13 | the Exercise Files folder. Notice that
I am looking at the contents of page 3.
| | 00:17 | Now currently I am seeing this
document in the Preview mode. I want to switch
| | 00:22 | to the Normal mode so I can see my guides.
| | 00:24 | So I will go down here to the bottom of
the toolbox, click-and-hold to bring up
| | 00:28 | a flyout menu and choose the Normal
command. And now we can see all the guides
| | 00:32 | in the document.
| | 00:33 | Now by the way, if you are interested
in a really handy keyboard shortcut,
| | 00:38 | it doesn't make a lot of sense but
it really works out beautifully.
| | 00:41 | It's the W key, just by itself. W will
switch you into the Preview mode and then it
| | 00:46 | switches you back into the Normal mode.
| | 00:48 | I am not really sure what W stands for,
but you can think if it as W for Window
| | 00:53 | because it gives you control over the
contents of the document window. And
| | 00:57 | I'm going to do that by zooming out
and I will grab my standard Rectangle tool
| | 01:01 | and now I will draw a rectangle, I
wanted to slide underneath this green
| | 01:06 | rectangle at the top of the document,
so I will draw it pretty large so that I
| | 01:09 | have a lot of wiggled room. I will
start up here and I will drag down to this
| | 01:14 | location down here, notice along the
edge of this gray guideline and then I
| | 01:18 | will release.
| | 01:19 | Currently for me anyway, this rectangle
has a stroke but no fill, so we need to
| | 01:24 | change that. I am going to bring up
my Swatches panel, by clicking on the
| | 01:28 | Swatches icon over here on the right
side of the screen and I am going to start
| | 01:31 | by eliminating the stroke, by clicking
on the Stroke icon and then clicking on
| | 01:35 | None. Then I will click on the Fill
icon and I will change that fill to this
| | 01:40 | swatch right here, Red Gradient, so
you can actually save gradients out as
| | 01:44 | swatches in InDesign. And it covers
up everything. The reason being that
| | 01:49 | InDesign is set up so that the most recent
object you draw rises to the top of the stack.
| | 01:54 | You can change that by right-clicking
on the object and if you don't have a
| | 01:58 | right mouse button on the Mac then
press the Ctrl key and click, then choose
| | 02:02 | Arrange and then choose this command
right there, Send to Back, and that will
| | 02:06 | send the rectangle to the back of the stack.
| | 02:08 | But notice it doesn't go all the
way to back, it doesn't go behind, for
| | 02:12 | example, this green rectangle that
sits on the master page. So I can't really
| | 02:18 | grab that green rectangle and move it
in front of the gradient red rectangle
| | 02:23 | because it's not accessible to me.
| | 02:25 | That's okay though because you have
layers inside of InDesign. So I'll bring up
| | 02:30 | the Layers panel by clicking on the
Layers icon over here in the right side of
| | 02:35 | the screen. You could also go to the
Window menu and you could choose Layers
| | 02:38 | command or press the F7 key.
| | 02:40 | Notice I have three layers in all. I
have a main layer, a guides layer that
| | 02:44 | contains some of the guidelines in
this document, and this layer called
| | 02:48 | background which contains all the
backgrounds that need to slide under the
| | 02:52 | master objects.
| | 02:54 | So I am going to select this
gradient rectangle I just drew. Notice it's
| | 02:58 | sitting on the main layer right now
and you can see this tiny orange square
| | 03:02 | that represents the selected item. I am
going to drag the orange square down to
| | 03:07 | the backgrounds layer, like so, and
release, and it then slides underneath the
| | 03:12 | green rectangle from the master page
which itself is on the main layer. Now
| | 03:16 | I'll hide the Layers panel.
| | 03:18 | Finally, I want this gradient to go
from dark at the top to light at the
| | 03:22 | bottom. So I'll grab my Gradient Swatch
tool which you can get by pressing the
| | 03:27 | G key for Gradient and then I'll drag
from the top down to the bottom and I am
| | 03:32 | pressing the Shift key so I am
constraining the angle of my drag to exactly
| | 03:36 | vertical, and I will go ahead and
align my drag to the bottom of this margin
| | 03:39 | guide, and release, and I end up
getting this effect right here.
| | 03:43 | Now I'll click off the graphic to
de-select it and I will press that W key to
| | 03:46 | switch back to the Preview mode, so
that we can see our page without any
| | 03:50 | guidelines, and we now have a nice
gradient backdrop, thanks to our ability to
| | 03:56 | modify stacking order and
layering order here inside InDesign.
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| Wrapping text around a graphic| 00:00 | In this exercise I am going to show you
how to wrap text around a graphic using
| | 00:05 | InDesign's Text Wrap panel. I am
looking at a document called Dashboard
| | 00:09 | image.indd found inside the Exercise
Files folder and I am currently looking at
| | 00:14 | the contents of page 1.
| | 00:17 | Notice that I have gone ahead and
zoomed in on this vintage dashboard image
| | 00:21 | right here, and it's covering up a
bunch of text in the background. I want the
| | 00:25 | text to actually wrap around the
graphic, so I will undo that movement by
| | 00:29 | pressing Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac.
| | 00:31 | Now Text Wrap is something that you
apply to the object around which you want
| | 00:36 | the text to wrap. You don't apply it to
the text; you apply it to the graphic.
| | 00:40 | So I have clicked on the graphic to
select it with my Selection tool.
| | 00:44 | Now I'll go to the Window menu and I'll
choose the Text Wrap command, which you
| | 00:48 | can also get to you by pressing
Ctrl+Alt+W or Command+Option+W on the Mac.
| | 00:54 | I like this panel so much that I am
going to drag its tab over here into the
| | 00:58 | panel column and then I will click on
this icon in order to bring up the panel.
| | 01:04 | Now there are all kinds of elaborate
text wraps you can apply, but when we are
| | 01:07 | wrapping text around a basic
rectangular graphic, the option you want is
| | 01:12 | this one right here, Wrap Around
Bounding Box. So click on this icon and notice
| | 01:17 | that the text immediately wraps around
the graphic. But the text wrap offset
| | 01:21 | boundary is too tight to the graphic.
In fact, it's right on the graphic, as we
| | 01:26 | can see by the appearance
of all these values set to 0.
| | 01:29 | So for example, I can raise a boundary
if I want to by clicking in this very
| | 01:33 | first option, and then I will press the
Up Arrow key, and as I do you will see
| | 01:38 | this wrap boundary emerge from the top
of the graphic so that light blue line
| | 01:43 | right there. And I am going to take
this value up to say 0p9, it looks pretty
| | 01:48 | good to me. Then Alt+Tab to the next
value which is the lower edge of the
| | 01:52 | boundary and I will take that value up
as well to something like 0p6. We can
| | 01:57 | now see an edge emerging
from the bottom of the graphic.
| | 01:59 | I will press the Tab key to advance to
the Left Offset and I will press the Up
| | 02:04 | Arrow key to increase that value to
say 0p9, and then I will do the same for
| | 02:10 | the Right Offset value.
| | 02:12 | Now we have got a nice offset
boundary all the way around our graphic. So I
| | 02:16 | will go ahead and collapse
the Text Wrap panel for now.
| | 02:19 | Now the great thing about this Text
Wrap is it's fully-automated. So for
| | 02:23 | example we can modify the placement
and the formatting of either the text or
| | 02:27 | the graphic and in InDesign will
update the Text Wrap on the fly.
| | 02:31 | So I am going to double-click on my
text in order to switch to the Type tool
| | 02:35 | and activate the text. Then I will drag
across both of these paragraphs here. I
| | 02:39 | will go up to the Control panel and
switch to the paragraph formatting controls
| | 02:43 | and then I will click on this Justify
option in order to justify the text.
| | 02:48 | Now I will go back to my Selection tool
by clicking on it in the toolbox, then
| | 02:53 | I will click on the graphic and let's
drag it down a little bit, notice I could
| | 02:56 | drag it down to the bottom of the
text like so, or I could drag it sort of
| | 03:00 | midway up the text.
| | 03:01 | So we get this effect right here, and I
will just take it up until that bottom
| | 03:05 | text wraps into it, and then I will
just nudge it up by pressing the Up Arrow
| | 03:09 | key until we have a little bit of
text wrapping around all the graphic.
| | 03:13 | Now if I want the text to wrap a
little tighter then I need to take those Top
| | 03:17 | and Bottom Offset values in a little bit.
So I will revisit my Text Wrap panel
| | 03:22 | and I will take this Top Offset value
down until the text wraps around the
| | 03:26 | graphic like so. Then I will take the
Bottom Offset value down as well until
| | 03:30 | the text wraps along the bottom.
| | 03:32 | This looks pretty good to me, I might
just nudge the graphic down a couple of
| | 03:36 | points like so until we get this effect here.
| | 03:39 | And that's how you wrap text
around the graphic inside InDesign.
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| Goodbye| 00:00 | Okay, so that was Adobe InDesign.
| | 00:03 | If you feel like you got everything
you need to know then perfect.
| | 00:06 | Happy to have been of help,
but if it only wet your appetite for more,
| | 00:10 | let me assure you that wasn't a teaser. That was
a taste of the larger world that lies in wait,
| | 00:16 | and there's so much more.
| | 00:17 | The full story, everything
you need to know is here,
| | 00:21 | in the lynda.com Online Training Library.
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