From the course: InDesign Secrets
341 Find free InDesign templates on Adobe Stock - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
341 Find free InDesign templates on Adobe Stock
- [Anne-Marie] You know what question I hear a lot? How do I find free Adobe InDesign templates? What's the best place to go for them? Now, we have a number of free templates on InDesignSecrets.com and templates just for paid premium members, but where do you find them outside of InDesignSecrets.com? To me, one of the best places is using Adobe Stock because they just started adding InDesign templates to their library a couple years ago and they have hundreds of free templates, but a little difficult to find them and that's what this tip is about, how to find free InDesign templates on Adobe Stock. Now, this is not just for Creative Cloud members, by the way. All you need is a free Adobe login. You need your email and name to be registered with them and then you can download them and use them and you could even convert them to pre-CC versions. If you don't have CC, you could still use them in CS6, so I'll show you how to do that as well. One of the best ways to find the free templates is, if you have InDesign CC, use the new New Document dialog box that shows you templates. Now, here's ones that I've recently used, but if I go to one of the three intents, Prints, Web, or Mobile, you'll see the presets at the top and then the templates toward the bottom. Ones with the blue check marks are ones that I've already downloaded and there are quite a few. These are all the different Print ones, and you see the word Free, lower right. That is the word that we're looking for. You could even search for more templates right from here. Search for keywords and it's only going to search for InDesign templates and nothing else. And there are templates for web and mobile devices as well. Fiction Book Layout for ePub, you know, for a mobile device. That's what those are. Alright, so I'm going to close this and we're going to go right to the source 'cause that's where I recommend that you search for the free templates and I'm going to use Safari instead of my default Chrome because if I use Chrome, it's going to log in with my CC account and I want to show you that all you need is just a regular Adobe sign-in, which I have. This is Zoe, this is my dog's sign-in and it's not subscribed to Adobe Stock, it's not subscribed to Creative Cloud. You come here and then you just start searching for the perfect asset for your next creative project. What you need to do is choose Templates from down here and then leave this empty. Then when you hit Return or Enter, you'll see that there are, oh, my goodness, 12,000 templates. Not really, a lot of these are Photoshop or Illustrator templates, so then you have to choose View filters and choose InDesign. We have 663, that's great. That's how many templates there are and not all of them are free. Do you see what's missing here, the word free? You can't search for free templates. If you want to get one that's not free, like one of these guys, you would actually have to subscribe to Adobe Stock. Let me show you what the pricing is and I do think it's worth it to have a subscription, I have a subscription. You can choose one of these guys, but you see, it's not cheap and you have a limit of how many you can download every month. So, let's come back here and see what's available to us that's free, that you don't even need a subscription for. By the way, if you do have a subscription to Adobe Stock, downloading the free templates does not impact how many you have available in your account. So, it doesn't make a hit on your account, which is nice to know. Anyway, so we have 663, so Anne-Marie, how do we search for free? You don't see free here and you know, if you say, well, I think maybe I'm going to try and download it anyway and you click it and it says Buy License, you click this, you're going to get this dialog box because you're not logged in with a paid account, so that's not going to work. Let's go back, we're going to, again, search for InDesign templates. What I have found is, just really through manual labor, is to come all the way down to the bottom and starting at about screen three or four, you're going to start seeing the free ones appear at the bottom right. So, I'm scrolling down, there we go. So, I'm on the third screen of hits and there's a free one, there's a free one. You can't sort, you can't search for, but what I found is that after about the fourth screen and on, they're all free. There you go. Let's say that I want to download this resume template. I come over here and I hover over the cloud icon and it says License and Save to Computer and so, I click it and it saves it. So, just put it in the download file. And if I go to View, Show Downloads, there's the file. Now, from here, I can just jump to it and let's go ahead and open it. And it opens up in InDesign, it was created with an earlier version, but there you go. Pretty nice, right? Now, what if you had CS6? I took a couple screenshots because I don't have CS6 installed on this computer, but here's the dialog box you're going to get when you try to open up that template. You'll see, it could not open the template because it was created in a newer version, but look, click Convert to convert and open this document. That's that service from Adobe Sensei, that's what they call it, a cloud-based service that, when you click Convert, will upload this newer version template to Adobe servers. They will do the export to IDML that's required in order to open it up in an earlier version and then it will immediately open up, and here's the next screen that I get. The template opened up, as you can see, but it is missing fonts because most of these templates use Adobe Typekit fonts and if you're a subscriber to Creative Cloud, you automatically have a subscription to Typekit. But it's not a big deal, you could always create your own subscription to Typekit, it's only $50 a year, $60 a year, something like that. You don't have to have CC to subscribe to Typekit or you could just use your own fonts. But anyway, it's kind of cool that you can go to stock.adobe.com, find free InDesign templates, download them to your computer and use them in any version of InDesign, from CS6 to the latest version, completely legally. It's a great place to find free InDesign templates.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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029 Making professional drop caps10m 37s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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031 Moving pages from one document to another3m 15s
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032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve5m 58s
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007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below5m 46s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML5m 54s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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