InDesign Beginner Tutorial

InDesign Beginner Tutorial
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Who it's for: Curious beginners to advanced creatives working in any industry.
What it is: A multifaceted content layout program that allows for the creation of posters, brochures, newsletters, books, basic illustration, special effects, and interactivity.
What you'll learn: We begin with learning the interface and workspace to drawing and manipulating shapes, applying color, and understanding and implementing typography. Then, we get into a fun series of lessons on placing images, editing images, and text wrapping. Next, we do a deep dive into paragraph, character, and object styles. We explore the valuable Master pages, and learn about exporting and packaging our documents for publishing. In our advanced course, we cover data merging and how to create a Table of Contents and interactive form. We also go deeper into nested styles including Character, Paragraph, and Object styles. Finally, we get creating with some of our favorite vector and shape manipulation tools, and explore how to use the Creative Cloud Libraries more effectively to share and utilize all of your new assets and tools.
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Start 0:00
Introduction 0:03
Overview 1:48
Customizing the Interface 4:52
Navigation 13:54
Creating New Documents 21:44
Overview of the Pages Panel 28:07
Creating Posters 35:26
Placing Images and Adding Text 51:23
Working with Images (Part 1) 56:23
Working with Images (Part 2) 1:08:06
Creating an Image Grid 1:16:14
Aligning Objects 1:19:13
Working with Links 1:23:53
Image Effects and Eyedropper 1:30:59
Object Styles 1:38:34
Typographical Settings 1:48:22
Placing Text from Word 2:02:56
Text Frame Options 2:13:51
Text Threads and Hidden Characters 2:19:33
Paragraph Styles 2:27:41
Bullets, Numbering, and Paragraph Styles 2:40:21
Character Styles 2:45:30
Working with Color and Swatches 2:51:49
Working Gradients 3:01:08
Master Pages 3:11:13
Preferences, Spellcheck, and Display Performance 3:29:40
Exporting and Packaging 3:40:15
Conclusion 3:57:26
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This may be the best tutorial for any software I've ever seen. The tone, the pace, the structure, and the technical level are all perfect for the way my brain works. I find Adobe's own instructional materials to be cryptic at best, but this one hits it out of the park. Thanks so much for doing all this work for us.

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great tutorial so far. Its kinda hard to find good indesign tutorial/course on youtube or other platform. But the tutorial here is easy to follow and the quality of the tutorial just great (the video, the steps, the sound and the instructor is fun!). Well done ! and thank you for making this great tutorial for free.

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This is an incredibly helpful beginner's guide, thank you so much for taking the time to make it. Gosh, what a labour of love! I have a tiny tiny tiny request for future videos, please. In some of the lessons in this video, there is a dark background instead of a white background and this sometimes makes it very difficult for me to follow the cursor, even with my glasses on. However, when the background is white, it's super easy and I don't have to rewind all the time. Again, thank you so much xx

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Konten yang sangat bagus, saya akan merekomendasikan ke teman-teman saya.. Saya sangat merekomendasikan tutorial ini kepada siapa saja yang ingin mempelajari topik ini.. Tolong jelaskan lebih banyak tentang bagaimana konsep ini dapat diterapkan dalam dunia nyata.

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Thank you for the great tutorial! The subtitles have a timing issue, would be nice if that get fixed.

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