InDesign Advanced Tutorial

InDesign Advanced 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
CC Libraries 1:49
Adobe Stock 12:57
Advanced Layers 21:07
Master Pages 30:04
Inserting Sections 40:25
Placeholders 46:49
Loading Masters 59:30
Styles 1:03:28
Nested Character Styles 1:09:40
Nested Object Styles 1:17:04
Applying Borders to Styles 1:25:17
Applying Shading to Styles 1:28:17
Creating Custom Strokes 1:31:05
Direct Selection Tool 1:44:43
Pen Tools 1:50:16
Pathfinder Panel 1:56:25
Creating Outlines and Shapes from Type 2:04:04
Creating a Table of Contents 2:08:10
Creating Table of Contents Bookmarks in a PDF 2:24:41
Cross Referencing - Paragraph Styles 2:28:30
Cross Referencing - Text Anchors 2:36:36
Working with Hyperlinks 2:41:40
Creating Interactive Forms 2:48:29
Working with Tables 3:00:51
Data Merge Tool 3:12:41
Conclusion 3:17:43
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[@khanprinters7104]

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.

[@LearnitTraining]

Glad you love the videos so much!

[@joanne7400]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. I learned so many great things. You're a fantastic instructor David. Thank you again.

[@LearnitTraining]

You are very welcome! Thank you for your support! It helps to continue making videos for everyone!

[@jayaswati1505]

This is the best channel for learning about many computer applications and their usages. Thank you so much. I am not a techno-savvy person but I am interested in learning more and more about computer applications.

[@LearnitTraining]

Happy to help!

[@pinakichakraborty4561]

Mighty God Bless You.. I am from India... Its is very useful tutorials... As a student I saw you my respect

[@LearnitTraining]

Thank you for your continued support Pinaki!

[@ashokgaddam8996]

I really enjoyed thebeginner course. Now entered into advance. Very thankful to you.

[@LearnitTraining]

Best of luck!

[@jonathanlloyd5455]

Hi, I really enjoyed both the beginner course and advanced. The only thing I was hoping to learn was more about accessibility and how to make your designs accessible. As I work for local government all my designs have to be made accessible to users which I seem to be struggling with on how to do. But overall these are the best courses I've done so far you are really engaging!

[@chandran9n]

This is the best free software Ive seen. Respect.

[@naijatalkertive]

Am very happy for these tutorials like these. It very clear and easy to follow. No rushing. Thanks a lot. I hope for more videos on design. Like making, flyers, cover book, newsletters, etc. And also other Adobe tutorials like illustrator and Photoshop. Thanks a lot for these.

[@LearnitTraining]

Hi Afro King! Illustrator is upcoming and Photoshop is up on our channel already!

[@mahlubistephen]

This is by far the best KZbin channel, my fav 👌🏿♥️ I got bell 🔔 notification turned on. I’m learning a lot from this channel. Thank you 🙏🏿 I’m from South Africa 🇿🇦

[@LearnitTraining]

You are very welcome Mahlubi!

[@allfootballfanshub]

My best youtube teacher..... the way you go details by details is so amazing.......I'm still waiting for after effects tutorials from you and i wish i can get corel draw as well......thank you for your contribution

[@LearnitTraining]

Thank you so much 😀 We are working on getting After Effects made at the beginning of 2023

[@ishmaelsunday6238]

You can still click and edit content on regular pages that was created on the master page. For example, on the master page A, you created page numbers for 5 pages in black text. You realized that page 5 has a black background and the number 5 is not showing. You can hold "Command+Shift" on Mac click the number 5 on page 5 and highlight it and change the color to white.

[@LearnitTraining]

Thank you for the tip Ishmael!

[@ChrisW228]

You may have been skipping minutia since it’s an advanced course, but in Layers, the black around the page numbers should have extended in the the bleed areas. I agree with those who like your instruction style, but details are important.

[@LearnitTraining]

Thanks for the tip!

[@tobilawani2132]

Simply the best indesign tutorial. Now i know am teachable.

[@LearnitTraining]

Wow, thanks!

[@movfreak7]

Hi there! Really, you top any instructor I've ever had. Thank you for the clear and to the point instructions. I am following along with the files and your instructions. It seems the first file you've opened" Annual_Report_Final_Dc.indd "is not in the provided package. Minor inconvenience, the value you've provided more than makes up for it. Thank you soooooooooooo much

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[@BeatCreationsGaming]

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[@LearnitTraining]

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[@dailyictsolutions878]

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[@LearnitTraining]

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[@LearnitTraining]

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[@thankhard]

Thanks you very much for your learn...

[@LearnitTraining]

You are very welcome!

[@dvtrbl]

May god bless you with this courses 🥰

[@LearnitTraining]

Thank you so much!!

[@3320helena]

In fact, design in thise video is not very well. But there is a lot of usefull information.

[@3320helena]

It is great. Thank you.

[@LearnitTraining]

You are welcome!

[@khanbahawaluniversaldream8917]

Amazing Course! I think you should also make InDesign Expert Version! Thanks for the Free Course!

[@LearnitTraining]

Hi Khan! You are welcome! We are thinking of making an Expert Tips video. Not as detailed but covering the few things left out like e-pub.

[@ezeuba001]

Thanks a lot for this. Hoping for advance expert tutorial and more graphic design video.

[@nguyennhophongvu7128]

Thank you very much for this free course. Are you planning to have any more adobe courses? premiere pro, illustrator, for example. I am waiting for that.

[@LearnitTraining]

Hi Vu! Yes! We have Illustrator and Acrobat upcoming!

[@amroazazi]

Thank you very much,

[@LearnitTraining]

You are welcome!

[@microsoftsarker]

thanks you so much

[@LearnitTraining]

You are most welcome

[@rajanieswar1169]

Dave, Thanks for taking the time to make these tutorial videos. They are so helpful. I have learned so much. I would like to ask you about justification. Is there is a best practise when using justification in documents. Should it be fully justified or left justified? I am Proposal Writer and I always get push back from my operations team when I used left justified. I use it as I find fully justified unvevely spaced and makes it tough to read. What would you advise?

[@LearnitTraining]

Hello Rajani! You can get help directly from our instructors at Offsite, our online community - www.offsitebylearnit.com/

[@user-kq9bk3zb9p]

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[@LearnitTraining]

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[@MarcCardwell]

When I try to download the files, I see the contents of the zip, but the only thing that downloads is a tiny file with lots of characters. Also, it appears to download twice, but only 1 small file. What am I doing wrong?

[@bbashur]

Thanks!

[@LearnitTraining]

Thank you so much bbashur! Your support helps us to continue to make more and more videos!

[@turuanu]

Thank you very much. I wonder if the rainbow or any stroke can be customized. I'm trying to make a triple frame around my page, but I want the three strokes to be certain colors. Surely I don't have to make three rectangular paths and tweak the thickness, color and distance among them all? Thanks.

[@LearnitTraining]

Hello Turuanu! You can get help directly from our instructors at Offsite, our online community - www.offsitebylearnit.com

[@azharghumro]

Can't you share the resource InDesign files in IDML format so we all can open it? Since these files are in latest version of InDesign most of us are unable to open it.

[@bbashur]

Excellent contents and super instructor!

[@LearnitTraining]

Much appreciated!

[@pinakichakraborty4561]

Thank U Sir...

[@LearnitTraining]

Most welcome!

[@beax_art]

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[@LearnitTraining]

Thanks!

[@lisarussignan2535]

Amazing course and amazing teacher! I only have one question: does the submit button in forms only work with Acrobat Adobe? It doesn't seem to work in PDFs opened with Microsoft Edge

[@LearnitTraining]

Hello Lisa! You can get help directly from our instructors at Offsite, our online community - www.offsitebylearnit.com

[@azharghumro]

I have confusion in LAYERS tutorial and want you to clarify. You put Month and Year in Layers and same becomes visible on all relevant pages. Even on those pages where there already exists graphic. As far as I know that all the Master Page elements become invisible if we put any graphic in child page. So How did you achieve this. Did you use multiple Masters pages? Please clarify.

[@waseemi.h.3692]

make an layer put it on the top in layer pannel and put master pages matter on top of the layer then all visible in your document

[@carlloos4340]

Thanks a lot for the training. Although I consider myself pretty intermediate, I learned a lot from you. Just a heads up though, something that happened to me twice during your "nested object styles" section. If you happen to have some kind of character style chosen, while making an object style, weird things may occur. So one must make sure character style is set to "none" when making object style to avoid surprises. Looking forward to more advance trainings from you.

[@LearnitTraining]

Thanks for the tip!

[@sandyyang2223]

If you are creating one document for print AND for the web, should your colors be in cmyk or rgb? Many other videos don't talk about this as much and save their files as a pdf with rgb colors for print.

[@LearnitTraining]

For questions like these, ask our online learning community at offsitebylearnit.com.

[@lourdesrubione2251]

Hello, I'm having some kind of trouble with the files you provided. Every time I open them, the text is like highlighted and have around 300 errors. How do I fix that so I can see it exactly like the video? Thanks!

[@LearnitTraining]

Hi Lourdes! InDesign CC was used on the creation of the video. Some older versions of InDesign may not be 100% compatible.

[@lyrastar999]

the exercise files were almost useless. the course is informative, but the docs provided were confusing.

[@lmekong63105]

I'm looking to create a pictorial directory in Indesign ... but one that could be easily edited ... for example. If I've laid out the book and placed all the pictures and names below the pictures ... BUT now I need to add someone in the C's ... is there a way for me to easily shift all the people's pictures & names over one and insert the new person without having to Manually move everyone else behind where I want to insert someone??? I'm thinking surely their would be? But I'm not sure how ... I've worked with Indesign for 20 years but have never heard of doing something like this. (I'm also self taught and only know what I've learned and figured out myself ... so there's that! HA) Any help would be appreciated!!

[@LearnitTraining]

Hello lmekong63105! You can get help directly from our instructors at Offsite, our online community - www.offsitebylearnit.com

[@sumudamar2667]

Great tutorial. I have downloaded this tutorial. Easy to learn with your tutorials. I have a question for you. Please help me. I formatted a book for one of my clients in Indesign. And i sent him a PDF of the book. Now he is asking me to send indesign Data. I'm a beginer to indesign. Please tell me what is indesign data? How to find it ?

[@LearnitTraining]

Hi Sumud! You can get your question answered at Offsite our online community: www.offsitebylearnit.com

[@desireabroad682]

Exercise files are not being open?

[@LearnitTraining]

Hello desire! We just tested the links and files. They are all currently working

[@user-wm4ph4sh7d]

Please!!! I use Indesign 2020 because it says that it provides Myanmar Unicode System. The Myanmar font displayed right in sentences where Myanmar words are mixed with Korean and Chinese languages. But when the sentence contained Arabic (the MiddleEast Language), the Myanmar font was messed up and didn't display in the correct order. I would like to know why it keeps happening, what the error is and what I can do to make it right again? Thank you.

[@LearnitTraining]

Hi စော ဦး ! That is definitely out of our wheelhouse. I would suggest contacting Adobe for help - helpx.adobe.com/support.html

[@user-wm4ph4sh7d]

@@LearnitTraining thanks ...

[@azeezolami6625]

How can I download this video please

[@HybridSign]

Creating Custom Strokes 1:31:05 not working for me

[@LearnitTraining]

To create a custom stroke style in InDesign, you need to: Choose Window > Stroke to display the Stroke panel. In the panel menu, choose Stroke Styles. Click New. Enter a name for the stroke style. Set the stroke length to match the pattern length. Choose the desired end cap. Click Add and Done, OK to save the style. Custom stroke styles can be saved and loaded into other InDesign documents

[@HybridSign]

@@LearnitTraining I do what you say nothing happened no any change in my stroke

[@jayalathkumarathunga4751]

how to insert table of content for InDesign book (collection of InDesign document)

[@LearnitTraining]

Hi Jayalath Kumarathunga! You can get your question answered at Offsite, our online community - www.offsitebylearnit.com

[@user-wu4tj2xn6w]

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[@LearnitTraining]

We love that you learned so much!

[@goodday1209]

Cant open the exercise files. It just opens as a zip file in OneDrive but I have a Mac 2012.

[@LearnitTraining]

Hi Good Day! Please be sure you are using InDesign CC as the files may not working on older versions of InDesign

[@masterloot]

Thorough but for me a bit too stretched. this is a tutorial with side-quests

[@LearnitTraining]

Noted!~

[@xander9003]

I got the feeling inside my bones

[@mariejolie6505]

hello i like it very much, but the material link is for indesign

[@LearnitTraining]

Yes, this is an InDesign class

[@mariejolie6505]

Yes, i am sorry. I was watching on iPad and opened it on macbook….and chose the wrong one. My fault. Both videos are Great .❤thank you😊

[@Belisiario]

40:25

[@ema.g.j.s1991]

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[@LearnitTraining]

THANK YOU!

[@Charlotte-ef9th]

it’s all cool but how to get this fucking WIDE panel?!?!?!?

[@belindarowles2515]

Thanks!

[@LearnitTraining]

Thank you so much for support Belinda! It helps us to continue to create new videos each Friday!