Life Changing InDesign Tricks You MUST know for Professional Architecture Portfolio

InDesign is essential in making layouts for presentations, portfolios, and any kind of publication work. When you're striving for the highest quality possible for your portfolio, and/or when you're working with a large file, these tips and tricks will save you a ton of time.
Time stamps:
0:24 Lock objects
1:29 Align tool
2:52 Reset Colors
3:56 Master pages
6:34 Paragraph style
9:07 Character style
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[@ArchiHacks]

Did we miss anything? Share your favorite InDesign tricks in the comments!

[@bastiaanvinkestijn9928]

Nice stylish tutorial, thank you for sharing! I use CTRL+B a lot for alignment of text underneath an image. Maybe also tackle the '+' sign when it appears in the paragraph styles list (how to override and apply)

[@SarojKumar-mx1nj]

@@bastiaanvinkestijn9928 kkkkakkkalkkkkkkkklskkkkkakksskkkklllllll

[@AsielMe]

Loved the tutorial. All the tips are super helpful for saving time. Thank you for sharing! :)

[@kaye.]

This is definitely life changing! This whole channel is a god send for us archi students!!

[@schmooncakes]

This is so helpful, especially the page numbering one. Been trying to figure that out for ages.

[@ArchiHacks]

Glad you found it helpful! That one is a real life saver right? x)

[@sanatabassum2714]

Incredible video! Learnt so many new tricks that I will definitely be applying :)

[@ArchiHacks]

Glad you liked it! Great to see you here Sana :D

[@adharmacharmalok6651]

Amazing. Learnt new tricks. One trick that has always helped me is the Alt+shift+Ctl+C that fits a picture within a frame proportionally.

[@ArchiHacks]

Glad you found it informative : ) That's one of my favourites too!

[@edgarschefer394]

Just thank you!

[@killerofprimes]

Useful as always!

[@ArchiHacks]

Always a pleasure to be helpful : ) Thanks for your continued support!!

[@vanessabao7319]

Another great video ❤️

[@ArchiHacks]

Glad you like it Vanessa 😊

[@khein572]

I just finished my portfolio class. I wish I saw your tutorial when I started the class. These tricks are very useful. I think I'm gonna redo my portfolio to make it better. Thank you

[@ArchiHacks]

Glad it was helpful! If you would like, you can download my portfolio checklist for free here: gumroad.com/l/portfolio-checklist

[@blurpblurp]

@@ArchiHacks hye, why does the Portfolio Checklist isn't available for download? I would love to have a copy 😭

[@ArchiHacks]

It's not much but it's back online!

[@howenchang9290]

very helpful tips and love the way you layout the sheet, can you do a video explaining some of the concepts and workflow behind your competition design? how you pick them, time spends in each phase, etc. Also what font do you used for the title? much thanks!

[@ArchiHacks]

Yes of course! In fact, there's so much to cover on architectural competition, that I'm hoping to make a full course for that. Stay tuned for more!

[@Brainjuice666]

Nicely presented. One comment though. Character style is really just for differentiating a style within a paragraph style. Paragraph style is the overall base style of a whole paragraph, and character style can change a single word or letter bold or different color overriding the base paragraph style. Your example can just be done in your nested paragraph style already.

[@temitopeakinsiku4722]

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ArchiHacks]

You're welcome!!!! 😮 😮

[@akshayathiagarajan1856]

Great Video !!! What is the size of the page that you used for this portfolio???

[@ebuka_idafum_designs]

Beautiful portfolio, what is the page size?

[@LandSpaceArchitecture]

Thank you for sharing! Very helpful!

[@ArchiHacks]

You're always welcome Landspace! 😍 Love your videos too

[@iwannamj]

You are amazing

[@ArchiHacks]

You're breathtaking

[@sanilalkuttimon1755]

❤️❤️❤️😍😍

[@chriszin94]

Hey and thanks for the informative video!! What are the page dimensions you used?

[@glebs3856]

Did you find out what it was?

[@ArchiHacks]

This question is answered in this video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIfEmYSQhsl5nJY

[@temitopeakinsiku4722]

Hello!, so I am working on my portfolio for masters and I am using indesign, but I have a little problem. I exported the Indesign file to pdf to see what the final result would look like and I realised that all the diagrams (linked from adobe illustrator) having thin lines appeared to have a thicker line weight. I had to zoom in before the diagrams showed their proper thin line weights, what could have caused this and what can I do?. Thank you 🙏🏾

[@ArchiHacks]

Hey there, that's a great question! Most PDF readers have the option to 'enhance thin lines' option enabled by default, which renders vector lines in the same line weight. You can google how to turn them off, but it's difficult to rely on employers or admission committee to do that too. So instead, I recommend you export your art work to a raster format and use them to replace the vector illustrations in InDesign. Some tips on doing that is shown in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqmYZWOreraeqac at around 24:14 Let me know if that works for you!

[@NAAZARCH]

How do u get that book page layout?

[@abhisheksaha7302]

When I moved table ms word to InDesign , for large contain of writing some table automatically shift to next page, and doesn't move to first pages, as a result there is a hug gap/space on first page, can u please give me some solutions..... trying from last 3 days, but I can't solve this.....help please....

[@ArchiHacks]

Hi Abhishek, I'm not sure if I understand your question. Could you explain it more?

[@nicolasviel5641]

how does it look like a book! please tutorial

[@shubhamsutar238]

what is the size of ur page ?

[@ArchiHacks]

Check out our video on common portfolio mistakes!

[@shubhamsutar238]

@@ArchiHacks No I checked there isn't anything mentioned abt the size

[@studio22a34]

dude what version are you running lmao why does the interface look so old

[@ben3000]

Very nice, well explained video, but are these tricks or just basic functions of indesign? Slightly misleading

[@ArchiHacks]

Hey, thanks for your comment! That's a good question. I'm not sure what would count as a trick that isn't a built in functionality 🤔 I guess I meant it to include functions that had most impact on my workflows. It's okay if you thought they were too basic! Haha

[@ben3000]

@@ArchiHacks Nah it was worth it for the distributed spacing alone! I didn't know that one. Love your videos and hope your channel continues to grow.

[@ArchiHacks]

@@ben3000 I'm glad there was at least a little but of take away! Thanks for your kind words, and I'll try to come back with more useful contents : )

[@LightCreatorStudios]

The ad placements in this video are horrible. You'll be in the middle of a sentence, and boom, ad. Can't keep track of what's going on.

[@atalayfersiz4047]

Its paid :(

[@SoRk124578]

working with an white indesign?? wtf^^

[@ArchiHacks]

Haha it's an old version 😉

[@SoRk124578]

@@ArchiHacks got me some flashbacks^^

[@roxanneregimbald3761]

If you're a professional and you don't know how to lock object or how to do page numbering, you are not a professional 🤦‍♀️