Adobe InDesign CS5 - My Top 5 Favorite Features. InDesign Templates. Until InDesign CS4, Adobe shipped a number of templates with InDesign. However, when CS5 shipped, those templates mysteriously disappeared. After a year of legal wrangling with Adobe, we have obtained permission to distribute those templates here, at InDesignSecrets.com. Please note: These templates are saved in the CS4 format, so you can open them in InDesign CS4 and later.We’re distributing the templates “as is” and subject to Adobe’s own licensing agreements (see below).These are templates, which means you may create pretty much any InDesign documents you want based on them. But it also means that they’re just starting points. Don’t expect them to be perfect.
(Hey, we didn’t build them!) Enjoy! License Agreement (click here for a PDF version) This license and the rights granted herein will terminate automatically upon any breach by you of the terms of this license. Free InDesign Templates. How to Create a Brochure Using InDesign: 18 Steps. Books and Videos. Lots of Free InDesign Video Training. By: David Blatner | December 30, 2009 You know that Anne-Marie and I each present a bunch of InDesign training videos at Lynda.com, right?
But if you don’t subscribe you may not realize that lynda.com offers several free “test” videos on eaach title, just to whet your appetite. But there’s some good stuff in there! For example, click on the links on these pages. Obviously, if you find those useful, you may want to consider subscribing. InDesign Videos on YouTube It has also come to my attention that there’s this new-fangled contraption called YouTube, on which there are a few (or, more accurately, a few bazillion) training videos. Note that even if you’re using CS4, you might still want to watch CS3 movies, because many of the features work exactly the same. Of course, there are many more, which you can find by doing a search at YouTube. (Plus, did you know that you can play lynda.com videos on your iphone now? InDesignSecrets Videocasts Even More Great Videos at Adobe TV! Need To Learn InDesign Fast. Peter Spier wrote:I've been staying out of this up to now, but I can't hold myself back any longer.Do you have any experience in print production in Photoshop?
Do you know the differences between spot and process colors, and RGB, CMYK, and Lab spaces? Do you understand resolution and resampling, and when it's OK and when it's not? Do you know what bleed is? Imposition? Do you understand color management? Let's see, I'm currently a digital restoration artist so... yeah, definitely have "experience in print production in Photoshop". I'm not suggesting that I'm going to be an expert at it in no time, but I will be proficient with InDesign by this time next week, one way or another. I appreciate any and all CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, though for those for whom this post makes you "LMAO", I suppose I'm glad I could make your day more entertaining.
Writing Effectively in InDesign Using Book. InDesign allows you to collect all documents in a Book. Using Book, you can easily synchronize styles in every document and maintain a consistent layout throughout your project. In this tutorial, we will create a book made from 3 chapters, complete with Table of Content, Introduction, and a Cover. You will learn the concepts of InDesign, from applying styles, adding page numbers, warping text, using variables and master pages.
Let's get started! Step 1: Creating the First Document Lets start by creating a new document (File > New). Step 2 We will use this document as our first chapter. Step 3: Master Page First, we need to define a master page. Step 4 In the Pages Panels, double click the "B-First" thumbnail to edit it. Step 5 Right click on the text frame and choose Text Frame Options. Step 6 Double click the text frame to insert text. Step 7: Using Character Styles Let's change the chapter number character using Character Styles. Step 8 Double click New Character Style to edit it. Step 9. Watch the Online Video Course Learning InDesign 2. 15 Great Resources for Learning Adobe InDesign. Alright vector lovers, let's turn on multiple-pages 'eh! Adobe Illustrator is great, it's my favorite program actually, but even with the new Artboards feature in CS4 it just doesn't compare to InDesign for creating multi-page documents.
If you've been meaning to get started with InDesign, but have put it off for whatever reason, well now is the time to get stared! This article rounds up a bunch of great resources on learning Adobe InDesign, which will get users started and keep intermediate users growing. And for any of you advanced InDesign users out there, or professional InDesign craftsmen, drop us a line because we're looking to add more InDesign resources to Vectortuts+. Now let's review these InDesign resources! Blogs and Sites 1. This site is loaded with great features. 2. If you're not familiar with Layers Magazine, well then you should be. 3. This website is meant to accompany the book "Instant InDesign," which focuses exclusively on the art of template design and production.
InDesign Templates | StockInDesign. InDesign 8.5×11 Grid System (12) 30 Design Tutorials For Creating Professional Business Cards. An collection of design tutorials which will guide you through the process of creating your very own business card, including showing you how to bleed a business card in order for it to be ready for print. A wide collection of tutorials which I’m more than certain that will teach you everything which you need to know about preparing business cards for print as well as creating good business cards. With this fountain of knowledge your be on the right path to start your own business card printing. Feel free to share any good business card design tutorials which you may feel that we may have missed from this compilation, in the comment below it would be more than appreciated.
Last year we put together an inspiration post which consisted of clever and creative business cards a great inspiration post which gets your creative juices flowing in order to create your own unique business cards, check it out. 1. Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Creating an Interactive Portfolio with InDesign « « Layers Magazine Layers Magazine. Up until now, whenever I’d mention creating an interactive document with InDesign, the first thing most people would think is, “He must be talking about making a PDF.” While you can certainly still make interactive PDFs from InDesign, you can do so much more using the InDesign CS5 interactive features. 1 CREATE A NEW WEB DOCUMENTWe’re pretty used to creating InDesign documents for print in standard sizes such as Letter and A4.
In this case, however, we’re going to the Web, so it’s best to start out with a document size that makes sense for a computer display. Choose File>New>Document to create a new document. For Intent select Web and for Page Size select 1024×768. Click OK. 2 CHANGE PAPER COLOR TO BLACKI almost never change the paper color in InDesign because it doesn’t really affect the printed page. 3 CREATE NEW MASTER PAGE AND FRAMETo speed up production, let’s create a new master page. Now we’re going to create a frame for the large images. Square Orange - Wedding brochures.
Our portfolio Client • Elizabeth Hotels Projects • Wedding Brochures and Collateral for several hotels including White Horse, Letchworth Hall, County Hotel and Orsett Hall.