1 00:00:03,658 --> 00:00:12,088 [Auto-generated transcript. Edits may have been applied for clarity.] So we will go ahead and get started today. So first, I just wanted to do a couple of introductions real quick. 2 00:00:12,088 --> 00:00:17,818 So I'm Chelsea Hooper, instructional technology specialist in the Innovation and Research Karmas, 3 00:00:17,818 --> 00:00:22,288 which used to be the Media and Digital Resource Lab on the first floor of the library. 4 00:00:22,288 --> 00:00:25,048 We have renovated and redesigned. 5 00:00:25,048 --> 00:00:32,098 We have an Adobe creative space there, as well as data space makerspace for 3D printing, all kinds of fun stuff in there. 6 00:00:32,098 --> 00:00:37,108 So definitely check that out. And then I'll have Alex introduce herself. 7 00:00:37,108 --> 00:00:40,318 She'll be helping me with the workshop today. Yes. 8 00:00:40,318 --> 00:00:51,178 Hi, I'm Alex. I'm a student worker at the I.R.S. I'm a major in graphic design and I'm minoring in marketing and I have been helping. 9 00:00:51,178 --> 00:00:55,618 I think you mentioned it, Jose. I've been helping her with some of these Déby workshops. 10 00:00:55,618 --> 00:01:00,898 They're really great. It's a good opportunity to use them while you're here. Yeah, for sure. 11 00:01:00,898 --> 00:01:05,818 Yeah. Alex has been a great help. He even led some of the workshops over the summer. 12 00:01:05,818 --> 00:01:13,198 So it's been a little more challenging as trying to fit it into our schedules, you know, for the fall with more classes and stuff like that. 13 00:01:13,198 --> 00:01:17,098 But it's been good. And so this is in design, too. 14 00:01:17,098 --> 00:01:23,998 So in design, too, is really this session is really designed as a follow up to the InDesign for beginners. 15 00:01:23,998 --> 00:01:31,918 And so today's workshop enables you to kind of take those beginning publication layout skills and go further with them. 16 00:01:31,918 --> 00:01:41,908 So we're going to talk about things like working with layers and also customizing some documents and just working more with the design interface. 17 00:01:41,908 --> 00:01:49,858 A little bit more in-depth to help you, because that's where in design really shines, is helping you with those layouts and publications. 18 00:01:49,858 --> 00:01:54,208 So it's great. So as you guys, some questions, feel free to post in the chat. 19 00:01:54,208 --> 00:01:59,578 Alex, we'll be watching the chat for me and she'll let me know if there's a question we need to address. 20 00:01:59,578 --> 00:02:05,128 Also, what we're gonna do is we have some basically kind of a lesson plan that we'll go through. 21 00:02:05,128 --> 00:02:11,128 But about halfway through our lesson plan, we'll take a little break. And I thought, Alex is a graphic design student, 22 00:02:11,128 --> 00:02:17,308 would be a great opportunity for her to maybe show you one of her InDesign files so you can just kind 23 00:02:17,308 --> 00:02:25,088 of get an idea of how somebody put a file together and some of the components that she that she used. 24 00:02:25,088 --> 00:02:28,888 So we'll have her do that sort of halfway through as kind of a little break. 25 00:02:28,888 --> 00:02:34,768 So that'll be great. Of course, you guys know you need to have your WIOD need to have InDesign installed. 26 00:02:34,768 --> 00:02:38,698 We'll kind of skip over that because you guys kind of know that already. 27 00:02:38,698 --> 00:02:44,638 And today's presentation is based on the getting started and designed tutorials that are from Adobe. 28 00:02:44,638 --> 00:02:52,198 And so if you wanted to get extra practice and some of these topics or you wanted to go more into depth, 29 00:02:52,198 --> 00:02:57,928 if you go to the getting started to design tutorials page, it was it'll show you the course, 30 00:02:57,928 --> 00:03:06,568 which you will have done by the time we finished today's workshop. And but it'll have a little bit of extra practice in those areas, if you like. 31 00:03:06,568 --> 00:03:16,858 And there are links there to more tutorials. So if you want to go into a more intermediate or advanced tutorial from there, Adobe has them. 32 00:03:16,858 --> 00:03:24,088 And now that we've been using the same type of setup that Adobe uses, you'll be comfortable with continuing with that, 33 00:03:24,088 --> 00:03:32,308 with using the practice files and downloading the practice files and trying, you know, the the different topics that they mentioned in there. 34 00:03:32,308 --> 00:03:37,648 And then also, this is just a link to that sort of memory, a cheat sheet. 35 00:03:37,648 --> 00:03:41,818 This is the same one that is that is linked in the beginning. 36 00:03:41,818 --> 00:03:45,628 And design one is just that we go into some more of these things. 37 00:03:45,628 --> 00:03:50,728 We didn't go through all of these tips, as you know, in the beginner one. 38 00:03:50,728 --> 00:03:53,008 And this is just a nice memory aid for you. 39 00:03:53,008 --> 00:04:02,038 So if you're not sure, you need reminder about how graphics work and things like that, but just another tool that you're welcome to use there. 40 00:04:02,038 --> 00:04:04,988 And again. So the one dry folder has the practice files in it. 41 00:04:04,988 --> 00:04:10,228 So if you'd like to download those and try them later or kind of try them as we go, you're welcome to do that, too. 42 00:04:10,228 --> 00:04:15,478 I'm actually going to start off today just using a fresh document and we're just gonna kind of remind ourselves 43 00:04:15,478 --> 00:04:22,078 of the interface and some of the features and then we'll get into using some of the practice files as well. 44 00:04:22,078 --> 00:04:27,178 So I will go ahead and bring up InDesign here. 45 00:04:27,178 --> 00:04:33,118 And we're just going to create a new document at first and we're gonna go to print. 46 00:04:33,118 --> 00:04:40,138 So we remember that we can choose the settings over here for what type of file we want to create. 47 00:04:40,138 --> 00:04:48,658 This is where we would name our file. Set the settings. There's some presets here we can manage if we want facing pages or not in this, 48 00:04:48,658 --> 00:04:53,668 which is two pages next to each other, like a book or a magazine or a brochure. 49 00:04:53,668 --> 00:04:59,578 We don't want facing pages right now, so we're just playing around with it. We get add multiple pages here. 50 00:04:59,578 --> 00:05:04,168 We could also add columns to our pages. No columns here, just our guides. 51 00:05:04,168 --> 00:05:08,848 So they're just helping you with how many sections to your page do you want? 52 00:05:08,848 --> 00:05:13,308 That's really hard if you're designing something like a big poster. Sue lots. 53 00:05:13,308 --> 00:05:18,028 And we will use and design to maybe design their research posters because then they can really line 54 00:05:18,028 --> 00:05:24,118 things up and really control the spacing and get the most use out of their poster space as well. 55 00:05:24,118 --> 00:05:32,908 Even though there's not a lot of face to face conferences going on, there are digital conferences going on and they may have you submit a PDAF. 56 00:05:32,908 --> 00:05:39,798 So then you're free to use whatever you want initially to create that PDAF, which could be in design and design, is nice because. 57 00:05:39,798 --> 00:05:44,658 Really is like a curation tool, pulls together text, pulls together images, 58 00:05:44,658 --> 00:05:54,618 different types of images you can control where they where they appear, you can control the text and the spacing very, very nicely. 59 00:05:54,618 --> 00:05:58,038 And it has some guides to help you with, layout and things like that. 60 00:05:58,038 --> 00:06:04,198 So it's very nice for that kind of thing. So we'll go ahead and create just a blank page to kind of get started here. 61 00:06:04,198 --> 00:06:11,118 And just reminding ourselves about the interface, I need to switch my workspace up here back to essentials. 62 00:06:11,118 --> 00:06:18,458 So essentials is typically where we kind of start. And but you notice there are different workspaces you can choose from. 63 00:06:18,458 --> 00:06:24,528 We'll check out the digital publishing one a little bit later. And so we remember there are toolbars are over here. 64 00:06:24,528 --> 00:06:31,518 Remember that everything exists inside of a frame. Let's start by talking about some text frames. 65 00:06:31,518 --> 00:06:42,468 So if we start with some text frames here and we just create maybe some a couple of titles, we're gonna talk about styles for a moment. 66 00:06:42,468 --> 00:06:51,018 So let's see. Let's we want that one to be pretty big. May we want a different style like Ariel Black or something like that for our title? 67 00:06:51,018 --> 00:06:57,648 Maybe we need a paragraph of text here. Notice there's a little trickier place filled with placeholder text. 68 00:06:57,648 --> 00:07:00,288 This is great if you don't have your text yet, but you want to see, like, 69 00:07:00,288 --> 00:07:05,208 what it's going to look like and stuff like that and kind of spaced out and so on. 70 00:07:05,208 --> 00:07:14,628 And then what you can do is as you create these files and all of that, what you can do here is once you have created a certain style. 71 00:07:14,628 --> 00:07:27,288 So we've got our basic paragraph style here. You know, we've we it's set to Minyon Pro and so on, which you can do is as you create these paragraphs. 72 00:07:27,288 --> 00:07:33,048 So we'll create another list, create another title. So we'll say title two. 73 00:07:33,048 --> 00:07:41,928 So if we go back up here and right here, we because we change this setting here, we want to do what's called create a new style. 74 00:07:41,928 --> 00:07:47,388 And we're gonna call this style title. OK. So now we've got our titles style here. 75 00:07:47,388 --> 00:07:55,068 So now if we want to apply that same style here, we can say that I'd not name it. 76 00:07:55,068 --> 00:08:01,248 Right. Maybe I have to highlight. We can maybe I didn't name it quite right. 77 00:08:01,248 --> 00:08:06,558 Names itself the paragraph style one. So but you can do it's called creating the style. 78 00:08:06,558 --> 00:08:13,638 And then once you have created that style, you can apply that style to multiple text boxes. 79 00:08:13,638 --> 00:08:17,658 So now we've got this is just a basic paragraph style here. 80 00:08:17,658 --> 00:08:23,178 OK. And then let's create maybe another paragraph here. 81 00:08:23,178 --> 00:08:36,228 OK, so now if we go here and maybe choose to make changes to this setting here and let's maybe change, you know, to maybe a different kind of font, 82 00:08:36,228 --> 00:08:47,658 maybe a different size, then what we can do is because this is is this is now our basic paragraph style is we can update this basic paragraph style. 83 00:08:47,658 --> 00:08:53,958 So now that we have changed you, the font and the font size. 84 00:08:53,958 --> 00:08:58,668 So this little button here means redefine the style. So it's kind of like updating it. 85 00:08:58,668 --> 00:09:05,508 So it's it says it's telling it. Take these new settings that I have just chosen and apply it to this new style. 86 00:09:05,508 --> 00:09:09,858 So when I click here, it's going to update everything that was set. 87 00:09:09,858 --> 00:09:17,808 With that basic paragraph style. So you see if you can use in design and the text frames to create these styles. 88 00:09:17,808 --> 00:09:19,308 And the advantage is, 89 00:09:19,308 --> 00:09:28,758 is that if when you have multiple text boxes set up and you want to maybe refresh everything or you want to change everything to different styles, 90 00:09:28,758 --> 00:09:35,868 you can choose to have those styles set for, say, your titles, one style, your paragraphs of in one style. 91 00:09:35,868 --> 00:09:39,138 And then when you when you choose to change that style, 92 00:09:39,138 --> 00:09:44,868 you can change everything at once instead of going through and copying and pasting and figuring out which style, 93 00:09:44,868 --> 00:09:48,708 what you know, what you had picked, which font you would pick the size and so on. 94 00:09:48,708 --> 00:09:58,848 So using styles with your text boxes. Very helpful because then you can update very quickly right away, which is great. 95 00:09:58,848 --> 00:10:06,258 So also we should just kind of keep in mind, you know, some other things about our interface. 96 00:10:06,258 --> 00:10:12,858 You know, the fact that we have a type tool, frame, tool and a shape tool that everything exists inside of frames. 97 00:10:12,858 --> 00:10:16,698 So we learned last time that we can get to different kinds of shapes. 98 00:10:16,698 --> 00:10:20,598 Right. Clicking and dragging and so on and creating shapes. 99 00:10:20,598 --> 00:10:29,358 We've got our fill options over here. Another fill option that you can do, which makes things kind of interesting, is the gradient. 100 00:10:29,358 --> 00:10:37,908 So you can choose to fill with a gradient. And then what you can do is you can even adjust the colors of the gradient. 101 00:10:37,908 --> 00:10:39,548 So if you wanted this to be a certain. 102 00:10:39,548 --> 00:10:48,998 Color, you can you can decide what number you want to put in there and put the exact code in there and adjust that if you want to. 103 00:10:48,998 --> 00:10:52,918 And gradients are a neat way to add some interest to your documents. 104 00:10:52,918 --> 00:10:59,678 So you might use that as like a interesting background and interesting background could just be a shape that fills up the whole page. 105 00:10:59,678 --> 00:11:08,108 And then you've got an interesting gradient and you can adjust, you know, the colors here as well on depending on what type of gradient you need. 106 00:11:08,108 --> 00:11:15,908 Of course, you can do that with any kind of shape. And then along with that, you have the gradient swatch tool as well, 107 00:11:15,908 --> 00:11:23,558 where you can even kind of decide different, you know, different sort of directions of the gradient. 108 00:11:23,558 --> 00:11:26,768 So you have kind of some neat things that you can do with gradient. 109 00:11:26,768 --> 00:11:32,148 So definitely wanted to mention that, you know, as kind of an option as you're kind of getting more into, 110 00:11:32,148 --> 00:11:36,818 you know, more ways to use frames and shapes and things like that. 111 00:11:36,818 --> 00:11:45,038 We talked last time about how we can rename swatches. When you create a color, you can rename the Swatch gradient the eye dropper tool. 112 00:11:45,038 --> 00:11:48,808 So, for example, if we have a. Yeah, go ahead. 113 00:11:48,808 --> 00:11:52,948 This, I think mirror. Are you raising your hand? Is that like a question? 114 00:11:52,948 --> 00:11:57,028 Yeah, I did have a quick question. Go ahead. Is that a good point to stuffiest. 115 00:11:57,028 --> 00:12:03,698 Yeah. Go right ahead. You talked about changing the background, like using the shape to change the Bracher. 116 00:12:03,698 --> 00:12:08,918 Is that how you would change? Like the entire page, you would lay down a shape and then put everything over it? 117 00:12:08,918 --> 00:12:14,258 Yep. Exactly. So what you would do is you could just literally draw your shape here. 118 00:12:14,258 --> 00:12:20,828 And then you could fill that with whatever you want. There was some sort of gradient like that. 119 00:12:20,828 --> 00:12:28,158 Exactly. So this like outer border there, those are those are the margins. 120 00:12:28,158 --> 00:12:33,128 Yeah. So I'm I'm acting as if I'm preparing this for like a normal printer. 121 00:12:33,128 --> 00:12:42,578 So what you could do is you can you could go through and set up and set a what they call a blade, 122 00:12:42,578 --> 00:12:49,058 which means it kind of goes even over the edges in order to kind of get that type of thing to print. 123 00:12:49,058 --> 00:12:53,288 Then you would send that to a professional printer. What you would normally do. 124 00:12:53,288 --> 00:12:57,398 You would have. And you would send them the file, the package files. 125 00:12:57,398 --> 00:13:03,428 Usually what you would do if you wanted it to print all the way to the edges of the paper. 126 00:13:03,428 --> 00:13:08,128 Definitely. You would have to take that to a professional printer. Yeah. 127 00:13:08,128 --> 00:13:09,518 Great question. Great question. 128 00:13:09,518 --> 00:13:16,298 I've had some I asked that before when they were designing a postcards, you know, because they wanted it to go all the way to the edge. 129 00:13:16,298 --> 00:13:23,108 And a lot times what they'll do is they'll drag the the shape beyond the paper edges. 130 00:13:23,108 --> 00:13:26,888 Mom, you know, and then set it as that particular bleed. 131 00:13:26,888 --> 00:13:34,548 And so that way then for sure, the color is going to go over the edge the way it should, you know, to the printer. 132 00:13:34,548 --> 00:13:37,108 So, yeah, great question. That's perfect. 133 00:13:37,108 --> 00:13:43,938 But yes, you can definitely just layer shapes, you know, as you want to and as you need to create things you can layer, 134 00:13:43,938 --> 00:13:51,548 you know, your your shapes and fill in the different colors that you need and so on, and then layer text boxes on top. 135 00:13:51,548 --> 00:13:58,388 And then as you do those kinds of things, you can use tools down here to arrange. 136 00:13:58,388 --> 00:14:02,678 So you see now I want my texts to be all the way at the front. 137 00:14:02,678 --> 00:14:08,138 So you can use the arrange tool to help you kind of get those shapes in the order that you want. 138 00:14:08,138 --> 00:14:09,998 But putting you taking, you know, 139 00:14:09,998 --> 00:14:16,598 like a colored background and then laying those text frames on top and then changing the color of those of the tax and stuff. 140 00:14:16,598 --> 00:14:21,458 Good way to kind of get some contrast there that you might want as well. 141 00:14:21,458 --> 00:14:28,478 And then if you have something the way that you want, you can kind of select multiple objects and then group them together. 142 00:14:28,478 --> 00:14:33,368 And then once they're grouped together, you can move them as a as a unit. 143 00:14:33,368 --> 00:14:39,218 And then if you ever needed to ungrouped them, you could just click Ungrouped and then you could separate them back out. 144 00:14:39,218 --> 00:14:43,748 You have to double click usually and get with the one that you want. So and then separate them back out. 145 00:14:43,748 --> 00:14:46,448 How you how you want to. Yeah. Good questions. 146 00:14:46,448 --> 00:14:52,208 So these are all just things that help you with, you know, getting the layout the way you want and so on. 147 00:14:52,208 --> 00:14:56,208 The eyedropper tool is another great tool as well. 148 00:14:56,208 --> 00:15:05,588 So if we draw another rectangle and we want it to have the same sort of properties as this rectangle, 149 00:15:05,588 --> 00:15:10,388 then we can go and find the eyedropper tool here. 150 00:15:10,388 --> 00:15:15,908 And then we sample. We have what we have the box selected that we want to make the changes to. 151 00:15:15,908 --> 00:15:20,708 And then we sample the place where we want those changes to come from. 152 00:15:20,708 --> 00:15:31,128 So the trick is to have selected what you want to edit first and then pull from the one that you want to apply those properties to. 153 00:15:31,128 --> 00:15:36,358 But Eyedropper Tool is very handy as well, because then you don't have to keep going back and changing the settings, 154 00:15:36,358 --> 00:15:40,858 you know, or keep finding what gradient you. Etc. and so on. 155 00:15:40,858 --> 00:15:48,488 So, yep, great. And then last time we also talked about we just did redefining styles. 156 00:15:48,488 --> 00:15:55,418 That was good. Also with text boxes as well, we should probably talk about. 157 00:15:55,418 --> 00:16:06,908 Is that you can get to even more fonts. So over here you can go to find more and you can go to font started WKRN and pulled from even more fonts. 158 00:16:06,908 --> 00:16:10,178 And you can also filter them by different types of font. 159 00:16:10,178 --> 00:16:19,508 So if you know you want sans serif fonts, then it's going to just filter for those types of fonts. 160 00:16:19,508 --> 00:16:24,538 So that's very handy sort of features. Well, that you can do for your fonts. 161 00:16:24,538 --> 00:16:29,258 And then with text phrase, we learned especially how you can link text frames as well. 162 00:16:29,258 --> 00:16:37,248 So if you've got to text frames here, remember, we have the output box and then over here we have an input box. 163 00:16:37,248 --> 00:16:44,828 So if we want to link one text frame to another, click the output box and then click the input box of the next one. 164 00:16:44,828 --> 00:16:49,388 And then under view and extras, you can tell it to show the text thread. 165 00:16:49,388 --> 00:16:56,108 So then you can as your document gets really complicated, you can see which text frames link to which ones. 166 00:16:56,108 --> 00:17:01,508 And of course, we learned that this is handy because, you know, as one as you type into one text frame, 167 00:17:01,508 --> 00:17:06,818 it'll automatically fill over to the second text frame and so on. 168 00:17:06,818 --> 00:17:12,638 And then last thing we're going to do with our new document is going to be talking about graphics. 169 00:17:12,638 --> 00:17:17,438 Last time we learned that we can place graphics onto our page. 170 00:17:17,438 --> 00:17:22,478 So we're gonna go to file place and we're going to toss a graphic in there. 171 00:17:22,478 --> 00:17:25,188 And this is from the practice files that we're using. 172 00:17:25,188 --> 00:17:34,568 So just toss in maybe sea lion and then we'll hit open because we didn't have any boxes selected like a placeholder box or anything like that. 173 00:17:34,568 --> 00:17:41,268 We get what's called the loaded cursor. And then we can click and drag to add our photo. 174 00:17:41,268 --> 00:17:47,558 OK. And then remember that in design it links those those images. 175 00:17:47,558 --> 00:17:51,998 If we wanted to, we can go over to this links panel. 176 00:17:51,998 --> 00:18:00,608 And the Links panel is also helpful to you if you receive a InDesign file from someone else and you open it. 177 00:18:00,608 --> 00:18:08,218 And the first time you open it tells you, hey, this has missing links. It's best for that person to send that to you as a package file. 178 00:18:08,218 --> 00:18:17,778 Some are we learned last time if you go to file package that creates a zip folder with the InDesign file, as well as any of the image files. 179 00:18:17,778 --> 00:18:23,708 And the reason why that's helpful is because if that person wanted to edit this photo first before 180 00:18:23,708 --> 00:18:29,858 putting it into into an design or they wanted to go edit and Photoshop and have the edits applied, 181 00:18:29,858 --> 00:18:42,218 it's important for them to have that original file. Another thing that you can do, you know, if you need to, is you can embed this link. 182 00:18:42,218 --> 00:18:45,728 So there's sort of a concept to understand here. 183 00:18:45,728 --> 00:18:54,728 If you open up an InDesign file and you don't see this little link icon, that means the person embedded the photos into the InDesign file. 184 00:18:54,728 --> 00:19:06,638 So that is one solution for you to get a file to someone and have the images already present inside of it. 185 00:19:06,638 --> 00:19:10,538 And there is a way to embed them and pull them back out. 186 00:19:10,538 --> 00:19:18,458 But, you know, that's another step for somebody to go through. So in general, I think it's mostly best practice to file package. 187 00:19:18,458 --> 00:19:23,348 Send the whole package file to that person because then they have more flexibility. 188 00:19:23,348 --> 00:19:28,568 And if they want to go and edit the images separately and reintroduce them and they can do that. 189 00:19:28,568 --> 00:19:33,638 But if you get a file and it's just sent to you like this and it's been embedded, 190 00:19:33,638 --> 00:19:39,218 then you're not going to see a link there, but you will have the file available to you. 191 00:19:39,218 --> 00:19:48,638 It's just inside of the InDesign file. The other thing that this does is it makes the InDesign file large because you're embedding those images. 192 00:19:48,638 --> 00:19:55,628 So especially if somebody has embedded an image that's awfully big and maybe they use a shape to mask it. 193 00:19:55,628 --> 00:20:01,718 And so the image is actually pretty big. It's just masked behind, you know, a shape. 194 00:20:01,718 --> 00:20:05,468 The image is still there. It's present. Know the information is there. 195 00:20:05,468 --> 00:20:12,308 So it's gonna make your file big. So packaging it is also advantageous because it is a folder. 196 00:20:12,308 --> 00:20:18,398 So it makes it all kind of manageable. But in case you see that, you know, in a file that you get. 197 00:20:18,398 --> 00:20:22,508 I wanted you all to be aware of that. And if you get a file, this is missing links. 198 00:20:22,508 --> 00:20:29,948 You can use this linked panel to help you. You can open up the links panel and you can say find missing link. 199 00:20:29,948 --> 00:20:33,398 And typically it'll just go through and find it on your computer. 200 00:20:33,398 --> 00:20:38,978 But remember, if you've got a package file to make sure you have downloaded the whole package folder. 201 00:20:38,978 --> 00:20:45,188 So you have the whole thing and then it'll usually go and find it, or you can say, I know where it is. 202 00:20:45,188 --> 00:20:51,248 And then tell it where that folder is on your computer. And so that way you've got them all linked. 203 00:20:51,248 --> 00:20:55,868 So that's that's a handy thing to be aware of with links and so on. 204 00:20:55,868 --> 00:21:00,638 And this little this link actually explains about that some more. 205 00:21:00,638 --> 00:21:03,758 So if you're having issues with that, then that's another thing. 206 00:21:03,758 --> 00:21:09,278 Now, another thing you can do, which is pretty neat, is you can tell in design to wrap the text. 207 00:21:09,278 --> 00:21:15,398 So it's actually pretty easy. What you can do is just put the image, the the image. 208 00:21:15,398 --> 00:21:19,958 You have it touch the text frame that you want to wrap around. 209 00:21:19,958 --> 00:21:24,338 So those have to be touching in some way so that it knows what it's wrapping around. 210 00:21:24,338 --> 00:21:30,428 And then when you have the object selected, you can go down here and choose different types of text wrap. 211 00:21:30,428 --> 00:21:37,358 So depending on what you want, like right now, there's no text drop wrap around the bounding box, the bounding boxes, the frame. 212 00:21:37,358 --> 00:21:43,688 We learned that this is a graphic inside of a frame. Or you can wrap around the object shape. 213 00:21:43,688 --> 00:21:47,668 So the whole object in different ways of wrapping. 214 00:21:47,668 --> 00:21:51,398 So you can just try these different options and see which you like. 215 00:21:51,398 --> 00:21:58,208 And then remember, for these menus, if you have little three dots, it means there's more information about that particular section. 216 00:21:58,208 --> 00:22:03,548 So if I wanted to create a little more space in between the picture and the text, 217 00:22:03,548 --> 00:22:10,328 it was too crammed, then I can use these adjust space adjusters here to correct that. 218 00:22:10,328 --> 00:22:18,008 So wrapping text is a really neat thing that you can do because imagine you can have, you know, sort of a page full of text here. 219 00:22:18,008 --> 00:22:24,578 You can drop in a circle, you know, write a circle shape and then dropped your image inside of that circle. 220 00:22:24,578 --> 00:22:33,668 And the text will wrap all the way around that that picture. So some really neat stuff you can do with wrapping text, you know, with with the objects. 221 00:22:33,668 --> 00:22:40,368 So that is about that. And then we will do a fax. 222 00:22:40,368 --> 00:22:46,268 So we'll go on and do effects. Let's go check out some sample of files that we have. 223 00:22:46,268 --> 00:22:55,298 So we want to open up. Let's open up. Rotate, flip. So we're gonna go to file open and we're gonna open, rotate, flip. 224 00:22:55,298 --> 00:23:00,038 So this is an InDesign file. So we'll get this open. 225 00:23:00,038 --> 00:23:06,158 OK. So here we can learn about some ways we can sort of do what the calls transform. 226 00:23:06,158 --> 00:23:10,868 So we can in some ways we can make some changes to this document. 227 00:23:10,868 --> 00:23:20,338 OK. So if I click on this image here, so this this is an example of having an image as your as your background, too. 228 00:23:20,338 --> 00:23:26,678 And as you can see, they put it all the way to the edges, you know, because they're intending to print this full, apparently. 229 00:23:26,678 --> 00:23:31,058 And then over here, let's talk about the Transform panel for a minute. 230 00:23:31,058 --> 00:23:34,778 So the Transform panel helps you do things. 231 00:23:34,778 --> 00:23:40,898 And remember, if you don't see the panel you want. Over here, you should get it when you select something. 232 00:23:40,898 --> 00:23:47,228 Remember, there all context specific. So when you select something, you'll get additional options over here. 233 00:23:47,228 --> 00:23:53,798 If you don't, though, remember, you can go up to window and then you can of find the. 234 00:23:53,798 --> 00:23:58,528 The panel that you want. And make sure that it is checkmark. 235 00:23:58,528 --> 00:24:03,158 OK. So this is under the properties panel. So that's why Properties is checked. 236 00:24:03,158 --> 00:24:09,608 It's present. But if you're missing a panel and you can't find it, that's a way you can force it to show up. 237 00:24:09,608 --> 00:24:23,468 So the transformer panel. This information here tells is helping us tell in design from which perspective do we want it to transform. 238 00:24:23,468 --> 00:24:26,528 So right now, it's set to the upper right hand corner. 239 00:24:26,528 --> 00:24:38,528 So if I chose to rotate or flip this object, it's going to flip it or rotate it from the upper right hand corner of that object. 240 00:24:38,528 --> 00:24:43,178 OK. So usually. And it depends on what you're trying to do. 241 00:24:43,178 --> 00:24:53,888 You want to transform from the center. So like, let's say I want I like this jellyfish image, but I just kind of want to flip it around the other way. 242 00:24:53,888 --> 00:24:58,328 So this would be useful. If you have something facing one way, I need it to face the other. 243 00:24:58,328 --> 00:25:03,988 For example, you would first tell it around. What point do I want to make these changes? 244 00:25:03,988 --> 00:25:07,628 OK. So if I want to rotate it, it's going to rotate it around the middle. 245 00:25:07,628 --> 00:25:15,188 Now, if I flip it, it's going to flip it around the middle. So now when I flip, then it does it the correct way. 246 00:25:15,188 --> 00:25:23,718 So if I had chosen it up here and then chose to flip, see, it's gonna flip around that corner and then Remar command, Zia Controls is undo. 247 00:25:23,718 --> 00:25:28,628 OK, so that's what this little transform button does is it basically tells it. 248 00:25:28,628 --> 00:25:35,138 From what point do you want to move things around so you can rotate objects. 249 00:25:35,138 --> 00:25:40,848 You can flip them. OK. So and you can do that to. The text boxes as well. 250 00:25:40,848 --> 00:25:47,238 So let's say we want to rotate this text frame and then we can go and choose to rotate it. 251 00:25:47,238 --> 00:25:55,428 A certain number of degrees. And then we know we can move it and decide we want to have it over here on the left hand side, such as substitute. 252 00:25:55,428 --> 00:25:59,268 Now, you can't of course, we learned about rotating it manually this way. 253 00:25:59,268 --> 00:26:05,708 So if you wanted it to be a little off kilter, you can. And notice over here, you could even set specific degrees. 254 00:26:05,708 --> 00:26:11,328 So if you need to go in like crazy small increments because you're really trying to get something very specific, 255 00:26:11,328 --> 00:26:13,938 you can use the panel over here to help you do that. 256 00:26:13,938 --> 00:26:22,258 Another thing you can do is if you use the shift key as you are rotating, it will do it in a certain exact increments. 257 00:26:22,258 --> 00:26:29,148 So see the little sort of compass thing that's showing up. So it'll do it in exactly like forty five degree increments. 258 00:26:29,148 --> 00:26:38,688 You know, as you're rotating it. So that's an ideas about using the transform and rotate tool there, which is kind of a handy and nice. 259 00:26:38,688 --> 00:26:43,818 And then also just using your your guides to help you is very helpful. 260 00:26:43,818 --> 00:26:47,748 So these are the margins that we're using. And so we'll print out guides in just a minute. 261 00:26:47,748 --> 00:26:50,568 But let's see what else refused to do here. 262 00:26:50,568 --> 00:26:58,128 You can also apply all kinds of creative effects to your, you know, like drop shadow to your objects and things like that. 263 00:26:58,128 --> 00:27:05,808 So let's say, for example, we want to apply maybe some sort of drop shadow to this. 264 00:27:05,808 --> 00:27:10,818 There's a black rectangle behind here and then there's a text frame on top of it. 265 00:27:10,818 --> 00:27:15,948 And so over here, you have an effects button. So you'll click effects. 266 00:27:15,948 --> 00:27:20,748 And then if we wanted to do something like a drop shadow, then we can choose that. 267 00:27:20,748 --> 00:27:25,218 And notice you have all these other kinds of effects. You can make things glow, Bevell and emboss. 268 00:27:25,218 --> 00:27:30,918 This is how people get that sort of button kind of look or a satiny kind of finish. 269 00:27:30,918 --> 00:27:36,558 A little bit of feathering, you know, on the edges of some of the images might be neat to do. 270 00:27:36,558 --> 00:27:42,468 And then you can even choose the angle of the drop shadows. So whatever you choose the additional options over here. 271 00:27:42,468 --> 00:27:46,878 What type of opacity do I want the drop shadow to have that kind of thing? 272 00:27:46,878 --> 00:27:50,448 So we'll just go ahead. And you can also check the preview box here. 273 00:27:50,448 --> 00:27:59,748 Remember to see what it's going to look like. And we can see it's applying a drop shadow right here and we can see the direction that it's going. 274 00:27:59,748 --> 00:28:03,588 And so we might want it to kind of have it go the other way so that the drop 275 00:28:03,588 --> 00:28:07,318 shadow is applied to the upper left because we don't care about the bottom right. 276 00:28:07,318 --> 00:28:13,968 That's part's gonna get cut off when it prints. So we can see that we've applied a little drop show to that. 277 00:28:13,968 --> 00:28:19,788 But you could do all kinds of things that have glow. You know, there's all kinds of neat effects that you can go here and here. 278 00:28:19,788 --> 00:28:24,948 It's reminding me that this object has a drop shadow RV. RV apply. 279 00:28:24,948 --> 00:28:34,068 Which is nice. Opacity is another thing that is a nice way to provide some different types of effects as well. 280 00:28:34,068 --> 00:28:38,748 So we've gotten done that. And also, you can any of your objects. 281 00:28:38,748 --> 00:28:48,708 You can also lock them. So if I choose to lock this object, it'll get a little lock button here and now. 282 00:28:48,708 --> 00:28:54,828 I can't just go and move it if I'm trying. I'm trying to move that text box, but I'm accidentally moving the background behind it. 283 00:28:54,828 --> 00:28:59,448 So it probably would be best if I locked the background, actually, if I like that image, 284 00:28:59,448 --> 00:29:03,258 because that's the background and I probably don't want to change that very much or move that around much. 285 00:29:03,258 --> 00:29:08,718 Right. And then you can unlock it just by pressing the lock and then that unlocks it. 286 00:29:08,718 --> 00:29:11,688 Now you can move this around again if you want to. 287 00:29:11,688 --> 00:29:19,458 But locking things temporarily like that can help you because and if you're trying to manipulate a couple of things that are on top of each other, 288 00:29:19,458 --> 00:29:25,818 then that can be very helpful as well. You can also use the alignment tool to help you line things up. 289 00:29:25,818 --> 00:29:29,898 I think there might be another file. We're going to do that. So we'll go check that out minute. 290 00:29:29,898 --> 00:29:31,158 We already talked about group. 291 00:29:31,158 --> 00:29:38,298 You can select more than one thing, either by dragging across or you can hold down the shift key and select multiple objects. 292 00:29:38,298 --> 00:29:42,648 And then you can group them together. Let's go check out guides. 293 00:29:42,648 --> 00:29:46,698 And then after we check out this file, then we'll have Alex show her file. 294 00:29:46,698 --> 00:29:51,588 We'll take a little break and then we'll come back to to our number five here. 295 00:29:51,588 --> 00:29:58,428 So let's go to let's open up, guys. So we're going to file open and we're going to open up the one called guides. 296 00:29:58,428 --> 00:30:05,238 So guides are really helpful to to you because you can create guides wherever you want. 297 00:30:05,238 --> 00:30:10,218 Right now, we have a guide here that is a margin. 298 00:30:10,218 --> 00:30:19,008 And then this document has another guide here that was created already previously to help them line up. 299 00:30:19,008 --> 00:30:23,988 They wanted to line up. That bottom of that are the top the top lid. 300 00:30:23,988 --> 00:30:28,788 The bottom part of the lid of the bowl is what they wanted to sort of line up in. 301 00:30:28,788 --> 00:30:38,688 One looks like about one third of this document. So remember that rule of thirds using guides can kind of help you do the rule of thirds and. 302 00:30:38,688 --> 00:30:47,238 Over here, we have options to turn on our rulers. You can also get to them under view and you can go to show rulers. 303 00:30:47,238 --> 00:30:51,018 But over here, we've got rulers, so we're gonna turn that on. 304 00:30:51,018 --> 00:31:00,378 So rulers are helpful because you might want to specifically line something up, especially when creating something like for Mei-Ling. 305 00:31:00,378 --> 00:31:02,418 You have to have like four postcards. 306 00:31:02,418 --> 00:31:09,678 You typically have to have like a four inch by four inch blank space for everything that the post office needs to do. 307 00:31:09,678 --> 00:31:14,868 So in some sort of publications, you may know, you know, the area you need to clear. 308 00:31:14,868 --> 00:31:20,358 And you can use rulers to help you make sure that you've actually got that measured correctly and so on. 309 00:31:20,358 --> 00:31:25,158 Or maybe you want to measure because you have to make it fit in a certain spot. And that kind of thing. 310 00:31:25,158 --> 00:31:32,568 So guides can be just drawn. So to draw a horizontal guide, you basically just start dragging from the top. 311 00:31:32,568 --> 00:31:44,118 So now we've got a nice horizontal guide here. So if we wanted to put a guide here, because then maybe we wanted to line up a text frame right here, 312 00:31:44,118 --> 00:31:51,678 that could be something that would be helpful to us. And then we can also is free form drawl of vertical guides. 313 00:31:51,678 --> 00:32:02,268 By clicking and dragging from the ruler out to the right. So let's say maybe we wanted to line up these items over. 314 00:32:02,268 --> 00:32:09,948 We wanted to bring them over to the right. And we knew we wanted a little bit of space between the margins. 315 00:32:09,948 --> 00:32:14,958 We can use the rulers and the guides to help us, you know, get that exactly where we want. 316 00:32:14,958 --> 00:32:21,528 So we could draw another one here to make sure we've got exactly, say, a half inch or one inch or whatever it is that we want. 317 00:32:21,528 --> 00:32:25,878 And line these things up properly so guides won't. Friend. 318 00:32:25,878 --> 00:32:30,468 Remember our little shortcut w. So then you can see how it's actually going to look up. 319 00:32:30,468 --> 00:32:37,848 I had that selected. Let's select that or shortcut w. So you can actually see how it's going to look when it, when it prints. 320 00:32:37,848 --> 00:32:49,248 So you can see the guides are not printing, which is very nice. Another thing you can do is in some cases you might notice the zeros here and here. 321 00:32:49,248 --> 00:32:59,358 Right. So it starts from the upper left hand side. Another thing you can do is you can change that zero spot to maybe the opposite. 322 00:32:59,358 --> 00:33:05,298 So you just click and drag from this little corner space and you drag where you want the zero to be. 323 00:33:05,298 --> 00:33:08,898 So if you wanted the zero to be in the middle, it doesn't matter. You could do that. 324 00:33:08,898 --> 00:33:14,628 But this way, if you know, I've got to be exactly like one inch in, looks like my guide is a little off. 325 00:33:14,628 --> 00:33:23,058 So I can adjust that exactly one inch than you can. You can correct that and measure that backwards and then to get it back to normal. 326 00:33:23,058 --> 00:33:29,598 You just double click. And then you've got back to zero zero. So definitely using guides can be helpful. 327 00:33:29,598 --> 00:33:38,268 And as you choose to align things up, you can choose to align things to know to those guides and to each other, depending on what you need. 328 00:33:38,268 --> 00:33:43,168 So those are very handy. OK. So at this point, we'll take a quick break. 329 00:33:43,168 --> 00:33:48,408 We'll come back and go to. We'll start with master pages and just in just a minute. 330 00:33:48,408 --> 00:33:53,988 But I'm a go ahead and stop sharing so that Alex can share her screen. 331 00:33:53,988 --> 00:34:00,618 And then I think she's got an InDesign file that she created that she can show to us. 332 00:34:00,618 --> 00:34:07,288 Just kind of tell us a little bit about how she created it. And we can kind of, you know, just check it out and see what? 333 00:34:07,288 --> 00:34:11,568 See what how did how did she use and designed to create her document, essentially? 334 00:34:11,568 --> 00:34:13,878 Yeah. I'm going to show you two documents. 335 00:34:13,878 --> 00:34:20,658 One is like I'm being graphics and I like using and design because you have so much more control over the text. 336 00:34:20,658 --> 00:34:27,718 So this is what my resume looks like. And I love using these guides. 337 00:34:27,718 --> 00:34:34,368 They're so convenient to be able to line things up when you need different elements on your page to be exactly lined up. 338 00:34:34,368 --> 00:34:36,708 And they I don't know if you've gone over this, Chelsie, 339 00:34:36,708 --> 00:34:45,368 but being able to snap to those guides when you're dragging a text box, you know, it can snap to those. 340 00:34:45,368 --> 00:34:47,808 Yes. That's very convenient. 341 00:34:47,808 --> 00:34:57,018 But, yeah, I just I think for a resumé especially, it's useful to use in design because of these guides more than anything. 342 00:34:57,018 --> 00:35:06,658 And another thing I did was I had to create a graphic for, I guess like instructions on how to sign up for something. 343 00:35:06,658 --> 00:35:10,488 And I used obviously like text elements. 344 00:35:10,488 --> 00:35:16,938 And then like different shapes. And I have groups those together when necessary. 345 00:35:16,938 --> 00:35:23,568 So I don't have to click on this line, this box, this line here. 346 00:35:23,568 --> 00:35:31,908 I group them all together so I can quickly they just go like that instead of having to select so many different options and then move it. 347 00:35:31,908 --> 00:35:38,658 And I've used little graphics here that I've also grouped so that if I need to adjust, then left or right. 348 00:35:38,658 --> 00:35:43,128 They all move together and they're centered where they need to be soon. Yeah. 349 00:35:43,128 --> 00:35:50,748 Yeah, that would be. That's a good example, too, of how she might need to use, like, the online tool to align those up perfectly first. 350 00:35:50,748 --> 00:35:58,398 So she may have, like, put those icons in and then selected all of them by either clicking and dragging across all of them or hold 351 00:35:58,398 --> 00:36:04,398 down the shift key while choosing them and then use the aligned tool center to make them all lined up, 352 00:36:04,398 --> 00:36:06,498 for example. 353 00:36:06,498 --> 00:36:18,058 And as I have this digital image over here, I took a screenshot of the AIG Web site on my computer, and that's where I pulled all these colors from. 354 00:36:18,058 --> 00:36:24,198 So if you're you know, if you need inspiration for colors, you can kind of use pictures from things that you like. 355 00:36:24,198 --> 00:36:30,288 Or mine was a little bit more in the context of what I was making something for. 356 00:36:30,288 --> 00:36:35,948 Yeah, just using an eyedropper tool to do that. And you can do. 357 00:36:35,948 --> 00:36:42,888 There is one thing I wanted to mention. I don't know if you've gone over this, Chelsea, but it's so over here. 358 00:36:42,888 --> 00:36:47,148 You had like your properties, which is where we've mostly been looking at, I think. 359 00:36:47,148 --> 00:36:57,318 And then if you go to pages, which if it doesn't automatically pop up, you go to window and click on pages and it should pop out. 360 00:36:57,318 --> 00:37:02,778 But see this route, it took it away in pages. 361 00:37:02,778 --> 00:37:05,358 And there's this thing called a master page. 362 00:37:05,358 --> 00:37:15,198 And basically, if you click on that, you're able to, I don't know, say if I wanted a circle and every single page, I could draw it there. 363 00:37:15,198 --> 00:37:19,218 Save my document and then click off of my master page. 364 00:37:19,218 --> 00:37:25,158 That's what I'm on now. And then go back here and it might be behind my. 365 00:37:25,158 --> 00:37:28,878 Yeah. My. Behind your background. But yeah, definitely. Definitely. 366 00:37:28,878 --> 00:37:38,878 That's an awesome thing to mention as well, because in the end, your master page is automatically created when you create your own design documents. 367 00:37:38,878 --> 00:37:43,128 So that's something that's kind of automatically built in to it. 368 00:37:43,128 --> 00:37:46,878 And yeah, definitely I'll show that, too. So that thought was great. Yeah. Thank you. 369 00:37:46,878 --> 00:37:50,508 That was awesome. Very good. And I liked how she. 370 00:37:50,508 --> 00:37:57,318 Did you notice how she used, like her workspace, you know, so where she had the image over here off to the side. 371 00:37:57,318 --> 00:38:01,758 So, you know, definitely use that to help you. You know, this whole thing is your space. 372 00:38:01,758 --> 00:38:03,228 It's kind of like your desk. 373 00:38:03,228 --> 00:38:10,488 If you were, you know, doing a scrapbook layout, you might have your elements that you want to include or your inspiration, 374 00:38:10,488 --> 00:38:15,648 you know, and your ideas and things like that over here and that sort of desktop area. 375 00:38:15,648 --> 00:38:23,798 And that stays with your file. You know, you can open and close your file and it exists there for sure. 376 00:38:23,798 --> 00:38:31,488 You know, this is really useful, too, if you're trying to if you're thinking about different options to put on your page. 377 00:38:31,488 --> 00:38:38,568 Sometimes I'm debating between two different fonts. And instead of, like, double clicking the text box, changing the font, changing it back that way. 378 00:38:38,568 --> 00:38:44,268 I'll have to text box with two different fonts and I can easily just drag one off of 379 00:38:44,268 --> 00:38:49,138 the actual page and then drag the other one on so it can be really useful for you. 380 00:38:49,138 --> 00:38:52,908 Then you can switch it out depending on what you need. Yeah, definitely. 381 00:38:52,908 --> 00:39:01,068 And I like to. She showed a resumé too. So using that styles option that we talked about, the beginning would be useful for that, 382 00:39:01,068 --> 00:39:04,818 because then if she wanted to sort of freshen up her whole document, 383 00:39:04,818 --> 00:39:11,748 you know, she could just do that in one fell swoop and not have to go into every single text box and make the character changes, 384 00:39:11,748 --> 00:39:14,008 you know, and that kind of thing. So definitely. Yeah. 385 00:39:14,008 --> 00:39:19,218 So you had a perfect segue way into master pages, because that's what we were going to talk about next. 386 00:39:19,218 --> 00:39:24,168 So here's another example of, you know, a master page, essentially. 387 00:39:24,168 --> 00:39:30,008 So this is a file that has several pages in it. So we can kind of get an idea of that. 388 00:39:30,008 --> 00:39:39,378 May get this. So I can get to it. I won't forget the zoom buttons kind of cover up part of what I need and then I have to sort of readjust. 389 00:39:39,378 --> 00:39:46,338 There we go. All right. So perfect. So, yes. So as we were talking about it, you can go to pages. 390 00:39:46,338 --> 00:39:51,468 And also I did talk to you about the pages panel because, of course, you can pull these panels out, 391 00:39:51,468 --> 00:39:57,948 too, by the way, if you need to, to kind of help you with what you're doing in in the pages panel. 392 00:39:57,948 --> 00:40:01,938 You can also rearrange your order. OK. 393 00:40:01,938 --> 00:40:07,098 So if you've got multiple pages in there, you know you can do that. 394 00:40:07,098 --> 00:40:15,888 And then, like so if we go through to the different pages, also wanted to go actually wanted to show it to you here first. 395 00:40:15,888 --> 00:40:19,668 So if you go over here to the page pull down menu, we're on page one. 396 00:40:19,668 --> 00:40:25,948 So this is how you can kind of manipulate your InDesign document depending on what page you want to get to. 397 00:40:25,948 --> 00:40:31,158 So you can jump very quickly to pages here and then notice you can jump to that A.M., 398 00:40:31,158 --> 00:40:36,198 which we can also get to by the pages panel that Alex showed you as well. 399 00:40:36,198 --> 00:40:42,968 But also, before we do that, know that you. Create new pages right here with a little new page, you can delete pages. 400 00:40:42,968 --> 00:40:50,528 And then you can edit the parameters of that page if you needed to kind of like edit editing the document properties. 401 00:40:50,528 --> 00:40:54,398 So we'll go to that a.m. and we'll just do something super simple. 402 00:40:54,398 --> 00:41:00,698 Let's say maybe like down here, we wanted to like have maybe like a a line which if we hold down the shift key, 403 00:41:00,698 --> 00:41:08,878 we can make more than we can make it straight. We can choose this just sort of a nice thickness so we can kind of see. 404 00:41:08,878 --> 00:41:17,768 And so now that we have that basically applied, what we can do is we can go back to our pages here. 405 00:41:17,768 --> 00:41:21,848 Let's go back to our. Yeah. 406 00:41:21,848 --> 00:41:27,698 So we're going to save or changes? Well, maybe don't want to see the changes. 407 00:41:27,698 --> 00:41:33,758 So let's go back to our pages where our pages we have to go right here. 408 00:41:33,758 --> 00:41:38,548 So now if we go to one so for example, one, we have the same problem as we did with Alex's. 409 00:41:38,548 --> 00:41:42,538 The the image is covering up what we added. 410 00:41:42,538 --> 00:41:46,868 But see, now it's automatically added to the rest of our pages. 411 00:41:46,868 --> 00:41:58,838 So if we want to put a little tag line or a logo or a Web site link, something like that, or, you know, branding, you know, whatever, then we can. 412 00:41:58,838 --> 00:42:02,318 So you you do have to check your file and make sure whatever you're putting on there, 413 00:42:02,318 --> 00:42:08,078 because if you put a whole background, of course, you might accidentally cover know it might be covered up. 414 00:42:08,078 --> 00:42:14,498 So just check your file after you've done that. But yes, the guides to Chelsea, like on your master page. 415 00:42:14,498 --> 00:42:18,278 And if you need anything like that properly. Yeah. 416 00:42:18,278 --> 00:42:22,788 I had to do like a book like format, a book, a couple pages of a book once. 417 00:42:22,788 --> 00:42:26,408 So all those pages. It's like everything needs to be lined up on this line. 418 00:42:26,408 --> 00:42:30,458 And I know that you can pull that guide out. And it's present in all of your. 419 00:42:30,458 --> 00:42:34,688 You don't have to keep pulling guides out and making sure they're in the right spot for some night. 420 00:42:34,688 --> 00:42:38,368 Perfect. That is awesome. That is really cool. Yes. 421 00:42:38,368 --> 00:42:41,768 So master pages. So kind of a neat thing. 422 00:42:41,768 --> 00:42:48,788 And like we mentioned, when you create an index and design document, a master page is automatically already created. 423 00:42:48,788 --> 00:42:53,618 So that's how you can get to it and make your adjustments and that kind of thing. That's perfect. 424 00:42:53,618 --> 00:43:01,398 All right. Let's see what else we're gonna do next. We can also go to let's talk about layers for a moment. 425 00:43:01,398 --> 00:43:06,308 OK. So if you've attended, I think you guys have also turned into Photoshop workshops. 426 00:43:06,308 --> 00:43:12,268 Do you kind of have the idea of it? But I want to show you, like, what layers look like in and design. 427 00:43:12,268 --> 00:43:23,988 It's a little bit different. So we'll open up the layers and see if we can get it to open properly. 428 00:43:23,988 --> 00:43:27,888 This is a. This is it. 429 00:43:27,888 --> 00:43:32,548 Yep. Very good. So over here, you can click on your layers here. 430 00:43:32,548 --> 00:43:36,808 Remember, you can also go to window and then layers and force it to show up. 431 00:43:36,808 --> 00:43:44,608 And so over here we have we've got some layers. And so we can look at the layers that have been created here. 432 00:43:44,608 --> 00:43:49,048 So up until this point, we haven't really worked with layers and design. 433 00:43:49,048 --> 00:43:57,508 We've just placed objects on there and then maybe use the arrange tool to arrange them, use the group tool to group things together. 434 00:43:57,508 --> 00:44:02,018 But in some cases, you might have a pretty complicated in design documents. 435 00:44:02,018 --> 00:44:06,528 So you want to start breaking those things up into layers so you can do that. 436 00:44:06,528 --> 00:44:13,258 You can use your layers panel to first create a new layer and then make sure that layer is selected. 437 00:44:13,258 --> 00:44:19,588 And then as you do your work on the document, you're working on that particular layer in the design document. 438 00:44:19,588 --> 00:44:24,928 And just like with Photoshop, that increases your adaptability and your control. 439 00:44:24,928 --> 00:44:34,168 If you have super complicated. So imagine something that maybe has like, you know, tons of pictures, 440 00:44:34,168 --> 00:44:38,428 like a giant claws or something like that, I could get really complicated really quickly. 441 00:44:38,428 --> 00:44:44,518 Right. So you might want to have all the images in one layer. You know, maybe the text in another layer. 442 00:44:44,518 --> 00:44:51,838 So just like in Photoshop, you can use the eyeball to turn them on and off just from your view to help you manage it. 443 00:44:51,838 --> 00:44:57,208 And then you can expand the little arrow to see what objects are there. 444 00:44:57,208 --> 00:45:04,348 And then another thing you can do is you can tell it to find all the stuff that's on that layer to help you edit. 445 00:45:04,348 --> 00:45:09,118 So if this was a big layer and it had a lot of objects in it and I wanted to make changes to all those 446 00:45:09,118 --> 00:45:14,398 objects or I wanted to just see where they all were on the document so I can begin making changes. 447 00:45:14,398 --> 00:45:22,408 I can use that little visibility item to help me. And just like in Photoshop, you can click and drag your layers around. 448 00:45:22,408 --> 00:45:26,848 You can double click them to make changes to rename them. 449 00:45:26,848 --> 00:45:29,818 You can trash your layers and so on. 450 00:45:29,818 --> 00:45:37,198 And then they just kind of color code them to make it a little bit easier for you to see the different layers and so on. 451 00:45:37,198 --> 00:45:42,838 You can also go to your layer options and you can lock an entire layer. 452 00:45:42,838 --> 00:45:46,888 So just like we locked an object to the document, 453 00:45:46,888 --> 00:45:55,498 you can lock an entire layer and then your that prevents you from accidentally making mistakes and things like that. 454 00:45:55,498 --> 00:46:03,478 And notice we could lock the guides, too, if we forgot to mention that you can also lock the guides so you don't accidentally move them. 455 00:46:03,478 --> 00:46:09,898 You can always unlock all these things afterwards. Just prevents you from accidentally, you know, moving stuff that you don't want. 456 00:46:09,898 --> 00:46:11,788 Want to move. 457 00:46:11,788 --> 00:46:18,628 Or it can be handy if you're sending a file to somebody to do some final edits to and you don't want them moving a whole bunch of other stuff. 458 00:46:18,628 --> 00:46:22,398 You can, you know, lock some things like that to make it easier. 459 00:46:22,398 --> 00:46:28,318 So cool. Let's see what else we can do here. 460 00:46:28,318 --> 00:46:33,088 Digital publishing. So we're on sort of our last little topic here, which is pretty cool. 461 00:46:33,088 --> 00:46:43,948 So we'll open up the file called Add Interactivity. So let's go get that file and we'll get that one open, add interactivity. 462 00:46:43,948 --> 00:46:52,868 So what's pretty cool is that InDesign also has several sort of electronic options. 463 00:46:52,868 --> 00:46:54,628 So like Alex was mentioning, 464 00:46:54,628 --> 00:47:04,228 she was using it for creating a book so professional authors use in design because of those layout options like Alex was talking about. 465 00:47:04,228 --> 00:47:10,468 And a lot of times they will maybe work on their book on on a text file. 466 00:47:10,468 --> 00:47:17,128 And then InDesign has the ability to you can file place an entire text file. 467 00:47:17,128 --> 00:47:25,048 So we've been file placing images where we we talked about in beginning and design that you can place an entire text file as well. 468 00:47:25,048 --> 00:47:30,748 So ASMs, they'll set up their master page with the guides and we set up the text frames the way they want 469 00:47:30,748 --> 00:47:36,928 and then make sure that the frame you know is linked or continues and so on to the next page. 470 00:47:36,928 --> 00:47:41,278 And then they place their entire file because then they type it in a word processor, 471 00:47:41,278 --> 00:47:47,638 but then bring it into and design for final editing and publishing and things like that, 472 00:47:47,638 --> 00:47:53,818 plus the fact that you can create, you know, put images in it. All kinds of different images and overlay text on top of that. 473 00:47:53,818 --> 00:48:00,028 And do all loops into one publication. And people use this also for creating E pubs. 474 00:48:00,028 --> 00:48:10,018 So if you wanted to, you can create your own electronic book, you know, using design and you can publish it as a PDAF. 475 00:48:10,018 --> 00:48:15,388 You could publish it as an E pub in a pub is like the format like Kindle takes. 476 00:48:15,388 --> 00:48:18,098 So, I mean, if you wanted to, you could even like monetize that. 477 00:48:18,098 --> 00:48:26,158 You could go through the process to, you know, give them agree to give them whatever percent they take for putting your book on the store and so on. 478 00:48:26,158 --> 00:48:33,208 And then of if you do it through books like Apple Eye Books, there are tools that help you take InDesign files and put them into books. 479 00:48:33,208 --> 00:48:37,588 Author or you can use them design and just export it as it epub. 480 00:48:37,588 --> 00:48:42,088 And then, you know, they will take that books. We'll take that as well. 481 00:48:42,088 --> 00:48:49,258 And so because of that, because you can create electronic interactive PDAF, you can create EPUB. 482 00:48:49,258 --> 00:48:59,518 So when you go to file export you can also go here to the instead of choosing PDAF friend. 483 00:48:59,518 --> 00:49:02,368 You can choose PEF Interactive. 484 00:49:02,368 --> 00:49:10,018 The PDAF interactive means maybe you've created an electronic PDAF and it's got hyperlinks in it, which we're gonna do in just a second. 485 00:49:10,018 --> 00:49:15,358 And it's got some interactive elements to it and you want to make sure you maintain those interactive elements. 486 00:49:15,358 --> 00:49:24,358 The print typically will maintain those two anyway. But if you're only going to be putting it online, then that's an option as well. 487 00:49:24,358 --> 00:49:33,208 But notice you can go to EPUB. You can you can export it as EPOP and then people can open it like in their readers and stuff like that. 488 00:49:33,208 --> 00:49:38,758 Or if you wanted to publish it on something like, you know, other other online ebook, 489 00:49:38,758 --> 00:49:45,208 things that take epub, you know, there's a there's several out there. So keep in mind your exporting options. 490 00:49:45,208 --> 00:49:52,948 So let's look here. You can do all kinds of things with sort of a digital digital publishing, you know, in InDesign. 491 00:49:52,948 --> 00:50:00,448 So right now we are in the essentials workspace, which is great for like some basic, you know, layout and stuff like that. 492 00:50:00,448 --> 00:50:03,628 But because we're gonna be working in digital publishing. 493 00:50:03,628 --> 00:50:09,808 And notice, there's also another one interactive for PDAF, but we'll go into digital publishing and look at that layout. 494 00:50:09,808 --> 00:50:16,468 So this is a different workspace. So we're still in a design that's just a different scheme of tools. 495 00:50:16,468 --> 00:50:19,548 OK. And so we're in sort of just different scheme. 496 00:50:19,548 --> 00:50:26,338 You can see some of the tools over here are familiar to you, but it's just some tools that they think might be more helpful for digital publishing. 497 00:50:26,338 --> 00:50:36,148 And then over here, it just handily puts into place some of the panels that we would most likely be using if we were doing digital publishing. 498 00:50:36,148 --> 00:50:42,688 You can still get to hyperlinking through like type and then hyperlinks and so on. 499 00:50:42,688 --> 00:50:46,588 But that's a couple more clicks, right? So this makes it just faster and so on. 500 00:50:46,588 --> 00:50:52,758 So if we wanted to hyperlink, you know, just some of this text, 501 00:50:52,758 --> 00:51:01,618 then we can highlight what is we want to hyperlink and then we can go to our hyperlinks toolbar here and then we can tell this to this tax, 502 00:51:01,618 --> 00:51:09,328 which is already highlighted to link to a Web site and then others. 503 00:51:09,328 --> 00:51:14,428 Other options we get under here. We can. 504 00:51:14,428 --> 00:51:20,038 Once it's got a hyperlink here, then it's basically active. 505 00:51:20,038 --> 00:51:26,428 And it tells us what it's going to link to. So you can kind of double check it there by clicking here. 506 00:51:26,428 --> 00:51:28,528 And then if we wanted to create more hyperlinks, 507 00:51:28,528 --> 00:51:33,328 we could keep highlighting and then go to the new hyperlink option and keep doing that if we wanted to. 508 00:51:33,328 --> 00:51:37,188 So now we have a hyperlink. Let's try something else. 509 00:51:37,188 --> 00:51:44,278 So let's try. You can even do what they call a animation. So it'll it'll add just a little bit of animation. 510 00:51:44,278 --> 00:51:55,918 So when somebody opens this PDA, it'll have a little interactivity. And so if we want the quiet places maybe to do something we can tell it to. 511 00:51:55,918 --> 00:52:03,328 Let's see. I forgot to add. I needed to click the text frame, not the mike, not the actual text itself. 512 00:52:03,328 --> 00:52:10,618 Now that we've got the correct frame selected, we can animate it so we can tell it to maybe fly in from top. 513 00:52:10,618 --> 00:52:16,348 And then it gives us a little preview here of what it's going to do, which is pretty nice. 514 00:52:16,348 --> 00:52:23,428 But then we can also view a preview and let's go back and see. 515 00:52:23,428 --> 00:52:27,328 So let's see if there's other stuff we're supposed to do to that. Oh, other things you can do. 516 00:52:27,328 --> 00:52:31,418 You can also create buttons. So that's an option as well. 517 00:52:31,418 --> 00:52:36,868 It basically just means taking this and linking it to something so you can create a button to say yes, 518 00:52:36,868 --> 00:52:44,608 another page in your EPUB, whatever it is, a hyperlink to something else and that kind of thing. 519 00:52:44,608 --> 00:52:54,208 And then what you would do to sort of preview that is you would go to window, let's say, interactive. 520 00:52:54,208 --> 00:53:00,418 And then there should be. Let's say a pub interactivity preview is what we want. 521 00:53:00,418 --> 00:53:08,098 So we can't really preview this right now by just sitting W. You have to go into a sort of a special preview mode in order to see what happens. 522 00:53:08,098 --> 00:53:12,388 And then we're going to hit play and see what will happen. So now we've hit play. 523 00:53:12,388 --> 00:53:20,578 It's showed us our little R animation we did. And then we can click the link and see if the link works, which that's going to our hyperlink. 524 00:53:20,578 --> 00:53:25,948 So we're all good. And so you can use this little preview window to help. 525 00:53:25,948 --> 00:53:31,318 You kind of see what's going on. And so you keep adjusting and keep trying it. 526 00:53:31,318 --> 00:53:35,938 And then you would export it as an E pub with interactivity. 527 00:53:35,938 --> 00:53:44,148 Interactive PDAF, you can be published to a Web site so you can make these objects linked to Facebook and Instagram, 528 00:53:44,148 --> 00:53:47,908 you know, whatever it is you want. Buttons, all kinds of neat stuff. 529 00:53:47,908 --> 00:53:52,768 So, you know, a way to create a pretty neat interactive PDA. 530 00:53:52,768 --> 00:54:00,268 Other thing that is really cool about this, which can be done see any and design document that you create. 531 00:54:00,268 --> 00:54:08,578 But it's especially useful for something like an interactive PDAF is you can publish online directly from InDesign. 532 00:54:08,578 --> 00:54:13,978 So this is pretty neat. So it basically gives you some space. 533 00:54:13,978 --> 00:54:18,778 Basically from Adobe to publish this. 534 00:54:18,778 --> 00:54:24,718 And so it's kind of like an unlisted link that Dobies kind of given you for to use for free. 535 00:54:24,718 --> 00:54:28,068 So it's basically hosted by Adobe, 536 00:54:28,068 --> 00:54:35,578 but it basically lets you take whatever you working on InDesign and publish it online so we can give it a title, we can give it a description. 537 00:54:35,578 --> 00:54:45,268 We can say if we want it to show up as a single or spread with two pages, we can decide if we want them to allow them to download the document, 538 00:54:45,268 --> 00:54:51,628 you know, or if we want to hide the sharing and bad, all that kind of stuff. So and then there's more options if we go to advance. 539 00:54:51,628 --> 00:54:57,118 But we'll just go in and publish. You can kind of see. And so we'll give that a minute to publish. 540 00:54:57,118 --> 00:55:04,228 And then it's just going to give us a link that we can then use and then we can publish that wherever we want. 541 00:55:04,228 --> 00:55:10,828 So if we want to, like, you know, make a book and share it for free or, you know, on a Web site or whatever we want. 542 00:55:10,828 --> 00:55:14,608 So this is the world that we would that we would share. 543 00:55:14,608 --> 00:55:22,168 And it's basically just kind of like an unlisted link that you could then post on your page or something like that, 544 00:55:22,168 --> 00:55:31,048 whatever you wanted to do from there. And then as you if you if you use this feature a lot and you get a lot of things published online, you know, 545 00:55:31,048 --> 00:55:37,798 in your sort of Adobe and Design dashboard, you can go to the Polish online dashboard and you can manage those documents. 546 00:55:37,798 --> 00:55:40,558 If I made changes to this document, 547 00:55:40,558 --> 00:55:50,158 I would have to go back into the published online area again and then I would have to tell it to update this existing document. 548 00:55:50,158 --> 00:55:57,568 And then that keeps the same link. That way, people who have the link already just get the updates instead of a new like. 549 00:55:57,568 --> 00:56:06,688 So that's kind of a neat little feature. I mean, in most cases you probably want to host it yourself on whatever Web site you want to. 550 00:56:06,688 --> 00:56:14,278 But if you maybe need to just maybe send a preview of of this to somebody for a quick look. 551 00:56:14,278 --> 00:56:18,658 This could be a nice feature. You just hit publish online and send the link and you're good. 552 00:56:18,658 --> 00:56:22,348 And then they could review it, give you some feedback and things like that. 553 00:56:22,348 --> 00:56:28,798 Or if you wanted to very quickly, you know, publish basically kind of like an online magazine. 554 00:56:28,798 --> 00:56:34,738 You know, that she just wanted to do for fun and that kind of thing or for like a class project or something like that. 555 00:56:34,738 --> 00:56:42,028 Then you can definitely you can just submit the link, which should be easy, and you'll be able to get that through canvasses because it's just a link. 556 00:56:42,028 --> 00:56:43,888 So that would be kind of nice. 557 00:56:43,888 --> 00:56:52,988 But if I had just that interactivity and adding more things to PDAF that you can do is a neat feature of InDesign, which is pretty cool. 558 00:56:52,988 --> 00:57:02,308 So. Yes. Do you happen to know, like, if you which is what is the output of like epub with interactivity. 559 00:57:02,308 --> 00:57:07,408 Is it a good MP for or liquid. Is it. How does it work. 560 00:57:07,408 --> 00:57:11,818 It's well it's an it's a pub. It is its own file type. Oh OK. 561 00:57:11,818 --> 00:57:17,788 Yeah. Yeah. So epub is, is, is basically its own file type and so you typically access that through a reader 562 00:57:17,788 --> 00:57:24,358 like a Kindle reader or other similar readers like that is what you would do. 563 00:57:24,358 --> 00:57:34,528 So if you weren't publishing to sort of one of those reader applications, you would probably just use that published online feature, 564 00:57:34,528 --> 00:57:39,208 you know, to get interactive or you would just publish it as an interactive PDAF. 565 00:57:39,208 --> 00:57:49,448 And then you would then you would you would post that interactive PDAF to your Web site, just like you would a normal pedophile or a hyperlink. 566 00:57:49,448 --> 00:57:54,298 You know the effort. Yeah. Good question. Good question. 567 00:57:54,298 --> 00:58:00,538 Yeah. But this does is a neat little feature that they added pretty recently, like just within the last year, this little publish on mine. 568 00:58:00,538 --> 00:58:09,568 So it's kind of like a real fast way to get something published for, you know, for public facing things. 569 00:58:09,568 --> 00:58:14,138 We would, of course, need to make sure that they meet accessibility requirements and stuff like that. 570 00:58:14,138 --> 00:58:18,098 So typically, you're gonna not use maybe interactive PDAF. 571 00:58:18,098 --> 00:58:26,088 You might use it, but you would make sure that you put some tags in there and make sure that you have hyperlinks that in your stuff is. 572 00:58:26,088 --> 00:58:32,178 Really well. And things like that and a lot of cases to help with accessibility would do it as a print 573 00:58:32,178 --> 00:58:38,898 PDAF and make sure that you maybe have some tags in there to make sure it's it's good to go. 574 00:58:38,898 --> 00:58:42,528 See, you would bring it into Adobe Acrobat after you published it. 575 00:58:42,528 --> 00:58:48,528 P.D.A from InDesign. And then make sure you maybe put some editing tags in there. 576 00:58:48,528 --> 00:58:54,058 Or create it in word because word does the tags for you automatically bring it into Acrobat? 577 00:58:54,058 --> 00:58:57,568 Because Acrobat will pull the tags out of the word document and keep it. 578 00:58:57,568 --> 00:59:01,368 And then it does a good job, a better job of accessibility in those ways. 579 00:59:01,368 --> 00:59:09,078 But for fun, quick stuff or to get some feedback from somebody that's published online tool could be a really cool, 580 00:59:09,078 --> 00:59:18,388 you know, little little neat feature. So definitely. Well, that is the basics of our Adobe InDesign, too, for today. 581 00:59:18,388 --> 00:59:20,928 We're ending right on time, which is pretty cool. 582 00:59:20,928 --> 00:59:29,148 If you want to continue with learning and design, definitely there are links here to more InDesign tutorials, which from O.W. are really good. 583 00:59:29,148 --> 00:59:38,698 Remember, we have access to stock. So all those stock images you can use with InDesign and make yourself look really amazing, which is fantastic. 584 00:59:38,698 --> 00:59:43,398 Alex showed you her resumé. It's anything you need to use to line things. 585 00:59:43,398 --> 00:59:46,848 Something you need to use to align things up is really helpful. 586 00:59:46,848 --> 00:59:53,118 There's other resources here on the today's presentation, like the Adobe Daily Creative Challenge, which is fun. 587 00:59:53,118 --> 00:59:58,008 The education exchange, which does free lesson plans, badging things like that. 588 00:59:58,008 --> 01:00:06,108 And then our website is listed here and we also have previous recordings of our workshops available on the Web site. 589 01:00:06,108 --> 01:00:11,508 And then if you guys have a minute or two and could fill out a quick survey, 590 01:00:11,508 --> 01:00:16,248 maybe, Alex, if you could toss the Obbie Iasi workshop link into the chat. 591 01:00:16,248 --> 01:00:25,938 Real quick. That would be great. And if you have a minute or two. Feel free to complete the survey there and just tell us how we did. 592 01:00:25,938 --> 01:00:32,418 This is a newer workshop for us. A row is looking to kind of improve and and do better and so on. 593 01:00:32,418 --> 01:00:40,948 But I really appreciate you guys being here today. Alex and I will hang out for a few more minutes in case there's a couple more questions. 594 01:00:40,948 --> 01:00:43,773 But thank you guys so much for coming. Really appreciate it. I think somehow I just ended up being me here at the airport.