1 00:00:02,957 --> 00:00:10,007 A few more people joining. So I'm going to keep putting the resource page for today in the chat. 2 00:00:11,657 --> 00:00:18,167 And we will go ahead and get started since we're one minute after as I'm going through the workshop today. 3 00:00:19,067 --> 00:00:22,257 If you have a question, please feel free to post that in chat. 4 00:00:22,277 --> 00:00:30,467 I'm going to do my best to watch the chat as they go through the presentation and whatever your level of comfort is with following along. 5 00:00:30,497 --> 00:00:36,797 Today, if you would like to try to follow along in Adobe InDesign as I'm doing things, you are welcome to do that. 6 00:00:37,007 --> 00:00:43,157 I know sometimes that can be hard when you're working on a laptop and it's a small screen and you're trying to flip back and forth. 7 00:00:43,547 --> 00:00:47,687 So if if that's not going to work for you, not a problem at all. 8 00:00:47,717 --> 00:00:51,947 Feel free to watch today. Check out today's demonstration. 9 00:00:52,457 --> 00:00:59,297 And then you guys will be receiving an email follow up with a recording from today's workshop. 10 00:01:00,017 --> 00:01:08,956 Additionally, I have a slightly longer one that's an hour and a half session that's already available on our instructional content page, 11 00:01:08,957 --> 00:01:13,897 which is also linked in this document. So yeah, so we will go ahead and get started. 12 00:01:13,907 --> 00:01:15,316 We have a few more people join. 13 00:01:15,317 --> 00:01:22,187 So putting the link in the chat today and let's go ahead and get going with research poster design using Adobe InDesign. 14 00:01:22,997 --> 00:01:31,267 So welcome, everybody. If you would like to try to follow along a little bit, there are some practice files here that you are welcome to Download. 15 00:01:31,277 --> 00:01:36,347 I would just recommend downloading at least one image file, whether that's a JPEG, 16 00:01:36,347 --> 00:01:44,776 PNG or a QR code so you can play with how to manage images in InDesign or feel free to watch and then try that yourself later. 17 00:01:44,777 --> 00:01:53,027 That will be totally fine as well. You can also download an Adobe Stock image with your Adobe Creative Cloud Access. 18 00:01:53,177 --> 00:01:57,977 You get access to the entire Adobe Stock Library of images. 19 00:01:58,247 --> 00:02:07,847 We don't get access to video or audio and some other premium content, but any images you are welcome to use and those we have the highest license for. 20 00:02:08,507 --> 00:02:10,997 So you are able to republish those. 21 00:02:11,267 --> 00:02:20,867 So if you need a fantastic looking image for a research article or a poster, anything like that, we have full rights to it. 22 00:02:21,227 --> 00:02:25,877 So you would just sign into Adobe Stock and download, but I'll still demonstrate that in just a minute. 23 00:02:26,567 --> 00:02:29,517 So welcome, everybody. I am Dr. Chelsea Hooper. 24 00:02:29,537 --> 00:02:35,657 I work in the Innovation and Research Commons in the library, which is on the first floor of the library. 25 00:02:36,437 --> 00:02:43,577 And we have all kinds of fantastic things there. We do 3D printing, we have the wide format printing for your poster. 26 00:02:43,587 --> 00:02:47,297 So I'll be mentioning that as well. In our presentation. 27 00:02:48,287 --> 00:02:56,237 We also have our data space there. We have consultants who are available to help you with data questions like R and SPSS, all the good stuff. 28 00:02:56,657 --> 00:02:59,597 And then we also have Adobe and Adobe Creative Space there, 29 00:02:59,867 --> 00:03:06,677 and that's the main area where I work and we have Adobe student consultants there who can answer your questions after today. 30 00:03:06,917 --> 00:03:16,546 And they're available most afternoons. They have a schedule online, which I will show you, but they are going to be a fantastic resource for you. 31 00:03:16,547 --> 00:03:20,777 So as you have questions on InDesign or creating your poster, 32 00:03:21,047 --> 00:03:27,167 or if you just want somebody to look at your poster and give you some feedback or give you ideas for ways you can improve it, 33 00:03:27,407 --> 00:03:32,927 or ways you can display certain kinds of information, colors to use, that kind of thing. 34 00:03:33,077 --> 00:03:40,067 They can give you a review and they are available in person and online via Zoom. 35 00:03:40,157 --> 00:03:42,437 So I've got their information here too anyway. 36 00:03:43,157 --> 00:03:48,257 But we also have all kinds of other fantastic resources in the eye and our say on the first floor of the library. 37 00:03:48,887 --> 00:03:55,427 But today's workshop we're working on using beginning document creation and design techniques in InDesign. 38 00:03:55,427 --> 00:04:00,617 So today's workshop assumes you know nothing about InDesign, but if you have used it, 39 00:04:00,677 --> 00:04:04,487 I'm sure you're going to find a few things that are useful to you today as well. 40 00:04:05,117 --> 00:04:08,447 And we're specifically using InDesign to create a research poster. 41 00:04:08,747 --> 00:04:16,607 So as students at Auburn, you all get access to the entire Adobe Creative Cloud free of charge. 42 00:04:16,607 --> 00:04:22,847 That includes the Adobe Stock Images, tools like InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator. 43 00:04:23,117 --> 00:04:30,227 It also includes video editing tools such as Rush Premiere, Pro Audio tools such as Audition, 44 00:04:30,497 --> 00:04:37,907 and another fantastic sort of beginner graphics application called Adobe Creative Cloud Express. 45 00:04:38,177 --> 00:04:41,597 And that's a very nice thing to use in combination with something like InDesign. 46 00:04:42,317 --> 00:04:48,797 So InDesign, we're focusing on that today because InDesign is Adobe's professional publication tool. 47 00:04:49,187 --> 00:04:56,116 So authors use this for publishers, use this when you want to create some sort of publication, 48 00:04:56,117 --> 00:05:00,647 especially for print, it can it can be used for creating for web too. 49 00:05:00,647 --> 00:05:10,757 There are some people who use it for lots of different things, but it really, really helps you with arranging your images and your text. 50 00:05:10,937 --> 00:05:13,397 And managing the spacing of your text. 51 00:05:13,697 --> 00:05:22,757 It has the most controls as far as text goes of any of the Adobe tools, and it helps you place those things together very well. 52 00:05:22,757 --> 00:05:26,597 It's a very nice curation tool, so that's why we're focusing on InDesign. 53 00:05:26,867 --> 00:05:30,287 You could use Photoshop for a research poster. 54 00:05:30,287 --> 00:05:39,347 If you know Photoshop really well, you could use Illustrator for a poster, especially if you're just doing drawing like a digital drawing type tools. 55 00:05:39,617 --> 00:05:48,497 But InDesign is a great tool to use because it's a little bit easier to begin working in, I think, and it helps bring all those things together. 56 00:05:48,497 --> 00:05:51,897 You can place a shape that has a color in it. 57 00:05:51,917 --> 00:05:59,177 You can place text on it, you can place photographic images, you can place vector images. 58 00:05:59,447 --> 00:06:04,127 It's meant to put everything together and it's the best for printing, really. 59 00:06:04,967 --> 00:06:11,446 There is a whole nother presentation that I have done on effective poster design. 60 00:06:11,447 --> 00:06:20,267 So today we're really focusing how do we use InDesign to create it? But really it would be in your best interest to review this presentation as well. 61 00:06:20,267 --> 00:06:29,117 This is a PowerPoint that I have put together that goes over how you should how you should plan for your poster. 62 00:06:29,387 --> 00:06:32,837 So there's all kinds of other tips that are in here as well. 63 00:06:33,137 --> 00:06:36,376 If you're not sure how to put together a presentation, 64 00:06:36,377 --> 00:06:43,187 like maybe you have to do a poster session at a conference and so you have to speak your presentation as well. 65 00:06:43,457 --> 00:06:49,547 It has all kinds of tips for that. It has tips for if you have to do a virtual presentation. 66 00:06:51,287 --> 00:06:54,347 There's also some mention of visual abstracts. 67 00:06:54,347 --> 00:07:01,906 This is a whole nother area that you could get into as far as pushing out information to different research journals. 68 00:07:01,907 --> 00:07:07,337 You're allowed to submit a visual abstract, just like you would submit a research article. 69 00:07:07,697 --> 00:07:10,907 So that's an idea, too. So there's more information about that. 70 00:07:11,567 --> 00:07:15,587 There are mentions of things like the graduate student poster showcase. 71 00:07:15,587 --> 00:07:23,446 If these are great for you to participate in, even if you don't win or place, it's a great experience and you might. 72 00:07:23,447 --> 00:07:27,797 So and then I've got some sample posters in here for you to look at. 73 00:07:29,237 --> 00:07:36,616 There's also an idea of a new style of poster in scientific in the scientific community, 74 00:07:36,617 --> 00:07:45,137 which I think is really revolutionary and great because most of the time you create these fantastic posters with all this information on it. 75 00:07:45,377 --> 00:07:48,497 People cannot read that much information when they're out of conference. 76 00:07:48,707 --> 00:07:55,696 What do people read? They mostly read the title and then they see, Does this appeal to me or am I interested? 77 00:07:55,697 --> 00:07:57,467 Then they might talk to you more about it. 78 00:07:57,827 --> 00:08:05,056 So that being said, there is a whole community that believes, why should we make these very detailed posters? 79 00:08:05,057 --> 00:08:13,697 That's silly. Let's make a very simple poster like this with a QR code to more information and some very basic interim methods and results. 80 00:08:14,387 --> 00:08:16,277 And then if people want to know more, they'll reach out. 81 00:08:16,667 --> 00:08:24,587 So don't be surprised if you start looking at presenting research posters and this style is coming out more. 82 00:08:24,617 --> 00:08:32,177 That's that's an advantage to you because why put all that effort into placing all these traditional things when most people don't read it? 83 00:08:32,597 --> 00:08:39,046 So, you know, but you have to do whatever your audience is requiring and whatever the contest is requiring. 84 00:08:39,047 --> 00:08:45,347 So always, always, always go by whatever your instructor is telling you, whatever the conference says to do, always look at the parameters. 85 00:08:45,347 --> 00:08:49,697 But if you get a chance to participate in something like that, that would be beneficial. 86 00:08:49,967 --> 00:08:55,427 And then it talks about planning your poster, some common research poster sections. 87 00:08:55,427 --> 00:09:01,157 This is more of a traditional research poster. You will not be able to fit all of this on a poster. 88 00:09:01,547 --> 00:09:06,677 So pick whatever is most important from maybe, maybe two or three from each of these columns. 89 00:09:06,677 --> 00:09:09,017 And that's how you can kind of structure your poster. 90 00:09:10,217 --> 00:09:16,967 The writing center is great for helping with planning, and then I have some tips about gathering your materials. 91 00:09:16,967 --> 00:09:23,747 Make sure you gather your materials together, get everything together in Box or OneDrive so that when you're ready to make your poster, 92 00:09:23,747 --> 00:09:26,237 you have all of the things that you think you might use. 93 00:09:26,777 --> 00:09:31,877 And then today we're focusing on InDesign, but there's lots of different applications that you could use, 94 00:09:32,327 --> 00:09:39,167 and we have the wide format printers in the library, and we can print up to 36 inches on one side. 95 00:09:39,407 --> 00:09:47,477 And it's reasonable right now I think it's a flat rate of $7 for poster, so it's pretty reasonable and we just print it right there for you. 96 00:09:47,507 --> 00:09:50,897 You just bring your file over to our to the first floor. 97 00:09:51,227 --> 00:09:55,337 I see. And then we get it printed for you students to help you with that. 98 00:09:56,477 --> 00:10:00,167 And then I talk about design in general. Make sure you have some whitespace. 99 00:10:00,167 --> 00:10:04,907 You know, if you're not sure what font size to use, this is a good rule to go by. 100 00:10:05,597 --> 00:10:08,656 So that gives you some basic overview of that presentation. 101 00:10:08,657 --> 00:10:11,827 But I would encourage you to use that as you. Begin planning your poster. 102 00:10:13,587 --> 00:10:18,807 You also get access to Adobe Stock Images. This is a fantastic resource for you. 103 00:10:19,227 --> 00:10:24,716 Make sure that you're signed in appear with your Auburn Adobe ID, which by the way, 104 00:10:24,717 --> 00:10:28,077 if you have not yet signed up for that, make sure you do that here. 105 00:10:28,347 --> 00:10:32,276 Okay. Maybe do that while we're talking. If you haven't done that yet, make sure you get that. 106 00:10:32,277 --> 00:10:35,697 And if you don't get a confirmation email, don't worry. 107 00:10:35,967 --> 00:10:45,897 Sometimes that goes to spam. Go ahead and download the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App and try to sign in and it'll probably work. 108 00:10:46,147 --> 00:10:51,657 If you have any problems with that, you can email the i.t service desk at auburn dot edu. 109 00:10:51,837 --> 00:10:56,636 Okay. They manage the licensing. We help you learn it. So anyway, back to images. 110 00:10:56,637 --> 00:11:01,557 Make sure you're signed up here and then under here you can choose images. 111 00:11:02,127 --> 00:11:05,517 And so right here we could choose plants. 112 00:11:06,087 --> 00:11:12,927 Let's say we're doing some research on plants. That would be a good thing for us to look up and look at all the fantastic images we get. 113 00:11:13,017 --> 00:11:15,027 So we have tons and tons of images. 114 00:11:15,327 --> 00:11:23,187 If we wanted to narrow this down, there's a filter over here and we can narrow this by all kinds of parameters, such as color, 115 00:11:24,327 --> 00:11:31,297 if it's horizontal or vertical or square, for example, that might be useful for our research poster to fit it in there. 116 00:11:31,317 --> 00:11:36,657 Something that's square. There are some vector images like this that you could use. 117 00:11:37,827 --> 00:11:41,726 And then there's raster images. Here's a vector image that has no background. 118 00:11:41,727 --> 00:11:45,207 So that would be nice to overlay on a color if you wanted to do that. 119 00:11:45,597 --> 00:11:49,257 And then another thing that's nice is images with copy space. 120 00:11:49,737 --> 00:11:55,977 So it has an image that has some space in it so that you could put text on top of it. 121 00:11:56,217 --> 00:12:04,827 So that's kind of a nice thing as well. So anyway, once you find one that you like, let's say maybe we wanted this one's pretty nice. 122 00:12:04,917 --> 00:12:07,107 Maybe we're talking about houseplants or something like that. 123 00:12:07,497 --> 00:12:14,906 What you would do is you would hit license and then you would type in your Auburn information and then you'd be able to download it. 124 00:12:14,907 --> 00:12:20,427 And then once you've got it downloaded, it takes that watermark off from Adobe Stock and then you can insert it. 125 00:12:20,637 --> 00:12:24,987 So anyway, you can maybe give that a try while you're on your computer today. 126 00:12:25,497 --> 00:12:31,107 Debbie Stock images gives you fantastic resources. Another fantastic resource. 127 00:12:31,257 --> 00:12:36,507 Before we jump into InDesign is Creative Cloud Express, and I've already signed into it here. 128 00:12:37,017 --> 00:12:41,306 However, if you need some help kind of pulling together some information, 129 00:12:41,307 --> 00:12:49,797 maybe you want to put a small infographic or a chart or a graph or a really interesting layered graphic into InDesign. 130 00:12:50,247 --> 00:12:54,476 And you're not ready to go on and use Photoshop or Illustrator to do that. 131 00:12:54,477 --> 00:13:00,537 This can be a good alternative. So we can search for something like infographic here. 132 00:13:02,367 --> 00:13:09,317 And there's all kinds of templates. So this could help you make a graphic, which then you could download. 133 00:13:09,327 --> 00:13:15,567 And I have a whole nother presentation on a creative cloud express on our instructional content page if you're interested in looking into that. 134 00:13:16,497 --> 00:13:22,407 So if we go here, maybe we look up research or something like that, put two key words together. 135 00:13:23,587 --> 00:13:29,047 So something like this, innovative, sustainable solutions is just kind of a nice layered graphic. 136 00:13:29,227 --> 00:13:31,657 But I can make changes to it if I want to. 137 00:13:32,287 --> 00:13:38,257 Basically, you just click whatever you want to make changes to, and then sometimes they're grouped together. 138 00:13:38,257 --> 00:13:44,447 You could group them. And then now we can double click the text and make changes to it. 139 00:13:44,627 --> 00:13:47,897 So we just make changes. Click what you want to change, make changes appear. 140 00:13:47,897 --> 00:13:54,017 You can add photos. Shapes. Shapes are great because they will give you options for all kinds of. 141 00:13:54,287 --> 00:13:58,187 So let's say we needed some beakers or something like that to put on there. 142 00:13:58,907 --> 00:14:02,777 So we have all kinds of free icons, essentially, that we can use to build a graphic. 143 00:14:03,017 --> 00:14:06,137 And then once you've built the graphic, you can then download it. 144 00:14:07,067 --> 00:14:13,817 As either a pig or a pig with a clear background, transparent background, a JPEG or a PDF. 145 00:14:13,817 --> 00:14:18,437 If you're going to put this into InDesign, I would recommend either PNGs or JPEG. 146 00:14:18,437 --> 00:14:23,987 In this case, it's got a photographic image right here, so I would recommend JPEG for that. 147 00:14:24,347 --> 00:14:33,557 And then you could insert that JPEG into InDesign so you can mix and match these apps together to really help you combine some things. 148 00:14:33,947 --> 00:14:42,227 Yeah. So and also those of you who have just joined before we've popped into before we jump into InDesign, you can visit this short link here. 149 00:14:42,227 --> 00:14:53,057 Obviously I RC InDesign poster and I will go ahead and put that in the chat maybe one more time and then we will hop into InDesign. 150 00:14:54,797 --> 00:14:58,867 And that's today's presentation link. Fantastic. 151 00:14:59,647 --> 00:15:05,537 I'll stop there for just a second and see if there are questions about what I've talked about so far. 152 00:15:05,557 --> 00:15:07,717 Feel free to post in the chat if you have a question. 153 00:15:13,617 --> 00:15:19,397 While you're thinking about if you might have a question, there are other resources for images that you can access. 154 00:15:19,407 --> 00:15:23,247 So we talked about stock and then Creative Cloud Express to make your own graphics. 155 00:15:23,697 --> 00:15:29,987 And there are some other copyright friendly image sites here because you're creating a research poster that's going to get published. 156 00:15:29,997 --> 00:15:35,007 A lot of conferences will ask you to submit a electronic version, 157 00:15:35,007 --> 00:15:39,957 in which case you would just save it as a PDF and then send it to them as a PDF file. 158 00:15:40,857 --> 00:15:44,336 Make sure you have the rights to republish whatever you're using. 159 00:15:44,337 --> 00:15:51,626 So if you're working in a lab, make check with your your mentor, your instructor, your lab director. 160 00:15:51,627 --> 00:16:00,507 Make sure it's okay for you to take pictures of what's going on in your lab and use that in your research poster or presentation. 161 00:16:00,747 --> 00:16:06,387 Just check, because sometimes these things are proprietary and they don't want you showing certain things. 162 00:16:06,747 --> 00:16:10,857 So you want to make sure that you're okay with doing that. 163 00:16:11,157 --> 00:16:14,486 If you take your own pictures, you own the rights to that. 164 00:16:14,487 --> 00:16:17,457 So that's always a great option, too, is taking your own pictures. 165 00:16:18,147 --> 00:16:27,327 Another option that I've seen students use is if they need people in there demonstrating something is they use themselves. 166 00:16:27,627 --> 00:16:32,727 Get a friend to take a picture of them so I can physiology students acting out a 167 00:16:32,727 --> 00:16:37,376 certain thing and then they you know a certain type of movement or certain like they 168 00:16:37,377 --> 00:16:41,097 were talking about hands and so they took pictures of their own hands and different 169 00:16:41,097 --> 00:16:45,507 positions to talk about movement and arthritis or whatever they were researching. 170 00:16:46,437 --> 00:16:50,127 So those are ways around that. Just make sure you have permission to use the photos. 171 00:16:50,517 --> 00:16:55,977 Stock is always good, your own images are always good. Anything you create and express is going to be good. 172 00:16:57,087 --> 00:17:07,887 Good to go. In general, when you are planning your poster, using a grid as a tool is a really great idea. 173 00:17:07,947 --> 00:17:16,347 So historically the grid is a very nice, organized way for humans to process information, 174 00:17:16,617 --> 00:17:23,307 and it's ideal for those things to be organized in groups of three or four because of short term memory. 175 00:17:23,907 --> 00:17:31,017 The ability of people to have short term memory that can take can contain about 3 to 4 things at the same time at once. 176 00:17:31,587 --> 00:17:34,857 So there is a planning shape that you are welcome to use. 177 00:17:34,857 --> 00:17:43,067 This is just an idea you can plan yourself. You know, some people do a mock up in PowerPoint or express, you know, 178 00:17:43,137 --> 00:17:48,477 because it's drag and drop and then do their poster for real in InDesign or Illustrator, for example. 179 00:17:48,717 --> 00:17:56,247 But here's a planning sheet and notice I've already got it divided up into a grid and it can be a different kind of grid if you want. 180 00:17:57,117 --> 00:18:01,617 This one just happens to be divided in thirds both ways, and it's in its portrait. 181 00:18:01,887 --> 00:18:08,456 Yours could be landscape, you know. And then you can I encourage you just to sketch out what you want and what you have 182 00:18:08,457 --> 00:18:13,887 to figure out what things do you are most important to you to explain in your poster. 183 00:18:13,887 --> 00:18:17,847 And that's what you want to include. And there's tips for that at that presentation that I showed you. 184 00:18:18,267 --> 00:18:24,267 But your goal is figure out who's the audience, what are the requirements of your poster like? 185 00:18:24,327 --> 00:18:30,317 What are the size? What size does that have to be? Is there specific information that has to be in there? 186 00:18:30,327 --> 00:18:32,607 Make yourself a checklist to make sure you're putting that in there. 187 00:18:32,997 --> 00:18:39,326 Gather your materials in your content, put everything in a folder or something that's accessible to you, and then tell a story. 188 00:18:39,327 --> 00:18:50,817 Helped your audience get through your content easily use captions, figure out what's most important people read left to right and top down. 189 00:18:51,027 --> 00:18:54,177 So the most important thing should be upper left. Okay. 190 00:18:54,627 --> 00:18:59,667 And sketch that out. Okay. So now we're going to go ahead and hop into InDesign. 191 00:18:59,667 --> 00:19:08,097 So I already have InDesign open, but after you have gotten your Adobe ID, you will be able to download Adobe Creative Cloud App, 192 00:19:08,097 --> 00:19:14,997 which looks like this, and then sign into your Auburn I.D. and then open up InDesign is what you're going to want to do. 193 00:19:15,297 --> 00:19:18,507 So we're going to create a new document from scratch. 194 00:19:18,867 --> 00:19:23,647 So we're going to open up InDesign. And then here, we're going to create a new file. 195 00:19:25,057 --> 00:19:29,407 And then InDesign gives us some options up here as to what type of file do we want. 196 00:19:29,437 --> 00:19:32,587 And it's it's recognized in that I've used some things recently. 197 00:19:32,857 --> 00:19:37,776 I could go to save files, but if I'm designing something for print, that's what I want to choose. 198 00:19:37,777 --> 00:19:43,907 In that case, this is what I'm doing. And then over here on the right hand side of the parameters of my new document. 199 00:19:44,017 --> 00:19:48,007 So the first thing is pictures. We don't really know what pictures are, right? 200 00:19:48,037 --> 00:19:54,517 We we know what entries are. And that's probably the parameters that they're giving you your conference poster size in. 201 00:19:54,517 --> 00:20:02,437 So that's the first thing we want to change. Pictures is a another form of measurement that professional publishers use. 202 00:20:02,857 --> 00:20:05,947 We don't need to know about that right now. We just need entries. 203 00:20:06,337 --> 00:20:07,476 So we're going to use entries. 204 00:20:07,477 --> 00:20:14,707 As you can see, this is a regular letter size, tablet size, but we want a custom size so we can just type in what we want here. 205 00:20:15,307 --> 00:20:21,607 So a lot of posters are, let's say, maybe 36. 206 00:20:23,107 --> 00:20:26,777 Buy your baby will want 48 by 36. 207 00:20:26,797 --> 00:20:30,277 You can kind of choose what it is that your parameters are that you want. 208 00:20:30,547 --> 00:20:36,097 That's a pretty big poster. We can print up to 36 inches on one side. 209 00:20:36,107 --> 00:20:40,647 So this is something that we would be able to print. If it's 48 by 48, we're not going to be able to print out. 210 00:20:40,657 --> 00:20:45,667 Okay. Most conferences don't do higher than 46 by 30, 48 by 36. 211 00:20:45,667 --> 00:20:50,646 That's huge. And then we can choose if we want that to be landscape or portrait. 212 00:20:50,647 --> 00:20:54,367 This is how we want it to be. We want it to be wider than than tall. 213 00:20:54,607 --> 00:21:01,717 But whatever your conference is telling you to do, make sure you pay attention to which one is width and which one is height facing pages. 214 00:21:01,807 --> 00:21:06,787 In this case, we do not want facing pages because facing pages just means like a book. 215 00:21:07,207 --> 00:21:14,467 So if I was to send this to a publisher and I wanted it to be like a book where the page opens, then I would choose facing pages. 216 00:21:14,467 --> 00:21:17,887 But we don't choose that. We don't want facing pages. We just want one page. 217 00:21:18,247 --> 00:21:21,667 Another trick, guys, is that down here under preview, 218 00:21:22,507 --> 00:21:30,666 you can maybe make sure you check mark that box because then you can kind of see what is InDesign doing while you're making these changes? 219 00:21:30,667 --> 00:21:38,797 And that way you can tell, am I making the right changes? And so on. The next thing we're going to want to set up is the number of pages. 220 00:21:38,827 --> 00:21:44,167 Now this is a poster, so one page is what we want now, columns. 221 00:21:44,467 --> 00:21:48,907 Columns doesn't mean visible columns, it means guides. 222 00:21:49,147 --> 00:21:56,617 Okay. So it's going to help us by showing us some guides, guidelines on the paper that will not print. 223 00:21:56,947 --> 00:22:00,127 So we do want to put columns in there. I would suggest this. 224 00:22:00,127 --> 00:22:04,327 So we may want three or four. I'll just do three for now. 225 00:22:04,417 --> 00:22:07,537 So you guys can kind of see how that how that looks. 226 00:22:08,347 --> 00:22:11,437 The column gutter is the spacing between the columns. 227 00:22:11,437 --> 00:22:15,756 And if we kind of move this other way, you can see how it put the guidelines in there. 228 00:22:15,757 --> 00:22:19,627 Right? So we might want a bigger column gutter that's pretty small. 229 00:22:20,047 --> 00:22:23,887 So something like .25 inches might be good. 230 00:22:23,887 --> 00:22:32,227 Depends on the spacing of your we'll put it a little bit higher just to give some white space in between that will be good. 231 00:22:32,767 --> 00:22:40,117 And then the margins, you can basically just leave those or you can bring them down if you want to. 232 00:22:40,477 --> 00:22:46,057 It depends on the parameters of your project and what you want to show and that sort of thing. 233 00:22:47,407 --> 00:22:52,927 Blade and Slug. So if you were to send this to like a professional printer, 234 00:22:53,317 --> 00:23:00,487 then they typically have the capability of printing beyond the margins, which is what these would be. 235 00:23:00,727 --> 00:23:06,457 So you can make the bleed more than outside the margins. 236 00:23:07,207 --> 00:23:12,577 So that would be something that we could set up if we wanted to. In this case, we're not really worried about that. 237 00:23:12,577 --> 00:23:19,417 But that's how when you see like postcards that have color printed all the way to the edge, that's how they achieve that. 238 00:23:20,317 --> 00:23:28,056 They can leave these margins in because those are guides, but they can they can expand the blade and go beyond the edge. 239 00:23:28,057 --> 00:23:34,477 And then they send that to a professional printer to get that part done, because you have to have a special printer that can print to the edge. 240 00:23:34,477 --> 00:23:41,257 So that's that's kind of different. And then slug we're not worried about that for right now, but we'll just hit create. 241 00:23:42,757 --> 00:23:46,296 Oh, and also before we hit create, we need to give it a name up here. 242 00:23:46,297 --> 00:23:53,887 So it says Untitled. This is the file name. So we might call this research poster plants. 243 00:23:53,887 --> 00:23:59,317 We'll just say that K or whatever it is, and then we will hit create. 244 00:24:00,507 --> 00:24:04,577 And now here we have our poster. And so this a blank page. 245 00:24:04,587 --> 00:24:09,287 So think of it as like a scrapbook. You have to place everything on here. 246 00:24:09,297 --> 00:24:12,387 So you might be used to something like word where it has a blinking cursor. 247 00:24:12,387 --> 00:24:16,427 It's waiting for you to to type in design is totally different. 248 00:24:16,437 --> 00:24:20,546 It's like, you know, it's like a scrapbook. So you're placing things on there. 249 00:24:20,547 --> 00:24:25,137 So we're going to go over the interface here and a few tools to help you kind of get oriented. 250 00:24:25,767 --> 00:24:34,227 First of all, if you're following along on your computer, check to make sure that you have InDesign 2022. 251 00:24:34,257 --> 00:24:37,137 That's the best thing. If you don't have it, that's okay. 252 00:24:37,497 --> 00:24:43,077 The tools are going to be the same, but check to make sure that your workspace is set to essentials. 253 00:24:43,437 --> 00:24:48,746 As you can see, there are other options here, and we're going to be working in essentials today. 254 00:24:48,747 --> 00:24:57,986 The workspace just means it's different setups of tools over here depending on what workspace scheme you have selected. 255 00:24:57,987 --> 00:25:03,427 So we're going to be working in essentials. So if you want to make sure yours is the same as mine, good question. 256 00:25:03,427 --> 00:25:06,687 The question in the chat is, is InDesign only work on a mac? 257 00:25:07,017 --> 00:25:10,437 No, it works on both PC and Mac. 258 00:25:10,437 --> 00:25:17,547 So this is fantastic. And for both types of computers, you would download the the Adobe Creative Cloud app. 259 00:25:17,817 --> 00:25:22,167 If you just Google that, it'll come up. I also have links to it somewhere on my page as well. 260 00:25:23,007 --> 00:25:27,956 And then you can install in any of the apps, including InDesign. 261 00:25:27,957 --> 00:25:30,897 So yeah, InDesign is definitely available on PC as well. 262 00:25:31,317 --> 00:25:39,987 Most pretty much all of the Adobe applications are available for both PC or Mac and most of them there is no difference. 263 00:25:40,137 --> 00:25:43,317 So the tools are the same, the layout is the same and all of that. 264 00:25:44,277 --> 00:25:51,027 There's just a few little tiny changes occasionally from time to time with certain apps, but it's not much at all, and definitely not InDesign. 265 00:25:51,027 --> 00:25:56,517 It would look exactly the same. So yes, I happen to be on a mac, but you can totally use it on a PC, of course. 266 00:25:56,517 --> 00:26:01,227 Yeah, great question. Yeah. So over here on the left hand side are our tools. 267 00:26:01,647 --> 00:26:04,796 So today we will be focusing on just a few tools. 268 00:26:04,797 --> 00:26:09,177 You don't have to know everything about InDesign to make something, make something like research poster. 269 00:26:09,867 --> 00:26:13,227 So the first tool is the selection tool. We'll be using that a lot. 270 00:26:13,227 --> 00:26:16,257 That's how you select objects and move them and so on. 271 00:26:17,127 --> 00:26:19,797 We will also be using the type tool. 272 00:26:19,797 --> 00:26:29,366 That's how you get text on your screen and we will be using the rectangle frame tool and then also the rectangle tool. 273 00:26:29,367 --> 00:26:37,107 So these are shapes that we'll be able to be implementing and we'll also be using the colors. 274 00:26:37,317 --> 00:26:42,147 So we have the fill color and the stroke color. So that's kind of the basics of getting started with that. 275 00:26:42,927 --> 00:26:47,337 And then notice that over here on the right hand side. So left hand side is your tools. 276 00:26:48,147 --> 00:26:56,667 And then over on the right hand side are things like properties and these this is sort of your active panel that you can that you can work from. 277 00:26:57,117 --> 00:27:01,047 And right now there's nothing selected. So it's just showing us information about the document. 278 00:27:01,107 --> 00:27:10,226 It's telling us what size this document is, that it's one page, you know, that it's a landscape and then we can make changes to it if we wanted to. 279 00:27:10,227 --> 00:27:14,247 And all of that. We can also set up guides if we wanted to. 280 00:27:14,247 --> 00:27:15,987 You can draw your own guides. 281 00:27:16,647 --> 00:27:24,777 And then also a little trick about the interface is if you're looking for some options over here on the right hand side and you're not seeing them, 282 00:27:25,287 --> 00:27:32,007 typically you select what it is you want to work on first, then you get additional options over here. 283 00:27:32,007 --> 00:27:40,947 That's true for all the Adobe Apps, but you can also force them to show up by going to window and then notice properties is checked. 284 00:27:41,097 --> 00:27:44,547 And so since properties is check the properties panel is showing. 285 00:27:44,967 --> 00:27:53,787 So if I wanted to force a certain panel to appear like color, then I could make that open over here and it would be there. 286 00:27:54,027 --> 00:27:57,537 Okay, so that's just a little trick about the interface. All right. 287 00:27:57,537 --> 00:28:02,637 So let's get started with putting some things some information on our document here. 288 00:28:03,447 --> 00:28:09,357 Now, another thing that you could do that will help you is you can draw grid lines to help you. 289 00:28:09,357 --> 00:28:10,496 You can draw even more guides. 290 00:28:10,497 --> 00:28:18,986 We have columns here, but if we wanted to, we can click and drag from the rulers and we can make a little guide here for ourselves. 291 00:28:18,987 --> 00:28:24,206 This guide will not print is just there to help us and notice we can use the rulers here. 292 00:28:24,207 --> 00:28:28,917 And if you don't see the rulers you can go to view and then show rulers. 293 00:28:28,917 --> 00:28:37,347 Here's where you would go to do that. And then similarly we can drag from the from the left ruler to make a another guide. 294 00:28:38,007 --> 00:28:44,427 So maybe we wanted to make one here like exactly halfway in the middle of the column or something like that. 295 00:28:44,877 --> 00:28:51,357 So now we can create a grid for ourselves so you can click and drag to create those grids for yourself if you would like to. 296 00:28:52,137 --> 00:28:56,187 That's pretty handy. So that's how we can get started with our information. 297 00:28:56,967 --> 00:29:00,027 And then something we might want to add at the top might be some sort of like. 298 00:29:00,157 --> 00:29:04,117 And R shape and that sort of thing. So in that case, we'll probably want to do the right thing at all. 299 00:29:04,507 --> 00:29:11,046 Now, here's a tip. Every time you see a a tool that has a little white flag at the bottom. 300 00:29:11,047 --> 00:29:17,617 Right, that means there's more tools underneath. So press and hold the tool and you'll get more options. 301 00:29:17,977 --> 00:29:21,847 So this is a rectangle shape. This is a circle or ellipse shape. 302 00:29:22,057 --> 00:29:27,097 And then the polygon tool means multiple sides. And you can adjust how many sides those are. 303 00:29:27,127 --> 00:29:30,277 So that's how you would get triangles or anything else that you want. 304 00:29:30,787 --> 00:29:35,647 So for today, we want a rectangle tool. So let's go ahead and get a rectangle tool. 305 00:29:36,307 --> 00:29:40,747 And now we can just click and drag to create a nice rectangle shape. 306 00:29:41,107 --> 00:29:48,517 And these are live shapes. So after we click and drag and create one, then we can use our selection tool to make changes to it. 307 00:29:48,877 --> 00:29:52,717 So we can make that, you know, go over the margins. 308 00:29:52,717 --> 00:29:56,767 If we would like to a little bit, our printers wouldn't really print to the edge. 309 00:29:57,037 --> 00:30:01,887 They'll get pretty close. So if you do that, it'll go as far as it can, which is nice. 310 00:30:01,897 --> 00:30:05,317 And then see we can match these up to these grid lines, see how it kind of snaps. 311 00:30:05,707 --> 00:30:09,787 So you can see a little better set some color to it. So we've got this selected. 312 00:30:10,267 --> 00:30:13,507 Now notice our properties panel has changed over here. 313 00:30:13,927 --> 00:30:18,097 So we have a rectangle and with no color, zero fill. 314 00:30:18,397 --> 00:30:22,297 So let's go ahead and click that and make and talk about color for a minute. 315 00:30:23,047 --> 00:30:30,687 So color in InDesign, because we've chosen prints, it's giving us these seem like colors. 316 00:30:31,597 --> 00:30:37,057 So that is what we want, because that's the colors that printers understand. 317 00:30:37,357 --> 00:30:45,636 If we were designing for for a web for the computer, we would choose the RGV colors. 318 00:30:45,637 --> 00:30:49,537 We could we could do that. But since we chose in print, we get these colors. 319 00:30:49,837 --> 00:30:57,457 So what we can do is it's got some colors that are already here, but we can choose even more by going to this color panel. 320 00:30:57,817 --> 00:31:08,287 And here's where you could go get the codes for the Auburn specific colors, which is on my other poster presentation, the PowerPoint one. 321 00:31:08,707 --> 00:31:15,276 And you can type in the exact numbers here and get the exact Auburn official color if you wanted to. 322 00:31:15,277 --> 00:31:20,827 If you don't know where to start with colors, that's a good option. You can also just pick a color here or something like that. 323 00:31:21,577 --> 00:31:27,877 So depending on what we're doing, we're doing something with plants. So we might want something like a light sage or something like that. 324 00:31:28,717 --> 00:31:33,457 Okay, so now we have a fill color, just so you can see what a stroke color would do. 325 00:31:34,417 --> 00:31:36,847 Let's give it a stroke color. We wouldn't normally do this, 326 00:31:36,847 --> 00:31:44,767 but let's choose a black in this case and then let's give it a higher point font so you can kind of see what's going on here. 327 00:31:45,367 --> 00:31:53,737 And then another trick is if you press w on your keyboard, then that gives you to a different preview screen, 328 00:31:53,737 --> 00:31:57,337 which you can also get to by pressing and holding this little preview of you. 329 00:31:57,577 --> 00:32:02,437 Normal means editing preview means how is this going to look when I print it? 330 00:32:02,737 --> 00:32:08,617 Okay. So we can go back to normal and it gets the editing done and we go back to our selection tool. 331 00:32:08,917 --> 00:32:13,427 We can get rid of that stroke color. We don't really need that. So we can just say zero stroke. 332 00:32:13,747 --> 00:32:18,937 Okay. But that's so you can see with the strokes what the stroke color is and what the fill colors do. 333 00:32:20,017 --> 00:32:24,816 You can also do things like change the let's do another rectangle tool just so you can kind of see, 334 00:32:24,817 --> 00:32:30,727 because this might be nice for us to do sub headers for. We could, we could apply that same color. 335 00:32:31,777 --> 00:32:38,887 If we would like to, we can get to that same color by either choosing the Eyedropper Tool. 336 00:32:39,067 --> 00:32:43,177 So let's see if we can find it over here. Should be able to get Eyedropper Tool. 337 00:32:43,987 --> 00:32:52,116 So if we click the rectangle that we want to make changes to and then and then click the formatting of whatever it is we're working on, 338 00:32:52,117 --> 00:32:56,557 then it will apply that same formatting. So that's how we can quickly get a color. 339 00:32:57,577 --> 00:33:03,667 Also under colors, we can also add to swatches. 340 00:33:04,267 --> 00:33:08,556 So if we like this color, we're going to use it a lot. We can add it to our swatches lists. 341 00:33:08,557 --> 00:33:16,417 Swatches means colors that are sort of saved within this InDesign file in an easier location. 342 00:33:16,477 --> 00:33:20,737 So we can add the swatches, and now it's in our swatches list. 343 00:33:20,857 --> 00:33:25,357 So now when we go to different types of colors, it's now listed down here. 344 00:33:25,597 --> 00:33:29,137 You can even double click it and change the color if you want to. Okay. 345 00:33:29,557 --> 00:33:35,007 So that's an idea as well. All right, let's keep going here. 346 00:33:39,647 --> 00:33:44,147 All right. Just making sure you're still with me. My computer like bleep for a second. 347 00:33:45,107 --> 00:33:51,407 Okay. Here we go. And so another thing we can do here is we can do rounded corners. 348 00:33:51,857 --> 00:33:57,827 So that's something we can adjust. We can adjust the corners. You can also do that by dragging the little yellow box here. 349 00:33:58,007 --> 00:34:01,787 Oh, and something else we can do. Let me do that again. But let me zoom in. 350 00:34:02,147 --> 00:34:08,537 So Command Plus zooms in and command minus zooms out. 351 00:34:09,137 --> 00:34:15,647 I need to grab the correct. There we go. Now I've got the yellow box, and now we can click and drag to make the corners round. 352 00:34:15,647 --> 00:34:23,357 So that way you can kind of see rounded corners is kind of a pleasing thing for people to look at your apps or all have rounded corners. 353 00:34:23,627 --> 00:34:30,687 So that helps. It takes some edginess away from your research poster, kind of nice command minus to go back out. 354 00:34:30,707 --> 00:34:37,367 You can also go to view, fit, page and window, and that takes you back to sort of the full screen view. 355 00:34:37,697 --> 00:34:45,527 Here's a trick. Once you have something set up with the colors that you like and that sort of thing, you can duplicate it. 356 00:34:45,677 --> 00:34:51,657 So you can do that real quickly by holding down the option key or the alt key on your PC keyboard. 357 00:34:51,717 --> 00:34:54,797 Oh, and it would be control plus on a PC control minus. Okay. 358 00:34:55,247 --> 00:35:01,337 And then that creates a duplicate. And then that way you're assured that these are exactly the same size. 359 00:35:01,337 --> 00:35:06,527 So if you want to create some sub headers here that were all the same, then you can do that. 360 00:35:07,277 --> 00:35:11,447 So that's an idea there as well. So this is that's information about shapes. 361 00:35:11,447 --> 00:35:16,397 You can also do all kinds of other things to shapes. There's effects that you can give it. 362 00:35:16,427 --> 00:35:20,986 You can give it a drop shadow. You can give it a an outer glow, a bevel. 363 00:35:20,987 --> 00:35:24,367 So it looks kind of like a button. So there's all kinds of neat things you can do. 364 00:35:24,377 --> 00:35:27,817 Adjusting opacity makes it look interesting to me. 365 00:35:28,067 --> 00:35:33,377 Kind of reduces the color a bit, makes it sometimes easier to read if you've got dark text on top. 366 00:35:34,067 --> 00:35:37,607 So those are some options for your shapes and for your colors and so on. 367 00:35:38,237 --> 00:35:44,507 Okay, so now we've done shapes. Here's another great tool that is similar to shapes is this frame tool. 368 00:35:44,837 --> 00:35:50,027 So here's the main concept to understand. We've placed some for some shapes onto here. 369 00:35:50,537 --> 00:35:53,857 Shapes also exist in our our frames. 370 00:35:53,867 --> 00:35:57,227 So everything in InDesign exists inside of a frame, 371 00:35:57,587 --> 00:36:02,897 whether it's a shape frame like we've been working with or whether it's a text frame which we're going to do next, 372 00:36:03,317 --> 00:36:06,647 or whether it's a placeholder frame or a photo. 373 00:36:06,677 --> 00:36:09,977 When you insert a photo or an image, it's inside of a frame. 374 00:36:10,277 --> 00:36:13,837 So let's try the rectangle shape tool. 375 00:36:13,847 --> 00:36:17,477 You can also get circle once too. So if you want to try the circle one, that's pretty nice. 376 00:36:17,867 --> 00:36:23,207 Let's choose the ellipse frame tool. Now, another trick is when you're clicking and dragging. 377 00:36:23,447 --> 00:36:28,637 If you hold down the shift key, the shift key on your keyboard while you're clicking and dragging, 378 00:36:28,907 --> 00:36:34,667 it tells InDesign to create a perfect circle or a perfect square, depending on which tool you've chosen. 379 00:36:35,177 --> 00:36:39,077 So these are great for using as placeholders. 380 00:36:39,227 --> 00:36:43,937 So you may not have all of the pictures that you need just yet. 381 00:36:44,027 --> 00:36:52,097 You may not have all of the text that you need just yet. You can place these placeholders around on your screen depending on what you need. 382 00:36:52,097 --> 00:36:56,566 So maybe you're going to put something round here like somebody picture that usually 383 00:36:56,567 --> 00:37:01,337 is a nice way to frame somebodies face or something you want people to focus on. 384 00:37:02,057 --> 00:37:05,897 And then we can keep going and put a rectangle frame tool over here. 385 00:37:05,907 --> 00:37:09,797 Maybe we know we're going to put like some sort of graphic chart here. 386 00:37:10,097 --> 00:37:12,736 Now see how it's snapping to these columns. 387 00:37:12,737 --> 00:37:19,067 That's what helps you with placing all these things on a page if you've ever tried to do this in like PowerPoint or Word. 388 00:37:19,397 --> 00:37:24,107 It's like really hard because the spacing and placing things is really difficult. 389 00:37:24,347 --> 00:37:29,507 And remember, you can draw these guides, see how we did that guide to that particular tool. 390 00:37:29,837 --> 00:37:34,307 So you can use these things to really help you out with what you want to place. 391 00:37:34,547 --> 00:37:39,227 Let's also maybe put one up here because that's typically where we want to put like a logo. 392 00:37:39,527 --> 00:37:47,477 So notice how it snaps to all these lines. So now we are very accurate in how we're placing things, which is great. 393 00:37:48,317 --> 00:37:54,527 Okay, so you can use that for placeholders and then you can go back and insert things into those later. 394 00:37:54,857 --> 00:37:59,177 So let's maybe go switch back to talking about text. 395 00:37:59,207 --> 00:38:09,196 Text also appears in frames. So let's go to the text frame or the type tool and you can click and drag to create a text frame. 396 00:38:09,197 --> 00:38:13,487 So we might want one up here, right? Because this is our title. 397 00:38:13,937 --> 00:38:17,057 Okay. And we can match it up to those, those things there. 398 00:38:17,357 --> 00:38:20,416 And it starts out probably pretty tiny at first. 399 00:38:20,417 --> 00:38:26,987 So you do want to go over here and make some changes to that because it's super tiny right now. 400 00:38:27,527 --> 00:38:32,807 So let's maybe bump it up to something like 72. So we would put our title here. 401 00:38:33,087 --> 00:38:37,097 Okay. Now notice it's just choosing whatever default. 402 00:38:39,177 --> 00:38:44,906 A fight is here now. Something for us to understand about text phrases. 403 00:38:44,907 --> 00:38:52,467 We have a text frame here. You can add a fill color and a stroke color to your text frame, just like you did the shapes. 404 00:38:52,497 --> 00:38:56,187 So if we wanted that to have a different background color, we could we could do that. 405 00:38:57,447 --> 00:39:03,687 But we don't want to right now. So we're just going to leave it to make changes to text. 406 00:39:04,047 --> 00:39:11,427 The first thing you need to understand is sort of conceptually the differences between character styles and paragraph styles. 407 00:39:12,087 --> 00:39:16,227 So a paragraph exists inside of a text frame. 408 00:39:16,377 --> 00:39:20,967 So we have one text frame here. Let's go ahead and maybe just draw another one, maybe here. 409 00:39:23,007 --> 00:39:27,327 And then let's. Let's do a little trick that we have down here. 410 00:39:27,357 --> 00:39:30,357 See this little trick down here? It says, fill with placeholder text. 411 00:39:30,627 --> 00:39:38,307 Let's toss some placeholder text in there. Let's undo that, actually, and make it a bigger font size first. 412 00:39:39,477 --> 00:39:45,027 So let's go back over to here we go and make that maybe like 24 or something like that. 413 00:39:45,387 --> 00:39:49,707 Still with placeholder text, it's still pretty tiny. So let's maybe highlight everything. 414 00:39:51,327 --> 00:39:54,927 Well, so 24 are still pretty tiny on our screen, isn't it? There we go. 415 00:39:55,167 --> 00:39:59,217 It's because we're zoomed out. So you have an idea there. Okay. 416 00:40:00,177 --> 00:40:05,667 Yeah. So now we have a text box here and we have bumped up the font size. 417 00:40:05,937 --> 00:40:10,797 And notice now there's a little red plus sign at the bottom of that text frame. 418 00:40:11,187 --> 00:40:19,377 So what InDesign has done is it's just shoved that text down, but the frame is preventing that text from filling out. 419 00:40:19,827 --> 00:40:25,736 So that's something you need to be aware of in InDesign has text that only exists inside of frames, 420 00:40:25,737 --> 00:40:30,537 and then you can use those frames to manipulate that text as well. So two ways we can fix this. 421 00:40:31,497 --> 00:40:37,467 We can go to the select tool and we can continue to make this bigger and bigger. 422 00:40:38,247 --> 00:40:44,647 And so there is no red over set text, which you get the idea we can keep making it bigger. 423 00:40:44,667 --> 00:40:48,387 In fact, if you need to bleed over here, let's just do that for now. There we go. We got to the end of it. 424 00:40:49,437 --> 00:40:53,217 You obviously wouldn't want to put that there, but you get the idea. Okay, let's put it over here. 425 00:40:53,487 --> 00:40:57,207 There we go. So that's one way that we can manage that over set text. 426 00:40:57,597 --> 00:41:02,847 Here's another thing that we could do. Let's make it smaller so we get that red plus sign. 427 00:41:04,377 --> 00:41:08,457 This is one way that you can really organize your text on your on your screen. 428 00:41:08,667 --> 00:41:12,716 Yeah. Let's see. We have a question here. Yeah. To create the text frame. 429 00:41:12,717 --> 00:41:15,357 I can certainly do that. I can show you that again. 430 00:41:15,357 --> 00:41:24,417 So to create the text frame, you click the T tool on the left hand side and then you click and drag to create the text frame wherever you want. 431 00:41:24,657 --> 00:41:29,067 And then it acts just like a frame after that that you can select and move around. 432 00:41:29,227 --> 00:41:32,637 Okay. Now, in this case, we have the over set text. 433 00:41:33,657 --> 00:41:38,347 And so for this over over set text, we have another option. 434 00:41:38,367 --> 00:41:49,887 What we can do is we can click the little red plus sign and now we get what's called over is is called the loaded cursor. 435 00:41:50,337 --> 00:41:55,157 So now my cursor is loaded and it wants me to draw another text frame. 436 00:41:56,447 --> 00:42:00,827 So here we go. We've got another text frame and look what it has done. 437 00:42:01,217 --> 00:42:06,527 The text from this box automatically feeds over to this box. 438 00:42:06,797 --> 00:42:16,007 So that is called linking text frames. If we want to see like what's linking to what we can go to view extras. 439 00:42:17,077 --> 00:42:23,347 And we can tell it to show the text threads. And now it's showing us this box links to that one. 440 00:42:23,767 --> 00:42:31,147 So this is a fantastic way that you can manage the text on your research poster if you would like to. 441 00:42:31,447 --> 00:42:36,307 You can have it go down one column and then finish on the next column if you want it to. 442 00:42:37,237 --> 00:42:44,587 I would advise you, though, to break up your text to make it more readable for everybody, but that could be a feature that you might find useful. 443 00:42:44,707 --> 00:42:50,077 This is how magazines and newspapers get text that begins on page one and ends on page three. 444 00:42:50,407 --> 00:42:55,536 Okay, so that's a really useful feature to know. But so you can, you can link those text boxes. 445 00:42:55,537 --> 00:43:00,487 You can also get that, do that same thing by clicking and dragging a text frame. 446 00:43:01,787 --> 00:43:05,207 And then you can click and drag another text frame. 447 00:43:05,297 --> 00:43:12,977 Let's say we wanted these two to link and then we go to the selection tool and then we can choose the output box here, 448 00:43:13,427 --> 00:43:17,777 and then we can select this as the input box. Now these two will be linked. 449 00:43:18,227 --> 00:43:23,487 So now if we go here filled with placeholder text, it's going to go down to the next screen and so on. 450 00:43:23,837 --> 00:43:26,567 Yeah. So that's how you can deal with some text. 451 00:43:26,837 --> 00:43:35,867 Now, let's back up for a minute and let's on do that and let's just get we have a couple of text boxes here that we can manipulate. 452 00:43:36,437 --> 00:43:42,917 So character styles means it's going to apply to the just the text that you have highlighted. 453 00:43:42,927 --> 00:43:47,327 So let's say I wanted to just change this one word. 454 00:43:47,747 --> 00:44:00,147 I can click and hold that and I can change that to some kind of different maybe I want it to be bold or something like that or a different font style. 455 00:44:00,347 --> 00:44:03,777 Then I can maybe change that here. Or I can make it. Let's make it. 456 00:44:03,797 --> 00:44:06,977 Well, it doesn't have a bold. We'll just change it to a different style. 457 00:44:07,427 --> 00:44:11,147 There we go. So now you can see that change, just that one character. 458 00:44:11,417 --> 00:44:15,047 Now, if we go in, choose like a paragraph style. 459 00:44:16,057 --> 00:44:20,167 Then it's going to change everything in that particular paragraph. 460 00:44:20,317 --> 00:44:26,377 So everything in that entire, you know, actually we're in paragraph style. 461 00:44:26,557 --> 00:44:41,117 Yeah. Here we go down here and. And then also you can also change the so the applies the style to the entire text box. 462 00:44:41,477 --> 00:44:43,637 Same thing with the alignment. Okay. 463 00:44:43,877 --> 00:44:50,267 So be sure whatever you're making changes to your choosing, either paragraph or character, depending on what you need. 464 00:44:50,717 --> 00:45:00,707 I would advise you, as you're making a research poster, if you can put like your subheadings into different text frames, 465 00:45:01,157 --> 00:45:06,466 then you can control the text within that frame very easily that way. 466 00:45:06,467 --> 00:45:10,277 And then you could keep, you know, you could duplicate that and then just change the text. 467 00:45:10,607 --> 00:45:15,976 So that's an idea there. There are also if you needed to change exactly. 468 00:45:15,977 --> 00:45:19,577 Just certain words, then you can use the Character Styles panel to do that. 469 00:45:19,587 --> 00:45:26,117 So just make sure you kind of understand that. And that's how you work with those different types of text frames and so on. 470 00:45:26,597 --> 00:45:33,226 Now other things that you can do which are really helpful in InDesign is we've we're inside of our text frame right 471 00:45:33,227 --> 00:45:39,857 now and you can just double click inside of your text frame to get sort of the text options in the panel over here. 472 00:45:41,237 --> 00:45:48,556 What we need to do is look at these things over here. So we have we can choose what font style we have. 473 00:45:48,557 --> 00:45:54,437 We can choose if it's bold and so on, and then we can also choose the spacing. 474 00:45:54,797 --> 00:46:06,317 So here's where you get a lot of choice. You can choose how much spacing is in between these lines, so you can make it much more readable that way. 475 00:46:06,627 --> 00:46:12,077 Okay. So this is the letting. Letting means the space between the lines. 476 00:46:12,197 --> 00:46:15,257 Okay. And then you have the tracking. 477 00:46:15,257 --> 00:46:18,947 Tracking mean space in between letters. 478 00:46:19,397 --> 00:46:24,017 So that way you can kind of spread out. Actually, tracking is a space between words. 479 00:46:24,257 --> 00:46:28,397 So you can spread out some of the words. And that makes it more readable, too. 480 00:46:29,147 --> 00:46:34,397 And then you also have kerning, which is the space in between letters. 481 00:46:34,757 --> 00:46:38,476 So you have all kinds of different ways to control spacing. 482 00:46:38,477 --> 00:46:43,786 So if you just put a title in one of these real quick, so let's do something. 483 00:46:43,787 --> 00:46:48,537 Let's do something pretty large. So some sort of title. 484 00:46:50,647 --> 00:46:58,537 Then what you could do is if you wanted those to be more spread out, you could increase the metrics there. 485 00:46:58,567 --> 00:47:04,987 You can also do a superscript and subscript by choosing a the you can do the font size. 486 00:47:04,987 --> 00:47:10,116 This here you have even more options over here. So here's where you have the superscript in the subscript. 487 00:47:10,117 --> 00:47:17,107 So if you need those controls, you've got that and you have all kinds of control over your text. 488 00:47:17,197 --> 00:47:23,257 So that's where it really helps you is by using the spacing and then using the text frames also to help you, 489 00:47:23,257 --> 00:47:27,877 because then you can use this to align perfectly within a column. 490 00:47:28,207 --> 00:47:33,217 So if we wanted this to be perfectly centered, 491 00:47:34,237 --> 00:47:42,757 then because we've put it expanded the text frame to the column and then centered the text, we know it's correct. 492 00:47:42,757 --> 00:47:49,707 We know its center. We don't just have to drag around on PowerPoint and kind of guess like we know it's exactly in the middle and everything. 493 00:47:49,717 --> 00:47:52,777 So that's really that's really a key tool that we can use. 494 00:47:53,257 --> 00:47:57,217 So that's text. The next thing we're going to need. 495 00:47:57,907 --> 00:48:02,047 But also let's look back on our screen here. So our presentation. 496 00:48:04,247 --> 00:48:07,337 Yep. We kind of did that. We renamed. Good, good. 497 00:48:07,337 --> 00:48:09,437 We've done a lot so far. This is good. 498 00:48:09,657 --> 00:48:17,027 Oh, and also to help you with understanding some of those facings, there is a resource linked here that shows you the spacing and that sort of thing. 499 00:48:18,347 --> 00:48:26,267 Oh, yes. Here's another tip. When you are working in when you're creating something, this sort of a research poster, 500 00:48:26,627 --> 00:48:33,767 you do want to choose what are called sans serif fonts and you can filter for them here. 501 00:48:34,757 --> 00:48:39,047 Sans serif means they don't have little tails at the end. 502 00:48:39,437 --> 00:48:43,967 So we want to use sans serif fonts because it's easier for people to read. 503 00:48:44,197 --> 00:48:54,777 Okay. So now we can see it's changing up on our screen here depending on what we're showing and we can see how much more readable that one is. 504 00:48:54,827 --> 00:49:03,677 So now if we zoom in to that number, it's command plus or control plus, and then also the spacebar gives you this little hand so you can pan around. 505 00:49:04,177 --> 00:49:12,767 Okay. Then we can see that this is probably going to be a lot more readable with one of those sans serif fonts that looks much better. 506 00:49:13,157 --> 00:49:18,437 Right. So pick a sensor, a font, pick up, maybe just one font, 507 00:49:18,437 --> 00:49:25,517 and then maybe change it to if they have a regular or a bold that you're able to use, then that's a great idea. 508 00:49:25,757 --> 00:49:29,597 And also have tips like which ones are here. 509 00:49:29,597 --> 00:49:35,326 They are the Auburn primary fonts to use. Those are always good to stick with because they're going to be readable and 510 00:49:35,327 --> 00:49:41,507 they're going to look very nice and you're going to look in line with Auburn. So those are the fonts that you can choose if you want to. 511 00:49:42,557 --> 00:49:47,537 All right, guys, we're doing pretty good. Our next sort of big topic. 512 00:49:48,197 --> 00:49:51,257 And please feel free to kind of post questions in the chat as you have them. 513 00:49:51,257 --> 00:49:54,647 You're more than welcome to do that. I will continue to watch the chat for that. 514 00:49:55,907 --> 00:50:02,357 The next thing we're going to talk about is graphics. So graphics is really important concept to understand and design. 515 00:50:02,597 --> 00:50:06,437 So remember we talked about everything and the design exists inside of a frame. 516 00:50:06,707 --> 00:50:11,267 Right. Let's go back to view fit, page and window. 517 00:50:12,267 --> 00:50:15,537 So we can kind of see our entire research poster again here. 518 00:50:16,557 --> 00:50:26,366 Now we have some placeholder frames here, so we may be intending to put a photo in there or a chart that we've saved as an image. 519 00:50:26,367 --> 00:50:28,526 A graph that we've saved as an image, whatever. 520 00:50:28,527 --> 00:50:35,927 You can create something in Excel, save it as image, put it in here, you can go create it in something else, express and then drop it in here. 521 00:50:35,937 --> 00:50:38,486 So this goes for any kind of image file. 522 00:50:38,487 --> 00:50:48,417 So PNG jpeg it'll take anything so and I'll take vector artwork so dot EPS or SVG from illustrator that you that 523 00:50:48,417 --> 00:50:53,217 you've incorporated InDesign is meant to pull all these things together so that's where it really helps you. 524 00:50:53,667 --> 00:50:57,627 So let's say we wanted somebody maybe picture in here. 525 00:50:58,617 --> 00:51:02,697 Right. Good question. So we have a question about saving. I'm so glad you asked about that. 526 00:51:03,357 --> 00:51:09,297 InDesign does not save as you go. It will save when you initially create that poster. 527 00:51:09,507 --> 00:51:18,687 But it is a good idea, just like when you're working with any other type of file for your computer would be to save every once in a while. 528 00:51:18,807 --> 00:51:23,667 Okay, so every maybe few minutes or like any time you do a lot of work on it. 529 00:51:23,907 --> 00:51:26,396 So now that we have some things place, 530 00:51:26,397 --> 00:51:33,446 now would be a good time for us to hit save and that would just make sure that we've saved our work and it does already name it, 531 00:51:33,447 --> 00:51:39,327 but we can tell it where to save. So yeah, that's a great point that we need to be sort of saving as we go. 532 00:51:39,327 --> 00:51:43,467 So that's a good point. And documents is fine. So we're just going to save it is there for now. 533 00:51:43,797 --> 00:51:48,717 Now the file type that InDesign saves in is dot I and d d. 534 00:51:49,467 --> 00:51:55,706 While we're on the topic of saving, let's go ahead and address this. So InDesign creates a dot i n d d file. 535 00:51:55,707 --> 00:51:58,827 That's a native InDesign file. You want to keep it as a native? 536 00:51:58,827 --> 00:52:02,427 InDesign files that you can keep opening in InDesign and make changes to it. 537 00:52:03,027 --> 00:52:08,127 However, you're going to see in just a minute when we place images in there. 538 00:52:08,847 --> 00:52:13,556 One important concept to understand is that InDesign places an image. 539 00:52:13,557 --> 00:52:17,217 It links to that image file on your computer, 540 00:52:17,667 --> 00:52:28,556 and it does that so that if you went and opened that image on your computer in Photoshop and made changes to it, made improvements to it, 541 00:52:28,557 --> 00:52:38,546 made that photo look better, then the then the same file with those phone with those updates from Photoshop would also 542 00:52:38,547 --> 00:52:44,307 be changed in your InDesign file because Adobe's meant to be an ecosystem to help you. 543 00:52:44,637 --> 00:52:47,757 Now you don't have to accept those changes. 544 00:52:47,757 --> 00:52:52,946 You don't have to do it that way. So you have two options for placing images. 545 00:52:52,947 --> 00:52:56,367 You can do a fireplace and that links to it. 546 00:52:56,667 --> 00:53:00,477 And that's what I recommend because that makes it the most editable. 547 00:53:00,777 --> 00:53:06,417 If you do fireplace embedded, if you embed the images into your InDesign file, 548 00:53:06,807 --> 00:53:11,367 then if you give this file to somebody, they can't really edit it very well. 549 00:53:11,397 --> 00:53:15,287 Like they'll have only the image placed on the file and that's it. 550 00:53:15,297 --> 00:53:22,707 They don't have the original image file. So I recommend that you place your images so that they are linked. 551 00:53:23,187 --> 00:53:28,286 But because they're linked when you share InDesign files with other people and 552 00:53:28,287 --> 00:53:34,167 this is true also when you send a file from InDesign to a professional printer, 553 00:53:34,497 --> 00:53:37,347 they're going to ask you for what they call the package file. 554 00:53:37,797 --> 00:53:43,437 So if I were saving this and working on my own computer, then I can just keep hitting save and I can just keep working. 555 00:53:43,437 --> 00:53:51,747 It's fine if I if I place an image into InDesign from my computer and say it's saved in documents or something, 556 00:53:52,017 --> 00:53:59,397 if I went and moved that image file to another folder on my computer, InDesign would say, Wait a minute, I can't find that linked file. 557 00:53:59,817 --> 00:54:03,667 And then what you would do is you would find, you know, 558 00:54:03,717 --> 00:54:10,137 you would tell it to re link or find that file again or just know that that's the case and don't move those files. 559 00:54:10,437 --> 00:54:16,677 So that's why we talked about getting organized, getting your stuff together in some kind of folder for yourself, 560 00:54:17,667 --> 00:54:21,656 maybe also have your items for your research poster in an online folder. 561 00:54:21,657 --> 00:54:24,657 So in case anything happens to your computer, you have a backup. 562 00:54:25,107 --> 00:54:29,936 But it's InDesign works best if you're able to work locally and have a copy of that 563 00:54:29,937 --> 00:54:34,977 downloaded to your computer and then be inserting these and placing these images as you go. 564 00:54:35,637 --> 00:54:43,497 So we're about to do file place for putting images in, but here's the what I was talking about, the package file. 565 00:54:43,797 --> 00:54:52,287 So when, when you are going to send the InDesign file to someone else to edit or when you're going to send it to a professional printer, 566 00:54:52,857 --> 00:54:59,216 then typically they also want the package file. So what the package file does is if we hit file package, 567 00:54:59,217 --> 00:55:10,077 it's going to save in a folder on your computer and indeed InDesign file and an ideal InDesign file, which is a slightly more. 568 00:55:10,077 --> 00:55:14,407 It's a more. Accessible version of InDesign. 569 00:55:15,037 --> 00:55:18,337 If somebody has an older version of InDesign, it's going to open. 570 00:55:18,337 --> 00:55:26,707 So it's kind of like an older version of it that's more compatible with other any other kind of InDesign documents programs. 571 00:55:27,067 --> 00:55:33,966 And then it's going to also put in a zip folder, all of your images, all of your original images. 572 00:55:33,967 --> 00:55:44,526 And that's really important because then that person would be able to change the picture or make changes to that image and improve it. 573 00:55:44,527 --> 00:55:54,727 And then it would show up in InDesign if you embedded that, it's just it's kind of stuck inside of that on on the InDesign file. 574 00:55:54,727 --> 00:55:59,407 And then they can't really make much changes to it. They can maybe move the picture on the screen. 575 00:55:59,407 --> 00:56:06,967 That's about it. So file package is really important if when you're going to send it to someone for additional editing, 576 00:56:07,627 --> 00:56:12,637 that makes it the most editable version of an InDesign file that you can possibly give them. 577 00:56:12,637 --> 00:56:20,197 So that's important to understand. Okay. Now, for your purposes, you working yourself by yourself on a research poster, 578 00:56:20,707 --> 00:56:27,817 you just need to make sure you've got you keep saving it as a InDesign file, you file place your images in case you want to make changes. 579 00:56:28,567 --> 00:56:34,507 And what you'll do is when it's time for you to get it printed, 580 00:56:34,777 --> 00:56:42,037 then what you will do actually is you will go to file export and then you would choose export as a PDF. 581 00:56:42,307 --> 00:56:50,047 Now before you do that, it's a good idea to look at your Adobe PDF Presets and see how is it going to export my PDF? 582 00:56:50,647 --> 00:56:55,057 Is it going to export? It is a high quality print. That's typically what you want. 583 00:56:55,927 --> 00:57:04,777 And then you can go to that and just make sure that's the high quality print and then we can use it as the output name and save it and documents. 584 00:57:04,897 --> 00:57:13,567 And now we have a high quality print pdf of the the research poster and that's what typically you will send. 585 00:57:13,807 --> 00:57:18,697 You will, you will take over to the Innovation Research Commons and get it printed from the PDF version. 586 00:57:20,077 --> 00:57:24,216 That is also how you could send it to someone to review. 587 00:57:24,217 --> 00:57:28,897 Like if they just want to look at it and you can get to the same thing by going to file export. 588 00:57:29,817 --> 00:57:33,747 And then you would give it a different name if you wanted to tell it where to save. 589 00:57:33,747 --> 00:57:38,217 And then you have the Adobe PDF Print option and then you would just hit save 590 00:57:38,517 --> 00:57:43,077 and now you get some more options as far as what type of print do you want? 591 00:57:43,107 --> 00:57:47,337 Most of these choices are all fine the way that they are. 592 00:57:47,697 --> 00:57:51,897 You do want it to be a high quality print. This is a this is going to be something for print. 593 00:57:52,227 --> 00:57:53,727 So you're going to leave it as printing. 594 00:57:54,087 --> 00:58:03,447 Now, if you have a electronic version of your poster and you that's going to be submitted to the conference as an electronic file, 595 00:58:03,717 --> 00:58:13,707 and you have hyperlinks in here that you want to stay active, then you would choose and you can choose to include the appearance of that or not. 596 00:58:14,097 --> 00:58:19,857 And then it will show them, if it's kind of interactive, it'll, it'll have like a little hover screen or something like that. 597 00:58:20,007 --> 00:58:26,306 So you could choose that. But for printing, you just going to want to leave all these the same and then hit export and then it'll export it as a PDF. 598 00:58:26,307 --> 00:58:33,177 So that's what you want to do when you're done and or if you want to get sort of a easy to email to somebody, 599 00:58:33,177 --> 00:58:39,177 for them to look at a PDF folder like send it to your mentor or somebody else to review the writing center. 600 00:58:39,177 --> 00:58:44,907 We'll review your posters, too. We will. We'll be happy to help you with that in the Adobe Creative Space as well. 601 00:58:46,317 --> 00:58:52,597 And so that's that's that was a great question and important for us to talk about your file management for sure. 602 00:58:53,547 --> 00:59:01,317 All right. So that's essentially how you'll do it when it's time for your poster to be printed and you're done and all of that always, 603 00:59:01,317 --> 00:59:02,697 though, get somebody to proofread it. 604 00:59:02,997 --> 00:59:11,187 I can't tell you how many times we have people come over to our area to print their poster, they print it out and they're like, Oh, I have a typo. 605 00:59:11,997 --> 00:59:15,927 And then they they have to pay for that, and then they have to print it again and pay for that too. 606 00:59:16,377 --> 00:59:21,387 So get someone else to proof it for you. And our consultants can do that. 607 00:59:21,927 --> 00:59:26,066 The writing center is really great at proofreading, so they're better than we are about that. 608 00:59:26,067 --> 00:59:29,966 We're better at like, Hey, how does it look and what color should I use? 609 00:59:29,967 --> 00:59:30,507 That kind of thing. 610 00:59:31,107 --> 00:59:38,786 So anyways, a little sidebar not, you know, not really a sidebar, but an important topic for us to talk about file management for sure. 611 00:59:38,787 --> 00:59:43,946 Yeah, great questions. So let's continue with graphics. 612 00:59:43,947 --> 00:59:49,107 Okay. So when you were inserting graphics here, you have a couple of options. 613 00:59:49,497 --> 00:59:54,747 If you have a placeholder and you want the photo to go, oops, we want to choose our selection tool. 614 00:59:55,257 --> 01:00:03,077 If you have a placeholder frame and you want your photo to go in that frame, then you select the frame first, okay? 615 01:00:03,807 --> 01:00:14,577 And then what you do is you go to file place. So hopefully maybe you are able to try this even if you don't try today, try it on your own. 616 01:00:14,877 --> 01:00:19,497 Later, we're going to go to the InDesign practice files that I have saved here. 617 01:00:19,737 --> 01:00:23,637 And let's say we wanted to put this. Just put the jellyfish in there. 618 01:00:24,267 --> 01:00:32,607 Okay. So going to place the jellyfish in there. So as you notice, it placed that photo in there, but maybe not quite really the way we want to. 619 01:00:33,837 --> 01:00:38,167 So let's go over here to the right hand side now that we have these things selected. 620 01:00:38,757 --> 01:00:42,437 And we can also choose. We can choose auto fit. 621 01:00:42,447 --> 01:00:46,287 And we can also tell it all kinds of different ways to fit to the frame. 622 01:00:46,317 --> 01:00:56,097 So over here, under the frame fitting area we have, we have to understand that there is a graphic that is in this frame. 623 01:00:56,217 --> 01:00:59,557 So there are two parts to this object. 624 01:01:00,057 --> 01:01:04,617 There is an outside frame and then there is an inside graphic. 625 01:01:04,827 --> 01:01:08,937 So we can select either one of those and manipulate this. 626 01:01:09,267 --> 01:01:15,987 We can also use the frame fitting tools down here on the right hand side, and that will help us as well. 627 01:01:16,227 --> 01:01:22,137 But if we don't like those options, we can manually manage how this picture looks. 628 01:01:22,407 --> 01:01:32,877 Now, if you notice, because we used a circular frame and a rectangle image, this image automatically was what we call masked. 629 01:01:33,237 --> 01:01:41,787 Okay. So like, I didn't have to go into Photoshop and mask this image to a circle shape and then bring it in. 630 01:01:42,027 --> 01:01:44,247 I'm able to do all of that in InDesign. 631 01:01:44,667 --> 01:01:52,227 So this is a great thing for you to be able to incorporate, to give yourself some more visual interest to your research poster. 632 01:01:52,647 --> 01:01:59,577 Now, if you wanted to manipulate this further, a couple of tips because it masked this image. 633 01:01:59,997 --> 01:02:03,307 Watch what happens if I increase the frame. Okay. 634 01:02:03,417 --> 01:02:06,807 The first time I do that, it's going to kind of adjust. 635 01:02:07,407 --> 01:02:17,366 But if I kind of keep adjusting because fortunately, because I've chosen auto fit and I've chose fit frame to content, it's going to keep doing that. 636 01:02:17,367 --> 01:02:20,667 And I can I can kind of keep moving it and that sort of thing. 637 01:02:21,087 --> 01:02:25,227 But if you don't have that selected, then so not choose out of it. 638 01:02:26,477 --> 01:02:33,887 Then when I opened the frame bigger, you can now see that the image is now sort of showing part of that square. 639 01:02:34,247 --> 01:02:41,957 So you have a couple of options to deal with that. You can hit shift option or shift alt. 640 01:02:42,297 --> 01:02:46,337 Oops, we do the right thing here. Command z is undo by the way. 641 01:02:46,337 --> 01:02:52,157 Or control z is undo. That's like your best friend. So I think it's control shift. 642 01:02:52,307 --> 01:03:00,287 Oops. Let me do it here. Yeah, it's control shift or command shift on a mac. 643 01:03:00,587 --> 01:03:04,247 Then you can resize your image and your frame at the same time. 644 01:03:04,507 --> 01:03:12,406 Okay, so that's a trick. Other tricks that you can do is you can select the frame and you can also by clicking the middle area, 645 01:03:12,407 --> 01:03:15,917 which is called the content grabber, you can select the image. 646 01:03:15,947 --> 01:03:24,107 Now the image here, it's now we see there's a brown box that is what they call the bounding box of the graphic. 647 01:03:24,497 --> 01:03:30,007 So now we can click and drag that and then notice we can kind of scoot this content around. 648 01:03:30,017 --> 01:03:35,927 So if we wanted to kind of make this fit manually exactly how we wanted, we can keep interpolating that. 649 01:03:35,957 --> 01:03:40,607 We can click back and forth between the outside frame to continue to mask it, 650 01:03:41,387 --> 01:03:46,687 or we can use the content grabber to continue to adjust manually if we want to. 651 01:03:46,697 --> 01:03:50,867 And again, you can use the shift key to keep everything in proportion if you want it to do that. 652 01:03:51,177 --> 01:03:54,647 Okay. So that's a super important concept to understand. 653 01:03:54,947 --> 01:04:00,047 Graphics exists inside of frames and there two separate objects that you can manipulate. 654 01:04:00,347 --> 01:04:03,617 You can also use the frame tools over here to adjust those things. 655 01:04:03,917 --> 01:04:11,536 Okay, that's one way that you can put in graphics. That's a very nice fast way because you can have these placeholders set up and then it's going 656 01:04:11,537 --> 01:04:15,857 to fit to that frame and maybe you already have your text and your subheadings all set up. 657 01:04:16,187 --> 01:04:20,447 So it's a great way to place your items inside of InDesign. 658 01:04:20,987 --> 01:04:22,747 Another way that you could do that, 659 01:04:22,757 --> 01:04:32,037 let's make sure we have nothing selected by clicking on a white space is we can go to a file place and we can choose another image. 660 01:04:32,867 --> 01:04:37,397 So let's maybe choose well, choose the logo. 661 01:04:38,507 --> 01:04:45,527 And this is a PG logo, so we're going to hit open. Now you notice we get that loaded cursor again, right? 662 01:04:45,857 --> 01:04:49,157 So now let's maybe add it up here. 663 01:04:49,427 --> 01:04:52,827 We'll just click and drag and add our image here. 664 01:04:52,847 --> 01:05:03,527 So now we have our logo here. And just just like before, it's an image, and it automatically places a frame around that image. 665 01:05:03,887 --> 01:05:08,387 So just like we talked about, you can click and drag and mask it. 666 01:05:09,917 --> 01:05:17,957 You can move it around and then you can use the content grabber to then make additional changes so they act the same way. 667 01:05:18,497 --> 01:05:24,827 In this case, we placed inside of a frame that already existed. In this case, it added a frame when we automatically did file place. 668 01:05:26,327 --> 01:05:33,886 And again, it's linking to these images in this particular folder on the desktop on my computer. 669 01:05:33,887 --> 01:05:36,827 So if I went and moved this, it would say, where is it? 670 01:05:36,827 --> 01:05:43,187 And then we would just click re link and then it typically will go to the other folders in your computer and look for that file. 671 01:05:43,397 --> 01:05:48,707 You can also manually tell it like link to this file on this computer because I've moved it. 672 01:05:49,037 --> 01:05:52,697 Okay, so those are some options there that you have. 673 01:05:53,627 --> 01:06:02,956 You can also right here notice you can embed. So if you need the images to be embedded into the InDesign file, then you can do that. 674 01:06:02,957 --> 01:06:10,097 And that's how you would do that. You would select the images you want to embed, hit, embed, and then they're kind of stuck inside of InDesign. 675 01:06:10,097 --> 01:06:12,917 You can move them and still manipulate them, but you know, 676 01:06:13,007 --> 01:06:20,146 you can't replace them or reinsert them or go make changes to the original file in Photoshop and then have it update. 677 01:06:20,147 --> 01:06:26,807 You would have to re add it. Okay. So those are some important information about graphics that you need to do. 678 01:06:27,557 --> 01:06:38,386 All right. Now, you could go and create images and Photoshop, illustrator, whatever it is that you want to use and then place them here. 679 01:06:38,387 --> 01:06:42,727 It's best to then export those as JPEG or PNG. 680 01:06:43,937 --> 01:06:48,556 InDesign will take EPS and DOT SVG from Illustrator. 681 01:06:48,557 --> 01:06:52,067 So if you wanted to use sort of a native illustrator format, you could do that. 682 01:06:52,397 --> 01:06:58,787 But it's usually best to put it in those formats because then the file size is a little bit more compressed. 683 01:06:58,817 --> 01:07:01,727 You know, it's static. 684 01:07:02,027 --> 01:07:07,967 You're not going to go make a mistake and actually change something in Photoshop and then have it accidentally change your InDesign file. 685 01:07:08,387 --> 01:07:13,607 So those are best practices, I would say, okay, let's see what else with images. 686 01:07:15,537 --> 01:07:20,687 Let's say, oh, you can also group things together and all of that in InDesign. 687 01:07:21,077 --> 01:07:28,037 So let's say I wanted this particular object to link to this one. 688 01:07:28,367 --> 01:07:34,187 I can use the shift key, select more than one object, and then here's some tools I can use. 689 01:07:34,187 --> 01:07:39,737 Also, I can arrange them in a certain order, so if I wanted one to be in front of the other, then I could do that. 690 01:07:40,817 --> 01:07:44,837 I can also grouped them together and I can also line them up. 691 01:07:44,837 --> 01:07:49,696 So if I wanted these two things to be in perfect alignment on the left side, they kind of already are. 692 01:07:49,697 --> 01:07:53,717 But here we can move one on. So you can see one group them together now. 693 01:07:53,717 --> 01:07:57,857 So let's undo. All right, so now we've got that undone. 694 01:07:57,857 --> 01:08:01,727 So let's maybe choose. There we go. 695 01:08:03,087 --> 01:08:03,416 Okay. 696 01:08:03,417 --> 01:08:10,017 So now if we choose this one and this one and we want them to be lined up this way, then it's going to line them up together using the Align tool. 697 01:08:10,327 --> 01:08:12,536 Okay. So that's another tool that you can use. 698 01:08:12,537 --> 01:08:20,247 If you've got some space inside of a column and you don't have guides to help you, you can align objects however you want to. 699 01:08:20,517 --> 01:08:25,916 You can also group them together, as we just did. So now whenever you move them, they're moving together. 700 01:08:25,917 --> 01:08:30,657 So that's a fantastic tool to use in InDesign as well. Let's see what else? 701 01:08:30,677 --> 01:08:38,327 Oh, here's another question we get sometimes. Sometimes when you insert graphics, they don't look this good and they get a little pixelated. 702 01:08:38,597 --> 01:08:48,437 What that typically is, is InDesign sometimes is set to automatically be a better performing software for you. 703 01:08:48,437 --> 01:08:54,527 So it is limiting the amount of information that's showing on your screen at that particular time, but it's going to print fine. 704 01:08:54,917 --> 01:09:00,886 So that's called display performance. So if you are working at InDesign, you're like, Hey, my photos. 705 01:09:00,887 --> 01:09:08,626 I know they're good photos and they don't look good. Then go to view display performance and choose high quality display because sometimes 706 01:09:08,627 --> 01:09:12,467 the default is a lower quality display because they think you want to work faster, 707 01:09:12,467 --> 01:09:17,117 which typically you do, but maybe it's bothering you that your stuff isn't showing up the way you want it to. 708 01:09:18,107 --> 01:09:24,946 Also, what you can do is in InDesign you can see what sort of these measurements are. 709 01:09:24,947 --> 01:09:34,127 So we can see this is like probably what, four inches or five inches wide, so five inches wide by like three and a half inches tall. 710 01:09:34,517 --> 01:09:38,656 So we can go design a graphic in, in express creative cloud, 711 01:09:38,657 --> 01:09:42,946 express the drag and drop interface I showed you and you can tell it to design 712 01:09:42,947 --> 01:09:48,197 for just you can set the size to that exact size and then when you drop it in, 713 01:09:48,197 --> 01:09:54,077 it'll be perfectly sized for that. So that's an idea too for getting some infographics and things like that in there. 714 01:09:55,517 --> 01:09:59,837 You also have vectors that you can draw. 715 01:10:00,617 --> 01:10:10,787 So in InDesign, if you wanted to create sort of some visual distance or a visual break in between some of these, you can also draw a line. 716 01:10:10,787 --> 01:10:16,127 So let's maybe pick a different like here, we'll just take black oops. 717 01:10:16,307 --> 01:10:22,237 We don't want that. We want to make draw line. And we want the line to be black. 718 01:10:22,387 --> 01:10:26,947 So let's go change the fill color and we'll choose black. And then we'll choose. 719 01:10:29,737 --> 01:10:34,757 There we go. So the fill and the sticker black and we increase the point size. 720 01:10:34,777 --> 01:10:39,677 So now you can kind of see now we have sort of the line to act as a visual break. 721 01:10:39,677 --> 01:10:41,437 You probably wouldn't need to be that thick in real life. 722 01:10:41,437 --> 01:10:47,886 You need to kind of look at it and say, remember, you can hit W to see what is it going to look like when you're printing. 723 01:10:47,887 --> 01:10:54,607 Because once you get these grid lines all up here and everything is going to view that window. 724 01:10:56,717 --> 01:11:00,677 There we go. Once you get these grid lines up here, it kind of gets busy. 725 01:11:00,677 --> 01:11:07,577 So it's a good idea to keep checking. How does this really look when it's going to hit W and then you hit W again to get back to your original screen. 726 01:11:08,447 --> 01:11:08,957 All right. 727 01:11:08,957 --> 01:11:17,177 So we talked about this already, but oh, another option that you can do in InDesign besides exporting as a PDF is there's this little share button. 728 01:11:17,897 --> 01:11:22,637 So if you go to the share button, there's a quick export as a PDF, there's the package that we talked about, 729 01:11:22,877 --> 01:11:29,237 and there's also a share for review, and there's also a publish online share for review and publish a lot of kind of similar. 730 01:11:29,777 --> 01:11:38,177 This just lets you type in somebody's name, but you can publish your InDesign file online and it just puts it into sort of like this unlisted link. 731 01:11:38,687 --> 01:11:42,707 And then you can send that unlisted link to anyone and they can view it. 732 01:11:43,697 --> 01:11:47,087 Some people are using this as a way to publish an online magazine. 733 01:11:47,087 --> 01:11:54,226 They design it InDesign, and then they just publish online and then post that link somewhere on their website or whatever. 734 01:11:54,227 --> 01:12:04,187 And it's a it's a sort of a public viewable file kind of like issue that you may have seen like that. 735 01:12:04,277 --> 01:12:09,197 So you can publish right online from there, which is great, and you can export in multiple different ways. 736 01:12:09,197 --> 01:12:14,987 But there's also a quick export PDF right here. So that's another little fast way to share for review. 737 01:12:15,557 --> 01:12:24,257 So hopefully that has given you guys some ideas about how to get into beginning to use InDesign to create your research poster. 738 01:12:24,497 --> 01:12:31,787 So as you are working on your own research posters, please feel free to make use of our consultants at the Adobe Help Desk. 739 01:12:32,207 --> 01:12:41,277 Their schedule is listed here and there are specific ones who know InDesign better than others. 740 01:12:41,387 --> 01:12:49,247 You can look at their area of specialty, so you can see Adobe Consultant C knows InDesign pretty well. 741 01:12:49,697 --> 01:12:57,677 Yes, there are a few templates that I can give you that actually are in that folder, so I'll show you those in just a second to get you started. 742 01:12:58,877 --> 01:13:03,077 And then but you can look here and see. Most of a lot of the consultants know InDesign. 743 01:13:03,077 --> 01:13:08,626 So you can look at that and then look at their schedule here and then match that up with when you're free. 744 01:13:08,627 --> 01:13:16,307 And then you can either pop into Zoom when they're available or come over to the first floor lab and get their assistance. 745 01:13:16,727 --> 01:13:23,297 We also have lots we have all of our workshop recordings here on our instructional content page. 746 01:13:23,537 --> 01:13:28,877 So I actually have a longer version of this workshop which is posted. 747 01:13:29,807 --> 01:13:32,357 And then we also have the effective poster design. 748 01:13:32,357 --> 01:13:39,037 So that other presentation I did about designing in general, we also have one that involves more how to present, you know, 749 01:13:39,077 --> 01:13:47,247 using how to create your, your sort of your, your short speech when you're presenting and how to present in general, how to create infographics. 750 01:13:47,277 --> 01:13:51,407 We have all kinds of additional resources here that you can use. 751 01:13:52,307 --> 01:13:57,467 And then also we have on in this one drive folder. 752 01:13:58,397 --> 01:14:04,397 That is also here and available to you. Here is a package file of a poster template. 753 01:14:04,427 --> 01:14:09,917 This is a 30 by 40. But of course, you could adjust it for whatever size you need, and it gives you some ideas. 754 01:14:10,187 --> 01:14:17,007 And then here is another template to help you kind of get started, which is not a package file, it's just blank. 755 01:14:17,027 --> 01:14:23,177 So that way you could insert what you want. So you would just download these by clicking the little button here, and then you could get started. 756 01:14:23,207 --> 01:14:32,927 Okay. So that way it gives you some some ways to kind of get get started quickly with InDesign and we have more InDesign tutorials. 757 01:14:32,927 --> 01:14:40,187 You can also use InDesign to create a resume. So once you know InDesign, you can really do a lot with it in other in other ways that you can do. 758 01:14:40,967 --> 01:14:52,637 Thank you all so much for being here today. If you have a moment, feel free to to visit our workshop survey link. 759 01:14:52,787 --> 01:14:56,116 This was a newer workshop that that we've done before. 760 01:14:56,117 --> 01:15:03,527 So we're always looking for ways to improve. You'll probably get another feedback sheet from the Savvy Researcher Bootcamp as well. 761 01:15:03,537 --> 01:15:06,917 So if you rather just do that later, that's totally fine as well. 762 01:15:07,577 --> 01:15:14,207 But this one comes to me. I appreciate any feedback that you might have about today's workshop, and we are here to help. 763 01:15:14,477 --> 01:15:21,847 So feel free to visit our consultant schedule and our Adobe Creative Space Web page too, 764 01:15:21,907 --> 01:15:26,937 to help you with your research poster ideas and ways that you can incorporate it. 765 01:15:26,987 --> 01:15:30,037 So thank you guys so much for being here today. 766 01:15:30,557 --> 01:15:36,087 Very much appreciated. I'll stay on for a couple more minutes in case there are more questions. 767 01:15:36,677 --> 01:15:39,977 But thank you, guys, and I hope you have a great rest of your day. 768 01:15:40,277 --> 01:15:46,847 Yes. So the record, there is a recording on our instructional content page, which is linked here. 769 01:15:47,327 --> 01:15:51,077 And let me see where it is exactly. 770 01:15:51,377 --> 01:15:56,177 Research poster design using Adobe InDesign. So that was one that I did in May. 771 01:15:57,317 --> 01:16:01,607 And it's a little longer, it's an hour and a half and goes a little bit more into depth. 772 01:16:01,937 --> 01:16:05,837 So that is a recording you could use now if you want to use that. 773 01:16:06,107 --> 01:16:15,737 And then also I will give today's recording to the savvy researcher bootcamp people and they will post it or share it out also. 774 01:16:15,747 --> 01:16:17,287 So you will you'll have that one as well. 775 01:16:17,297 --> 01:16:26,717 But this is the same information and it's actually a little bit more and that's on our I and our C instructional content page, 776 01:16:26,717 --> 01:16:31,517 which is also linked right here in today's presentation link. 777 01:16:31,667 --> 01:16:38,347 Okay. So again, thank you guys so much and I'll stick around for a couple of minutes in case you have questions. 778 01:16:38,357 --> 01:16:39,579 Thank you. Yes.