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May17
Creating a cover spread in Indesign is simple when you know how! We show you a nice and simple workflow in our Adobe Indesign training courses. First of all open a brochure template – we show you how to create these in previous blog posts. Or if you’re creating a brochure from scratch go to File > New Document, choose... Read more...
May5
In our Indesign training courses we spend a lot of time showing you how to set up user-friendly templates to save time in setting up brochures. For example, go to File > Create New Document. Set the number of pages to 8 and tick Facing Pages. Then set the page size to A4 with an Orientation of Landscape and a... Read more...
Apr21
Adding duotone images to flyers or report covers in Indesign is an easy process and adds a touch of class to a simply design. We show you how in our Adobe Indesign courses. To create the yellow and orange duotone image for a flyer like this first go into Photoshop and File > Open > and navigate to your image... Read more...
Apr5
If you’re printing over 1000 copies of a job, the printing company often require all the files used in creating the document. For this we use a process called Package which includes some Preflight steps to ensure that we have all the necessary files. We show you how in our Indesign training courses. Go to File > Package. If you... Read more...
Mar22
Buttons can be added to our Indesign documents to make the experience more interactive for the recipient. We show you how in our Adobe Indesign training courses. You can create buttons in Photoshop or Illustrator and import into Indesign. Alternatively Indesign has a set of pre-built interactive buttons that you can import into your document. To add, for example, arrow... Read more...
Mar1
When the final layout is complete it’s time to output your document. There are a variety ways of doing this, one of the main methods being that of printing to PDF. We cover them all in our Adobe Indesign training courses. To export to PDF there are a few methods, depending on the purpose of the document. First of all... Read more...
Feb15
Adding hyperlinks to a PDF will increase the versatility of the document by adding an element on interactivity. We explore these features in our Adobe Indesign training courses. For instance, to create the hyperlink shown here, first create the artwork elements: create a white circle with the Ellipse tool, pressing Shift to constrain it proportionately. Use the Paper swatch for... Read more...
Feb1
There are many ways of copying text in Indesign. In our Adobe Indesign courses we show you several methods. We can, of course, create text from scratch by simply selecting the Type tool and clicking and dragging across the page to create a text box. The size of this can later be adjusted with the Selection tool (the black arrow).... Read more...
Jan18
The eyedropper tool in Adobe Indesign offers handy methods for copying a variety of features, both colour and text. We explain how in our Indesign courses. First open an existing Indesign document, like this flyer here. We may wish to sample colours from a logo, in the situation where you don’t have access to a client’s Style Guide. Simply place... Read more...
Jan3
After importing several images or logos into an Indesign layout you may wish to align and distribute them evenly across a page, as in the example shown here. We demonstrate how in our Adobe Indesign courses. First of all, make sure that the first and last items are in their correct positions, probably aligned to the closest margins. Then select... Read more...
