Tag Archive: templates

Indesign getting started

by Design Workshop Sydney

Adobe Indesign is the world-leader in page layout programs, and whilst being extremely powerful, it’s also easy to use as well as being precise and compatible with other programs. If you’re a complete beginner or self-taught, we’ll help you to get started in our Indesign training courses. Significant features of Indesign include great handling of type and graphics, as well... Read more...

Indesign brochure layout

by Design Workshop Sydney

After the brochure template has been created, it’s a simple matter each month or so to create a new edition of the brochure based on this layout. We demonstrate these time-saving techniques, and more, in our Adobe Indesign courses. The template has been saved as an indt file (Indesign Template), so rather than choosing New from the File menu we... Read more...

Indesign master pages

by Design Workshop Sydney

Setting up Master pages is a crucial element of an Indesign template document, and will greatly increase the user’s efficiency and workflow. We demonstrate how in our Adobe Indesign training courses. Together with auto page numbering and the addition of paragraph styles and character styles, Master pages form the basic structure of the design. Basically anything on a Master page... Read more...

Indesign character styles

by Design Workshop Sydney

Character styles in Indesign serve the purpose of consistency within your documents, and is a topic we look at in our Adobe Indesign training courses. Along with Paragraph Styles and Object Styles, Character Styles help us to keep our formatting consistent across either one document or many documents, and as such feature as one of the main ingredients of a... Read more...

Indesign auto page numbers

by Design Workshop Sydney

Another common addition to the Indesign template file would be Auto Page Numbers, a topic which we cover in full in our Adobe Indesign training courses. Firstly we open up our A-Master Page and zoom into the bottom left of the left hand page of the two-page spread. Next select the Type tool and click and drag to create a... Read more...

Indesign brochure setup

by Design Workshop Sydney

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...