How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign
Lesson 14 from: Adobe InDesign FundamentalsDaniel Walter Scott
How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign
Lesson 14 from: Adobe InDesign FundamentalsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
14. How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign
Lessons
Overview
1InDesign Tutorial Basics Class Introduction
01:50 2Exercise files & Projects
02:39 3What Does Adobe InDesign do?
01:34 4What are the differences between InDesign and PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark?
05:10PROJECT 1: One page flyer
5How to change MM to Inches & changing UK to US dictionary in InDesign?
01:39 6New document in InDesign - what is bleed & slug?
08:08How to create your own RGB & CMYK colors in Adobe InDesign
08:39 8How do I steal colors from a logo using InDesign?
03:14 9How to color the background of a page in InDesign?
03:33 10Importing resizing rotating & flipping images & Logos inside InDesign
07:53 11How to Import text from Microsoft Word into Adobe InDesign
05:46 12How to group, ungroup & rotate images in Adobe InDesign
05:12 13How to make a dotted line, dashed line & borders in InDesign
05:20 14How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign
05:16 15How to make a simple PDF from InDesign
06:43 16How to save your InDesign file as a JPEG
02:27 17Why should I use CC Libraries in InDesign?
05:08 18How to share your InDesign files with others by using package document
04:26 19Class Exercise 1
03:24 20Quiz - One Page Flyer
PROJECT 2: Other people's files
21Ideas, Inspiration & starter templates
04:59 22Working with other people's InDesign documents, missing images
03:12 23How to find missing fonts in InDesign?
04:27 24How to replace images in InDesign?
01:30 25Opacity, transparency and see through ness in Adobe InDesign
02:29 26Why is InDesign adding [Converted] and making me 'save as'
01:06 27What if I can’t find the InDesign file - can I open the PDF?
02:37 28Quiz - Other people's files
PROJECT 3: Company Newsletter/Brochure
29Creating a new company newsletter or brochure, what are spreads in InDesign
06:58 30How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign
05:33 31How do to add automatic page numbering to a InDesign file
04:11 32Removing a master page & deleting parts off the master page in InDesign
02:30 33Production Video 1
02:53 34What is Effective PPI & Image resolution in the InDesign links panel
06:52 35How to add drop shadows to an image or logo in InDesign
04:20 36What is TypeKit used for in Adobe InDesign?
08:37 37How to add the Copyright, Registered & Trademark symbols in InDesign
05:08 38Where can I find the different versions of letters in InDesign - Ligatures.
03:35 39How to add placeholder text & lorem ipsum & get a word count in InDesign
03:04 40Importing Text from Microsoft Word & keeping or removing the formatting
02:58 41Creating Columns in a text box using Adobe InDesign
01:46 42How do I justify text & turn off hyphenation in InDesign?
03:59 43What is the space after & leading in Adobe InDesign?
05:22 44How to underline text with a full width line in Adobe InDesign?
01:53 45How do I make a paragraph style in Adobe InDesign?
06:06 46How do I update a Paragraph Style in Adobe InDesign?
04:28 47How to use Find & Change to remove double spaces after a period or full stop.
02:37 48Stealing colours from images, is there a format painter in Adobe InDesign?
03:09 49InDesign Class Exercise 2 - Magazine Spread
04:22 50Quiz - Company Newsletter/Brochure
PROJECT 4: Long Business Document
51How to bring in lots of text into InDesign at once
08:11 52How do I import paragraph styles from another document
12:45 53How do I insert completely blank pages in Adobe InDesign
02:03 54How do I create a gradient in Adobe InDesign
07:20 55Do I need to use layers in Adobe InDesign
05:27 56Opacity advanced, mater marks and Transparency Effects in Adobe InDesign
04:24 57How do I add rounded corners to an image or box in Adobe InDesign?
02:52 58How to add a large first letter to my text aka Drop Cap
02:16 59How do I increase the space between letters in Adobe InDesign aka Tracking or Kerning
02:32 60How do I get text to move around an image or shape using text wrap
03:57 61Why can’t I put text over anything that has text wrap applied?
03:25 62How to draw an arrow or triangle or star in Adobe InDesign
06:40 63How do I put an image inside other shapes like a circle - cropping
02:47 64What is Adobe Stock
04:17 65Where can I find free images & icons that I can use for my business
04:23 66How do I add bullets and numbered lists in Adobe InDesign?
00:51 67How can I create a table inside Adobe InDesign?
07:10 68How do I convert tables from Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel into Adobe InDesign
04:26 69How do I get images to move with the text in Adobe InDesign using anchored objects?
03:22 70How do I create a Line Break, Column Breaks & Page Breaks in Adobe InDesign?
04:16 71How do I make an automatic table of contents in Adobe InDesign?
04:46 72How do you change the tabs in Adobe InDesign?
04:30 73Can I change the numbering of my pages so 1 starts later in the InDesign file?
03:26 74Quiz - Long Business Document
PROJECT 5: Conference Name Badge
75How do I combine Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in InDesign?
09:04 76CLASS EXERCISE: Create your own business card
01:16 77Quiz - Conference Name Badge
What next
78How to create a mockup for your portfolio using InDesign
04:07 79InDesign cheat sheet & shortcuts
12:45 80BONUS: Software Updates
40:41 81What to do after this InDesign tutorial class?
01:07 82Quiz - What Next
Final Quiz
83Final Quiz
Lesson Info
How best to preview your work in Adobe InDesign
Okay, so while we've been working we've been just ignoring these like blue lines and this little linking icon and there's lots of blue lines around the edges of the boxes and that can be a real pain when you're trying to line things up. Okay. Just doesn't look very nice. So the quick and easy way to preview and turn all that off is the W. Key just the W. Key on your keyboard next to Q. Between A. Okay, but for that to work you need to be on the black arrow. Okay if you're in the type tool you're just gonna type a W. Okay so be on the black arrow, hit w on your keyboard, look at that blue line is gone, you get to feel a bit of the space around it, you can still work in this view, you can see I can click on it, drag it around. Okay? And there's nothing stopping you work like this except sometimes it is easier to seal the blue lines. The other thing that might throw you off if you try and work in this view. Okay so I'm gonna w to go back out which is if I start typing something and I go o...
kay remember we talked on the outside to not join them up and we start typing um Mhm. Okay and watch this if I go to my black arrow and then select off it w it's gone, okay, it's still there, Okay, just w kind of hides all of that stuff. That can be one of the things to note if anything starts disappearing in this great area. It's probably just because you gotta tap w again and the other thing it does, is it going to take that as you see the bleed? Okay, I'll zoom in. Okay. Here we go. If I had w can you see the bleed gets trimmed off to give you a more of a view of like say this border because it's going to get trimmed off in the bin, remember? So it cuts that off? Um So yeah, I tap w all the time. The problem with W. Is I forget when I'm in the type two and type A. W. And I won't notice and somebody will be proof checking my work and they'll be like what's a home We and I'll pretend like I don't know somebody else did it. I know it's because I tap the W. Key and I was on the type door. Bad dan. The other thing we're going to check is the display. So mine is set by default to high quality display. I think that's a fact of the new bits of software. Okay. The new installs of the design if you're using an older one. Okay, we're going to look at this so I've got nothing selected to view. There's one called display performance. Okay. So often especially the earlier versions, I'm not sure if it's the new version or not? I'm not sure if it's settings that I've got or whether um it's remembered from my last install or whether it's actually by default now, but let's just double check. Typical display is what it used to be said as and yours might be. The problem is is that things just look a little bit gross. You can see the logo here just doesn't look very nice. You know, it's good quality because you've seen it in a different program but it's not looking good in here. The reason it's often the default for typical quality is because trying to run fast and design is trying to run quickly so it's not producing these beautiful outlined logos. Okay. And it's the same with images. So yeah, it's it's typical by default. So what we can do nothing. Selected few and crank yours up too high quality. I work in high quality all the time. Even with an 80 page document. Why? Because my machine can handle it. If you're I've got a pretty new Macbook Pro. If you're working on a really old Kredi laptop hand me hand me downs, you might find actually just can't keep up so you might manually go in and say actually I'm going to look at everything typical quality because maybe you're doing type amends and it just takes so long to scroll through all the pages. Okay, so you can switch it to typical quality if you're running Windows XP on a really old laptop that barely starts up. Okay. What you might do is you might get a view and there's another one on there that says fast display. Okay. What this will do is allow you to text amends. Super duper fast. Okay. These aren't gone. If you produce a pdf now or print it, they print find, they just kind of placeholders to make the system run really fast. If you are finding man, this is jumpy and slow switch to fast. Okay. And you can toggle between if you're working with the images. One last thing about previewing, Okay, let's say I'm going to present to somebody, say a colleague or my boss or clients. I'm going to show them my design instead of showing them this ugly version with the blue lines and all my swatches around here. Okay, what I want to do is present to them. Okay, so I could make a pdf and make a presentation, that sort of stuff, but it's actually easy to straight from in design down the bottom here of your toolbox, right down the bottom. Okay, this last one if I click and hold normal. Okay, previews the one we've been toggle in between when we had w which if I this is the long way if I click on preview, that is the exact same as sitting W Okay, so we don't want that one. This one here, we never use what we never use bleeding slug will show you like a preview but include the slug. A bleed and slug. I never use these, I use this one down the bottom here presentation. Does this. It's quite cool. It shows you know, gets rid of all the junk and just presents it nicely. Kind of like a power point presentation. And if you've got multiple pages you can use your keyboard. I only have one page but you can use your arrow keys on your keyboard and work through all your different pages like PowerPoint and you can actually add transitions between them all. We'll do that in the more advanced and design course. But yeah. Anyway, so how did I get out of that in It had escaped to get back and we are back to the ugly blue line version. W pretty. All right. That's it for this one. Let's go and make a pdf version in the next video. I'll see you there.
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Ratings and Reviews
Jerome Clark
I think Dan is very good at explaining and breaking down complex content. I like the way there are lots of small sessions which is good for keeping focus. I would advise anyone who does this course and is taking notes to label which session the notes are referring to as I have struggled to find a few looking back and this helped me. It really made me realise how much I didn't know and had been fudging. Thank you Dan I will be taking plenty more of your courses in the coming months it's been a great help.
Giuseppe Lipari
Excellent course, instructor is great well spoken, clear and a great teacher. I highly recommend this class for beginners and those who learned indesign on their own.