How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign
Daniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
30. How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign
Lessons
InDesign 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?
05:10 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
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
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
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
75How do I combine Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in InDesign?
09:04 76CLASS EXERCISE: Create your own business card
01:16 77Quiz - Conference Name Badge
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
83Final Quiz
Lesson Info
How to use a Master Page in Adobe InDesign
Okay, good looking people, what we're going to do in this video is work on our Master pages. So when we draw a rectangle kind of like pretty little box that our page numbers are going to go into. We do it once and it appears on all of our pages. Let's go and do that. Okay, so to work on the Master page is we need to see this pages panel. So I got a window pages if you can't see it and just have a little look at these pages here. I've got page 1234 but you can see the A in the corner, it means that they're attached to something called the A Master that's there by default. You're given one. You can have as many Master pages as you need. Okay. And you put things on the Master page that you want to appear on every page, like a page number. Maybe it's a small, like the title of the document, its version or date or who produced it. Okay. Anything that you want to be consistent on every page, there might be some graphics or a logo or watermark to get to the Master page. Okay. You need to doub...
le click up here, you might not be able to see it. So you might have to scroll down or find it, see if you can see it hiding up in the top of the pages panel to get to it. You just double click it. Okay. And you've got to make sure you're there so to make sure it's a little, it's not very obvious. I wish there was like a big flashing green light that said you were in here. But down the bottom here it says a Master I'm not on one page or two or three, I'm on a Master and I've zoomed out a little bit just so I can see it all. Okay, maybe not that far. Let's get the rectangle tool and let's up the top here, give it a fill of magenta is fine. Okay and just draw a big rectangle on this left hand side and what you'll notice is can you see here that rectangle has appeared on all the left hand spreads. Okay. Not in the right hands once. I haven't drawn anything on this side because you'll have things like page numbering on different sides of the pages or you only want the document name in the top right, but you don't need it on the top right of this page. So you have left and right spread. Do the same thing over here. To a different style of box. Maybe a different color. Okay, just so that you can see something a bit more obvious. Okay, you can see over here that when I draw stuff on the master page it appears on all of my pages, you'll notice if I go to these pages, double click on page one. Okay, grab my black arrow is I can't actually select it. Okay, so if I need to delete it. It needs to come off the master page. So let's jump back to our master page. Double click it. Okay And select you and select you and delete it. So what I'd like to do is grab the rectangle tool and I'd like to draw a rectangle that kind of sits down the bottom. We're going to be doing, you kind of sort of the beginning there kind of like a box that sits down the bottom. I wanted to make sure it overlaps the beliefs that gets trimmed off in the bin and it goes right up until the spine here. How far up. Just have a guess. You can change it later on and you'll notice on page one. There it is there double click page two. Okay I've got that nice colored box. Will duplicate it for the other side in a sec. Okay, so on page one actually make sure you go back to my a Master, I promise you you'll be like the world's best user of in design and you will still forget you're not on the master page. Spin ages designing something on page one, thinking it's on the master page. Okay And have to copy and paste it afterwards. We always forget the same happens when you think you're designing on page one and you're actually in the master page and you realize everything you've designed is on every single page. You just have to do some copying and pasting afterwards. Okay next thing I want to do is I want to fill this with one of our colors. Okay. So what you can do when you get started with the new document is you'll see at the top here there's actually none of those colors through yet. They're sitting over there, which is no big drama. But you can be all official and bring the swatches through properly. So with the black arrow have nothing selected. Okay, right, click this guy and say add to swatches and just do it for all of them. So you know, you've got all of our colors as part of the swatches thing. Okay. There he is there. Okay. It's a bit weird. I know they're there, but why aren't they there? It's because this is kind of new and there's not a super slick integration yet. That will change. Okay, so if I have the selected and at the top here I'm going to pick my granite heart red and you'll see it appears on all the right hand spreads. Now. I'm going to select it, copy and paste it. Okay, edit copy. Edit paste. And we're going to have a left hand spread as well. And they still will check us on all our pages. Double click page a Page two, page 3 is all a little foot at colour box. Okay, so the next thing we're going to do is do our automatic page numbering. We'll do that in the next video, skip to that. One of the things I want to explain before we move on though is Master pages control all of these pages so when it comes to things like adjusting the margins and columns, it's best to do it in the A Master because it will adjust all the pages if I say so we go to page one and I'm like oh I want to change the columns to four, Okay. And I go up to object layout sorry and go to margins and I pick columns are now going to be four. Ok click Ok. What happens is page one changed because the page two and three is still the same. Okay, so that's how to change individual pages but probably more often than not, you just want to actually change them all. Okay, you've decided you want to change the margins on everything. You do that by going a Master. Okay, so double click it and make the changes in here. Okay, so now if I go to object keep going object okay, I'm just gonna layout margins and go to four. You'll see it does this page click over here too, you have to drop here double click this page, go make it go blue and do it for this side as well. Fed early. I know but that's the way it is. It's going to fall. Okay, now what you'll notice is if I go to page one, page two, page three, Okay, I've done those adjustments so if you're finding it's a little bit weird, it's probably because you're not doing it on your Master page. I'm going to undo that. Okay, so let's go and do automatic page numbering in the next video.
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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.