Adobe InDesign Basics: Creating a Custom Flyer for Your Business
Get started with InDesign by creating a versatile flyer for a business. Join Dave Clayton as he shows you all of the key elements you need to know to do your first project with InDesign. Dave gives you a firm foundation for customizing InDesign to match your needs, then shows you all of the steps needed to complete the project and deliver to your client. You’ll learn how to add images and quickly send them to Photoshop for any tweaks needed to fit the design, how to add text and style it, how to align all of the elements to create a design that is pleasing to the eye, how to include interactivity and save out PDFs for both print and electronic delivery, and so much more. By the end of the class you’ll have created a great looking flyer that can serve as a design template for a variety of projects.
Release Date: 2016-03-03
Lessons
Introduction
Join Dave as he introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
Duration: 0 mins 36 seconds
Preparation
Start by considering the purpose of your design project.
Duration: 1 mins 28 seconds
Assets
Your assets are all of the components for your design project. A great place to start to to gather all of your assets in one place.
Duration: 2 mins 26 seconds
Starting InDesign
Setting up your workspace to suit your needs will make your workflow more efficient as you move forward.
Duration: 1 mins 41 seconds
Configuring Your Preferences
Setting up your global InDesign preferences puts you in control of how the program behaves as you work. Once that is set you can open your document to start the project.
Duration: 6 mins 15 seconds
Placing Your Background Image
There are a few things to consider when selecting and placing your images in your project.
Duration: 6 mins 33 seconds
Editing The Image
If any of your images require some editing in Photoshop you can jump there directly from InDesign.
Duration: 1 mins 51 seconds
The Links Panel
The Links Panel is a powerful tool inside InDesign that can help you avoid problems.
Duration: 4 mins 11 seconds
Adding a Logo
You can also place vector-based images inside your InDesign document. Some images may need additional design elements to make them fit within your design.
Duration: 6 mins 57 seconds
Incorporating Text
InDesign has very powerful tools for styling text.
Duration: 8 mins 53 seconds
Aligning Elements
Keep your design tidy by arranging the elements in your project in a way that is pleasing to the eye.
Duration: 2 mins 27 seconds
Adding Interactivity
Even if your design is going to be printed, you may also want to save it as a PDF and delivered electronically. In these cases you can add in interactions to the document to create clickable links within the document.
Duration: 3 mins 6 seconds
Adding Social Media Icons
Dave demonstrates how to insert multiple images at once in to the document, edit them on the fly, and tidy up the elements to make them fit within the design.
Duration: 8 mins 21 seconds
Versatile Layout
Once you have a layout designed you can use it in a number of different projects.
Duration: 0 mins 37 seconds
Save as PDF
You can save a PDF for print and another PDF version that retains the interactivity you added previously.
Duration: 4 mins 39 seconds
Package the File
Dave wraps up the class with a look at how you package the project, where it will gather up all of the assets (minus the fonts) and create a folder just for that job.
Duration: 4 mins 38 seconds