Free Icons Using Adobe Market In InDesign CC

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Creative Cloud APP 5:45
SECTION: 12
Workflow Speed Tips 20:41
SECTION: 17
Photoshop & Illustrator 13:32
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Exporting & Printing Tricks 8:17

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74 lessons / 9 hours Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Dan. I am an Adobe Certified Instructor and an Adobe Certified Expert for InDesign and I work as a professional graphic designer. This course is about advanced features, productivity & workflow speed tricks using Adobe InDesign. 

This course is not for people brand new to InDesign. It’s for people who already know and understand the fundamentals. 

If you are already happy adding text & images to InDesign documents then this course is for you. Even if you consider yourself a heavy user, I promise there will be things in here that will blow your InDesign mind. 

You’ll learn advanced font tricks using Typekit & Opentype fonts, font grouping & font pairing. Mastering colour features like the colour theme tool and colour modes as well as professional proofing for colours for print. We’ll set permanent defaults for fonts, colours & will learn how to turn hyphenation off for good, once and for all.  

What would an advanced InDesign course be without all the tactics to fully control paragraphs, auto expanding boxes, spanning & splitting columns. You’ll become a Styles master, using nested styles, grep styles, next styles & advanced object styles.  

We’ll make beautiful charts & graphs for your InDesign documents. You’ll learn the pros & cons of various digital distribution methods including Interactive PDF’s, EPUBs & the amazing Publish Online. 

You’ll become a master of long, text heavy documents, autoflowing, primary text frames & smart text reflow, cross referencing, indexes, text variables & the InDesign book feature. There is entire section dedicated to how to speed up your personal workflow & how to speed up InDesign and get it running super fast. 

We look at interactive forms & scripts. There is just so much we cover and I want to share everything here in the intro but I can’t. Have a look through the video list, there is an amazing amount we cover here in the course. 

If you’re one of those people using InDesign and you know there is probably a better way, a faster way to work then this is your course. 

Daniel Walter Scott

What are the requirements?

  • You will need a copy of Adobe InDesign 2018 or above. But you find that 95% of all the features in this course will work with earlier version of InDesign (e.g. CS6). A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 70 lectures 5+ hours of well structured content. 
  • Create PDF Forms
  • Master Long Documents.
  • Advanced Fonts
  • Master Styles
  • Shortcut Sheet
  • Create Charts & Infographics
  • Create Interactive Documents
  • Workflow Tactics
  • Shortcuts & Speed Tips
  • Advanced Creative Cloud Features
  • Tips for working with Photoshop & Illustrator
  • Using Scripts 
  • Exporting, Prepress & Printing tricks 
  • You will get the finished files so you never fall behind. 
  • Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet. 
  • Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew. 
  • Techniques used by professional graphic designers. 
  • Professional workflows and shortcuts. 
  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your accelerate your career. 

What is the target audience?

  • This course is for people who already know InDesign and want to take their skills and speed to the maximum level. 
  • This is an advanced InDesign course, so you’ll need basic InDesign skills to find this course useful. 
  • This course is perfect for anyone that already knows how to insert images & add text. 
  • If you a completely new to InDesign try my InDesign Essentials course before starting this one.
  • This course is perfect for anyone that has completed my InDesign Essentials course.

Course duration 7 hours 45 mins + your study.
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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So, to get our free icons we need to use the Adobe Creative Cloud app. Now on a Mac, it's up the top here, you can see this little Creative Cloud icon. Click on that, if you're on a PC, it's in the bottom right of your desktop. And you'll find a similar looking icon. You can't find it either of those places you might have to go to your applications on your machine and try find the Creative Cloud app, then open it up. Inside of here, jump to 'Assets' and we're going to work in 'Market'.

 

Now Market is the place where we've got lots of commercial use, free to use in your designs icons, mainly icons. There's some graphics and texts, some UI design in here as well. This little thing goes on forever, so you'll have to use the Search icon. What we're looking for is like a tag, or a price tag. You can see, there's a lot of tags you can pick from. So go through, find the one that you want to use. I'm going to use this first one here. I click on it.

 

One thing you can do when you're clicking on the icons in here, the ones you want to use, if you find a SVG version, a Scalable Vector Graphic, they're probably the best to use. Why? It's that they're Vector and all it just means is that you get to easily change the shape and the colors. If it's a JPEG or a PNG, you've got to do stuff in Photoshop. It becomes a little harder to do.

 

So, it's a SVG, I'm going to click 'Download'. I'm going to create a library. You probably, depending on, if you're using libraries already, you might just have one called My Library, I'm going to create one. Create a library called-- this one's for a company called Maynooth Furniture. And that's one we'll do a lot of work with. I'm going to click 'Return'. Did it download it to it? Not sure, I'm going to click on it again. And close that back up. Now in my CC Libraries panel, if you can't find it, it's under 'Window', 'CC Libraries'. And I want to change it from 'My Library' to this new one that I've made called 'Maynooth Furniture'. And there's my tag. I can drag it out, and the only problem with dragging this particular one out, it's ginomous. Whoever made it and put it up to the Adobe Market, you can see, it's the giant tag. So, maybe it might be a little easier if you right click it over here, and say 'Place Linked'. And you get a little place gun where you can just drag it out and give it a size. It's way too big to start with. That's an okay size, I'm going to shrink it down, and rotate it around. So it's kind of—

 

I'm going to drag it over here, rotate it around. It's kind of there. Now what I want to do is, I want to put some text on it. I want to put back text on this. We might have to change the color. There's not an easy way of changing color in InDesign. It's not really a job for InDesign to kind of get in there and change the colors of it, or the shape. It's really a job for Illustrator. It's easy to do, all you got to do is double click it over here and it will open up in either Photoshop or Illustrator whatever it was made in, and this one was made in Illustrator. And the easy thing to do, is you grab the White Arrow, click on any color you want to change And in here you can use-- I'm going to go to 'Properties' and I'm going to go to 'Fill', and pick a random color for the moment. Hit 'Save'. You'll notice, in My Libraries here, it's updated. If I jump into InDesign, you'll see, it's updated. Over here, this one hasn’t updated.

 

You go to your 'Links' panel, and do nothing. Just found that it got updated. So you don't have to do anything, don't go to the Links panel. It's a nice easy connection. Now if I make a change in here, save it, it updates in InDesign. So that's the Creative Cloud Market option. There's just so much in here. You'll find loads of icons, I use it quite a bit for UI Web Design options. So if you're doing kind of more design for digital, some really nice stuff in here as well, and they're free, commercial use. And often, these things are editable. You'll be able to open them up in Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign, and be able to kind of change the text, and fonts, and colors. There's lots of good stuff in here. So that's the Assets Market in the Adobe Creative Cloud app.

 

Before we go I'm just going to kind of bring this to the front. Same shortcut as earlier, 'Command Shift', and use the second square bracket ']' next to the P key, it's kind of the second one across. It will bring it all the way to the front. Or right click, and go 'Arrange', and say 'Bring to front'. I'm just going to rotate him around. Get him to line up here.

 

This is where you can go off to the next video because I'm just going to put a few returns in, play around with this, and get it so it all kind of fits. I'm going to select all of this, and I want to lower the Leading as well. A nice little shortcut is hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac or the 'Alt' key on a PC, and use your down arrow. That will make it bigger, I want the opposite of that, use 'up'. Up would decrease the Leading automatically. Or you could do it obviously in your Character, and there it is there. That's your Leading. I've got them nicely together. That looks good to me.

 

Before we go as well, remember, we've got OpenType fonts. This one here, font that I even use, Type tool, this one's called 'Market OT'. Is it in Typekit? It is. Market OT, it's a Typekit font, you can download it as well. And because it's OpenType, click down here. You can say, 'Stylistic Sets', 'Set 8'. Can you see the ends? Change to be a bit more clear. I think I like that where it's a lot clearer. A little scribbly, but probably a little easier to understand. And we've got a little tag off there. I'll definitely go to the next video now. See you.

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