How To Crop Images Inside Of Text In Adobe InDesign CC

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Creative Cloud APP 5:45
SECTION: 12
Workflow Speed Tips 20:41
SECTION: 17
Photoshop & Illustrator 13:32
SECTION: 22
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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Hi there, in this video we're going to do some Advance Cropping, where we stick it inside stars, and we stick it inside custom shapes that we make, and awesomely, we stick images inside of text. Let's go and do that now in InDesign.

So let's do the first one, doing some custom shapes. So we've pasted it into a circle before, in case you missed that one. Truly easy, pick a shape. I'm going to use the 'Polygon Tool', click on it once. I'm going to double click it. I'm going to pick '5' sides, with a Star Inset of '50' to give me kind of a traditional star shape. Holding 'Shift' while I'm dragging, grab an image. Click off in the background, 'File', 'Place'. Find any image, I'm finding one from '03 Magazine'. I'll bring this guy. Remember just to paste it over the top of where you want to go. Go to 'Edit', 'Cut'. Select it, and go to 'Edit', 'Paste Into', that's the magic trick.

Now this is one we did earlier, inside of a circle. I'm going to select it, and delete it. What I'd like to do is a bit more of a custom shape. So I'm going to go back to the 'Ellipse Tool', grab an 'Ellipse'. I am going to draw out a circle. And I'm going to grab the 'Pen Tool'. The Pen tool has a couple of options, I'm just going to use the top Pen tool. And I'm going to click once on the edge, and you'll see the Pen tool turns into like a little '+'. I'll click once there, then drag, once about there, and then one in between. Why? Because I want to grab my White Arrow. I'm going to drag that one in between out. Sometimes it can be a little hard to select, so you got to click 'Off', then hover kind of roughly where it was, then click on just that one point. It's even harder now, there's lots of dots, but that's what I want to do. I want to pull out like a little blob.

Next thing I want to do is go back to my Pen tool, there's an option here, it says 'Convert Direction'. By now it's a bit of a blob, it's got a rounded bit. I'm just going to click on it once, and that will clear off those little rounded bits. Now it's nice and pointed. So you can make any shape. I just made like a little speech bubble, that's what I wanted to do. Bring in another image. I got enough images to grab. I'm going to grab one from 'Spring Flyer'. 'Modern kitchen with white and yellow colors'. Remember, I drag it so it's just above where you need it to go. Cut it. 'Edit', 'Cut', then 'Edit', 'Paste Into'. So it doesn't really matter what kind of shape it is. You can draw in Illustrator as well, and copy, and paste it in if you're more comfortable drawing in there. It could be some of the options from our CC Marketplace. So 'Assets', 'Market', 'Download an Icon', and place it into that. You might have to ungroup it first.

Now let's get into the thing you've been waiting for, the pasting inside text. And this totally reminds me of Baywatch, for some reason. Everybody remembers Baywatch, not the new one, the old one. Goodness to Hasselhoff. So I've got a text box, I'm going to write Baywatch, for no good reason. Do you remember? It was like waves in the background. So what I'm going to do is make a nice big font. I'm using 'Command-Shift-.' to make it bigger. You can use 'Control-Shift-.' on a PC. I'm going to pick a nice-- there's Roboto Slab in here, 'Roboto Slab Bold'. Too big. Slab is too big a chunky font. And what I'd like to do is paste an image inside of that.

Now for this to work, we need to do something called Outlining the Text. Now, because we outline it, we can't then adjust it later on. So often it can be handy just to duplicate it so we've got a backup version. With this selected, let's go to 'Type', there's one in here, it says 'Create Outlines'. Basically it turns it into shapes, that look like text. You can't use the Type tool anymore, but what we can do, is we can bring in an image. Let's go to 'Exercise Files', let’s bring in one of the ones from 'Drawing'. Not even sure which one I'm going to pick, I'll pick this one. So 'Image 4', and because I had it selected and because I had this option turned on, 'Replace Selected Item', it just put it in. If it didn't work, you can just draw it over the top, like we did everything else. Get it in the right spot. Cut it. Then select it, and go to 'Edit', 'Paste Into'. Baywatch.

All right, that's going to be it for some advanced copying. On to the next video.

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