Using Adobe Comp CC To Make InDesign Layouts On Your Mobile Phone Or Ipad

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Creative Cloud APP 5:45
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Workflow Speed Tips 20:41
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Photoshop & Illustrator 13:32
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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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Transcript

Hey there, it's real me back again. In this video we're going to look at something called Adobe Comp, it's another app. It's different from Capture, which we've done, it's another free app. So there is Android and Apple, so go download it. Works best on iPad. I don't have an iPad, so I'm going to do it on my phone. Let's go and look at that now. So instead of Adobe Capture, see this second one down, Adobe Comp, I'm going to open it up. Now to be honest, I don't use this one myself but I wanted to share with you, because it's really cool. The only reason I don't use it is because I don't own an iPad. So hit the little '+' in the bottom right. I'll give you kind of a quick demo, mainly because I'm not amazing at this one.

We're going to go down to designing, say the Letter. Now it's all about drawing shapes. So we're going to put in an image. Put in an image, put in a cross, remember that one? I'm going to make it full width. I'm just dragging the corners here on my phone, my very broken phone, with the cracked glass, still works. Let's put in some Heading. So Heading is a box with a dot in the corner. Give it a bit of a tap, I'm going to make it lots bigger. You can see here, on the right there's a little slider for going up and down the font. I'm going to do that. I'm going to drag it. Oops, just drawing a line. Clicking it once, dragging it up. I'm going to put him in the middle there.

To do Body Text it's kind of just multi lines, but then put that dot in the corner, you get kind of like a multi line Text box. I'll make my Font size smaller. It points on the side there. I guess it's just getting the structure down. If you are round and about, and you're like "Man, I really want to do something like this", you can add Shapes. You can add things from your Library. There's no Shapes. You can add 'Images'. I'm going to click on this image that I did there. Down the bottom left is the little 'Import'. I can take a photo, I can go to my 'Maynooth Furniture' library. I'm going to bring in this one. Takes a little while to download, but you can actually build quite a complex design. On my phone, it's near impossible but on an iPad, it's actually quite amazing.

So we've brought that through. I can click on my 'Lorem Ipsum' thing here. And you can pick Fonts, let's have a look at the fonts down there. I'm using the 'T' down the bottom. Using 'Source Sans', like everybody. These are all TypeKit fonts. I'll use 'Lust Script', just because. I can download it to my phone, to use. Actually it's going to download it to both my library as well, so I can start using this. We're not going to spend too much time on this. Text, images, good for structure, it's all Lorem Ipsum, you can go and change the Type. You can use colors from your CC Library. When you're done though, I'm going to close it by hitting 'X' in the top left. Once you're done, and you get back out to here, it's saved, and you'll find that if you go to your Creative Cloud app on a Mac, it's on the top right, and on a PC, it's bottom right. If you go into 'Assets', 'Files', there's an option that says 'Open Folder'. That's where they all download to. You can take a little while for them to sync, but in there, you'll find, you can open up in InDesign. Pretty crazy.

So that's it for my terrible explanation of what CC Comp does. If you're a Web Designer, you can do the same thing for Web Layouts. It will pull in some designs to use in Photoshop, Illustrator, that you can use to mock up a site. Mobile apps as well, but that's it. All right, I will see you in the next video.

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