Creating Columns in a text box using Adobe InDesign
Questions
Course info
Overview
- You will need a copy of Adobe InDesign CC 2018 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
- No previous design skills are needed.
- No previous InDesign skills are needed.
- 76 lectures 5+ hours of well structured content.
- You'll learn to design a flyer, newsletter, brochure, annual report & business cards.
- Learn how to create PDF files ready for printing.
- 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 new career path.
- No previous InDesign experience is necessary.
- This course is for people completely new to InDesign. No previous design or publishing experienced is necessary.
- This is a relaxed, well paced introduction that will enable you to produce most common publications. Only basic computing skills are necessary - If you can send emails and surf the internet then you will cope well with our course.
Course duration 6 hours 20 mins + your study.
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI 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.
Certificates
We’re awarding certificates for this course!
Check out the How to earn your certificate video for instructions on how to earn yours and click the available certificate levels below for more information.
How to earn your certificate
Work your way towards your certificate for this course by following these simple steps.
- Watch the course videos
- Complete the Class Projects - look out for the videos marked with
- Upload your class projects into the My Projects area in your account
- Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz (Merit level courses only)
- Complete the Distinction Certificate Project (Distinction level courses only) - look out for the video marked with
- Upload your Distinction project to the My Projects area in your account
- Request your certificate when you've completed the requirements for the certificate level you're working towards
Good luck!
Pass certificates
We’re awarding ‘Pass’ level certificates for this course.
You can work your way towards your ‘Pass’ certificate by following these simple steps.
- Watch the course videos
- Complete the Class Projects - look out for the videos marked with
- Upload your class projects into the My Projects area in your account
- Don’t forget to request your certificate when all your projects are complete
Good luck!
Downloads & Exercise files
Transcript
Hi there, in this video we're going to go from this many columns to this many columns. All right, let's go and do it.
So what you need to do is, I'm going to have my cursor flashing inside of my 'Type' box. So 'Type Tool', click in here. And depends on your screen size, you might have to switch out like me to-- if you've got a big iMac, you'll probably see it along the top, but for me, I've got to go to 'Paragraph', and you'll see, along the top here is 'Columns'. Number of columns, I'm going to bump it up to '3'. And because we left the 'gutter', which is the space between the columns default, when we made the document, we've left the default in here as well. So if you changed your 'gutter width' you're going to have to change in here to match. Great, so now we've got 3 columns, super easy.
So what we're going to do now is kind of move into a little bit of production video. You can skip along if you want, but what I want to do is, I'm going to scrap all of this, cut it. Click off in the background, grab the 'Type Tool', draw another type box. How big is it going to be? I'll adjust in a second. And I'm going to pick a font. We're going to use 'Roboto'. 'Roboto', we'll use 'Medium', or 'Regular'. I'm going to give it that red 'Fill'. And 'Size' wise, I'm going to go up to '14'.
And this is going to be like a sub heading, so I'm moving him up, I'm moving him around, tidying up some of these box sizes because I want this to be kind of like the sub header. And I want to span to 'Columns'. Fancy. 'W' off. Looking fine. This guy here is going to tuck up about here. I'm going to get rid of these extra 'returns' so it's all lining up a little nicer. All right, let's jump into the next video where we'll look at Justification and Hyphenation.
- Powered by Marvin
- Terms of use
- Privacy policy
-
- © Bring your Own Laptop Ltd 2024