How to save your InDesign file as a JPEG.

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82 lessons / 7 hours 4 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is  Dan. I am a graphic designer and Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI)  for InDesign.

Together we will work through real life projects starting with a simple company flyer, then a brochure & a company newsletter. We’ll make business cards & take control of a really long annual report.

We will work with colour, picking your own and also using corporate colours. You will explore how to choose & use fonts like a professional. We will find, resize & crop images for your documents.

There are projects for you to complete, so you can practise your skills & use these for your creative portfolio.

In this course I supply exercise files so you can play along. I will also save my files as I go through each video so that you can compare yours to mine - handy if something goes wrong.

Know that I will be around to help - if you get lost you can drop a post on the video 'Questions and Answers' below each video and I'll be sure to get back to you.

I will share every design trick I have learnt in the last 15 years of designing. My goal is for you to finish this course with all the necessary skills to start making beautiful documents using InDesign.


What are the requirements?

  • 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.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 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.

What is the target audience?

  • 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

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 we need to save a JPEG out, ready for some purpose. You might be sticking it into a PowerPoint presentation, or Word document, or sending it to a website to be used as part of a web process, or something, you need a JPEG or a PNG, same principle works.

The one thing I'd say is that, often a PDF will work as well. If I'm putting it into PowerPoint or Word, a PDF will go in. The nice thing about PDFs is that the quality is always a lot better, especially for 'Type', but if you have to use a JPEG, let's do it this way. Let's go to 'File', 'Export', same as the PDF, down the bottom here where it used to say 'Adobe PDF', go down to either 'JPEG' or 'PNG', super easy. I'm going to give it the same name but I'm going to make a 'High Res' version. High resolution, high quality one, you can call it what you like. Hit 'Save'. I'm saving it into that folder on my 'Desktop'. 'All', 'Pages', I'm going to do 'Pages'. We haven't done any 'Spreads', we'll look at that later.

Then the 'Quality'. You got two things that really controls what it looks like. 'Quality', and the 'Resolution'. 'Quality' will be how pixelated it is. Is it a bit scrappy, and a bit yucky looking? 'Medium' will still look fine, 'Low' will look gross, never use 'Low'. 'Medium' will be fine, 'High' will be pretty amazing and maximum. You won't see the difference between these two, I promise.

We're going to go for 'High Res' one, 'Maximum'. It's going to look as good as it can be, but the file size is going to be quite big. And then, 'Resolution', here the lowest is '72', and the highest you want to go to is '300'. Anything past this, this thing is going to be absolutely big, like meters wide. We'll leave that at '300'. 'Color Space' is 'RGB'. Always going to be 'RGB' for a JPEG. And leave this stuff at the bottom. Let's click 'Export'.

Nothing really happens, you got to go and find that folder, and there's my 'High Res', he's 1.4MB, pretty big. But, we look at the quality, pretty awesome, beautiful. Say I'm sending it out, and its going to go up to a website, and I know that 1.4MB is far too big for our website or emailing even, its pretty big. So we're going to go to 'Export', and we're going to say make something really small. I'm going to give it a name, I'm going to call it 'Low Res'. I'm going to go through, and say 'Maximum'. I'm going to put it down to 'High'. This is the lowest you ever want to go, '72' at 'Medium'. Click 'Export'.

You'll notice that the 'High Res' version-- I'll make this a bit bigger. Probably, make it even bigger. So, '1.4' is the 'High Res'. See this one here, 'Kilobytes', that is '0.04'. Set at '1.4', so its tiny compared to it. We'll look at the quality. It's smaller, the quality, its fine its not going to win the Quality Award, but this one here is really big, a really big file size. So, probably somewhere in the middle.

Just find yours, go to '150 dpi', go to 'Maximum', and see what the size is. Another thing you might find is that, if you don't have any images say it's just block colors your file size is going to be a lot smaller because it doesn't have to deal with all these colors. If you've got hundreds of images it's going to be even bigger than 1.4.

So that my friends, is how to save a JPEG from InDesign. Let's get on to the next video.

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