Production Video 1

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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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Transcript

Hi there, welcome to our first production video. What's a production video? It's where we're not actually learning anything new, we just need to get some stuff done. We'll do a little tips and tricks as we make stuff, but you can skip this video if you like. We're going to go through and actually just put together this cover for our newsletter before we move on. Let's go and do it.

So let's do the cover page, double click page 1, double check down here you're on page 1. I'll zoom out. And you can see the edges, especially when you're working with a full page. I'm just kind of scrolling around with these guys. I'm actually using a little shortcut, if you hold down 'space bar', you'll see your cursor turns into a little hand, and I can click, hold, and drag, I use that quite a bit. I've zoomed out so I can see the edges easily. And I'm going to go to 'File', 'Place', 'Command D', or 'Control D' on a PC. I'm going to bring in 'Garden Center', so make sure you're in your 'Exercise Files', in '03 Newsletter', and make sure you're working with 'Garden Center', click 'Open'. You can click once, or you can click and drag. I'm going to click and drag across, to try and get it all in there. It's a little bit big for it, but it's okay. Remember, 'W' kind of shows you it trimmed up. So it's a nice bit of 'Bleed' there, it's going to go in the bin. So it's going to have a nice edge. Great.

Now we're going to bring in our logo, go to 'File', 'Place', and we'll bring in the 'Black' one, and click 'Open'. And I'm going to click once over here. Make it a little bit bigger, maybe, about this sort of size. And stick it in even bigger. Remember, holding down 'Command' and 'Shift' to do the resizing. And it's going to go in the middle. You've seen the green line appeared to show it's in the middle. You can get it to align perfectly in the middle by opening up 'Window', 'Object', 'Align'. What you can do-- by default it's going to 'Align to Selection', which means it's going to-- if you've got one thing selected, nothing's going to happen. It's when you have two things selected it's going to align to those two selected things. Doesn't make much sense.

What makes sense is I'm going to 'Align to Page'. Switch that out. So now when I hit 'center' it's going to align to the page behind it. Say if I did this side, it's going to align to the page. That only happens if you got that selected. And that could be a pain. Next time you're trying to do it, you're trying to just align two things like we did for the footer numbers, the page numbers, so you might have to go back to 'Selection' afterwards. We're going to leave it at 'Selection', and move him up. Awesome.

Before we go, we're going to go and switch this out for the white one. You're like, "We just put the black one in." I know, it's more of an example. I want you to get used to be able to use this 'Links' panel. Have this selected, you don't have to actually. Make sure this is selected over here, 'Logo Green'. And go to this one that says 'Relink'. And switch it out for the white version. Hey, practice. We're practicing.

Alright, production video over, let's go and talk about Image Resolution.

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