From the course: InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
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InDesign for artists: Where are all the art tools? - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
InDesign for artists: Where are all the art tools?
- [Instructor] So many of my friends are really familiar with Photoshop and somewhat familiar with Illustrator but they never really use InDesign. And they're mystified when they see me doing stuff. So this video is for you folks who are mainly steeped in everything Illustrator or everything Photoshop but sometimes you need to do stuff in InDesign. Now, this could be a whole course in itself or at least series of videos, but in this one single video, I just want to point you to the vector and raster tools and techniques that you can do in InDesign. So what we're looking at here is a cook book that's been laid out on multiple pages. You don't understand pages, just think Art Boards, okay? And every Art Board appears on its own spread. And you move Art Board to Art Board from the pages panel by double clicking. So let's go through here. We have some texts and we have some images. InDesign is a program that you use to assemble images from other programs and then you add texts as well…
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Adding new Pantone Color book swatches to InDesign4m 53s
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Use the 70,000-plus free Adobe Stock assets in your layouts5m 38s
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Update the same text across multiple layouts at once5m 57s
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Browsing styles of a particular character4m 48s
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Acrobat and InDesign: Use the Acrobat Share tools to send out PDFs for review6m 16s
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Tips for easy text extraction from old PDFs6m 19s
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Export PDF document versions quickly from a single layout5m 24s
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Extract high-quality images from PDFs to use in your layout6m 54s
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Use the Find Color features to avoid problems on the press6m 24s
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InDesign for beginners: The two tools and three commands you need to know7m 15s
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InDesign for artists: Where are all the art tools?6m 48s
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InDesign for marketers: Finding and using templates6m 44s
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