From the course: InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
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InDesign for beginners: The two tools and three commands you need to know - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
InDesign for beginners: The two tools and three commands you need to know
- [Instructor] Hi there. It's Anne-Marie from InDesign secrets for Design Geeks. Today I want to talk to the newbies in the audience or the people who tried InDesign two years ago and ran away screaming because it's just so complicated to them. And I know how that feels. That's how I feel in front of something like premier but I've taught a lot of new users over the years, how to use InDesign. And I want to allay your fears in this video and show you how you just need to know a couple tools a couple commands and a panel to do 90% of what you need to do in InDesign. All right. So the first thing we going to start out with is the fact that you have to create a new document usually, right? Let's say that we're trying to replicate this one-page flyer for a Cuban tour I'm going to go to file and choose new document. And though you do set up the width and height here and number of columns and margins you don't have to know…
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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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