25 Great Adobe InDesign Guides & Tutorials
InDesign is part of the well known Adobe Creative Suite and it’s very powerful for many of us designers.
If you don’t have the software it can be downloaded for a 30-day free trial along with the other products over at Adobe: ( http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ ) Let’s have a look at what InDesign is and some tutorials that will help you begin!
What is InDesign?
Adobe InDesign is a very powerful desktop publishing software (DTP) and can in the world of graphic design be seen as the only true competitor to QuarkExpress. These two definitely dominate that part of the market today.
You can use this to create brochures, flyers, books, ads, magazines and so on. It’s especially useful in multi-page documents with it’s good features for linking content together. It has basic editing options for illustrations/images and can easily be used together with Photoshop and Illustrator for bigger changes. Another great thing is how it can help you prepare your projects for offset printing.
Guides and Tutorials
There are many good tutorials on InDesign out there. This time we’ve chosen a variety of them to show you a few things that can be done with ease.
The first guides are very basic, while others are meant for designers who are more experienced with use of the Creative Suite products. No matter what your current skills are, you will be likely to find something here for you. Good luck!
BASIC GUIDES
Getting Started with Adobe InDesign
Using rulers and setting measurement units
Setting Up Master Pages and Styles
Formatting typography and the use of styles
BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE TUTORIALS
Creating a flag graphic with the type tool
How to use multi-layered illustrator artwork with InDesign
Create numbered tickets the easy way
Creating an interactive portfolio
Create a grid based resume/CV Layout design
Using InDesign to create a Designer resume
Five-color magazine cover using a spot metallic
Turn your InDesign documents into interactive flash content
Preparing InDesign files for your printing service
Those were our 25 picks for you. We hope these can help you get a better understanding for the software and help you get started using it for your own designs. Good luck!
I love Adobe InDesign CS5. This is a great start-up guide on getting to know what it can do. Awesome job. Cheers.
I still dont use Indesign. But after read this post, i will try to use it.
Thanks
Indesign is awesome.
For the print, it is a known fact, but you should also consider using it for web projects.
The more I make websites, the less I use photoshop and the more I rely on Indesign.
Web is 95% typography, so let’s use the best tool to handle typographic problems;-)
Grids, styles, and a box behaviour similar to CSS, Indesign is way more able to handle the complexity of a website than photoshop.
Yeah sure, to make shiny pretty buttons, PS is great, but not for the rest.
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