Five magazine layout tips and tricks in Adobe InDesign

In this Adobe InDesign tutorial, let's look at five essential tips and tricks that every layout designer should know.

Follow along in this video and learn how to:
➪ Set Column Rules to a magazine layout (0:31)
➪ Use the Color Theme Tool to sample colors from an image (7:36)
➪ Apply a Drop Cap nested style within paragraph style (10:49)
➪ Work with Object Layer Options (13:32)
➪ Apply a Select Subject Text wrap to the main subject (15:17)

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[purplekrakenyut]

Finally, some good quality indesign layout content.

[AshTheMinecraftGuy]

These tips were CRAZY useful. All of this helps a lot to improve workflow. Been using InDesign for years but this helps massively. Thanks!

[fadisoueidi]

Excellent tutorial. straight to the point and informative. thank you.

[muchlovebymel]

This was so helpful. Thank you!! I've been using Canva for so many things but really needing Adobe InDesign for a specific project or two (and to make life soooo much easier once templates have been made).

[rosycspencer]

You are a great instructor. I think I will watch every tutorial you did and redo it.

[conniefisaacs]

You just keep getting better and better. Thank you!🎉

[TheAssadseenharo]

Useful tips for us beginners. I appreciate your efforts. Thanks!

[craigcannon]

Another fantastic tutorial with some eye-opening tips, Angelo! Grateful for these postings.

[gabbywilliamson]

Wow I did not know you could do color theme or use the layers from a psd file. Thank you so much for sharing.

[Katwumyn]

Excellent video with great tips! Thanks, Angelo!

[carlloos]

Fantastic tutorial Angelo. My only regret was that it ended. Please do a follow up!

[greatgaurav]

Great as always ! Thanks a lot, Angelo

[ethan_li]

How did you do the mockup view in the thumbnail so the pages dont look flat - like the shadows and highlight near the gutter of the spreads

[rosycspencer]

Do you have typesetting tutorials in InDesign?

[myronachtman]

I noticed that you said "collapse" the panel when you were actually opening the panel. This happened twice in this tutorial.