Adobe InDesign Advanced Course - Free Tutorial!

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Introduction: 0:00
Getting Started: 2:53
Adjusting Your Workspace: 3:29
Default Font Size: 11:50
Typekit & Open Type: 13:04
Free Fonts: 20:47
Mastering Your Fonts: 24:22
What The Font: 28:01
Font Pairings: 34:22
Adobe Market: 36:49
Color Theme Tool: 42:34
Colour Modes: 45:48
Importing Colors: 48:25
Adobe Color: 55:23
Appearance Of Black: 56:35
Gridify & Live Distribute: 1:04:35
Arrows: 1:17:50
Complex Flowers: 1:22:04
Auto-Expand With Auto Size: 1:29:29
Placeholder Alternatives: 1:34:11
Paragraph Borders: 1:39:54
Paragraph Composer: 1:49:52
Paragraphs Span & Split: 1:52:10
outro: 1:55:11

You’ll learn advanced font tricks using Typekit & Opentype fonts, font grouping & font pairing. Mastering colour features like the colour theme tool and colour modes as well as professional proofing for colours for print. We’ll set permanent defaults for fonts, colours & will learn how to turn hyphenation off for good, once and for all.

What would an advanced InDesign course be without all the tactics to fully control paragraphs, auto expanding boxes, spanning & splitting columns. You’ll become a Styles master, using nested styles, grep styles, next styles & advanced object styles.

We’ll make beautiful charts & graphs for your InDesign documents. You’ll learn the pros & cons of various digital distribution methods including Interactive PDF’s, EPUBs & the amazing Publish Online.

You’ll become a master of long, text heavy documents, autoflowing, primary text frames & smart text reflow, cross referencing, indexes, text variables & the InDesign book feature. There is entire section dedicated to how to speed up your personal workflow & how to speed up InDesign and get it running super fast.

We look at interactive forms & scripts. There is just so much we cover and I want to share everything here in the intro but I can’t. Have a look through the video list, there is an amazing amount we cover here in the course.

If you’re one of those people using InDesign and you know there is probably a better way, a faster way to work then this is your course.

[Shinnified]

I had the week off, but due to COVID times, it was a staycation. I decided that I wanted to learn ID. I do know most of the other Adobe product line, but have never really touched ID. I watched the Beginners and this video. I followed along with the examples and project file downloads. I don't usually do that on tuts like this, but I wanted to be experiential. I watched on one laptop while I did things myself on another. I would like to say that this is totally worth all that I paid, but that would be a lie. I paid nothing at all, and I got tons of valuable training. This was so well done, and you did such a great job on this. It was a joy, and now I feel confident about working in ID. Thank you for this!

[florarosa]

The thing I like the most about your tutorials is that you are kind and nice, and professional at the same time. I don't feel myself like a stupid student :) I learn a lot and don't feel any pressure. Thank you very much for your approach.

[markelliot]

wow.... a previous commenter said it best, "Finally an InDesign video that doesn't spend eight hours on absolute basics, but yet clearly explains intermediate and advanced strategies without skipping steps or assuming niche knowledge."

Well done, subscribing asap and looking forward to the future!

[wells]

Fantastic. I've been using In Design for over 8 years now and I've just learnt so much more in the last 90 minutes. Excellent work. Thanks

[JoeOklahoma]

Finally an InDesign video that doesn't spend eight hours on absolute basics, but yet clearly explains intermediate and advanced strategies without skipping steps or assuming niche knowledge.

Liked the video very soon. Multiple times while watching attempted to do so again. Never wanted to multiple-Like? a vid more than this one.

Great stuff! Still on it, but will check out the extended course.

[saharlogmari]

Finally a video where i can see the guys mouse, he says words clearly and actually SHOWS how to open stuf like the soft roll instead of

[erichcollar]

I am an old-school typesetter (Quark express the InDesign for over 25 years) and would argue that points is still the way to go. If you use inches or millimeters, the paragraph leading and spacing will always have fractional numbers. I hate fractional numbers. The point system is much more efficient when creating precise, detailed grids. Very informative and fun video that taught an old dog some new tricks.
Cheers, Erich Collar

[uwannasee_greatness]

Blown away by your videos. I am going through this course after doing your beginner's course within the same week. How well you present this information has given me so much confidence as someone who has lacked confidence in ever learning these tools. I was able to find tools on my own because of the confidence your videos have given me, for example, not sure if you showed how to access the "stroke" window, but I was able to take a breath and realized "it's a window, must be in the window section." And boom there it is. Thank you!

[garyoliver]

@ 1:25:53, "try to put it in the middle". There are page centering functions for vertical and horizontal in the toolbar at the top. Pretty valuable information totally glossed over.

[bonmass]

I've been using just Photoshop for years now and recently a friend put Illustrator and InDesign on my PC. I've been doing your courses and i have to say that I'm really enjoying them. Just wanted to say thanks for that. Your videos are easy to follow and clear compared to most other videos on YouTube in this area.

[zealconis]

I'm working with Indesign for 8 years or so now, so there was a lot in this video I already knew.
but still there were a few handy things I never even heard of.
You made my Indesign working experience a lot easier!

Even if knew a lot already you kept me entertained to watch the whole thing big thumbs up for you!!

[mahmoud.zayedd]

Dan is the best instructor I have ever had 💯❤️

[Masco_Ke]

I am done with your basic training and am now to advance level. here we go

[bmilne]

Very good video with lots of good information. You definitely know this program better than I do. Thank you.

Two points I’d like to make. 1. If you’re designing for print, setting the bleeds to 0.125” does you no good if you don’t also design to the bleeds. All your “print” samples design to the edge of the page when placing photos or drawing backgrounds. You should turn on bleed guides and use those as a reference instead of the page edges to promote proper design for printing. 2. Regarding mis-registration of process colors on “big” 4-color offset presses - it’s not because they vibrate, they don’t. There are several factors, including blanket packing, blanket condition, overall condition of the press, operator’s skill, the paper’s stability (stretch, flare, etc.) I totally agree with you regarding using straight black for smaller type.

Print shop owner and pre-press operator for 24 years. InDesign user since version 1.0. Originally used PageMaker, and Quark.

[HarpsichordVinylGallery]

It was a great course (beginners and advanced) to refresh things. The only thing I was missing is how to make a folder or book with the number of pages, the content and general page design as a format. But in only 4 hours you cannot teach everything. It was a valuable course. Thanks.

[oldandcrusty]

OMG I've been using InDesign for donkeys years and this vid has just saved me (and my clients) SO. MUCH. TIME. Great little nuggets of info and short cuts in here. THANK YOU FELLOW KIWI.

[ezeuba]

U are one of the few that their tutorial on YouTube is well explained and easy to follow. Thanks a lot.

[pin]

The best Id course ever!!! I know what i know and i know what i don’t know now. Thanks to you. I love your teaching style, no gap. I am going to join your full course asap. Thank you so much Dan.

[victoryxists]

Your great, FYI What Font has an extension and you can add it to Chrome and then scroll over any font on a webpage and it will identify the family. Cheers...

[supraneedeesom]

With your videos my learning curve will shrink drastically. Thank you.