20 InDesign Tutorials That Will Teach You the Essentials

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Adobe InDesign is a fantastic tool for page design that lets you work across desktop and mobile devices to create, preflight and publish a variety of projects. Best of all, it allows you to work from any device, so you can sketch, draw, paint, create layouts, edit photos and make videos using a variety of apps, while CreativeSync will store your information so it’s available on all your devices, so you can start where you left off, anywhere, anytime.

If you’re interested in creating beautiful printed books and brochures, digital magazines, iPad apps, eBooks, or interactive online documents, InDesign is the right choice for you.

InDesign is part of Creative Cloud and comes with Adobe CreativeSync, so you can easily and conveniently and securely access all of your information.

The new versions of InDesign also support Fixed Layout ePubs which is especially useful in cases where the layout needs to match a print version perfectly when viewed on an eReader. You also get control over adding additional meta data and can customise the height and width of an object by editing the CSS file via the Object Export Options.

CreativeSync also connects your mobile and desktop apps automatically, so your colors, graphics, and metadata are always available and ready to use. Additionally, InDesign offers a royalty-free photos and graphics library with over 50 million images to choose from, which will give you a lot of creative freedom.

These tutorials will work for various versions of InDesign, but you should know that InDesign CC is a big step forward from InDesign CS6, with some great new features and it’s definitely worth looking into.

Although InDesign offers some great tools, it might take some getting used to if you’re not familiar with it. In order to help you get the basics, we’ve gathered 20 InDesign tutorials that will teach you the essentials, so you can start designing better, sooner. These short tutorials will explain the basics, like how to store and share content with Creative Cloud Assets, add text and art in frames, wrap text around objects, create and sync colors, copy text formatting, create gradients, use Adobe Stock with Creative Cloud Libraries, and much more.

Take a look and see for yourself just how easy it is to create something beautiful using InDesign.