Adobe InDesign Tutorials

Looking for Adobe InDesign tutorials? Adobe, Adobe TV, Layers Magazine, Computer Arts, vector tuts+, lynda.com, and CreativePro.com are some of the best places to find all kinds of in-depth tutorials and how-to articles and videos on using Adobe InDesign. I'm also in the process of collecting InDesign tutorials into specific categories so you can more easily find what you need. The first two collections are:

• Design Projects / Tutorials Using Adobe InDesign
  Learn the software by designing a business card, a brochure, a poster, or other start-to-finish project. There are 12 categories of documents in this listing of tutorials (so far).

• InDesign Interface and Tools
  Tutorials for beginners/new users focus on getting around in InDesign and using the basic selection tools, frame tools, transform tools, zoom, and the gap tool.

Describes how to use alpha channels as a clipping path when placing images in InDesign.

Simple Animations show some basic tasks in Adobe InDesign such as how to draw a rectangle and how to use the Pen Tool.

Character Style Sheets can be real time savers for designers especially in the creation of long or multi-page documents. Character Style Sheets are simply recorded format that you can then use in your design at will.

Learn how to access clipping path information from EPS and TIFF files from different graphics programs when used in InDesign.

Try all these methods of setting up guidelines in publications.

The types of guides or guidelines used in InDesign.

Simplify the use of guidelines, including how to turn non-printing guides into printing guides.

Make guides visible or invisible or change their appearance in InDesign with these tips.

InDesign will automatically number pages in the style you designate when the proper page numbering code is placed on the Master Pages of your document.

Browse a clipping path and transparency tutorial using Hemera Photo-Objects with Adobe InDesign.

Stop dragging your mouse around. Learn quick tricks to selecting text in InDesign and other programs.

When using InDesign CS, you might find yourself into a situation where you have applied a stroke to type and you now want to convert that type to outlines. However when you do that, your stroke seems to disappear. Yet this is not the case.

How to make sure your transparency effects in Adobe InDesign come out correctly in the PDF format.

Try these two ways to fix mistakes in InDesign CS.

These Adobe InDesign projects can help you master InDesign by designing projects such as business cards, magazine covers, letterhead, posters, and digital publications.

Aimed primarily at new users, these tutorials cover the basics of the InDesign work area and tools everyone uses.