InDesign Tutorials

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Get Started with 10 Beginner Tips for InDesign by Danksy

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVW8AF2TMnw

This video was clear and concise, setting out all of the basic information for beginner InDesign. It goes over simple important formatting skills, such as changing text case, and getting rid of the "hyphenate" feature, working with text and object containers. In addition, it talks about drop shadows and object effects, creating and editing tables, previewing pages with bleed, margin, and slugs, scaling images proportionally, cropping images, fitting content to a frame, and display performance modes. Because of the amount that this video covers in such a short time, it is by far my favorite video.


2. InDesign Business Card Design Tips & Tricks - InDesign Business Card Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Je85OipUk

Knowing that we had to create personal business cards as one of our projects, I thought this video might provide some helpful insight. This was easy to follow, breaking everything down and then even give information that will help in post production. This will definitely be a video I come back to when executing my own business cards. 


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Learn how to use the Content Collector Tool in Adobe InDesign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBY90LHzDrw
The Content collector tool is used to pull content from one layout and place into another, which will prove to be useful when manipulating the program down the road. This was a quick viedo that was easy to follow that added a useful tool to my archive that I'm sure will come in handy down the road.


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