InDesign – Designing Templates
Release date:2021
Author:Anne-Marie
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
An InDesign template is a beautiful thing. If you find yourself creating the same kind of document over and over again, a template can save you a tremendous amount of time. Working with other designers? A template can help make sure you’re all on the same page. And if you need to get clients up and running on their own, a template can provide the guidance they need to execute a design successfully.
So what are you waiting for? In this course, Anne-Marie Concepción shows how to use InDesign to find and create templates that fit your needs. By building in the power tools you need for production—flexible master pages, logical layers, object styles, libraries and snippets, and styles—you’ll have a template that prepares you for success. Plus, get tips, secret shortcuts, and useful scripts, as well as practice lessons to reinforce your newfound skills along the way.
00_01 – Welcome
00_02 – What you should know before watching this course
00_03 – Using the exercise files and loading fonts
00_04 – Installing InDesign scripts
01_01 – Saving time with a great template
01_02 – Making a simple template
01_03 – Understanding what makes a template smart
01_04 – Finding and evaluating free and commercial InDesign templates
01_05 – Creating a template from an existing publication
01_06 – Creating a template from a PDF
02_01 – Setting up document intent, page size, bleeds, and slug
02_02 – Adding margin and column guides
02_03 – Creating a simple master page strategy
02_04 – In Practice Master pages
02_05 – Adding and organizing color swatches
02_06 – Setting up layers to streamline production
02_07 – In Practice Layers
02_08 – Creating grids and guidelines for accurate layout
02_09 – Adding text and image placeholders
02_10 – Creating library items and snippets for reusable elements
02_11 – In Practice Library and snippets
02_12 – Including other special items for your publication
03_01 – Making smart paragraph and character styles
03_02 – Creating paragraph and character styles where none exist
03_03 – Fixing style overrides with Redefine Style
03_04 – In Practice Cleaning up broken styles
03_05 – Automating your text formatting with nested styles
03_06 – Including GREP styles to speed formatting
03_07 – Setting up a style cascade with the Next Style feature
03_08 – In Practice Automating your styles
03_09 – Creating new object styles for common image and text frame issues
03_10 – Creating object styles for callout lines and anchored objects
04_01 – Updating preexisting layouts with template elements
04_02 – Using Creative Cloud Libraries
04_03 – Embedding a custom preflight check
04_04 – Helping template users with a style guide
05_01 – Reviewing a template for a reflowable ebook
05_02 – Evaluating a trade book template and InDesign book files
05_03 – Creating a Word template for your publications contributors
05_04 – Setting up a template for an interactive layout
06_01 – Next steps
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