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- [Gareth] Hello, and welcome to this video tutorial.
Gareth here from TastyTuts.com.
In this video, I'm going to discuss and demonstrate
how to set up a 12-page brochure,
ready for print in Adobe InDesign.
In the previous two videos, we set up
a simple business card and letterhead.
Now, these were all quite basic documents.
Over the next three videos, you'll be taking it
to the next level and creating a brochure.
By the end of this tutorial, you should have
a good understanding of how InDesign works
and how to set up a document with all the design elements
ready to print.
If you're new to InDesign, I'll be taking you
through all the details and explaining
all the things you need to be aware of
when setting up a document like this.
So, before we get started, let's take a quick look
at what we will be creating over the next three videos.
So, here is the brochure document open on InDesign.
As I scroll down, we can see the design
and composition of each spread.
Currently, we are looking at this in preview mode,
so if I press W, we will enter into normal mode.
And here, we can see all the guides and frame outlines.
Now, if you're new to this course,
and wish to take a closer look at this document
and get all the assets to follow along and build
this brochure, you can get it all in the project folder.
Remember, you will also have to install the fonts
when you open this document.
That can also be found in the project folder.
Download link is in the description.
So, previously in the course, I spoke about how I thought
about and designed various compositions for the brochure.
In this video, I will also be referring to my scamp design,
so you can get an understanding of my process.
So, here in InDesign, I have a 12-page document set up.
Now, if I come over to the pages panel,
we can see a visual representation of my document structure.
At the top, we have a single cover.
Under this, we have all the various page spreads,
and at the bottom, we have the back cover.
Now, the front cover has been designed
to work seamlessly with the back cover.
And you may be wondering why the pages are set up like this.
Well, all will be explained shortly.
This is the standard booklet setup in Adobe InDesign.
Now, above the visual guide, I have two master page
setups: A and B, and we will be seeing
how they're used later on.
So, I'll close this document, and now I'm going to
set up a new document, so we can start this from scratch.
So, I'm going to come up to file, new,
and choose document, and up will pop the new document menu.
So it's from here I'm going to specify
the document size and properties.
So first, I'll set the intent to print,
I'll set the number of pages to 12.
On this occasion, I'm going to leave facing pages checked,
and this will be the ideal setup for a booklet,
which we intend to make.
I'll start with page number one
and come and set the document size.
Now again, with the project folder open,
navigate to the project assets folder.
In that, I'm going to open the project brief folder
and open the brief document.
So in the brief, it specifies
the dimensions of the brochure.
We need to make the brochure the size
of an A5 page portrait.
So back in InDesign, I make sure the orientation
is set to portrait, select paper size,
and choose A5 from the preset.
Now, if for some reason you do not have this preset,
enter in the values 148 millimeters by 210 millimeters.
Now for columns, I'm going to set this to two
and set the gutter size to 15 millimeters.
For the margins, I'm going to set
each one to 17 millimeters.
Next, I'm going to toggle down bleed and slug.
Now, back in the brief document,
it states that bleed on all documents
should be set to three millimeters,
so back in InDesign, I'll set the bleed to three millimeters
on the top, bottom, inside, and outside.
So once I'm happy with the settings, I'll click OK.
Upon click, we now have the new document setup, nice!
So, if I press W repeatedly on the keyboard,
we can toggle between preview and normal mode.
Now in normal mode, if you cannot see your guides,
press Command + :.
So in normal mode, the red line around the outside
represents the bleed, and the magenta lines
on the inside represent the end margin and column guides.
Later, when we come to export the document,
you will see how the bleed comes into play.
Now, this document is going to be very complex.
There are going to be lots of design objects,
so to make it easy to manage, I'm going to structure
the elements into layers.
So, over in the layers panel, I'm going to define
some layers, and along the way, make sure
all the elements are correctly placed into each.
So currently, we have layer one.
I'm going to double click on this and name it base.
At the bottom of the layers panel,
I'll click the little page icon to create a new layer
and name it textures.
All my textures will be placed into this layer.
At the bottom of the layers panel,
I'll click the little page icon again to create a new layer,
and this time, I'll name this type,
and I'll be putting all my type into this.
I'll create a new layer.
I'll call this images, and I'll place
all my images into this layer.
Great, so now I'm in normal mode.
The document is ready.
We can start composing the design elements,
but before that, if I come back to the brief document,
it states on the print instructions that,
for the brochure, we will need to set this up
to be printed using CMYK colors.
Okay, so before we start to build the design elements,
we need to make sure we have the correct CMYK colors
ready to apply to the design.
Currently, in the swatches panel,
we have a bunch of default colors.
Now, in the previous two episodes, we used Pantone colors.
Now, this was because there were only four colors
used in the entire composition.
In this brochure, we will be using photos.
So for this reason, we need to use CMYK.
So with the project folder open,
navigate to the project assets folder.
In that open the branding folder
and open the branding document.
So here we are now in Adobe Illustrator,
where the branding document was originally composed.
Here we can clearly see the CMYK color references.
So now I'm going to take the CMYK references
and get the colors into InDesign.
So to make it real easy, I'm going to select the type
that states the CMYK references.
I'll copy, come into InDesign, and just paste.
So, at a glance, I can see the CMYK references.
Great, so in InDesign, I'll come over to the swatches panel.
If you cannot see yours, you can come up to window,
scroll down and activate your swatches panel there.
So, I'll come up to the top right with the little menu icon.
From the menu, I'll select new color swatch,
and up will pop the menu.
So from the color mode, I'll click
and make sure this is set to CMYK.
So with that set, I'll now type in the values for the CMYK
to get my first color.
So I'll start with the base grey, 84 for cyan,
67 for magenta, 56 for yellow, and 68 for K.
So when I can see I have the correct color,
I'll uncheck the name with color value box.
I'll name this base grey and click the add button
on the right, and just like that, we have a new CMYK swatch
in the swatches panel, ready to use.
Now we still have the new color swatch menu box open.
So now, I'm quickly going to go through
and create the other three CMYK swatches,
typing in the values, naming them,
and adding them to the swatches panel, like so.
Soon, I'll have all four color swatches
in my panel, ready to use.
So to tidy up my swatches panel,
I will select the top swatch I will not use.
With Shift held down, I'll select the last swatch,
just above the first swatch I created
and click the delete icon at the bottom of the panel.
So now all we have are the colors we want to use.
Perfect!
So with the selection tool, I'll select
the reference in the canvas area
and press Backspace to remove this.
So now we are ready to start with the design.
So, I'm going to start with the base of the brochure.
If we look at the finished design,
the background on all the pages is the dark grey color.
So to make this real easy in my new document,
I'm going to come over to the master pages
in the pages panel.
So, looking at the pages panel, we can see
a visual representation of the document setup here.
And just above this is the master pages.
So I'll come up to a master page and double click on this.
Upon click, we will see the master page,
in this case, the master spread.
So, master pages allow us to place design elements
into them in a single instance.
We can then apply master pages to multiple pages
inside the main document.
This can save us time, duplicating elements,
and updating elements.
Also, this can prove helpful when naming pages.
More on that later.
Master pages are vital for an efficient
and streamlined workflow, one of the main benefits
of using InDesign for print.
Okay, so here I'm going to come over to the menu
and select the rectangle tool.
Now, I'm about to create some background color,
so I'll come over to the layers panel,
I'll make sure I have the base layer selected,
then I'll draw a box to cover the canvas
area of the entire spread.
Notice how I start from the edge of the bleed
in the top left and down to the bleed in the bottom right.
So with the new box, I'm going to come over
to the menu at the bottom and make sure
the fill color is set to the grey base CMYK swatch.
By selecting, it's in swatches panel.
So the last thing I'm going to do is select the box.
Now notice how we can see the square points
around the bounding box.
This is indicating the center and middle points,
so I'll press Command + R to activate rulers around
the canvas area, and I'll drag out a guide from the top.
I'll drag it down in the pasteboard area like so.
I'll drag it down to meet the middle point and release.
This will apply a guide across both pages,
and this will define the middle line.
Next, I'll click and drag a guide
from the left margin, but this time
place it in the middle of the gutter on the left page.
Then, I'll drag out another ruler
and place it in the middle of the gutter on the right page.
So that defines the center and middle guides, nice.
So, once I'm happy with the box and the guides,
I'll come into the page display in the pages panel
and double click on page one.
This will just exit master pages.
Notice now how the background
is applied to all my pages, and we can see
the guides on each spread.
If we look closely in the page display
in the pages panel and look at the pages,
we can see that on the display,
we have the letter A assigned to each page.
This means that the master page A is applied.
So now we have the background set up
in each page, we don't have to worry about this later.
Now, what about page numbers?
Let me show you a great way to set up
page numbers in InDesign.
So for this, I'm going to come back into the master page
we just set up by double clicking into the master page icon
in the pages panel.
So, in the layers panel, I select type.
With the type tool, I'll come into the canvas area
and draw a type box like so.
Next, I'll come up to type, scroll down
to insert special character, come across
to markers, and select current page number.
Upon click, we will notice a little A character
appear in the box.
So, I'll select this A character
in the type frame and change the color
to Synergy Purple.
Up in the control panel, I'll click into the font
and type open and select open Sans Bold,
and I'll change the font size to 9.
Remember, you will need to install the fonts
if you want to follow along with this.
So, I'll choose the selection tool
to deselect the type, select the box,
and move it down to the bottom left.
I'll zoom in and just click the bounding box
and make it small, like so, and reposition.
With the box selected, I'll copy,
press and hold Space Bar, and drag
to pan across my spread into the next page.
I'll paste and position a copy in the bottom right corner.
Now, in this instance, I'll double click
into the type box and click the alignment
to the right up in the control panel.
I'll choose the selection tool to deselect the type,
I'll zoom out, I'll select both boxes
and click the align vertical button in the control panel.
Perfect!
Now, you may be wondering why it says A in the box.
Well, this is because we are currently
on the master A page, so if I exit the master page
by double clicking on one of spreads in the pages panel,
we can see that the page numbers
now apply accurately to each spread.
It's pretty awesome!
So, no need to manually put page numbers into InDesign.
So that's how you can set up a booklet document
in Adobe InDesign.
Once you're happy, press Command + S to save,
navigate to the my project folder
in the project folder, and save the document
in the work docs folder as brochure.
So now we have set up the document,
it's time to start adding the design elements.
In the next video, I'm going to bring in
all the images and textures and demonstrate
how we can manage this.
See you in the next video.
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