InDesign Tutorial | How to Design Magazines for Beginners to Print & Publish Spreads

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In this tutorial, from start to finish, I show you how to design a 2-page fashion-themed spread for a magazine. A "spread" refers to two facing pages in a book or magazine. I explain a lot of basic design concepts, but quickly, so that this tutorial is ideal for the beginner and more advanced user.
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Most of the essential techniques used with Adobe InDesign for any project is demonstrated in this magazine spread tutorial and broken down in the chapters listed below!
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:11 Page Settings
01:11 Create Column Guides
01:32 Insert Photo (a.k.a. Place Image)
02:03 What is Bleed?
02:30 Color Theme Tool (add to swatch panel)
02:47 Rectangle Tool (green)
02:58 Layers Panel (move behind)
03:33 Rectangle Tool (orange)
04:03 Rectangle Tool (black and tabs)
04:39 Add Text (type tool)
04:59 Text Frame Options (add columns)
05:20 Connect Text Boxes
05:53 Character Panel (apply font styles)
06:08 What is a Serif font?
06:21 Add Drop Cap (to body text)
06:43 Headline Text Boxes (including ALL CAPS)
07:51 Design Tip
08:22 Text Wrap (wrap text around image)
09:10 Modify Image (transform and resize)
09:30 Add Image Caption
10:04 Pages Panel (add page numbers)
11:23 Text Box Opacity
11:48 View Design in URL (publish)
12:10 Package Project (save all assets)
IMAGES USED
The images used are downloaded from Canva. FYI - Teachers get the "Pro" version for free! I found the photo from searching "fashion" under the PHOTO tab, and "quotation mark" under the GRAPHICS tab.

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@NashRockettMedia 5 ай бұрын

Gotta say...dayum you're good! Being a voracious consumer of tutorials for 15 yrs, you are one of the best. Can't wait to use this knowledge.

@ThressaWillett 5 ай бұрын

That is encouraging, thank you!!!

@scotthannan8669 6 ай бұрын

Great tutorial. I can’t watch it all right now but I am bookmarking it for later

@ThressaWillett 6 ай бұрын

Great to hear! I hope you enjoy the entire watch. :)

@Candies4Christ 6 ай бұрын

For personal enrichment I like to learn new things. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

@ThressaWillett 6 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@Kubas.houseofcrafts 6 ай бұрын

The way you made the video, sharing the layout, the font type and what are serif explaining it in a small window gets the revision for ppl who are newbie... loved the efforts u took to make this superb simple yet striking video to share your knowledge. Lots of love.

@ThressaWillett 6 ай бұрын

That's so great to hear! Thank you for the feedback. :)

@anataboadaarnold 15 күн бұрын

THANK YOY, VERY HELPFUL

@ThressaWillett 13 күн бұрын

You're welcome!

@tashaquinn4781 4 ай бұрын

This was a wonderful tutorial. I learned so much

@ThressaWillett 4 ай бұрын

So glad it was helpful!

@shashankg4238 5 ай бұрын

Killer tutorial and on point!

@ThressaWillett 5 ай бұрын

So glad you think so!

@djc.l.b Ай бұрын

Damn! You just covered the essentials course in 12 minutes.

@ThressaWillett Ай бұрын

I'm probably not doing myself any favors with the KZfaq algorithm! I don't think they reward efficiency necessarily... lol.

@EditHambuch Ай бұрын

Hi, What keywords can I use to find this photo on Canva? I think your tutorial is really great, I would love to follow it.

@user-sq8md6sm6c 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for creating and sharing this tutorial. I teach graphic design at the high school level and would love for my students to do this tutorial. Could you share the fashion image and quotation image that you used? I look forward to watching your other videos. Thank you!

@ThressaWillett 6 ай бұрын

I am so glad this tutorial was helpful! I downloaded those photos from Canva dot com. Teachers get the "Pro" version for free! I found the photo from searching "fashion" under the PHOTO tab, and "quotation mark" under the GRAPHICS tab.

@user-sq8md6sm6c 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! :)@@ThressaWillett

@EditHambuch Ай бұрын

Hello, I think your tutorial is really great, I would love to follow it. What keywords can I use to find this photo on Canva?

@ThressaWillett Ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! In Canva, under Elements, type in "fashion woman purse" and it should pop right up. It is in the paid "PRO" version. I think I used Canva's background remover feature as well. I wish I had now used a free photo for folks!

@EditHambuch Ай бұрын

@@ThressaWillett Thank You:) found the photo!

@m.j.mcintear793 6 ай бұрын

i have a question. i put together many templates. tried to make them all letter size but some are custom, 5A, etc. how to make each the same size without taking them a part. next time it seems easier to change each size first.

@ThressaWillett 6 ай бұрын

Hmmm. I think I need more information to fully understand your question. Are you not able to resize in the Document Setup section? I am referring to the Document Setup located under the File drop down navigation.

@m.j.mcintear793 6 ай бұрын

@@ThressaWillett I’ve tried but I noticed when apply master pages to all pages it still shows a few different sizes besides letter. Could really use your help. When I hit apply parent pages I see iPhone 8/7/6 V, Letter V 4, Custom V 2, A4 V 4, then all pages. I guess I could make a master page to choose each one at a time to find which pages are what because my idea was to bring templates together to change them all at the same time to what I want but have prebuilt different styles on all to make my own template. However you just broke down building this one page so good I am more confident to do at least that much from scratch now but still trying to salvage this. Also if you had a indesign magazine course I’d buy and help in some way I can even providing the platform.

@ThressaWillett 6 ай бұрын

Oh man, I wish I knew how to help you with this. With any luck, someone else will read this and know how to save you time. In this predicament, I would likely find myself re-creating from scratch. I don't have any established courses at this time, but perhaps soon. :)

@veonatechi 5 ай бұрын

How did you make the black background of the actual image disappear in 1:37

@ThressaWillett 5 ай бұрын

The fashion image I used had a transparent background. If you are referring to the black background you see when my cursor is loaded with the photo, right before I click and place it, I think that is because it's InDesign's way of indicating the background is transparent.

@myronachtman4304 4 ай бұрын

The body text is not aligned to a baseline grid. Therefore, the baseline of the text on page 3 does not align with the baseline of the text on page 2. This is never the case in professionally produced magazines.

@ThressaWillett 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your feedback.