InDesign Tutorials

[JaCkinbOx]

I just got InDesign and I've been trying to learn it as quickly as possible. While Adobe does provide help files, they're never very comprehensive and feel rather abstract. I can learn with them, but I figured I'd ask if anyone has any suggestions for alternative sources of information.

[synthetic]

there's not really much info on the net relating to use of InDesign it seems... most sites cater to the more creative applications such as Photoshop and Illustrator or Flash for example where Indesign is more layout and design oriented.

we have a book that work bought for us to use that has nice tips in it... can't recall the name and don't know where it is currently or would post it. I suggest getting a similar book from Amazon or other retailer that sells books for computer programs. These are usually nice to help figure out the working of most programs.

[morea]

the "Visual Quickstart" books are what helped me learn ID.

[keith1]

I learned ID in school but I'll second morea's recommendation for Visual Quickstart, I learned Quark with one of that them there computer learning books.

[JaCkinbOx]

Okay, great. I'll look into those options.

Thanks, guys!

[Mitch Wood]

www.lynda.com

Then click on 'View Free Sample Movies' so you can try it out a few of the preliminary tuts...

[JaCkinbOx]

Thanks, Mitch! I viewed a few of the tutorials and they're great. I wish they were a little faster paced, but that's asking too much of myself. Haha.

$25/mo, I'd say it makes itself worth it.

[Eggles1]

Some basic ID tutorials here: http://desktoppub.about.com/od/adobeindesignbasics/

[PrintDriver]

http://studio.adobe.com/

[Mitch Wood]

Thanks, Mitch! I viewed a few of the tutorials and they're great. I wish they were a little faster paced, but that's asking too much of myself. Haha.

$25/mo, I'd say it makes itself worth it.


No problemo!!

I think if you are a little cheeky, you should be able to download them too, so you have saved copies... ;)

[JaCkinbOx]

No problemo!!

I think if you are a little cheeky, you should be able to download them too, so you have saved copies... ;)

I actually thought about trying that, but all the movies come through a javascript popup window and I couldn't find a way to download them to my harddrive because of that.

[DesignIt]

The "Visual Quickstart Guides" are great! I have them for Indesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Photoshop. May be getting one for Coldfusion soon also. =)

[chalsema]

I know I'm a little late replying now, but I'd also like to put in my support for the Visual Quickstart guides. I just got one for CSS and DHTML. I'm usually lost with web stuff, but this book is really easy to understand. :)

[cocacola]

I agree that the visual quickstart books are a good investment and not expensive too. This series is published by peachpit press (I think their website is peachpit.com). They also have a new series called visual quickproject. They have one for indesign that shows you how to pull together a newsletter in ID. They're small books and real cheap ($15 CAD) and it allows you to just jump right in and get the job done even if you don't totally know the program yet!;)

[Mitch Wood]

I actually thought about trying that, but all the movies come through a javascript popup window and I couldn't find a way to download them to my harddrive because of that.


I just copied the web address into the browser window, then deleted the java opened the window and was able to save as in IE...

This worked for the free ones, not to sure about the subscribed, but I feel it should.