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• • October 5, 2015 at 2:30 pm #78573
    Babie Barung

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    Hi friends, I am new to this forum and this is my first post. I am a photographer and occasional graphic designer, and have designed brochures, catalogues, walking tour maps and restaurant menu. I have to work on some of these things because as a photographer, some small companies asked if I would do these for them.

    I am planning to get a job as a desktop publisher (because less travel!) for banks/consultant companies and want to take my InDesign skills to a pro level of a desktop publisher.

    I am quite proficient in both Photoshop and Illustrator, and like I have mentioned above, I have used InDesign to design some catalogues and brochures but to be conservative, I’d say my InDesign skills is rather basic. I shall appreciate if anyone can recommend me a good online course (except Lynda.com because I am watching it now)

    Any additional tips on what it takes to become a desktop publisher is highly appreciated! Thank you very much in advance and have a nice evening!

  • October 5, 2015 at 2:54 pm #78577
    Noel Sapp

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    We build a lot of educational/tech manuals where I work and for us, the single-most useful ability that we picked up early on was creating custom styles (paragraph, character, and object). You may already have this down, but so far every designer we’ve hired over the years had no idea how to use or create dynamic styles. Instead, they manually formatted headers, bullets, special characters, etc.

    Just my $0.02, but that’s usually the first thing I have to teach the new guy straight out of college.

    Good luck with your work!

    – Noel.

  • October 6, 2015 at 8:04 am #78588
    Babie Barung

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    [quote]the single-most useful ability that we picked up early on was creating custom styles (paragraph, character, and object)[/quote]

    Thank you. I don’t really know how to use these well. I do most tasks manually…

  • October 7, 2015 at 5:21 am #78609
    Ruben Solér

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    Hi Babie,

    I would second Noel’s recommendation on learning how to use paragraph styles, character styles (and object styles, for graphics) effectively. They are huge timesavers, and completely indispensable tools when working in indesign.

    A second tip I’d offer is to make template documents so you don’t have to recreate styles, adjust margins and columns etc. for each and every new project.

    If you haven’t already, I’d check out videos on those topic over at lynda. As for other resources, I’ve pretty much relied on indesignsecrets articles (in addition to the training I got at my office) to become (more) efficient at using ID.

  • October 8, 2015 at 7:23 am #78644
    Babie Barung

    Member

    Thanks Rubens. I’ll check out those topics in the video courses.

  • June 25, 2018 at 6:32 am #104510
    Kartik T

    Member

    There are many free and paid courses are available for indesign
    You might find this list of courses useful.

    https://digitaldefynd.com/best-adobe-indesign-tutorial-training-course-classes/?kar

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