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When you are getting started with InDesign,

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you might also be getting started in design in general.

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Getting ideas for layouts can be quite tough,

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so inspiration is how you grow really quickly.

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Look at the best people around,

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see what they are doing.

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We're copying here, we're getting inspired by and

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we are appropriating their ideas and using our own content,

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our own fonts, our own colors.

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Yeah, so just inspiration.

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The places to go, Pinterest is an easy one.

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The one in here in front of me,

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I put a magazine spread.

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Spread is two pages side-by-side and gives you an of ideas you might get started.

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Once you've signed in, you can start putting them to

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your own boards and you'll have a collection of things you like.

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I like another versions very similar to Pinterest is called Niice with two i's.

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There it is, dot co.

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I like this one. I find a bit of layout. So I have done same thing.

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I've done a search for magazine spread.

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It just removes all the Pinterest branding from it. I like this site.

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Just like Pinterest, you can have boards here,

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and when you get them all together,

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let's have a look at one of my boards, hand-drawn type.

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You can see, hey, psychonic gathering ideas to get you job going.

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Another really good one is Behance.

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Behance has some other perks other than just inspiration.

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I've done magazine spread in here.

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This is the place that we're going to look at later in the tutorial for your portfolio.

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This is where people get found as designers more, and more.

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Another perk in here is often they'll have,

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see this one here is not somebody's work so much as

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it's a photorealistic catalog magazine,

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you can download and start using it like a little template.

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Now one of the problems often is you'll see this and you'll say,

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"Great, here's a really cool cover,

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I really like it."

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But you have a different project.

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Somebody's come to you and said, "Hey, here's the cover."

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They haven't said here's like three words to put on it. They have said.

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"Hey, I want you to fill the cover with two pages of Word documents."

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And you're like, "You don't get to do

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lovely negative space and big blank areas because you've got to fill it jam-packed."

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I find the best inspiration for those who can takes heavy annual reports,

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brochures really takes heavy stuff as tell Google annual reports.

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I'm going to Google here, I've typed annual report, just add the word PDF.

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Publicly listed companies have to go and report their annual reports online.

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You will find lots of stuff,

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and I've just clicked on a few of these,

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and found like, I don't even know what CRH is.

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I'm just looking at how they've getting around.

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Because you see there's a lot of data that have to communicate.

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They've done some really cool infographics.

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They've gone for a three-column layout, 1, 2, 3.

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I'm just looking for an inspiration,

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just thinking like I never considered the big typed down the side, big image.

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Getting ideas from this.

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Here is BMW is one.

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You can see somebody's going to hand you a thing like this and I'm like,

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how I'm I going to show this Excel graph and actually make it eligible?

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You can see here they've done a really nice job of clarifying the year that we're at.

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Yeah, you just work through some of these really ticks

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heavy documents and get an idea about how you might approach it.

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Another thing you can do is use a standard template.

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InDesign especially, if you go to New,

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or File New, you go to print,

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and let's say we're doing some brochure or a magazine.

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You'll see underneath these blank documents now we have these templates.

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If you're using an older version of InDesign, it doesn't work.

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But here we've got some templates,

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and lets say we are doing some,

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you can see there's a jacket,

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there's a food magazine layout,

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let's click on this, and let's click on Show Preview.

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It just gives you an idea you like, "I like this."

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You might start with this, and you can totally uses and

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just switch out the images. There's is nothing stopping you.

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What you'll find is, you'll end up adjusting it to suit your tastes and you're content,

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and it will change quite a bit.

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You'll be able to take ownership of the design.

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When you click Download,

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you've got to be connected to the net.

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It takes a little while, but eventually,

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the only difference is that these images won't be there when you open it.

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You can see now it's downloaded.

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It is there. Done. Click open.

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It's using fonts. We don't currently have.

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We're going to look at missing fonts a little bit later on,

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but we're going to click Sync Fonts and hit Close,

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and you've got a magazine layout.

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The only trouble is without the images just doesn't look as pretty.

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But hopefully you've got access to some images for your work.

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Otherwise, you're going to have to go to stock Library sites and start filling it in,

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and it's a nice way to get started.

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Now my parting advice for somebody who's a little stressed out for

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getting design ideas is that it does get easier.

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Nobody is born a good designer.

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But now you've got an interest and you've got some tolls in this area.

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You'll start keeping an eye out for designs that you like fonts,

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you like colors, you start liking.

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What will happen after a few projects,

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you'll start knowing what clients like,

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and what they don't like, and what's worked, and what hasn't.

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As you get more experienced,

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you'll start to be able to pull designs at a thin air,

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but you're not pulling methanol.

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You pulling out of past experiences, successes, wins, losses.

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That's going to be it for our inspiration section.

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We're going to go through onto the next section where we start

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updating somebody else's file. Very important.