All language subtitles for 08 Create a New Document.en-US

In the past lessons,

we establish our objective,

plan our layout, and prepare our images and text.

We're now ready to design a portfolio.

If this is the first time using Adobe InDesign,

visit adobe.com, click on Creativity and Design and choose InDesign.

There you can download the trial.

It is always a good idea to go to system requirements.

There you can see

the minimum technical specifications to run and use InDesign in your computer,

both for Windows and macOS.

Not having the right specifications can cause the program

to close unexpectedly and you may lose all of your work,

and no one wants that.

Once you have created your account and downloaded the free trial,

you can now open InDesign.

Now we are inside InDesign and this is

the welcome page or the principal page that will open.

Maybe if it's the first time,

you will see a small window here,

welcoming you or giving you suggestions of things to learn.

Let's explain this window so you'll get familiar with it.

We're now in Home,

which is this space,

it welcomes you here.

It says Daniel because this is my husband's name, which is for this account.

Over here you can see the most common sizes and presets that you can use.

Here you will always have something to watch,

to learn something new about InDesign,

and here you can see all of my recent documents that I've been working with.

If you go to Learn,

this is the place to learn new things or specific things about InDesign.

As you can see, you have a lot of tutorials,

and you can even go here to Adobe.com and will prompt you a website with more tutorials.

If you go to Open,

obviously like any other program,

you will get a window and you can look for a document,

an InDesign document will open.

If you go to What's new over here,

this is probably the window that will open if you open for the first time,

and it will show you what's new here,

and you can just learn more and watch that.

Over here you can see on your account info,

if you click there,

you can see your Adobe account and information and all of that.

But if you go to Create new,

which is what we're going to do right now,

it will open a window just like this one,

and here's where we create our document,

what we're going to be working on.

As you can see, you can have some tabs in the upper side area,

which is are the saved ones that you can have saved when you're working in InDesign,

and here you can see presets and layouts and templates if you're working for a print,

if you're working for a web,

or if you're working for mobile,

they have standard sizes here that you can use.

All of these preset details will be applied when you choose one of those presets.

Now I'm going to go to Saved,

and I'm going to choose this one that is called Legal, it's in pixels.

I'm choosing this one because I saved it in my layout,

I want my portfolio to be horizontal because it will be displayed on a monitor,

and I want to use the most space possible in

the monitor or the phone or the tablet if they use it landscape.

If I design this in the traditional letter size,

I will be losing space in the monitor,

and I want to use all of this space possible.

I'm going to use a horizontal orientation,

in this case, a legal-size because it's wider.

As you can see here,

you can name here your document,

I'm going to call it Skillshare-Portfolio.

I already selected my size and it's set here,

but here, if you're not familiar with pixels,

for me I'm more familiar with inches because I used to work a lot with print material,

so I'm really familiar with that and I prefer to have it set in inches.

Here you can choose the orientation of your page.

I'm going to move this over here and click Preview,

so you can see what I mean about this.

I'm choosing the orientation landscape instead of portrait.

I can set here the amount of pages that I want my document to have,

in this case, I know that my document is going to be seven pages.

If you're not sure you can write whatever number you want,

you can add pages later or delete them if you don't need them,

so don't worry about that.

Facing pages just means as if you were designing

a magazine that you will have the pages together in the middle,

in this case, we're not doing that because it's a digital portfolio

and I want each page individual so I won't be checking the box.

I want to start on page number one in this case like we usually do.

Sometimes or some instances inside InDesign,

you may want your documents start in another page,

but that is for some specific things,

but you should always,

as a standard start in page one.

Columns, you can set how many columns you want in your document,

you can do that here.

In this case, I'm going to leave it at one,

and then I'm going to add the columns later because

each page is going to have different columns.

The margins over here,

you can change that,

and as you can see these pink and purple line is moving.

I'm sorry, change to inches. This is moving.

If you may want your margins to be that small or you may not want them to be that small,

I'm going to live in at a quarter of an inch.

The bleed over here,

this use more for print documents.

If you set a bleed which the standard is at an eighth of an inch, which is 0.125.

You can see that over here it created a red line,

that is a bleed.

That means that if you're going to print this and you want your image to

go all the way to the border with our white borders,

you should place your image from,

instead of placing it from the edge of the paper,

you should use it from the edge of this red line,

so when they cut the borders,

you make sure that you don't have any white lines in your design.

But in this case,

again, we're working with digital.

We're not using bleed,

so I'm going to leave it at 0.

This links works as any other program.

If you have them together,

it means that whatever you write here,

it will automatically be set in all of them.

If you have it unlink,

you can set different values in each corner.

The slug, this is a very,

how would I say this.

This is something that they use more for desktop publishing,

and this basically,

I'm going to show you to the left,

at this space over here,

and in this space, you can make notes,

put things, images, a lot of items that you may need related to your work,

and when you export this as a PDF,

you can select to export your slug,

and the person who will receive the document is going to see

that information that may be relevant to them,

so that's something that I have rarely,

rarely if never used,

so you should leave it at 0 if

not you're working with someone who will said that's what it does.

Now I have my document,

all my presets are set,

I'm going to click Create,

and over here I have my document.

I did a small mistake while recording and you can't see my seven pages,

but we're going to add them later.

Now what I want to do is save this document.

I'm going to click File, Save As,

and choose the place that I want to save it, and click Save.

This is the first thing that you need to know.

Well, basically, working with any program,

you should always be aware that when you create it, you save it,

when you do a big change of color or you choose your font or anything,

save your document,

because it is common for this program sometimes depending on the computer that you have,

they may crash if they don't have the optimized space to work,

and you should always save them.

Adobe have this recovery system where they may show

you most of the times your last changes,

but sometimes it may not work, so I really,

really recommend that every time that you made some change,

you click Save,

which you can go to File, Save,

or you can click Command S or Control S if you're in Windows, and that's it.

That's how you create your very own Adobe InDesign document.

Before we dive into the next lesson,

make sure to create your Adobe account.

Download InDesign if you don't have it already.

Create a new document,

and very important that I said,

save your new document.

Let's go to the next lesson to explore InDesign workspace.