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InDesign Tutorial How to Design a Portfolio - YouTube
Channel: Roberto Blake
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hey everybody this is graphic designer
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roberto blake and in today's tutorial
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i'm going to be showing you how to use
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adobe indesign to create a pdf portfolio
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so let's go ahead and get started we're
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going to do some basic things here we're
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going to go ahead and reduce our margins
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to
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a quarter of an inch all the way around
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we're going to use two columns
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and
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that's going to be our basic setup we're
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not going to do bleed on this just so
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that wherever you're getting this done
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if you need to get it printed
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ideally we're going to be using this
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mostly for screen but if you do need to
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get it printed
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if you avoid using bleed then you can
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get it printed anywhere so can any of
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your clients or anyone reviewing it
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without having to worry whether their
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printer has that capability whether it's
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an at-home printer or a printer from
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somewhere else like officemax
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staples what have you
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so
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let's go ahead and jump right in one of
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the first things we're going to want to
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do is we're going to want to kind of
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establish
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what our overall layout is going to be
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and how many pages we're going to have
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and for the sake of this tutorial i'm
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just going to use
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four pages and these are going to
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represent
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interior pages
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you would have typically a cover page
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but
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again you're going to design your own
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cover so let's go ahead and just go to
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page 2 as an interior page i'm going to
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show you something really interesting
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that we can do
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we can create a new master page
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and we're just going to go ahead and use
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the default here
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with the prefix of b and we're going to
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say
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interior
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and so we know that these are for
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interior pages these aren't going to be
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the pages that are
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outside the book like the cover
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so we're going to go ahead and
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apply a master to these pages
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it's going to be the interior so now
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you'll notice that all of these have
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switched over to being
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b now so these are going to be
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our interior pages
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so everything we do on this master page
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for b
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is going to be represented inside of our
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interior pages that share that now the
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important thing about that is what we're
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going to do
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is we're going to go ahead and
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we're going to set some basic type here
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and we're going to set this type to
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represent your
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contact information so we're going to
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have your name
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we're going to set your
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email
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we're gonna set
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your
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number
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so
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this is what we're gonna have we're
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going to have a basic place for your
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name your
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email and your phone number and here's
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the interesting thing about that now
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that we've done that you'll notice that
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this appears on every page that we have
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labeled b but not on anything that we
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have labeled a so that means that our
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cover is not going to have it in that
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place but it's going to be uniform
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throughout
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the rest of the document so let's go
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ahead and modify that now so let's just
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say this is going to be
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john smith
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that's always a good one so we'll just
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do that and it'll be john
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johnsmith.com
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and we'll just use
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for the sake of argument
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now something that i'm going to do in
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this case is i'm going to switch over to
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the
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typography
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workspace and the reason is this is just
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going to give me
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personally better options to work with
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and i'm going to do what's called
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creating a new paragraph style
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so what i'm going to do
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is i'm going to select
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all of this john smith type and i'm
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going to change my font and i'm going to
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use one of my favorite fonts i'm going
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to use avener
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so i'm going to switch this over to
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avener
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i don't necessarily need it to be 12
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point
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i'm going to set it at 10 point type
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and that actually looks pretty good to
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me
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so
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now i'm going to add this new paragraph
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style
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which is paragraph style 2 and i'm going
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to edit it
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i'm going to label it contact info
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so now if i ever need uh the contact
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info to um you know utilize that style
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anywhere that i'm putting it i can deal
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with that
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in that way so
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going back to the interior page
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let's just go ahead and adjust this and
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move it down
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let's do that a little bit more
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and
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let's go ahead and use uh
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command shift and r that'll be control
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for you guys using windows and we'll do
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that and now it's flush to our border
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there
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so that's going to be again consistent
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throughout every interior page
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all right
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so the next thing i'm going to do is i'm
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going to go over here to my creative
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cloud digital art folder
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and i'm going to
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pick out a piece and
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let's go with this one for now i'm going
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to pick out a piece here
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and i'm going to
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drag it
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onto this page
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now you'll notice that it's looking a
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bit pixelated but we can fix that pretty
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easily what we'll do is we'll just go to
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display performance and we'll go to high
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quality display and then it'll show up
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differently there now i don't
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necessarily
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like where it is in the frame right now
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so i'm just going to drag the frame out
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so now we have some options
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in the object you could go to
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fitting and you can tell it to fit frame
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proportionally content proportionately
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you have all these options what i
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usually do is i use command shift alt
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and c which will be ctrl shift alt and c
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for you guys using windows and i always
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fill the frame proportionately so i'm
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going to
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use the
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command which is again control for you
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guys on windows and colon so that i can
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eliminate my um margins there just so
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you can get a better idea of what that
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looks like
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so now you have the object
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filled proportionately to your frame
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size and we've done it in such a way
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that it fits within
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our margins you want that to be
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important so
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if i want to do something where i'm
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going to describe
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this particular
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piece in the portfolio what i can do
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here is i'm just going to use
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fill type
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i'm just going to have it insert some
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placeholder text
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and i'm going to change this to
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avener
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i'm going to make it 14 point
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i'm going to select all and i'm going to
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make a new paragraph style
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and i'm going to call this body copy
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so now whenever i do
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that paragraph style on another internal
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page
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such as let's go ahead and we go to page
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two here
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let's say that i'm going to do some body
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copy here
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we'll just go ahead and go to type and
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insert placeholder text i'll just select
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all of this
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i'll go to my paragraph styles
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and i'll tell it to make it body copy
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and there we go
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so now i have that let's say that i want
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a frame that has
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let's say that i want a frame that has
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different uh dimensions and proportions
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than the one we just did and i want my
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image to go in there well i can go ahead
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and i can use the frame tool here i can
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make the frame whatever size i want
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and i can go over here
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and i can drag
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an image
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into that frame
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let's go ahead and use
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we'll go ahead and use this one
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so now i'll use shortcut a
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and i can move this image around in the
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frame however i want i can also go ahead
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and select and drag proportionately from
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the corners and i can resize it
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and the orange outline will
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show me what i have to work with there
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and i can put that
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into
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my frame
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that looks pretty good
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now i'm a fan of making your layouts
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consistent as far as this sort of thing
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goes but you can do whatever you want it
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is your portfolio if you want to go with
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uh you know a magazine style and kind of
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change some things up you can certainly
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do that if you look at my personal pdf
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portfolio you'll see that i went with a
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mostly consistent format
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across the board where i kept all of my
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description text in the same place
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and use the same font styles etc but
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again this is your portfolio you can do
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whatever you want with it um and just so
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that we don't have this blank here i'm
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just going to
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and if you're wondering how i'm resizing
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this this quickly this is just uh
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command shift and the greater than and
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less than signs and then
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same thing with shortcut c to center it
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and again this is just so that we have
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something on the cover here because i'm
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tired of looking at blank
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all right so let's say you want to put
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multiple images in your pdf portfolio uh
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there's definitely a couple of ways you
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can do that uh in this case we're just
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going to go ahead and make two frames so
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i made one frame and i'm going to make a
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duplicate of that frame
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by holding shift and alt and moving that
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directly across with my smart guides so
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now if i go to my portfolio here and i
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select two images
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let's go ahead and select this one and
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let's select
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this one
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so if i drag these over into indesign
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you'll notice that it gives me
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two thumbnails
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which you see the number two there and
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if i go ahead and click on the frame
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it'll paste each of them into the frame
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so i'm going to go ahead and use ctrl
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alt c
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sorry
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command alt shift c and same thing for
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windows but with control and then i'm
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going to just move this over like so
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and
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i'm going to do the same thing here
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so again i can click on this or i can
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use shortcut a and then i can move these
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around as i see fit
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and i like how those look right there
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and i can just copy
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and i can use
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shift
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command alt v to paste this in exactly
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the same place if i wanted to
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i'll just go ahead and move these down
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and then
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use that shortcut again
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so in this short period of time i've put
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together even though i'm using
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placeholder text which you'll probably
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uh copy and paste from a word document
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you should have already done a write up
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on your portfolio pieces
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so that you can go ahead and do this
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sort of thing
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very easily
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you can just copy and paste in your text
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for each
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different item that you have
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and then you can just create these
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frames you can set up your layout and
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yes this is a very plain layout but very
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plain layouts for portfolio purposes
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work as i said in the video that goes
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with this so
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you can just showcase the work make the
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work the hero what we have going on here
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in you know all these pages when you go
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through them is the work is taking
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center stage and that's the really
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important thing here the work is taking
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center stage and the portfolio itself
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is clean
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and it's consistent uh contact
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information is all in the same place the
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fonts are you know the same
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size you know and they have the
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appropriate relationships so you know
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that's what's important here
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so i'm just going to scroll through this
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real quick to give you an idea
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and again this is your
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basic pdf portfolio now when you go to
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export this you have a couple of
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different options
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you can use um and again you can use a
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control e or you can use command e and
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you have a bunch of different options
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you can do it as a pdf um that's
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interactive which will basically uh give
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you a web based pdf so let's just go to
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uh
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let's just say
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if we were going to do that it'll give
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us some options here so you can go ahead
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and you can control the
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overall jpeg quality
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you can set the medium or high you will
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get different results in terms of the
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file size based on that you can set the
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resolution i like to set it to 96 just
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in case they have a high res screen or
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in case they want to print it it won't
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come out so bad you can definitely um
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you know
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set it to 144 or 300 if you want
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again that's in this case we're setting
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it for an interactive pdf portfolio even
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though we don't have interactive
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elements which you could add if you
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wanted to um i prefer to set
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open in full screen mode so that uh when
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it comes out you know it's scaling up to
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the screen
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but there are certainly other options
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that you have for that
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if you're going to go ahead and if
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you're going to make it a print version
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you'll get a different series of options
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those will look like this you'll have
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the ability to control the overall
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compression you'll be able to set up
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marks and bleeds if you were going to
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have this file be the one that you're
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sending to the printer for your print
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portfolio and you don't necessarily have
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to do that but sometimes it can be
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helpful if you're using a more advanced
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you know printer as far as a commercial
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printer
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and you can also go ahead and do some of
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your preflight checks by looking at the
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summary
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and you know just different things like
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that you can also use some of these
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adobe presets
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so again these are your basic options
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another thing you could do with this if
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you wanted to is you could export these
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as individual jpegs you could have every
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individual page be a jpeg and that might
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be helpful if you want to use them uh in
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a very specific way that is an option if
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for some reason you feel like you need
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individual jpeg one sheets
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and there can be some ways you can
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utilize that maybe you decide to use
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that on your portfolio website um so you
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know that's an option that you should
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consider
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well i hope this video tutorial helped
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you in figuring out how to assemble your
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pdf portfolio
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if you want some advice on ways to
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approach this go ahead and make sure you
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watch that video in my youtube series
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i'll leave a link in the annotation and
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in the description below go ahead and
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ask me any questions that you have about
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portfolios in the comments section like
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this video if you like it don't forget
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to subscribe check out the other videos
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on my youtube channel and as always
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thanks for watching
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