Adobe InDesign CC for Beginners: How to Make a Brochure

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Now that our beginner series with Adobe Illustrator CC [Digital Membership] is complete, its time to get introduced to InDesign CC. InDesign CC is a desktop publishing and design application for the professional type-setting field. This Adobe application makes the design process more productive for graphic designers by helping them create and lay out screen-print works, posters, brochures, flyers, newspapers, magazines, books, and other periodical publications.

Adobe InDesign CC for Beginners

InDesign CC is a powerful tool and if you are in the design field or even doing some basic print work for your work, school, or for personal work you need to be using this tool. I have used this tool a few times and I love it.

Adobe InDesign CC for Beginners: How to Make a Brochure

Once again Adobe does a great job at introducing new users to their products. In the Adobe InDesign CC for Beginner series, they have a five part video series that will teach you how to create a two-page, tri-fold brochure in landscape orientation. For the next five weeks I will be sharing these great videos before moving into more advance InDesign CC tutorials.

For the first tutorial, the author shows us how to specify the number of pages in a document, the document orientation, the number of columns, and the size of the margins. The video is called Design your own professional, print-ready brochure and it’s a short almost 3 minute video on getting started with InDesign CC.