When you are getting started with InDesign,
you might also be getting started in design in general.
Getting ideas for layouts can be quite tough,
so inspiration is how you grow really quickly.
Look at the best people around,
see what they are doing.
We're copying here, we're getting inspired by and
we are appropriating their ideas and using our own content,
our own fonts, our own colors.
Yeah, so just inspiration.
The places to go, Pinterest is an easy one.
The one in here in front of me,
I put a magazine spread.
Spread is two pages side-by-side and gives you an of ideas you might get started.
Once you've signed in, you can start putting them to
your own boards and you'll have a collection of things you like.
I like another versions very similar to Pinterest is called Niice with two i's.
There it is, dot co.
I like this one. I find a bit of layout. So I have done same thing.
I've done a search for magazine spread.
It just removes all the Pinterest branding from it. I like this site.
Just like Pinterest, you can have boards here,
and when you get them all together,
let's have a look at one of my boards, hand-drawn type.
You can see, hey, psychonic gathering ideas to get you job going.
Another really good one is Behance.
Behance has some other perks other than just inspiration.
I've done magazine spread in here.
This is the place that we're going to look at later in the tutorial for your portfolio.
This is where people get found as designers more, and more.
Another perk in here is often they'll have,
see this one here is not somebody's work so much as
it's a photorealistic catalog magazine,
you can download and start using it like a little template.
Now one of the problems often is you'll see this and you'll say,
"Great, here's a really cool cover,
I really like it."
But you have a different project.
Somebody's come to you and said, "Hey, here's the cover."
They haven't said here's like three words to put on it. They have said.
"Hey, I want you to fill the cover with two pages of Word documents."
And you're like, "You don't get to do
lovely negative space and big blank areas because you've got to fill it jam-packed."
I find the best inspiration for those who can takes heavy annual reports,
brochures really takes heavy stuff as tell Google annual reports.
I'm going to Google here, I've typed annual report, just add the word PDF.
Publicly listed companies have to go and report their annual reports online.
You will find lots of stuff,
and I've just clicked on a few of these,
and found like, I don't even know what CRH is.
I'm just looking at how they've getting around.
Because you see there's a lot of data that have to communicate.
They've done some really cool infographics.
They've gone for a three-column layout, 1, 2, 3.
I'm just looking for an inspiration,
just thinking like I never considered the big typed down the side, big image.
Getting ideas from this.
Here is BMW is one.
You can see somebody's going to hand you a thing like this and I'm like,
how I'm I going to show this Excel graph and actually make it eligible?
You can see here they've done a really nice job of clarifying the year that we're at.
Yeah, you just work through some of these really ticks
heavy documents and get an idea about how you might approach it.
Another thing you can do is use a standard template.
InDesign especially, if you go to New,
or File New, you go to print,
and let's say we're doing some brochure or a magazine.
You'll see underneath these blank documents now we have these templates.
If you're using an older version of InDesign, it doesn't work.
But here we've got some templates,
and lets say we are doing some,
you can see there's a jacket,
there's a food magazine layout,
let's click on this, and let's click on Show Preview.
It just gives you an idea you like, "I like this."
You might start with this, and you can totally uses and
just switch out the images. There's is nothing stopping you.
What you'll find is, you'll end up adjusting it to suit your tastes and you're content,
and it will change quite a bit.
You'll be able to take ownership of the design.
When you click Download,
you've got to be connected to the net.
It takes a little while, but eventually,
the only difference is that these images won't be there when you open it.
You can see now it's downloaded.
It is there. Done. Click open.
It's using fonts. We don't currently have.
We're going to look at missing fonts a little bit later on,
but we're going to click Sync Fonts and hit Close,
and you've got a magazine layout.
The only trouble is without the images just doesn't look as pretty.
But hopefully you've got access to some images for your work.
Otherwise, you're going to have to go to stock Library sites and start filling it in,
and it's a nice way to get started.
Now my parting advice for somebody who's a little stressed out for
getting design ideas is that it does get easier.
Nobody is born a good designer.
But now you've got an interest and you've got some tolls in this area.
You'll start keeping an eye out for designs that you like fonts,
you like colors, you start liking.
What will happen after a few projects,
you'll start knowing what clients like,
and what they don't like, and what's worked, and what hasn't.
As you get more experienced,
you'll start to be able to pull designs at a thin air,
but you're not pulling methanol.
You pulling out of past experiences, successes, wins, losses.
That's going to be it for our inspiration section.
We're going to go through onto the next section where we start
updating somebody else's file. Very important.