Yes, it is that time of year again.
Adobe InDesign has dropped all it's brand new 2021 features.
My name is Daniel Walter Scott.
I'm a designer and I'm an Adobe certified instructor.
I'm going to take you through the new features plus
the sneaky one that they dropped about three months ago that
is probably my most favorite new feature
that has come out in InDesign in a very long time.
Let's cover the new ones first,
and then we'll cover that sneaky one a little bit later in the video. Lets jump in.
The first one, Content-Aware rep. Let's jump down to page 6.
I'll throw in some shortcuts as we go around.
It's the time to learn some shortcuts as well as new features,
that's Command J or Control J on a PC,
six, enter, it's good for long documents.
Ours isn't that long. Let's bring in our images,
Command D, Control D on a PC.
I'm going to bring in these three, click "Open".
Actually, another little shortcut,
your left and right arrow means you can toggle through the ones you've had selected.
In this case, I've accidentally put it on
purpose to show you a little shortcut is this one I don't want,
you can just hit "Escape" and it clears it, we're back down to two.
So I want this one there and that one there,
and let's do that content where I want the ticks to
wrap around the outside of this man here.
He's got a nice contrast between him and the background. Let's click it.
You can't use this text wrap one at the moment,
there's not enough detail in it.
You've got to go to "Text Wrap",
the actual panel under Window, click on that.
Click the third one along this object,
and then it's text wrapped and it's pushed everything kind of outside of its box.
But you want to change it down here where it says "Type" to "Select Subject".
You really, you steady, new feature time.
It's good. Pen tool.
It gets a bit way with around his head,
but if you are like me,
if you've used the Pen tool to do a text wrap,
yours looks way worse than that,
a couple of big giant circles, if you're like me anyway.
You can play around with whether it's left side or right
side or both sides or in this case,
largest area seems to always work for me.
We can play around with how far away the distance,
watch this go up 1, 2, 3.
If you hold Shift, you can go up in 10s, multiples of 10.
That works for any up and down.
You could use kerning or leading,
so hold Shift when you get the arrows.
That's going to be enough for me.
Let's have a look now at another example because that one works really well.
I found an example that works really well.
Let's have a look at one that works okay,
and I'll show you some extra bits for it.
I'm going to go to File Place again,
that's Command D on a Mac,
Control D on a PC.
Let's go to coffee,
I'm going to open it up and I don't really have a place for it to go.
I'm going to actually just drag it out.
Let's kind of put it.
How big do I want it to be? That's big.
I'm going to send it to the back "Command Shift" square bracket.
The first of them on a PC,
it's "Control Shift" square bracket.
I'm going to get it kind of in the middle there.
I should really tidy up the edges because you're watching.
I entirely would do this on my own.
We've got our coffee mug, our coffee cup.
I've got it selected. Same thing again. Click on it.
It's good on here, "Select Subject",
and you can see it's done a average job at the clipping mask.
It's weird, Photoshop does it amazingly.
They've got a new feature that does the path select.
Hopefully InDesign gets it soon as well.
You might be looking at it and it does a whole lot better job.
But in this case,
what you can do is you can see,
I can kind of push this out.
This is what I'm doing is I'm pushing it out.
To be honest I'd probably leave it like that and probably go
for largest area again and be happy enough with that.
But say you do want to adjust it.
You've got to kind of do it as the last part.
Because look what changes over here in my tics rep panel.
If I start grabbing any of these dots with my Y arrow or
my direct selection tool and I go actually I want to push
that one out. You see what happened?
Now it's a user-defined path and I can't kind of do that automatic adjustment,
you could do it manually. Let's zoom in.
You can kind of just bend it around,
so if you get close you can go through and do some adjustments.
Probably for this coffee cup though.
Let me just do a big giant circle,
a big giant oval at the end here.
But pretty nice, especially if you've got more complex things like this guy here,
saved loads are time,
this one here, maybe two circles would have worked.
But it wasn't that hard to adjust.
Last thing before we go.
This came out a little while ago now slick on him,
it just went in at full size.
You can go to this last little option of here,
Content Aware Fit and that tries to look at the image and tries
to fit in best as he can within the frame.
That was close enough. That's what I do.
Dump image, click "Content Aware",
and make my final adjustments.
Next feature and new for 2021 is Locate Colors.
Now this Locate Colors is basically the quick short version as if you go "Find Change",
look, we've got "Color" at the end here now.
Let me show you kind of some practical application.
Let's dump something in the cover here,
so Command D, Control D on a PC.
It's my cover image in. Put it in there.
Again. That's good for me.
I'm going to grab a couple of colors using my eyedropper tool.
With the I key, I'm going to grab one of these peachy colors hopefully.
I'm going to add it to my swatches panel.
I'm going to close down "Text Wrap",
open up my "Swatches".
I'm going to add that one to my Swatches.
I'm going hit "Escape" when I go
to my move tool and back to the eyedropper tool to kind of clear out the eyedropper.
I want a slightly color from her shit.
I'm trying to tie in some of these ticks colors with image. I want that one as well.
I've got a slate in a peach,
just double-click them and they with color value we use slate.
This one here we'll use peach.
There's a couple of things you just need to double-check if you
haven't done a whole lot of finding and changing
is let's go to "Edit". "Find Change".
Make sure it's color at the end here.
You have been able to do color for a little while,
about for a long time,
you could do it with objects and with ticks separately,
but you now you can just do it as a general kind of let's just do color.
Not worry about what we're defining lots of things within colors and objects.
I'm going to find this green that I've being using.
This is already in my Swatches. Look at that.
You can do 10 ranges as well,
but I want that RGB color.
I want to change it to my new one,
which is going to be this peach.
The thing with it though is you've got to make sure if you have something selected,
you'll have an option here that says selected and that won't work.
So just say all of this document or if you've got lots of documents open,
you can do it all at once,
which might be super handy for you.
You can decide on which kind of frames as well.
I'm just going to let it do everything and I'm going to click "Change All".
It's going to run through three instances.
Hooray, a nice, simple adjustment and nice little addition for InDesign.
Let's have a little look at a problem you might have is,
say I want to change this gray,
this gray is being used quite a bit through this document.
Okay, down here, lots of places,
but I don't have it as a swatch,
so we can't do that color switch.
You do need to convert it into a swatch first.
So let's grab this color.
Let's add it as swatch.
I'm just grabbing the text.
I'm going to say you are a new swatch and pulled it out.
HSB, we'll discuss in a little seconds,
it's a new thing for InDesign 2021 as well.
Now it's in there.
I can go and change it all.
Sometimes it is nice and an
excuse to show you a cool little shortcut is down the bottom here.
There's a button that you've never clicked, click on that one.
It's really nice that you can see this document plus you can start scrolling down.
This is two views of the exact same thing,
but now I can kind of start to see what else gets changed.
I can see in here and over here.
Let's go to "Edit".
Change it from peach
to the b-color that we created to the one that we want to switch it to,
which is slate. Have a little look.
Title, dev box, ticks various places.
Let's go make sure it's on document.
"Change All", look at that.
Twelve and instances has changed.
Thank you very much. That is Find and Change Color,
super useful. Let's click "Done".
Look at the next one, it's called HSB color and my accent,
HSB is H for hue,
S for saturation, B for brightness, HSB.
To get to it, let's see this.
I've got nothing selected, I got my foreground color,
I'm going to double-click it and if you're using RGB and you're like,
great, I like this color.
Let's make it darker tone of it.
You're like, what do I do? Where do I drag it?
Do I drag it down this way?
RGB is a weird color space.
I don't know why, it's not even primary colors.
What's green doing in there?
I know, I know, it's something to do with light,
but anyway, let's look at this HSB.
I'm going to cancel that because I've destroyed my color.
Go back in there, so instead of trying to mess with RGB or trying to do the
old just add some k trick to seem like, hey, does anybody do that?
I do it just work a bit of k in there and it gets darker.
But now you can at least play with these new little sliders.
So they're not new, they've been around.
It's just a different way of controlling RGB.
They're exactly the same, just you can do it by hue,
saturation and brightness rather than red, green, and blue.
Hue, obviously, up and down,
hue slider working my colors.
Saturation, I can make it more saturated,
less saturated and brightness,
the one I use quite a bit,
just to darken things up.
I'm going to cancel that because I've messed around with it.
Double-click it to go back in and
just go to brightness and go give me a darker version, please.
I can add it to my Swatches, click "Okay".
I don't often use this.
I kind of use it on the [inaudible] show you,
let's close down these double windows.
Let's say this one here.
Let's get a lighter version. Double-click it.
If you're like me, use these little windows to change the colors you go to here,
you go up to here, and now HSB,
instead of switching to these ones.
So HSB, and again,
I probably like these slide is even better than the way it's displayed over this side.
I can actually just give me a lighter version.
Unsaturated, look at that.
I'm going to add that to my Swatches as well, Swatches, plus.
Now I've got my original color, my original peach,
and I'm just dragging it up,
I've got a lighter of vision and a darker vision.
I guess it helps explain, you'll end up with these and forget.
You're like, well, what is HSB being in here?
It's just another way of displaying,
it's the same color spaces as RGB,
it's just a different way of working it.
It doesn't matter if your using the RGB version of it or the HSB.
Lab CMYK, completely different colors spaces, these are the same.
Anyway, I wanted that one to be the darker one,
I want it to be a nice big box in there.
Command Shift square bracket, send it to the back.
Actually it's on the wrong layer.
Let's get over the right layer even, Background.
There we go. I want this to be my new fill color.
Anyway, it's actually pretty backed in.
You can go to your Preflight panel and it's actually in there as well.
So Window, it's got a Preflight which is hidden under, I remember Output.
Let's go to Preflight.
You can define it in here. Let's make a new one.
Let's go to Define Profiles and you can see in here colors, there he is.
But he's not color spaces that you might not be allowed.
You might be deciding that you don't need RGB.
Basic Copy, this is Dan's Preflight.
This will give you a warning if you are using these wrong color spaces.
I don't want RGB, but I also don't want HSB,
because it's the same thing.
So click "Okay." Let's actually define the profile.
Checking, 30 errors because they use always HSB colors.
So that is huge saturation brightness.
If you are using Illustrator and InDesign use them in there as well,
there basically implemented the same way.
You might find them a little bit more helpful.
Next new feature is something called Recovery as a Service. What is it?
It is when your files go corrupt and your computer doesn't know what to do with it.
You can actually send it to Adobe now or automatically send it to them and they
can see whether they can fix it for you on your behalf.
It's a bit of an automated process.
Now, I can't make this happen.
I can't break or corrupt the files.
I have just got some screenshots of what is meant to happen.
You have something, it opens up, it can't open it.
It says "Would you like it to process it temporarily on their servers?''
You say, ''Yes'' because it's broken and it does some stuff.
It opens it up and recovers it.
So up until recently,
there was just an email you send it to.
But to be honest this is a new feature.
I guess, that fairly state.
But for me, I don't know.
InDesign for me is been super stable for so long now.
I guess that's why we like InDesign.
You might be different, you might be like finally,
Recovery as a Service is going to be useful for you.
I can't seem to break my files anymore.
But anyway, that's a new service that's in there.
If it discovers an openable document it will try and fix it automatically.
Now, there's one more update for InDesign 2021.
It's a small update to something that came out only a couple of months ago.
I bet you there's lots of people out there who haven't seen, Share for Review.
So there's a couple of updates to that,
but I bet you there's lots of you who have
never heard of it and I want to share with you.
It's my absolute favoritest update for InDesign for a very long time.
Share for Review. Easiest way,
click this icon and you Share for Review.
Whatever reason you don't have that one you can go to File and Share for Review.
Either way you end up in the same place here.
So I've got my name of my document.
I'm going to create a Share for Review.
Basically, this is web based,
so this is going to go out to my client or my stake holder,
whatever you want to call that person,
and they don't have to have InDesign,
which is amazing. They can do.
So Invite Only.
Let's just do a quick version of it.
I'm going to, and I'll double back and show you the nuanced parts of it.
But let's just got a Public,
don't require a password for the moment to make this work.
Here's my little link here. I'm going to click it.
It's going to open up on a page that's not on the screen.
I'm going to drag it up here.
Make a full screen, and look at that,
I've got a width vision of it that I can share with anybody and they don't need InDesign.
They don't even need Adobe ID.
It's got the spreads.
What's nice about it? I can just share that link. It's here.
See there's a little copy thing.
Copies it to clipboard.
That's not that clear anyway.
Then you can just e-mail it to them all or send it via
social media but they get this web interface.
This brings us to the new updates for 2021.
So it's these three buttons weren't there before, really useful.
Let's say that, contents page here.
Let's say I highlight this,
I click on the highlighter,
and it highlights it as you would imagine.
I can say things like,
"Are we using American spelling here?"
I can't spell American. It's not taking anybody's work, but I submit it.
Let's look at a couple of other ones and then I'll show you
how it looks on the InDesign side.
You can see it's coming out with my name here because I
happen to be logged into my Creative Cloud account.
But if this person doesn't have it they can login as
a guest or sign up for a free Adobe ID.
You don't need a paid Creative Cloud license for this to work.
Let's have a look at the other ones is not like you need to know what strikethrough does,
but it's on my list of things to show you.
I've written down my outline for this video.
Anyway, let's look at the last one.
Oops, submit that one.
This one here, Replace Text, buddies, lowercase b.
So let's see what happens back in InDesign.
I'm going to close the Share for Review.
Now this, let's close back in, get out of here.
This opens automatically, if you can't find it you need to go to Windows,
go to Comments and go to Review.
You can see, it's got those things in here.
But it's nice, it works well,
I can click on them, it jumps to the bit that I need to replace.
Do we need this? Oh, look it even highlights it.
Let's say I do delete it.
Challenges. Can you see my comment is unmapped now.
But I can go into here and say actually I have resolved that, it's done.
Let's do design buddies.
Let's make a lowercase b and it'll resolve that one as well.
Now I'm just showing you how life works.
Nothing's too exciting in here,
but let's look at it a bit deeper into what you can do.
One of the options is you can hide annotations.
Now, I've been on preview mode the whole time.
W key on the keyboard,
you can see my working version.
You can see there's my little highlight.
You can hide them if you need to if it's messing up your flow.
You can't filter them as well it's pretty clever.
By the different reviewers,
times of days, status.
That'll make sense as well. A couple of
other interesting things before we finish up is under this,
say due to this changes,
the web version doesn't update automatically.
You've got to go Share for Review and you've got to go to Update Link,
and then it will update.
Surprised how fast that works.
Other things you might do is you might require a password,
you might go Invite Only and add specific people.
You can add e-mail addresses,
they don't need to be specifically Adobe IDs at this stage.
Let's say I put in somebody I know that doesn't have an Adobe license.
They will be required to create one.
It's free to do, add comments and stuff.
Otherwise, you're good to go public and use the password.
It's up to you how smooth you want this to be.
I know some clients they going to see that they need to create
an Adobe ID even though it's free, they'll freak out.
So I'm just going to send them a public link with a password.
Another nice thing is for me on this side is I can,
let's say I'm not replying to me.
I can use this at and start looking at the different people that are included in this.
You might have three or four different stake and you can see an at to them specifically.
Can't see much of me because I'm probably blurred out down there,
but you can add at symbols,
and if you do want to jump out to the actual review itself,
go back into the web version of it.
You can go into here and say Manage Reviews on Web,
and it will jump out to the webpage which is also opening
up on the wrong screen. Here it is.
It's showing me the different reviews I've got on the go.
Go into it, I'm back into that same view that my commenter has.
Let me switch out to the big camera.
Those are the InDesign 2021 updates.
What did you like the best?
I'm interested to know,
drop it in the comments what you thought
your most favorite was, second-most favorite was.
It really helps me work out what needs to be in the new course,
what needs to be upgraded,
what people actually like versus what I think they like.
So drop that down there.
That is it. Oh, also I've got updates for all the other Adobe products,
Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premier Pro,
Adobe XD, check those out as well.
But that's it for another year of updates.
I will see you in another video. Bye now.