ARTICLES AND VIDEOS
Important note:
Studying the tutorials you have to practice at the same time. Keep the program (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.) open; stop a tutorial every minute or so, and repeat the actions in the program. That is the only way you can learn quickly and remember.
InDesign For Beginners
Working with fonts in InDesign
Paragraph formaying
Preflight
Removing Automatic Hyphenation in InDesign
InDesign drop cap
Working with images
Placing Images, Scale, Rotation, Resolution & Custom Shapes
Text wrap around shapes and objects
Create a stylized book cover - Wrap Text
Wrap Text Around Image Edges
Subject Aware Text Wrap
Packaging Files in InDesign 2020
Simple Animation
InDesign Animation
Loop Animated Sequence
Interactive PDF
Interactive image slider
Animated Christmas e-card
More InDesignTutorials
Tools panel chart
The selection tools
Basic shapes (creating with measurements, fill, stroke
Basic shapes (with shortcuts)
Anchor points and paths in Illustrator
TYPE
How to work with text in Illustrator
Touch tool
Type on a path
Blend tool 1
Blend tool 2
Blend tool 3
Don’t forget to Object>Expend when needed
Transform again 1
Transform again 2
And bonus: Transform effects video tutorial
Layers and groups
How to Use The Layers Panel in Adobe Illustrator
Blend tool
Pathfinder Advanced
Pathfinder - Linking Rings Strokes
How To Add Multiple Strokes to Anything
Selecting colors (do not click on the links under "See also")
Gradients in Illustrator
Gradients (advanced)
Pen tool
Tracing your artwork with the Pen tool
5 Essential Techniques for Drawing with the Pen Tool
More Illustrator Tutorials
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
FREE IMAGES
8 Days (the list is a little down the page)
9 Resources for High-Quality Images
Yandex.ru (Russian, English)
FREE FONTS
https://fonts.google.com
https://www.1001fonts.com
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/
Or just google free fonts
Variable fonts:
https://fonts.google.com/variablefonts
https://fontesk.com/tag/variable
ADDITIONAL READINGS
- Textbook "A Type Primer" by John Kane
- History of Books
- Illuminated Manuscripts (with a good video)
- How to Be an Artist, According to Wassily Kandinsky (How to deal with lines, shapes and colors)
TYPOGRAPHICAL GAMES
Please play these games, it is fun way to learn typography:
Game 1: Font Anatomy Game
First, take a look at the cheat sheet and try to remember the names
https://ilovetypography.com/font-anatomy-cheat-sheet/
Then play the game, trying not to look at the cheat sheet
https://ilovetypography.com/2020/06/30/font-anatomy-game/
Game 2: Kern type
https://type.method.ac/
Kerning (the space between letters) greatly influences readability and aesthetics, and is an important typography skill to know. This online game lets you practice kerning and then compares your work to a typographer’s solution.
Just drag the letters (except the first and the last) so the distance between each one would look approximately equal. Then Click Done button. (You can refresh the browser to work on the same word again.
It is not easy at the beginning, but we have to train our eyes.
Game 3: Reshape a latter to make it beautiful
https://shape.method.ac/
An essential skill that type designers must have is the ability to draw letters and characters using vector shapes. In this online game, you will shape letters by moving vector anchor points to the correct location.