How to Make Brochures With Adobe

Create a brochure using Adobe InDesign.

Adobe's Creative Suite of products includes many popular design programs, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign, Dreamweaver and After Effects. These applications provide tools to help designers across a wide range of disciplines, including graphics, illustrations, motion graphics, desktop publishing, websites, video and audio. InDesign is the Creative Suite program best suited for print design project---and thanks to its pre-installed collection of templates, creating brochures in Adobe InDesign is a straightforward task.

Things You'll Need

• Adobe InDesign

Instructions

1. Open Adobe InDesign.

2. Click "File" in the top menu bar, select "New," and then click the "Document from Template" option from the resulting sub-menu. The folder containing the available templates will load within a few moments, using the Adobe Bridge application.

3. Double-click the "Brochures" folder in Adobe Bridge to view the available templates.

4. Double-click the name of the template you want to use. It will open in InDesign within seconds.

5. Modify the template content to suit your design needs. Click and drag images and text boxes to move them; double-click text boxes to change their content; single-click images to bring up the menu that allows you to adjust their properties; use the corresponding toolbar commands to add new text boxes, create shapes and change colors; select "Place" from the "File" menu to add new images.

6. Click "File" in the top menu bar and then select "Save." Select a folder, give your file a name, and then click "Save" to save your newly-created brochure document.

References

• Adobe Press: Getting your feet wet with InDesign CS3 templates
• Tech Tutor: Open a template from Adobe Bridge in InDesign CS3

Resources

• Adobe Web Tech Curriculum: InDesign basics