Creative Resume Techniques with Adobe InDesign 1
So welcome everyone my name is Rick workshop and I also teach the Photoshop class the InDesign class and the premiere pro class and before. I apply for this job with help from the web site https://edujobssearch.com/best-resume-writing-services-near-my-location which has plenty of perfect examples of resume which i used.
I came on to USC teaching I used to work at Adobe for seven years my name's on the credits greens for Premiere Pro as well as Photoshop so since the majority of you are brand new to InDesign. What is InDesign so InDesign is the leading page design and layout toolset. It lets us work across desktop and mobile devices to create preflight and publish. Everything from printed books brochures to digital magazines ebooks and interactive online documents so why in the heck would. You use InDesign to create your resume instead of word so InDesign is a page layout program. That specializes and allowing you to control your layouts with precision word is a word processing tool with. Some layout tools. You don't have the control in word. That you do in InDesign that's the important distinction so today we're gonna cover resources for resume we'll look about the user interface in InDesign since the majority of you are brand new and then we'll look at the mechanics of creating a resume so let's get started with resume resources in the resources folder let. Me quit this really quickly in their resources the resume workshop 1 there is a links and resources in it you have resume tips and links so a resume expert reveals. What a perfect resume looks like.
You could just highlight. This copy it and paste. It into your browser ten reasons why this is an excellent resume. What recruiters look at during the 6 seconds. They spend on your resume and other things such as. That then on Adobe site there is how to create a professional resume Adobe also has the video ten minute video almost Elevens about how to snazz up your resume and then there is a training one on lyndacom using InDesign to create your resume in today's class we're going to learn the mechanics of creating a creative resume but the links.
That I gave. You they're gonna go into a better understanding of what content. You should put on your resume. One of the things. That I have included. I included on there and that links and resources is they graphic for the perfect resume for a recent college graduate. This is from Business Insider and so they're giving you an example of this guy named Shane Fusco and it takes apart every single. One and it tells. It you know tells. You why this was important and why you know it's relevant for what you're doing okay so let's go ahead and we'll launch InDesign. Everyone have InDesign on your computers okay great so. What we want to do is we want to create a brand new page. Where to start tabula rasa clean slate so we'll go to the file menu we'll choose new and we'll choose new document. Now depending on which version of InDesign you're on whether you're on Windows or Mac. You might get a new document dialog box. That looks very different. This it might be. This start page so the version. I have doesn't have. That start page and so instead we'll just have. This new document. Many of you have a whole bunch of templates ok so then. I guess we're on the same page then so we'll go to the new document and so.
What we want to do is we want to look for the intent do. We want to go to print web or mobile. Now InDesign is it indicated earlier used to be a print. It well it still is a print design application in design was created exclusively for print and what that meant is that. You want it to print stuff for magazines brochures catalogs books then. You would use InDesign to do. That but because the industry has changed so much york's to be able to take your creative content in this case your resume and be able to repurpose. It so let's say. You want to be able to print your resume or you want to be able to create an interactive resume so. Someone can view. It on the web or on a tablet or mobile based device so InDesign gives. That ability so. You can add. All of this interactivity there. Though InDesign was created initially to be a print so. We can go to print web or mobile but we're gonna start with print but just. Because we start with print doesn't mean. That we can't as an interactivity later so. We could have a print version of our resume and if. We wanted to add. Some type of interactivity like movies and audio voiceovers. We can do or animation. We could do. That as well but for now we're just gonna go ahead and choose print and we'll just keep. It at one page. You know we're gonna keep. It very very simple so then we'll go ahead and we'll click o then. We can see right here. We have orientation.
We have portrait or landscape and by default it's going to be portrait orientation so that's like portrait orientation and we'll go ahead and we'll click OK does. Everyone have. That excellent so. What we want to do is I want to make sure. That we're all on the same page so. I want to make sure. That our workspace is set up similarly so let's go to the window menu let's go to workspace window workspace and make sure. That you have essentials does. Everyone have essentials ok and if yours is in a disarray like mine is I'll just go ahead and I will reset essentials. Everyone good there ok so let. Me explain it since. Most almost. All of you are brand new to InDesign I'm going to first explain a little bit about the user interface before. We start getting in the mechanics of creating this creative resume so. This right here is our page and on our page. Anything that is white gets printed. These areas right here. I create that brand new page. These are the margins and the margins. You know these lines. These margin lines.
They don't print. These are non printable marginalized. They just give. Us the ability to be able to line things up and sometimes people like to put text. You know inside the margins. They don't like having text but just right up against the edge of that page but sometimes. You might like. It okay so anything in here then. We have this these units of measurement right here. We have this this horizontal line and we have. This vertical line. You do not see. These rulers you'd go to the View menu and right now my. If the rulers were hidden. You go to the View menu and then. You select show rulers does. Everyone have. That great so.
What the heck are. These I mean like. What what are. These units of measurements mean well. You right-click onto those rulers and if. You don't like hobby. If you're on the windows yeah. I just right-click. If you're on Mac. You have a mouse right click on it or you just hold the control key on on Mac not the command with control key and then. You click that gives. You the contextual menu so. These are sets of pikas there's points and pikas inches. Whatever most of the time the default setting is going to be. You know set two pikas and then. You use points. However for us let's just set. It to inches inches are gonna make. More sense if you're not used to working with points or pikas and later on I'll explain. What points and pikas are but let's just set. It to inches right now so. I can see that this is eight and a half inches and then. I go down here like.
What the heck is this well it's the same thing it's set to pikas so. I will right click on there and I will select inches so. We can see that this document is eight and a half by eleven inches does. That make sense okay great so. We want to be able to put content on here typically. We want to create content or move content around. We go to this tool panel right here. This allows. Us to put type on our. You know page. It allows us to create shapes. It allows us to transform move shapes allows. Us to put gradients on there. I can zoom into the image. I can pan around. That image or I can use the selection tool to move around additionally over here to the right. I have other panels panels such as pages like.
I came on to USC teaching I used to work at Adobe for seven years my name's on the credits greens for Premiere Pro as well as Photoshop so since the majority of you are brand new to InDesign. What is InDesign so InDesign is the leading page design and layout toolset. It lets us work across desktop and mobile devices to create preflight and publish. Everything from printed books brochures to digital magazines ebooks and interactive online documents so why in the heck would. You use InDesign to create your resume instead of word so InDesign is a page layout program. That specializes and allowing you to control your layouts with precision word is a word processing tool with. Some layout tools. You don't have the control in word. That you do in InDesign that's the important distinction so today we're gonna cover resources for resume we'll look about the user interface in InDesign since the majority of you are brand new and then we'll look at the mechanics of creating a resume so let's get started with resume resources in the resources folder let. Me quit this really quickly in their resources the resume workshop 1 there is a links and resources in it you have resume tips and links so a resume expert reveals. What a perfect resume looks like.
You could just highlight. This copy it and paste. It into your browser ten reasons why this is an excellent resume. What recruiters look at during the 6 seconds. They spend on your resume and other things such as. That then on Adobe site there is how to create a professional resume Adobe also has the video ten minute video almost Elevens about how to snazz up your resume and then there is a training one on lyndacom using InDesign to create your resume in today's class we're going to learn the mechanics of creating a creative resume but the links.
That I gave. You they're gonna go into a better understanding of what content. You should put on your resume. One of the things. That I have included. I included on there and that links and resources is they graphic for the perfect resume for a recent college graduate. This is from Business Insider and so they're giving you an example of this guy named Shane Fusco and it takes apart every single. One and it tells. It you know tells. You why this was important and why you know it's relevant for what you're doing okay so let's go ahead and we'll launch InDesign. Everyone have InDesign on your computers okay great so. What we want to do is we want to create a brand new page. Where to start tabula rasa clean slate so we'll go to the file menu we'll choose new and we'll choose new document. Now depending on which version of InDesign you're on whether you're on Windows or Mac. You might get a new document dialog box. That looks very different. This it might be. This start page so the version. I have doesn't have. That start page and so instead we'll just have. This new document. Many of you have a whole bunch of templates ok so then. I guess we're on the same page then so we'll go to the new document and so.
What we want to do is we want to look for the intent do. We want to go to print web or mobile. Now InDesign is it indicated earlier used to be a print. It well it still is a print design application in design was created exclusively for print and what that meant is that. You want it to print stuff for magazines brochures catalogs books then. You would use InDesign to do. That but because the industry has changed so much york's to be able to take your creative content in this case your resume and be able to repurpose. It so let's say. You want to be able to print your resume or you want to be able to create an interactive resume so. Someone can view. It on the web or on a tablet or mobile based device so InDesign gives. That ability so. You can add. All of this interactivity there. Though InDesign was created initially to be a print so. We can go to print web or mobile but we're gonna start with print but just. Because we start with print doesn't mean. That we can't as an interactivity later so. We could have a print version of our resume and if. We wanted to add. Some type of interactivity like movies and audio voiceovers. We can do or animation. We could do. That as well but for now we're just gonna go ahead and choose print and we'll just keep. It at one page. You know we're gonna keep. It very very simple so then we'll go ahead and we'll click o then. We can see right here. We have orientation.
We have portrait or landscape and by default it's going to be portrait orientation so that's like portrait orientation and we'll go ahead and we'll click OK does. Everyone have. That excellent so. What we want to do is I want to make sure. That we're all on the same page so. I want to make sure. That our workspace is set up similarly so let's go to the window menu let's go to workspace window workspace and make sure. That you have essentials does. Everyone have essentials ok and if yours is in a disarray like mine is I'll just go ahead and I will reset essentials. Everyone good there ok so let. Me explain it since. Most almost. All of you are brand new to InDesign I'm going to first explain a little bit about the user interface before. We start getting in the mechanics of creating this creative resume so. This right here is our page and on our page. Anything that is white gets printed. These areas right here. I create that brand new page. These are the margins and the margins. You know these lines. These margin lines.
They don't print. These are non printable marginalized. They just give. Us the ability to be able to line things up and sometimes people like to put text. You know inside the margins. They don't like having text but just right up against the edge of that page but sometimes. You might like. It okay so anything in here then. We have this these units of measurement right here. We have this this horizontal line and we have. This vertical line. You do not see. These rulers you'd go to the View menu and right now my. If the rulers were hidden. You go to the View menu and then. You select show rulers does. Everyone have. That great so.
What the heck are. These I mean like. What what are. These units of measurements mean well. You right-click onto those rulers and if. You don't like hobby. If you're on the windows yeah. I just right-click. If you're on Mac. You have a mouse right click on it or you just hold the control key on on Mac not the command with control key and then. You click that gives. You the contextual menu so. These are sets of pikas there's points and pikas inches. Whatever most of the time the default setting is going to be. You know set two pikas and then. You use points. However for us let's just set. It to inches inches are gonna make. More sense if you're not used to working with points or pikas and later on I'll explain. What points and pikas are but let's just set. It to inches right now so. I can see that this is eight and a half inches and then. I go down here like.
What the heck is this well it's the same thing it's set to pikas so. I will right click on there and I will select inches so. We can see that this document is eight and a half by eleven inches does. That make sense okay great so. We want to be able to put content on here typically. We want to create content or move content around. We go to this tool panel right here. This allows. Us to put type on our. You know page. It allows us to create shapes. It allows us to transform move shapes allows. Us to put gradients on there. I can zoom into the image. I can pan around. That image or I can use the selection tool to move around additionally over here to the right. I have other panels panels such as pages like.
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