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Design a Print-Ready Accordion Fold Document in Adobe InDesign – Vector Plus Tutorial

Feb 18th in News by Jonathan
We have another great Vector Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to take your InDesign skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Walk through the creation of an Accordion Fold Document InDesign document. This tutorial is targeted at the beginner to intermediate level designer. Delve into the details of numerous settings and learn a professional workflow for exporting documents for print. Learn more about this informative layout tut at the jump!
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Author: Jonathan

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This Vector+ Tutorial is filled with Detailed Adobe InDesign Instruction

In this tutorial, we'll cover:
  • Setting up your document
  • Determining fold lines
  • Placing text boxes
  • Working efficiently with text boxes
  • Typography for extended text
  • Preparing and implementing print-ready images
  • Styling other text elements
  • Using images and text harmoniously
  • Working with CMYK and spot colors
  • Enhancing images with borders and effects
  • Fine-tuning lists
  • Aligning all your elements
  • Packaging the document for print
Plus members can Log in and Download! If you're not a member, you can of course join today! You can view the final image preview below or view a larger version here.
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Learn about InDesign from this Professional Tutorial

Walk through the creation of an Accordion Fold Document InDesign document. This tutorial is targeted at the beginner to intermediate level designer. Delve into the details of numerous settings and learn a professional workflow for exporting documents for print. Plus members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are some sample images from the tutorial.
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    Kieran February 18th

    Seriously thinking of joining tuts+ now.

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      Joker July 30th

      Nice work

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    aisha February 18th

    Fantastic, just the sort of thing i was looking for. Thanks!

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    John Shaw February 18th

    So, with the new name change, since I wasn’t able to glean this from the announcement, are all tutorials from now on only going to be available for $9/month? My buddy was just asking me about InDesign and I was going to link him to this tutorial but then realized it’s a plus tut.

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    Diego SA February 18th

    Wow!

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    insic February 19th

    OMG!

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    The rambler February 19th

    Allthough I can understand these amazing tutorials come from an amazing little place. The idea of posting a tutorial making it only accessible to plus members is seriously uncool.

    (if it aint broke don’t fix it springs to mind)

    Are we on this site only to provide inspiration to others or to make money

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    MattS February 19th

    feck! don’t go hiding the InDesign tuts behind the + =o
    So little good tutorials about this nice piece of software already.

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    Roy February 19th

    Love this! Hope to see more of this kind of tuts.

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    flyingturtle February 19th

    anyone know a good place to learn some good InDesign from?? and i agree with Kieran seriously thinking of joining now.

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    Gavin February 19th

    Not all the tuts or InDesign tuts will be plus, I think the bigger projects or special authors tuts will be Plus.

    $9 = Photoshop tutorials + Nettuts + vectortuts and more to come.

    I have really only used the photoshop tutorials but now I have started to get into web-design and creating my own vectors rather than buy them from stock sites.

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    Jonathan February 19th

    Thanks everyone!

    This tut has approx 60 steps. If you’re ready to get your feet wet grab the + membership. You won’t be disappointed. Plus members, am I right? Speak up!

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    nuinosis February 20th

    InDesign! yeeeey give us some more please :)

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    Mabuc February 20th

    Stunning tut, like it

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    Rijalul Fikri February 28th

    Wow, an indesign tutorial. Looking forward for this. Unfortunately I don’t have a plus account.

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    Ben March 19th

    I logged into my plus account to work on this project and couldn’t find it anywhere. Is there a link I can follow right to the plus tutorial?

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      Sean Hodge March 20th

      @Ben – Once you’re in the Vectortuts Plus area, click on “Bonus Tutorials” at the top and it’s just a few down. Or, type in “Design a Print-Ready Accordion Fold Document in Adobe InDesign” into the search field and you’ll see it pop up. Enjoy! Thx.

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        Ben March 23rd

        Sweet thank you so much Sean. I totally missed the Bonus Tutorials section of the site.

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