InDesign Tutorial

Kaya Sumbland

Creating and Setting Up a New File

Click document to create a new file

Creating and Setting Up a New File

Make sure you un-click facing pages before you click ok – the rest is to leave as it is

Leading you to your document page

Windows and Doc

The top of the page is windows

The right side of the page is the doc

Using Rules/Grids/Guides

This is the ruler that surrounds the left and top side of the page

You click and drag from the rule to make a grid or guide to place things onto your page – They wont be seem when you print

Stroke & Colours Windows

Here is where you find the colour and stoke box

Stroke & Colours Windows

To change the colour of something, you must click CMYK first

The you click your colour, and it always you to change the C M Y K parts of the colour grid

Stroke & Colours Windows

On stroke you can change the lining around your picture, from these options

Then change its weight, the higher the weight, the more visible your lining is.

Tools (in tool bar)

Black arrow: how to select

text tool: & character how to write and manipulate text

pencil tool

Line tool

Rectangle Tool (how to create shapes)

From the tool bar you click the square shape to then clock on your page and drag to make a shape

Rectangle Frame Tool (how to place images)

From clicking on your shape, you go to file, then place

Choose your image

And it appears in your box

How to manipulate/crop/ arrange transform objects

- Scale tool

- Eyedropper tool

- Hand tool

- Zoom tool