InDesign

Practice #3

Review: You Can…Draw rectangle shapes with the rectangle tool and the rectangle frame tool

Fill shapes with colors

Add text inside of a rectangle, and change the size, font, and color

Place images inside of shapes, and move them around

Draw circle and oval shapes using the ellipse tool and ellipse frame tool

Use “fitting” options to adjust how images fit inside of shapes

Add and remove borders around shapes

Make an image or shape transparent using the “opacity” slider

Add image effects like “drop shadow”

Rotate images and shapes

Draw custom shapes with the pen tool and pencil tool

Place images inside of custom shapes

Create curvy edges on custom shapes by adding and dragging “anchor points” on the lines

Make a duplicate copy of a shape

Create a Document:This time when you create a new document, type “2” for the number of pages.

Make the starting page “2” as well.

Don’t forget to select size A4 and add a bleed of 3.

Pages:If you start on page 1, your pages will look like this:

But you want them to look like this:

Page “1” can never be part of a two-page spread -(think of the first page in a book). If you

want to work on a two-page spread, your starting page must be page 2.

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Create a Document:Use the “pages” panel to manage your pages. This is the “pages” panel.

If you double click on the “A-Master” pages here, whatever changes you make to these master pages will be applied to

all of your pages.

These are your document pages. Double click on a page to edit it.

This is the new page button. Click here to add another page to your document.

Create a Document:Your 2-page spread should look like this:

Add Text From a File:Let’s add text to the document in some new ways.

Go to file and select “Place”.

Pick any document on your computer that has lots of text (an article or an essay).

Click on your document, and the text will fill the page all the way to the margins.

Hover over one page of your document, and you will see a preview of your text appear.

Add Text From a File:

Now you have a text box that automatically filled the whole page.

Drag the little white boxes on the text box, and make it smaller.

Add Text From a File:

Do you see the tiny red plus sign? That means the text is too long to fit into your box.

Click the little red plus sign.

This pulls your extra text out of the box, and allows you to place it in a new box.

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Add Text From a File:

If your text is very long, this could go on for a while!

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Delete all of your new text boxes so you only have the one original box.

Add Text From a File:

Click the little red plus sign again.

This time, draw a rectangle shape as you click and release the text.

Add Text From a File:

This method will prevent the text from filling the entire width of the page.

Add Text From a File:

Delete all of the text on your page.

Now, go to “Layout” and select “Margins and Columns.”

Create Columns:

When the dialogue box opens, change the number of columns to “2.”

Create Columns:

Now “Place” your text document into the columns, and see what happens:

Create Columns:

Click the little red plus sign , and continue the text into the other three columns:

Create Columns:+

Now place your cursor on the text and hit command+a to select all of it.

Align Text:

Now, practice aligning the text in different ways. Click on the “justify” buttons on the top toolbar:

Align Text:

Now, practice aligning the text in different ways. Click on the “justify” buttons on the top toolbar:

Align Text:

Now, practice aligning the text in different ways. Click on the “justify” buttons on the top toolbar:

Align Text:

Experiment with text some more. What other tools can you find?

Finished!