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:

Adding Long Articles:Let’s add lengthy text to the document.

Open a google document with lots of text on it, select all of the text, and finally copy the text.

Copy your text.

Use the text tool to draw a text box (any size) on your first page.

Adding Long Articles:

Now paste your article in the text box.

Adding Long Articles:

Use the selection tool to click on your text box.

You can now drag the little white boxes on the text box, and make it larger or smaller.

Adding Long Articles:

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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“Overflow” Text:

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

Hover over an empty area of your document, and you will see a preview of your text appear.

“Overflow” Text:

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

+“Overflow” Text:

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 into the columns neatly.

Create Columns:

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

The best option for news print is “Justify with last line aligned left.”

Align Text:

To turn off hyphenation, select your text and then click on the tiny drop-menu in the upper right corner of the program:

Hyphenation

To turn off hyphenation, select your text and then click on the tiny drop-menu in the upper right corner of the program:

Hyphenation

Checking or unchecking the “hyphenation” box turns hyphenation on or off.

Hyphenation

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

Finished!