today I have the second installment of
the series of in design basics brought
to you by Satori graphics you're looking
at the essential tools of InDesign in
this InDesign tutorial
how's it going everyone did you have a
great weekend kicking things off this
week with an InDesign tutorial on the
essential tools or Adobe InDesign
in the first episode of indesign basics we
looked to the setting up a poster design for
print in indesign today we delve into
the essential tools of the powerhouse
software personally when you import
something to InDesign mixing blurry this
is probably due to the default preview
setting of InDesign and not being set a
high quality you can change that here
you can access a toolbar like so and
then click the changes layout in this
manner
first we are looking into selection
tools you realized they look similar to
the selection tools in Adobe Illustrator
and also you should know that every
single tool in the toolbar has a
keyboard shortcut access it the black
arrow tool aka the selection tool use
for editing and moving frames
InDesign puts everything into a frame to
take this business card here for example
the actual content is separate from the
surrounding frame if we move the frame
content blues with it the red line by
the way is just a bleed that and nothing
to do with the frame or the content
however if we select the icon in the
center of the selection tool it can move
the actual content without moving the
frame at the corners we can rotate the
frame and content like so we adjust the
frame in this way it will crop the
content without moving content itself if
we slowed the Waiariki the rec selection
tool remove the content without moving
the frame so as you can see frames and
content are separate just remember the
white arrows for the content and the
black arrows for the frame
if we use the free transform for our
graph you can even edit both the frame
and the content at the same time you can
set the type tool here or simply press T
on your keyboard then all you need to do
is to click and drag it to create a type
box and then put in your text
so we'll get you Tex and then head up to
the top to edit the layout like so okay
we can change the kerning and here we
can head in the way of the text with the
selection tool as I mentioned before we
can edit the frame and move the text
around
notice how the magenta smartguides up
here that tell us when something is
aligned on the page good objects
InDesign has a two rectangle tools
remember s10 design loves to use friends
one of them is a rectangle frame tool
when you make a rectangle with this tool
you'll have the X through the middle
like so because basically let us know
that this box is for adding objects on
content in tver for example we can place
a load that they're able inside impact
to what we learned by the selection tool
you can move the frame and a content or
just a logo itself
also you can add type directly into the
frame rectangle a regular rectangle to
acts like a rectangle tool in
Illustrator you can flick between the
stroke and a fill we can also type
directly into this one too with InDesign
on the rectangle tool we hold on the
click we can access other shapes it's
like an illustrator you can use the
pencil to create shapes as well and even
adjust the curves and anchor points with
direct selection tool as you would do in
Illustrator
you make a shape with the rectangle tool
we can then add a gradient fill in this
way
if you want to open up the gradient
window you can access it here the
gradient tools are located in the
toolbar and we're also able to add a
grade in this way to hold down shift the
keyboard line perfectly straight then we
can of course adjust the color of our
gradient like so lastly on this InDesign
tutorial if you take the scissors tool
and place the edges of the shape you can
create a divide essentially cutting the
shape of separate eyes
so did you finish InDesign tutorial on
the central tools to InDesign helpful
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