Hello people, welcome to this video! We are going to see how to use the new
InDesign CC
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First of all,
project pages of books, magazines, or make promo flyers and advertisements. This is
the best software in
video we will see the very basic tools this software has. Then, in the next videos,
I will show you how to make a project for good.
Let's see how to start. Just go to
Basicly you will use the
The
Just create your first
pages, and the size of each page. Through
kind of document. Change
on what you choose, a new set of standard sizes is shown at the bottom. For example
the Latter has its own standard sizes and so the other kinds like the european A5, A4
pages and so on. However, you can always set a personalized size typing inside
Height
the file later. Set the right
safe zone
If the document has more pages, the workspace shows you their order. The
first page starts from the right, and the second page from the left.
First of all, a quick basis about the visualization.
mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
click and drag your mouse to move through your project fast. If you want to zoom
carefully, click on the
Let's try to put some design elements inside. All you need in InDesign is inside the
Panel
you can open them again going to
be opened.
So, to add straight lines, use the
simple:
dragging its central point.
Then you can use the panel on top to change anything of such line, such as its angle,
its stroke kind and color, its size, its rotation, and so on. This is called
Panel
You can use the
to
bottom right corner. Between these tools, you can use the
just practice!
The
to create straight lines linked. Then, when you want to create a curved line, click
on a point, and drag your mouse. At first it won't be easy, but practice will help you
at using it correctly.
Then use the panel on top to edit it properly as seen with the
To know how to draw professionally with the
Use the
To select an object, just
instead, you will select more objects at the same time through a selection area.
Keep in mind that each of these objects is ruled by the
path
see such path,
Through this panel, you manage objects or the whole layer with all its objects inside.
Very useful is this
is useful if you have a lot of objects disturbing your workspace. Object selections
can be done through this window as well, clicking on the little square on the right.
Keep in mind that
shown
according to which the objects are shown overlapped each other.
Simply click and drag an object's row to move it from a layer to another. Remember that
you can create a layer going to
delete the layer selected.
The
as well, through the button sublist. These objects, instead of the lines can have
filling
Panel
Strokes and fillings are represented by the squares below the
you can change their colors going more at the bottom. Double click on it to open
the
To remove the colour, which means removing the stroke or the filling, just choose the
colour represented by
You can add
Window,to
This will be black and white by default. You can set its colour clicking on the coloured
rectangles and changing colour through the related window. Click outside to add more
rectangles and personalize your gradient. With a gradient indicator selected, open
the
You can add the gradient to the stroke or the filling selecting between the two
on the left.
Use
Just click and drag your mouse to set a line. Its direction will be the direction of the
gradient, and its length the length of the colour change.
just the same, but puts feather on the object, with your direction defined.
You can add further effects to your object. Just double-click on the
Tool
on the right. You can open the
Panel
You can personalize the stroke shapes through the
Panel
To delete mistaken actions, just go to
keyboard. You can cut, copy and paste the object selected using
CTRL+V
delete just single paths, just select the
and click and drag the mouse along a path.
Let's now see how to import some text. To add some text, click on the
indicated through the
This is used to contain the text you are going to type inside.
big enough to cover all its content
on a side, warning you that the box is too small to show all the text inside. If you
CTRL down
and its text inside by dragging the box from its centre. Select the text first to change it.
In this case, the
the horizontal and vertical size percentages, the paragraph options, and so on.
If you want to know how to create your first page with
video in this show.
You can change the text colour using the
You can put colour gradients as well. All seen with the objects works again. The
are applied on the text only. The
are applied on the text box, which will affect the text inside as well. Remember that
the box is just an artefact to manage better the text and its position.
Very cool is the
following such path. Then, if you make the object invisible, you can just have this
original text effect.
Once your document is made, just save it. Go to
CTRL+S
In the future, if you have a document with more pages, you can go from one page to
the next or the previous one clicking on the play-like button in the bottom left corner.
In the
to open it.When two pages are on the same spread,both are shown in your workspace.
This is different than a
That's all! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! Check our next videos to start creating
your first page and project with