Exporting as a PDF

Packaging

When starting in InDesign determine what type of project you will be creating. Most often you will be working with either Document or Book. A book is is made up of multiple documents, or Pages.

Use the Pages window to move and add pages.

Toolbar

Right-Click tools with corner icons to see additional tools

For more details on each tool, as well as keyboard shortcuts go to Window>Utilities>Tool Hints

Selection

Direct Selection

Page

Gap

Content Collector

Type

Line

PenPencil

Rectangle Frame

Rectangle

Scissors

Free Transform

Gradient Swatch

Gradient Feather

Note

Eyedropper

HandZoom

Fill and Stroke

Formatting Effects

Apply Color

View

Select, move, or resize entire objects

Select points on a path or content in a frame

Create multiple page sizes within a document

Adjust Spacing between objects

Collect and place multiple objects

Create text frames and select text

Draw straight line segments

Create straight and curved paths

Draw open and closed free form paths

Create square or rectangle placeholder

Create square or rectangle shape

Split paths in at specifi ed points in a frame

Rotate, scale, or shear an object

Insert and adjust different gradients

Fade and object into the background

Add comments on a selection

Sample color from images, text, or objects

Moves the page view

Magnify in and out

Choose and change color of an element

Whether formatting effects object or text

Apply gradient, color, or nothing

Choose between view options

Window>Tools

New Document

Pages

In the second dialogue box choose which pages to export, whether spread or pages, and what to include then click Export.

Exporting allows you to view your document or book as a PDF. In the dialogue boxes that follow click Save and Export.

File>Export

Package gathers copies of all images and fonts used in the document along with a copy of the InDesign document itself into a single folder that you can easily deliver to a print service provider or to a colleague. Click Package..., Continue, and Package in the three successive dialogue boxes.

File>Package...

File>New>Document

Change page size,

add and delete pages

Choose page size, number of pages, orientation, number of columns, and margin sizes.

Window>Pages

Adobe InDesign CC 2017 InDesign is used for print and layout design. It is one of the best programs to work with text and make publications, fl iers, and printed designs.

Essentials

This workspace is recommended for people who are new to Photoshop due to its Basic tool set up. Here you can learn the functions of Photoshop or do quick edits to your project.

Workspaces are a great way to personalize the tools and panels that surround the opened program window. This could be a simple way to work on projects in a fast and productive way.

Typography

This workspace is great for adding text to your project. Here, you will have all the text manipulation tools in the panels where you can quickly access them. This will give you panels that will allow you to view your Pages, adjust the Characters of your text, add variations to Paragraphs and alter the Margins of your page.

Book

This workspace is best for creating and printing a book. This will give you helpful panels that will allow you to view your Pages, add smart objects, and edit paragraph styles.

Digital Publishing

This is a workspcae set for editing and making fi nal desicions on your project. This is helpful in polishing your project to perpare it for the public eye. This will give you helpful panels that will allow you to use Animations, add other Media and Hyperlinks, and make your document interactive for the Web.

When you feel comfortable with Photoshop and know the tools that you need. Creating your own workspace that best fi ts you can be a quick and productive way of getting projects done. You can change the tool bar, add/remove work panels (e.g. History, color panel, Layers panel), and even change the hotkeys (shortcuts) on your keyboard.

Workspaces

Customize a Workspaces

Color and StrokeCropping

Pixelated Photos?

Alignment

Picas, Margins, Rules, Grids & Guides

Window>Object & Layout>Align

To Crop in an image simply drag in any of the frame controls.

If your images look pixelated turn on High Quality Display:

View>Display Performance>High Quality Display

Use the Align tool to line up, distribute or space objects. Choose what to base the alignment on with the Align To option.

Adding ImagesFile>Place

Add photos or graphics by using the Place option in InDesign. Choose your fi le from the computer and then click anywhere on the page.

Instead of clicking the photo in place you can also drag it into being. This makes it a specifi c size right away.

Clicking once on the image will select the frame of the image. The frame controls what part of the image is seen.

Double clicking, or clicking the circle in the middle will select the image itself.

If you drag while the image is selected the frame will not move.

To scale the photo and the frame at the same time use ⌘⇧ and scale from a corner.

Window>Color Window>Stroke

There are multiple ways to utilize Color and alter Stroke in InDesign. Most can be found under Window>Color. You can mix your own colors and create gradients with the gradient tools.

Double click the fi ll or stroke icon to view the Color Picker.

The Stroke is the outline around an object or text.

The fi ll and stroke icons are in the toolbar and dock.

Clicking the arrow to the right of the stroke or fi ll opens the drop down menu

Swatches is where you can save colors and create color sets.

Use the Gradient Swatch Tool and the Gradient Feather Tool to create gradients. The Gradient Feather Tool will create a transparent gradient.

Picas are the unit of measurement used in design. There are 6 picas to an inch. To change the unit of measurement to inches or otherwise:

Margins and Columns can be determined in the new document dialogue box or under:

Grids & Guides as well as the Ruler can be turned on and off under:

InDesign>Preferences>Units&Increments

Layout>Margins and Columns

View>Grids&Guides View>Hide/Show Ruler

Managing Text Dock Tools

Layers

Keyboard Shortcuts

New Layer

Selected

Working Layer

AdditionalOptions

Hide/View

Lock/Unlock

Delete

Use Layers to organize and better control your content. Each layer has a color and name which can be edited by double clicking on the layer. Determine arrangement and use the different tools to view your design in multiple ways.

Window>Layers

Undo

Redo

Select All

Copy

Cut

Paste

Paste, No Formating

Scale Object & Frame

Export

Place File

Preview

Move Object 1 Pica

Spell Check

Save

Save As

Group

Ungroup

Lock Object

Unlock Object

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To add text to your design select the Type Tool in the toolbar and drag a text box to the desired size. To alter the size of the box use the selection tool.

The Paragraph window allows you to choose text alignment and add indents and drop caps.To unhyphenate uncheck the Hyphenate box. Additional text options can be found in the dock:

Text Wrap changes how text works around images and how close the two are to each other.

Shortcut to paragraph

Caps

Columns

Gutter

Kern & Tracking

Size & Leading

Font options

X&Y Location

EffectsText

WrapsCorner Options

Frame & Content options Alignment

Transparency

Width / Height Scale X or Y Rotate / Shear Turn / Flip

IndentTools

Drop Cap& SpaceTools

Change Spacing

Type of wrap

The Links panel shows you where the fi les placed in your document are located. Right click on a fi le name and choose Relink to update the fi le location.

When you see a red question mark next to a fi le name, you must relink the broken link.

LinksWindow>Links

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