How to Use Adobe InDesign CS3

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How to Use Adobe InDesign CS3. by erika hansen and morgan stackman← oakton high school ←. What is InDesign?. publishing software used to create media such as magazines, books, and other publications we use it to design all pages for yearbook and newspaper - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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  • How to UseAdobe InDesign CS3by erika hansen and morgan stackmanoakton high school

  • What is InDesign?publishing software used to create media such as magazines, books, and other publicationswe use it to design all pages for yearbook and newspapereach document with two facing pages is a spreadhundreds of spreads make up a yearbook/newspaper

  • open InDesign through Adobe Products folder on desktopnew doc file new document

    save in proper deadline and spread folderfile save as 4770-page#-page#-spreadname.inddex: 4770-030-031-crew.inddOpening Files and Documents

  • The Basicsspreadpalettestoolbar

  • The Basics contgrids:grey boxes are 2 pica x 2 picawhite lines are 0p6margins:anything outside will not be printed

  • The Basics conttwo picaspica: unit of measurement used in InDesign and Photoshop

  • The Basics contsize of box in picas when sizing pictures, round up to the next whole number example: 22p5.93 is 23pmust be 300 pixels per inchuse the rounded size of the box in InDesign to crop pictures in Photoshop

  • Numbering Pages layout numbering & section optionsstart page numbering at [insert first page #] ok numbers used in the production of the book shows on final spread

  • The Toolbarselection tool direct selection tool text tool line tool picture box tool rotation tool *eyedropper tool magnification tool fill tool helpful tip*if you need to access more tools, click and hold down over a tool with an arrow

  • Selection Toolsselection tool direct selection tool selection tooldirect selection toolused to move objectsselect object before typing or placing photocan be used for general selection throughout InDesignused to move to pictures within the frame helpful to indentify bad cropping

  • Text Toolstext tool click and drag to create a text boxuse the stroke drop-down menu to give or take away a bordertext boxes should rarely have a border (0 pt stroke)

  • Text Tools conttext tool how to fill with placeholder textselect text boxtypefill with placeholder text the placeholder text will look like this

  • Text Tools contfontfont style (bold, italic, etc)font sizeleading (size of space between lines of text)style of text (subscript, superscript, etc)tracking (size of space between letters)vertical scale (stretches letters vertically)horizontal scale (stretches letters horizontally)skew (the tilt of letters in degrees)

  • Text Tools contparagraph stylefirst line left indentleft indentright indentlast line right indentdrop cap (in number of lines)drop cap (number of letters)hyphenate paragraphscolumns

  • Eyedropper Tooleyedropper toolused to pull color from pictureseyedropper tool click on toolto select a color:place eyedropper over desired colorclick (eyedropper should switch sides and turn black)open swatches tab (on right toolbar)click new swatch

  • Line and Rotation Toolsrotate toolline tool use to draw linesadd a stroke to the line (how thick it is) hold down the shift key to make a straight line

    change the line weightrotate tool select picture then click rotate tool to turn the pictureline tool

  • magnification tool fill tool Other Toolsmagnification tool to zoom out, hold down alt and click (the + should change to a -)fill tool another way to make new swatches change color of text can input exact colors using RGB and CMYK

  • Pagesmaster pagesadd pagesdelete pagesselect pagesselect pages use this to select which page you want to work on double click on page to jump straight to itmaster pages anything on master page appears on every spread in document (ex. pica boxes) items on master are inaccessible during regular editingdouble click on master page to access it

  • Linkslinksred stop sign file is saved wrongalways remember to check your links!yellow yield sign file has been alteredif red or yellow signs show up, you MUST replace photomake sure all files are named correctly (4770-page#-page#-spreadname.indd)

  • Strokewhen you create a picture box, there is no line, or stroke, around the edges

  • Swatchesto select a color from the picture:use eyedropper tool to pick color from picture

    double click on RGB Swatchfind color in swatches then can reuse colorcan change the color of the fill and border

  • Character and Character Stylescharacter this can be used to change font instead of toolbarcharacter styles if prearranged fonts and types are set up, find them here the styles have specified fonts, sizes and strokes assigned to them highlight text click on type you need

  • always check to make sure the text is de-hyphenated paragraphuncheck hyphenate box

    Paragraphsee text tools pages for more information

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