Adobe InDesign Workshop

Given by Mr. Jamal Awada

November 05

Last updated on Nov. 17, 05

1- Setting up Pages including:

• Setting up basic layout options
• Laying out pages with frames
• Numbering pages
• F 12 = go to pages
• Make sure you are working on the Master pages
• For Automatic page numbering: create box at the bottom of the page => click on T in the tool box (for text) => click inside the box => go to Type => insert special character => auto page number
• Copy the created box and “paste in place” on the second master page
• Changing Numbering and Section Options
• F 12 = go to page
• Highlight page 1
• Layout => numbering + section options => start page numbers at…
• Using masters
• Applying Master Pages to Multiple Document Pages
• Shapes and designs
• To lock a shape: go to Object => lock position
• To align 2 objects: select them both => click on Align Top in the top margin.
• Colors and Swatches
• F6 = color window
• To save color: window => swatches (F5)=> right click on top arrow => new color swatch (same for other swatches)
• Gradients

• ASSIGNMENT:

a) Number pages automatically on Master Page

b) Change the numbering of page 1 into 30

c) Create a new color

d) Add the color to the color swatch

e) Create a new gradient

f) Create a shape and change the size of its border into 30.

g) Change the shape of its border into a decorative one

h) Fill it with the new gradient you created

2- Working with text including:

1. About text frames & Setting text frame properties
• T tool => create a text frame
• Properties of text frame:
• Command B or Object or right click => text frame options
• In text frame options:

a) Decide on colors

b) Fixed column width

c) Spacing between columns

d) Background color

e) Leading (120% of copy font size; ex: body font size = 10pts => leading = 12pts

2. Adding text to frames
• Go to Type (or right click) => Fill with placeholder text
3. Applying Fills and Strokes to Frames
4. Applying Transparency
• Windows => transparency [shift F10] (change opacity for effectiveness)
• Try the options under transparency
• Change opacity
5. Transparency Effects
6. Editing text
7. Finding and changing text
8. Combining text and graphics
• Place picture => fit contents proportionally
• Create circle => fill it with text
• Create circle or draw a zigzag line (with pen tool) => type a path by selecting “Type on a path” tool (shift T) => hide frame if you want
• If we want to place a picture as the background of a text, we need to place the picture then draw a text box on top of it
• If we want to make the background picture and the text stick together, we select both => Object => Group (Command G)
9. Text Wrap
• Windows => types and tables => text wrap

• ASSIGNMENT:

a) Create a text box

b) Fill text box with text (2 columns)

c) Put a frame around the text + insert spacing all around

d) Place a picture in the middle of the text in text wrap mode

e) Make a frame for that picture

f) Make a picture in the middle of the text transparent

g) Draw a zigzag line + type a path

3- Setting Type including:

• Working with text import, Formatting characters, Formatting paragraphs
• Create a text (text box => type => fill with placeholder text)
• Change font, font size, leading, all caps, small caps, superscript, subscript, underline, italicize…
• Align, indent, drop cap, change number of columns, hyphenate (or not!)
• We can do all this from: Window => Type and tables => Character OR Type => Character
• Working with character style
• Type => Character styles (word inside a paragraph) => right arrow => new character style => name it.
• To update the character style: double click on it => change what you want => create shortcut if you want
• Working with paragraph style
• Type => Paragraph styles => right arrow => new paragraph style => name it.
• If you see a + (which means that there has already been made a specific style) => click on ALT (option) => then click another time on the paragraph style
• Creating outlines
• Highlight a few words => put them in the desired size => Type => create outlines => modify the desired width of the outline
• If the words are grouped and you want to modify each letter/word alone => Object => ungroup => view => uncheck snap to guides
• If this does not work and you want to ungroup numbers: Object => compound paths => release
• Corner effect
• Create a picture box
• Object => corner effects => change the frame and the size (you can also color the frame)
• Copying type attributes with the eyedropper tool
• Highlight text you want to change => click on the eye dropper tool => click on the text style we want to copy
• Clipping path
• Create a text box => insert a picture with a white background => Window => Types and Tables => Text Wrap => Contour options: detect edges => right click on image box => arrange => send to back
• Finding and changing text
• Edit => Find/Change
• How to save your workspace
• Window => workspace => save workspace (give it a name)
• After I have logged out, if I log in again and I want the same workspace: Window => workspace => I click on the name of the workspace I gave to the one I saved
• Blending Modes (on Photoshop)
• Open two pictures in Photoshop
• Select one with the rectangular marquee tool => copy and paste it inside the frame of the other one
• Use the eraser (make the brush bigger) to erase the borders of the one we want to blend with the other photo
• OR Select the second picture with the rectangular marquee tool => go to Select => feather => modify the number (50?) => Select => inverse => delete
• Insert pictures in text
• Write a text using a big font / font size => Object => Create outlines => select white arrow => file => place => choose picture => OK => fit proportionally
• Drop shadow
• Write text in a text box => Object => drop shadow + check preview box and alter as you wish.

• ASSIGNMENT:

a) Create a text, change font, font size, leading, all caps, small caps, superscript, subscript, underline, italicize…

b) Align, indent, drop cap, change number of columns, hyphenate (or not!)

c) Save the character style, name it, and apply it somewhere else in the paragraph

d) Save the paragraph style, name it, and apply it to another paragraph

e) Create outlines to the word “SCHOOL” (font size 45, bold, border color = yellow, inside color = red)

f) Create corner effect to a picture frame size 15, color blue

g) Clipping path: Create a text box => insert a picture with a white background => detect edges => send picture to back

h) Save your workspace

Command + Alt + Shift => to make pictures bigger proportionally