Lesson Overview
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
Work with layers.
Create and edit text frames and graphics frames.
Import graphics into graphics frames.
Crop, move, and scale graphics.
Adjust the space between frames.
Add captions to graphics frames.
Place and link graphics frames.
Change the shape of frames.
Wrap text around an object or graphic.
Create complex frame shapes.
Convert frame shapes to other shapes.
Modify and align objects.
Select and modify multiple objects.
Create a QR code.
Add arrowheads to a line.
This lesson will take approximately 90 minutes.
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InDesign frames can contain text, graphics, or color. As you work with frames, you’ll discover that Adobe InDesign provides you with a great amount of flexibility and control over your design.
Getting started
In this lesson, you’ll work on a pair of spreads that make up a four-page newsletter. You’ll add text and images and make several modifications to the objects on the two spreads.
To ensure that the preferences and default settings of your Adobe InDesign program match those used in this lesson, move the InDesign Defaults file to a different folder following the procedure in “Saving and restoring the InDesign Defaults file” on pages 4–5.
Start Adobe InDesign. To ensure that the panels and menu commands match those used in this lesson, choose Window > Workspace > [Advanced], and then choose Window > Workspace > Reset Advanced. To begin working, you’ll open an InDesign document that is already partially completed.
NOTEIf an alert is displayed when you open the sample document, click Update Links.
Choose File > Open, and open the 04_Start.indd file in the Lesson04 folder, located inside the Lessons folder within the InDesignCIB folder on your hard drive. (If the Missing Fonts dialog box displays, click Sync Fonts, and then click Close after the fonts have successfully synced from Typekit.)
Choose File > Save As, rename the file 04_Objects.indd, and save it in the Lesson04 folder.
NOTEAs you work through the lesson, move panels or change the zoom level to a magnification that works best for you.
To see what the finished document looks like, open the 04_End.indd file in the same folder. You can leave this document open to act as a guide as you work. When you’re ready to resume working on the lesson document, choose Window > 04_Objects.indd or click its tab at the top of the document window.
TIPIn the printing industry, facing pages in a multipage publication, as well as the front and back cover pages because they’re printed side-by-side, are commonly referred to as printer spreads.
The newsletter that you will work on in this lesson contains two spreads: The spread on the left contains page 4 (the back page on the left) and page 1 (the cover on the right); the spread on the right contains pages 2 and 3 (the center spread). Keep this page arrangement in mind as you navigate from page to page. Here you see the finished newsletter.
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