Introduction to Adobe InDesign

• Desktop publishing (DTP)


  The production of page designs with your computer using a special DTP software that integrates text and images
• Back in the early days, most of the books, flyers, pamphlets, and posters were created in publishing houses or commercial printing houses
• The advancement of computer technology both hardware and software, plus the improvement in internet connectivity greatly affects the popularity and importance of DTP
• Layout


  How the text or picture are set on a page
• Adobe InDesign


  • A design application that allows you to integrate text, graphics, and images to produce professional-quality documents for print, the web, and other apps
  • Used primarily in DTP applications including book layouts, newsletters, brochures, posters, flyers, cards, and magazines
  • Has powerful capabilities and flexibilities for the seamless integration of publishing components in many layouts and design styles
  • A full-featured page layout program created by Adobe to compete against the field-dominating QuarkXPress software
• Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Photoshop are combined to make Adobe InDesign
• DTP software examples

  • Lucidpress
  • Scribus
  • Adobe FrameMaker
  • Serif PagePlus
  • Microsoft Publisher (free)
  • Affinity Publisher
  • Adobe InDesign
  • QuarkXPress
• In demand was QuarkXPress before Adobe was popular
• DTP document examples

  • Brochures
  • Business cards
  • Birthday cards
  • Certificates
  • Newsletter
• InDesign workspace


  The arrangement of the various elements in the program including the panels, bards, and windows
• Parts of the InDesign workspace

  • Menu Bar
  • Control Panel
  • Panel Dock
  • Tools Panel
  • Work Area / Document Window
• Menu Bar


  Located at the top, organizes the different commands by arranging them in menus
• Control Panel


  Contains various options you can use to edit the present document you're working on (color of font, etc.)
• Panel Dock


  Shows the various tools for use in your work
• Tools Panel


  • Contains the various tools for editing, creating, page elements, and drawings
  • Are grouped together according to their use and functions
• Work Area / Document Window


  Shows the present document you are working on
• Tools Panel


  • Displayed by default on the left side of the screen
  • Can move the tools panel by dragging the top part of the panel
  • Can display the tools panel in two columns by clicking the double arrow on the top of the tool panel
• InDesign tools groups

  • Drawing and Painting Tools
  • Type Tools
  • Selection Tools
  • Navigation and Zoom Tools
  • Transform Tools
  • Measuring Tools
  • Scissor Tool
• InDesign tools

  • Selection
  • Direct Selection
  • Page
  • Pen
  • Type
  • Line
  • Pencil
  • Rectangle Frame
  • Gap
  • Scissors
  • Rotate
  • Scale
  • Gradient Swatch
  • Free Transform
  • Note
  • Eyedropper
  • Hand
  • Zoom
  • Fill/Stroke (Foreground Background)
  • Apply Color/None
  • Normal
• INDESIGN WORKSPACE

  • Has 5 parts unlike PS with 9.
  • The arrangement of the various elements in the program including the panels, bards, and windows.
• Drawing and Painting Tools - Allow you to draw basic shapes including rectangles, circles, ellipses, polygons, and free-form shapes.
• Type Tools - Allow you to create, edit, and format the text on your document.
• Selection Tools - Allow you to select object on your active workspace.
• Navigation and Zoom Tools - allow you to move around the work area and control the view of the selected area.
• Transform Tools - Allow you to reorient, reshape, and change the size of the object.
• Measuring Tools - Needed for accurate measurement in a document.
• Scissor Tool - Cuts and splits paths and frames.
• Selection - Selects the entire object, text, and images.
• Direct Selection - selects points or path segments within objects
• Page - select pages and adjust them as desired
• Pen - contains different drawing tool functions
• Type - contains different types of tool functions
• Line - draws individual line sgements
• Pencil -draws figures and images just like a pen on a paper
• Rectangle Frame - Draws square and rectangle placeholder
• Gap - Controls gap between a selection of objects
• Rotate - Rotates objects to the desired angle or orientation
• Scissors - Cuts or splits path and frames
• Scale - Allows you to resize an object to scale
• Gradient Swatch - Adjust the start and end gradient in an object