In Design Tutorial.

First of all, open In Design.

Select from the quick screen, which previous document you wanted to work on, you can also select to start a new document, book document or even the library selection.

Set Up.

This is where you set up what you want to make for the final outcome. Here you choose to make the size of the paper the number of pages and the orientation. You need to set up the size of your document, how many pages you would like, so that it all answers the brief.

The bleed tool is to give you some leeway for when you are adding images, this means if there are some inaccuracies for the images on the page, it you are to cut it to short then it allows for some margins. The standard bleed margin is 3mm.

This is what the page would look like, this has the document set up in it now for our Indesign brief.

On the selection bar at the top right of the screen you can have, drop down bars for each of the tools there. if you click the page tool you can then select from the master selection if you want to add extra pages or re arrange how you would want them all to set out and become sorted in the right style you would want them to do so.

This also can help you to navigate quickly around all your pages if you are making a large scale document.

This is the layout which has been created from the making of my set-up earlier.

Type and Image.

If your text is to big for the text box yet you have set it to the correct size which you want, you can then add more text by simply clicking on the red box in the bottom right area of the text box, this will then grab the additional text and place it into another box. if you then change the size of one of the boxes, the text will flow freely in between each of the designs and this then creates a strong final outcome for what you wanted to achieve. 

Once you have things laid out on the page you can then click W and this will take you to preview mode so you can see a much more accurate preview of what you want the final outcome to look like. This can be helpful to save you money and also to change the way that you can see and alter the layout of things. 


If you are going to add some images towards InDesign, you need to adjust some images on photoshop, the best way to do this is to make sure you check the following things. 


File Format  (TIFF / PSD)
Actual Size 
Colour Mode Correct (CMYK / Grayscale) 
Resolution (300 DPI)




Once these are correct you can then insert a new image to the InDesign document, this is straight forward, you simply click, File > Place > Select Image, and then it should go into the box which you can make for the image, this can then be changed to adjust the best scale for your outcome. 


You can change the placing of the image with the white arrow select, and then move the whole outcome of the image, this is then done with the black arrow and makes it all work to the right standard. If you hold down the Shit and Cmd buttons it will then change the scale of the image but on a scale which keeps it within the box, however unless this is a vector based image the quality could be jeopardised if you are increasing the size.


The image quality will be a little less as you are not adding the image you are creating a link to the image, the one which appears on your page is a low quality preview to just allow you to position the image and see how it works with the rest of the work.






How To Save.


File > Save As > Select Student Work Place > Select Folder Where You Want It Placed.


Make sure you save all the images that you are going to use in the same folder as the documents itself, if you do not do this you will have some problems later on with missing images and then you will have some quality problems.