Indesign has various features which enable the user to complete various different designs, such as guideline which allow you to space and position the different elements of a page correctly and to the house style. The house style is very important for the identity of a publication, as the pages are of a consistant layout and design to show flow from article to article.
Using the student photographs that we have taken previously, we have started to design and edit our front covers of our student magazines. We had previously completed quick sketchs of ideas for our front covers on paper so that we had an original idea to work from when it came to working with InDesign.
We were introduced to InDesign and shown the various tools that we might find helpful in completing our covers. There were tools that you would expect in any desktop publishing programme, for example:
- the text tool: this allows you to insert text into a designated box, and is similar to the 'type on path tool' where you can type on a line and therefore in different directions and at different angles.
- the select tool: this simply allows you to select points and elements that you want to work with.
- the hand tool: allows you to 'pick up' and move different elements of the page.
- the pencil tool
- the shape tool
- the zoom tool
- the eyedropper tool
However, there are many different tools in InDesign, which toegether make it very different to any other publishing programme. For example, the fitting tool allows you to fit an image into a certain shape.
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