Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Happy Thursday! Today we will discuss the functions of the default palettes in InDesign, and go in-depth with the Text tools and formatting control panel.
Objective:
- Identify and effectively use the functions available in the default Palettes.
- Create and modify text using the InDesign tools.
- Place text onto a page and format it using the Character and Paragraph Formatting Controls.
Vocabulary Words:
- Default Settings
- Pages Palette
- Layers Palette
- Links Palette
- Stroke Palette
- Color Palette
- Swatches Palette
- Fill
- Stroke
- Type Tool
- Type on a Path Tool
- Character Palette
- Character Formatting Controls
- Paragraph Formatting Controls
- Font
- Leading
- Kerning
- Tracking
- Vertical Scale
- Horizontal Scale
- Baseline
- Baseline Shift
- Skew
- Alignment (Left, Right, Center, Justified)
- Indent
- Drop Cap
Links:
None
Topics Discussed:
- Adobe InDesign CS5.5
Assignment:
- Follow along with the in-class demonstration.
- In your InDesign document, create three pages:
- Page 1: At least (4) four pictures of you in photo frames of any size or shape, plus one (1) picture of anything else (school appropriate!), plus your name in 24pt type or larger.
- Page 2: Any shape with a different colored stroke and fill, placed on a new layer (Layer 2).
- Page 3: Your name in 72pt type across the top of the page, and two columns of 12pt overflowed placeholder text (placed with the “Fill with Placeholder Text” command). All paragraphs should start with a 2-line Drop Cap, be Left Justified, and should be double-spaced (adjust the leading), have the tracking (space between letters), the text vertical width and horizontal height adjusted.
- When your document meets all the requirements, save it and all the photographs you used into a new folder called “YOUR NAME – InDesign Week 1”
- Connect to the server and copy this folder into the correct folder on the StudentsTempFiles volume. (StudentsTempFiles -> Marmolejo CGD 1-2 -> Student Drop Folder -> YOUR CLASS PERIOD -> 2.0 – InDesign Week 1
Assigned: August 21st, 2014
Due Date: August 22nd, 2014