Intro to InDesign 2017 – Pages, Palettes, Layers and Type

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:

  • 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:
 
Topics Discussed:
  • Adobe InDesign CC 2017

Assignment:

  1. Follow along with the in-class demonstration, or watch the videos in the Links section above.
  2. In the same InDesign document that we have been working with this week, use the Pages Palette to add two additional pages:
    • Page 2: Five different shapes 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.
  3. When your document meets all the requirements, save it as “YOUR NAME – InDesign Week 1”
  4. Upload a copy to the Google Classroom assignment titled “InDesign Week 1” by end of day on Friday, August 25th.

Assigned: August 22nd, 2017
Teacher Pacing Due Date: August 25th, 2017