Welcome to our Adobe InDesign unit! Adobe InDesign is the industry-standard software for page layout. It’s what professionals use to produce all kinds of online and hardcopy publications. Today we will begin learning about the Adobe software suite, and the properties of the InDesign page layout software.
Objective:
- I can identify and effectively use the Toolbar, Control Panels and default Palettes in InDesign to produce and modify shapes and photo frames so I can place a picture into a photo frame using multiple techniques.
Vocabulary Words:
- Default Settings
- Toolbar
- Control Panel
- Palette
- Shape Tool
- Photo Frame Tool
- Stroke
- Fill
- Place Command
- Headline
- Subheading
- Caption
Links:
- Google Classroom
- Video: What is InDesign?
- Video: Create a New Document
- Video: Apply Text and Art in Frames
Topics Discussed:
- Adobe InDesign CC 2023
Assignment:
- Follow along with the in-class demonstration, or watch the attached videos under the Links header.
- Produce a new InDesign document featuring the following:
- At least (1) one picture of you
- Four (4) pictures of anything else (school appropriate!)
- Your name in 24pt type or larger
- One (1) text frame per picture, in 10pt type, explaining what the picture means to you (captions)
- Save the file as “Your Name – InDesign Day 1.indd”, upload the completed file to today’s assignment post in Google Classroom, and click the “Hand in” button to turn the document in by tomorrow, Friday, August 25th.
Assigned: August 24th, 2023
Teacher Pacing Due Date: August 25th, 2023