Research And Planning: InDesign Tutorial

Research And Planning: InDesign Tutorial

1. First I found a review of a film on the Internet and saved it into word. I also found a picture to match the text but saved it as a JPEG rather than putting it on my word document.

2. Then I opened up InDesign and created a new document. I made use that the document had 3 columns for my text to be placed onto.

3. After that I had to get my text onto my InDesign document. I did this by pressing File, Place and selecting my document. This added only a bit of the text in a small box. I then moved the box into the area i wanted it to be in but not all of my text was on the page. To get all of my text on the page I clicked the small red cross button. After I had done that I made another box inside the column which added some more of my text onto the page. I did this twice until all of my text filled the columns

4. I then needed to add a title so that the reader knew what the text was about. I did this by using the text tool and drawing a box where i wanted the title to be. I then changed the text to 'Film Review: The Lovely Bones'.

5. Once I had added the title I needed to add a picture. I did this by using the same method as I did for putting my text on. I pressed File, Place and selected my picture. I then placed the picture where I needed it to be.

6. Finally I needed to change the colour of the background. I did this by using the rectangle tool. I drew a rectangle around my whole document and changed the colour. Because i had drew a rectangle around my whole document it made the text go behind the rectangle. To change this I pressed Object, Arrange and send to back. This my my text and photo 'reappear'.