Assignments Calendar

Saturday, May 30, 2020

Different Categories of a Paragraph


  • Sidebars
  • Captions
  • Body text
  • Heads
  • Deckheads
  • Bylines
  • Credits
  • Subheads

Different Types of Articles


  • Lead Story
  • Second Story
  • Short news items
  • Feature and sidebar
  • Editor's letter
  • Reader's letters
  • Spotlight
  • Neighborhood report
  • Calendar of events
  • Table of Contents

Adobe Color Themes


  • Allows you to select from a handful of color palettes for the color of the book

Fundamentals -Color-coding each layer with rectangle box for images and text


  • for planning images and text, it is useful to first plan each page out with rectangle tool
  • the rectangle tool is applied to a layer intended for either text or images
  • color-coding each layer so that when we use rectanle text tool we plan out the documents by assessing which text box is an image and which one is a text
  • one layer with rectangle is blue and and then another layer with rectangle is red





  • as you can see, by double-clicking on color icon next to layer title, we see a pop-up showing what color we want that layer to defined with. this is helpful for organizing the layers that each contain specific kind of content (images, text, etc.)


text-frame tool


  • Using the text frame tool to plan out the spaces of each page (i,e, images and text)

Text Dragging within Box - Edit>Preferences>Type


  • Edit>Preferences>Type
  • Check "enable in view" so text within text boxes can be selected and dragged wherever





Selecting and draging text box box into another text box


  • grab the blue square in text box and hilding shift, release when box is in the text box you want it to be in

InDesign - User Guide

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/user-guide.html