Key Features of Adobe Indesign

to use for my Final Piece

A2 Media Studies

Page Setup• Columns – for equal widths• Bleed – to show the print area• Page size – to have the same

size as a compact newspaper

Toolbar• Type tool – to use when typing headlines/

stories• Pen tool – used to create cut outs from the

images• Rectangle frame tool – to draw shapes to

place images in• Rectangle tool – to draw ordinary shapes• Eyedropper tool – to fill in an area of the

same colour as another area• Hand tool and zoom tool – to view the

document, by panning, zooming in and out

Toolbar

• Fonts and sizes• Text with numbers, strikethrough, metrics, placing,

italic, letter size• Paragraphs, drop capitals,

alignment, justified• Hyphenate• Columns and spacing

Pages and other tabs• Pages – quick navigation

through the pages• Text wrap – to wrap objects and

text around each other i.e. photos around articles

• Colour and swatches – easy to reach and create own colour scheme

Keyboard Shortcuts• ‘W’ key: switch between editor and preview mode• ‘T’ key: type tool• ‘F’ key: rectangle frame tool• ‘M’ key: rectangle tool• ‘Z’ key: zoom tool• ‘\’ key: line tool• ‘I’ key: eyedropper tool