Indesign Class Activity

Today in class, our teacher taught us how to use adobe InDesign to help layout our magazines. I pay to have all of the different adobe programs but I mostly just use Photoshop and Illustrator; I had never heard of the InDesign before. Since most of the adobe programs function and basically work the same way with some minor differences, I was able to pick up how to use it pretty quickly. I'm actually really glad he showed us it because I had previously used Illustrator to put together my two page spread, but Indesign made it a lot easier. He showed us the basic functions of how to insert spaces for pictures and how to create columns for the article and fix the margins to our liking. It makes it a lot easier to put in pictures and to add in the article which I really appreciated. I think going into the third quarter, I will be using InDesign to do some revisions and to re-layout my pages because thats specifically what the program was made for. I think overall it will make things more simple and be less time consuming for me in terms of trying to figure out how to get it to work.

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