3 important tools for indesign beginners

     Today I'll be going over the 3 most important tools for InDesign beginners. All tools are extremely beginner friendly and should be really easy to learn. Without further ado, lets get into it!

 




1. Fill     

    I almost always use the fill tool when working in InDesign, it's really helpful when you need to color a bunch of shapes in really quickly. I think that beginners would really benefit from this tool because they may be filling their shapes by using the properties panel on the left of the workspace. This video is perfect for beginners, as they explain it really well and take it nice and slow.

2. Image Trace

     The image trace tool is a simple but amazing effect, and I think that everyone who is new to InDesign should learn this technique. This video clearly and concisely explains how to use how to use the Image Trace tool, and two other extremely useful tools. The Image Trace tool is fairly self explanatory, however it is used to select the outline of something that in an image and cut it out of that image, sort of like cutting out a picture from a magazine to use for a collage or scrapbook.




3. Guides

    Guides are one of the most vital tools to using InDesign most effectively. Guides provide a way to add a straight vertical or horizontal line, so that you can line things up easier. This video has a short but very informative segment on guides, and shows the most simple way of creating them. Even if you aren't interested in learning about guides, this video covers a lot of the basic tools, and some slightly more advanced tools, and I think that this videos is worth a watch if you are new to InDesign.

And that's all three! I hope you enjoyed my short list of the most important tools in InDesign for beginners! Hopefully you took something valuable away from this blog post, even if it was just one thing!


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