Key Features of Indesign for my Final Product for my A2 Media Studies Coursework

1. Key Features of
Adobe Indesign
to use for my Final Piece
A2 Media Studies

2. Page Setup
• Columns – for equal widths
• Bleed – to show the print area
• Page size – to have the same
size as a compact newspaper

3. 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

4. Toolbar
• Fonts and sizes
• Text with numbers, strikethrough, metrics, placing,
italic, letter size
• Paragraphs, drop capitals,
alignment, justified
• Hyphenate
• Columns and spacing

5. 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

6. 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