The document describes steps taken to layout and design a page in InDesign, including: - Setting the page size and adding columns - Adjusting bleed, slug, borders, and columns - Creating and formatting shapes and text boxes - Inserting and fitting images - Arranging layers and exporting the final design as an InDesign file or JPEG image

1. Here I can change
the page size to
various presets
including A4, A5,
Letter etc.
There is also the
option to choose a
custom page size I changed the option to have
2 columns on my page. The
gutter means that there will
be a 4mm space between
the columns
By clicking on ‘More Options’ I was
able to adjust the Bleed and Slug

2. Slug
Bleed
Page border
Columns
Here is what the final
page layout looks like

3. 1. Used the
Rectangle Frame
Tool to create two
rectangular
shaped boxes
2. Then used the
Fill tool to change
the colour of the
background of the
rectangular shape
3. Next I used the
Stroke tool to
change the colour
of the outline
4. I then used the toolbar at the
top of the screen and adjusted the
weight and style of the outline
5. Here is how it turned out,
with a pink background and a
purple spotted outline

4. 1. Here I selected the other
rectangular shape and selected
File > Place…
2. I then chose an image from
my desktop

5. 3. This is how the
image appeared
on the page,
inside of the box
4. By holding shift and
clicking on the image, it
brought up this task bar.
I selected ‘Fitting’ and
“Fit frame proportionally’
so that the image filled
the space of the
rectangular shape.
5. Here is how the picture
looked on the page

6. 1. Here I inserted some more rectangle boxes. By
clicking on the page it brought up this dialogue
box, which gave me the option to insert another
identical rectangle box, or the option to adjust the
size.
2. Once again I selected
File > Place…
This time I selected four
different images so that I
could insert them into
each of the boxes.
3. Here is where the first
image was placed. The rest
of the images were loaded
into my cursor so that I
could just click on the
boxes and they would
appear there.
4. This is how it looked
after placing all four
images.

7. 1. I selected the pink rectangular
shape and expanded it so that it filled
the whole page. This was so that it
could be used as a background.
2. I then selected the layers palette so
that I could move the rectangle behind
the rest of the shapes and images.

8. 1. I inserted two more shapes by using the
Rectangular Frame Tool and the
Rectangle Tool. This second option was
slightly more difficult to move around.
Once I had clicked on the box, I selected
the text tool so that I was able to type.
2. Moreover, I held ctrl and
clicked inside the box and was
able to select the ‘Fill with
Placeholder Text’ option. This
filled my box with gibberish text.
3. Finally I changed the
colour of the text by using
the Fill tool.

9. 1. To save my document I went
onto File > Save As…
2. This allowed me to save this as
an InDesign document so that I
could open it and edit it again

10. 1. Alternatively, there were other
ways to save my document.
Here I selected File > Export…
to open up the other options.
2. Here I decided to save the
document as a JPEG image 3. After clicking on ‘Save’, I was
given the option to change the
quality and resolution of the
image