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All right, it's time to get
started with our first document.

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However I'd like to introduce something to you before we begin. It's this website papersizes.org.

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What it does is, it lists the different paper sizes, along with the dimensions.

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You'll find a wide variety of sizes here, from ISO standard sizes, to American sizes.

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ISO stands for International Organization for Standards, which is a body that

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determines recognized standards across many things,
including paper. Whilst there are multiple paper

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standards, the most common and recognizable one is the 
A-series, which is standard in office

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environments, with A4 being the standard office document size. The advantage of the ISO system

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is how it scales with each size, being either twice as big, or half the size of its adjacent paper size.

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Here you'll also find other paper sizes for functional use, like postcard, posters, or

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newspaper sizes etc. If you click on one of the sizes, you can even change the unit as per your

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requirement, or understanding, and it will show you the calculation. While working on InDesign,

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no matter what designs you indulge yourself in, good knowledge of the different paper

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sizes, is always necessary. Alright, so back to InDesign. Once you double-click the InDesign icon,

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this is where you'll land. This course is illustrated on Adobe InDesign 2021 version,

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which is presently the latest one, so if you're using a very old version, the icons and layout

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might be a little different than what you see here. These icons that you see, are the documents

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I've worked on recently, hence for ease, they are populating here, so I can just double-click on any

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of them to open and start working. To create a new document, click the 'create new' button,

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and you'll reach here. You'll find the main screen with different sizes, along with their dimensions,

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and now you have some idea about the names and
dimensions already, thanks to papersizes.org.

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On top, you'll find a few tabs, like saved, and print, and web, or mobile. These are nothing, but 

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sizes, pertaining to the segments, so when I click the print tab, and then click view all presets,

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it gives me a variety of presets that are used in print media. You also get a wide variety of

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templates, you can use without worrying much about designing, and this is something you'll

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see if you've subscribed to the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite. You might not find this option

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otherwise. Similarly, clicking the web, or mobile tabs will offer presets and templates, pertaining

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to the relevant sizes, so let's click the print tab, and select letter as our size. On the right,

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are the settings, so by default, you'll find 'picas' is the default unit for InDesign,

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so if you click it, you'll find other options, you can choose from. Let's choose 'inches.' This

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tells you that the letter size is 8.5 inches wide, and 11 inches tall, if the orientation

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is set to 'portrait.' Change the orientation to 'landscape,' and it just flips the sizes,

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making the width 11 inches, and height 8.5 inches. 
In the pages option, if you know beforehand,  

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how many pages you want your document to 
have, you can mention that number here, else,  

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let it be 1, or let's change it to 5 for this 
demonstration. It can easily be changed later,  

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while in the document. 'Facing pages' option 
should be checked, if you want your document  

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to display the pages, much like in a book, 
where there are two sides facing each other.  

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If you want to design a poster, for example, then 
you ideally want to keep it unchecked. 'Start  

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number' is by default set to 1, assuming you are 
just starting to compose your book, as this option  

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is mostly used while you're composing a book, 
so what happens is, when a book is graphically  

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intense, and has a lot of images, it can slow 
down your computer, so it's always advisable  

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to divide the book into chapters, and for each 
chapter, there should be a new document made,  

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so in such a situation any chapter after 
chapter 1, wouldn't really start with page 1,  

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so let's say chapter 2 starts from page 15, 
so you'd mention 15 here. You'll get a better  

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idea when we learn how to create a book layout, so 
let's not worry too much about it yet. A 'primary  

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text frame' is a special kind of page frame used 
to control the primary text flow in a document.  

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You'll have a fair idea when we discuss it in one 
of the videos, so for now let's keep it unchecked.  

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Then comes the column, for now, I'd like 
to just have one column in my document.  

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I'll show you soon enough, how to change the 
number of columns, after our document is created.  

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The column gutter here is the space 
between the two columns. Now obviously,  

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whenever we design a document, be it any document, 
we don't start typing from the edge of the page,  

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because it would look too clumsy then, and that's 
where margins come into the picture. When you  

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increase the margin on one side, all the 
other sides get updated automatically,  

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as they are linked, by default, so if you wish 
to change the margins individually of all sides,  

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unlink it by clicking this icon, and you should 
be able to update the margins individually,  

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as you please. Click it again, and it's linked. 
'Bleed' is ink that prints beyond the trim edge  

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of the page, to ensure it extends to the edge 
of the page, after trimming, as there is a degree  

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of movement when printing on any press.You 
should always create some bleed on all edges,  

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where bleed is needed. Supplying your job without 
bleed may result in white lines, when we trim it.  

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I'll demonstrate this once we are in the 
document, so let's set it to 0.125 inch for now,  

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and much like margins, this can also be set 
individually, using the link, or unlink button  

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here. When a document goes to the printing press, 
there are a few technical marks printed outside  

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the document area, and these are important for 
high quality printing. The 'Slug' area is just  

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one of these optional page marks. Essentially, 
the area is located outside of the normal printing  

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boundaries, and it contains information about 
the printing job, so we'll keep it '0' for now.  

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One last thing to talk about here is that 
now that we have entered our numbers,  

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and let's suppose this is the size and the 
settings we often use, so it's always better to  

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save this as a template, so let's rename it here 
as 'my template', and click this icon to save,  

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and it brings you to this screen, so type in your 
template name once again, and hit save preset. Now  

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next time when we'll need to create a document, 
using the same settings, all we need to do is,  

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click the saved tab, and here you'll find the 
template sitting comfortably, so click it,  

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and you'll be introduced to your document. Let 
me go to pages two and three, by double clicking  

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the pages thumbnail. You see these two pages 
are facing pages, the option of which we saw  

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earlier. Let's minimize the pages panel, as we'll 
discuss it in another video. Let's also close the  

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paragraph styles panel. We'll discuss it later. 
Now let's go to file, and then document setup,  

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here you'll find most of the options that we 
saw earlier, while creating this document.  

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We can always update the number of pages 
here, so from 5, let's make it 8 pages.  

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Also, unchecking the facing pages option will show 
us the pages individually, like we see on MS Word.  

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You can always change the page size, as well as 
the orientation from here. You see how by changing  

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the margins here reflects instantly on our 
document. Another excellent feature of InDesign  

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is that you see the units here are shown in picas, 
but assume I don't understand picas, but have a  

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fair understanding of inches, or millimeters, like 
anyone else has, so I want to add a margin of 0.5  

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inch here, so what I'm going to do is, enter 0.5, 
and then 'in' for inches, and InDesign will do the  

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calculation, and show the equivalent of 0.5 inch 
in pica here. The same way we can easily update  

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the bleed and slug from here as well, and I'm 
sure you know what they mean by now, so hit okay.  

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To adjust the columns, you need to go 
to layout, and then margins and columns.  

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You can update the margins from here as 
well, but we're more interested in columns,  

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because we've already discussed margins, 
so let's update the columns to 2,  

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and you see on the right, the gutter option 
can be used to reduce, or enlarge the space  

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between the two columns, so once you're 
satisfied with the space between them,  

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hit okay. To view the pages, you can use the 
mouse roller to go down, or up the pages.  

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You can even use the scroll bars on the right, 
and at the bottom, to navigate through the pages.  

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Another option is this hand icon, so 
click on it, and then using your mouse,  

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click and move the mouse, to move around the 
screen. Now let's talk about the zoom tool,  

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in fact, let me grab the text tool, and drag to 
make a text box, and let's type in something.  

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Now grab the zoom tool, which looks like a 
magnifying glass, and if I want to magnify  

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the text, I will take the magnifying glass there, 
and then click, and move the mouse to the right,  

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and it will magnify the part of the screen I 
clicked on, without releasing the mouse button,  

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if you move the mouse to the left, it will zoom 
out, so it's a nice way to move quickly to a  

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particular point on my page. You can even hold 
option on a Mac, or alt on a PC, and use the  

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mouse roller to zoom out, or zoom in quickly, and 
this is valid, irrespective of the tool selected.  

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You can even hold the Command key on a Mac, or 
Ctrl key on a PC, and use the mouse roller to  

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move left and right, or up and down, so this does 
not help in zooming in or out, but it does help in  

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moving up and down, or right and left. Also, this 
feature might not be available with every mouse.  

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The rulers that you see on top and left are 
really handy, and in some cases, necessary as well,  

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while designing. To show rulers, go to view, and 
then select show rulers option. Mine is already  

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showing, which is why the option says 'hide 
rulers' here .The shortcut to show or hide rulers  

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is Command R on a Mac or Ctrl R on a PC. Now let's 
take the cursor to the ruler on top. Click, hold,  

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and drag a guide to the page. InDesign's 
ruler guides act just like page elements,  

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so you can select one or more guides at a time, 
copy and paste them, and even position selected  

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guides numerically, using the control, or transform 
palettes. Let's drag another guide on this page  

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here. Now if I need another text box, like this, 
on the left page, aligned to this text box,  

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my guides here will help me achieve that, so let 
me take this text box to snap it to the guide  

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horizontally, as well as vertically. Now with the 
text box selected, I can hit Command C on a Mac,  

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or Ctrl C on a PC, to copy this text box, and 
then hit Command V on a Mac, or Ctrl V on a PC,  

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to paste it, and then drag the new text box to 
snap it to the guides, I created on the left page.  

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Without my guides, I wouldn't really be able to 
place them on the same line, on both the pages, so  

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that's how guides help placing elements on pages, 
and this is particularly useful, when your page  

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has a lot of different elements and alignments, 
like in case of designing a resume, or a poster.  

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Since the guides act much like any other page 
elements, an accidental move can make things  

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difficult, so to prevent this from happening, you 
have the option of locking the guides as well,  

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and to do that, you can go to view, and then grids 
and guides, and then lock guides, and the shortcut  

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to achieve this is Option Command and Semicolon 
on a Mac, or Alt Ctrl and Semicolon on a PC,  

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and now if you try to move the guides, 
they won't move a muscle. Now let me  

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grab the rectangular marquee tool, and make a 
rectangle on top left, and bottom left corners.

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In fact, let's move the frame 
on top, to the edge of the page,  

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and the frame on the bottom has already been 
aligned to the bleed area. Now with both my  

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frames selected, I'm going to go to file, and then 
place, and locate the images from my computer,  

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and click on them one by one, to place them. You 
see, this should give you a clearer picture of why  

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bleed is necessary, particularly when you have 
images that extend to the edges of the pages.  

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The printer will eventually slice off the points, 
where the whites of the pages end, and if there is  

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any degree of movement, then there will be an ugly 
white line on both sides of the image on top, but  

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there is no chance of it happening with the image 
at the bottom, since it is extended till the bleed  

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zone. Hit 'W', which is the shortcut to preview 
the document, as it would look, once printed.  

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All right guys! That concludes 
our topic, next we're going to  

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learn how to set up our workspace to 
enhance our workflow, so see you there!