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Hi there!

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In this video, we’ll be talking about object
styles in InDesign.

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Object Styles is used to quickly format graphics
and frames.

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It includes settings for stroke, color, transparency,
drop shadows, paragraph styles, text wrap,

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and more.

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I’ll be demonstrating formatting of two
different settings using object styles, so

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let’s get started.

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I already have text ready for you, so let’s
bring the object styles panel.

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To do that, you’ve got to go to window,
and then styles, and select object styles.

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Now, let’s place an image to our document,
so go to file, and then place, and locate

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the image from the computer, and hit open.

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Click anywhere on the document, to place the
image.

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Since our image is too large, let’s zoom
out, and holding shift and command, on a Mac,

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or shift and control, on a PC, click and drag
the bottom-right anchor point inward to make

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your image smaller.

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Now let’s zoom-in.

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I’ll have to further shorten the image,
to about this size, and then place it in the

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center of the document.

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Since it’s an image, and it’s considered
an object as well, we’ll have to create

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an object style, based on the dimensions of
this image, so with the image selected, click

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the small plus button, at the bottom of the
object styles panel.

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Click the new style, and rename it ‘image.’

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Now double-click it, and on the left side
of the panel, scroll to reach the ‘size

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and position options.’

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Click it, and from the size adjust option,
select ‘height and width.’

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What you see right below this, is the dimensions
of our image.

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Let’s look for ‘frame fitting options’,
on the left, and click it.

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From the ‘fitting’ dropdown menu, select
‘fit content to frame’ option, and then

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hit okay.

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It’s time to move to page 2, and then go
to file, and then place, and locate the image

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from the computer, and hit open.

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Click anywhere on the screen, to place the
image, and obviously, the image is too large,

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to fit into our document, but don’t worry!

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Our object style is going to take care of
that, so with the image still selected, click

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the ‘image’ object style we created, and
the image will shrink, in a jiffy.

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Let’s center-align our image, and then head
back to the first page.

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I’m sure by now, you’ve realized that
both our images are on top of the text, and

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we need to change that, so click the first
image once again, and hit the small plus button

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at the bottom of the object styles panel,
to create another style.

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Click the new style, to rename it ‘text
wrap.’

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Double-click it, and look for ‘text wrap
and other’ option on the left.

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Click it once, and you shall find the text
wrapping options, right before you.

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Click the ‘wrap around bounding option’,
which is the second one from the left, and

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the moment it’s clicked, the text hidden
under the image, rolls itself around it, but

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it’s touching the borders of the image,
so to fix that, let’s add some offset to

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it.

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I think ‘p6’ should solve our purpose,
and then hit okay.

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Let’s move to the second image, and you
know what to do now.

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Just select the image, and click the ‘text
wrap’ object style, and it shall obey your

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command, almost instantly.

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So you see object styles, much like any other
styles of InDesign, is a powerful tool, and

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is mostly used when your document has any
sort of repetitiveness to it, be it text,

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shapes, or images.

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You could see, it has a plethora of attributes,
that can be easily customized, to enhance

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your workflow, so do try some more from here.

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Alright guys, that concludes our session,
so it’s time for a short break, and I shall

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see you in a bit.

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Good bye!