Adobe InDesign from Beginner to Advanced
Course 1: Overview and First Steps: Toolbox and control bar
By Leandro Rodrigues , Graphic Designer and Art Director
Joined March 2020
About the video: Toolbox and control bar
Overview
“Here we will see how the main features of the toolbox and the control bar work.”
In this video lesson Leandro Rodrigues addresses the topic: Toolbox and control bar, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 1: Overview and First Steps. Get to know Adobe InDesign, its interface, and the basic tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“CLASS 10 Toolbox and control bar INTRODUCTION TO INDESIGN / COURSE 1 In this unit, I will show you the toolbox and the control bar, showing the main features and how to access them. We will see? Each tool or group of tools is represented by an icon, like the arrows, Text Tool ... If we hover over the mouse, we see the name or description. Tool groups are represented by icons which has microsets on the bottom right. As an example, in the Text, if we click and hold, we see the 'Type' Tool options, 'Type in path' tool. Content collector tool, Content positioner tool. Pen tool, Add anchor point...”
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Leandro Rodrigues
By Leandro Rodrigues
Through his extensive professional and academic experience, Leandro Rodrigues combines his passions for graphic design, publishing, and art direction to help bring life and personality to large-scale graphic content and digital projects.
With studies in graphic design and a postgrad degree in Art Direction for Communication from the Centro Universitário SENAC in São Paulo, Leandro has worked for over ten years in publishing and as a professor.
He has held art director and graphic design positions at the publishing house Maquinaria Studio and the digital marketing agency AgMN. He is a visiting Digital Design professor at SENAC São Paulo, as well as a director and art editor for Oeste magazine. Today, he is a Senior Designer in a branding consulting studio.
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