From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign
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Grid drawing and gaps - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign
Grid drawing and gaps
- [Instructor] Repeating is a good way of bringing related elements together proximity being the other one of course that they will all be neighboring there. But if they're the same size and they're close together to each other it's really easy to say that they are in fact related. Now we could draw a frame for the four images we're going to bring in here and then duplicate the frame and bring the next image in and so on but we're actually going to use one of in designs cool features and that's grid drawing. So tap F on your keyboard to get the frame tool. And what we're going to do is we're going to start at the top left here of the margins and click and drag downwards but don't release the mouse or track pads stay as you are with it down and use the up arrow on your keyboard one, two, three times and then you can release the mouse or track pad and you'll see that you've actually drawn four frames there. Now they…
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Document setup2m 39s
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Create guides2m
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Master pages1m 54s
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Layers2m 12s
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Typography6m 21s
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Place images3m 41s
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Moving assets between layers1m 18s
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Place an Illustrator file1m 41s
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Add a character style3m 40s
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Reposition an image3m 2s
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Formatting text4m 19s
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Threading text1m 21s
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Columns and span3m 42s
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Challenge: Center heading1m 52s
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Solution: Center heading1m 11s
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Add inset spacing2m 42s
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Grid drawing and gaps3m 7s
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Challenge: Grid drawing53s
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Challenge: Thread text1m 44s
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Importing data3m 55s
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Styling a table3m 55s
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Object layer options5m 16s
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Gradient feather4m 2s
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