1 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:10,410 In this video we're going to make a nice, big colored background. 2 00:00:10,410 --> 00:00:13,020 It's going to have no stroke around the outside or a little line, 3 00:00:13,020 --> 00:00:15,560 but a nice big colored fill. Let's go into that. 4 00:00:15,555 --> 00:00:19,115 Okay, before we get started and put the big box in the background, 5 00:00:19,110 --> 00:00:22,550 we need to understand the difference between a fill and a stroke. 6 00:00:22,545 --> 00:00:25,295 It's reasonably easy but let's quickly look at it. 7 00:00:25,290 --> 00:00:27,960 We're going to use this tool down here, the rectangle tool. 8 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:29,720 You got two the frame tool. 9 00:00:29,715 --> 00:00:34,735 If I draw out a frame or draw rectangle tool they kind of look the same. 10 00:00:34,730 --> 00:00:37,850 You can actually fill these guys with colors if you want to 11 00:00:37,850 --> 00:00:41,600 and I never ever use the frame tool it's totally up to you. 12 00:00:41,595 --> 00:00:44,075 The frame tool generally gets used for a place holder. 13 00:00:44,070 --> 00:00:45,750 This is where an image is going to go. 14 00:00:45,750 --> 00:00:48,020 I never really have that problem, 15 00:00:48,020 --> 00:00:50,150 so I just leave a big hole where the image is going to go. 16 00:00:50,150 --> 00:00:52,660 You might like this, the line through the middle 17 00:00:52,655 --> 00:00:56,665 and I'm going to use the regular old rectangle tool the whole course. 18 00:00:56,660 --> 00:00:58,390 One thing is you might not be able to see it. 19 00:00:58,390 --> 00:01:01,550 It's because the last person that used your computer might have clicked 20 00:01:01,550 --> 00:01:04,760 and hold down this rectangle tool and used the ellipse tool. 21 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:06,270 [inaudible] and entered an ellipse. 22 00:01:06,270 --> 00:01:08,600 It just means it's always it to ellipse now so if I hold it 23 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,850 down you might be able to find the rectangle tool. 24 00:01:10,850 --> 00:01:17,200 I just draw a rectangle any outsize and it might have a fill, it might not. 25 00:01:17,195 --> 00:01:20,335 This is where it's going to come up at the top we're going to use this option. 26 00:01:20,330 --> 00:01:21,410 There's a few different ways, 27 00:01:21,410 --> 00:01:26,400 there's is this way they all do the same thing. 28 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,330 If you're using any other method you will fine but this way here finds the easiest lane. 29 00:01:31,325 --> 00:01:33,275 It just means this top one here's the fill, 30 00:01:33,275 --> 00:01:34,615 the next one is the stroke. 31 00:01:34,610 --> 00:01:37,000 The fill is obviously the fill on the inside, 32 00:01:36,995 --> 00:01:42,455 so I'm going to pick a fill and I'm going to pick the mid green. 33 00:01:42,450 --> 00:01:44,410 In terms of the stroke, 34 00:01:44,405 --> 00:01:47,435 I'm going to click back on that arrow and there's the stroke. 35 00:01:47,435 --> 00:01:48,745 The moment it has a little red line, 36 00:01:48,740 --> 00:01:51,730 red line means none, no stroke on the outside. 37 00:01:51,725 --> 00:01:54,185 Say if I want to put a black stroke around the outside, 38 00:01:54,185 --> 00:01:58,145 you see I clicked on it, it added a stroke and you can see it there. 39 00:01:58,145 --> 00:02:00,715 The stroke is the line around the outside. 40 00:02:00,710 --> 00:02:02,330 To adjust the size of that stroke, 41 00:02:02,330 --> 00:02:04,480 you can see just next to it there's a one point. 42 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,350 It's always done in points not millimeters or inches and I can increase it up. 43 00:02:08,345 --> 00:02:11,175 I can make a nice thick stroke around the outside. 44 00:02:11,170 --> 00:02:14,450 What I actually want from this rectangle is I want to have no stroke. 45 00:02:14,450 --> 00:02:16,670 So I'm going to go back to the stroke one, 46 00:02:16,670 --> 00:02:18,980 I'm going to click none and this top one here, 47 00:02:18,980 --> 00:02:21,410 I don't want this green I want the light green. 48 00:02:21,410 --> 00:02:23,810 Also, if it is not changing, 49 00:02:23,805 --> 00:02:25,295 you've got to make sure you've got it selected. 50 00:02:25,290 --> 00:02:28,940 Grab the selection tool and just got your selected and then make these adjustments. 51 00:02:28,940 --> 00:02:32,390 What I want to do is I want to stretch it out because remember we are using bleed, 52 00:02:32,385 --> 00:02:35,005 in this case, we looked at bleed earlier on. 53 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,310 What we're going to do is it's really hard to see 54 00:02:37,310 --> 00:02:39,140 the edges so I'm going to zoom out a little bit. 55 00:02:39,140 --> 00:02:44,110 Zooming is command minus on a Mac or control minus on a PC. 56 00:02:44,105 --> 00:02:46,535 I'm going to go back to my selection tool the black arrow. 57 00:02:46,530 --> 00:02:48,740 I'm going to grab this bottom line and I'm going to drag it. 58 00:02:48,740 --> 00:02:52,970 Do I drag it to the edge of the white or all the way out to the red? 59 00:02:52,965 --> 00:02:56,505 The answer is red. Same with with this one here. 60 00:02:56,505 --> 00:02:58,425 If I leave it just there remember, 61 00:02:58,425 --> 00:03:03,085 the bleed might get trimmed and it might leave a little white line on the edge 62 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,990 because we need a little bit of overhang to make sure we 63 00:03:05,990 --> 00:03:08,910 can get chopped off nice and clean and crisp and clear. 64 00:03:08,910 --> 00:03:13,400 Remember anything over this edge here is going to get probably chopped into the bin. 65 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,030 That is how to color a background in InDesign there's no way of going in and 66 00:03:17,030 --> 00:03:21,200 sitting like the default bit of this to be anything but white. 67 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,640 I'm going to undo and we do it with a nice big rectangle. 68 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:26,900 That's it for this video. 69 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:29,360 Let's go and start looking at importing and 70 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:34,050 scaling and flipping and stuff of the images. See you in the next one.