WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:07.100 --> 00:00:10.410 In this video we're going to make a nice, big colored background. 00:00:10.410 --> 00:00:13.020 It's going to have no stroke around the outside or a little line, 00:00:13.020 --> 00:00:15.555 but a nice big colored fill. Let's go into that. 00:00:15.555 --> 00:00:19.110 Okay, before we get started and put the big box in the background, 00:00:19.110 --> 00:00:22.545 we need to understand the difference between a fill and a stroke. 00:00:22.545 --> 00:00:25.290 It's reasonably easy but let's quickly look at it. 00:00:25.290 --> 00:00:27.960 We're going to use this tool down here, the rectangle tool. 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:29.715 You got two the frame tool. 00:00:29.715 --> 00:00:34.730 If I draw out a frame or draw rectangle tool they kind of look the same. 00:00:34.730 --> 00:00:37.850 You can actually fill these guys with colors if you want to 00:00:37.850 --> 00:00:41.595 and I never ever use the frame tool it's totally up to you. 00:00:41.595 --> 00:00:44.070 The frame tool generally gets used for a place holder. 00:00:44.070 --> 00:00:45.750 This is where an image is going to go. 00:00:45.750 --> 00:00:48.020 I never really have that problem, 00:00:48.020 --> 00:00:50.150 so I just leave a big hole where the image is going to go. 00:00:50.150 --> 00:00:52.655 You might like this, the line through the middle 00:00:52.655 --> 00:00:56.660 and I'm going to use the regular old rectangle tool the whole course. 00:00:56.660 --> 00:00:58.390 One thing is you might not be able to see it. 00:00:58.390 --> 00:01:01.550 It's because the last person that used your computer might have clicked 00:01:01.550 --> 00:01:04.760 and hold down this rectangle tool and used the ellipse tool. 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:06.270 [inaudible] and entered an ellipse. 00:01:06.270 --> 00:01:08.600 It just means it's always it to ellipse now so if I hold it 00:01:08.600 --> 00:01:10.850 down you might be able to find the rectangle tool. 00:01:10.850 --> 00:01:17.195 I just draw a rectangle any outsize and it might have a fill, it might not. 00:01:17.195 --> 00:01:20.330 This is where it's going to come up at the top we're going to use this option. 00:01:20.330 --> 00:01:21.410 There's a few different ways, 00:01:21.410 --> 00:01:26.400 there's is this way they all do the same thing. 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:31.325 If you're using any other method you will fine but this way here finds the easiest lane. 00:01:31.325 --> 00:01:33.275 It just means this top one here's the fill, 00:01:33.275 --> 00:01:34.610 the next one is the stroke. 00:01:34.610 --> 00:01:36.995 The fill is obviously the fill on the inside, 00:01:36.995 --> 00:01:42.450 so I'm going to pick a fill and I'm going to pick the mid green. 00:01:42.450 --> 00:01:44.405 In terms of the stroke, 00:01:44.405 --> 00:01:47.435 I'm going to click back on that arrow and there's the stroke. 00:01:47.435 --> 00:01:48.740 The moment it has a little red line, 00:01:48.740 --> 00:01:51.725 red line means none, no stroke on the outside. 00:01:51.725 --> 00:01:54.185 Say if I want to put a black stroke around the outside, 00:01:54.185 --> 00:01:58.145 you see I clicked on it, it added a stroke and you can see it there. 00:01:58.145 --> 00:02:00.710 The stroke is the line around the outside. 00:02:00.710 --> 00:02:02.330 To adjust the size of that stroke, 00:02:02.330 --> 00:02:04.480 you can see just next to it there's a one point. 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.345 It's always done in points not millimeters or inches and I can increase it up. 00:02:08.345 --> 00:02:11.170 I can make a nice thick stroke around the outside. 00:02:11.170 --> 00:02:14.450 What I actually want from this rectangle is I want to have no stroke. 00:02:14.450 --> 00:02:16.670 So I'm going to go back to the stroke one, 00:02:16.670 --> 00:02:18.980 I'm going to click none and this top one here, 00:02:18.980 --> 00:02:21.410 I don't want this green I want the light green. 00:02:21.410 --> 00:02:23.805 Also, if it is not changing, 00:02:23.805 --> 00:02:25.290 you've got to make sure you've got it selected. 00:02:25.290 --> 00:02:28.940 Grab the selection tool and just got your selected and then make these adjustments. 00:02:28.940 --> 00:02:32.385 What I want to do is I want to stretch it out because remember we are using bleed, 00:02:32.385 --> 00:02:35.000 in this case, we looked at bleed earlier on. 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:37.310 What we're going to do is it's really hard to see 00:02:37.310 --> 00:02:39.140 the edges so I'm going to zoom out a little bit. 00:02:39.140 --> 00:02:44.105 Zooming is command minus on a Mac or control minus on a PC. 00:02:44.105 --> 00:02:46.530 I'm going to go back to my selection tool the black arrow. 00:02:46.530 --> 00:02:48.740 I'm going to grab this bottom line and I'm going to drag it. 00:02:48.740 --> 00:02:52.965 Do I drag it to the edge of the white or all the way out to the red? 00:02:52.965 --> 00:02:56.505 The answer is red. Same with with this one here. 00:02:56.505 --> 00:02:58.425 If I leave it just there remember, 00:02:58.425 --> 00:03:03.080 the bleed might get trimmed and it might leave a little white line on the edge 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:05.990 because we need a little bit of overhang to make sure we 00:03:05.990 --> 00:03:08.910 can get chopped off nice and clean and crisp and clear. 00:03:08.910 --> 00:03:13.400 Remember anything over this edge here is going to get probably chopped into the bin. 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 00:03:17.030 --> 00:03:21.200 sitting like the default bit of this to be anything but white. 00:03:21.200 --> 00:03:25.640 I'm going to undo and we do it with a nice big rectangle. 00:03:25.640 --> 00:03:26.900 That's it for this video. 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:29.360 Let's go and start looking at importing and 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:34.050 scaling and flipping and stuff of the images. See you in the next one.