Here we have Adobe InDesign opened and you might notice it's so similar to Photoshop and Illustrator
as well.
And actually it is.
There are so many similarities between these applications.
So here on the left side we have our toolbar, including similar tools that you can find as well in
Photoshop and Illustrator like selection tools.
In here we have pen tool as well and vector drawing tools, gradient tools.
And even here we have fill and stroke colors.
So hopefully you feel more familiar by now.
We have our panels as well.
They are similar to Photoshop.
We have Properties panel which will be playing the role of the application bar control bar or option
bar, the bar that's always been in here in Illustrator and Photoshop.
And if you would like to get that control or application bar again, you can select from here.
From our workspaces, we have essentials selected.
You can select Essentials Classic, which will be revealing that application bar once again.
And if you're using quite an old version of Adobe InDesign, this will be your default interface.
However, if you have a newer version of InDesign, let's go ahead and select Essentials.
Then let's click on Essentials once again and let's reset Essentials.
Just to make sure that you have the same tools and same panels as well, just like me.
And you can easily follow along through that course.
And of course, in future videos we'll be adding more panels to our right side, which you can find
in window in your applications menu.
So here you can see more panels for your application.
Needless to mention that we have our pages in the center, as you can see.
So currently we have four pages document.
They are facing pages, as you can see in Properties panel.
That's our cover and its orientation is left to right.
You can be scrolling in here to see other pages that will be your first page, second page and so on
and so forth.
You can scroll from here or from here or scrolling by your trackpad or mouse.
And you can zoom and bend using these tools in here.
Hand tool will be enabling you to bend or using your trackpad as well.
And if you would like to zoom, you can press command or control, plus or minus to zoom in and out
or using that magnifier as well.
In here Zoom tool.
We have the same shortcuts that one will be Z and here we have H.
It's just like using Photoshop and Illustrator and hopefully you're feeling more comfortable about that
new application to you guys.
And if you'd like to save your file, you can go to file from your menu, then select Save.
And you can give it a name in here and where you would like to save it and keep using the same InDesign
native file format.
We'll be talking about different file formats as well later.
Like, for example, how to create a template.
However, once you're done, click save and you're good to go.
And now let's get our hands dirty and see Adobe InDesign in action.
We're going to be designing right away.