InDesign is very interesting software for graphic design. I remember, it was introduced by Adobe Inc. in summers of 1999 in India. After acquiring PageMaker from Aldus Adobe introduced it and discontinued the PageMaker.
Uses of InDesign in Graphic Designing
This software is useful to make and design Magazines, Newspapers, and Catalogs. It means it is a specialized tool for multi-page lay outing like books. Newspaper industry uses it a lot as it offers powerful features. It works on MS Windows and Apple iMac.
How InDesign Works
Without going in technical details, here we make master page and it is the most helpful page of this software. It works like header and footer in Microsoft Word, where we can place common contents like page numbers. By using this it becomes easy for us to repeat various things easily and fast.
As discussed above, InDesign is used for making things in which so many pages are required. In this software we use parent page so that we could make pages easily as Parent page is useful for making various copies of same materials like text, photos etc. That’s why we use InDesign for making books, magazine’s because book requires so much material and many pages so, it’s easy to use this software as it can make as many pages we want easily.
To master these skills of InDesign, you can pursue any best graphic design classes at affordable fee having all the topics covered to succeed in this industry.
Top 5 Features of InDesign
- Master Pages: Manage repetitive elements like header, footer, page numbers, etc.
- Paragraph and Character Styles: Very useful for styling, instead of setting styling for each text better create styles.
- Advanced Typography Tools: Manage all type related settings like kerning, spacing, indenting, etc.
- Linked Assets and Creative Cloud Libraries: Enjoy icons and images from huge libraries from Adobe Creative Cloud.
- Preflight and Export Options: Making publishing super simple, create PDF, EPS, and ECS quickly for printing with crop marks and margin lines with color bars.
Conclusion
I hope you understood what I have explained about this wonderful software i.e. InDesign. Thus, this software is amazing and it has helped me a lot many times. Whenever I have to make any type of magazine or newspaper, I can easily make it by using this software. It is the best software according to me.
About Author
Hello everyone, I am Bhawna pursuing Advanced Graphic Design Course in Delhi from ADMEC Multimedia institute. I have completed my third software which is Adobe InDesign from InDesign Training Institute Rohini. I have learned many things in this software such as how to design a Magazine and Newspaper. It’s very helpful software for me and my experience is v
