InDesign Tutorial Video 3:

From watching this video I learnt that:

• The black outline is the physical edge of the paper, the purple frame is only a margin.
• To change low resolution images to high quality images go to View - Display Performance - High Quality Display
• Don't click on the circular disk in the middle of an image when moving it as it crops of some of the frame. If this does happen press Ctrl Z or Cmnd Z.
• By dragging from the ruler on the top or side of the screen you can create guidelines (turquoise) to help line up elements together to be in line with one another. To remove them you can click directly on them and drag them back to the ruler. 
• For a mac there is an application with you can download for free called FrontDoc which means you are able to preview a word or phrase in different fonts. 
• For windows there is a similar application called NexusFont.
• If the text disappears or you need to manipulate its size you can use the black arrow tool to do this along with control or command if you wish to manipulate the size also. 
• To adjust how closely the letters in text are spaced together, double click the text tool and then click on the track adjustment at the top of the screen. You can also do this for individual letters as well as whole words or a block of text, based on what you select. 
• Use the eyedropper tool on the toolbar on the right to select a colour already used on your screen.

• To prepare an images focus to go infront of text whilst its background is behind the text, use photoshop. Open the image in photoshop. Crop the image using the cropping tool and width and hight settings to the same measurements as your InDesign document. 
• Create a full size image layer and also a layer which is just a cut out of the images focus (eg a person) which you want over the text. 
• Duplicate this layer by dragging the background layer to the small icon at the bottom of the screen (image below). 

• To crop the new layer use the quick selection tool to select what you want to keep. Then click the refine edge tab at the top of the screen to make sure all hair detail etc is included. Drag the default tool over where hair or other detail means the background, photoshop will remove the background leaving the detail 
• Create a layer mask of the cropped image so you can test it against a transparent background by clicking the small icon at the bottom of the screen (image below). 

• By clicking the eye icon next to background it puts your cut-out against a transparent background (top image below) which looks something like this (bottom image below). 

• Save two copies of the image. One with the background image- 'full crop' and one with the background not visible- 'full crop cut out'. REMEMBER TO SAVE BOTH AS PSD. DOCUMENTS. 
• To rearrange layer click on the object, right click and press Arrange- Send Backward.