There’s one problem–the apple is now obscured from view.īut no worries, just place the yellow rectangle beneath the image of the apple by selecting the yellow rectangle (Type V and the click on it) and then hit the CTRL key and the [ key at the same time. Type M to bring up the rectangle tool and then click the top-left corner of the document, drag to the bottom-right corner of the document, and then release the click. We want to change this to yellow fill.Ĭlick on the upper square and click any color to change the fill color.

The default stroke for an object is black. Click it.ĭirect yourself to the part of the screen circled in Figure 4. Next to the word Touch at the top-right corner of the InDesign window, there is a logo of a keyboard and mouse.

Learning about how to use column breaks will also help you greatly. You can learn more about the Adobe InDesign Workspace as a whole here. We recommend you learn more about this mode and how to use it best. This makes things a bit more complicated than they used to be. These days, the Default Workspace mode on Adobe InDesign is “Touch” mode. Let’s make a yellow background behind the image of the apple.

We can’t really tell that the apple has a white background – as the whole page is white. For the purpose of this tutorial, I will be using a picture of an apple. To do this click File and then click ‘ Place…’. Now we want to bring our image into InDesign. Let’s kick this tutorial off by creating a new Adobe InDesign file.Ĭlick on File in the top-left corner of the InDesign window, then click on ‘ New Document…’.Ī window will come up with various Document sizes.

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