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After watching my first indesign beginner video to help me understand indesign as a whole, I saw many of the same tools in all three programs, just like the other two Adobe programs we use just like the other two Adobe programs we use. However, in this one, which is entirely different is the number of tools; in the video on the left-hand side, the tools range from fewer than the other two, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. As for the video, I found it interesting how the instructor/creator included the keyboard on the bottom right so he could show the beginners, just like me, what key shortcuts I can use to get around faster in InDesign. But what makes it different is that we can see what keys he's pressing, so if you need to remember what he says or get left behind, you can see which keys he presses on the bottom left.
Now, we will talk about the tools and functions that seem easy or hard to use from the start of learning this new program. The one new feature or tool I saw him use was a guide layout to help keep the actual art piece nice and neat with even proportions. This feature on InDesign is one of the hardest to use. I say this. Even with learning all these programs, I need help with tools or many settings or options, too, because I always need to figure out what to do at that moment and what setting to switch to. Seeing him use the guide set in the layout menu bar, there are many options for how big you want the grids to be and how many rows and columns. Although it's fantastic to have the option to change all this up, this new feature I'm just learning seems like I will need help figuring out at first. But it's essential to talk about it because once I figure it out, it can be used to organize all the art projects we will be doing in and outside class.
Going into the second video and learning what I know from the first beginner tutorial, this video definitely takes a different step towards beginner tutorial videos. As for this one, like many of the ones we have watched, checkpoints in the footage show different tools for various projects. I saw it for different projects because this video details how to work with text and the settings/tools that come with it, and then the second half of the video shows the many uses of images in the program and how to mess around with it to have the best possible outcome for your project or art piece. What I feel like stood out to me more in this video compared to the last one is how informative it is compared to the previous; without going overboard with how long the video is, this video is interesting because it felt like we were going through so much more about how to use tools to help bring out text or images to the next level making it look as nice as possible.
Now, with more tools shown in this and the number of features and settings that come with these tools, it is even more confusing than the last video. On the flip side, it's also way more informative. But with that, again, is another tool/feature that may seem hard at first to get used to. That is the display setting when dealing with an image for the background. No matter what it looks like when learning something new, the settings are always going to be confusing to people because they don't know what each selection in the settings does. However, I feel that learning the display settings for an image is especially important to the overall project, especially the way it looks in the end.
The third and final video I've found for beginners using Indesign for the very first time is also the longest video out of the three. Even with the long runtime, I still felt as if it wasn't too long. Almost clocked into an hour, the video itself doesn't drag or feel long because it is very informative. But I also didn't enjoy this video that much for one exciting reason. One thing that I've seen in this video, comparing it to all of the videos seen for Photoshop and Illustrator, is that one of the first things that he actually shows is how to save and export. Yes, this is very important, but to me, it seems out of place, especially at the beginning of the video. This is interesting because usually, for this format and type of video, they show at the end of the tutorial how to save and export, but having it as one of the first things he shows us what to do before even getting into the actual tools to create the art piece seems to be a little odd. In my opinion, it does throw off the video for a little bit because, as someone who is looking at this video to start making their art piece and needs help with the main tools, saving and exporting shouldn't be one of the first things a beginner should look at.
In the video, he does, although he goes over something that I didn't see in the other two videos. However, it also seems a bit confusing on its own. In the middle of the video, we see the use of multiple documents and how to create an art piece that may require more than a page. Again, just like all the tools for Indesign, they don't seem too hard, but for the moment, they are hard because it takes a while to get used to, especially figuring out how to put multiple pages with your project. I hope to format that. Things are so easy as opening up the actual spread design to see your pages altogether in a different view, which can help see where each page leads to the other and can help organize someone's thoughts without having to go to each page separately. Just knowing how to mess with the multipage system is highly important for bigger projects but is just as hard as any other tool to figure out at first.
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