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Frames - InDesign Tutorial

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Frames

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Frames are fundamental building blocks of Adobe InDesign, pretty much everything that you would create will be inside the frame and the two main categories are text and graphic frames. Now sometimes graphic frames are referred to as image frames but essentially these are the two main categories and you can also have unassigned frames. So I'm going to show you the tools that that you can use to create frames first, so we have the frame tools which we can find here in the toolbar. The rectangle frame tool is the main one but you can switch to ellipse frame tool and polygon frame tool as well. Let's just start with the rectangle frame tool. I'm going to click and drag to draw this frame and I can hold down the shift key if I want to make this a perfect square and I can also hold down the spacebar if I want to reposition it while I'm still drawing it. Of course we can align it to existing frames in the document using the smart guides and we can also see the size of the frame that we are…

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