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foundational skills that are common in all areas of graphic design practice. Through visual examples, this course will teach you the fundamental principles of graphic design: imagemaking, typography, composition, working with color and shape. As graphic design becomes more visible and prevalent in our lives, graphic design as a practice becomes more important in our culture. The Stroke Tool will modify the color of the outline of your object or text, while the Fill Tool will modify the color within your outlines.Graphic Design is all around us! Words and pictures-the building blocks of graphic design-are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital world and the printed world. Double-clicking on either will prompt the Color Picker dialog box where you can modify the colors for either the fill or the stroke.

The Fill Tool and the Stroke Tool are overlapped and perform similar color-selecting options for different areas.

Grouped here are tools that can be used to create ellipses and polygons as well.

The Rectangle Tool lets you draw rectangles.

Grouped here are frame tools for rectangles, ellipses, and polygons.

The Rectangle Frame Tool lets you create shaped frames for text or other objects.

The Type on a Path Tool (grouped with the Type Tool) lets you create and edit text tha takes the shape of a certain shape you specify.

The Type Tool lets you create text frames and select text.

The Selection Tool allows you to select entire objects (including text boxes) to move or resize.

The following is a list of commonly used tools: Within the Help window, click on Workspace and Workflow in the top menu, select Toolbox, and browse the topics. If you’d like to know more about a particular tool, go to the Help menu and choose InDesign Help…. Click and hold on the tool, slide over to the option you wish to use, and release the mouse. If a tool has a small arrow in the lower right corner, it has more than one option. To find out the name of a particular tool, hold your mouse over the tool until the yellow tip pops up.

The InDesign Toolbox (shown to the left) will appear on the left side of your screen when you open InDesign.