In this video we're going to make a nice, big colored background.
It's going to have no stroke around the outside or a little line,
but a nice big colored fill. Let's go into that.
Okay, before we get started and put the big box in the background,
we need to understand the difference between a fill and a stroke.
It's reasonably easy but let's quickly look at it.
We're going to use this tool down here, the rectangle tool.
You got two the frame tool.
If I draw out a frame or draw rectangle tool they kind of look the same.
You can actually fill these guys with colors if you want to
and I never ever use the frame tool it's totally up to you.
The frame tool generally gets used for a place holder.
This is where an image is going to go.
I never really have that problem,
so I just leave a big hole where the image is going to go.
You might like this, the line through the middle
and I'm going to use the regular old rectangle tool the whole course.
One thing is you might not be able to see it.
It's because the last person that used your computer might have clicked
and hold down this rectangle tool and used the ellipse tool.
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It just means it's always it to ellipse now so if I hold it
down you might be able to find the rectangle tool.
I just draw a rectangle any outsize and it might have a fill, it might not.
This is where it's going to come up at the top we're going to use this option.
There's a few different ways,
there's is this way they all do the same thing.
If you're using any other method you will fine but this way here finds the easiest lane.
It just means this top one here's the fill,
the next one is the stroke.
The fill is obviously the fill on the inside,
so I'm going to pick a fill and I'm going to pick the mid green.
In terms of the stroke,
I'm going to click back on that arrow and there's the stroke.
The moment it has a little red line,
red line means none, no stroke on the outside.
Say if I want to put a black stroke around the outside,
you see I clicked on it, it added a stroke and you can see it there.
The stroke is the line around the outside.
To adjust the size of that stroke,
you can see just next to it there's a one point.
It's always done in points not millimeters or inches and I can increase it up.
I can make a nice thick stroke around the outside.
What I actually want from this rectangle is I want to have no stroke.
So I'm going to go back to the stroke one,
I'm going to click none and this top one here,
I don't want this green I want the light green.
Also, if it is not changing,
you've got to make sure you've got it selected.
Grab the selection tool and just got your selected and then make these adjustments.
What I want to do is I want to stretch it out because remember we are using bleed,
in this case, we looked at bleed earlier on.
What we're going to do is it's really hard to see
the edges so I'm going to zoom out a little bit.
Zooming is command minus on a Mac or control minus on a PC.
I'm going to go back to my selection tool the black arrow.
I'm going to grab this bottom line and I'm going to drag it.
Do I drag it to the edge of the white or all the way out to the red?
The answer is red. Same with with this one here.
If I leave it just there remember,
the bleed might get trimmed and it might leave a little white line on the edge
because we need a little bit of overhang to make sure we
can get chopped off nice and clean and crisp and clear.
Remember anything over this edge here is going to get probably chopped into the bin.
That is how to color a background in InDesign there's no way of going in and
sitting like the default bit of this to be anything but white.
I'm going to undo and we do it with a nice big rectangle.
That's it for this video.
Let's go and start looking at importing and
scaling and flipping and stuff of the images. See you in the next one.