Hi there. In this video,
we're going to look at text wrap,
and that means this red rectangle at the background here
has a bit of space around it and it pushes the text around, look.
Same thing with this cool little image here.
When it moves, you can see the ticks has little invisible force field around it.
Let's go and learn how to do that in InDesign.
First thing is, we're going to put it on page seven here.
We're going to do two things.
We'll do it with just the Plano rectangle first and then we'll do with an image.
Let's grab the rectangle tool and let's draw a rectangle in the center here,
I'm going to give it a fill of GaH red.
What I'd like to do is put some text on it like this factoid up here,
where there's just some nice text pulled out, interesting text,
but you see at the moment this object doesn't do anything to the text underneath it.
I'm going to put it in the middle there.
We're going to make the text run around.
See the color run around or text wrap depending on your industry.
By default it's off.
What we're going to do is we're going to run around this third option.
It's going to run around the edges of this object.
Now it is running around, can you see,
if we move the text,
so we're pushing the text around,
which is cool but it's butting up right to the edge.
What we can do is increase a little bit.
You see its like a little invisible border coming out from the edges.
That will allow us to have a box and keep the text away from the edges.
Now that works great for an object.
Let's look at doing it like we had,
actually let's put him over the side.
We'll do our image on this side and there's just an extra step to do.
Let's go to "File Place."
What we're using here is this Adobe Stock preview.
Adobe Stock is a paid site.
This image in particular is not paid.
I'm going to shrink it down to a more appropriate size.
If we wanted to use this,
let's say we are just making it up for a client.
Once they approve it, you can go and pay for the image,
but at the moment you got this preview version,
which means it's free,
but it's got this watermark we can't get rid of.
What I'd like to do is, with this selected, I'm going to flip it over.
With this selected with your black arrow,
there's this option at the top here, "Flip Horizontal."
You will flip to the other side of the page.
I'm going to have it somewhere down here.
Now if we do the same thing we just did for that Redbox, watch this,
I go to that option here and it is working and it's pushing the text away,
look, I move it around.
It's pushing the text around,
but it's not quite where we want.
We want it to wrap around the edges of this.
This technique will only work if it's on a white background.
If you've got an image and its got a big colored background in here,
it's not going to work. White background's easy.
What we need to do is, this option here,
it says, "Contour Options."
If yours doesn't have that,
you might have to double-click this thumbnail
here or there's an option here that says, "Show Options."
Down the bottom, this one says, "Same as Clipping."
Clip this one that says, "Detect Edges" and because it's on a white background,
it's able to do that.
Now let's put text wrap around the edges here and it is working,
but the problem is that this image is on top of the text,
so it is actually working.
I just need to move it behind this text because this guy is still at the front.
I'm going to click on him with my black arrow,
right-click in and I'm going to say,
"Arrange," "Send to the Back" and you can see now it's wrapping around the edges.
So it's not covering it. One of the problems,
just like we had with this guy is that it's too close.
Exact same principle, I can increase this.
There's little bit of a invisible border appearing around it. That looks cool.
That's text wrap.
One of the things we're going to run into is
when we start adding text to the top of this,
it's going to try and push out as well.
We'll do that in the next video. I'll see you over there.