Hi, there. In this video we're going to make all sorts of different shapes,
starbursts, stars, triangles, I think a polygon.
Some sort of a male symbol but really just looking at arrowheads,
perfect squares, and perfect circles.
In the next video, we're going to stick the images inside them all.
All very exciting, let's get on with it.
Actually, before we get on with it,
I apologize for the design.
I couldn't think of a really good exercise that look
cool that also showed every single shape possible
in InDesign so we're living with this design choice.
Let's get on with it. Hi, there.
If you're following along what we're going to do is we're going
to jump down to page, double-click page 10.
We're going put it in here, so we're going put in
a blank page because we don't want this text to be covered.
What we're going to do is the little pages flatting in here,
we're going go to "Insert pages".
I'm going to say after page 10,
I would like to insert a page that has no master applied.
What I meant was after page nine, you can click, hold,
and drag it, see this and put it on the right side, do it after nine.
The first thing we're going to do is let's look at putting
a background color in so I can go from bleed to bleed.
Now again, this is not
my best design but we linear to make shapes and I couldn't think of a bit of exercise.
Rectangle two, I'm going to make this one red and what we do is when
we're drawing any shapes if you want it to be the same width and height like a circle,
a perfect square is you hold down the "Shift" key
so I'm going to draw a bit of a rectangle here.
I'm going to give it a fill of my red. Where is he?
He is there and I'm going to give him a stroke of none, easy.
The circle, click and hold down the rectangle two underneath is the Ellipse tool.
With the Ellipse tool selected,
I'm going to draw out if I just don't hold down "Shift" I can do a custom shape.
In the old, we'd save ellipse if you want a perfect circle,
just like the square we hold down the "Shift" key and I'll do one.
I'm going to get mine to go across to the edge here.
We're going to practice our text wrap once we've finished.
That's the circle, give it a random color
because we're going to replace this one in a second with an image.
We're going to crop it inside the circle.
Let's look at some of the other shapes we can make.
This one here, the Polygon tool does quite a few different jobs so click on it.
By default, if I drag it out,
it does not do stars.
If I click on it, you always probably by default does that.
It does a pentagon I want to say.
That's what it's going to do by default if you want one of these shapes,
I'm going to put one here.
I'm going to give it a fill color.
I'm going to fill this with an image as well so I'm just going to pick our random color.
I'm going to use one of our lovely colors,
so there's our pentagon.
The next thing I want to do is I want to do
a triangle and you do that with the exact same tool, the Polygon tool.
What you do is you just click once watch this.
Click once anyway, don't click and drag.
You can tell it to do things.
You can say actually I want it to be a polygon height and width,
but I actually I want it to be the size of three.
It's going to be a polygon that has three sides,
matches our triangle and I'll make them a bit stub here and stick them over here.
Polygon makes V-shapes and triangles and they also make stars.
Same tool, Polygon tool click once and what I'm going
to do is I'm going to have five sides but instead of getting this pentagon,
I'm going to do this thing called the star inset.
If you do it a lot like 50 percent,
you get this traditional star.
I'm going to undo and just drag it out now holding "Shift" to get a perfect star.
What color is this going to be?
I'm running out of colors. That gives you that star.
If you want to do something more
of a starburst all those, I'll show you what they look like.
If you buy wine like me at the store,
you look for a cheap wine that has lots of these gold label,
won lots of prizes and stuff.
That's how I buy my wine. Cheap with lots of stickers that say they won an award.
Never check the awards,
just buy the wine.
What we're going to do is click once,
and instead of five sides,
we're going to do 50, and instead of the star and see it being really big.
If I leave it like that you end up with
this really big star thing which might be cool and that's why what you want.
But what I want to do actually is am going to click once,
is I'm going to have the star and set only at 10 percent.
Then, you get this more like a foil sticker thing so I am going to do that,
move it down here.
Getting through the shapes and one of the other ones I promised you was arrowhead.
You just start off with a line.
We've moved away from these tools.
Grab the Line tool and click "Hold" and drag a line.
My line unfortunately by default doesn't have any stroke so you have to have a line.
You have to have a stroke around it.
All these other shapes will wick into the fills.
Lines like the straight line here needs
a stroke running on the outside and a flumex to think what color now.
Let's just pick this one.
Now, I copy that one.
We'll pick dark. The thickness is just here or you can use your Stroke panel.
They end up doing the same thing.
The reason we're going to keep the Stroke panel open is because of the arrowheads.
Now, you always might be set to this.
We have Stroke panel is quite small,
I pick 20 points.
Go to the little hamburger menu here and click "Show Options"
even and where it says start and end and these were the arrowheads go.
I would like it too.
I'm never sure if it's starting or ending but we'll just start with it let's go this.
I want it to have a pointy arrowhead. That works for me.
The end of it is going to be a strictly thing.
We're going to do the male symbol, Austin Powers like.
The scale on the bottom here you can
see it's the way the circle's a lot bigger than the arrow.
You can play around with this scale here just to get that arrowhead.
I'm just smash it in a way at it, holding it down.
You need to get it kept quite big to maybe make them proportioned.
Obviously, you don't have to have the big circular thing at the end.
You can have nothing or you can have a bar.
That my friends is how you do arrows.
So stars, triangles, polygons,
and circles and squares.
Let's get on to the next video where we start cropping in images inside of them.