Id HW 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgbtUQQ2eno

For the first tutorial onAdobe Indesign, I watched a 10 minute video that explained the basics for someone with an interest in starting to use the app.Throughout the semester I have enjoyed all of the adobe applications and I look forward to learn about another one. The first thing I noticed is that basic tools that usually work the same in photoshop and illustrator do not apply to Indesign. For instance, the direct selection tool has a similar function but is operated differently. In Illustrator the tool can be used to round shapes, however, not in Indesign. Other tools that capt my attention were page tool and gap tool. I am not familiar with this type of tool and adapting to all of them might be challenging at first. The page tool is used to re size the page and edit basic contents. The gap tool is used to add spaces and gaps between objects. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCAaLlrty1A 

I watched a short video for making Indesign presentations. I was curious about how Indesign could enhance my presentation game, so that's why I chose this short video. It directly explains how to start a layout for a presentation. It describes how important setting the number of columns and gutters is. For instance, the gutters number should be half of what the margin is. I realized that the guuters help structure the presentation and maintain order when creating. Another thing I really found interesting was the mouse type. I liked how they use this to name short text that typically goes on the bottom or top corners. You can grab the text and use its format for the mouse type of every slide. I am not sure what I am going to struggle with, as I am familiar with doing presentation but it is a lot of functions to take in. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UT47Y5Q_8w

For the third and last tutorial, I watched another presentation tutorial for Indesign. This tutorial focused more on interactive presentations. The tutorial covered a mini lesson on buttoned structures and animation for presentations. Starting these functions requires the same initial step of clicking window, than animation on photoshop. In Indesign you go to window, interactive, and click on buttons and forms or animation. Buttons are a cool and simple way to make a presentation interactive, as it has the function of organizing and taking the viewer to other parts of the presentation. This video was quite simple, but it explained the basics of this functions very well. However, I hope to learn more about this in class and on the assigments/projects.