Lesson 42

Creating a Facebook Event image from scratch with InDesign

In this lesson you’ll learn how to set up a document from scratch, how to use margins, about the Rectangular Frame Tool, more about text, a trick to working with logos, and how to export your file in a web ready format.

New tools

  • Rectangular Frame Tool

New commands learnt

  • File > New > Document

  • Layout > Margins and Columns

  • Control Panel: Upper Case button

  • Control Panel: Align text to Center

New jargon

  • Pixels (for document dimension)

  • Margins

  • Fields

  • Descender

  • Strapline