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Welcome to InDesign.

In the last lesson we created our InDesign document.

Now we're going to get familiar with a workspace.

I remember the first time I opened an Adobe program.

It was intimidating.

Let's begin with the basics.

As you can see, we're now inside InDesign.

The first thing you may notice is that it may look similar to yours or not.

Because there are different things that you can personalize inside InDesign.

You should know that this can be changed inside,

if you're in a Windows you go to

File and at the bottom of that list it will just say preferences.

If you're working with a Apple computer,

you will go to the InDesign Word and go to Preferences and click there.

Let's go to general.

Here you can see many options.

You have to set up things inside InDesign.

If at some instance inside the program I do something and I use

some guidelines and you see things that they are not in your program,

you should probably go to the preferences and take a look at

any menu similar to the issue that you're having and look there,

maybe there is unchecked box that you need to check.

Yours looks similar to mine.

In this case, we're going to go to interface.

As you can see, I have selected this gray,

which is my workspace gray,

you can choose a light gray,

you can choose a medium light,

a medium dark as mine,

or a dark mode.

When I first started working with InDesign,

I used to use the really light color,

because it was the default.

But with the updates in InDesign they now allow you to change that.

I'm so used to use the medium dark,

so that's what I have selected.

Just know that you can go there and change it to your liking.

Now this is InDesign, as I said,

and to the left,

we have our tools.

These are basically maybe you're familiar with

them from other programs or Adobe programs,

with this, you create and edit elements for your design.

In the upper side you have the control panel.

This changes depending on the thing that you have selected.

In this case, if I select this cyan rectangle,

you can see that here I can change the color or do some other things.

If I select this text,

then I guess I have the tools to work with texts.

The control panel basically serves for the thing that you're working on and

that you have selected in your page.

To the right side,

it looks very similar to the tools because I have them stack.

How are the panels?

The panels is where you update

and change some things that you're working with in your document.

You can have them open like this in whatever place in your document.

You can group them like this,

I have my pages layers and link group.

You can stack them like here you can see only the icons.

If you click these arrows,

you can see more information.

They still group, but they are not stack in the right area of the monitory.

I prefer to work this way because I'm used to work this way.

But maybe when you're starting,

you're not sure what each icon means so it's just okay to work the way that you want.

You can even rearrange this here.

If you go to windows,

you can see all of the panels that you can open and use.

Something very useful for an InDesign is to save your workspace.

Right now I have mine saved.

You can go to Windows,

Workspace and they have mine selected called Nayda.

You can just create a new workspace and rename it once you have all your panels,

placed in the order that you like and all of that and you can save it.

Whenever you're working with other things,

for example, I may be working with an e-book and they need some panels that I don't need.

Well, I'm usually the sign in something digital and I open those panels and use them,

then I don't want all of that mass of things.

I just go to Window with the workspace, Nayda.

My workspace will automatically change to all my settings.

You can create several.

You can create one for digital things,

you can create one for print,

for whatever you want.

But just know that you can personalize all of

the InDesign workspace for your liking and for your needs.

You're now familiar with the InDesign workspace.

Make sure to select your preferences and rearrange and save your workspace.

Now, let's focus on the layer of our portfolio

and how the pages panel plays a fundamental part in it.