Rotate, Scale, Shear, Free Transform Tools in Adobe InDesign.

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A master page is a special page which will not print, unless you tell InDesign to do so. It's a page where you can set a basic layout and then all of the other pages that you will add to your document and which are based on that master page will look the same.

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The Gradient Tool works hand in hand with the Gradient Palette. All you have to do is to select an object with the Selection tool. Then select the Gradient tool and start dragging it from the point you want the gradient to start to the point you want it to finish.

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By default InDesign will show the Rectangle Frame Tool in its Tools palette. This tool has a flyout with an Ellipse Frame Tool and a Polygon Frame Tool. They all work the same way, but they draw different shapes. Don't confuse these tools with the Rectangle, Ellipse, and Polygon Tools, also found in the Tools Palette. The Frame Tools create boxes (or frames) for graphics, while the Rectangle, Ellipse and Polygon tools are for drawing shapes to fill or outline with colour.

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By default InDesign will show you the Eyedropper Tool in the Tools Palette. However you will see that tool as another tool hidden in its flyout -- The Measure Tool.

Especially if you have used Photoshop, you know that with the Eyedropper Tool you can sample and copy colours so that you can apply them to various objects.

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If you have ever dealt with a word processing application you are familiar with the document page. However, desktop publishing applications differ from word processing applications as they also have a pasteboard (among other differences). Learn more about it with this tutorial.

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Once you create an image with an embedded clipping path then place your image into your document you'll need to access the path information or turn on the clipping path in order to turn off the background or other portion of the image you've clipped.

The steps in this tutorial describes how to accomplish this in Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, and Adobe PageMaker when using EPS and TIFF images from Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo-Paint.

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The Colour Palette in InDesign CS: Colour Modes, Fill and Stroke Colours.

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Character Style Sheets can be real time savers for designers especially in the creation of long or multi-page documents. Character Style Sheets are simply recorded format that you can then use in your design at will.

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Alpha channels serve many purposes when editing images. For the purposes of this tutorial, we're going to create alpha channels that will contain transparency information for use as clipping paths in a page layout application.

This tutorial is not meant to be an indepth look at working with channels. I'll show you a few of the basics.

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