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Adobe InDesign 2025 Basics | macOS Edition
  • Introduction
  • Setting up your project
    • Connecting to Your Class Folder
    • Creating a Project Folder
    • Opening InDesign
    • Creating a New Document
    • Opening an Existing InDesign Project
    • Saving Your Project
  • Working with text
    • Creating a Text Box
    • Moving a Text Box
    • Resizing a Text Box
    • Deleting a Text Box
    • Using Overset Text Button
    • Formatting Text
    • Character Formatting Controls
    • Paragraph Formatting Controls
  • Working with tools
    • Selection Tools
    • Drawing and Type Tools
    • Transformation Tools
    • Modification and Navigation Tools
  • Working with images
    • Adding an Image to Your Document
    • Resizing an Image and Its Frame
    • Resizing and Repositioning an Image in Its Frame
    • Changing Object Stacking Order
    • Wrapping Text to an Image
    • Deleting an Image
  • Working with shapes, strokes, and color
    • Creating a Shape
    • Creating a Line
    • Creating a Custom Color
    • Creating a Gradient
    • Changing the Fill Color of a Shape
    • Changing the Color of a Stroke
    • Changing the Weight of a Stroke
    • Changing the Stroke Type
    • Removing a Stroke
  • Working with layers
    • Selecting a Layer
    • Locking or Unlocking a Layer
    • Changing Layer Visibility
    • Creating a New Layer
    • Moving a Layer
    • Deleting a Layer
  • Exporting a PDF
    • Exporting a PDF
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  1. Working with tools

Transformation Tools

Tool

How it works

Scissors

Click an anchor point on a path to seperate the path into two objects.

Free Transform

Click and drag an anchor point on an object to rotate or distort it.

Rotate

Select an object using the Selection or Direct Selection tool. With object selected, choose the Rotate tool. Click to position the center point around which the object will rotate. Click and drag to rotate the object around the center point.

Scale

Select an object using the Selection or Direct Selection tool. Click to position the reference point to which the object will scale. Click and drag to scale the object in relation to the reference point. (Shift-click and drag to constrain proportions.)

Shear

Select an object using the Selection or Direct Selection tool. Click to position the reference point to which the object will shear. Click and drag to shear the object in relation to the reference point. (Shift-click and drag to constrain proportions.)

Gradient Swatch

Using the Selection tool, select an object that has a gradient fill or stroke. With the object selected, choose the Gradient Swatch tool. Click and drag within the object to change the direction or position of the gradient.

Gradient Feather

Using the Selection tool, select an object that has a gradient fill or stroke. With the object selected, choose the Gradient Feather tool. Click and drag with the object change that point at which the gradient begins or ends.

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