![]() Let's move that aside and we'll take a look at some of the other effects. It's a different transparency than I've given to the fill of the box. I could give the text an individual transparency, which is different, by coming up and selecting the text, coming down here and adjusting the slider. ![]() Slide it back like that and there you can see the transparency over the butterfly is applied just to the fill of the frame, but not the text itself. I'm just going to apply it to the fill and down here we have the transparency slider. Notice this is now on the control palette, which makes it a lot easier to access. I'm going to come up to this button here in the control palette. Now, I'd like to give this a transparency when it sits over the butterfly, but in previous versions, when you give it a transparency, it affected everything - the text, the outline, the fill - but now you can change that. ![]() I'll pull out my swatches palette and drag it down here and let's choose blue like this. It's in the frame and I'm going to give the frame a color. ![]() It used to be a problem one, so let me show you what they've done. They have improved the transparency an awful lot. Now, we're going to be taking a look at menus and palettes a little bit later on in this tutorial, so let's take a look at some of the nice new sexy features that they've introduced. A lot more options are available to you in this context-sensitive palette. The control palette up at the top over here, which was always very powerful, has been improved. Again, this is to give you more space to work on your document over here. It comes out, same as before, but we have the other ones, the layers, the object styles, stroke, and if you want to close them up, click on this double arrow. I'm just going to close them up a little bit here and click on one, like the swatches. These are the palettes that you would find under the window menu. If I press and drag out here like this, you can see there is the text explanation of what these are. I'm just going to keep it a long list here. Over on the left hand side, the tool palette is now one long list, but if you click on these double arrows, you get it the way it was in previous versions. One of the things that Adobe has done is to try and give you more space to work in your documents. So what we're going to do, we're going to open one of the recently opened documents I have here and we'll take a look at the interface. It shows you resources, the new features in InDesign CS3, and also a quick getting started tutorial, but you won't need these because you're doing this VTC tutorial. Down at the bottom, you have the Adobe help features. You can create new documents, books or libraries on this side, and down here you've got web links to the InDesign community. Simply click in one of these to open it again. ![]() Over on the left here, you can see a list of recently opened documents. So, if you're new to InDesign, one of the first things you're going to notice is this splash screen that comes up when you open it. We'll also be taking a look at how InDesign integrates with the other Creative Suite programs, Photoshop, Illustrator, and to a lesser extent Dreamweaver. The object of a QuickStart! tutorial is to make users familiar with some of the new features and some of the exiting features within InDesign and to give you an idea of the strength of this program in your workflow. My name is Brian White and I will be your host for this tutorial. ![]()
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