Okay. So this will be our tutorial about using text wraps,
hyphenation, spell check, and transform.
So when we're thinking of image and text,
we have some really cool options in InDesign
to allow them to work together, that saves you some time.
We're thinking always of being the most efficient.
Once you have your techniques, you want to think about expediting your process
so that you can make work um, as efficiently as possible.
So let's start with thinking about text wrap.
So a text wrap is when you're thinking about the interaction of text,
so here is my text frame,
and image, so here's my image frame.
Of course, we know that our image frame,
here I can see the image is actually quite large
with this yellow orange kind of bounding box.
That tells me that the image is really big,
but of course, it's inside a frame
and if I want to use the content grabber to edit, I can.
So that is a big image, but it's kind of isolated to this page
and I have my text. So the way to think about using text
and um, text wrap, is a consideration of how you want the text to flow
around any particular image.
Now in this rectangular case,
it's pretty easy to just kind of line up my text frame
to be in a position where it feels like it's flowing around the image.
But these two objects aren't really connected together.
So another more interesting way
is to think about using text wrap,
and the way I'm going to show it to you
is by changing the shape of this.
You really get an idea of how it works.
So the first thing I'm going to do is
I'm just going to make this a non rectangular image,
so I'm going to change the frame.
And I'm going to do that, make sure you're not clicked on anything.
I'm going to grab my direct selection tool
because I just want to edit this one little corner.
So I've clicked on that corner and I'm going to shift it over.
So I'm just going to kind of create you know, some sort of a diagonal.
This will just reveal the text wrap to you,
more so than if it was rectangular.
It's also kind of a nice design.
So now, the trick with thinking about text wrap
is it's something that you actually apply
to the image, not to the text.
That's the one little conceptual trick here uh, that's kind of hard to remember.
So, here's my text.
Let's imagine I'm going to kind of let it wrap around the edge of the image,
both with my title and with the actual kind of information here.
So I'm going to click on the actual image
using my regular selection tool,
because remember, that grabs the bounding box.
And then, you'll see an opportunity
inside your Properties panel down here called Text Wrap.
Now again, really important. If you're using your other selection tool,
oh, actually using the other one brings it up too,
so if for some reason you didn't see it though,
I just always kind of default to my regular selection tool.
Click on the image.
And then you'll see your text wrap.
So, first opportunity here is no text wrap,
so that's what it's currently set at.
You can see it's a little bit darker.
Here, if we wrap around the bounding box,
remembering that I changed the bounding box, look what happens.
It has shifted my text to kind of match this angle right here.
Oops, I just zoomed in on the actual image
instead of the frame, there you go.
So now it's done that,
if I want to use some offsets,
which in this case is just one offset to kind of space it out,
I could always increase some spacing.
Oops, Command Z, let me get back here a little bit.
Use some spacing on this image to kind of bump this around.
So I'm going to click off and just zoom myself out a little bit.
So again, I'm on the image.
If I apply a text wrap, I'm going to go back in time here.
There's my text wrap, which is a wrap around bounding box.
If I need to increase the spacing then I'm going to use an offset.
So this is an offset number.
It'll usually limit you to just doing
whatever one works for that particular bounding or text wrap,
which in this case is a top offset,
but it's sort of shifting things left to right.
Now notice what's happening with also the title of this kind of article.
It is getting overset.
I'm kind of missing out on some of my text with this little red thing.
So of course, I can increase the size of this text frame so that it also works,
but it's shifting this according to the text wrap.
So that is a text wrap with a bounding box.
Very interesting, clever way-- the, of working with text and image.
The other thing you can do, you don't necessarily have
to have it working with an image.
You can use text wrap with any object.
So here's another object.
This is something I drew really quickly
and I actually just used the pen tool.
Here we go, you're familiar with the pen tool.
You can use the pen tool in InDesign.
You can also use it in Illustrator.
If you're drawing something more complex,
then of course you can place your object inside InDesign.
So here, I have some text and this kind of custom shape.
Let's imagine it's a poorly drawn guitar of some sort.
Uh, let's think about the kind of text wrap
we could do with these two objects.
So I am again, make sure you don't have anything selected.
Get your black arrow selection tool,
go to the object itself
to determine what kind of text wrap you want.
Here's the one we did before around the bounding box.
Remember, this is actually in a bounding box that's square.
So that's not going to help us at all.
What I want us to think about instead
is wrapping around the object that I've drawn.
So if I use wrap around object, look what's happened.
Now I have this lovely little flow
around the side of the object.
Of course, if I move my text frame around, it's going to keep flowing
and the positioning of the text will flow around that object.
If I change the size of the object, of course,
it's just going to keep flowing.
Now, other opportunity is maybe
we don't want to be on the outside of this object.
Perhaps we want to be on the inside of the object.
In that case, you have an invert button here.
So if I invert and also make sure I grab my text,
so I'm going to use my black arrow.
I'm going to move the text so that it's actually
in the space of the object.
And perhaps I need to make my text frame a little bit wider.
Bring it in a little bit here.
And I'm, that top line looks like it's, there we go.
Bring that down a little bit.
So now I have done a text wrap
around an object and inverted it
so that it's actually inside the object.
So that is wrap around object shape, invert.
You also have um, jump object, jump to next column.
Those are a little bit more if you're uh, doing column based design work.
I think the most useful for you currently
is the wrap around bounding box or wrap around object shape,
thinking about how to invert it.
Again, if you don't want to do it,
then you can always just go back to this no text wrap
and now you're back to the basics where they aren't interacting together.
So those are your text wrap options, very fun.
Uh, the other thing I want to show you
is to just pay attention to what is hyphenated.
If you're writing out a lot of text
and you're breaking on a line,
it's going to create a hyphenation,
so here's a hyphen, here's a hyphen,
here's a hyphen, here's a hyphen.
Sometimes that's a really kind of annoying thing
when you're a viewer or a reader.
Just seeing a bunch of hyphens along the edge is kind of a bad design.
It can get kind of um, irritating on your eyes.
So if you want to turn that off,
I recommend turning that off and it's just a really simple setting.
If you scroll down in your Properties panel,
you have to be on a text frame
because otherwise it won't have all the opportunities, but scroll down.
Under this paragraph right here where you have paragraph options,
you know, you've got center, justification, etc.,
we have a hyphenate button.
So I like to turn that off and it's just going to move the words down
rather than hyphenate, hyphenate, hyphenate all the time.
That's hyphenation.
The other thing I want you to pay attention to is your spelling.
There is nothing worse than looking at a beautiful design
that has a bunch of spelling errors,
because they become these little kind of
just nuisances to your brain.
So, you can, of course, check your spelling in a word document.
Particularly if you have a lot of text,
use that kind of word document program,
whatever it might be, to check your spelling.
Or if you're just going to type into InDesign,
we do have a spellcheck feature.
So grab your text frame.
Actually you don't even need to grab a text frame.
You can go right into it. It's under the Edit menu.
Spelling, Check Spelling.
This will go through like a normal kind of text editor
kind of word processing document
and check all of your spelling.
Suggested, you can commit to it, you can skip it, ignore it, etc.
When you're finished, you can hit Done.
So please check your spelling on your work.
Um, that again is just Edit, Spelling, Check Spelling.
You can also do Dynamic Spelling. That'll watch it as you type.
That's an opportunity for you if you like that kind of um, spelling work.
Okay, so we've done text wraps, hyphenation, spelling.
The only other thing I'm going to show you
that people often like to do,
because we've done it in other programs, is to flip things.
So if you've been experimenting
with flipping images horizontally or vertically
in Illustrator or Photoshop,
we can do the same here.
So let's do it on this actual image of the waves.
So the way to do this is through transforming.
Once you have your file, of course,
and you've grabbed it with your selection tool,
top of your properties panel is your Transform, up here.
You always want to choose the reference point.
So if you're just transforming vertically or horizontally as a flip,
like you were thinking of it in a mirror,
I use the center point,
but you could also flip from edges.
So you would just simply click on an edge
and that's the reference point from which it would flip.
But I keep it on the center for ease.
Now of course, you could think about your X and Y
and your rotation and etc., your angle,
but the easiest thing, I think, is either
use your rotations if that's what you're after
or here's the flipping options. Flip horizontal, flip vertical.
Kind of gives you a little preview of how it works in the icons,
so here's a flip horizontal, here you see what's happened.
Of course, I may have to rethink my text there.
Here's flip vertical.
So those, that's how those work,
so a very easy opportunity to work with your images in InDesign.