Introduce your students to the essentials of working with images in Adobe InDesign with this beginner-friendly, student-guided tutorial. Perfect for digital design, graphic design, media arts, and CTE classes, this lesson walks students through the fundamentals of placing, adjusting, and managing images in a professional layout.

As students move through the tutorial, they complete a guided notes sheet to check their understanding and reinforce key InDesign concepts. This makes it ideal for independent learning, blended learning, or sub plans.

This Adobe InDesign tutorial covers the following skills:

• Document setup
• Image frames
• Placing images
• Image fitting options
• Content Grabber & resizing
• Display performance options
• Clipping paths
  

Created in Adobe InDesign CC 2024/2025, this lesson requires no prior InDesign experience. Familiarity with other Adobe software may help, but is not required.

Resource Includes:

• Google Slides tutorial (fully editable)
  
• PDF tutorial
  
• Google Doc guided notes (fully editable)
  
• PDF guided notes

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