InDesign works in a similar way to photoshop and illustrator, you have the options to use layes, text, the pen tool ect. in addition to all this you haves pages and lost of other tools.
You can choose to work specifically for web or print, and choose from a variety of preset sizes or input your own, you can also control orientation, margin size, number of columns ect.
While in InDesign the margins you chose earlier show up, and you will notice that the program has a snap guide function. If you are moving something and it's next to a margin line, the edge of the page, the center of the page or even parallel to something else of the page it will automatically 'snap' there, so you can arrange things precisely.
Alongside the page function you have the option to use a master page, this is a page not on your document which you can add something (say a logo) and it will show up on-top of all the pages in your document. You can toggle this on and off on each page and it is a great resource.
We also played around with the text tool and shape tools, and then we moved onto buttons. First we changed the workspace to interactive, then we opened the 'button' tab. To make a button you simply select what you want for the button and click on the 'normal' layer in the button box, it should be greyed out but it'll become active as soon as you click. You then simply add the action you want it to do but clicking on the plus sign on the click layer. We used buttons for various things including playing music/video.
We also looked at bringing in files from photoshop into inDesign, one way to import a specific part of an image into inDesign is to use a clipping mask, you simply outline the area of the image that you want with the pen tool, then if saved in TIFF format you can import the image and the clipping path into inDesign. Anything outside of the closed path will be invisible, you can also edit the path in inDesign.
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