A Tutorial for a Pint Glass in InDesign
Make a pint glass in InDesign by using the program's Ellipse and Line tools to simulate a 3-D cone that represents the pint glass. You can enhance your pint glass image by using the program's Pencil tool to draw a liquid inside the glass. Color the liquid by picking a color from InDesign's Color panel. One of the benefits of using InDesign to create this image is that the image will be in vector format. Vector graphics can be enlarged to any size without losing image quality.
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Instructions
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Click the "File" menu's "New" command, then click "OK" on the dialog box that appears to create a new document on which to draw your pint glass.
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Click the "Tools" panel icon shaped like an ellipse to run the Ellipse tool, then click on the document window to start the ellipse. Drag the mouse to form an ellipse whose width is approximately four to five times its height. Release the mouse to complete the ellipse. This shape represents the circular top of the pint glass, seen from a viewpoint that foreshortens the top. Foreshortening is the optical phenomenon that makes real world objects appear to have different sizes than they actually do.
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Press "V" to enter selection mode, then press "Control" and "C" simultaneously. Press "Control" and "V" simultaneously to duplicate the ellipse, which will form the pint glass' bottom surface.
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Drag the duplicated ellipse directly downward from the first ellipse until the distance between the two ellipses is approximately 1.5 times the width of the top ellipse. Drag a corner of the bounding box surrounding the duplicate until the duplicate shrinks to about three-quarters the size of the original ellipse. This task makes the glass's bottom surface smaller than the top of the glass.
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Click the "Tools" panel icon shaped like a straight line to run the Line tool, then click the leftmost point of the top ellipse. Drag the mouse to the leftmost point of the lower ellipse, then release the mouse to draw a line connecting the top and bottom ellipses at their left sides. This line represents the silhouette on the left side of the pint glass.
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Use the Line tool to connect the top and bottom ellipses on their right sides, as you connected the left sides. This task completes the pint glass.
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