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1. How to design
a DPS in
Indesign

2. Find Adobe
InDesign and
open it up.

3. Then, select
‘Document’

4. Then, you are presented with this screen.
You need to choose how many columns
you would like, as this saves you from
doing it later on. You also need to select
4 pages, as the front cover and contents
page will both be transferred on so that
you have 4 pages of magazine on 1
document

5. All text goes inside
the columns. This
is guttering- Gives
you margins
If you click
pages, this is
will show all
pages.

6. Uncheck ‘allow
document pages to
shuffle’

7. Hold onto a single
page and drag it,
so that the order is
1 single, 1 single
then the double.
This will make
sure that the front
cover, contents
page and double
all follow each
other in correct
order

8. This is
what your
pages
should
now look
like.

9. This is your
double page
spread.

10. Click this to create text and draw it out
like so

12. Highlight it
and press
this button
to change
colour and
stroke

13. Press
swatches
so you
can
choose
what
colours
you’d like

15. Press the red line through
the white box so you can
change the stroke

16. Change
thickness of
stroke by
highlighting
words and
changing the
number

17. Change height and change thickness of text

18. Same
procedure to
create the
stand first

19. Press this button, then change the number of columns you
want from the default number (1)

21. If the text doesn’t all fit in, it
shows a little red box. Click this.

22. Hover
cursor over
where you
want the
remainder of
the text to
flow. Then
click it

23. And it all flows into the next column.

24. Click this
button. Click
anywhere in
the first
paragraph.
Then, increase
this from 1

25. Make byline.
Just make
text box and
put it to the
right of
headline

26. This button allows
you to import a
picture. MAKE
SURE YOU HAVE
NOT GOT
ANYTHING
SELECTED
BECAUSE IT
WONT WORK

27. Press Text
Wrap

28. Change 0mm to
something
higher. This
allows space
around the
picture to the
text

29. HOW TO DO A PULL QUOTE
• Highlight quote add quotation marks
• Copy
• Make another text box
• Paste
• Highlight
• Increase text size
• Maybe change font
• Centre the text
• Pull it down where you want wrap around object