News paper page making

Technology and Techniques
Practical-01
Introduction to Newspaper
&
Practical-02
Designing Newspaper
Mr.P.P.Pawar
Topic
Newspaper making
Assistant Professor, Head
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication

Technology and Techniques
Practical-01
Introduction to Newspaper
&
Practical-02
Designing Newspaper
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CorelDRAW
- introduced CorelDRAW in 1989
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Useful softwares for

CorelDRAW
- CorelDraw is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation.
- It is also the name of the Corel graphics suite, which includes the bitmap-image
editor Corel Photo-Paint as well as other graphics-related programs (see below).
- The latest version is marketed as CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2019 and was released in
12 March, 2019.
- -CorelDraw is designed to edit two-dimensional images such as logos and posters.
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CorelDRAW
- Corel's headquarters are in Ottawa, Canada, with major offices in the United States,
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Quark Express:
- QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing software for creating and editing
complex page layouts in a environment.
- It runs on macOS and Windows.
- -It was first released by Quark, Inc. in 1987 and is still owned and
published by them.
- QuarkXPress is used by individual designers, large publishing houses and
corporates to produce a variety of layouts, from single-page flyers to the
multi-media projects required for magazines, newspapers, catalogs, and
the like.
- -More recent versions have added support for ebooks, Web and mobile
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Quark Express:
-The first version of QuarkXPress was released in 1987 for the Macintosh.
-In 1989, QuarkXPress incorporated an application programming
interface called XTensions which allows third-party developers to create
custom add-on features to the desktop application.
-Since 2015, QuarkXPress has been updated on an annual cycle, with major
version releases in May 2015, May 2016, May 2017, May 2018, July 2019
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Quark Express:
- Quark offers the only end-to-end content
automation platform that enables the creation,
management, publishing and delivery of content
across print, Web and digital channels.
-Whether creating regulatory documentation, policies and
procedures, investment research reports or interactive marketing
communications, the world’s most recognized brands are
modernizing their content strategies and processes with Quark
solutions.
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Quark Express:
- Quark Software Inc. was founded in Denver, Colo.
- in 1981 with the mission to reinvent how content creators and
creative professionals bring their visions to life.
- Over the past 30+ years the solutions have made an indelible
mark on the processes for creating high-fidelity, engaging and
omni-channel content.
- Today, with the leading content automation platform, Quark
infuses automation into every stage of the creation,
management, publishing and delivery of today’s most
important content. Mr.P.P.Pawar

Quark Express:
Quark’s vision: leverage automation to transform
the entire lifecycle of business-critical content to
make the world’s most innovative organizations
more efficient, more effective, and more competitive.
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Photoshop
- Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editor developed and published
by Adobe Inc. for Windows and macOS.
- It was originally created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll.
- Since then, the software has become the industry standard not
only in graphics editing, but in digital art as a whole.
- The software's name has thus become a generic trademark,
leading to its usage as a verb (e.g. "to photoshop an image",
"photoshopping", and "photoshop contest") although Adobe
discourages such use.
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Photoshop
- Photoshop can edit and compose raster images in multiple layers and
supports masks, alpha compositing and several color
models including RGB, CMYK, CIELAB, spot color, and duotone.
- Photoshop was developed in 1987 by two brothers Thomas and John
Knoll, who sold the distribution license to Adobe Systems Incorporated
in 1988.
- Photoshop was initially only available on Macintosh. In 1993, Adobe
chief architect Seetharaman Narayanan ported Photoshop to Microsoft
Windows. The Windows port led to Photoshop reaching a wider mass
market audience as Microsoft's global reach expanded within the next
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Newspapers are a printed mass medium. Newspapers use words as their major tool.
It is the collection of many news stories, features, articles, editorials, pictures etc.
They also use visuals including photographs, graphs, charts, computer graphics,
drawings, etc. All these elements, words and visuals, are combined in the shape of layout or
page make up.
When these are haphazardly (unsystematically) arranged, it becomes confusing and
difficult for the readers.
So the content of a newspaper needs to be arranged in an attractive and easy-to read
manner.
This arrangement is called the newspaper page layout or page design. The process of
achieving this is called designing.
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What is layout

 The primary objective of newspaper makeup is arranging news in an orderly and
convenient to-read manner.
 Secondly, makeup also should try and create a distinct personality for the newspaper.
 Thirdly, newspaper makeup should be more exciting to the reader.
 This is because the newspaper is competing with other media that are highly visual,
dramatic and attractive.
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Presentation of Content
 Readers have less time and newspapers have more pages. They want the gist of the
important stories.
 The days of linear (front-to-back) and systematic way of reading are over.
 . It is just like channel surfing on television.
 With competition among newspapers increasing up (though price cuts, etc.), and
television and magazines trying to take away newspaper readers.
 Newspapers are becoming more reader friendly and are trying to serve impatient
readers with attractive designs or make up.
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• Newspaper page makeup aims at communicating through appearance
and arrangement on all the pages.
• This is in addition to communicating through text and pictures.
• The contents of a newspaper are so arranged that the resulting design or
pattern connotes or communicates something beyond the meaning of the
words and pictures.
• Page make-up or the designs give some newspaper a serious or sober
look.
• Some newspapers have a classic look. Some others have a modern or
contemporary look.
• The design or arrangement of some newspapers attracts elderly people.
Some appeal to the young.
• Some newspapers appeal to the academic-oriented. Classic or old
fashioned, modern or progressive.
• These kinds of personalities for newspapers can be created thought
makeup and designing. Mr.P.P.Pawar

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Broad Sheet:
29 ½ X 23 ½”
Tabloid: 17X 11 “

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN APPLIED TO NEWSPAPER PAGE MAKE UP
• Ryhthm:
• The first design principle is rhythm. The newspaper columns should have a rhythmic
pattern in order to help the reader move his/her eyes on the page.
• Balance:
• On a newspaper page, ‘balance’ refers to the distribution of headlines, pictures and other
display elements along with advertisements that dominate the page visually, according
to their size, tone, shape and edges.
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• Balance:
• Balance means equilibrium or a state of rest. It deals with the visual weight of
the various elements of a newspaper page like the news stories, visuals, etc.
• Balance in newspaper means that the pages should not be top heavy, bottom
heavy or side heavy, etc.
• It means that the pages should not be extremely heavy in any section and
extremely light in another.
• The things that make a page heavy are headlines, visuals, and the size if the
stories, the use of boxes and screens, use of bold text, etc.
• Balance in newspaper design is achieved by visually weighing the elements on
both sides of a page.
• It does not require precise mathematical weighing. A properly balanced page has
all the elements (headlines, pictures, etc.) so distributed as to give a pleasant look
to the page.
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• Balance: Types
• Asymmetrical Balance:
-Most papers follow an Asymmetrical pattern of balance.
-In such a design, a big picture on the left corner counterbalances an advertisement at
the bottom right corner.
- In case there is a group of advertisement in a pyramid shape.
Symmetrical balance:
- SB is easier to achieve than the asymmetrical one.
- In a symmetrical design, uniform design elements are placed on both side of a page in
such a way that they are equidistant form an imaginary centre line that devides the page.
- In a newspaper, an asymmetrical design is uninteresting, stiff/rigid and often
unworkable because two news stories cannot be made completely equal both in content
and typographic format to fit them in a pre-determined pattern.
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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN APPLIED TO NEWSPAPER PAGE MAKE UP:
Patterns for placing advertisements
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• Contrast:
• Contrast in designing means the use of two or more elements that are dramatically
different from each other. This difference could be in size, shape, shade, colour, etc.
• So a headline set in lighter types is in contrast with a bold headline. A bigger picture
contrasts smaller pictures. And black and white is in contrast with colour. Contrast helps
in highlighting certain elements.
• Proportion:
• Proportion relates to the comparative relationships in terms of length, size, shape, etc.
• For example, a square shape is rarely used in designing, as it is dull and uninteresting. It
is also monotonous as all the sides are equal. Unequal proportions are usually more
attractive than equal proportions.
• Accordingly, the most widely used shape in designing is the rectangle. And this is the
reason why the outer shape of the newspapers, the shape of most news stories, the shape
of all photographs are always rectangular.
• The most common proportions used in newspapers are the 2:3 and the 3:5 proportions.
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• Unity:
• The principle of unity concerns the effect that a page design has over the readers.
• A newspaper page should create a single impression rather than multiple
impressions. A single impression makes a page pleasant and interesting.
• Unity on a newspaper page can be achieved by visually weighting all the stories and
pictures and then shifting the placement until a satisfactory arrangement has been
found out.
• Newspaper page makeup has always been a tough task as the makeup people do not
have much time for planning and they always work under the pressure of a deadline.
• However, these days page makeup has become much faster and easier because of
computers. Many a software packages (like the Quark Express) have been
specifically created for this purpose. So makeup people can change the placement
and arrangement by pressing a few keys.
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Grids
1. In graphic design and word processing applications, a grid is a
series of vertical and horizontal lines that are used to subdivide a
page vertically and horizontally into margins, columns, inter-column
spaces, lines of type and spaces between blocks of type and images.
2. These subdivisions form the basis of a modular and systematic
approach to the layout, particularly for multipage documents,
making the design process quicker, and ensuring visual consistency
between related pages.
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BASICS OF NEWSPAPER PAGE MAKE-UP
• Front-page makeup starts by indicating the amount of space that the nameplate will take.
• A nameplate usually appears at the top centre. Some newspapers (like the Punjab Keshri have the nameplate
at the top left corner of the front page. Some People call it the, masthead and some others call it the flag.
• Often stories are assigned numbers. So the headline and the allotted number of the story should be put on the
page in the space marked for the story.
• The number of columns should also be indicated (S/C for single column, 2/C or D/C for two columns, 3/C
for three columns, etc.).
• In case of single column stories; a straight, downward pointing arrow is drawn to mark the depth or height of
the story.
• In case of multiple column stories a continuous arrow covering all the columns may be drawn to show where
the story is continued.
• Continued….
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Contd…..
Carryovers or jumps should be marked properly along with the page number to which the
story is to be continued.
Pictures, cartoons, and other visuals should be properly labeled. The most common practice
is to put a large cross (X) covering the entire space to be taken by the visual.
Boxed items are also properly marked by drawing rectangles. These are then labeled with the
word ‘box’.
Column rules, special marks, etc. are to be used judiciously only to distinguish columns from
each other or to highlight some part of the story.
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BASICS OF NEWSPAPER PAGE MAKE-UP

Importance to Editorial Content over Artistic Decoration
Readers look for information and other editorial content in newspapers. So information
should be presented in such a way that the reader’s requirements are fulfilled. A well-
designed newspaper presents information though a series of visual signals like headlines,
text, photos, charts and graphs, maps, blurbs or at glance-summaries, etc.
Good Design is not Mere Decoration: Newspaper design should emphasize the information
content, as its primary goal is to communicate or express rather than impress. Boxes,
columns, column lines, headline size, colour backgrounds (screens) and other visual elements
are not mere ornamentations. These help guide the reader through the maze of information.
For example, column lines separate stories; boxes, colour backgrounds, etc. make stories
stand out by attaching significance to them. Good newspapers designs present information in
the most organized and visually appealing from.
Page Architecture: This is the internal space management of the pages. This helps in giving
the pages a cleaner look.
Contd…..
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Contd……
Choosing the Right illustrations: Most newspapers use only photographs. However, other
visuals like sketches, charts, maps, graphs, computer graphics, etc. can be more useful than
just photographs.
Legibility: The information content of newspaper pages should be easy to read, Designers
need to choose type faces, type sizes, lines, spacing, etc with legibility in mind.
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• Surprise: A well-designed newspaper page stops the reader and surprises him. And this surprise could come in the
form of larger photographs, dramatic use of colour, etc. Surprise on newspaper pages delights the reader and makes
the routine job of reading newspapers interesting. Newspaper page makeup has evolved from simply putting the
stories and pictures together within the available space to a highly intricate graphic art.
The factors that have contributed to this evolving are:
• Changing tastes of readers
• Graphic designing and
• Technical advancements like the advent of computers, and
• Better printing presses.
Simplicity in Page Makeup: Simplicity is perhaps the most important feature of designing and makeup of
newspapers today. In this regard, the KISS rule (Keep Kt Simple and Short) applies to make-up. A newspaper page
contains a few elements like the text, the headlines, visuals, lines, boxes, colour and white space. These elements
need to be integrated together in such a way that it makes finding and reading the stories easier. And things like
fancy typefaces, tricky type setting, crowding of stories, etc. make newspaper pages more complex and slow down
the reading process.
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DESIGNING VARIOUS PAGES OF NEWSPAPERS
FRONT PAGE MAKEUP:
• Modern front-page makeup is highly functional, well-designed, attractive
and very flexible.
• The front page is the showcase of a newspaper. Thus it should be easy to
read, attractive and inviting. It should be orderly. And it should have a
distinctive personality of its own.
• One way of getting a well-designed front page is to use the principle of
artistic dominance. Front pages, being showcases, carry a lot of important
stories, which compete with each other for attention. This kind of a situation
is confusing for the readers.
• So the front page has to have a point of dominance. It could be a story, a
story with accompanying picture, or a group of similar stories clubbed
together. Dominance can be achieved by way of size,
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Guidelines for an exiting and more readable front page
Creation of an open page with lot of white space between columns, between stories,
pictures, etc.
Using a news summary rather than having many small stories on the front page.
Making the bottom half as interesting as the top half by using larger pictures, boxed
stories, etc.
Avoiding too many boxes, lines and other attention getting devices (like asterix marks,
screens, etc) that pull the reader’s away from the stories.
Using clearer, easy-to-read typefaces.
Incorporating a sense of freshness and vitality to the page by making small changes
to the basic format on different days.
Creating an elegant but different look by having columns of different widths.
Use of simpler nameplate. shape, and placement, etc.
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INSIDE PAGE MAKEUP
• Inside pages almost always have advertisements. As ads bring
revenue, they are given priority above news. In fact, it is the ads
that are first placed on the pages. The remaining space or the
‘news hole’ is left for the editorial matter.
• Inside pages cover a variety of content. And the editorial content
decides the design pattern with in the available space. The
structural position of advertisements also needs to be considered
for bringing about a harmonious blend between the advertising
and editorial content.
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MAKEUP OF EDITORIAL PAGES
The editorial page is often shabbily made-up. But life can be injected into editorial
pages. This is despite the content-wise sober and serious nature of the editorial pages. The
techniques of brightening editorial pages include:
o Setting the editorials in larger types than ordinary body type used for news.
o Setting editorials in wider columns.
o Boxing editorials and other stories or articles.
o Use of more white space.
o Placing the masthead at a lower position (removing it from the top left corner where
it doesn’t compete for attention with the editorials.
o Using photographs on the editorial page. This may be not a traditional practice but
it
would enhance the ’look’ of the page.
o Use of flush-left and right-ragged style of setting to make if distinct from other
pages.
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Newspaper Layout in the past
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Innovative layout
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Creating a Newspaper Layout
Adobe InDesign:
- InDesign is a desktop publishing software application for creating brochures,
magazines, newspapers, and books.
- Projects created using InDesign can be shared in both digital and print formats. I
- InDesign is used by graphic designers, artists, publishers, and marketing
professionals.
- It is developed and produced by Adobe Systems and is available individually, or
as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud.
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• InDesign History
• The first version of InDesign was released on August 31, 1999.
• The program began development long before this, with a different company known as Aldus that
was based in Seattle and created desktop publishing software.
• Aldus developed some of the first graphics and desktop publishing programs available for personal
computers that were running early versions of the Windows and Mac operating systems.
• These included applications such as Superpaint and PageMaker.
• The first version of PageMaker was released by Aldus July 1985 and it provided a simplified graphical
user interface that fit the Macintosh point-and-click user experience. PageMaker became popular for
early desktop publishing use as a result.
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• InDesign History
• In 1994, Adobe purchased Aldus and acquired most of their software apps, with the most
notable being PageMaker. In the years prior to the Adobe–Aldus acquisition, PageMaker had
been losing significant market share to QuarkXPress. Quark had many more features and
eventually pushed PageMaker out of the professional desktop publishing market.
• In 2000, Adobe released the first version of InDesign with the intent to replace PageMaker
and offer an application that was more competitive with QuarkXPress.
• With the dawn of Mac OS X, Adobe also had the first-mover advantage by offering InDesign
as the first desktop publishing program native for OS X, as QuarkXPress was only available
on earlier versions of the Mac OS at that time.
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1. Home Screen of Adobe Indesign

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Creating New Document
2. Page Setup:
Width:14.75in/88p6
Height:23.5in/141p0
Gutter:0.1875in/1p
Margin:0.5in/3p:

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3. Adding & Editing of Baseline
:
1. Adding Baselines:
- View-Grids and Guides
2. Editing Baselines:
- Edit-Preferences-Grids-
[Dialog Box]-Increment Every
(Set value-14pt)

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Property Panel

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Property Panel
Pages Panel:
Select page for
work

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Property Panel
Pages Panel:
Select page for
work
For more panels

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Pages Panel:
Select page for
work
For more panels
Resetting the work space:
Click on Essential and choose the options

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Pages Panel:
Select page for
work
For more panels
View the page:

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Pages Panel:
Select page for
work
For more panels
View the page:
Text tool:
Inserting text
In the sheet.

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Pages Panel:
Select page for
work
For more panels
View the page:
Text tool:
Inserting text
In the sheet.
Rectangle
frame tool:
Taking
retangle in
the sheet
to add the
text
Rectangle tool:
Adding text,
graphics and
logos

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Pages Panel:
Select page for
work
For more panels
View the page:
Text tool:
Inserting text
In the sheet.
Rectangle
frame tool:
Taking
retangle in
the sheet
to add the
text
Rectangle tool:
Adding text,
graphics and
logos
Rectangle tool:
Insert graphics
In the sheet

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Property Panel
Selection Tool:
Moving content from one place to another

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Zoom tool:
Zoom out and Zoom in the documents

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Zoom tool:
Zoom out and Zoom in the documents
Select and move tool

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