The document describes the steps taken to create a page layout in Adobe InDesign. It discusses placing an image, adding text boxes, using the text wrap tool to fit text around the image, dragging text between boxes to establish a reading order, adding a 3x3 grid layout with 5mm gutters, including a drop capital by adjusting paragraph settings, and adding a title using the text tool. The final layout used grids and guidelines to create a well-set-out article.
Think about EVERYTHING you have done in / learned about using Photoshop
provide proof via before and after pics if you have them or by slideshows as some students have already created.
Imagery is important. You could also video your self with an over the shoulder shot to show how exactly you created certain effects (to reach higher grade bands)
Use your print screens you have used in your planning and research and talk about the tools you used.
Think about EVERYTHING you have done in / learned about using Photoshop
provide proof via before and after pics if you have them or by slideshows as some students have already created.
Imagery is important. You could also video your self with an over the shoulder shot to show how exactly you created certain effects (to reach higher grade bands)
Use your print screens you have used in your planning and research and talk about the tools you used.
TUTorial By chad neuman in InDesign,Tutorial AT Vishal Dawdy .docxwillcoxjanay
TUTorial By chad neuman in InDesign,Tutorial AT Vishal Dawdy
Download the support files first from Mod 3 Guidelines!
Begin…
INSTRUCTIONS:
Step 1
Open InDesign and go to File>New>Document or click the Create New File icon on the welcome screen. Set the settings shown here (these are all default settings except you’ll set it to 4 pages and click “facing pages”).
Step 2
Let’s set up the master pages. That way we can add a header and page numbers automatically. Make sure your “Pages” window is open from the Window Menu. DOUBLE-Click on the A-Master icon on the top of the Pages pull-out palette to work in the master pages shown here in yellow).
Step 3
In the lower-left hand corner of the left master page, click-and-drag with the Text tool to drag out a text box for the page number.
Step 4
Go to Type>Insert Special Character> Markers>Current Page Number.
Step 5
This will insert an automated page number so you don’t have to number each page. Change the size (and style if you want) of the font to an appropriate one for your publication.
[Note: Additionally, you could also place text (like the word 'page' or '#' symbol) in front of the page number and it would be continued throughout all pages using the master page template.]
Step 6
Select the Selection tool (black arrow). Hold down Option and click-and-drag the text box that has the automatic page number in it over to the right page to create another instance of the Auto Page Number. I placed the text box on the right side page on the lower right hand corner.
Step 7
If you put the text boxes for the page numbers in the same locations as I chose to, it should look something like this.
Step 8
Page numbers are not the only objects to put onto the master pages. And all the objects don’t have to be automatically updated objects, either. You can add photos, text, or shapes and they’ll be on every page. For this tutorial, add just a simple title at the top of each page by clicking-and-dragging out a text box along the top.
Step 9
Open the Paragraph palette under Window>Type & Tables>Paragraph and click the center or justify icon to center the text after highlighting it. Up in the Control options menu, change the tracking to 600 to increase the spacing of the text to spread out the title. The Tracking setting icon is an uppercase AV with directional arrows underneath it.
Step 10
Open Adobe Illustrator, create a New Document and go to File>Place to place the japanese_flag.gif file located in the downloadable support files for this tutorial (see Module 3 on our website).
Step 11
After clicking on the placed file with a Selection tool, open the Image Trace Control palette (under Window) to view the options for live tracing. Make sure the settings are set to the ones shown here; pretty much a basic black and white trace.
Step 12 Select Trace and then Go to the OBJECT menu and Expand (object+fill) to apply the trace to the selected artwork.
Step 13 Next, Deselect the image. Then, ...
2. The first thing I did when
creating my page layout was
place he image. I decided to
source a stock image from the
internet and place it into
Adobe InDesign. Next, I added
the text boxes I would use to
accompany the image.
After submitting my text, using
the Lorem Ipsum font, it looked
like the image on the left. The
text was covering the image,
not fitting to the edges, like I
wanted.
To get my text to fit correctly, I
had to use the text wrap tool.
To carry out the text wrapping,
I selected it on the ‘window’
menu, before a box appeared.
Within this tool box, I could
select the text to fit round the
picture or above and below the
image. I selected the first
option for my page layout, due
to the blank space that would
be left if I would have selected
the second option.
As you can see from the picture
on the left, the text wrapping
worked correctly, and the text
was not infringing the picture.
3. However, after all this, there
was still an issue. The text
didn’t read in correct columns
and didn’t follow any kind of
order. To resolve this issue, I
had to click on the Red tick at
the bottom of the text box. I
dragged a portion of the text
from the second text box, put it
in the first text box and the text
now followed a pattern.
Now it was time to add my
grids to the layout. In order to
do this, I had to go to the
Layout menu, before clicking
on the create guides option. At
this stage, a menu appeared on
the screen asking me about my
features of the grid. As
instructed, I selected a 3x3 grid,
while I selected a 5mm gutter
between them.
Drop capitals are a main
feature for magazines and
newspapers, a feature which
I wanted to include. To add
drop capitals, I went to the
Type list, then selected the
paragraph button. This
brought you to a box
(pictured left), which
allowed you to change
characteristics of your
paragraph. However, I just
wanted to adjust the drop
capital, which was the
button on the bottom. A size
of 4 down and 2 across
seemed the right size for the
drop capital.
My title was an easy
technique to add. Like on
Photoshop and other
software, the addition of a
title is done using the text
tool, which I ad used earlier
in the task. A font of 72
seemed to be striking, but
didn’t take all the attention
from the main copy.
4. The page layout was now complete and
the grids and guidelines definitely played
a part in making sure this article was well
set out and was also clear.