Thursday, 12 January 2012

Abode In Design - Workshop

Industry standard, page Layout work that is related to this brief.
Prepared images in Photoshop in Illustrator and Photoshop, it then goes to Indesign to layout and print. Set up to create multiple documents.



Choose Document, book is used in intensive detail. Day to day work just use new - document. 

LOOK AT PAGE SIZE : Drop down menu and pick a pre-set or you can also type in a width and height for the page. Bottom 3 sections help to divide page with guidelines, you can also go to more for further options. 



BLEED is the margin outside of the document. It is one of the most important sections of opening a new document. Designing for commercial print you should always leave a section - so if you were designing on a sheet of A4 you should always print onto an A3 sheet. Bleed is to compensate in inaccuracies in the trimming down of your print. Anything that goes to the edge has to extend over. Therefore when cutting you allow for being slightly out.
STANDARD BLEED AMOUNT YOU SET IS 3MM. Will be lost once trimmed down.


SLUG also defines an area outside the page. it is always larger then a bleed area. TO DEFINE AREA OUTSIDE WHEN PRINTING. Don't have to set slug area as indesign specifies this area but sometimes it is useful. 
FACING PAGES CHECK BOX - located near page numbers - If it is checked then your layout on screen will place to pages next to each other in the format of a magazine layout - How it will look once it is printed. 


WORKSPACE SHOULD LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS - with specific dimensions. 
Window menu allows for more pallets then what is situated on the right hand side of your page layout. 





Page icon - Select add, delete and manage and nagvagate through the pages in my documents. 

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Making a Facing Page A4 document - Spread is page 2-3 First and last are single pages. You can see the line which is the fold / binding edge of booklet. First page of facing page document is always a single sheet then it develops to double page spread etc. Called 'READERS SPREADS' as what you see on screen is what you will be reading. 

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Need to work with TEXT IMAGES COLOUR AND SHAPES - to develop your pages on Indesign. Each one of the bold is contained in a frame eg. Text is contained in a Type frame. 

This is a type frame, all text is contained within this. The fill with place holder text allows for your text box to be fitted with pointless text so you can get an idea of layout if you don't have the text finished yet. 





You can use the menu's to format your text and paragraph options.It is useful to get to grips with different sections of each icon on the menu section on the left hand side of your Indesign screen. Using the little red cross when arranging your text is good because if the text box is too small to contain the writing them you click the red cross, it creates a new text box and your text then flows between to two when arranging your work.


Positioning Frames on a page - use selection tool  - guidelines appear to show you when it is lined up and will go away instantly and is a good guide mark to centre images / text etc. Guides will also appear to show when frames line up with frames etc.   

USING IMAGES AND WORKING WITH COLOUR:
Photoshop (to print) - Correct Settings - Appropriate resolution (300 DPI) - Colour mode - CMYK or Greyscale, TIF or PSD files, don't use jpeg when printing, Image property - Size (resolution and size go hand in hand) When transferring images from Photoshop to Indesign. 
Illustrator (to print) - CMYK or GREYSCALE and save as a TIF or AI (Illustrator Format) to transfer to Indesign.

TO CREATE IMAGE FRAME YOU USE THIS TOOL:


Go to file and place image into the frame. Import from where ever you get your image from. The work with the container or contents with selection tool and resize the frame - sections may sit outside of frame. Use image frame to crop also.  Circle tool on photo allows you to move image instead of moving the frame. 


If you hold SHIFT KEY then you can resize the image - but you should size it in photoshop first as you enlarge it in Indesign it lowers the resolution. (very small or very bit bigger - will be ok)

OR YOU COULD JUST GO TO FILE - PALCE - ADD IMAGE - FRAME IS AUTOMATICALLY CREATED - SAME SIZE AS IMAGE AND INDESIGN WILL IMPORT. 

WITH ILLUSTRATOR FILES YOU GO TO FILE - PLACE VECTOR ILLUSTRATOR - IT JUST PLACES TEH ARTWORK NOT THE WHOLE PAGE.




BECAUSE WE HAVE PALCED THIS ILLUSTRATOR IMAGE ONTO INDESIGN IT HAS BECOME BLURRED AND PIXALETTED IT IS TO DO WITH INDESIGN IMAGES. YOU ONLY ESTABLISH A LINK BETWEEN INDESIGN FILE AND TEH ORIGINAL IMAGE, WHAT YOU SEE ON SCREEN IS A LOW RESOLUTION PREVIEW OF THAT IMAGE. AT THIS STAGE ALL WE ARE DOING IN IN DESIGN IS JUST CREATING LAYOUT - WHEN IT SNDS TO PRINT INDESIGN WILL LOCATE THE ORIGINAL FILE AND IMAGE AND MAKE IT HIGH RES SO THE PRINT OUT WILL LOOK GOOD AND EXACTLY WHAT I NEED.

AND IMAGE TO USE IN INDESIGN YOU NEED TO KEEP IN THE SAME PLACE SO WHEN PRINTING IT WILL LOCATE THE BETTER IMAGE. 
 FILE MANAGEMENT IS VERY IMPORTANT WHEN WORKING IN INDESIGN. Make a folder with images and save indesign file there also. 


You can find and locate image details on the links section of indesign which is placed on the right hand side of your toolbar. View and go down to display performance and change the image type either high quality or no image so you save space and the programme runs smooth and quickly. 


(With Illustrator you can select the image do the vectors are still showing so you can edit the image)
(THE OBJECT MENU allows you to bring frames to the front and send to back etc ect, go to object and arrange...)


press W on keyboard will give you a print preview of your work will hide all frame edges column guides and how it will look when you print it. Do not work in this put for a preview it is useful. Press W to escape that preview. 


Window menu - text warp can create your image and text so it doesn't clash etc. 





INDESIGN WORKS WITH COLOUR THE SAME WAY ILLUSTRATOR DOES.



EXPERIMENT WITH DIFFERENT THINGS TO CREATE A MORE DETAILED AND ACCURATE ATTEMPT AS THESE WHERE JUST THE BASIC ETC. 

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