INDESIGN
For
the making of my upcoming book I attend an InDesign work shop. Prior to this I
have only used InDesign a couple of time this allowed me to become more
comfortable with the soft wear. I was shown all the instruction I need
for creating my own layout when it comes to create my own book. I created
a series of notes on key short cuts, how to create the document, how to with
text and images and how to save the file to be sent to print.
Bleed
– setting up new document lay out – help you with cutting
making sure no white edges – standard – 3mm
Slug –
help when setting up new documents – printer marks – 2cm – bigger then bleed-
help with folds – bleed is more important
Facing
pages – presented as it will be printed – used for making books setting up
document – no facing pages – or facing in
How to
make changes when setting up – file menu – document set up – change number of
changes etc. initial set up
Pages
menu – add new page – can delete page quickly – over view of the whole document
– navigate two and from pages – double click page and it come up
Work
with margin and column – have to select the pages you want to change
-Lay
out / Margin and columns
Reader
spread – how it will look when printed
Printer
spread – how they need to make a book
THE
LAY OUT
L R
81
27
63
45
they
always add up to one more then number of pages in book
only
works if your pages are a multiple of 4
T E X
T
to add
text
make a
book make frame
type –
file - with place holder text
72
type – 2 cm
leading
below fount size – line spacing
kerning
allows you to change the space between two carrots - come up when text –
change the way it is viewed
tracking
below kerning – whole section of text – increases or decreasing lay out of text
selected
on the
left at top
• Caretor
P –
paragraph your working on
Small
red at the bottom
Cant
fell the space will text – deal with this – text frame larger – click on the
bottom – double click will create a frame with the extra text – this can be
achieved over multiple pages
If on
selection toll double click back to text
I M A
G E S
Photoshop
Resolution
300 ppi – lower quality
Colour
mode – CMYK or grey scale
Prepare
the images in the actual size of the layout
Save
the file in format – tif – Photoshop files – best quality / avoided –
don’t use jpeg files – because it small files due to this loose image quality
Image
on to page- image and place
Create
a frame in advance – tool – rectangle tool- you can crop by using this
Two
cericale on images – content grabber – contact of the image moving the image
with in the frame
Shift
– resize image – be careful of enlarge image lower resection- wont print as
well as hoped
Images
look pixilated –
When u
place the image on – low resolution version of image – arrangement of text and
image on your page - changes in the printing process
SAVING
File
management
Save
in same folder as all the image u are working on
InDesign
project folder
Otherwise
image won’t be good quality
Working
with group of files
When open
will tell you if there is a issue – little red ? on the image – low result ion
when printing
Links
– by pages – will tell you
I
attend a second InDesign workshop to help me laying out my book. I took note to
look back at when it comes to create my book independently.
Reader
spread
Page
lay out
Text
colour
Fill
and stroke
Frame
The
one with no lines
Only
for colour
Not
text or image
Apply
colour to the fill double click white box
How to
keep getting the same colour
Swatch
pallet
Regrastion
• Printer marks
• Regsration marks
Is
only for this not for content of your work
How to
create your own swatch
In
swatch pallet
Three
lines at the top
New
colour watch
Cmyk
Working
in the right colour tone
• Process colour – just another name for
cmyk
Then
will become on swatches
Doule
ckick on swatch and u can change
Editing
swatches everything will update
Colour
text
Little
square frame
T for
text
Reverse
out text colour back ground
You
can work with individual l characters
By
selecting
Boxes over
lapping
Options
arrange
Text
on top of the image
How
our look when printed
w- all
of the frame edges will be hidden
pages
will display on screan as look in book
wold
not work in preview all the time
working
text box
select
page
layout
create
guides
if you
want to get ride ediet undo
if u
want to – master page – document template – pages bar
use
for elements of lay out to be consistent
add
gride to all the pages
double
click
on the
two boxes
to get
out
double
click on other pages in pages
master
page- text or image - consistent in the whole files
boxes
locked on pages
to
aces
to
unlock - cms shift – click on frame
create
consistey
you
don’t did not want them all the same framing
apply
no master page
the
top box dongle drag onto page
how to
get a new master page
three
lines
option
new master page
use
master page for colour
images
on design
photo
shop prep
300ppi
actual
size
cmyk
or greyscale
save
as pdf or tif not j beg
work
flow
check
list
Photoshop
and InDesign
work
on the images on Photoshop before InDesign
look
at size and resolution
image
size
resultion
change
to what it need to be
do we
use – resample – automatic
about
adding or removing pieces from the image
untick
for changing resution – need to be 300 res
save
as
from j
beg
to
tiff
image
place
create
frame on page
create
box
place
to fit
box
object
menu
fitting
fill
frame porpsionatly
if
frame is the right size
good
for fittings
InDesign’s
refers to images as links
very
last thing to do
links
by pages
when
your happy with kay out ont changing anything
don’t
need to do befor you print
have
to check all images
inlardge
or made smaller
effective
pp1 – goes donw when elardgiing
to
change scale percentage
select
frame
select
edit
with
work
with percentage
percent
change
witdth tp ppi of befor
check
if ppi 300
save
uto changes – phtoshop-indesgin
linked
files
start
book
folder
for all iamges in layout
all
the images avaible
file
mangerment
working
a group of files
two
secton
• 12
13- 24
inside
mardges for foe the making
how
big
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