- Used for commercial
print.
- The ability to use multiple page documents.
- Similarities between
InDesign and Photoshop/ Illustrator eg. Pen tool, eye drop, stroke palette
etc..
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Creating a new document:
Letter - American Equivalent to A4.
First question - What am I making? Make sure the format and sizing is correct.
"More options" exposes these three:
Columns: Number: The amount of columns of bodytext.
Gutter: The space between columns.
Margins: Help position content so there is a consistent white space on every page laid out, similar to that of a note pad.
The guides don't determine where things have to go, but there as a form of reference.
Bleed: To do with the trimming after the print. If you were to print on A4, it is advised to add a bleed so that trimming can be used. Anything that is to be printed, it is best to cut into the image or whatever is being cut, aka the bleed. This stops a "white trimmed edge". Also, if it isn't entirely straight, it usually isn't visible. The same when something is cut in a stack. The bleed compensates if the stack isn't straight.
Standard bleed amount: 3mm.
Slug: Another area outside the page, and is used to contain printer's marks. Eg. registration marks, CMYK squares, text information. They are all information that would be trimmed off. These can be added when sent through to print.
Usage: eg. 3 panel leaflet that folds. Dotted lines can be added so that you know where to fold.
Facing Pages: When you are working with a book, facing pages are the pages that when folded, face inwards into each other.
Colour Scheme:
Purple Line - Margin Line
Black Line - Page Size
Red Line - Bleed
Black Line - Page Size
Red Line - Bleed
Page Setup: A way of changing the guides etc.. If you hadn't got it right first.
Pages Palette: Allows you to see the separate pages in your document. As you add content, this will increase in size. Any palette you use is in the top right. From here you can manage all your pages.
The way to add extra pages in mass:
Rather than having to scroll through the document, you just have to double click the thumb nail in the pages palette:
The pages can be deleted when the bin is selected.
When working with a facing page document, the first page is always a single page by itself, eg. a front cover.
Guides: These can be created dragging with the ruler tool:
... or a much more specific technique:
If you use the preview, you can see how the guides look before pressing OK.
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Text: If you want to make decisions about text formatting, but don't have the body copy, you can use "Fill With Placeholder Text" to get an understanding of layout:
Two ways to work with the frame: What is being contained eg. type size, layout etc.., but also the frame itself.
The selection tool is used to resize the box, or move it:
Use of the selection tool to change the angle of text:
Text can be imported straight from a text file:
1. Create a type box.
2. Insert bodytext: 
Sign that the box holds more text:
To solve this problem: 1. Make the box bigger
2. Click the red box once. You get given the option to make another text box. When made, text will flow from the first into the second, useful in books when a sentence leads from one page to another.
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Images:
Preparing Images in Photoshop For InDesign:
1. Correct File Format - TIFF/PSD Files, NOT JPEGS, image quality is lost. When working for print, you need the highest quality imagery.
2. Appropriate resolution: 300 ppi.
3. Colour Mode: CYMK/ Greyscale, not RGB.
4. Sizing: make the images the ACTUAL SIZE that you intend to use them, BEFORE putting into InDesign.
Preparing Images in Illustrator For InDesign:
1. File Format: .AI
2. Colour Mode: CMYK
When placing images, the same method is used: CMD + D
To crop: Just click and slide, the way you would normally resize an image. Holding CMD helps to resize:
Content grabber: the circular sign inside the image:
Moving the image with the grabber inside it's box:
Rectangle Frame Tool: Another way of importing files, usually Illustrator Files. This can be used when you haven't got the images yet, but have some space left for it.
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Part 2
Why does this image appear to be a low resolution, yet a vector?
InDesign displays it as a low resolution image, in order to make it run quicker.
Links (Image) Palette - This displays all the images in the document. It also displays where the original image is saved. When sent to print, the low res version is then substituted with the high res, which is found on your computer.
When you start a document, you should keep EVERY image together that you use. If you transfer the document and would like to print it, you need to transfer the images too, in the same folder.
Note: You can just copy and paste an Illustrator file in, without needing the original file.
The opposite of a link file is an embedded file.
"This document contains a link to a source that is missing. You can find or relink....." comes up when you delete the original image, so does this symbol:
Information about an image can also be found in the links palette:
We have to resize the images in Photoshop, as this cannot be done in InDesign. If you don't know the exact scale, this can be checked within the pallette menu, then changed in Photoshop.
Images can be opened directly in InDesign from Photoshop:
Right click:
How to change the default to Photoshop, when opening TIF files:
If you hold "alt" and double clicking the image in InDesign, the image is then opened on Photoshop.
Resizing in Photoshop:
InDesign:
Photoshop:
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How to create non - box images:
When working with a tif file, we are working with a rectangle made up of pixels.
PSD files allow us to work in layers and transparency. In order to not work within a box, you have to save the file as a PSD, before placing back into InDesign.
The image in Indesign as A PSD, overlaid over the "box" TIF file.
How to set up a grid/ guide on every single page:
Master Page: You use this is apply something to every page in the document.
Double click it, you can tell you're on it with "A Master" in the bottom left corner.
Then layout - new guide - then fill out whatever is needed.
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How to hide excess data: By using the "w" shortcut, you can hide excess items that aren't on the page:
Different modes of previewing your page as you're working:
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How to get text to run round an image:
Select the image frame, then mess around with these settings:
The 4 settings allow you to offset the text away from the image:
How to move text around a no "box" image:
Select the third option within the text wrap box, then select "alpha channel":
How to change the "blocks" of text into different shapes:
Circle:
Select this tool, then once again, click the third option.
Random Shape:
Using the pen tool:
Putting text within a random shape:
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How to use colour:
Swatches palette - where colours can be saved so they can be continuously used. These could also be downloaded or imported.
How do you add colours to a swatch?
Colours have to be applied to some sort of frame, as a stroke or fill, just like Illustrator.
How do I apply a colour background?
How to create your own colours:
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PDF's:
Press quality - high quality and suitable for commercial print.
"Smallest File Size" - still looks great on computers, eg. ISSUU
"High Quality Print" - Will look good when printed on a standard printer, and the ones used at the college.