Week 11

In InDesign You Will:

Work with a document to understand how to navigate, place graphics, and add formatting to text, creating a finished document that can be printed or distributed as a digital document.

An Overview of InDesign

The InDesign Workspace:

Documents in InDesign are located INSIDE the black border. This is your workspace.

Document Window:

Anything INSIDE the black border will appear in your finished page. The area outside of the black border is called the “pasteboard”. You can drag and drop elements you want to use on your page there but you MUST DRAG them inside the black border to show up on your finished file. This is a great way to “temporarily” hold items until you use them.

Using Guides

Just like Photoshop and Illustrator, guides in Indesign will help you align content on your page and create and organized layout.

Margin Guides
Ruler Guides

Margin guides define the space around the edge of your document. This is important so that you don’t cut off any content on your page. Margin guides are displayed in magenta. By default, they display 1/2″ within the page edge.

Ruler guides are guides you add to your document layout to align content on your page. You can hide the guides anytime you want.

To hide guides: Choose View > Grids & Guides > Hide Guides or Command+; on the Mac.
To view guides: Choose View > Grids & Guides > Show Guides or Command+; on the Mac.

Viewing Modes

The viewing modes option lets you choose whether all content and guides display on your monitor, or whether InDesign displays only content that is positioned on the page and will print.

Preview Mode

At the bottom of the Tools panel, click and hold the Mode button, and choose Preview from the available modes. The pasteboard will appear gray and all elements located on the pasteboard are hidden. The boarders do not display around any items on the page if they are not selected.

Bleed Mode

Click and hold the Mode button again and choose Bleed from the menu. This shows the bleed area that was specified when the document was created. “Bleed” is the outside of the page that is intentionally used by designers so that any inaccuracies in the cutting, trimming, and binding process do not create a visible white space along the edge of an object that is intended to print all the way to the edge of a document.

Presentation Mode

Click and hold the Mode button again and choose Presentation from the menu. This mode present your document on a black background. It’s a good way for viewing your document. In this mode you can navigate through the pages of your document by using the up and down or left and right arrow keys. To exit Presentation mode click escape.

Click and hold the Mode button again and choose Normal.

Working with Panels

The Tools Panel

Click on the double-arrow icon at the top of the tools panel. This changes it from a single to a double column.
Click the gray bar at the top of the Tools panel, hold down the mouse button and you can drag the panel around.

Navigation

SHORT CUTS FOR GETTING AROUND YOUR DOCUMENT

Click on PAGES menu – double click on the page you want to go to.
To select the HAND TOOL – Hold down the OPTION + SPACE BAR. Use the hand tool to move around a page.
To fit the page in the window and center it – press COMMAND + 0 – To center a spread in the window – use COMMAND + OPTION +0

Changing the Magnification of your Document

RESOURCES AND SHORTCUTS

In the Pages panel, double-click on the page 1 icon to display the first page of the document.
Select > Zoom tool and click and hold in the upper-left corner of the Spinnews logo at the top of the page and then drag down to the lower-right corner of the logo. Release the mouse. The area you’ve selected with the Zoom tool is magnified. If you’ve zoomed too much, hold the Option key while clicking with the Zoom tool.
Select the Hand tool from the Tools panel. Click and hold down on the page in the document window. Magnification changes and a red frame appears, indicating which portion of the document will be visible when you finish scrolling.
Use the Hand tool to arrange the page so the logo is in the center of your document.
Press and hold the page in the document window. Position the red frame so the entire border of the image is visible, then release the mouse.
To view the entire document: View > Fit Page in Window or Command+0.

#1 DO NOW: Placing and Formatting Text

Adding Type and Wrapping Text

Download project files here:

Choose File > Open > Open Project Done
Choose Window > Workspace > Typography

Choose Window > Workspace > Reset Typography to reset the InDesign panels to their default positions for the Typography workspace.

When adding type in an InDesign layout, you always place it inside a frame. Frames are containers that hold text but they can also hold graphics or shapes.

Choose File > Open File and open id01.indd.

WATCH THE VIDEO > COMPLETE THE VIDEO TUTORIAL > SAVE THE FILE AS lastname_firstname_date_type

SHORT CUTS FOR ADDING PARAGRAPH STYLES

Window Menu > Styles > Paragraph Styles
See a small PLUS SIGN at the end of a column – this means there’s more text than the frame can fit. Click on SELECTION TOOL – click on PLUS SIGN – hover over text frame in second frame. Text is linked from one frame to the next.
Use TYPE TOOL – click on text – COMMAND A to select all text.

#2 DO NOW: Building Documents with Master Pages

Creating and saving custom page sizes
Creating page guides
Adding section
Using automatic page numbering
Creating master pages and applying them to document pages

Download project files here: InDesign 02

COMPLETE THE TUTORIAL AND SAVE THE FILE AS lastname_firstname_date_masterpage

#3 DO NOW: 10-Minute Layout
Using text and images that you find on the web, watch the video below and create a document following their directions.

#4 DO NOW: InDesign – Working with Text and Type (3)

WORKING WITH TABS – DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES, FOLLOW ALONG IN THE VIDEO AND COMPLETE THE STEPS WRITTEN BELOW

Download project files here: 03_01

Creating a Text Frame

#5 DO NOW : Adding Text to you Document

FILE > OPEN > ID0301.INDD – Start working on the first page of this document.

* If necessary, use the Pages panel to navigate to the first page.

Choose the TYPE TOOL and position the cursor on the left edge of the page so it is at the margin guide, approximately 1/2″ above the list of stories. Use your mouse to click and drag diagonally down and to the right to create a new text frame. Release the mouse when it is positioned just above the existing text frames that contains the list of stories. The new frame should be place above the existing frame and the left and right edges should be similarly positioned to the corresponding edges of the frame.
Type “Inside this issue:” into the text frame.
Choose File > Save As > Save it as id0301_work.indd (export as a .jpg as well)

TIP: Creating Multiple Frames

When drawing a text frame pressing the right arrow key one time will divide the text frame being created into two linked text frames. Pressing the arrow key a second time will create a third linked frames, which you can continue until you have the desired number of frames.

TIP: TAB CHARACTER (tab key – symbol is a double chevron) When setting tabs inside a document, NEVER put more than one tab in a row. Tabs are paragraph specific. One tab character per one tab stop.

#6 DO NOW –Text I – Placing

The different ways to get text into your document, plus options for text frames.

#7 DO NOW –Text II – Threading

How to flow text through multiple pages and text frames, and how to put text on a path.

#8 DO NOW – Text III – Navigation Shortcuts + Story Editor

NOTE: NOTHING TO DO, JUST WATCH

In this video we’ll go over keyboard shortcuts for navigating through and selecting text. We’ll also take a look at the advantage of editing stories in the Story Editor.

#9 DO NOW TYPE

Type I – Character Formatting

DO NOW #10 Type II – Paragraph Formatting

DO NOW #11 Type III – Tabs

In-Design Resources

5 Top InDesign Resources

HOMEWORK | WEEK 11

Answer the following questions and post to your blog.

What does the red plus sign in the lower-right corner of a text frame indicate?
How do you reposition an image inside of a frame?
How can you ensure that if your reposition the panels in InDesign to your liking , you can always bring them back to that state?
If you cannot see panels that you need to use, how can you locate and display them in your workspace?
Do automatic page numbers always start with page 1?
If you want to modify content on a page that is linked to a master page, how do you select this locked content?
How can you access styles created in other InDesign documents?
(From video 3)
1. If you have a font that doesn’t have the style of italic, can you make it italic?
2. Can you flow text into an existing frame?
3. Can you divide one text frame into multiple columns?
4. How can you add Previous and Next page markers?
5. What is the best way to see changes that have been made to text in a given story?

Complete in-class Do Now’s

***NOTE: Save your files three ways***

First – File > Save as and use the .indd extension.
Second – File > Package
Third – File > Export save as a .JPG
Then, open the .JPG in Photoshop and check the image size. Make sure it’s at 72dpi and the color mode is RGB.

Upload finished files to your blog AND to your Flickr feed.

Follow the videos you saw in class and complete the exercises. Post to you website and to Flickr.

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