Indesign Workshop

indesign 

an industry standard program for page layout 

for print

advanced print features 

similarities of tools between in design and Photoshop/illustrator

Start by creating a new document

Decide the intent
almost always Print 


Page size is the actual trimmed size of what you want to produce

e.g. buisness card, A2 poster

More options button

 Gutter - is the space between the columns

Bleed and Slug
Bleed
To accommodate for any trimming/ printing inadequacies
Anything that needs to be right of the page needs to go into a bleed
3mm is standard

A5 has to be printed on A4
A4 onto A3

Slug
(Not as necessary or common to use as bleed)
Contains the printers marks
e.g. registration marks 


Facing Pages
Whether your printing a book/leaflet.
If you don't choose facing pages, its a single sheet , printed on the back too.

Black is the actual Paper
Blue and Purple is the Margin
Red is the Bleed

Document Setup will change some of the first settings, e.g. number of pages
Layout- Margins and Columns , will change the margins or columns you first set

Pages palette shows you all the pages in the document.

Each palette has a specific menu, top right of left hand window
e.g. insert pages will add more pages

To few other pages double click it on the pages palette 
At the bottom left of the entire page it tells you what page number you are on.
You can also remove pages by selecting them and clicking on the bin tool.

Difference of Facing pages

 Layout- Create Guides, will create grids for you.

All content has to be contained within a frame

Fills the type frame full with fake text, useful for formatting. Used for when you don't have the text you want .

Text formating options

If you use selection tool you can manipulate the frame
e.g. size and shape

You can add singular text or copy.
Guides will appear as you move frames around this allows you to align the frames e.g. to the center of the page or to each other.

File- Place will import text from another source. e.g. a Microsoft Word

Overflow indicator, more text than the frame can contain.
Click and then drag a new frame to continue text on into another frame
You can flow text from one page to the next like a book.

Indesign is for arrangement not creation.

Checklist for images to put into in design
From Photoshop

1. the image is actual size
2. colour mode (CMYK or greyscale)
3. Resolution, 300dpi
4. save as a tif or psd, not jpeg

From Illustrator
(Don't need to worry about size or resolution s it is vector based)

1. Colours CMYK 
2. can save as an illustrator file ai

File-Place to import images
Click once, image appears in a frame

Click and hold handle before dragging will give you a preview.

Clicking it on the circle (content grabber) that appears on the middle, means you can alter image. 
Although you shouldn't re size a Photoshop image drastically on in design.

You can also make a frame then place the image

Illustrator images can be re sized.

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When you are on indesign you will see a low resolution preview of the actual image,
If you go to links palette you will see what page your image is on , on the right hand side as a blue number, clicking on the number will take you to the image, if you hover over the image a yellow pop up will appear and tell you which file the image is saved in on the computer.

When printing indesign will locate the original image, and replaces it for the low resolution preview.

You must save your indesign file and all the images in one folder for print.

If the image file is missing you will get a warning , but you will see the image preview, however indesign will not be able to locate the real image. A small red question mark will appear near the image. 

You can try to find the image i.e. if you've moved it to a different folder, do this by clicking the question mark on the links palette.

It uses a low resolution preview so that the file stays small and manageable. 

Fast Display will not even show you the image.

Can place linked files and then edit the image in photoshop/illustrator and it will automatically update.

Or click Edit Original (just above)
Or we can hold alt and double click

Then on photoshop we can resize the image by the percentage, the percent of the scale was on the file info on indesign

Now on indesign it has automatically updated

Photoshop file lets us have opacity/transparency

Pressing W will give you a preview without frames, and guides

Pressing W again will take you back

At the bottom of the tools palette there is also a preview selection tool

This one is the bleed preview

We can arrange images and text by using the arrange tool, bringing things forward or backwards

Text Wrap

You can edit gutter values to add more or less space on this one they are all 4mm.

Alpha Channel means you are working with transparency

(Make sure image is PSD) (so when saving original image save as photoshop only)

Doesn't just have to be an image and type.

You can use empty frames to create shapes for the type to go around

Or we can make a frame in any shape we want using the pen tool, just like illustrator.

Using the content selection tool you can make it a graphic(image) or text frame

You can copy and paste illustrator work into indesign as they are similar
You wil see the full vector artwork, and you will still be able to edit it, there is also no linked file.

Applying Colour
Swatches Palette

You have to apply colour to a shape or a frame
Fill or Stroke Colour

Yellow Fill
Blue Stroke

To Frame 

To Text

To make a new colour
That will always be there ready in the document

Print options are familiar to illustrator but there are a few more options

Saving as a PDF

Press Quality is the highest quality ( for commercial print quality) 
Smallest file size to preview only on a computer screen
High Quality Print is in between and what we should use.