Yesturday in my Digital Technology & Print Production workshop, George came and spoke to us about how to use Adobe In Design, which I've never used before so I found it quite a daunting experience. What I learnt from George, is as follows below.
Notes
Gutter means the space between each column. Bleeding an image is so that you don't have any white space around an image, this maybe used for a front cover of a magazine like Vogue.
The white space around the document is used for placing things there which you havn't decided what you're putting where yet.
Page Tool is used to make a certain page bigger, so if you wanted to have a front cover which flapped over in the inside cover, you would use this tool.
Gap Tool is used to move a picture and to change the size of the picture.
Type Tool is used to insert text and font size. For a publication it's wise to type it in a word document first and then import it into in design.
To import a text file:
Click 'File' then 'Place', find the file you want to attach click 'Open' and then place the text in which ever column you want it in. To make the text follow on to as many columns as it needs too and adds pages automatically from opening the file you just hold 'Shift' down on the column you want it to start at.
I know feel confident using In Design to make columns, importing text and images, make the text follow on to as many pages as needed, to crop images and select the bits we need from them and to wrap the text around the image.
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