Indesign techniques

Lets go indesign

Adobe suite Adobe Creative Suite (CS) was a series of software

suites of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made or acquired by Adobe Systems. The collections consisted of various groupings of Adobe's applications (e.g., Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects) based on various technologies (e.g., PostScript, PDF, Flash) and organized by industry. The last version, Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6), was launched at a release event April 23, 2012, and released on May 7, 2012.

Adobe suite

Adobe Acrobat is a software family dedicated to Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). Adobe Acrobat Standard, Adobe Acrobat Professional, and Adobe Acrobat Professional Extended all allow for the creation of PDF files. Adobe Reader is an application that allows the reading of PDF files.

Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems. It is often used in film and video post-production.

Adobe Audition is a digital audio editor that provides the modern interface and workflow of Adobe Soundbooth with the capabilities of Audition.

Adobe Bridge is an organizational program. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using a format similar to the file browser found in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Dreamweaver is a combination code / GUI web development application. Adobe Edge is a suite of web development tools:

◦ Adobe Edge Animate, an application that builds browser-based content using HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS 3 instead of Flash.

Adobe Flash is a software family dedicated to various Adobe multimedia technologies: Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor. Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing application. Adobe Muse is a web development program that emphasizes webpage building for designers without a

focus of writing code. Adobe Photoshop is a raster-graphics editor (with significant vector graphics functionality). Adobe Premiere Pro is a real-time, timeline-based video editing software application. Its related

applications are:

The Adobe family

Indesign cc

What is InDesign?

Adobe InDesign is the industry-standard publishing application for print publications, interactive PDF documents, digital magazines, and EPUBs.

Create :◦ Posters, Flyers, Brochures,

Magazines, Newspapers, Books

Adobe IndesignDesktop publishing software used to

create media such as magazines, books, and other publications

we use it to design all pages for yearbook and newspaper

each document with two facing pages is a spread

hundreds of spreads make up a yearbook/newspaper

History

InDesign is the predecessor to PageMaker.

InDesign was introduced to the market in 1999.

Most Recent: InDesign CC (2014)

History

What to expect• Familiarize with the layout• Create and navigate through a new document• Use rulers, guides and shortcuts• Create and delete new pages• Text frames, flow text, show/hide threads• Apply fill and stroke colors to text• Place graphics and wrap text around images• Draw shapes, and arrange layered objects• Create and apply color swatches• Create drop-shadow effect• Export final document

Lets launch the page

1. All artwork for the pages need to be in vector format or minimum resolution of 300dpi , sized at 100%. 2. Deboss artwork must be in vector format. 3. The pages in the book are 5" (wide) x 8.125" (tall). Make sure the artwork for the pages are laid out to this page size. Please include a bleed area of 0.125" around the artwork, so with the bleed area, the artwork should be 5.25" x 8.375". 4. WORD format files cannot be printed. Please send pages in a pdf file with all fonts outlined/converted into curves.

Just before you start working

Planning the project

Page areaBleedsImage areaMarginsRough page extent

Open InDesign. In the welcome window select New Document, or go to File > New > Document. Set the Intent to Print, No. of Pages to 8 and keep Facing Pages checked.

Open a new document

Create new pageSetup pageFacing pages Master pagesThread textImport imageImport contentRulersLayers Colours StrokeText wrapping (alt ctrl w)Drop cap

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