autumn 2023 - project 03 indesign tutorial

InDesign Tutorials
0:30 - Setting up the file - inches vs points vs picas
1:00 - setting up your bleeds and safe margins - facing pages selected
2:00 - keep everything in one folder location
3:30 - facing pages - shuffle option turned off for spread layouts to work across the spine
5:10 - save backups because of corruption
6:45 - bleeds and safe margins - why are they important? margins should be double the bleed
7:20 - create footer and pagination that is repeated on each page like page numbers - maybe not so important on a smaller brochure but very useful on a multi page document - using your parent pages
9:30 - and page numbers to your files using markers
10:50 - using your parent to repeat the same on each and every page
11:45 - how to release a locked parent item on a single page
13:25 - dropping in your text in quickly to see what space you have to work with - what should the word count be for each section? THIS IS CRUCIAL AND SHOULD BE DONE FIRST BEFORE EVER THINKING OF FOLDING TECHNIQUES or coming up with ideas for a layout
14:30 - Clean your text of type issues such as citations and irregularities
15:55 - Creating columns - two methods - advantages on each of these
17:10 - Full paragraph return spacing - do a full space between paragraphs become distracting? The space between paragraphs should be less than the space between the two columns of text
18:40 - Avoid hyphenation always - turn off in paragraph
19:20 - Linking text boxes together
20:45 - NO baseball bats - use proper quotation marks and apostrophes - go under preferences | type | typographer’s quotes - on or off, why ever have it off - when you paste text, the inch mark will be copied into your text
21:50 Copy text width 50 to 70 - double point size for pica column width - this is the minimum it can be 2.0x or 2.5 being comfortable - so 10 point text = 20p width to 25p - 1.5x is the absolute minimum
then show the option of 11pt text be 22p to 27p6 = so 2.5 being the absolute max while maintaining 120% leading
72 pt in inch, 6 p in an inch, 12 pt in 1 p
Why using lorem ipsum or random text is a really bad idea.
You HAVE to design for YOUR content.
27:10 - this feeds into the next bullet where spacing becomes a concern
29:50 - Hide frame edges when your design is becoming more dense or complicated with overlapping elements
29:55 - Left aligned text, re-rag when text boxes create a shape
31:50 - widows and orphans and re-rag your paragraphs by creating forced or soft returns
32:45 - forced justification and avoid rivers
34:05 - Text Frame Options - command b - to allow text to align to text box or fill in the box - how this becomes an issue, too spaced out BUT when using two columns and a single line off, this cleans up that spacing
36:20 - Prepping photos in photoshop
40:25 - Bringing in a photo - 300 cmyk - show link with effective dpi - when you know what size the image will be, you will know what resolution that file needs to be, open photoshop and show how to figure this out - this is helpful when buying stock imagery or in your case, hunting down images off google
41:50 - Creating shapes for an image to be placed into
43:05 - look at resolutions
44:00 - show importance of staying organized with links
45:15 - text wraps - help break up that sea of text - no one wants to read that text
48:50 - show when to ignore wrap
49:55 - text wrap with text boxes
51:20 - explain optical margin alignment, when not to use on header text - it pushes parts of letters such as A, V, W, Y, as well as punctuation in order to align the text border - you do this in illustrator with hanging punctuation
53:45 - Title text, have in it’s own separate box - turn off optical alignment - better to use your eye and different methods to adjust - separate lines or use the paragraph tool to move lines in and out - header text, kerning and leading needs to change
subhead text could be in separate boxes - watch for auto leading - its 120% of type size BUT this is readable text
55:55 - Tabs set up and creating leaders
58:25 - create swatches for color
1:01:35 - methods of bringing in illustrator files - advantages of drag and drop