Lesson 16

For this lesson, it was our first hands on lesson with indesign. We learnt to use the many different tools in indesign and designed our own newsletter following a step by step guide.

Starting off right at the beginning, one key thing that was emphasised was the settings of a new document. For big print companies, the machine that cuts the pages may not be accurate and hence thee needs to be some bleed. When typing, the words should not be aligned directly to the edges. We also standardised the gutter to be 5mm to allow the reader to tell paragraphs apart. This was what my work looked like after it was complete

-Right at the top, the stop press logo, the red line is supposed to be touching directly to the edge when the newsletter is printed and hence when designing, it had to go into the bleed area.

-For the text i used 3 columns, this was done by pressing the right and left keys to choose how many columns of text that you want. Similarly by pressing the up and down keys, the number of rows can also be changed.

-For the duck right in the middle this was done by using text wrap to get the text to go around the duck. This duck was cut out from a picture using photoshop and placing it in the layout.

-At the bottom i created a box and similarly filled it with text, notice that the colour is different and this is important to know which colours are visible to see on different backgrounds and which works best.

Here is another one i did using similar concepts

In conclusion the lesson was a good and productive one which taught me a lot about indesign and the different tools. There were a few difficulties at first as it was a new software but with practise i am sure i will improve. I also learnt how to cut and place images into my layout and use the text wrap tool which i like a lot.