DIGITAL TOOLS Laying out your pages in InDesign

You will be spending some time working on the general layout of you zine. You will also be placing your wallpaper, graphics and images on the appropriate pages. By the end of the class next week you will be printing out a draft in a booklet form. (It will be important that you have something placed or typed on each page.) This will give you an overall idea of what your zine is looking like in print.


Step 1 To complete this assignment, you will need to review the post: Intro to Indesign

• see Step 2: Laying out your project with guides on a master page. note: If you want to edit an image, from an individual page, which has been placed on a master page, hold down the Apple & Shift key and then double click the image to delete, move or change it on that page.
• see Step 4: Placing a text document and Scrolling the Text into your Layout

The Adobe Video Workshop has Indesign tutorials that will be useful for you:

• Setting up Master Pages
• Making Selections
• Working with Text

OK HERE IS YOUR ASSIGNEMENT:

Step 1 (Layout your pages in Indesign)

Create a general layout your pages using your hardcopy as a template- Remember you can use guides for setting up where you want to precisely place your text and graphics or you can just randomly place. Remember the master page with guides, as well as images and text will repeat on several pages.

• Place your images. (remember they need to be high res- 300 dpi images)
• Place your text both research and personal narrative (text can be taken and copied from your blog)
  
• PACKAGE your zine- package your zine so your images and fonts are located with your Indesign file, in a packaged folder.
• note: do not worry too much how things look on your pages, the idea is to simply get it generally mapped out. You will have time later to work on how it looks.
  

Step 2 CREATE YOUR COVER PAGE On page 1 of your document create a "finished cover page.

Once you have a general layout of your pages now go back and create a finish coverpage.

The cover page should include:

• Images and graphics of your subject and/0r ones that support your interest in your subject. (Remember to use Illustrator and Photoshop to manipulate your images before placing them in your Indesign doc., when appropriate)
• A background color or your wallpaper
  
• The use of your logo in a way the is integrated into the rest of the placed imagery.
• Text as a visual tool which doesn't neccesarily have to be literal. Though the text should give us clues to what your zine will be about.

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• Get Help creating your cover page.
  

• Read the post "Commands to Modify an Indesign Graphic" to help you create this page. (remember you can print this page out.)
  
• Also Review in the Adobe Video Workshop, under Indesign the tutorial on "Making Selections"

Step 4 Printing a second draft: simply go to File/Print and print each page individually on the black and white printer. This will give you a general idea how your pageis are looking.

note: notice that pages will not be in the right order to create a book, nor are the double sides. Do not worry about this I will show you next week how to do this.



DUE NEXT CLASS

Step 3:

• A rough layout of you pages with text, graphics and images.
• A finished cover page
  
• A printed second draft-print at the beginning of the class.
  

Posted to the Server: Your Indesign packaged folder: with font folder, ID file and image folder. (Do not give me an Indesign File that hasn't been packaged. If you do not package the file, I will not be able to view your fonts or the original images. )
DUE AT THE END OF CLASS (Next week is a work week.)

• Your layout refined.
• A printed copy of your refined draft, zine. This draft will be printed in booklet form. I will show you how to do this next week.