Thursday, 14 November 2013

Creative suite session 3 - indesign


Indesign

Things to know:

  • The size of the document is whatever the size of artwork is 
  • White space is important 
  • 3mm bleed
  • Slug area outside printers marks, crop marks, fold marks
  • Booklet - saddle stitch, has to be a multiple of 4 
  • Facing pages - displays pages as a spread for editorial and publishing 
  • Text heavy document, primary text frame puts a text frame on every page for you 

To edit a page thats been created select, file - document setup





Swatch palettes 





The colour of the text can be changed by selecting the T above all the swatches, then when choosing a colour it will automatically change. 




If you select the square next to the T then the background will change colour.






You can then create a square with the type and background filled in






Creating a swatch is very similar to illustrator, go to the swatch menu then select 'create new swatch'





Grey square next to swatch colour is the global square, these are automatically like this on indesign






Spot colour library available



Creating a colour swatch, you can create a spot colour just select the one you want then it will appear in the swatch library 







Creating a new tint swatch

After selecting new tint swatch this appears below, then you just change the tint percentage 



This will then appear in the swatch palette with the percentage 



Then by double clicking a swatch you can change the colour using the levels. Also if you edit the %100 swatch of the tint created then they will both automatically change for you. 











Should always place files that are your own artwork, only open indesign artwork. 





Once the pictures have been placed the spot colours automatically transfer over. 








Separations shows all the colours that are in your artwork, shown below  



You can the view how everything is made up by turning on and off the small eye symbol next to the swatch 





Things to pay attention to when transferring artwork over to indesign 

Photoshop 

  1. CMYK - colour mode
  2. Actual size
  3. 300 dpi
  4. What to save it as - Tiff or PSD, if you want an image to have transparency save as a PDF

Illustrator 
  1. CMYK - colour that has been applied 
  2. Save as AI or you can copy and past artwork over 



How to get from a indesign layout to print 


Should always print on paper bigger than the artwork being printed



Select print then go to separations

Also going on Print - page information is useful to see 




Its good practice to delete unused spot colours from the swatch palette 



Windows - output - attributes 





Overprint preview - the decisions indesign males when creating separations  

When selecting a image thats on top of another and you select overprint fill it will layer the images like shown below. 

Known as knocking out - when one spot colour is printed on top of another 

























Black will always print on top of the colours no matter what is selected




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