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
- CMYK - colour mode
- Actual size
- 300 dpi
- What to save it as - Tiff or PSD, if you want an image to have transparency save as a PDF
Illustrator
- CMYK - colour that has been applied
- 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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