Contents
- The InDesign preferences file
- General
- Text
- Composition
- Units and Increments
- Grids
- Guides
- Dictionary
- Display Performance
- Workgroup
- Layers: organizing your objects
- Brief aside: REVERT
- Guides: why they are important
- The 4 ways of creating guides: New Doc, Layout, Drag Column Guides, Ruler Guides, Ruler Guides double click
- Guides on multiple spreads
- Locking guides: Object > Lock Position
- View guides: Hide, Lock All, Snap
- Designing text to flow around objects >
Homework Assignments
- Create a document with 3 or more layers. Add 3 to 4 objects per layer. Group the objects on each layer.
- Modify the book cover from last week, this time adding guides to help you design it properly. Use the following guide dimensions:
- TOP: 3cm
- BOTTOM: 4cm
- LEFT: 2cm
- RIGHT: 1.75cm
- Create a new document with margins (top: 1.5", bottom: 2", left: 2.75", right: 2.75") and paste a poem in the page. Then place 2 images onto the page: a tree and a person. Make the text flow around the person. With the tree - create a clipping path and then modify the anchor points around the tree trunk so that text impinges on the trunk in one or more places.
- EXTRA CREDIT: Find a poem about an inanimate object, such as a apple. Next, either draw or paste a large picture of the object on the page. Make the text of the poem take the shape of the object by using the Object>Clipping Path tool. Click here for an example. HINT: experiment with the Invert option. NOTE: If you want to use the apple pciture I used in the example, right-click and download here.
Web Links for Guides
- DigitalMediaDesigner.com
- About.com - Desktop Publishing
- Mac Design Magazine
- Working with Rulers and Guides - University of Wisconsin
