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Editorial with Stephen (Workshop 3)



Today in my workshop with Stephen, we was introduced to editorial design for album covers.
He started off by showing us the basic resolutions for web and print. We made our own custom document for 360px x 360px.
Below shows the link to the presetation that I did in this workshop:



 PART 1


We then put the margin to 12px and changed the document so we had no gutter. We also changed the grids & guides so the document grid was visible.


We went into the adobe preferences and added the 30px for the gridline and 6 for subdivisions. This allowed the grid and document grid to fully align up.


We also adjusted the keyboard increments to 1px so that it would snap to the grid and be more in level.


I worked with typography, leading, tracking and shapes to create the following based on the document settings above.


PART 2

I then moved on to look at images and text together in a more editorial style.
We worked with the object style options for applying strokes, changing the stroke types and working with the corner options.


Once I had a stroke around my image, we moved on to look at text and the text frame general options. I worked with applying the insert spacing and vertical justification which allowed my text to be positioned at the bottom and not as close to the border.


I faced a problem at one point as the type was too big for the baseline grid. I realised I had the type as 11pt and this wasn't matching up with my grid. I then changed it to 10pt. The problem with the following image below is it creates the idea of being messy and not put together properly. This only really applies to body copy.


I then played around with sound. I found this really helpful as a way to put sound on the In Design document. This allowed me to have sound so it plays on this page only and stops when I go to the next page.


To export the document with the sound, I went into export and made sure to check include all was selected for forms and media.


I also worked with video in the document.
I found this really useful especially for working with clients or my work at Uni.


Indesign gives a lot of functions for video. Above shows that I can choose the frame I want the viewer to see. I can also allow the viewer to have as much control over the video to as little as possible which I think makes the users experience really easy.

For the compression and export settings, to ensure that the document is up to the best standard, the following is recommended:


Adding Contents

To add a contents page to my document, I went to layout, table of contents and choose what style I wanted the text to have. This allowed me to have a contents page based on the Title of the pages. If I was to swap the pages around then I would just need to go to layout and update the table of contents. When I export this as a PDF, I will make sure the hyperlinks and bookmarks are ticked as this will allow me to click on the page and be directed to the page I have chosen straight away.



Adding Page Numbers

To add page numbers, I need to double click the master document. Then I need to make a text box and choose type, insert special character, markers and current page number. I can then arrange where I want the text to go and this will then show the numbers on my pages.


Conclusion

I was excited to have this workshop as I am not that familiar with InDesign. In this workshop I learnt some really helpful tips that will help me speed up my process when working on my research document. I found learning about the A-Master was really helpful as I tend to put a bar at the bottom of my page in a colour to relate to my colour scheme of my document. I also found it interesting that I can have it set up so their is a title and page number featured. I was really happy with the workshop and these tips will make my InDesign experience easier.

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