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[Adobe Creative Suite Podcast]
[5 Learn CS5]
[With]
[Your host]
[Terry White]
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Adobe Creative Suite podcast.
My name is Terry White, and in this episode we are going to take
a look at some thing I haven't done in awhile.
That is-- I probably haven't done it since probably the CS3 time frame,
and that is how to create an InDesign layout from scratch.
In other words, starting with an empty or no document and then doing your layout.
So, here we go. Let's get started.
So, again I have InDesign open or just no document,
and we're going to start doing a 2-page spread from scratch.
So, the first thing I am going to do is go and create a new document.
I can do it from the File menu or Create New Document.
It comes up with my last used defaults.
I am just going to go ahead and set it back to the default defaults,
and then we'll do facing pages, which means I will have a left and right page in my spread.
I am going to have 2 pages in my spread, and last but not least,
the only other thing I want to change here is that I want a bleed.
In other words, I want a little bit of space around the outside of the page itself,
because I want images to actually go past the edge of the paper.
So, we are going to do that, and we are going to do ½ inch margins all the way around,
and again 2 page spread on facing pages, and let's go ahead and say okay.
Now when we say okay, it shows us page 1.
Where's page 2? Page 2 is actually the next page down.
So this creates our first problem.
I would love to have those 2 pages next to each other.
The problem is, by default InDesign shuffles pages.
So, you can keep doing this all day long in the pages panel,
and you're still going to have 2 pages that are not next to each other.
So, the trick here is to go up to your flyout menu for your pages,
and you're gonna turn off "Allow Document Pages To Shuffle."
So, I just turn that off, and now I can put the pages next to each other.
Okay, so that's our first tip to just getting the 2 pages side-by-side.
The next thing I want to do is I want to create a frame.
This frame is just going to be for my color background.
It's going to go in the background, and it could be a photo, or it could be a color.
I am just going to make mine a color to keep it simple.
I just create the frame, and now I want to fill that frame with a color.
So, you should always get your colors from your swatches.
If you don't have a swatch that you need just go ahead and create a new color.
Then add it as a swatch.
I am just going to fill this with red, and there's our swatch.
So, we got it red. Now, the only thing I don't want to do is,
is I don't want this frame that I built to get moved or
for InDesign to think that I am trying to place things into it.
So, I am going to go ahead and lock it.
So, I just go to the Object menu and choose Lock to lock it down.
InDesign now shows that this is locked.
We get a new indicator in CS5 and CS5.5 letting us know that that is locked.
Any time you want to unlock it, just click the little lock icon.
Okay, now that that's there, I want to grab my image that I want to place on that page,
and actually have it go across the spread.
So, I am going to go my Mini Bridge panel.
Again, introduced in CS5, and the Mini Bridge will take me to my last folder,
or you can navigate to whatever folder you need to go to, and there is the image I want.
So just go ahead and drag it right in from Mini Bridge.
It's letting me place it.
I can put Mini Bridge away for now.
I am going to go ahead and go a little bit off the page here,
and just drag, and again, I don't have to hold down anything.
It automatically makes it proportional now in CS5 and CS5.5.
Okay, so our subject came in, and I wanted her actually a little bit
more over to the left-hand side here, and I want her hand to be on the next page.
She is bleeding off very nicely here off the edge of the paper.
However, I do want her to be a little taller.
So, I am going to zoom out, Command + minus (-) sign to zoom out a little bit.
And I am going to hold down Command+Shift on Mac, on PC that would be CRTL+Shift.
So, that I can scale it proportionately now that it's been placed.
Okay, great. So, we got our image in place.
The next thing we're going to do is start placing objects around it.
Those objects are actually going to be text.
So, I am going to go up to my File menu.
I could do it from Mini Bridge or I could do it from File > Place, you can do it either way.
I will just go ahead and grab this since it's right here in the Bridge window.
I get my first problem that we need to solve.
It's letting me know that the font ChapparalPro- Regular Bold
is not installed on this machine, or this user account.
I could install it, activate it, go find it,
but just so you can move on, you can also say find font
and replace it with whatever font you do have.
Now of course, that can change the way it looks, change the line endings,
so forth and so on, but in this case it's okay.
You would usually want the font that was used if you were placing that document,
and that font is important, but if you were grabbing a word document
then they may have used a font that you couldn't care less about.
So, I am just going to go ahead and place this text here.
The text is so small that it's called Greek text,
and it's actually just giving me gray bars instead of the actual text
or instead of having the computer try and render it.
I am going to hit the Command + plus (+) sign.
On PC that would be CTRL+ plus (+) sign, so I can zoom in.
Great, and now I am just going to go ahead and move this frame up a little bit
because it doesn't need to be as big as it was.
I moved the text down, and the word "Stats" would be nice here
because that's what this is, but it wasn't a part of the text.
That's okay. I can go ahead and create a new frame.
I can bring it up as high as I want and make that new frame about
the same length, and then I can type in the word "Stats."
However, it comes in it's default size and default color.
So, I am going to go ahead and highlight this.
We will go ahead and change the swatch to make it white, which is paper.
We will go ahead and make it bigger.
We can either do it from the menu, you can type in a size if you know the exact size,
or you can do it my favorite way, which is visually.
On the Mac that would be Command + Shift, and on the PC CTRL + Shift + greater than (>),
which is right above your period.
Okay, so now I can make that as big as I want.
Less than (<) will make it smaller.
I got that in place, and everything looks great.
Alright, next let's go ahead and move over now.
We'll scroll over to the right-hand side of the spread here.
There are a couple things I want to do here.
First, I am going to move her over just a little bit more.
I want to put a big giant letter "I" here,
and I am going to place some text next to it.
The text does not have the letter "I."
It just starts off with thoughts, and I am going to say--,
or I want this basically to say "I thought" then of course part of the text.
So let's go ahead and create another frame.
We'll just make a nice, giant, and skinny frame here with our text tool or type tool,
and we'll just type capital "I."
Now same thing, I want that to be bigger so I hit Command + A to highlight it
or drag it across it to highlight it,
and on PC that would be CTRL+ A, and I don't know how big to make it.
Is it 24 points? Nope not big enough.
Is it 36 points or 48 points? Nope not big enough.
So, my favorite way is Command + Shift on Mac and PC CTRL + Shift,
and just keep hitting the period, which is greater than (>) until I get it big enough.
Now at some point, it's going to disappear because
I made it too big to fit in that skinny frame.
So just go less than (<) to bring it back down in size.
So, I have got my giant "I", actually it doesn't need to be that tall,
and the next thing I want to do is bring in the text that's going to go next to that.
So, we'll just go ahead and grab our text from Mini Bridge here.
There is the "I thought" text, and we'll just drag it in.
Oops, but I let go in that frame so it replaced my image.
So, let's undo. Now, let's try it one more time.
There we go, and now we'll just go ahead and drag out a frame right about there.
There is our "I thought" text.
Now, the problem is that I don't want that text to cover the hand.
I would kind of love it if would wrap around the hand,
which means I want to do a text wrap on my photo.
Now, you can do a text wrap on a photo that has been cut out like this.
As you notice this photo has no background.
That's why we can still see the red.
That's why we can see it kind of bleed off.
So, it came from Photoshop with the background already knocked out,
but it doesn't know how to do a text wrap.
So, let's do that. Let's select the photo.
With the photo selected, let's go to our Text Wrap panel,
which will be under your View menu.
The text wrap I want is the Irregular Wrap.
Now, it's going to cause a problem.
So, the minute I click it, everything disappears
because it doesn't know that I want it to wrap around the photo itself.
So, it thinks I want it to wrap around everything in this whole bounding box.
So, everything will disappear because it's trying to wrap.
We're going to fix that.
First thing we need to do is instead of saying "Same As Clipping", which is the default.
We're going to change it to-- We can either do Photoshop Path if there is one,
or my Alpha Channel would work too,
but in this case I'm just going to have Photoshop detect the edges of the pixels that are there.
So, it did it, and it brought back everything I need
including wrapping the text nicely around the hand.
So, again, because I am doing it around the photo this is not interfering with the photo,
the "I" is not interfering with the photo, it's just the text coming around the hand.
So, that worked out great.
So, I am going to put Text Wrap away.
Last but not least, I have some text to go down here,
and actually we can make this frame a little smaller.
We don't need it to be as big as it is.
Great. So we will just go back to Mini Bridge one more time.
We have this Local Feature text and we'll drag--
Ooh, see I did it again. I keep dragging it in that frame.
Now that's why we lock things.
So, if I locked that it wouldn't let me do it.
Let's undo, and we need to drag it in one more time,
but just don't let go inside of the frame.
Let go outside of the frame, and then you're good.
Okay, so now even though I let go outside of the frame, I can now move into the frame,
and drag out my new frame for my text.
Now, I don't know how that text is going to look.
Let's zoom in on it, again Command + plus (+) sign,
and while this would be okay, I would love for this text to be in 2 columns.
So, we'll just go ahead and go up on the number of columns to 2,
and I wanted it a little bit more balanced, so we can do it a couple of ways.
We can make the frame shorter.
We can make the frame skinnier.
That would kind of balance it out right about there.
Okay, then we could move the frame where we want
and kind of center it right there on that line, or it doesn't have to be centered on that line.
If we start moving it up, it will start wrapping around the arm.
So, that's actually kind of a cool effect.
Why don't we do that.
We'll just balance that out a little bit more.
Now, when I did it, it pushed some of the text, and we got this red plus (+) sign.
That's letting me know that there is text that isn't being displayed
because the frame is too small.
So, I can just go ahead and just pull that down a little bit to display that,
or I can make the frame a little wider to accommodate that extra text.
I think that looks much much better.
So, there you have it in a matter of a few minutes and going from no document
to an InDesign document layed out.
Now, if I want to kind of see it without these bounding boxes and blue lines,
I can do the Preview Mode, which is down here on the Toolbar
or just hit the letter W, as long as you're not in the text tool,
and this is the way our document would look printed.
You can zoom in on it a little bit so you can read it,
but that looks great except the photo doesn't look all that great.
It looks kind of jagged.
Now, that's because by default InDesign does a typical display.
So, if we highlight the photo.
We can go up to our object menu, display performance, and then quality display,
you can kind of render that photo a little bit better.
Now, we are looking at it the way it would look printed.
We click off the photo and the blue line goes away.
So, I hope you learned something or at least just how InDesign works.
It's really just as easy as I did it with drag and drop, move things around,
size them, and get them the way you want.
Don't be afraid to kind of think outside of the box by making frames for specific letters,
or text that you want to be outside of the story that you place.
InDesign will place word files, .rtf files, Utext files that contain all your text,
or you with your type tool drag out a frame and type into it
just like I did the word "Stats" or the letter "I."
It's your choice. Hope you enjoyed this episode of
The Adobe Creative Suite Podcast.
My name is Terry White. Thanks for watching.
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