Tuesday 26 November 2013

Creative Suite Session 3: Indesign

Setup bleeds, discuss with the printer so you know how much to place. 3mm is the normal amount to apply onto a document.

The Slug are is something that would be cut off later. Can be used to indicate where folds can go.

You would use facing pages for when creating spreads.

Start page no. is the page which when it comes to auto numbering the pages is the one that would be first.


Indesign's swatch palette is a whole load simpler then the one present in Adobe illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.


In indesign also uses the universal colour changer by default unlike Illustrator where the setting has to be activated, changing any of the default colours will change the colour as it's seen when preview is checked and it will change all objects using that colour. The above was Cyan before i moved the sliders.



Tints work the same however, it's also easier to create tint swatches, for on indesign there is a menu option at the top right of the swatch bar to make use off while this isn't present within Illustrator.



It's also much easier to select pantone colours from the swatch menu, this also then is applied to the tint if that is the colour that has been changed.

Pantone CMYK + (Coated/uncoated) colours aren't spot colours, they are still printed with CMYK colours. 


Dragging in the duo-tone image into indesign brings up the two spot colours that are gonna be used to create this image. This is one way to make sure that it's gonna be printed using two colours when it's taken to the printers.

Photoshop print considerations:
1: CMYK
2: Image prepared at actual size.
3: Resolution (300dpi)
4: Save as a tiff. / PSD. file. (Photoshop files have alpha channels and allows for transparency.)

Illustrator print considerations:
1. CMYK or Spot colours
2. AI. File / Can copy and paste from Illustrator to Indesign.











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