We’ll also add some new graphics and unique title text and complete the publication with the third part.Anyone who takes print design seriously uses Adobe InDesign for designing and tweaking their projects. With the second part, we’ll use this as a nice background for two pages of the publication. Save it as an Illustrator.ai file for the next part of this tutorial. For the publication, we want more white area, so use the Gradient palette slider to have more white area. The object should look something like this. I changed this one to red and white to keep with the Japanese theme. Click-and-drag another color to the opposite side of the gradient slider to add the other end of the gradient. Next, click-and-drag a color from the Swatches palette to one end of the gradient on the Gradient palette (click on the gradient tab if the palette isn’t open). With the Direct Selection tool, click on the black object and click on the black and white gradient in the Swatches palette (Windows>Swatches).Ĭhange the direction of the gradient to a diagonal slant by selecting the Gradient tool and then clicking-and-dragging form the bottom right to the upper left of the object. Be sure you are using the Direct Selection tool, the white arrowed one, and not the Selection tool, the black arrowed one, which would select then entire object instead of the clicked object (the white area) of the greater expanded object. Then, using the Direct Selection tool, click on the white areas of the placed image. Change the settings to the ones shown here pretty much a basic black and white trace. Open Adobe Illustrator, create a New Document and go to File>Place to place the japanese_flag.gif file.Īfter clicking on the placed file with a Selection tool, click on the down arrow next to Live Trace up on the Control palette to pull down the options. The Tracking setting icon is an uppercase AV with directional arrows underneath it. Up in the Control palette, change the tracking to 600 to spread out the spacing of the text to spread out the title. Open the Paragraph palette and click the center justify icon to center the text after highlighting it. For this tutorial, add just a simple title at the top of each page by clicking-and-dragging out a text box along the top. You can add photos, text, or shapes and they’ll be on every page. And all the objects don’t have to be automatically updated objects, either. Page numbers are not the only objects to put onto the master pages. If you put the text boxes for the page numbers in the same locations as I chose to, it should look something like this. I placed the text box on the right side page on the lower right hand corner. Hold down Option (PC: Alt) and click-and-drag the text box that has the automatic page number in it over to the right page to create another instance of the Auto Page Number. Change the size (and style if you want) of the font to an appropriate one for you publication. This will insert an automated page number so you don’t have to number each page. Go to Type>Insert Special Character> Auto Page Number. In the lower-left hand corner of the left master page, click-and-drag with the Text tool to drag out a text box for the page number. Double-click on the A-Master icon on the top of the Pages pull-out palette to open up the master pages. That way we can add a header and page numbers automatically. Set the settings shown here, all the default settings, except set it to 4 pages. Open InDesign and go to File>New or click the Create New File icon on the welcome screen. If you have Adobe InDesign CS2 or later (or an earlier version, though some steps may be slightly different), you can follow along with this three-part tutorial in creating a small four-page magazine, in order to learn a few techniques and concepts along the way.
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In my opinion, Adobe InDesign is the best layout software available. As faculty advisor to a student newspaper, I’ve seen what problems university students often run into and concepts that are most useful to them when laying out a publication in InDesign.