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Description
Experience Level: Intermediate
(1) SEE EXAMPLE
You’ll be laying out a two-page spread article (one piece of 11” x 17” paper in landscape orientation), about you, for “AMAZING PEOPLE” magazine. To see an example of the end result, open “Amazing-Magazine-Interview.pdf.”
Your goal is to get as close to this example layout using your own picture and your own name.
(2) DOCUMENT SET UP
Open InDesign and set the width to 17 inches and the height to 11 inches. Set the orientation to landscape and the pages to one. Set your top, bottom, left, and right margins to half an inch. Then click Create. This will result in a single 11” x 17” tabloid sized piece of paper on its side.
The left half of the design will contain the text and several other elements with the right half containing the photo of you along with a caption. Again, see the “Amazing-Magazine-Interview.pdf” example file for a better idea of the finished product.
Strangely enough, the document set up is the place where most people have trouble. Pay careful attention to this step.
(3) PHOTO OF YOU
You’ll need a good photo of yourself. You can use an existing picture or take a new one and place it in the right half of the layout. Make sure the picture is portrait oriented (taller than it is wide) and a decent resolution (ideally 2550 by 3300 pixels). An iPhone 5 takes a portrait image at 2448 x 3264 pixels. I would assume that other smart phones are very similar and that should be close enough in size to fill the page. Using an actual digital camera will provide the best image possible. Don’t use a Facebook or Instagram shot, those have been optimized for the web and won’t look very good in InDesign. It’s better to use a photo that you know is a higher resolution.
(4) CREATE YOUR COLUMNS OF TEXT
As you can see in the example, most of the text is what is called placeholder text. It is nonsense text, sometimes also called “greek” text (even though it’s actually Latin) that is used by designers to get an idea of a layout before it’s written. To fill any text box with placeholder text is easy. All you have to do is select the box you want to fill and go up to the “Type” menu and choose “Fill with Placeholder Text.”
(5) FONTS TO USE
You’ll need to use two fonts in this project. They are Minion Pro and Myriad Pro. Minion Pro is the default typeface for InDesign. If you just draw a box and start typing, that’s Minion Pro (unless you’ve made a change). The headline, caption on the main picture and page number section is Myriad Pro. These may be a mix of bold or plain. You’ll have to figure out which is which. The rest of the text is Minion.
(6) REQUIRED TYPING
Required typing includes the headline, the subhead, caption heading, and page number sections. These all need to read the same as the example. In the subhead, change “Your Name” to your actual first and last name.
(7) BODY COPY AND CAPTION TYPE
The body text and caption text are placeholder text. Just fill those like I described above. The text provided by InDesign’s “Fill with Placeholder Text” function will be totally random so it doesn’t matter if the placeholder text for body and caption matches the example or not.
(8) DROP CAP
Make the first letter of your body copy a drop cap the same size as in the example. Use the first letter of your name for the drop cap to make it unique for you.
(9) GRADIENT BAR
You’ll also need a gradient bar at the top of the left page going from white to the color of the red headline type.
(10) PLACE A PHOTO AND FLOW TEXT AROUND IT
Insert the “Gorgas-Library.jpg” photo that I provided and make the text flow around it. This photo is 960 x 638 pixels and may need some resizing when you place it in the layout.
You’ll be laying out a two-page spread article (one piece of 11” x 17” paper in landscape orientation), about you, for “AMAZING PEOPLE” magazine. To see an example of the end result, open “Amazing-Magazine-Interview.pdf.”
Your goal is to get as close to this example layout using your own picture and your own name.
(2) DOCUMENT SET UP
Open InDesign and set the width to 17 inches and the height to 11 inches. Set the orientation to landscape and the pages to one. Set your top, bottom, left, and right margins to half an inch. Then click Create. This will result in a single 11” x 17” tabloid sized piece of paper on its side.
The left half of the design will contain the text and several other elements with the right half containing the photo of you along with a caption. Again, see the “Amazing-Magazine-Interview.pdf” example file for a better idea of the finished product.
Strangely enough, the document set up is the place where most people have trouble. Pay careful attention to this step.
(3) PHOTO OF YOU
You’ll need a good photo of yourself. You can use an existing picture or take a new one and place it in the right half of the layout. Make sure the picture is portrait oriented (taller than it is wide) and a decent resolution (ideally 2550 by 3300 pixels). An iPhone 5 takes a portrait image at 2448 x 3264 pixels. I would assume that other smart phones are very similar and that should be close enough in size to fill the page. Using an actual digital camera will provide the best image possible. Don’t use a Facebook or Instagram shot, those have been optimized for the web and won’t look very good in InDesign. It’s better to use a photo that you know is a higher resolution.
(4) CREATE YOUR COLUMNS OF TEXT
As you can see in the example, most of the text is what is called placeholder text. It is nonsense text, sometimes also called “greek” text (even though it’s actually Latin) that is used by designers to get an idea of a layout before it’s written. To fill any text box with placeholder text is easy. All you have to do is select the box you want to fill and go up to the “Type” menu and choose “Fill with Placeholder Text.”
(5) FONTS TO USE
You’ll need to use two fonts in this project. They are Minion Pro and Myriad Pro. Minion Pro is the default typeface for InDesign. If you just draw a box and start typing, that’s Minion Pro (unless you’ve made a change). The headline, caption on the main picture and page number section is Myriad Pro. These may be a mix of bold or plain. You’ll have to figure out which is which. The rest of the text is Minion.
(6) REQUIRED TYPING
Required typing includes the headline, the subhead, caption heading, and page number sections. These all need to read the same as the example. In the subhead, change “Your Name” to your actual first and last name.
(7) BODY COPY AND CAPTION TYPE
The body text and caption text are placeholder text. Just fill those like I described above. The text provided by InDesign’s “Fill with Placeholder Text” function will be totally random so it doesn’t matter if the placeholder text for body and caption matches the example or not.
(8) DROP CAP
Make the first letter of your body copy a drop cap the same size as in the example. Use the first letter of your name for the drop cap to make it unique for you.
(9) GRADIENT BAR
You’ll also need a gradient bar at the top of the left page going from white to the color of the red headline type.
(10) PLACE A PHOTO AND FLOW TEXT AROUND IT
Insert the “Gorgas-Library.jpg” photo that I provided and make the text flow around it. This photo is 960 x 638 pixels and may need some resizing when you place it in the layout.
Natalie B.
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