InDesign Workshop

Notes:
InDesign works with the principle of frames, content, text, images and shape.


Settings for a new document:
Facing pages - two pages aline in layout.
Bleed and slug - extend anything to the end of the page, room for trimming down, 3mm space is the standard size.
Page pallet - manage and navigate through document, add and remove a number of additional pages.
Text - to create text box, click and drag, text container is created.
Type (tool bar) - fill placeholder with text, dummy text.
Text boxes - alter with select tool and text tool, ability to add more text, add additional frames and arrange around the page.
Placing images into image boxes instead of copy and paste.
InDesign places images as a lower quality in design, but before you print InDesign locates the photoshop or illustrator file to locate the higher resolution image for better quality.
File management - locate images, text etc in the same folder as InDesign files for location process before printing.
View, display performance - change display settings for different qualities.
It is possible to copy and paste illustrator files, and you are able to still work with them as thought they were in illustrator, however not the same for photoshop.
'W' is a preview mode, hides all boxes and column lines to view print view.

Photoshop prep before InDesign:
Resolution - 300 dpi
Colour - cmyk or greyscale
File format - tiff or psd
Actual size
*if you enlarge an image in indesign you lower the resolution


Illustrator prep before InDesign:
Colour - cmyk or greyscale
File format - save as an illustrator file