DESIGN PRACTICE: Creative Suite 3

INDESIGN

CONSIDERATIONS -

pages need to be a multiple of four

consider the width and height

consider the bleed & slug

We opened a new document and selected 1 number of pages.

For document setup to go back and make any more changes.

Very similar to illustrator you apply colour exactly the same way. To either the stroke or the fill.

Testing making a coloured shape using swatches and type.

Trying to avoid using colour around the text using a stroke makes type illegible.

Colour swatches the same as Illustrator working with CMYK default.

The spot colours and options

New tint Swatch

Never scale images down in the in design programme always resize in the photoshop programme.

RECAPPING PHOTOSHOP

Colour Mode
Convert to CMYK
Actual size
300DPI resolution
File type.
TIFF
PSD - Transparency

RECAPPING ILLUSTRATOR

CMYK colour that has been applied
Save as AI. have the flexibility to change it - Copy & Paste

For the next part of the session we created a new document.

New document -

We saved this image in photoshop as a duo tone image and the spot colours from photoshop transferd over.

We also added an image we created from illustrator and placed it into indesign the colours still stayed on the image and you can edit the colour swatches in indesign.

HOW TO GET FROM INDESIGN DOCUMENT TO PRINT

We opened up a document into Indesign-

when we print for commerical ink we are very aware of the colours we are using.

Makes the image clearer and the pixels change

The Overprint preview does the same thing as the separations view.

You can then deselect different sections of the CYMK value and it will leave the negatives
How colour is built up in the process.

Cyan

Magenta

Yellow

Black is the key the last value.

We opened up the printer settings to have a look at what options we can set before we go ahead with the print.

We selected the OUTPUT option in the left hand side box and then clicked on separations. We then were able to remove which colours we didn't need yet you should always delete what colours you don't need anyway whilst working.