InDesign software evidence

Laura Cuk

Step 1 – Turning picture into jpegs

Scroll on down on ‘Save on type’ to jpeg and then press ok

Click ‘File’ then ‘Save As’…

Step 2: Open InDesign

Ensure that you un-tick facing pages. Also change orientation from portrait to landscape.

To create a new document, click ‘File’ then ‘New’ then ‘Document’

Firstly open up InDesign

Outcome of template

Step 3: Place images

Once you have your template up, click on the tool of a box with a cross inside

After that, in order to place images, go to ‘File’ then ‘Place’

Then choose the image that you would want to place onto your template

Step 3: Place images continued…

In order to get the twilight image above you need to click ‘File’ then ‘Place’

Then click on the spread you want to put on InDesign and press ‘Ok’

Step 3: Place images (guidelines)

By dragging the blue line (guideline) from this grid to the edge of the primary image, this helps to know what goes where.

By clicking on ‘Pages’ on the right, this can give you two choices. You can keep the one shown above, or delete it but the grid shows you where to place the images

When the guidelines have been drawn, you can delete the spread

Step 4: Creating graphics

Click the ‘Rectangle’ on the tool box

After clicking the ‘Rectangle’ choose a box to cover and drag it on top of it.

Step 4: Creating graphics continued…

After that go to your tool box and click on ‘Eyedropper’ then use that tool and click on the box you selected.

Constantly use this tool until it ends up looking like this

Step 5: Creating textboxes, type and adjust font

In order top add the text in those boxes, click on the ‘T’ icon. Afterwards create a text box and start typing.

The click on the windows icon for ‘Characters’ and use this to make your font smaller or bigger.

Step 6: Creating a headline, stand first & adjust font details

Adjusting font details

Firstly type into the boxes If you believe that the font is too small or big you can adjust this by clicking onto ‘Character’

In order to change the colour of the fonts, highlight the text and go to ‘Colour’ to change it

Step 7: Export as PDF

To export as PDF, CLICK ‘File’ then ‘Export’

Scroll to Adobe PDF under save type

The COMPARISON!!!

My Spread Real Version