New
Document
Page Size- Depends on what your designing
finished printed trimmed size
If your designing a postcard then needs to be postcard size
Use width and height options
Columns and Margins
Dont have to use them, however will help for layout purposes, if you are working to a certain grid. If you don't ned them, don't use them.
Margins give you the white space around the edges throughout
More options bleed 3mm compensates for any inaccuracy's of the final print. Standard amount. Info you get from the printer
Slug: Specify the area for custom marks or job information.
Crop marks or any additional info that will get cut off when printed
Specify pages: Booklet layout saddle stitch binding example need to be multiples of 4. Consider the binding.
Facing pages- 2 pages will face each other next to each other. Magazines books, editorial etc.
Primary text frame- Multiple pages mainly with text, will put a text box on all your pages.
When you press ok and if you have set out the document wrong go to file, document, set up.
The importance of working with swatch palettes in Indesign
Window
Colour
Swatches (simplified palette)
CMYK, RGB
Gives you the ink mixtures, square that give you more information.
Colour is applied to an object on the Page
Fill or Stroke
The box and the T symbol allows you to fill the Text Box around
Menu
-New colour Swatch
Spot colour library by going into colour mode
CMYK Swatch Maker
Grey square next to the colours in the swatch layout, means global colour. Will change automatically by clicking the globally. If working with multiple pages, will change all there were that colour,
If working with a limited colour palette, can make tint swatches
Options
Select the swatch that you want tints of, adjust the bar at the bottom. IF you change the original colour swatch, it will automatically change the tint swatch as well.
Photoshop considerations
Colour-Before saving switch to cmyk
Image size- Work to actual size, shouldn't enlarge or reduce the image in Indesign
Smaller- Will make problems when process
Bigger-Loose quality
Dpi300 Resolution
File size-tiff or photoshop files PSD
not Jpeg increase the processes when printing, looses quality
Choose PSD files to keep lyres, allows transparency, tiff files doesn't allow it.
Illustrator Considerations
Colour mode- CMYK, specifically the colours that have been made for the document. Colour that have been applied
Save as. Ai can copy and paste vector artwork (never do it in Photoshop)
Indesign Considerations
File and place, Duo tone image
The spot colours from photoshop would be brought into Indesign
Works the same with illustrator swell images will b e low resolution the linked folder for the images can be changed in photoshop and illustrator will be updated automatically
What happens to indesign files when it is ready to print
Window
-Output
-Separation preview
-View separations quality will become higher
Isolate individual inks
bottom three haven't been used
Can check that they are in fact spot colours as you turn individual ones on you can see them as they layer up
Principle of commercial is the same for screen print.
Good practise to delete the spot colours that you do not use to save on expense
File
Print
Output
Can see how it my work, option.
If you know some arnt being used, press the print icon and turn off
Frequency and angle are to do with half tones
determines the courseness or the opposite
fine grid of dots determine how fine the mage is.
Angle working with mulitople inks. CMYK orinting on top of the each other screen is angles so i doesnt interfere with the other dots. Rotated through angles moiré- to get accents hold down alt press e twice
View
Overprint preview
Activate overprint previw box to do with decisions indesign uses to make the plates
overlapping colours when you turn the top one off it will leave a space. Knocking out the yellow has been knocked out of the cyan. So the yellw prints as a yellow and doesn't come out any other colour
Black will always overprint by default
-Window
-Output
-Attributes
-Overprint fill
they mix the colours, so you can work with more colours by mixing them to keep costs down
moiré
Overprint
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