Hello Students,
Your new assignment is a combination of using Digital Photography and 3 programs to create one product, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign. Find a high resolution image and process the photo with filters in photoshop and use it to design an original magazine cover with Adobe Indesign. You will create additional artistic elements with Illustrator as well. This project is a good lesson in utilizing multiple software tools. You need to use original photos and content!
Part 1 - Launch and Explore InDesign
- Go to the dock and launch InDesign, or look in your Applications folder to find the app
- Go to the File Menu and create a New Document
- Go to the Window Menu and set your Workspace to Advanced
- Explore the tool bar, click on the text tool and draw a text box to create text, try the shape tools and look for the color modifiers to change colors
- Open all the palettes under the Window Menu and explore all the functions, look at the quick guides below for reference
- See if you can create text of different sizes, change the colors, modify the text kerning and tracking and draw shapes in different colors and with different borders
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Hidden Tools and Shortcut Keys
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Character Formatting Panel In InDesign
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Paragraph Formatting Panel in InDesign
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Part 2 - Magazine Cover Design Project:
Take a photo with your own camera or borrow a school camera. Look for interesting subjects, you can also use the photo studio. Crop the photo to 8.5X11 inches and process it with this series of filters and layer effects in this tutorial, or your own combination of Photoshop Effects. The image must be processed somehow.
Now you have original artwork to use in the following magazine layout tutorial, make sure to read all directions before proceeding:
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Here is the progression of my magazine cover design. I took the photo, processed it with Photoshop, added colorful borders in Illustrator and brought it into Indesign to create my magazine cover design.
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Designs are due on Tuesday. This should be a great piece for your portfolio, have fun!
- Mr.W
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