Lab Exercise:Create a magazine layout in Adobe InDesign following these steps.

To get started:

1. Open Adobe Indesign.2. Go to File>New>Document

3. Create your new document using the following settings:

4. Now, if you take a look at your Pages panel, you can see that you have 2 pages in your spread. See below…

5. Begin, by going to the Magazine Exercise Folder with your content and photos inside. Open up the document titled “Holidays.doc”

6. In this document you will see a headline, deck line or subhead, byline and lengthy story.

7. With your cursor, highlight the headline and copy it.8. Back in Indesign, begin by drawing a text box, using your “T” tool. Inside

the text box, paste your headline. It should look something like this…

9. Now, you may format your headline by using the panels on the right hand side called “Character” and “Paragraph” or by using the tool bar at the top of your document. (Tip: If your Character/Paragraph panels are missing, to retrieve them, go to the TYPE(toolbar at the top of your document)>CHARACTER/PARAGRAPH.

10. Using these panels, you can enlarge your type, change the font, center it and adjust the spacing. Take a look:

11. Here is a quick recap on how to enlarge and change font.

12. Next, draw another text box (Using your “T” tool) and copy and paste your subhead/deck into the box. Format your text box using the “Character Panel”

(*Generally, subheads/deck should be about half the size of your main headline, so if your main headline is 60pt your subhead should be about 25pt-30pt.)

13. Draw a third text box underneath your subhead for your byline. Format this box using the character panel as well. (Bylines should range anywhere from 9pt to 12pt in size)

14. Once you have all your headlines and bylines formatted, you can now begin putting you body copy on the page. To start, draw a fourth text box underneath the byline, that fits across the entire page. (Reaching your margins.)

15. Then, copy and paste the body copy into your text box. 16. Now, with your text box still selected, you can make you body copy into

columns. To do this:

To Format Paragraphs with spacing/drop caps etc.

1. Again, with your body copy selected with the selection tool, open up your “paragraph panel” by going up to Type>Paragraph.

2. Then choose, the second icon on the left of the panel box called “First Line, Left Indent.” Manually type 1p6 in the box. (Tip: If you hover your mouse over the icons, the name of that icon will eventually appear) This is the icon you should choose:

3. Now to create a drop cap: With your “T” tool, highlight the first letter of your body copy. Then, Go to your paragraph box and choose the 4th icon on the left and manually type in 3, which will make your drop cap 3 sentences deep. See example:

To add photos to your document/To Place images/To fit photos proportionally within a box/Add stroke and fill to a photo/pic box

1. With your “rectangler frame tool” draw a square box across columns 2 and 3. Like so:

2. To place a photo inside of the picture box go to File>Place or use the quick key command +D.

3. Choose the photo slugged “Photo2.eps” in your “Magazine Exercise Folder”4. The Photo should appear in the box, but may be too large. To make the photo

fit inside the box, go to Object>Fitting>Fit Content Proportionally. Or you can choose the icon in the tool bar like this:

Your document should look something similar to this:

5. To achieve a white fill in the background of your photo and a black stroke around your photo: In you “Swatches” panel you want to choose a fill color of white and a stroke of black. In the “Stroke” panel, you can adjust the size of your stroke by manually typing in 1pt, 2pt etc. In this case, I used 1pt stroke.

To wrap text around Photos:

1. To wrap text around a regular shaped box or photo: select the box with your selection tool and go to “Text Wrap” panel. In the dialog box, you want to choose the second icon and manually type in the amount of spacing you would like to flow around your box. Like this:

2. To wrap text around an object with jagged edges, in the “Text Wrap” panel you want to chose the third icon and choose “Photoshop Path” In the wrap options menu in the text wrap box. Like this:

To add a cutline underneath your photos:Adding cutlines may seem like a simple task, but can be a bit tricky, if you already have several elements on your page. I usually use my clipboard (or the white space to the right and left of your indesign document to draw a text box and type in my content. Then I place my cutline under my photo. MOST of the time, you will think your cutline has disappeared, because you won’t be able to see it. If this happens, use the quick key command+B and you will get the following dialog box.

Make sure to check the box that says “Ignore text wrap” and like magic your cutline should now appear! (Tip: if you check the “Preview” box, at the very bottom of the dialog box you will actually see the cutline appear on the page as a preview)

To jump copy from one page to another:If your copy is running over and you need to jump it to another page, like this example… you will see a red plus sign at the bottom of your copy. You should NEVER leave plus signs on your page, ultimately that means there is hidden copy that the reader WON’T see.

1. To begin, with your selection tool, click inside the plus sign and you should get a thumbnail appear on the screen that looks like a mini version of a book. Click on the page you want to jump it to (In this case, it should be page 2) and dump your copy onto the jump page.

2. Now, you can format your jump page, any way you would like.

Tips:1. Remember to use as many breakouts/callouts as possible when designing for

a magazine. Drop Caps, Quotes, shaded boxes, photos, enlarged subheads/bylines, copy/credits are all some good examples of items you should try to incorporate in your designs.

2. Not every magazine spread needs to be uniform with 3 columns on 1 page and 3 columns on another. Try thinking outside of the box and adding white space and incorporating shapes in your layouts.

3. Not all boxes need to be boring! Add a shaded color or gradient behind copy, or enlarge/colorize some type. Add photos where you can, even thumbnail headshots are good to include, if your layout allows.