OUGD405. Design Process. In Design Tutorial.

had a session with mike to introduce in design.

gutter - the space between each column on a page.  [ ] gutter [ ].

bleed - to do with cropping/trimming. designs for print usually printed on larger size paper than the design is. also most printers dont print right to the edge of a page so have to upscale to get the full size print. to accomodate any inaccuracies in trimming we put an extra bleed over the edge of the design. for example a 3mm (standard bleed ammount) continuation of an a5 design would account for an incorrect trim.

slug - an area outside the edge of the page. slug area is the area containing printed marks like registration or trim marks or colour comparisons etc. outside of the bleed area. can set it in the print dialogue box in in design.

so we can create grids for layout on a page: file>place


in preparing an image to put into in design from photoshop we need to make sure the image is

1. the actualy size we want it to be printed
2. in cmyk or greyscale
3. 300dpi
4. .tif or .psd not jpeg

in preparing an image to put into in design from illustrator we need to make sure the image is

1. cmyk 
2. can just be saved as .ai
3. size doesnt matter in illustrator

 in the second session we looked at how to format images, text and how to place images (cmd+D) 

all aspects of a design should be kept in one folder

you can cut out an image in illustrator the place in in indesign and work text around it using the text placement tool

 the text is now surrounding the image

the icon in the middle of the image is the contents grabber. you make a box for an image to go in and then you can move the image around within the box using the grabber or move the box itself

 you can also make shapes for text to fill.

when you go to print make sure all the formatting is the same, the sizes are the same, the bleed and slug is the same, and any other extras. its good to try it in black and white first.