In today's lesson, we started to look at Adobe InDesign. We began the lesson by creating a new piece of work, which for us was going to become a booklet, and altering its properties before beginning to work on it. The changes that we made, were the number of pages that our booklet would contain (changing from one to twenty), the number of columns, which we made five with a 4mm gutter, the margin size, which we changed down to 10mm, and the size of the bleed, which we made 5mm.
We put columns and a bleed into our work, to make lining up our text and images a lot easier, as well as allowing a margin to place our images on, if our work was ever to be printed, so that the edges of these images would not be cut off disproportionately, when the digital version gets converted to a printable document. We were then able to create our booklets, and start practicing our designs on them. To begin our designs, we learnt how to add in rectangle shapes, so that we could use these to represent where our image boxes would be going, as well as inserting some text boxes, which we filled with some placeholder text, just so that we could get a feel of how our pages would look when filled with information. We also learnt how to fill these box shapes with images, that we downloaded from the website Pexels, and also covered how to fill them with the images proportionally.We then chose an image of a person, off of Pexels, and placed the original image onto a new page of our booklets. This image, we then also opened in Photoshop, so that we could edit how it looks, and create some different effects on it. The first effect we created, we did by cutting out our person using a layer mask and select subject, and then removing the background, replacing it with a plain white background. With this, we then flattened the layers together, and saved it as one version, and then made the image greyscale, and saved this as another image.
We then opened this as a new image in our booklet, and by changing the fill options between the different cursor options, changed the colours of the background and person's outline. The next effects that we created, we made by editing the image with the white background as well, and for these edits, we went to 'Image', then 'Mode', then selected Bitmap, to alter the image. For the first one, we changed the selection to be 50% Threshold, which created a very strong contrast look, and for the second one, we changed the settings to be Halftone Screen, which made the image look spotty.
We then played around with the Pathfinder options and mixing shapes, and mixing the images that we had created within the lessons. After this, to finish the day, we had to look at some examples on Swissted, and then create an album cover for a group of our choice, using the techniques that we had covered within the lesson. I quite liked how mine turned out as it was very colourful and used some interesting effects.
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