11/10/11 workshop

The paper size you choose in indesign is defined by the final printed trimmed document.

The bleed is to do with the trimming process, to avoid ink bleeding to the edge of the page, also it gives you some tolerance when cutting down your design. Puts a margin outside your page which makes it very easy to extend things beyond your page a substantial amount, usually use a bleed margin of 3mm.

The tick box for facing pages is used when producing a book, the pages are seen side by side in illustrator.

Page size and bleed are very important when working for print.

Create a new colour swatch, click the colour swatch menu and new colour swatch,

then you get the colour swatch options with the sliders so you can make up your CMYK percentages for each colour, then click ok to create a new swatch which can be applied to any element of the page.

Click new tint to create different tints of the same swatch.

messing with tints

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Things to double check before printing;

In photoshop...

1. Working in CMYK/ greyscale/ duotone/ monotone.

2. The resolution is 300dpi.

3. Your working at the actual size you wish to print at.

4. Save the image in the correct format; PSD, TIFF, PDF, JPEG. The main ones being Tiff and Psd, use PSD over Tiff when using transparency within an image, TIFF files do not support transparency.

In illustrator...

1. make sure you are working in CMYK

2. Saving the the correct format; AI

(illustrator files are vectored so resolution is not important, they can be infinitely scaled without loosing quality.)

When you place an image onto an indesign file, and what you see is a low resolution version of the image. The only purpose of this image is to layout the image in proportion with the rest of the pace layout, indesign does this to help the programme run smoothly by not using massive files. When the page is programme indesign finds the original image and prints the image as it looks in illustrator.

The advantages of this is that the indesign file remains small also because the file has a link to the original source you can still edit the illustration/photoshop file and indesign will update.