1 00:00:06,950 --> 00:00:11,820 Alright, in this video, we're going to create our newsletter our brochure. 2 00:00:11,820 --> 00:00:13,190 We're going to work on our margins, 3 00:00:13,185 --> 00:00:14,825 our columns, the gutters between it. 4 00:00:14,820 --> 00:00:17,480 We're going to look at things called spreads. It's going to be exciting. 5 00:00:17,475 --> 00:00:23,235 It's going to do it. Alright, so first thing we're going to do is create a new document. 6 00:00:23,235 --> 00:00:27,455 Either click this button or you can go to "File" "New Document." 7 00:00:27,450 --> 00:00:29,920 We're going to start with some of the presets print. 8 00:00:29,915 --> 00:00:32,165 Now, depending on the part of the world we're going to use 9 00:00:32,165 --> 00:00:34,225 A4 or "Letter," we use "Letter" in this case. 10 00:00:34,220 --> 00:00:36,680 You can see mine keeps defaulting back to millimeters. 11 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,350 It's mainly because in between making videos, 12 00:00:39,350 --> 00:00:41,870 I have to do work InDesign and I work in millimeters, 13 00:00:41,870 --> 00:00:43,780 so I keep switching it back anyway. 14 00:00:43,780 --> 00:00:46,280 So there's my sizes, I'm going to work in 15 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,910 portrait and we're going to have facing pages turned on this time. 16 00:00:49,910 --> 00:00:51,680 Number of pages we're going to have eight. 17 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:53,300 Just consider when you are making, say, 18 00:00:53,300 --> 00:00:54,920 a newsletter or a brochure, often, 19 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,050 you have to work in multiples of four. 20 00:00:57,050 --> 00:00:58,610 You can have two pages, 21 00:00:58,610 --> 00:01:00,880 front and back of a use letter. 22 00:01:00,875 --> 00:01:02,495 But often when it gets past that, 23 00:01:02,495 --> 00:01:06,265 it's actually big sheets of paper folded in half and stapled. 24 00:01:06,265 --> 00:01:07,685 So you can't have like say, 25 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,320 six pages because you'll have one big I'm sheet folded in half. 26 00:01:11,315 --> 00:01:13,165 Then you have this kind of like one sitting in 27 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,470 the middle and it becomes very hard to bind together. 28 00:01:15,470 --> 00:01:16,670 There's ways around it, 29 00:01:16,670 --> 00:01:18,940 but often you work in multiples of eight. 30 00:01:18,935 --> 00:01:22,135 If you go ever opened up and up the newspaper and pulled one sheet out of it, 31 00:01:22,130 --> 00:01:25,100 you've dropped it into pieces and you pull out one sheet, 32 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:27,560 you'll notice there's actually four sides. 33 00:01:27,555 --> 00:01:29,825 Think of that when you are doing a newsletter, 34 00:01:29,825 --> 00:01:31,345 Definitely don't do five because you've got 35 00:01:31,340 --> 00:01:34,210 a back of a sheet of paper that you have to use. 36 00:01:34,205 --> 00:01:37,675 Starting number, this might be that you've 37 00:01:37,670 --> 00:01:41,000 got a really long document and you've got pages, 38 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,120 and you want to start the page numbering on something different. 39 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:45,870 We're going to keep our start to one. 40 00:01:45,865 --> 00:01:47,385 Very rarely will I change that. 41 00:01:47,385 --> 00:01:49,785 Probably it takes fine and we'll look at in a later video. 42 00:01:49,785 --> 00:01:52,775 Columns. We haven't used this before. 43 00:01:52,775 --> 00:01:54,915 By default, you have to have a minimum of one. 44 00:01:54,910 --> 00:01:57,280 What we're going to have is three in this case. 45 00:01:57,275 --> 00:01:59,695 The gutter is the space between these columns. 46 00:01:59,690 --> 00:02:01,610 Just leave it to whatever the default is. 47 00:02:01,610 --> 00:02:04,210 Let's have a quick look at why we use columns. 48 00:02:04,210 --> 00:02:07,850 In here, I've done a little search for magazine spreads. 49 00:02:07,850 --> 00:02:11,750 What you'll notice is that when people are designing magazines, professionals, 50 00:02:11,750 --> 00:02:14,840 they will start with a number of columns and consistently use that 51 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,700 throughout the magazine and it gives a bit of consistency through, 52 00:02:18,695 --> 00:02:20,995 say, a really long document so that you're not going to 53 00:02:20,990 --> 00:02:23,250 every page switching out different columns. 54 00:02:23,254 --> 00:02:26,404 It's one of the things that are really easy to notice when you're looking at 55 00:02:26,405 --> 00:02:30,605 amateurs do work is that there's no consistency with columns. 56 00:02:30,605 --> 00:02:32,735 Often, it's two, three, 57 00:02:32,734 --> 00:02:34,554 four, or five columns. 58 00:02:34,550 --> 00:02:36,560 Let's have a little look at some of the examples. 59 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,680 Now you can break these rules, 60 00:02:38,675 --> 00:02:41,375 but it adds a bit of consistency throughout. 61 00:02:41,375 --> 00:02:43,705 So let's look at, say this one here, 62 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:46,200 it's an easy one, there's three columns. 63 00:02:46,195 --> 00:02:48,595 That's what we're going to be doing and that is keeping the three columns, 64 00:02:48,590 --> 00:02:51,160 let's have a look through, say this one here. 65 00:02:51,155 --> 00:02:52,765 This one's a little bit different. 66 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,050 They are using three columns, 67 00:02:55,045 --> 00:02:59,235 but that kind of breaking the rules a tiny bit with a spreading across some of these. 68 00:02:59,235 --> 00:03:01,175 So there's still a one, 69 00:03:01,170 --> 00:03:03,390 two, three, and now you are thinking like, 70 00:03:03,390 --> 00:03:04,760 there's only two columns, but you can see 71 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,370 this image here is actually spanning two of them. 72 00:03:07,370 --> 00:03:08,860 They're doing the same thing over, 73 00:03:08,855 --> 00:03:10,805 so still three columns. 74 00:03:10,805 --> 00:03:13,005 But this one is spanning two of them. 75 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,400 Let's have a look at some of the ones that, say this one here, 76 00:03:15,395 --> 00:03:24,635 I'd say is maybe an amateur work because you can see there's no real columns in there. 77 00:03:24,635 --> 00:03:26,075 This is not even, 78 00:03:26,075 --> 00:03:30,415 so it should be one and then another one and then this one's spit [inaudible]. 79 00:03:30,410 --> 00:03:32,000 I don't know, hope you can kind of see it. 80 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,610 It feels like there's no consistencies here. 81 00:03:34,610 --> 00:03:37,250 This one here doesn't spin the columns like it should 82 00:03:37,250 --> 00:03:39,920 and so it's got all the right ingredients for a great magazine, 83 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,040 but I think columns can really help lift an armatures work. 84 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,050 This one here, two columns. 85 00:03:45,050 --> 00:03:46,940 This one here, still isn't there, 86 00:03:46,940 --> 00:03:48,290 I think in the amateur category, 87 00:03:48,290 --> 00:03:49,580 it's cool, it's nice, 88 00:03:49,580 --> 00:03:52,430 but it's columns I am just unsure about. 89 00:03:52,430 --> 00:03:55,280 See this one here, it's beautiful but crazy, 90 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,190 but it's still using four columns. 91 00:03:57,185 --> 00:03:59,095 So one, two, three, four, 92 00:03:59,090 --> 00:04:02,530 this big giant number two spans two of them, and that's okay. 93 00:04:02,530 --> 00:04:03,560 You're allowed to break the rules, 94 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,220 but only breaking the rules within the rules if you know what I mean. 95 00:04:07,220 --> 00:04:10,000 Alright, that was a long explanation let's jump back into InDesign. 96 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,490 We're using three columns, and margins, 97 00:04:13,490 --> 00:04:15,980 we're going to use something slightly bigger, 98 00:04:15,980 --> 00:04:18,620 so we're going to do 0.8 inches. 99 00:04:18,620 --> 00:04:20,660 You'll notice that it changed all of them at 100 00:04:20,660 --> 00:04:23,390 the same time because this little linking icon is set. 101 00:04:23,390 --> 00:04:25,730 I'm going to break that now. So I want to do all of them 102 00:04:25,730 --> 00:04:28,330 except I want to do the bottom to be a little bigger. 103 00:04:28,325 --> 00:04:30,455 It's going to be 1.4 inches. 104 00:04:30,455 --> 00:04:32,675 Now if you're using millimeters, 105 00:04:32,675 --> 00:04:35,125 I'm using 20 all around except for the bottom, 106 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,270 which I'm using 35 millimeters. 107 00:04:37,265 --> 00:04:39,055 Couple of things to note is often 108 00:04:39,050 --> 00:04:41,690 the bottom will be bigger than the rest of the document, 109 00:04:41,690 --> 00:04:43,880 it gives you a little bit of wiggle room to the bottom to 110 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,310 put things like page numbers and document titles. 111 00:04:46,310 --> 00:04:47,680 It also just gives a nice, 112 00:04:47,675 --> 00:04:49,335 even if you're not going to put page numbers down there, 113 00:04:49,330 --> 00:04:51,500 it gives a document a set of grounding. 114 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:53,960 It gives it a base at the bottom. 115 00:04:53,955 --> 00:04:56,835 It's just a visual footing. 116 00:04:56,830 --> 00:04:59,990 Not sure how to explain it, but it's nice with a nice thick bottom of the bottom. 117 00:04:59,990 --> 00:05:02,090 Well, you'll also notice is there's no left and right, 118 00:05:02,090 --> 00:05:03,940 there's inside and outside. 119 00:05:03,935 --> 00:05:05,545 If I turn facing pages off, 120 00:05:05,540 --> 00:05:08,450 can you see it becomes left and right, which we understand, 121 00:05:08,450 --> 00:05:09,910 but then facing pages on, 122 00:05:09,905 --> 00:05:12,875 it becomes inside and outside. 123 00:05:12,875 --> 00:05:15,165 That means if I jump back to my example, 124 00:05:15,165 --> 00:05:17,395 you can see here it just means, 125 00:05:17,395 --> 00:05:18,865 look at this example here. 126 00:05:18,865 --> 00:05:21,205 It's a pretty big example. 127 00:05:21,420 --> 00:05:24,280 You don't have a left and a right essentially, 128 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:28,210 but you have an inside margin and an outside margin. 129 00:05:28,205 --> 00:05:30,165 What you often can do is you can have 130 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,610 a slightly bigger inside margin if you've got something called crepe, 131 00:05:33,610 --> 00:05:35,560 if you've got a really big thick magazine and maybe 132 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,760 these pages are disappearing into the gap here, they call that crepe. 133 00:05:38,755 --> 00:05:40,375 You can increase that, 134 00:05:40,375 --> 00:05:42,195 our magazine is not big enough to worry about that. 135 00:05:42,190 --> 00:05:43,790 Often as a designer, 136 00:05:43,790 --> 00:05:45,720 even if your magazine is really big, 137 00:05:45,715 --> 00:05:48,955 that is often the role of the printer, 138 00:05:48,955 --> 00:05:53,025 to stop playing around with the crepe and adjusting that for you. 139 00:05:53,020 --> 00:05:55,420 Talk to them about it if you are worried about 140 00:05:55,420 --> 00:05:58,400 it and often they'll help you out. Back to InDesign. 141 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:04,010 Bleed. We're going to have our 0.125, okay. 142 00:06:04,005 --> 00:06:08,425 Unless you're in millimeters and then it's three mill and slug, we never use. 143 00:06:08,425 --> 00:06:10,345 We're going to click "Create." 144 00:06:10,345 --> 00:06:12,345 Let's jump to our pages panel. 145 00:06:12,340 --> 00:06:14,290 If you can't see it, it's got a window pages 146 00:06:14,290 --> 00:06:16,300 and just have a quick little look at what we've done. 147 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:18,830 We've got eight pages, 148 00:06:18,825 --> 00:06:22,545 so page one here, and that's our cover and then it moves to spreads. 149 00:06:22,545 --> 00:06:24,805 I double-click page two and you can see here, 150 00:06:24,805 --> 00:06:26,295 I'm going to zoom out, come on minus, 151 00:06:26,290 --> 00:06:27,850 I am going to control minus on a PC, 152 00:06:27,850 --> 00:06:30,520 you can see they've put pages two and three together. 153 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,380 You can't have them separate and that's fine, 154 00:06:32,380 --> 00:06:34,330 but obviously when you wicking on a magazine, 155 00:06:34,330 --> 00:06:35,650 it's handy to see them to get that. 156 00:06:35,650 --> 00:06:37,460 That's why we look at this word, spreads. 157 00:06:37,460 --> 00:06:38,910 We want to see you them together. 158 00:06:38,910 --> 00:06:41,610 Great work, let's go and save it, "File" "Save." 159 00:06:41,610 --> 00:06:44,340 Let's put it into our Desktop. 160 00:06:44,340 --> 00:06:46,130 We've got out InDesign class files, 161 00:06:46,125 --> 00:06:47,585 and let's call this one, 162 00:06:47,580 --> 00:06:54,110 GaH and this one's going to be our newsletter, V1 now final. 163 00:06:54,105 --> 00:06:56,165 Alright, let's get into the next video. 164 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,590 Let's look at something called master pages. Exciting.