1 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:10,920 In this video, we're going to look at adding our spread. 2 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:16,610 We've done in InDesign to this 3D mockup that we can use in our portfolio. 3 00:00:16,605 --> 00:00:18,785 Let's go and do that now. 4 00:00:18,780 --> 00:00:22,170 There's two things you need to do before we're going to make this happen. 5 00:00:22,170 --> 00:00:24,780 You need to sign up free for Mediamodifier. 6 00:00:24,780 --> 00:00:26,820 There's a few other competitors to it as well, 7 00:00:26,820 --> 00:00:28,050 so go and check them out. 8 00:00:28,050 --> 00:00:32,540 These guys will charge you five bucks to release the watermark of your image, 9 00:00:32,535 --> 00:00:34,275 seems like a right deal to me. 10 00:00:34,275 --> 00:00:35,615 But yeah, check out the other ones, 11 00:00:35,610 --> 00:00:38,570 I've only ever use this one so let's go and look at it. 12 00:00:38,565 --> 00:00:41,175 Let's have a look at all templates there is. 13 00:00:41,175 --> 00:00:43,115 You can add your stuff to all stuff, 14 00:00:43,110 --> 00:00:46,010 and it does the 3D rendering for you, 15 00:00:46,010 --> 00:00:49,600 which is really handy if you don't have any skills in Photoshop. 16 00:00:49,595 --> 00:00:53,375 I tend to do all mine in Photoshop because I know how to use it, 17 00:00:53,370 --> 00:00:54,710 and if you want to do it with me, 18 00:00:54,710 --> 00:00:58,150 we'll do it in the advanced version of this InDesign course. 19 00:00:58,145 --> 00:01:00,805 Let's say I would just want to do it quick and easy way. 20 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:02,630 I want to give you an easy way that you don't have to 21 00:01:02,630 --> 00:01:04,650 go off and have the matrix to do it. 22 00:01:04,645 --> 00:01:06,675 I just typed in magazine. 23 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:09,235 You can pick one of these spreads here now. 24 00:01:09,230 --> 00:01:12,020 This one here is the A sizes, so A4, 25 00:01:12,020 --> 00:01:14,120 and this one here's more the US letter sizes, 26 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:15,470 so use one or the other, 27 00:01:15,470 --> 00:01:17,320 otherwise it doesn't really fit well. 28 00:01:17,315 --> 00:01:19,265 Over on this right hand side here, 29 00:01:19,265 --> 00:01:21,385 I'm going to click on this one, 30 00:01:21,380 --> 00:01:24,730 and we need to export our left page. 31 00:01:24,725 --> 00:01:26,315 You can see here, and our right page. 32 00:01:26,315 --> 00:01:28,295 Let's going to do that from InDesign. 33 00:01:28,295 --> 00:01:31,165 Pick your best spread. I'm going to use this one here. 34 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,040 I'm going to go to file export. 35 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,370 We did this earlier on in the tutorials where we exported the format. 36 00:01:36,365 --> 00:01:38,835 Make sure it's a JPEG. Where are we going to put it? 37 00:01:38,830 --> 00:01:42,710 I'm going to put it in my InDesign exercise or class files that are on the desktop. 38 00:01:42,710 --> 00:01:47,220 I'm going to call this one right page, very exciting. 39 00:01:47,215 --> 00:01:51,545 Actually this is the left page would be first, click Save. 40 00:01:51,540 --> 00:01:53,810 Then here is the range, can you see? 41 00:01:53,805 --> 00:01:55,195 This is D and one, 42 00:01:55,190 --> 00:01:57,800 we did this in an earlier exercise where we looked at 43 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,090 renaming the page numbering, remember ABCD. 44 00:02:01,085 --> 00:02:03,625 This is one of those times where, it's not a hassle, 45 00:02:03,620 --> 00:02:06,250 we just got to remember that I want D first. 46 00:02:06,245 --> 00:02:08,455 I want just this page. You can't do spreads, 47 00:02:08,450 --> 00:02:10,580 and this one here doesn't really work. 48 00:02:10,575 --> 00:02:12,785 Here's our resolution, 300, 49 00:02:12,780 --> 00:02:16,110 150, 150 is fine for this occasion. 50 00:02:16,110 --> 00:02:18,650 Let's hit Export. I've got that side, 51 00:02:18,645 --> 00:02:19,935 and hit export again. 52 00:02:19,935 --> 00:02:22,845 I'm going to do the right page, 53 00:02:23,860 --> 00:02:27,310 and I'm going to do range one, 54 00:02:27,305 --> 00:02:29,085 leave it all, click Export. 55 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,020 Now I've got two JPEGs hopefully on my desktop, 56 00:02:32,015 --> 00:02:37,875 on the class files and this left and right pages. 57 00:02:37,875 --> 00:02:41,375 Cool. Now back into Mediamodifier, 58 00:02:41,370 --> 00:02:43,560 choose the file for the left page, 59 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,860 Desktop, class exercise files, 60 00:02:46,860 --> 00:02:52,440 left page, crop slightly off. 61 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,590 It's not perfectly the right size. 62 00:02:54,585 --> 00:03:01,085 Let's click the right page and you crop the same thing. 63 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,100 I'll put probably a little bit more in the middle and looks okay, 64 00:03:05,100 --> 00:03:08,750 and generic preview' this takes forever, 65 00:03:08,745 --> 00:03:10,935 but that's okay. It's doing the work for us. 66 00:03:10,930 --> 00:03:11,980 We kick back, relax, 67 00:03:11,980 --> 00:03:14,570 and speed it up, please Taylor. 68 00:03:15,050 --> 00:03:19,180 You can see it's bended round to float with it. 69 00:03:19,180 --> 00:03:20,740 It's added some shadows, 70 00:03:20,740 --> 00:03:22,810 a bit of a highlight on it, 71 00:03:22,810 --> 00:03:25,890 and you can obviously download this option. 72 00:03:25,890 --> 00:03:27,130 It has a watermark in it, 73 00:03:27,125 --> 00:03:29,905 but you can download a version, 74 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:32,890 pay $5 and get one that doesn't have it. 75 00:03:32,885 --> 00:03:36,145 Although displaying them as a flat JPEG is cool, 76 00:03:36,140 --> 00:03:40,720 a reckon portfolios do well when they look like they're actually done. 77 00:03:40,715 --> 00:03:43,735 Adds a little bit of professionalism to your displays. 78 00:03:43,730 --> 00:03:46,520 You might actually have a couple of different spreads and use a couple of 79 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:50,680 different views from the same magazine for your portfolio. 80 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:52,890 That's how to use something quick, 81 00:03:52,890 --> 00:03:55,080 easy and not quite free. 82 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,540 The other option is to use Photoshop. 83 00:03:58,535 --> 00:04:01,465 There are some cool stuff using the Adobe market and that's a bit of 84 00:04:01,460 --> 00:04:05,100 a long process that we'll do in the advanced part of this course. 85 00:04:05,095 --> 00:04:07,905 I'll see you in the next video.