How to set up a website Naming guidelines When picking the name of your site remember that taste and style may change. On top of this, your tastes and style may change so I would avoid memes and branding yourself…
Read MoreA compendium of notes from Visual Elements: Digital Tools
Below is a link of all of the notes we had for this class it’s a zip file with both a pdf and an epub doc. This site should be up for another month or so but then I’ll be…
Read MoreChallenge Test
This test is only for those challenging VEDT.
Read MoreAdditional InDesign Stuff
Here are a few things to help you with InDesign. Using Styles in InDesign Printing a booklet in InDesign Creating Text Links in InDesign Exporting your InDesign File to PDF How to package your InDesign file
Read MoreInDesign Notes 6: Printing your booklet in InDesign
Click on ‘File’ > ‘ Print Booklet…’ Pay attention to any caution symbols – It looks like there is currently a small bug in InDesign which causes the setup of the ‘Letter Half’ to default to print in portrait mode.…
Read MoreInDesign Notes 5: How to export a booklet for print from InDesign
Click on File > Print Booklet… Click on ‘Print Settings…’ Click on ‘Printer…’ You may get a warning telling you that InDesign should control the print settings; click the ‘OK’ button to ignore this dialoge. Select 2-Sided as your option…
Read MoreInDesign Notes 4: Exporting to PDF
Go to File > Export … Properly name your file and export it using the ‘Adobe PDF (Print)’ option.
Read MoreInDesign Notes 3: Saving
By default InDesign doesn’t embed your images into it’s file. This allows you to work on images, stories etc. without having to constantly reimport them. The down side of this is that you will need to keep all of your…
Read MoreInDesign notes 2: Master pages and paragraph styles
NOTE: While we have usually used the “Essential” layout for Illustrator and Photoshop some of the items I’ll be referring to below will require you to be in “Advanced Mode”. That’s right you’re advanced; now give yourself a high five…
Read MoreInDesign notes 1: Introduction to InDesign
InDesign really is the team player of Adobe’s Creative Suite. It helps to organize text and image often created in other applications onto one page. Because everything is linked and not embedded please try to keep all of your images…
Read MoreFinal Assignment – Article or Comic Layout
Please note: Due to this being the last project of the term, I will not be able to accept re-dos for this project. Naming Convention: 05_InDesign_2018FA_Your Name Due: Last day of class please email a PDF not the InDesign Project…
Read MoreFocus Week Paper
What is Focus week? Over the next week, the school will be in the midst of Focus week, a time when seniors get to present their thesis to the student body. During a student’s thesis year they will have to…
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