For December 2nd | HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

A. Make a new document in Adobe Indesign. (ID)

• Letter Size, portrait or landscape.
• Set your margins as you need. 
• Remember the minimum margin for printing is 1/4 inch, or 1.5 picas.

B. Lay out all of your pages in Indesign.  Make it as close as you can to your final iteration.
To do so, you will:

• Open up illustrator.  
• Copy your image files.  
• Paste your image files into your Indesign document.

C. After that you will need to lay out text:

1. Select the text tool from the tool bar.  
2. Drag out a text box like the ones we made in illustrator.
3. Remember that you can modify the outside edges of the text box, and manipulate specific anchor points in indesign with the DIRECT SELECTION TOOL.

We will work on these in class, but you must have all of your images laid out in an Indesign file.  Feel free to play with the designs and layouts.  Remember that you are mostly copying your layouts made in illustrator, bringing them into indesign.

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A couple things to remember:

Here are some links that offer examples and tutorials for indesign. Feel free to thumb through them if you are having trouble remembering what we covered in class.

Indesign basics:  (These may help the most.)
http://wiki.digital-foundations.net/index.php?title=Chapter_13_CS4
http://wiki.digital-foundations.net/index.php?title=Chapter_14_CS6

A PDF Introduction to Indesign (34pages):
 http://www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/skills/documents/3648/3648.pdf

Video: 10 things beginners want to know about indesign CS6:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suite-podcast-designers/how-to-get-started-with-adobe-indesign-cs6-10-things-beginners-want-to-know-how-to-do/

This is our first day covering Indesign.  Do your best when laying out your images, and remember that the majority of your work will be copying and pasting your images, should you have finalized a design you are happy with.

This should take no longer than 2 hours, but may take extra should you run into any major hurdles. If you do, be sure to email me over the holiday.  As a test of your time management, it is possible to lay out your images sometime between today and tomorrow, leaving the rest of your holiday to relax.  You may have to spend some tonight working, but any work now will be less work you have to do later.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving! =D