started up by opening indesign
Then we changed the preferences from pixels to mm's as it is what we tend to work with more frequently and is also more accurate on our maths .
Now it is time to open a new document by holding apple and N as a shortcut, we set the work
to facing pages and i set it to the size i wanted my booklet, 25x25cm
We then set the gutter and margins.
This is how the document should look:
We then selected a cmyk image off the internet to practice some fake montones on.
I then opened the swatches link on the right of the screen (may be hidden under window) and selected new colour swatch.
I then played around to make a random colour, I used 3 box's which were the same colour to show once one is selected all could be changed straight off.
This is what the colours have next to them.
I then clicked on the wrong things but learn how to make a new gradient, first of all i used the colour picker
And then this screen came up, I altered the settings to make the gradient i desired.
I then did the same thing but using new colour swatch, Using the pantone books
if I pre selected a colour, it would have a number, for example I used 131 which was a golden yellow
The colour then came up under my swatches once i selected okay, an interesting thing I learnt was that white is called paper on this which is quite smart, depending on the stock you use.
I selected a square and then clicked a swatch colour, which changed the pantone on the object
I then selected a new image which would be played around with,
I learned how to save some of the new colours i had made.
Then learned how to morph the colour balance of the image: this is sepia
Then I learned how to play around with the duotone to make the original image a series of different colours e.g. 1 - red and sepia, 2 - blue and grey
Then if I selected attributes and chose overprint fill
I could then change the opticity of overlayed colours to show what the out come would look like if those colours were then combined in a print.
I adapted this to my penguin image and gained an interesting affect which I think is very smart and before this lecture I would have had no idea of doing before.
