InDesign Workshop

Placing images from other programmes into InDesign -

Photoshop | Illustrator :

CMYK/Grayscale | CMYK

Actual Size | Illustrator Infinite Size

300dpi | Copy & Paste into InDesign

Tiff/PSD | Ai

Any images used in your design once copied into InDesign must be 'packaged'. Its best to make a folder containing your design as well as all the separate images saved independently in it.

Select all unused colours and delete them from your swatches when your design is finished. Use drop down menu (top right) and select - 'remove unused swatches'.

Overprinting - When two colours are overlaid and merge.

Knocking Out - When the colour on top knocks our/eats into the background colour.

*Black always overprints.

WINDOW > OUTPUT > ATTRIBUTES

Check the box 'overprint fill to print on top'

VIEW > OVERPRINT PREVIEW

Shows what will be printed.

Trapping - Adding stroke to text for example that is the same colour as the background. Helps to prevent misregistration. Good for producing screen printing negatives.

WINDOW > OUTPUT > ATTRIBUTES > OVERPRINT STROKE

Using separations to print individual pages of separate colour. e.g Cyan layer.

WINDOW > OUTPUT > SEPARATIONS

Spot Colour:

(on swatch palette) > top right drop down menu > new colour swatch

Placing a duotone image will instantly add the spot colours to the swatch palette.

The text frame tool is similar to the rectangular frame tool but is used to frame text instead of images.

Rectangular frame tool which can be used on which to import/place images into the InDesign document. It has been filled with a colour and a heavy stroke added to it.

InDesign page with standard bleed of 3mm. 3 columns have also been set up.