In this video we're going to create our flier document,
we're going to have the page size,
this little red line around the outside which is
bleed and our margins all set up ready to go.
Let's go and do that. Create our documents,
your welcome screen might look a little different.
I've got all these documents that I've previously worked on,
so I'm going to go up to here and go to new.
You might be on CC files or something else weird.
I'm going to click on new and if you can't see that,
go up to file new document,
we all end up in the exact same place which is here.
What we're going to do is you're probably going to be working in print,
we are in this case, and it gives you some presets.
You can see here view will presets,
there's a bunch of stuff we can use,
we'll probably never use your compact disc anymore,
but anyway, it's in their.
Business cards some useful sizes and in terms
of width and mobile sizes are done in here as well.
If you're designing any design for web,
it's not primarily used for that, but you can.
We are going to use print,
in our case we're going to US.
We are going to do like flash size,
we are going to do half later.
If you are following the country that uses millimeters in the A sizes,
this would be an A5.
We use it as often a full,
so we're going to do half a US later,
and we're going to make sure you can see,
you can override it over here.
It's still thinks I'm in here, which I am.
You can trade it over here. Next thing is the orientation.
I want to put it landscape facing pages.
We're going to turn off and facing pages we'll go into a lot more detail
when we stopped building like multiple page brochure further on in this course,
but for a moment, if you're just doing like a one-page thing, all facing pages.
Probably takes time as well. It's it's a little bit
complicated and we'll do that in a later video as well.
But just make sure they're off for the moment number of pages.
You can add them later if you want,
was going to start with one columns,
When only going to have one column, in this case,
we're looking at multiple column layout when we get
into some more text heavy documents that are
on margins we'll leave as the default and yours might be a little bit different.
You can see margins and blade.
You might just pull those down if you can't see them.
I'm going to this blade when he has,
I've done my margins, left them as the default bleed.
What I'll do is I'll get the real Dan to jump out and
show you this because it's been at in-person, take it away Dan.
Apparently I am the real Dan and this real Dan would
like to explain bleed and slug because as my example book.
Now what happens when the printing we'll know
that like say this image of the front take us right to the edge,
black goes right to the edge,
the add on the back,
right to the age, pretty much all of these pages.
Well, these ads here go to the edge of the page.
But we know that when we're printing,
say at home or at the office,
we can have a print right to the edge of a white bit, a paper,
because the printed this doesn't go that close to the edge.
That's the same for big commercial offset printers as well.
It doesn't really matter that you can't print right to the edge.
What happens is you print on a little bit of paper that's a little bit bigger.
Say it needs to be later or A4.
What they do is they printed on a sheet called SI for which is just a little bit bigger.
Then I print inside of that and then they'd guillotine it
off afterwards down to the original size.
Now that guillotine is never perfect,
they try and landed up perfect,
but you need a little bit of wiggle room for the guillotine
to maybe like slice a little bit higher or a little bit lower.
You don't want to ride on the age because they might end up with a little white strip.
What you do in indesign is you add a little bit of bleed,
three millimeters for metric and eighth of an inch for imperial or 0.125 of an inch,
if you using decimal places.
What happens is you just make your document that tiny bit bigger
all the way around so that the guillotine has got something to cut off,
okay, and it ends up in the bend.
Nothing important there because it laid up in the bend,
but it gets cut down to this final size Happens especially with magazines.
Magazines are printed and bound and often they don't look this nice.
This has got a really sharp,
crisp edge, but that never happens when it gets bound.
That only happens after it's been guillotine,
it's quite missy if you've ever seen magazine that's being printed,
that doesn't yet, that hasn't been yet been trimmed up.
It's actually little pages are mixed up and not lined up nicely.
It's not until guillotine
happens and the bleed is cut off before they look nice and tidy.
Now in terms of slug, now,
the cool thing about slug is you just won't use it.
People doing the design side often don't use slug.
It's more the printing or production side of things.
Let's say that the bleed is just like in that is a little bit run the outside.
The slug is the biggest chunk like an inch
around the outside and in that you can write notes.
If you're the printer and you know that this covers a bit special
and it has something that needs to be glued to it on a special spot you could write.
He is with us, gets glued to or maybe this gets
stapled to this button folded over or something special,
or just anything that
maybe helped the production later on after it comes off the printers,
say maybe this gets put with per A and per B.
It's a terrible explanation,
but it's just notes that the printer ads it'll wait trimmed off and checked in the bin.
I've never had to put bleed on in my entire career,
knew probably want to either unleash
a work may be behind the scenes and not an offset printer,
a big commercial printer,
you might be adding blood,
you might be adding slug afterwards and adding these notes to it.
It's a bleed definitely,
slug pretty much never.
Did that help? Hope it helped.
You can go back to the other Dan,
the disembodied voice talking over the screen.
We know we need bleed,
of 0.125 inches, or an eighth of an inch.
Or if you're metric,
you can just type in three millimeters.
You can see I can type in three millimeters and just
click somewhere else and it does the conversion for me.
I know it's not exactly the same,
but this is just the way it is.
Different people use different sized leads,
and the slug, we don't use you,
so we're going to leave that as it is and let's click Create.
Stand back, we have a document.
I'm going to zoom out a little bit.
Zooming is Command Minus on a Mac or Control minus on your keyboard, if you're on a PC.
What I want to do is show you the different pots here.
The edge of the big white box is the edge of our page.
In our case, it's the US half later and we've got these two other colored boxes here.
I've got the red one and this magenta one here.
The magenta is the margins.
They don't do anything they are just the visual guide to keep everything inside and
away from the edges of the page because
we all know that our printers don't print right to the edge,
so there's like a consistent box around the edge there.
The other one we're going to look at is
this red one here and that is the bleed we discussed.
Everything that goes over this edge prepare to get chopped off and put in the bin.
Before we go any further, let's go and save this document.
Let's go up to file and it's going to save.
We were going to save it.
I'm going to save on my desktop,
I'm going to make a new folder.
If you're using a Mac and it's a new Mac,
you might be looking like this. It looks a little different.
Click this little arrow here.
Find your desktop on the left-hand side make a new folder.
I'm going to call this one "Indesign".
Class files. Click Create,
and we'll stick everything we make during this long course into that folder.
In terms of the naming,
we're going to call this one, good at heart,
because that's the client's [inaudible] and put
a hyphen in and we're going to put in flyer,
and this is going to be V1.
Always give it a vision number,
because you'll going to make changes.
People could come back a V1,
V2 or ABC is just fine.
Never call it final, final is like the kiss of death, if you call it final,
the universe will send you adjustments and you'll
have to call it like final tool, or final revisited.
Some people chuckling because you've probably
got files just like that all over your computer.
We're going to use the V system.
Let's click save. That's it for this video,
my friends, let's get on to the next one.