Alright, in this video, we're going to create our newsletter our brochure.
We're going to work on our margins,
our columns, the gutters between it.
We're going to look at things called spreads. It's going to be exciting.
It's going to do it. Alright, so first thing we're going to do is create a new document.
Either click this button or you can go to "File" "New Document."
We're going to start with some of the presets print.
Now, depending on the part of the world we're going to use
A4 or "Letter," we use "Letter" in this case.
You can see mine keeps defaulting back to millimeters.
It's mainly because in between making videos,
I have to do work InDesign and I work in millimeters,
so I keep switching it back anyway.
So there's my sizes, I'm going to work in
portrait and we're going to have facing pages turned on this time.
Number of pages we're going to have eight.
Just consider when you are making, say,
a newsletter or a brochure, often,
you have to work in multiples of four.
You can have two pages,
front and back of a use letter.
But often when it gets past that,
it's actually big sheets of paper folded in half and stapled.
So you can't have like say,
six pages because you'll have one big I'm sheet folded in half.
Then you have this kind of like one sitting in
the middle and it becomes very hard to bind together.
There's ways around it,
but often you work in multiples of eight.
If you go ever opened up and up the newspaper and pulled one sheet out of it,
you've dropped it into pieces and you pull out one sheet,
you'll notice there's actually four sides.
Think of that when you are doing a newsletter,
Definitely don't do five because you've got
a back of a sheet of paper that you have to use.
Starting number, this might be that you've
got a really long document and you've got pages,
and you want to start the page numbering on something different.
We're going to keep our start to one.
Very rarely will I change that.
Probably it takes fine and we'll look at in a later video.
Columns. We haven't used this before.
By default, you have to have a minimum of one.
What we're going to have is three in this case.
The gutter is the space between these columns.
Just leave it to whatever the default is.
Let's have a quick look at why we use columns.
In here, I've done a little search for magazine spreads.
What you'll notice is that when people are designing magazines, professionals,
they will start with a number of columns and consistently use that
throughout the magazine and it gives a bit of consistency through,
say, a really long document so that you're not going to
every page switching out different columns.
It's one of the things that are really easy to notice when you're looking at
amateurs do work is that there's no consistency with columns.
Often, it's two, three,
four, or five columns.
Let's have a little look at some of the examples.
Now you can break these rules,
but it adds a bit of consistency throughout.
So let's look at, say this one here,
it's an easy one, there's three columns.
That's what we're going to be doing and that is keeping the three columns,
let's have a look through, say this one here.
This one's a little bit different.
They are using three columns,
but that kind of breaking the rules a tiny bit with a spreading across some of these.
So there's still a one,
two, three, and now you are thinking like,
there's only two columns, but you can see
this image here is actually spanning two of them.
They're doing the same thing over,
so still three columns.
But this one is spanning two of them.
Let's have a look at some of the ones that, say this one here,
I'd say is maybe an amateur work because you can see there's no real columns in there.
This is not even,
so it should be one and then another one and then this one's spit [inaudible].
I don't know, hope you can kind of see it.
It feels like there's no consistencies here.
This one here doesn't spin the columns like it should
and so it's got all the right ingredients for a great magazine,
but I think columns can really help lift an armatures work.
This one here, two columns.
This one here, still isn't there,
I think in the amateur category,
it's cool, it's nice,
but it's columns I am just unsure about.
See this one here, it's beautiful but crazy,
but it's still using four columns.
So one, two, three, four,
this big giant number two spans two of them, and that's okay.
You're allowed to break the rules,
but only breaking the rules within the rules if you know what I mean.
Alright, that was a long explanation let's jump back into InDesign.
We're using three columns, and margins,
we're going to use something slightly bigger,
so we're going to do 0.8 inches.
You'll notice that it changed all of them at
the same time because this little linking icon is set.
I'm going to break that now. So I want to do all of them
except I want to do the bottom to be a little bigger.
It's going to be 1.4 inches.
Now if you're using millimeters,
I'm using 20 all around except for the bottom,
which I'm using 35 millimeters.
Couple of things to note is often
the bottom will be bigger than the rest of the document,
it gives you a little bit of wiggle room to the bottom to
put things like page numbers and document titles.
It also just gives a nice,
even if you're not going to put page numbers down there,
it gives a document a set of grounding.
It gives it a base at the bottom.
It's just a visual footing.
Not sure how to explain it, but it's nice with a nice thick bottom of the bottom.
Well, you'll also notice is there's no left and right,
there's inside and outside.
If I turn facing pages off,
can you see it becomes left and right, which we understand,
but then facing pages on,
it becomes inside and outside.
That means if I jump back to my example,
you can see here it just means,
look at this example here.
It's a pretty big example.
You don't have a left and a right essentially,
but you have an inside margin and an outside margin.
What you often can do is you can have
a slightly bigger inside margin if you've got something called crepe,
if you've got a really big thick magazine and maybe
these pages are disappearing into the gap here, they call that crepe.
You can increase that,
our magazine is not big enough to worry about that.
Often as a designer,
even if your magazine is really big,
that is often the role of the printer,
to stop playing around with the crepe and adjusting that for you.
Talk to them about it if you are worried about
it and often they'll help you out. Back to InDesign.
Bleed. We're going to have our 0.125, okay.
Unless you're in millimeters and then it's three mill and slug, we never use.
We're going to click "Create."
Let's jump to our pages panel.
If you can't see it, it's got a window pages
and just have a quick little look at what we've done.
We've got eight pages,
so page one here, and that's our cover and then it moves to spreads.
I double-click page two and you can see here,
I'm going to zoom out, come on minus,
I am going to control minus on a PC,
you can see they've put pages two and three together.
You can't have them separate and that's fine,
but obviously when you wicking on a magazine,
it's handy to see them to get that.
That's why we look at this word, spreads.
We want to see you them together.
Great work, let's go and save it, "File" "Save."
Let's put it into our Desktop.
We've got out InDesign class files,
and let's call this one,
GaH and this one's going to be our newsletter, V1 now final.
Alright, let's get into the next video.
Let's look at something called master pages. Exciting.