In this video, we're going to look at adding our spread.
We've done in InDesign to this 3D mockup that we can use in our portfolio.
Let's go and do that now.
There's two things you need to do before we're going to make this happen.
You need to sign up free for Mediamodifier.
There's a few other competitors to it as well,
so go and check them out.
These guys will charge you five bucks to release the watermark of your image,
seems like a right deal to me.
But yeah, check out the other ones,
I've only ever use this one so let's go and look at it.
Let's have a look at all templates there is.
You can add your stuff to all stuff,
and it does the 3D rendering for you,
which is really handy if you don't have any skills in Photoshop.
I tend to do all mine in Photoshop because I know how to use it,
and if you want to do it with me,
we'll do it in the advanced version of this InDesign course.
Let's say I would just want to do it quick and easy way.
I want to give you an easy way that you don't have to
go off and have the matrix to do it.
I just typed in magazine.
You can pick one of these spreads here now.
This one here is the A sizes, so A4,
and this one here's more the US letter sizes,
so use one or the other,
otherwise it doesn't really fit well.
Over on this right hand side here,
I'm going to click on this one,
and we need to export our left page.
You can see here, and our right page.
Let's going to do that from InDesign.
Pick your best spread. I'm going to use this one here.
I'm going to go to file export.
We did this earlier on in the tutorials where we exported the format.
Make sure it's a JPEG. Where are we going to put it?
I'm going to put it in my InDesign exercise or class files that are on the desktop.
I'm going to call this one right page, very exciting.
Actually this is the left page would be first, click Save.
Then here is the range, can you see?
This is D and one,
we did this in an earlier exercise where we looked at
renaming the page numbering, remember ABCD.
This is one of those times where, it's not a hassle,
we just got to remember that I want D first.
I want just this page. You can't do spreads,
and this one here doesn't really work.
Here's our resolution, 300,
150, 150 is fine for this occasion.
Let's hit Export. I've got that side,
and hit export again.
I'm going to do the right page,
and I'm going to do range one,
leave it all, click Export.
Now I've got two JPEGs hopefully on my desktop,
on the class files and this left and right pages.
Cool. Now back into Mediamodifier,
choose the file for the left page,
Desktop, class exercise files,
left page, crop slightly off.
It's not perfectly the right size.
Let's click the right page and you crop the same thing.
I'll put probably a little bit more in the middle and looks okay,
and generic preview' this takes forever,
but that's okay. It's doing the work for us.
We kick back, relax,
and speed it up, please Taylor.
You can see it's bended round to float with it.
It's added some shadows,
a bit of a highlight on it,
and you can obviously download this option.
It has a watermark in it,
but you can download a version,
pay $5 and get one that doesn't have it.
Although displaying them as a flat JPEG is cool,
a reckon portfolios do well when they look like they're actually done.
Adds a little bit of professionalism to your displays.
You might actually have a couple of different spreads and use a couple of
different views from the same magazine for your portfolio.
That's how to use something quick,
easy and not quite free.
The other option is to use Photoshop.
There are some cool stuff using the Adobe market and that's a bit of
a long process that we'll do in the advanced part of this course.
I'll see you in the next video.