InDesign Workshop

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I struggle with InDesign because although it is very similar to things such as Illustrator I feel that you have to be more precise with everything you do as it is usually the final stage in the industry.

One element I could never seem to hack is all short cuts and simple ways to do things. A new random technique I learnt and am currently loving is the two finger scroll although this is used across hundreds of different softwares it has just been so helpful with designing and researching my project. Some other random tips I learnt are;

• for a quality image you need at least 300 pixels for every 1 inch square
• you can use photoshop to convert between CMYK and the other colour combinations depending where the final product will be (digital/printed)
• make sure the InDesign work is all in one folder so that it doesn’t lose the inserted design
• for printing standards leave a 3mm bleed and if you want to send a message to the printer do it outside of this
• if you have too much text with in a box a red cross will appear and you can drag it to create another box. These will become linked.

Another thing that I learnt, which was very new to me, was when the type tool is selected there is two different sections that can be altered. Knowing this has come to be a great help as I can now set my own paragraph style which means that I can now keep my styling consistent throughout my project.