DESIGN FOR PRINT (workshop 1)

Things we want to learn
Preflighting...everything will be okay when it goes through to print
Using colour pallets

new document
columns, margins, Bleeds and slugs give you extra guidelines to assist you with your layout.
Bleeds- accommodate in any inaccuracy of trimming.
Always include a bleed margin...3mm
Slug-area outside the trimmed edge for printers marks
Facing Pages...is it a double page spread or not. (is it going to be a book?)

To change document...go to layout menu...can change number of pages and columns and margins

everything must be contained by  frame, things need to be considered when using files form:

Photoshop
1. actual size
2. colour-right colour mode, CMYK,monotone/ duotone, greyscale
3. Tiff, psd, pdf, jpeg,png, gif files may all be used for print. to import to  Indesign you would choose tiff or psd
4. 300dpi must be used
if you want something to be twice as big when you scan it, you make the resolution twice as big.\
5. Never copy and Paste

Illustrator
1. Do not need to scale
2. Have to work in CMYK
3. The file format I choose is Ai
4. You can copy and paste
5. do not need a resolution

6. When importing to indesign you have an option to click "show import files"

click the transparent background option 

placing an images, look in the links pallet. 

the images in the link pallet has a number next to it, if you had 60 pages and didn't know where your image was you could open the links and click on the number, this will take you to the image

File>package...will package everything together in to one folder. 

You can edit your images on photoshop and it will update automatically in indesign

right click>edit original 

on images in user work, right click>change info>open with photoshop> change all 

shortcut...hold alt key and double click

You should not enlarge an image after you have placed it on indesign as you will change the resolution and making it pixelated.
You should also avoid making the image smaller even tho you would not make it pixelated.

To make a pdf in indesign file. adobe pdf presets. press quality print