Do you struggle as much as I do getting all of your elements to be perfect in InDesign? I’ve got just the thing for you. I have recently told everyone on how I struggled to understand Adobe’s InDesign product, but after only a little practice, I believe I’m headed in a good direction.
I spent endless hours trying to understand more about InDesign from bloggers and YouTube videos. Here’s the catch – I’m going to save you all those hours of searching the web. I was recently tasked with creating a mock newsletter for an organization of my choice. While this might seem like quite a simple task, just the first steps were quite tricky.
When deciding on what organization to do is where I became stumped. With so many companies with amazing press available, I decided to pick the one that I felt I could work best with all of its elements. I came to my final decision on American Airlines because of its wide variety of press.
When looking at the companies press section, I chose press releases to use that I felt were unique to the organization. When beginning to place my text on my document, I realized the importance of different text boxes. When creating a headline for the press release, I must use a different text box than that of my body text.
Once all of my text was aligned, I found free pictures to use throughout the different press releases. Placing pictures within my text was very import given where it would be placed and how big. I attempted to place smaller pictures where they were not as important to the story and larger pictures with stories of more importance.
After placing additional elements into my newsletter to create more dynamic, I was able to save my finished product. When viewing my results, I was actually quite impressed by my work and abilities to use InDesign. It is interesting to look back on a time not long ago that I was confused by InDesign and am now on the road to hopefully becoming a pro.
Cover: Photo by NoName on Unsplash
Back Page: Photo by Dominik Schröder on Unsplash
Plane in Moutains: Photo by Miguel Ángel Sanz on Unsplash
Planes on Runway: Photo by Miguel Ángel Sanz on Unsplash
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