OUGD504: Creative suite workshop 3

InDesign

You can use the slug area to add fold marks.

Primary text page, when the check box is ticked it adds a text box to every page you have, aligning it up with your specified margins.

InDesign applies colour in the same way as illustrator.

Swatches are still available, and you can apply colour to fill, or as a stroke.

On the left of each colour is two boxes, a dotted box and a CMYK box. The dotted box means they are global swatches, and the CMYK box means they are available in CMYK.

You can create your own swatch colour, picking between process colours or spot colours.

If you are working with a limited amount of colours, you can set up tints.

If you changed the original orange colour, with 100% colour, it will change all the other colours and their tint.

For example, changing the top colour to pink will change the tones of the other colours. *The colours change globally.

When placing an image from Photoshop the program retains colour information such as specific spot colours.

When importing an image in Photoshop you need to consider:

> The resolution, 300 dpi

> The size of the image

> CMYK or Spot

> TIFF or PSD

*When working with layers you can make parts of your image transparent, if you save as a psd it will still be there when you place it in InDesign

Illustrator considerations:

> CMYK or Spot

> Just save as an illustrator document Ai. (You can copy and past from illustrator into InDesign)

> You can re-size vectors from illustrator into InDesign and you don't have to rescale in illustrator.

Here is an image that has been already been prepared in InDesign

You can look at all the separate inks used in the image by opening the separations pallet:

Selecting the different colour channels shows in InDesign the different colours used for that specific part of the design.

You can prepare art work like this so you can get the positives for silk screen printing. Useful way to print full colour images.

Make sure if you are working with spot colours to delete any colours you are not using, so when you send your document to the printers you don't get charged for any unwanted colours.

Printer options in InDesign help you with printing. You can select different printing marks, so crop marks and bleed marks etc. Also, if you go into outputs and click onto separations you can choose whether to print the different layers or not.

Halftones are measured in lines per inch, 150 half tone dots.

40 - 65 are good frequencies to use with silk-screen printing.

Printing separations works very well with laser printers.

Looking at spot colours in illustrator, we've made to shapes and overlapped them

There is an option called overprint preview. If you place a coloured shape over another shape, then view the separations preview window, and then view just the magenta layer, it shows the shape has been knocked out by the other shape.

This means that when printing the colours wont overlap they will be printed by knocking the colour out. There is the option to print over the bottom layer colour. If you go into windows > output > attributes. Click your shape and then tick the overprint fill box, it shows how it would print with an overprint, it adds a third colour.

You can look at the ink limit, its a little like the gamut warning in Photoshop. It is in the separations preview window.

If you want a spot varnish on your page you have to select a spot colour, apply it to what you want as the varnish (in this case some text), then click the overprint option, so that the colour prints over all the other colours.