Today we completed a pretty neat spread for a snowboarding magazine. We learned all of the basics of InDesign, including: using the master page to create header and footers, inserting automatic page numbers, and adding guidelines. We also learned how to make Photoshop paths of a copied image, so that we can make the snowboarder come out of the background (the left most image). In addition, we reviewed how to add drop shadows to images (as evidenced by the red snowboarder and the upside down guy). And lastly, we learned how to upload rich text into manually created placeholders/text boxes. After altering the corner options of the side barsand giving them a gradient as a finishing touch, and applying 3 character styles: Head, Subhead, and Body text to different portions of the spread, above is the finished product!
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