From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
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Creating the spine content
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Creating the spine content
- [Instructor] I'm reasonably certain you guessed what the missing element in this layout is. And of course it's the spine. We haven't got a spine for our document. And what we're going to do is we're actually going to create it from the title block. This is one of the great things about the flexibility of InDesign and about creating something like this. What I'm going to do is hold down the Alt or Option key and drag a copy across, like so. Now I haven't been paying much attention to layers here and normally I would actually split the spine out onto a separate layer for a number of reasons. Mainly, if the actual depth of that, or width of it rather, changed if I was creating for another edition. So what I'm going to do is work on this, let's try and bring it to a place where it's nice and easy to see, which is kind of tricky just at the moment. So what I think I'll do is just persevere over on this side and I'll bring…
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Project overview1m 5s
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Document setup5m 28s
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Setting margins5m 15s
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Adding guides2m 49s
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Challenge: Layout guides2m 31s
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Solution: Layout guides5m 27s
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Choosing and pairing fonts5m 8s
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Challenge: Using in-app capture for colors4m 46s
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Splitting images for the covers3m 42s
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Creating tints for the cover flaps5m 40s
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Adding image content5m 23s
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Importing and organizing text5m 31s
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Styling the title block7m 30s
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Styling the cover quote6m 4s
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Optical margin alignment3m 38s
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Setting the back cover text6m 53s
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Adding character style overrides3m 45s
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Challenge: Set flap texts54s
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Solution: Set flap texts4m 32s
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Creating the spine content4m 27s
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Adding the publisher's assets5m 25s
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Exporting assets3m 14s
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Creating a print finish5m 54s
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