From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
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Solution: Layout guides
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Solution: Layout guides
(upbeat music) - [Instructor] How did you get on? Did you come up with a solution for breaking up the two pages inside this layout? Well, if you did and they're different to the two I'm about to show you, then please let me know. I love learning new stuff and it might be something I've never seen. But for my part here, I'm going to show you the two approaches I might use and I'll show you which is my favorite one and why as we go on. So what I do here is I go to the pages panel and just make this area at the top here slightly larger so you can see what's going on. And I would add a new parent page. So if I go ahead and click at the fly out at the top, I'll choose new parent. So this is going to have the prefix B. We've already got ages there. We can call that guides if we want to. It doesn't have to be parent, so guides it's not based on anything else and it's using the initial page size, which is just perfect…
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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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