Art Time Narative - Photoshop-InDesign

Scanning

Using the Epson scanners in the Computer Center. See: Scanning - Mac

Scan one drawing from a station connected to a scanner
Save as TIFF to your cubby on Orca. See: Connecting to Orca programs at File Space Overview
Go back to your station and copy your scanned image to your local harddrive

Intro to Photoshop

Photoshop interface and navigating an image

Open your scanned document in Photoshop
- Zoom: Cmd +/-
- Hand tool: Space Bar
Image resolution and image size
- Image > image Size to see the overall size of your image
Cropping
- You can set the image size to crop to in the properties bar i.e. 100 px (remember the px)
File > Save as. Choose Photoshop as the file format. Note the .psd extension.
Image adjustments located under Image > Adjustments
- Adjusting Levels can work to clean-up scanned drawings
Working with Type - note the new type layer created

Intro to InDesign

InDesign is used to combine text and images in preparation for print.

Copy the ATN-Template.indd template file from the Workspace folder of your program space on Orca
Launch InDesign and open the template file from your local harddrive
Go File > Save and save the file to your Documents folder and title it with ATN-your last name.indd

Margins and Guides

Note the margins of your document. Make sure to keep your text and artwork within this boundary
Add a Guide to help you place and align objects on your document
- With the black arrow select tool, click and drag from the ruler area into your document

Adding Text

Select the Text tool and drag diagonally to create a frame on your document, start typing.
- You can also Copy and Paste text from other applications
Using the black arrow tool select a corner of the bounding box to rezize

Text Flow

You can flow text between multiple text boxes

Text boxes that are too small to contain all of the text will have a red + box in the lower right corner
Click this box and the cursor changes to the "Text Loaded" cursor
Click anywhere on your document and a new text box will be created flowing text from the previous text box
Use Guides and your Margins to snap text boxes into alignment

Formatting Text

Select the text you want to format (Command A to Select All is a useful shortcut here)
Change your type using the character and paragraph options in the top property bar

Add an image

Make sure nothing is selected in your document before you place your graphics!
Go File > Place to place your image
Locate the image on your local hard drive that you want to place and click Open
Your cursor changes to the "Image Loaded" cursor. Click your cursor where you'd like the image placed.
To resize your image hold down the Command AND Shift key then grab a corner of the bounding box and drag to resize.
- Note what happens if you forget to hold down these keys...

Text wrap around an image

Select the image and from the top properties bar choose the text wrap option you'd like
Move a text box near/over and image to see the text wrap around the object

Wrapping it up

Placed images in InDesign are by default only linked to the original image file. There are advantages to this but it can create problems when moving files around. You must move your graphics and images together. Your final step in saving your work is to "package" your InDesign document and linked images.

Save your work File > Save
Package your document to create a folder of your InDesign doc with all linked images. Go File > Package
Click Package
Add any special instructions and click Continue
Create the package folder.
- Note the package options. You can accept the default of packaging the top three options from the list.
- Note the folder name and location. Save locally first, you will eventually copy this over to Orca/programs. Click Package.
Click OK at the copyright warning
InDesign will now create a new folder that contains a copy of your project as well as all linked images in a Links folder.
Copy the entire folder back to Orca/Programs.