Double Page Spread



For my double page spread, I acquired many new skills in order to make it look more professional, such as text wrapping, advanced text wrapping, kerning & leading, drop shadow, polaroid image effect, as well as creating a breakout box and applying Photoshop texts and images onto InDesign. When I first opened InDesign, I googled pictures of people with disabilities to place into my double page spread, I then gave these a polaroid image effect by giving them a border and then grouping these together to make one picture, I then used the drop shadow on them and rotated them slightly as if they'd just been assorted on paper overlapping each other with a 3D feel, and I had to ensure that there was no more than three of them, so to go along with the rule of three's. After I was happy with this, I made my title in Photoshop. I applied many skills onto this that I'd learned from Photoshop and then transfered it over to InDesign. I then created a kicker and inserted the text into it, making sure that is was no bigger than 10pt, and I altered it slightly with kerning and leading, which basically just changed the width and height of each line. With text wrapping, I placed a picture into one side with a border around it, which forced the text to wrap around it, and then with advanced text wrapping, it got a little more complicated. I had to draw around the picture to define what the text had to wrap around, then change the colour of my background in order to merge with the background of the picture. I placed this in the middle of the body of text on the left hand side of my page and altered it slightly for the finishing touches. Lastly; I had to create a breakout box. For this, I found an image of notebook paper and inserted it onto my double page spread. First, however, I had to crop it a bit on Photoshop so the picture didn't have unnecessary aspects transfered over. After I did this, I found some facts and figures to write over the image to seem more authentic. When making my double page spread, I kept to a major colour scheme of just red, black and white, so it wasn't too complicated; however a few other colours are on the page due to pictures. I also had to choose an image to place right at the back as a subtle background; for this I chose a crinkled paper-type effect which made it appear more authentic and like a magazine. When I first learned about InDesign, I found out about basic tools such as the black and white arrow tools. While creating my double page spread, I had to keep reminding myself of these and refresh my memory on them so to do everything properly.