InDesign Software Evidence

Abigail Menzies

Step 1- Turning images into jpegs

First I opened the original pictures

Then I copied this to paint and cropped each picture After I cropped each picture I save

it as a JPEG file so it could use it in inDesign

Step 2 – Creating new document in InDesign

First I opened InDesign and clicked create new document

Before clicking ‘OK’ I have to unclick ‘Facing Pages’ and ensure my orientation is landscape

Step 3 – Placing images

Before placing my images I used the original ancillary as a template to place my images

To place the images I used the rectangle framing tool (when used it comes up as blue crossing lines)

Then I go to ‘file’ then to ‘place’ to insert which image I want

After the image is placed, I right click my mouse, then clicked ‘arrange’ then send the image to the back

Step 4 – Creating graphics

In order to create the colour boxes, I used the rectangle tool

After tracing the shape of the box, I used the eyedropper tool to copy the colour of the original box and I repeated this step for each box

This is what my spread looked like after doing each box

Step 5 - Create textboxes, type and adjust font details

To create textboxes, I used the textbox tool to trace the shape of each box so I can add my own text

I removed the background template so I could add my own text

After adding my text, to adjust the text I used the ‘colour’ tab and the ‘character’ tab. In the ‘character’ tab I changed the font size and changed the line spacing

Step 6 - Create heading and standfirst, adjust font details

To create the heading I used the text box tool

To edit the heading I then used ‘character to change the font and size of the text

To get the exact colour of the font from the original double spread I used the eyedropper tool

I used the text box tool again to create the ’10’ heading then repeated the process of adjusting the font and size

Step 7 - Export

To change my double spread into a pdf first I go to ‘export’

Then before saving my file, I change my file to ‘adobe pdf’

Comparison

Real spread

My spread