How to design a DPS in Indesign

Find Adobe InDesign and open it up.

Then, select ‘Document’

Then, you are presented with this screen. You need to choose how many columns you would like, as this saves you from doing it later on. You also need to select 4 pages, as the front cover and contents page will both be transferred on so that you have 4 pages of magazine on 1 document

All text goes inside the columns. This is guttering- Gives you margins

If you click pages, this is will show all pages.

Uncheck ‘allow document pages to shuffle’

Hold onto a single page and drag it, so that the order is 1 single, 1 single then the double. This will make sure that the front cover, contents page and double all follow each other in correct order

This is what your pages should now look like.

This is your double page spread.

Click this to create text and draw it out like so

Highlight it and press this button to change colour and stroke

Press swatches so you can choose what colours you’d like

Press the red line through the white box so you can change the stroke

Change thickness of stroke by highlighting words and changing the number

Change height and change thickness of text

Same procedure to create the stand first

Press this button, then change the number of columns you want from the default number (1)

If the text doesn’t all fit in, it shows a little red box. Click this.

Hover cursor over where you want the remainder of the text to flow. Then click it

And it all flows into the next column.

Click this button. Click anywhere in the first paragraph. Then, increase this from 1

Make byline. Just make text box and put it to the right of headline

This button allows you to import a picture. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE NOT GOT ANYTHING SELECTED BECAUSE IT WONT WORK

Press Text Wrap

Change 0mm to something higher. This allows space around the picture to the text

HOW TO DO A PULL QUOTE• Highlight quote add quotation marks• Copy• Make another text box• Paste• Highlight• Increase text size• Maybe change font• Centre the text• Pull it down where you want wrap around object