Zine

 

The zine was easy I just used what I had learned throughout the semester. The most difficult part was when I accidentely put it on the wrong sized layout and had to transfer it to a half page layout.

Interactive PDF

 

This was a fun project I just wish I had been able to get the media buttons to work.

Tables in InDesign

It actually requires quite a bit of work to make a table in InDesign. You have to use a few programs to make it work.

Drop Caps and Special Characters

Font Love Presentation and Handouts

 

Text Wrap

 

The text wrap was easy once I read our text book.

Text Flow

After reading the text book text flow was actually quite easy to accomplish.

Selecting Text

Function                                               Result
Click and drag                                      Highlights what you drag over
1 click                                                   Places the cursor where you click
2 clicks                                                 Highlights a single word that you click over
2 clicks & drag                                      Highlights what you drag over
3clicks                                                  Highlights the line you clicked over
3 clicks&drag                                       Highlights what you drag over
4 clicks                                                  Highlights the paragraph you clicked over
5 clicks                                                 Highlights all


Keyboard Shortcut                              Result
T                                                              Text tool
N                                                              Pencil tool
F                                                               Rectangle frame
M                                                             Rectangle
L                                                              Ellipse
R                                                              Rotate
S                                                              Scale
P                                                              Pen tool
V                                                             Selection tool
A                                                             Direct selection tool
K                                                             Measure

Select All            Cmnd+A                      Select All

Richard Cole's Interactive PDF for Graphics 106

Ok I haven't been keeping up with my blogging portion of my homework so the stuff you will be seeing posted from here on out will not be in the order that I learned it.

This assignment was "Making an Interactive Pdf in InDesign. We were told to use our school graphics design course sheet as our basis and add multiple things to it. We were told to make it a 20 page document, add a check box next to the left of the credits box, add a drop down menu for what school we wanted to attend, a text entry box in the notes area, a print option with a radio button, come up with a relevant question using a radio button, a link to another document, a link to the AWC website, a link to another page in the project,  a table of contents page, 3 audio files, and text as a button. I believe I achieved all these things. The easiest way to achieve these things is to look up how to do them online (YouTube is great.) I found the easiest thing to do was go to Window-Interactive and then select Button and Forms, Hyperlinks, and Media. Once you have each one open place it in your holder panel to the right of your screen since you will be using them repeatedly and it makes it so you have those options readily available but they aren't taking up screen space until you need them.

 

The next screenshot shows what my holding panel looks like after adding those items to it.

Now obviously I have stuff in here that is irrelevant to this project but you can see where I placed the different options I was going to be using a lot in this project. 

Making a button is simple make a shape and then go to your buttons and forms panel and select what kind of button you want and what you want it to do.

Richard Cole Pen Tool

Here is my Pen Tool exercise for GRA-106. I unfortunately couldn't get screenshots of the processes involved in using these tools because I used my PC at home and I couldn't get any decent shots of the process. Hopefully I was descriptive enough in how the process works that it can be useful to others.

Richard Cole Gra-106

Selecting Text

Here is my Selecting Text worksheet. After using greyscale on it I then used levels and curves on it. I think I went a little overboard on the curves. here is the link I found the info at. http://indesignsecrets.com/basic-and-not-so-basic-text-selection-shortcuts.php

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Richard Cole's Intro

Intro

My name obviously must be Richard Cole. I'm 35 years old, I'm married with 2 kids, 2 dogs and a kitten that crawled out from under our house one day. I came to Yuma from Minnesota in 2012.

Artwork

I created this in my first semester at AWC.

My Major

I am currently obtaining AAS in Computer Graphics at AWC here in Yuma.

After AWC 

After I get my diploma from AWC I intend on going for a Bachelors also. At this point and time I don't know which University I might attend though.

Experience with Graphics

To be honest I really had no experience with Graphics until I started going to school for it in 2014.

The Future

In 10 years I'm hoping to own my own shop and to be doing graphic design work for other businesses.

Dream Vacation

I would have to say a dream vaction for me would be an Alaskan Cruise.