From the course: Designing a Book Cover
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Putting your InDesign CS5 document on a grid
From the course: Designing a Book Cover
Putting your InDesign CS5 document on a grid
When creating any kind of design, be it a magazine layout, a brochure, poster, whatever, I like to work with a grid, so that I have some sort of framework on my page that gives me the confidence about where to place the elements on my page. So, that's what I'm going to do next. I'm going to create a grid, and because I want the grid to be on all of my pages, I'm going to create it on my master page. So, I'm going to double-click on A- Master, and I'm going to use this option, Create Guides from under the Layout menu. In the previous movie, I made my top and bottom margins a quarter inch. So, not including the top and bottom margins, I now have a type area of seven inches and a width of five inches, giving me a 5 x 7 aspect ratio. So, I'm going to fit guides within those margins, and I'm going to have 7 rows and 5 columns, and because the number of rows and columns is equal to my aspect ratio, I'm going to get grid squares that are almost-- they won't be exactly, but they'll be almost…
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The project brief2m 30s
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Doing research4m 16s
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Setting up a document in InDesign CS55m 6s
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Setting up a document in InDesign CS46m 6s
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Putting your InDesign CS5 document on a grid3m 4s
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Putting your InDesign CS4 document on a grid4m 32s
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Setting up the document in Illustrator and placing it on a grid4m 30s
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