From the course: InDesign: Elements of a Layout
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Bleeds and crossovers - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Elements of a Layout
Bleeds and crossovers
- [Voiceover] Let's begin and look at common picture treatments with bleeds and crossovers. A bleed is an image that extends beyond the edge of the page on one or more of its sides so that there's no framing margin around the image. A crossover is an image that continues from one side of the spread to the other. By breaking the grid, images that bleed can look dynamic and suggest an expansiveness about the image that cannot be contained by the page boundary. Images that crossover can unify a spread. Just be careful that no important part of the image is lost in the spine. So I'm now going to add a couple of images that bleed to the layout in progress. I should point out that in anticipation of this, I've relocated the pull quote and the side bar article to the second spread. So returning to my first spread, I like to place my pictures on a pictures layout. So I created a layout earlier on, I'm now going to target that layout. And I have a bleed guide setup. If you need to setup a…
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