From the course: InDesign: Elements of a Layout
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Text on picture - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Elements of a Layout
Text on picture
- [Voiceover] Putting text over a picture can integrate the two and make the layout seem less boxy, but we need to be careful that we don't make the text and the picture unreadable. Basically the portion of the image that is overlapped with text needs to be a quiet, nonessential part of the image, and the text needs to have sufficient contrast to be read against a photographic background. This is most effective when used sparingly, and mainly used for title treatments. In my layout in progress, I'm going to use two of the treatments that we just saw, and I'm gonna start by creating a double page title treatment. I'll come to my Pages panel and right click on my first page and choose Insert Pages. I want to add two pages before my current page two, using the B master page. So I'm going to put a picture, a full page bleed over the whole spread, and I want to remove the folios. So I'm gonna hold down Command and Shift as I drag over those folios to unlock them from the master pages and…
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