From the course: InDesign CC: Designing a Magazine Layout
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Thumbnails and wireframe - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign CC: Designing a Magazine Layout
Thumbnails and wireframe
- [Instructor] In this next stage I'm going to start thinking about where I want content to go on my page. And as a very important preliminary step, I want to draw some pencil thumbnails. This is a screenshot from Google images of other people's thumbnails. My thumbnails are even more rudimentary. But, as rudimentary as they are, they help me clarify my own thoughts about what content is going to go where. We can work out our ideas far quicker with pencil and paper than we can on the computer. So having done that, now taking it to the next stage, I want to just draw frames, picture frames and text frames, right now they're just frames, on my specific layers, on the text layer and on the pictures layer. And I'll start with the pictures layer. So imagining that this is a real project, I have read, or at least discussed, the content that's coming. Now the content is being written by the author as we speak, let's imagine. So I don't know the exact content of the article yet, but I have a…
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