How to design a DPS in Indesign
How to design a DPS in Indesign
Find Adobe InDesign and open it up.
Then, select ‘Document’
Then, you are presented with this screen. You need to choose how many columns you would like, as this saves you from doing it later on. You also need to select 4 pages, as the front cover and contents page will both be transferred on so that you have 4 pages of magazine on 1 document
All text goes inside the columns. This is guttering- Gives you margins
If you click pages, this is will show all pages.
Uncheck ‘allow document pages to shuffle’
Hold onto a single page and drag it, so that the order is 1 single, 1 single then the double. This will make sure that the front cover, contents page and double all follow each other in correct order
This is what your pages should now look like.
This is your double page spread.
Click this to create text and draw it out like so
Highlight it and press this button to change colour and stroke
Press swatches so you can choose what colours you’d like
Press the red line through the white box so you can change the stroke
Change thickness of stroke by highlighting words and changing the number
Change height and change thickness of text
Same procedure to create the stand first
Press this button, then change the number of columns you want from the default number (1)
If the text doesn’t all fit in, it shows a little red box. Click this.
Hover cursor over where you want the remainder of the text to flow. Then click it
And it all flows into the next column.
Click this button. Click anywhere in the first paragraph. Then, increase this from 1
Make byline. Just make text box and put it to the right of headline
This button allows you to import a picture. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE NOT GOT ANYTHING SELECTED BECAUSE IT WONT WORK
Press Text Wrap
Change 0mm to something higher. This allows space around the picture to the text
HOW TO DO A PULL QUOTE• Highlight quote add quotation marks• Copy• Make another text box• Paste• Highlight• Increase text size• Maybe change font• Centre the text• Pull it down where you want wrap around object