Today’s quiz involved a Halloween Story. It reminds me of those days in Elementary School where when holidays came around suddenly the homework would take on those themes. Why couldn’t we have designed a Christmas card last year? Was it the lame-stream media’s influence on our liberal teachers?
Chris handed out this really great workflow instruction sheet. I would love it if all of my classes had one of these. A good workflow instruction sheet has the tasks that need to be done in order. I want to use it as my checklist for all my InDesign assignments in the future (and edit it when I find better tactics):
Instructions. A Simple Workflow (40 minutes) Part 1
Create New Doc (Letter)
Create Paragraph Styles
including Next Style
Create Character Styles
Create Nested Styles
Create Object Styles for:
Image Frame
Main Text Frame
Folio
(Include Paragraph Styles as part of Text Frame Anchored Objects)
Create Object Styles for Anchored
Objects (or after place and format): Incl. Drop Cap, NoTres Image Spider image and PullQuote
Create Text frame
Place Text ‘hallowtext’
Find/Change & edits for returns (etc.)
Apply Object Style for Main Text Frame
Add, Create or Insert Anchored Objects – Format
Place Text file, ‘AddText’ before the paragraph that starts… “Tom- my slowed the car…” Test your anchored objects.
Instructions. A Simple Workflow (15 minutes) Part 3
Create new document
Load Paragraph, Character and Object styles
Create a new text frame
Place Sasquatch text and format using all of the items you have available from what you created earlier.
Save both files to my drop box
Katarina Countiss 