Lesson 5

How to Create an Ad in InDesign Adobe InDesign: How to Create an Ad
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Finessing the elements to fit and prepping for output.

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Hello again. Now we're going to get the file ready to output. So we're going to delete this text box. Delete. We're going to look at the file and see what it looks like without the guide. So we're going to change to preview and take a look at it.

And I'm thinking I'd like to change my headline, I think to the sensor font, so I'm going to do that. I'm going to highlight it. I'm going to go up to my type selection tool, go to neutral face text and then make it bold. I think the sizes Okay, I'm going to leave it at that size. I think that looks better. It looks a little more contemporary.

So we're going to leave it at that and save. Now we're going to output it. There are different ways to output you can either give your vendor the InDesign file, in that case, he wouldn't The images, the fonts, the logo, all those elements have to be packaged together in a folder for the printer. These days, people don't really, the vendors don't really expect to have that. In fact, they'd rather have, I think, a properly saved PDF, but sometimes they like to have the original source files. In case there's something wrong like a color, maybe a color change, or something's not quite correct in the PDF, they can get into your InDesign file and make a change that to print to be able to print it correctly.

Oh, it looks like our photo mode. Okay, so we're going to package the file we're going to file package. We're not going to worry about this RGB color space right now we'll come back to it. We're going to say package we're going to call it letter size, add Place it in this folder. And what it's going to give us a PDF. So we want to choose press quality because I'm assuming this ads going to go to a printer or a magazine or some kind of publication.

So we say package. This is telling us that fonts cannot fonts are copyright protected, which we know. Just say okay. Okay, let me go and see where we are. sighs add so this is the folder, InDesign created for us. It gives us the fonts.

It gives us some contact information, that little box we should have filled out in the beginning. You can put your phone number and everything in there. It gives us an idml this is an InDesign file for people who may not have the same version of InDesign as you do, maybe they have a lower version. They whatever version they have, they should be able to open it with open this file, it's basically the same file. It's like it's saved down or saved backwards. So this is our InDesign file, and it gave us a PDF.

This is the PDF and these are the links This is the the image of the photo and also our logo. Now the one problem we have is if we're going to print we have to be us cmit K color, not RGB. So we need to look at that and we'll have to open the image in Photoshop. Okay, let's do that next time.

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