On Dec 26, 2011, at 1:22 PM, steve harley wrote: > on 2011-12-22 03:16 Larry Colen wrote >> First of all, let me say that when it comes to being intuitively obvious and >> easy to use indesign sucks. > > starting from scratch with InDesign for a non-trivial project is a worst-case > scenario; it would probably be worth working through a video tutorial or book > after this to see behind some of the issues you encountered
I really ought to look for a good book on the subject. Any body have recommendations? > > sorry i didn't have time to look it over earlier; i looked at version 4 and > it's a pleasing layout; the juxtapositions are a little corny at times, but > they also illustrate your thought process in a very direct way, so you've > succeeded in putting yourself into the book and had fun ... and not bad for a > first InDesign job Thanks. I also take some comfort in the fact that since the vast majority of the copies I print will be going as holiday gifts to family and friends, the audience will be about as uncritical and easily impressed as it gets. I've also learned a lot about using InDesign from this project, so that will be a big help when I start working on some of the more serious projects that I have in mind. > > technical notes: i worry about the bleed — you need to actually extend > backgrounds and photos beyond the margin to get a bleed to work, and i can't > tell that you've done that; if you have, some of your text may be too close > to the edge > > i think i see different shades of black in the backgrounds, so maybe you've > tackled this, but use caution butting "blackish" areas of photos against a > black background — generally a "rich" black will bet better in such cases I've mentioned my friend Candice before. Her profession is graphic design, so I also sent her a copy to get her feedback. Most of the deltas between 1 and 4 are from her suggestions. At some point she called me up and said, "just send me the files, I'll fix it". > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
