Page Spread & InDesign Blog Post #3

 

I began to design my spread sheet by making my layouts for the title, subheading and the body text, inserted the text and gave it some tracking and kerning to spread the text out more to make it more legible. Then I inserted the images and made a text wrap so that the text would continue around the images to make it look a bit fancy. I think the grids and columns helped me with this because it guided me to stay within the margins and not exceed the limit. InDesign would be the best option for creating and designing books, articles, magazines and those sorts of things.

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