Session 12 [Wed 170210] - Quiz/ Setting Up InDesign Document/ Creating Thumbnail Sheets

Homework
Plan out your book on the thumbnail sheets for next session [Mon 220210].

If I haven't had your text for the book yet, please send it to me as a PDF via email by tomorrow.

Thumbnail Sheet Construction
A recap on the thumbnail creation process.

Today, having set up your InDesign Virtual Book document you used the DPS view of the master pages to take a screen grab - Apple Shift 4, then dragging a marquee with the Ctrl key held down - this variation on the screen grab technique places the grab on the Mac system's invisible Clipboard ready for direct pasting [Apple V] into a waiting Illustrator document.

Once pasted, you saw how to use the familiar tools to resize, position, and duplicate, to create a thumbnail sheet ready to visualise your future book.

Get a print of the sheet then make multiple photocopies of the blank thumbnail sheets, or print further sheets via the computer [they're free!], to give you broad scope for generating lots of visuals, allowing for mistakes and changes as you develop your book.

Mercy & Courtnee - Notes on Archiving, Submitting, and Printing Your Digital Work
You need to hand in your final stage 1 work as a zip file into the folder called James Gosling in the Macintosh Zone 1 folder at the right hand side of the Dock at the bottom of the screen.

Before you make the zip file, please make sure that you have organised all the work sensible in the following folder structure -

First, a Your Name Heads Stage 1 folder
then Inside that…

• a Final Heads folder with your final six illustrator heads in.
• A Template folder with all your photoshop template files in.
• A 10 Heads folder containing the ten heads you made for the 50 heads assignment.
• A Bio & Portrait folder with your word doc and self-portrait in.
• Finally, optionally, include any other digital work you want me to see in an Other folder.

Once you have made this folder structure hold down Control over the Your Name Head Stage 1 folder and choose Create Archive from the contextual menu.

Put the resulting zip file in the James Gosling drop box in Macintosh Labs Zone 1 folder as mentioned above. You won't be able to access the files once they are in that folder but you can make a new zip file and replace it. I will pick up the latest dated folder on Friday for grading.

Good luck!