Mac workshop

I found this mac workshop reeeeeally interesting and helpful!! For one I didn't wanna put my head down and sleep. Now THAT'S saying something! :)

So we've been looking at colour, and different methods of using it in our work.

Blates obvious to everyone, but I finally learnt when to use CMYK or RGB! (This was during the first session though) Even though we weren't planning on printing anything from this lesson, we still worked in CMYK, just so we knew how to use it etc.

Anyways, this lesson, we used InDesign. I learnt this was the piece of software to use when bringing everything together to make the final piece.

We were talked through how to make a new document, even though it seems straight forward. I didn't realise what half the settings meant, and they were explained too. So I'm well clued up now! :D

How to choose the document size was made clear to us. I didn't know it was better to work to the right scale of the final piece. So like, if a business card was going to be made, the scale to work on would be the actual measurement of the card. I would've just worked on a normal A4 sheet in the middle! Haah! My bad.

Right, so different ways of using colou

r when printing.

First of all...CMYK broken down....

Here's a photo I took during the summer.

Cyan

Magenta

Yellow

Black

It's wierd to think that these four separate colours make a full colour print! Hah! Who would've known!?

TINTS

Below's an example I made during the InDesign session of a tint. Basically one colour on top of another, after changing the top colour's opacity.

SPOT COLOUR

I really enjoy using spot colour. It looks crisp and precise.

Both colours have full opacity.

DUOTONE

I absolutely love duotone!! It's so unbelievably easy to do in Photoshop. (From last weeks session)

Below is the image I chose to work with when practicing duotone.

The image needs to be changed to greyscale in order for duotone to work.

Image>Mode>Greyscale

It'll ask whether you want to discard the colour information. Simply click 'yes'. :)

Image>Mode>Duotone

I chose PANTONE 673 C (a pink) as my second colour to overlay on the black.

I feel as though the black gives it depth, so, clicking on the diagonal line next to the colour in the duotone options enables you to change the amount of each colour. You as you can see above, I changed it slightly to make it darker around the edges.