Planning - Feature Article Design

Feature Article Design

Hi Blog! Today I'm planning the layout for my feature article and kinda learning more about how to use InDesign. I'm also gonna use photoshop and canva to make some cutouts and graphics to import.

Starting in InDesign, I'm making a double-page spread in InDesign and gathering some stock-images to use as placeholders for my actual photography.

    Here are the stock pictures I chose!!

  

  I'm going to use the one pawing the camera as the main dominant photo, kinda to simulate the 7-Toe Paw idea for the main coverage. First, I'm going to pack the dominant package including copy and the largest photo.

This is how it came out! I had to research how to text wrap, and found out I have to go in the WINDOW -> Text Wrap -> Text Wrap around Subject. I also figured out that InDesign only takes CMYK colors, so I converted all of our Hex Codes to CMYKs, here is a list of them :

Sweet Salmon - C: 0 M: 60 Y: 45 K: 0

Cornflower - C: 86 M: 56 Y: 16 K: 1

Banana Cream - C: 2 M: 1 Y: 59 K: 0

Using these colors, I'm gonna make a few graphics for my spread. I made a circle, square, and triangle of each color. By making them 80% opaque in InDesign, I made an overlaying effect on the shapes and headline. This is my finished dominant package!

Using a stock photo and the module font, I created 2 mods! One is an advice mod, and the other is another smaller story about a cat. This is my first finished template!

Looking back, I learned a lot about the little features of InDesign like text wrap, layering, and typography I didn't know before, so practicing it before making my final draft was really useful!