by Chad Neuman

Step 1
Open “Brochure.indd” in Adobe InDesign from the first two tutorials. If you haven’t done so already, complete the first three tutorials in this series and download the support files.

Step 2
Navigate to page 2. Go to File>Place and select “balloon11.jpg” and click Open to place it. Be sure to click outside of the rectangle, off to the left.

Step 3
Go to File>Place again and select “photo_border.jpg” and click Open to place it. Click somewhere off to the left of the brochure again.

Step 4
With a Selection tool, click the balloon photo we just placed and go to Object>Arrange>Bring to Front. With a Selection, click-and-drag the photo on top of the photo border image. With a Selection tool, click and drag a corner of the photo border file to make it fit the photo. Be sure to hold down Cmd (PC: Ctrl) before clicking-and-dragging so it resizes, and doesn’t crop, the photo. Click-and-drag around both objects with a Selection tool and go to Object>Group.

Step 5
Complete steps 2 through 4 with the files “balloon13.jpg” and “balloon15.jpg,” adding the “photo_border.jpg” behind each file and then grouping them.

Step 6
Next, using a Selection tool, click-and-drag the three photos with their borders onto pages 2 and 3 as shown here. When each is selected, select the Rotate tool to rotate them a little to keep with our photo theme.

Step 7
Navigate to page 4. Complete steps 2 through 4 with “balloon10.jpg” “balloon16.jpg” “balloon4.jpg,” placing them off to the side of the brochure, and then add the “photo_border.jpg” file behind each one by placing it and arranging the photos to the front. Remember to group them with the photo border. Then place them onto pages 4 and 5 spread and use the Rotate tool to rotate them when they are each selected with a Selection tool.

Step 8
Navigate to page 6, the back cover. Complete steps 2 through 4 with “balloon6.jpg” and “balloon7.jpg,” adding photo borders around them as well. Group each with a photo border and then place them onto the back cover, rotating a little bit.

Step 9
Navigate to page 2, the first spread. Go to File>Place and select “Intro.doc” from the Documents folder in the support files. Click outside the brochure, next to page 2.

Step 10
With a Selection tool, click-and-drag the text box onto the spread on page 2. Line it up flush with the margins, since well do the same on the next page for consistency.

Step 11
With the Text tool, click-and-drag over the text (or click somewhere in the text box and press Option-A (PC: Alt-A)) to select all the text. Change the text to a larger size; I chose 28 pt and changed the font to Tw Cen MT. This is just the second font I’ve used. You usually don’t want to use more than 2 or 3 fonts in a publication. Once it’s a larger text size, it won’t fit in this one text box; we want to flow it to the next page. Just click the small red cross at the bottom-right corner of the text box, then click-and-drag a text box on the next page of the same spread, page 3.

Save the file as “brochure.indd” for use in the next and final part of this series, where we’ll finish placing and formatting text and add some finishing touches.

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