by Chad Neuman

This is part 5 of 5. Be sure to follow along from part 1.

Step One
Open the newspaperlayout.indd we created in part 1, 2, 3, and 4. Open the Pages palette and double-click on page 2 icon to navigate to the first page.

Step Two
Delete the title text, “Rabbit Runs Across Street Downtown” from the top of the article on page 2 and using the Text tool, click-and-drag  a text box across the top of the page. Enter the title text, “Rabbit Runs Across Street Downtown” across the top and apply the “title” style to it by clicking it in the Paragraph Styles palette. Change the font size in the Control palette to 29.

Step Three
Click-and-drag the top of the bounding border boxes of the columns so that they fill the page. Align then with a ruler guide.

Step Four
Select the “By Jane Smith” and change the alignment to Center up on the Control palette and remove the first line indent on the Paragraph palette.

Step Five
Repeat steps 2 to 4 for the third page, adding the title and changing the alignment and indent of the byline.

Step Six
Repeat steps 2 to 4 for the fourth page, adding the title and changing the alignment and indent of the byline.

Step Seven
Adjust the tracking by setting the Tracking up on the Control palette to -10 or +10 where there is awkward spacing, such as not enough spacing between words or too much space between words.

Step Eight
Navigate to page 2 and click-and-drag a text box using the Text tool off to the side of the page. Let’s create a pull quote for this article. Enter the text, “I saw the rabbit run and I ran after it. –Jane Reed.” Enter a Return after the “run” and “it.” Select the text and apply the “captions” style by clicking on it in the Paragraph Styles palette. Change the font to 24 points.

Step Nine
Select the Rectangle tool.

Step Ten
Let’s add rounded rectangle behind the text for it to be set off from the article. Click-and-drag a rectangle over the text box. Change the Fill color by double-clicking on it at the bottom of the toolbar and change it to Black. Change the Stroke to None by clicking on it and then selecting None in the Swatches palette.

Step Eleven
Open the Color palette and change the percentage of the black fill color and change the percentage to 20%.

Step Twelve
With the rectangle selected, go to Object>Corner Options. Change the Effect to Rounded and the Size to 2p0. Click OK.

Step Thirteen
With the rectangle selected, go to Object>Arrange>Send Backward. This will put it behind the text of the pull quote. Click-and-drag around both objects with the Selection tool and go to Object>Group.

Step Fourteen
With the pull quote selected, open the Text Wrap palette and apply the third option, the Wrap around object shape option. Once we click-and-drag the pull quote onto the story, we see that we need to make the pull quote smaller since the story doesn’t fit on the page with the pull quote on it. Be sure to change the text in the pull quote to a smaller font by selecting it by going to Edit>Select All after clicking in the pull quote with the Text tool.

Step Fifteen
Place “kelly.jpg” onto page 3 and place “car lot.jpg” onto page 4 by going to File>Place. Remember to resize the photos by holding down Cmd (PC: Ctrl) first and then clicking-and-dragging a corner bounding box. Hold Shift to maintain proportion. Let go of the mouse first before letting go of either key. Apply a Text Wrap by clicking on the third option on the Text Wrap palette and resize the photos so they cause the article to fill up the page. Remember to enter a Return after a sentence if the lines need to be moved down. This is what pages 1-4 should look like.

 

 

We’ve completed laying out some articles, using paragraph styles, pull quotes, resized and cropped photos, text wraps, and various layout considerations. You should be now be familiar with the basics of laying out a newspaper, white space considerations, consistency, and alignment. Feel free to print this as a PDF by going to File>Print and changing the printer to PDF. You can then add it to your layout portfolio.

Optional:
Here’s a copy of my newspaper layout.