King Pica Yearbook Spread Directions

Overview: Today you will finish your King Pica spread.

In your folder on the server there is an InDesign document called Yearbook spread #1.

Open that document. It should open a new document that looks like a blank size 8 Draft Sheet.

Your job today is to make the appropriate boxes for each of the ones we made together. It is really easy to make the correct box and at the top in the sub menus you can input the correct width and heights. Then all you have to do is drag them into the correct space. Make sure to use the columns to help you position them correctly.

Step 1: Once you get your first box or so made, SAVE AS and rename it: last name_first name_KingPicaSpread_period#

Step 2: Follow these guidelines as you are working on your spread:

• Remember that everything needs to be exactly 1 pica apart. Also don't forget that the eyelines are not real lines, but will be a white space between objects.
• When you are finished make sure that you share it with your teacher for the day so they can verify that you have completed the task correctly.
• Then you need to decide upon a theme and head to google and start finding pictures for that theme. It will really help you to pick pictures that fit the spaces, vertical photos for vertical spaces and horizontal photos for horizontal spaces. 
• Find 7 total photos. Crop them in Photoshop for the right dimensions - remember we use picas now, not inches.

Step 3: More directions on placing images as well as writing your story, captions and headlines:

• Then start placing the photos into the InDesign spread. Remember how to place? Go to File and Place or Command + D on your keyboard.
• Once you get the photos into place - you need to write a 1 sentence caption for each photo and write them in the correct places. Font size should be either 10 or 12 for all of your captions. Keep it consistent.
• Then write three headlines for your story. You can pick the size and font, but you cannot change the size of the box. Headlines must include a subject and a verb. Remember this is not just a title. 
• Then in the story area, write a story that fills up all three columns about your theme. This story can totally be made up, but it does have to be about your theme. You should leave no blank space in 

If you want to see an example of a finished Yearbook Spread and the correct format of captions, see the image below. However, in your version you need to fill up the entire space for the story.

Submitting your PDF by email; posting yourJPEG on your blog

Step 4: When you are done - you need to export a PDF from your InDesign document file (.pdf file extension) and email it to Mr. Doerr at david.doerr@austinisd.org or Ms. Fleming at Laura.Fleming-Holcomb@austinisd.org.

Finally, you must  convert the PDF version of your file into a JPEG (.jpeg file extension) and post it on your blog.

Here is how you do that:

You must have your Yearbook Spread open in InDesign (NOT photoshop)

Exporting a PDF from InDesign directions:

• Go to File --> Adobe PDF presets --> Smallest File Size
• Rename your yearbook spread as follows: Last name_first name_kingpicaspread_period #
• Make sure to save it in your folder (not your H-drive, not your S-drive, NOT the desktop, your folder)
• VERY IMPORTANT: You want both pages of your yearbook spread connected together as a "Spread." So when you see the "Export Adobe PDF" window open, you must click the "Spreads" button underneath the option for "Pages."
• Click "Export" (if any messages come up about outside the clipping area or anything else like that during the .pdf creation process, click OK)

Submission Directions (How to turn it in)

1. Open your email (gmail, yahoo, whatever you use), compose new mail

2. Send your PDF to the appropriate teacher. See addresses above.

3. The subject line is: Last name_first name_kingpicaspread_period#

4. Click attach file (it often has a paperclip looking item next to it)

5. Attach your magazine cover - BE VERY CAREFUL and make sure to send me the one that is a .PDF (It will have a .pdf ending and the file should look like a little grey square) DO NOT SEND ME THE InDesign document which is purple and at the end says .indd.

6. Click send (or mail or whatever your company uses to send mail.

Posting your JPEG on your blog 

FINALLY  -  we want to post these on your blog. To do this you have to convert the .pdf into a jpeg file.

1. Open Photoshop

2. Open the .pdf of your magazine cover (NOT the .indd, it won't work)
3. When the .pdf converter pop-up box appears, click okay

4. File --> Save as

5. Change the format into .jpeg

6. Click save

7. Make sure you save it at the highest file size

8. If you get any other pop-up boxes, click okay 

9. Post it on your blog.

You have two classes to complete all of these tasks. If you get done early you can start your next blank spread.

TAKING PHOTOS

Remember you are supposed to be taking photos for YOUR yearbook spread which you will do next. Come get a camera, buy a cheapie film camera from Walmart, use your parents point-and-shoot or even your phone. These are due in a couple of classes, so please get started shooting NOW.