In this class we will see the best practices of the layout creating a magazine from start to finish: Front cover, back cover, and internal pages. Let’s go there!
7.1 – Preparation of the magazine
We start as always, with the basic preparation. Let’s see everything we need to have ready before taking action.
And now that we have seen what colors, fonts and elements we are going to play with, we can start. And what is the first of all? Indeed, the cover.
7.2 – Front and back cover
The first thing we see in a magazine is the cover. So let’s start there, since this element plays with “other rules” that have nothing to do with the interior. As we will see, here the limit is the imagination.
And as for the back cover, it is usually always a space reserved for “premium” ads, that is, we are going to place a full page one.
You see how good it has been! Alex is very good indeed. But let’s look at how limiting ourselves helps us a lot. At the moment in which we restrict options, colors and style, the elements are emerging.
7.3 – Master Pages
As you have seen in previous classes, now is the time to work with the master pages. We are going to establish a base that we can later modify, but that will serve as a guideline to lay out the entire interior.
As you can see, these guidelines for the master pages should not mark a scheme that is repeated in each and every one of them, but rather marks a base with which to play. You have already seen how interesting the two-page landscape photo is.
7.4 – Layout an article
Now we are going to see how to layout the main element of any magazine: The articles. We will see what elements make them up, how to combine them, distribute them, and the most difficult thing: Make them fit together harmoniously.
In this video we have been able to see some widely used techniques to be able to fill in excess space, and quite the opposite: Getting to lay out all the content when it does not fit. It is a way of trial & error that will take us to our destination 🙂
7.5 – Highlights and credits
We are already finishing our magazine, and we will do it with a couple of slightly different elements. We have seen the one and two page articles, and now we will see how to layout a highlight, and finally, the credits and summary, which will be the icing on the cake.
As you can see, we can only do the index after laying out all the rest of the things, since otherwise we won’t know which page we have each article on.
The task proposed in this lesson is obviously to make a magazine. It can be 8 or 80 pages, the same. Choose the theme that you like the most, and go ahead! And you already know, if you have any questions, use the support form of the .
See you in the next class, in which we will reach the zenith of layout, in which we will create neither more nor less than one of the three objectives of life: A book! 🙂
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