November 2013 Xara Xone Tute: Page Design Part One

[mwenz]

...right now, do an all text ad, and use fonts and font locations and sizes to create motion and graphical substance...

Just couldn't do an all text ad. Not creative enough. My main excuse is I had enough time to squeeze this in for tonight. Got payin' work to do.

A little clip clip here, clip clip there using the Pacific rim and color the body several shades different than the countries' outlines around the edge of the magazine display ad (looked up a travel mag's advertising specs for a 1/3 page horizontal ad) and I would like it better...

Mike

[Gare]

Hey, Big Fellah—

Thanks for posting, but Mike? This is not a time-sensitive tutorial, and certainly I'm not pushing anyone when they have friends and family to be with around this time of year.

What you did wasn't what I'd anticipated, but it's clean and looks good for commercial printing (ewww, all the trapping with light text on a dark background!)



-g

[mwenz]

Oh...no imposed time constraints from your end. My end. Got a 1.7 gig zip file from someone yesterday. That's my time constraint.

The colored text will be fine. At 10 point, using a tint of the background color using offset as does the magazine, it will be more than clear enough.

[stygg2003]

Gary just a question with regard to your last sentence in #25 In the upcoming tuts on Page Design, will you be touching on commercial printing and personal ? I'm not well up on all this Design Layout and would have no idea on what size's to use say for a web page or an advert in a web page, posters etc. The design you corrected for me, thankfully, in #21 would be considered an advert or a poster,commercial or personal printing? This is where the confusion sets in with me.
Please forgive my ignorance on all these topics. I've only ever made a couple of posters for some local shops at A4 and US letter size and printed them out in PDF format, so my expertize is lacking sadly I'm sorry to say, but if your video's next year will be touching on some of these points, I will be a happy fella

Stygg

[Gare]

I'm a lightweight when it comes to printing, stygg. I've not kept very current nor very "deep" into the subject. My background was television, with only a smattering of print when I worked in advertising.

I can give you a little advice on prepping your work for commercial versus personal printing, but that is not my goal for 2014 and this "series".

I want next year to show people how to design pages better. We all focus on illustration work, but that's not always the end goal. How do you complement and reinforce an illustration withe text? What sort of typography is best, and for what?

The tutorials will be design-based, with advice on Xara's features.

There are folks I'm sure who would step forward and give you commercial printing advice that's up to date if you ask at tg.

My Best,

Gary

[angelize]

I think that Gary gave some good advice in the video: Talk to your printer I've use a few different printers locally over the years and depending on their equipment they can have differing requirements regarding things like bleed etc.

[csehz]

I would like just also say thanks for the tutorial, did some tries but which are rather just plays. Always wanted to see once how to repel text inside a shape for example, and this tutorial just reminded me. So not three columns like of design, the third one is I know absolutely abstract



Time for Skiing_tries.xar

[Gare]

Very nice designs, Csehz, very professional, very inspiring and attention-getting!

Wesołych Świąt!

-g