Akins Photojournalism

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Add practice photos to your practice layout - Quiz Grade

1. Choose a theme / topic for your practice layout (The one we did together) Type the name of that theme into your headline space.
2. Do a google image search for photos that relate to that theme. Save the images, crop them to the correct size to fit your layout, and File>Place them into your InDesign yearbook layout.
3. Write funny captions.
4. Print your layout.

Have fun with this, but keep it appropriate. This is a quiz grade.


Tips:

•Saving an image from the internet
–Choose a large image (at least 100k)
–Right click on image, and select “save image as”
–View the largest version (not a thumbnail)
•Cropping images
–Open the image in PhotoShop
–Set the size in the cropping tool in picas (p)
–Drag your crop
–Save your cropped image
•Placing images in InDesign
–Select File>Place
–Select your cropped image file, click to place it
•Writing captions
–Follow 2 sentence caption writing rules (look at Nov. 13 blog post)

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