Discover the step-by-step process of adding information into a template using specific software commands to select, edit, and stylize content. The techniques discussed include adding images, formatting text, and creating new paragraph styles for an efficient and polished layout.
Key Insights
- The article explains how to add information to a template, using commands like control and shift to select and edit all elements of a template.
- Detailed steps are provided on how to add and resize images, bold text, and create custom titles and subtitles. These techniques are used to enhance the visual appeal and readability of a layout.
- The author also discusses the creation of new paragraph styles, providing instructions on how to adjust text size, remove spaces, and wrap text around images for a clean and professional finish.
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In this video, we're going to begin adding the information into our template. So let's go into Pages, and for pages 14 and 15, as well as 16,17,18, and 19, we'll hold Shift to select all of them, and then right-click, go into Apply Master to Pages.
All three of these spreads will be Pre-Master or Precedent, and we'll click OK. Now, going into pages 14 and 15, we'll see that we have our template for our first client, Common Grounds Coffee.
In this case, we already have the Project Details appropriate. So let's go into the template here, and we'll hold CTRL+Shift to edit all of them. We'll drag a selection box, and we can now edit it.
First, we'll add an image from our CC Libraries, and within Precedents, feel free to choose whichever one you'd prefer—keeping in mind that this will be the historic café. We can choose any of these images. I'll choose this one here, click in, right-clicking and selecting Fit Proportionally.
That looks good. Next, we'll add another image here. I think I'm going to add this one.
Again, feel free to choose whatever images you'd prefer and resize them however you feel is appropriate. Currently, our Project Details are still appropriate. However, I would like to bold "Project Details" here.
So let's go into Properties, and we'll go from Regular to Bold. This looks good. We can also go into Pages and go to our Pre-Master and make sure that we make this change there—
Triple-clicking and selecting Bold. Go back to pages 14 and 15, and page 14 is now done. Next, on page 15, let's hit CTRL+Shift to edit our title.
Double-click, and for this, feel free to come up with a title that you like. I'll type "Approach for Historic Café." Finally, we'll add our text.
We'll pull up the project description, copy this by hitting CTRL+C, and then going back in, we'll triple-click, hit CTRL+A and CTRL+V to paste the text. In this case, I'd like to add some subtitles. We'll click up top and type "Structure Overview, " and hit ENTER.
For this text up top, let's format it and style it a bit. We'll maintain Chivo, and I want this to be Chivo Black, and we'll bump up the size to 15 points. However, I don't want this space between, and so to remove it, we'll go on the right and remove the space after.
Finally, let's select all of this, and we're going to create a new Paragraph Style. We'll hit the plus icon, and we'll type "Precedent Subtitle" and hit ENTER. From here, we're just going to style this a bit.
We'll add another subtitle, "Structural Priorities, " and hit ENTER. Then we'll highlight this and go back to Precedent Subtitle. From here, we can then adjust our image.
We'll select our image, and we can resize it here. We'll also make sure that we select Wrap Around Bounding Box to ensure no text goes in front of it. From here, we can add an image of our choosing. I'm going to add this image here.
I'll right-click and fit it as I see fit. This looks good. If we hit W on the keyboard, we can see our work, and we've now finished up our first Precedent.
Well done. Let's hit CTRL+S on the keyboard to save. In the next video, we'll begin working on our next Precedent.
See you there!