Creating a compelling layout for your newsletter requires strategic utilization of design elements. This article provides a step-by-step guide to finalizing the layout of your newsletter using various tools and techniques.
Key Insights
- The article offers a detailed demonstration on laying out a newsletter page with three elements: a large image, logo, and an overlay.
- The instructions include the use of the rectangle frame tool for creating space for images and logo, along with the use of transform tool for adjusting the size and position of these elements.
- The article underscores the importance of saving the work after completing the layout strategy before moving on to adding design elements and text to make the pages more attractive.
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In this video we're going to be finalizing the layout strategy for our newsletter. Let's begin by going to our final page, page 8. And in this page we're only going to have three elements.
One will be a large image, one will be our logo, and on the right-hand side we'll have an overlay. So let's begin first by utilizing our rectangle frame tool and within our layers panel we're going to make sure that we're within images. Let's start right at two inches and simply drag within our margin here and we'll release at around five inches.
Again we can modify this within transform and we'll make sure that for our height we are at three inches and hit ENTER. And our X value and Y value on the bottom right corner will be at eight inches and five inches. Next let's create another image frame and this one will be for our logo.
We'll create this one by dragging right to the middle here and we'll release. Within our transform, let's change the width to 3.75 inches and for the height, let's make this 2.5 inches and hit ENTER. Finally, let's create a rectangle. We'll hit CTRL + SHIFT + 8, select the rectangle tool, click to create the rectangle, and match the width of the previous rectangle frame.
So, the width will be 3.75 inches and the height will be 2.5 inches. We'll then hit ENTER. And finally, let's line this up using the transform characteristics. Using the bottom right reference point, we'll align it with an X value of 8 and hit ENTER. Then, for our Y value, we'll double-click and simply type 10.5 and hit ENTER.
Here we can see that we'll have our image, our logo, and our overlay on the right-hand side. Now that we've completed strategizing our newsletter, let's hit CTRL S on the keyboard to save our work. In the next videos, we'll begin to actually build out each of these pages and make them a little more attractive, adding different design elements and text.
See you there!