Explore the process of creating a phase 10 construction card. This informative walkthrough discusses every step in detail, from setting up your file, customizing the dimensions, and working with guides, to creating shapes and adding elements to your card.
Key Insights
- The creation of a phase 10 construction card starts with setting up a new file, customizing the width and height to four and nine inches respectively, and adding a bleed of 0.125 inches.
- Building guides and creating shapes play a crucial role in constructing the card. This process includes creating a guide in the center, further breaking it down into four rows, and using these guides to create eight different boxes or sections on the card.
- The A-Master feature, which provides a consistent background, can be used to add images and elements to multiple pages. Any changes made to the A-Master are reflected on all the pages it is applied to, unless specifically edited on a particular page.
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Welcome back! In this video we'll be creating our next project, our Phase 10 construction card. So let's begin first by creating a new file. Go into File, New, and we'll select Document.
From here we can choose any of our templates, however, we'll be customizing the characteristics of our file. So let's begin first by naming our file, titling it Phase 10 Construction Card. From here we'll change our units to inches and we'll create a width of four inches and a height of nine inches.
For this file we'll only create one page for now and if we scroll down we want to change our margins, hitting down until we're at 0.125 inches. Additionally, we'll want to add a bleed, clicking up to create 0.125 inches for our bleed. We'll now ignore the slug and simply click Create.
Next let's save our file, going to File, Save As, and we'll be saving our file within our folder titling it Phase 10 Construction Card and click Save. From here let's create our guides. Let's first start by creating a guide right down the center, dragging from the left ruler and holding Shift until we're right at two inches.
Next we want to break this up into four rows, so dragging from the top we'll release right at 2.25 inches. Remember to hold Shift. Next we'll create one at 4.5 inches and for our next column we'll create one at 6.75 inches and we'll release.
We now have eight different boxes for us to work on our card. While we could create guides directly within our page, we can also create these within our A-Master. So next let's drag a selection box covering all of our guides that we've recently created and let's hit CTRL + C so it's copied to our clipboard and then we'll hit the Delete key.
From here let's go into our A-Master within Pages. We'll double-click on the right page within our A-Master and let's discuss briefly what master pages are. A master is like a background so we can quickly add images and different elements to multiple pages.
We could add things like page numbers, headers, footers, and logos so that there's consistency across all of the pages that a master is applied to. In this case we'll be adding guides to our master pages so that they'll be applied to the pages we create. So let's click on our page and we'll hit CTRL + V on the keyboard to paste the guides we've created.
In addition, since these A-Master page characteristics only apply to the pages on the right, let's also do the same hitting CTRL + V again and with all of these selected, let's click and drag over holding Shift until they're lined up here as well. We'll release and now we've created guides for both the left page and the right page. In order to go back and now edit our page 1, we can go into our Pages and double-click page 1. As we can see here we have A right on top signaling that all of the characteristics of A-Master will be applied to this page.
One advantage of adding our guides here if we have consistency is that we can't highlight or select these elements. Let's now add an additional page. We can do this by going to the bottom right and adding a new page.
As we can see here our guides are also added to this page. If we'd like to make changes to elements that are added in the A-Master on a specific page we can do so by holding CTRL + Shift and selecting different elements. In this case we'll select one vertical and horizontal guide and let's hit the Delete key.
As we can see we've made changes to page 2 but if we double-click page 1 we'll see that these guides are all still in place because they're applied from the A-Master. Let's now go back to page 2 and we'll want to reapply the master to page 2. We'll right-click and select Apply Master to Pages. We'll select A-Master page 2 and click OK.
Here as we can see we still have all of our guides applied from the A-Master. Next let's begin creating our shapes for our cards. We'll go to page 1 and from here let's zoom out using CTRL—(MINUS) on the keyboard so we can see all of our page and we're going to be utilizing our Rectangle tool shortcut M on the keyboard.
For now we're simply going to be creating the rectangles within our page. So let's start by dragging a rectangle from the top-left all the way to the bottom-right of our first two rectangles. We'll release and here we have a rectangle with no fill and a black stroke.
In this case we want a black fill and no stroke so we could go to the top and make changes or we can simply click the arrows to swap the fill and stroke. We'll click and here we now have a black fill and no stroke. In the future we'll be assigning a color to these rectangles however I always find it helpful to create the different shapes and frames for all of the elements that we're going to add before actually doing so.
So continuing to add rectangles let's add a rectangle to the bottom middle rectangle and we'll release and again click to swap the fill and stroke and finally let's add one more covering the bottom two rectangles and release clicking to swap the fill and stroke. Let's move on to page 2 now, double-click on page 2 and we're going to add a couple more rectangles. The first one will be the second one down on the left and we'll click and drag and if you go beyond the guide don't worry, simply hit V on the keyboard and click and drag it so it's in line with our guide.
In this case we'll again swap the fill and stroke and we now have one more to add. We'll go back to our Rectangle tool and we'll create a rectangle on the bottom right-hand side and if necessary hit V on the keyboard to drag over to the right and for this last rectangle we could swap the fill and stroke or we can hit shortcut I on the keyboard for the Eyedropper tool and with it selected we'll simply select the other rectangle that has a black fill. This will apply the same color characteristics to our bottom right-hand rectangle and we'll hit V and we've now completed the shapes of rectangles for our new card.
Let's hit CTRL + S on the keyboard to save our work and in the next video we'll begin discussing color. See you there!