Explore the process and techniques of creating an appealing webpage layout with focus on kitchen imagery and text overlay. Learn about image selection, text placement, color changes, paragraph styling and more, emphasizing on precision and attention to detail.
Key Insights
- The article illustrates the process of creating a feature page, specifically titled 'The Kitchen Experience', incorporating an image of a kitchen and a brief descriptive text. The emphasis is on the selection of an appropriate image, the creation of a fitting title, and the addition of a complementing text overlay.
- Detailed steps are provided on how to enhance the page layout and overall visual appeal through text formatting techniques, such as changing text color, paragraph styling, adjusting the size and placement of the text within the frame, and aligning the text within the overlay.
- The article also introduces advanced design techniques like modifying opacity to hint at the image behind an overlay and altering corner styles for variety and interest. These techniques add depth to the design and enhance the user's visual experience.
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In this video we're going to begin working on page 7. So within this page we're going to have the title The Kitchen Experience, have an image of one of our kitchens, and a couple of sentences about the image. So let’s start by adding our image here and we’ll import our file.
In this case feel free to add either kitchen. I’ll select kitchen feature 1 and click open. And again we’ll fit it within our frame.
We can resize if necessary here. And I’ll fit it just like that. Next let’s work on our title.
We’ll hit V on the keyboard and select our overlay for our title here. And we need to change the color using our CC libraries and selecting Domas Green. From here we can also add our title.
We’ll utilize our type tool and we’ll simply draw a type frame and type out The Kitchen Experience. From here we can hit CTRL A on the keyboard and let’s set our paragraph style to heading. We’ll then utilize our selection tool and let’s drag it over into our overlay.
Let’s make some changes. The first change we’ll make is let’s make it all caps. I think it gives it a little bolder sentence and highlights the kitchen in a stronger tone.
And next let’s also increase the size of this. We’ll increase the size here and let’s leave it at 32. So from here we’ll shrink our text frame using CTRL ALT C on the keyboard and from here we’re going to hit CTRL and from here we’ll hit shift on the keyboard and also select our title.
Going to align to key object and selecting our title overlay and aligning it. Next let’s add some text in the overlay below. For this overlay we’re going to keep it black and so we’ll create a text frame and click and drag and right-click and add placeholder text.
For this we only need two sentences so let’s reduce some of this placeholder text, until we have about two sentences. From here we’re going to now hit CTRL A on the keyboard and let’s use the same paragraph styling as we used above. We’ll hit CTRL A and we’ll click the drop-down selecting overlay light. From here we can also change the fill since it will be black text.
Changing it to paper and finally let’s right align it. We’ll then utilize the selection tool and hitting CTRL ALT C on the keyboard. Let’s drag it just a bit further left here so we don’t have any words on the bottom right and we can now put it within our overlay.
Making sure to center it and now let’s actually reduce the size here and increase the height holding ALT to drag from both the bottom and top. We’ll reduce it a bit further now until you're happy with the sizing. We can then align center for our text and if we hit W on the keyboard we can see what this looks like.
Depending on your text and your frame you may want to reduce the size of either top to bottom or left to right. In this case I’ll reduce these just a bit and hitting W we can see what this looks like. We have a nice overlay attracting our attention here.
We have the text up top and let’s simply inch the text over just a bit so it’s off the edge a bit and we’re also going to use the arrow key just to move it up a little bit and a little more centered. From this point now let’s also move our text over to the left using the arrow keys and I think this looks good. As one final change we’re missing part of the cabinet here and depending on what image you used for this kitchen experience you may be missing part of your image as well.
In order to fix this what we can do is kind of show hints to what the image behind is by selecting our overlay here and we’re going to change the opacity. We’ll change it from 100% by double-clicking, typing 80%, and hitting ENTER. In this case I think it’s a little too faint right now so again let’s select our overlay and we’ll change the opacity or how transparent it is and let’s bring it to 95% and hit ENTER.
I think this looks better you still get hints of what’s behind it however you can easily make out the white text here as well. In addition if we also want to change our overlay from this rectangle here we can select it and let’s modify the corners. To do this we’ll go into our appearance and let’s select corner going to the right side and here we have multiple corners to work with.
We could use rounded corners or change to a beveled corner. In this case, we can adjust the corner size by increasing or decreasing it. Feel free to modify yours however you’d prefer. In addition if we also want to make changes to the image we can specifically adjust any of the corners.
To do this, we’ll go to corner settings and adjust them. For the top right and bottom right, rather than having beveled corners, I’ll select ‘None’ to unlink the settings.
From here we can see that we have beveled edges on the left-hand side and normal edges on the right. Let’s now save our work hitting CTRL S on the keyboard and in the next video we’re going to begin working on the back cover.
See you there!