Learn how to finalize and design a back cover of a newsletter, including essential elements such as an office location image, logo, and an overlay with the address and contact information. This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions, making it easy even for beginners.
Key Insights
- The back cover design process first involves adding an image of the office location and adjusting its size and positioning to fit the frame and provide a pleasing backdrop.
- The logo should be added next, with specific emphasis on resizing it to be slightly smaller than the actual text frame for optimal visual balance.
- The final step involves creating an overlay with the address and contact information, which should be color-coordinated with other elements, right-aligned, and styled to match the front cover's address for consistency.
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In this video we're going to be finalizing our back cover. For this back cover we need first an image outside the office.
We need to add our logo and for our overlay we're going to be adding the address as well as the contact. So let's begin first by adding our image. We'll select our image frame and import our file and from here we'll be adding our office location image.
We'll click open and let's right-click and we're going to fit it by filling the frame. From here we can make adjustments hitting A on the keyboard and I want just a bit of these buildings behind. I think that looks good.
Next we're going to import our logo on the bottom left. So hitting V on the keyboard we'll select our image frame and import our file. In this case we're going to be importing our interior design jpeg and clicking open and from here we want to change the size of this.
We'll hit A on the keyboard and select our image. To reduce it we'll hold shift as we drag in on the corner and if we hold ALT we'll drag from the center. In this case we're going to drag it so it's a bit smaller than our actual text frame.
We'll release and finally on the right hand side we need to create our overlay with the address and the contact. We'll hit V on the keyboard selecting our overlay and now let's hit I to pull the green from Domus. Additionally we could also use the Domus Green within our CC libraries.
Next let's add our text. We'll utilize our type tool and let's simply click and drag here and we're going to type out the information. In this case it's 741 Briscoe Street and then we'll hold shift as we hit ENTER to maintain the same paragraph.
Type Nape California 96741. Next we'll hit ENTER and we'll type out our contact information. In this case it's Vanessa Ascent and we'll type out her phone number.
In this case I forgot to hold shift when I hit ENTER so I'll hit backspace and hold shift and hit ENTER to maintain the same paragraph. From here we'll now hit CTRL A to select all the text and let's right align it here. In addition let's also hit CTRL A and we want to copy the same style as the address on the front cover.
In order to do this we can split the layout view clicking the icon on the bottom right hand side. When we do this we'll see that we have a view of an additional part of our newsletter. So to enter this view we'll first click on it and then hitting H on the keyboard let's go over to where we have our address.
We'll then use our Eyedropper tool (shortcut I on the keyboard). By clicking on this text right here, we can see that the text is loaded into our Eyedropper tool. Going over to this display, if we click and drag over this text, we’ll see that the styling now matches.
We can now close our split view, and let’s drag this text into our overlay.
We’ll drag it here, and let’s add some space before this line. We'll go to the right hand side go to add space before and let's add about that much space. We’ll then utilize our selection tool let’s hit CTRL ALT C to reduce the size of our text frame and finally we'll select our text frame and center it within our overlay.
If we hit W on the keyboard, we can see what this back cover looks like, and for our text here, let’s simply move it over a little bit by dragging the right side of our text frame over to the left. I think this looks good. Let's hit CTRL S now and we've now finished adding all of our content and designing our pages. In the next video, we'll begin adding a couple stylistic elements and then get ready to export our final work.
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