Assignment 3

Photo Scavenger Hunt & Captions Assignment

DUE: Wed. Sept 16

This assignment is meant to help you practice photography a little more, reinforce adding images into InDesign, and learn about the usefulness (and awesomeness) of paragraph and object styles.

Part I

Take about 30-40 minutes to snap these photos. Here's what you need to try to find:

1. Something with an interesting texture
2. A shot composed with very high contrast colors
3. A shot composed with very low contrast colors
4. A shot featuring "lines"
5. A shot featuring a person walking on campus (it doesn't matter if you know them -- if you do, make it fun if you want)
6. Your favorite building on campus
7. A unique angle of a sculpture
8. Something you always think of when you think of "Drake"

Part II

Take another 20-30 minutes to import your photos onto a flash drive and edit them in Bridge/Camera Raw/Photoshop as you have been doing (contrast, exposure, saturation, clarity, etc). Just do basic corrections for now, nothing fancy.

Save each one as a .JPG (remember the drop down menu for file format, don't just write ".jpg" on the end of the file name) in a folder you can find later.

Part III
Now to add the photos (with a drop shadow) in InDesign with captions.

Bring each image into InDesign as we learned how to do last time.

This time, however, you'll make your design on two pages: four photos of the same size per page, with captions (using paragraph styles) for each one.

Instructions:
Set up your document:
Number of pages: 2 (make sure "facing pages" is selected)
Number of columns: 6
Page Size: Letter
Bottom Slug: 9p (1.5 inches)
(Click "More Options for Slug)
Click OK.

Use the Rectangle Frame tool to layout your images. You can make the objects the same size by using the copy and paste commands. (You can also use the W: and H: to specify width and height).

Use the Text Frame tool to layout your caption boxes. They should be situated under your images.

Creating Paragraph Styles

1. Click on Paragraph Styles on the right hand side
2. Click the icon that looks like a post-it-note to Create a new style
3. Double click on the new "Paragraph Style 1" to edit it
4. Style name should be "Caption"
5. Click on Basic character format
Font Family: Adobe Garamond Pro
Font Style: Italic
Size: 9 pt
6. Click OK
7. Write your first caption in a text box (you can create a text box by clicking and dragging with the text tool). It should simply describe what the photograph is of and what it fulfills from Part I.

Example: "This photo of The Meredith Building has low color contrast."

8. Select the text, and click on "Caption" in the Paragraph Styles box. The text should automatically change.
9. Repeat for the rest of your photos.

Creating an Object Style

1. Click on the Object Styles option (it should be a few boxes above Paragraph styles). (Make sure you have the selection tool (black arrow) selected).
2. Just as with Paragraph styles, click Create new style on the icon that looks like a note.
3. Double click on it (it should say Object Style 1) to edit it
4. Click on the box that says Drop Shadow
Style name: Photo Shadow
Distance: 5pt
Angle: 120
Opacity: 40%

5. Click OK
6. Click on a photo (or select multiple by holding down the shift key).
7. While photos are selected, click Photo Shadow under Object Styles
8. Make sure your captions are out of the way of the shadow. Bring the caption boxes down if you need to. (You can select more than one at a time by holding down shift as you click on the 2nd, 3rd, etc. -- they will all move together.)
9. Make sure everything looks ok
10. File --> Export --> PDF (remember to put your last name as the file name)
11. Save in our class folder (remember to click on our class folder to open it first, don't just drag it in)