InDesign Presentation - Wednesday 25th April

This workshop was about setting up our files for assessment so my development for this workshop is shown in the way that my final presentation is laid out. I felt as if this workshop was mainly things that I was already very familiar and I mainly do most the key points shown already in my work. The main methods I took from this were editing images as some of the processes were new to me. For example, the save for web option shown below which helps the images get saved at the correct quality to be used in a presentation this is a useful skill and can be found under the File tab and then export as can be seen below it brings up a dialogue box. We changed the image size appropriately to the size of the file it will be put into and then changed it from a gif to a jpg format.

Then you can insert this image that has been saved into your presentation using place which again is found under the file tab. Then with the gutter we set up using rulers the image can be place and resized appropriately as shown below.

We then looked at inserting videos into your presentation, first starting with the simple import video option then placing it in the spot you want. However next we used a button in order to make it so that when a still image was clicked upon it opened a video in a separate window as can be seen below. This done by simply clicking on the picture, changing the type option in the button and forms menu to button then adding the function with the plus sign to open file, to do this you have to select the file you want it to open.

Another alternative method of inserting a video was to make the still image a hyperlink to a online version of the video on a platform such as YouTube or Vimeo. To do this the button needs to be removed from the image to make it an object again rather than a button, which is done by clicking the little button next to the bin in the buttons and forms menu. Once this is done I opened the windows tab at the top with the image selected and then went to interactive elements to enable the hyperlinks menu. Once this is open you simply type the web address in with the image selected then it should work as shown below.

The last main skill I learnt was something that was in my feedback for my visual analysis at the last formative assessment. It was to do with file compression and how that effects other people when you sent it to them, so for example the submission on uni learn will be quicker using this format. When exporting as a PDF then looking at the define presents options it allows you to save your PDF at a much smaller size whilst maintaining the quality as much as possible which is something that will prove very useful.