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In the past lesson,

you set up your master page in the pages panel.

You will now work with text in that same master page.

You may ask, "Texts?

In a master page?

Well, my texts will be different in every page."

Yes. You're right.

What we will do is establish a word that text will go in each page.

First let's [inaudible] three very important aspects of working with text.

Kerning, tracking and leading.

Kerning is a process of adding or eliminating space between specific pairs of characters.

Tracking is the process of loosening or tightening a block of text.

Leading is the vertical space between the lines of type.

The common recommendation it has is that your leading should

be from 4-6 points more than your text size.

For example, if your text is 12 points,

your leading should be between eight,

16, or 18 points.

No more and no less.

Still, this rule applies more to long body of texts.

Short texts can have more than six points of difference.

What I will say nevertheless

[inaudible] unless it's a visual effect as far as the design.

Let's go to the InDesign document and we'll apply all of these.

We are back in InDesign and now I'm going to eliminate the color of

these frames because I no longer need

them and I'm going to go back to "View" "Grids and Guides" and "Hide Baseline Grids."

Now I can see the things that you need to work with.

First, I'm going to go to my first image in the upper left corner,

and I'm going to select that text tool.

You can see over here,

you can press the letter T. In many other programs you

just click and there you have your cursor, you can right there.

In InDesign, you need to click and drag.

There you have your cursor.

What I'm going to write in here is collection name.

Now I'm going to select the text.

In InDesign when narrating the text I always prefer to select it.

Because if you just have selected the frame,

you can change the font.

You can change the size,

but if you're going to change the color or something like that,

it will apply to the box instead of text so to eliminate all of the possible problems,

I always prefer to select the text and as you can see,

the control panel here just change for your texts

options so you can go over here and select the font that you want,

or you can go to the characters panel and select there also.

I usually work with whatever is near from where I'm working on.

Now I'm going to go to look for the font, caveat,

dreams regular and I want,

12 points, I want that in that size.

I'm going to select that again and go to

the swatches panel and select the paper which is white.

I'm going to place it in the rectangle and as you can see,

I have this big box.

I can just drag it to make it smaller or

you can go to the contrary panel and look for this icon.

You go over it says fit frame to content.

You will click there and they will automatically fit your frame to your content.

Now, I'm going to zoom in so you can see better what I'm doing.

I'm going to copy this text as we have done in this class previously,

I'm going to press "Option Shift" on my Mac.

You can press Alt Shift on your windows.

I'm going to drag and here,

I'm going to write NC because my initials 001,

because I'm going to describe this pattern as

NC001-B because this collection is the bright

one and the other one is the warm one so it's going to be

W. I can differentiate and identify better my patterns instead of only the name.

Because I have a pattern called

reflective sun and I can have another one called Chinese sun,

and it's so similar.

But if I have a specific number for each one of them is better management for me.

Now I'm going to make this text

smaller and the way that I'm going to do it

is my preferred way when I'm working with text,

like a header and a sub-header,

I like to go to my characters panel and go to

the size drop-down and click on a where you can write.

I'm going to write forward slash,

which means that I am dividing this number,

the 12 points by 1.618.

I'm going to click, press "Enter."

This is known as the value of the golden ratio.

The golden ratio is a special number which is approximately equal to 1.618.

It appears many times in geometry,

art architecture, and other areas.

You can do a quick research and learn so much about it.

There is a whole world about the golden ratio.

Whenever I use a header and a sub-header,

and I divide sub header for the type size by the golden ratio,

which is 1.618,

I have a better balance of the two and that is

because the golden ratio is known for that so that's a tip that I have for you.

Now I'm going to select all my text for the description of

my pattern and I'm going to change the tracking,

which is this icon over here and the truck remember,

separates or create space between each letter and we're going to set

it to 100 and I'm going to put this in bold.

As you can see here,

this is a thing about this font,

the Caviar Dreams is one that I use.

The number 1 usually looks too far from the previous letter or number.

What I'm going to do is going to work with the Kerning.

In this case I'm going to set it to if I want to make it closer,

I work with a negative.

You will want to make move it farther.

I'm going to work with positive here.

I'm going to set it to 75.

Press "Escape" in my keyword to take a look,

maybe I can go a little bit farther to 100.

Press "Escape", and now it looks more balanced.

It looks like it belongs there and they'd have the same space.

Now we have the same issue with the dash here.

I'm going to set it to negative 100,

and now it looks better.

Now, I have this text ready,

and maybe you want to take a look about how it's going to look

your design without all of these grids and all of that.

If you press the letter W in your keyboard,

you will see the page with all the lines and the guides and all of that.

Now I see how my texts will look.

When I press again, and now what I'm going to do is that I'm going

to select the Collection Name press "Shift",

select the identification number and the black rectangle.

Again, I'm going to use option Shift,

click and drag over.

I'm going to drag this to all of my black rectangles,

and then I'm just going to remove

the top black one because it's a copy and I have one one the back.

Now I make sure that all of my text is in the right place.

If I go to my page number 4,

you can see that I have my text placed there.

Another thing that I'm going to do because this is a portfolio,

I want to have my logo and at least my website in each page that I have my patterns.

I want to do this because maybe someone like my patterns,

and they do a screenshot or they download a PDF that I will allow them to do,

and they just print that page.

They don't print the first page or the last page which

is where all my personal info will definitely be.

I want them to have this as a flyer or a separate page,

but my info is still there and it won't be lost in all of their work.

The way that I do this is that I'm going to,

oh, I'm working,

as you can see, nothing happens because I'm working in my page.

I'm going to go to the master page,

and I'm going to click and copy again with the Shift and the Alt.

I'm going to change the color to black,

and I'm going to write Collection Name By.

I'm going to set this in the manual here,

I'm going to set all caps,

I'm going to select bold,

and I'm going to change the tracking to 200 maybe, yeah.

I click on the Fit Frame to Content to make that look cleaner.

I'm going to make a copy,

and I'm going to write my website.

As you can see, it didn't fit in the frame that I have,

I just have to drag a letter a little bit out and again it's fit.

Now I want to place my logo.

There are two ways that I can do this.

As I said, you can place originals from Illustrator inside in this site.

I'm going to do that right now just to show you that it is possible,

I'm going to go to my folder to look for my logo. This is my logo.

I'm going to double-click.

I'm going to drag, you can see it is dragging

proportionally to the shape of my logo, and there you have it.

Now, if I go to my Links panel,

if you can see it will go to Windows links,

you can see that this is a.ai which means that this is an Illustrator document.

The thing with this is that in this case I want to

change the color of this logo and I can't do that here.

If I go to the colors, look what happens.

It changed the background and not the content.

If I want to change the color I will have to go to the Links panel,

click the little like pen which says Edit Original,

and it will open your original in Illustrator.

I will have to select it,

let's change it to black in this case,

I will save in,

let's hide Illustrator and now it's changed.

You can see that it's changed.

But because I don't want to do that,

have to be going back and forth I just want to select a color for my patterns.

I'm going to delete this logo and instead,

I'm going to go to my original logo.

I'm going to click press "Command C" or

"Control C" to copy it and go to InDesign and paste it.

I'm going to zoom out so you can see better.

You can zoom out by pressing Command or Control minus to zoom out or plus to zoom in.

With Shift press, I'm going to drag to make it smaller,

to the size that I want.

Now you can see that instead of simple lines they have dash lines,

which means that these are vectors.

If I select the Direct Selection Tool and I click,

you can see that these are vectors.

If I select it and now you see I can change the color.

Right now it's grouped.

You can go to Object, Ungroup,

and you can work with them individually and change color individually.

Right now I don't want to do that.

But as you can see I placed a vector here and now the color appears in my swatches panel.

But it is CMYK.

I'm going to double-click on it,

I'm going to click "Name With Color Value".

It's clearer to see,

I'm going to change it to RGB and then click "Okay" and now this color is RGB,

so is optimized for this work.

I'm going to arrange these here.

It doesn't have to be super perfect you can makes some changes later.

I'm just accommodating this in a way they make sense to me.

You can accommodate your things for whatever makes sense for you.

Now I have my logo and mainly my website,

which is the place where you can find everything about me,

in every page that I will have patterns.

Again, as you can see,

it is in my page 4 and is in my page 6.

I'm going to save this and that's it.

You now officially have the canvas ready to design a portfolio.

Make sure that before you go into the next lesson,

you'll write down your fill text,

place any logo or element that you wish to be repeated throughout your portfolio,

and as always, save your document.

In the next lesson we will place our images, text, and video.