Affinity 3 (by Canva) Level 2: Layout - Tables, Master Pages & Styles

1. Layout Masters & Styles - Intro to this Course: Creating beautiful louts is so important so that you can stand head and shoulders above the AI crowd. In this course, I want to take you through more layout features so that you can create beautiful work, whether it's for print or for screen. This course will help you bring your ideas to life through visuals that inform, inspire, and express your unique vision. We'll start from some of the basics, and we'll work our way through to all those little bits that I even have noticed before. Here are some of the amazing pieces you'll be creating during this course. Have a look. Hi. I'm Tim. I live and work on a beautiful barge traveling the canals around London with my wife, Allie and our cat, Fuji. I've spent over 30 years working with design software and have trained some of the world's top companies like BBC, Disney, the Times Newspaper, and many, many more. What are you waiting for? Start right now, and let's get creating together. 3. Basic Table: Et's have a look at the table tool. Now, I'll click on the table tool over here, and it's really, really easy to use. All you have to do is to click and drag. And you'll see as I'm dragging, I'm holding down the mouse button, as I drag across, I'm getting more columns in, and as I drag up and down, I'm getting more rows in. Although you can change that later on. And I can actually see the width and height on the right hand side by my cursor. Now, I'm going to let go over there. So now I've got my simple table. Now, of course, when you deselect it, I'll go over to the little move tool at the top and click off of it. That's what it's going to look like. So let me go back to my table tool and click on it. Open there. And now, what amount if I want to change the size? Well, I can go along to the corners and I can grab a corner and I can scale the whole thing up and down. You'll see as I'm scaling it, if you grab the outer one, it scales it proportionately. If you grab the inner one, it scales it disproportionately. What would happen if we had text in there? Well, I'll just put in some text. And let's have a look. So scaling it disproportionately, you see the text remains exactly the same. Now, I'm going to get rid of that over there, and let's have a look along the side because we've got alphabetical and numerical markers top and side. If I go between, say, for example, A and B, I can click and I can change the size of the cells in there. If I go along to the numbers, once again, I can click and I can change the size of the cells in here. If you used to Excel or any other spreadsheet, most of this is going to be pretty familiar. They all do it in slightly different ways, but the process is pretty much the same. Now, if I want to add some more cells over here, and if I just grab the bottom and pull it down, it just scales it. So what you do is you go along to the little double arrow over there. And if I pull on that, as I'm pulling it, you'll see it'll be pulling out more, which ones that rows. And if I do this one, it'll pull out more columns or give me less. If you want to be even more accurate, you can click on those little double arrows and then tell it how many you want. So I want five in there. And this one, I want to have 11. I don't know whether you noticed, but when I did it with pulling it, as I pulled it out, it added them in there. If I clicked over here and did it, it kept the size of the table the same, but increased the number of columns in there. Anyway, try it out, have a bit of a play with it and get a feel for what all these bits and pieces do. There's only one more little button I want to show you, and that's this one here, and you can rotate your table. And that's that little one right at the top over there. Do something wild. 4. Distribute Cells & Copy from Excel: Now, if like me, you've made a complete mess of your table, we can very quickly sort it out. So I'm going to select all of these cells, so I've just clicked in one. I'm on the Table tool still. I'm going to select just those ones over there. I just want to sort out those. I'm going to right click anywhere in there, and I'm going to say evenly distribute. Now we can do that with either columns or rows. If I do rows, you'll see it'll only distribute those ones over there. Of course, if I go and do columns now, it will affect those which does affect these ones down the bottom. If I want to do all of them, I'll just select everything in there and once again, just evenly distribute my rows once again. Really, really quick and easy way to get everything back to normal again. Now, let's go and populate this. I'm actually going to reduce the size of this. I'm going to go to the bottom here, and I'll just put in five over there. By about five that way. It's more than we need, and I'm going to pull this out like that. Now, I want to put some information in, and of course, we can just click in there and type if we wish or put in numbers. But what most people will do is they'll have some sort of Excel spreadsheet that they're going to be bringing across. So I've done an incredibly simple table in Excel. So over here, my table is about photography. So I've got three different cameras in there and whether they're being sold as lenses or bodies or kits, which are, you know, a combination of the two. And here are the numbers. And this one over here, we've got a sum, a simple sum which adds those ones up over there, you can see to get this result. Now, I'm going to select all of those cells, and I'm going to copy them. So I'm just using my shortcut. Command C or control C to copy. And let's go back into Affinity, and in here, I'm going to paste them in. So if I've just clicked in the top there and I paste, it pastes everything into that cell. Let's undo that. But if I select a few cells, so there were four by four over there and then paste, it puts them into the appropriate cells. Now, you can see that these ones are aligned to the left, that one's aligned to the right. We'll look at alignments later on. The sum also doesn't work because if I went and changed this number, it doesn't do anything to the calculation at the bottom. You'd have to go back into Excel to sort out any calculations and then bring them back in again. Now, this is one way to bring Excel spreadsheets into Affinity. The other way is to use place, and we'll be looking at that later on. But do try that out. If you have got Excel, try a really simple little table and just copy and paste it straight over into Affinity. 5. Place from Excel: I'm going to get rid of this, so I'll just select it and press backspace or delete to remove it. Now, the other way that we can bring in an Excel spreadsheet is via Place. So I'm going to go to File, and I'm going to choose Place. And I'm going to go and choose my particular spreadsheet. Now, it's the one that I had before this one over here, and I saved it out as an XLS. You can see over there XLSX file. I'm going to choose that over there and just open that. And now it detaches it to the cursor. So all I've got to do is to click and drag to bring in that table. And you'll see it is a table. If I go back to my table tool and click on there, it's just like any other table that you've created. If I click on these, I can then just go in and change them. They're just information as they were the last time. Really, really simple to do, I've added that place file into the assets folder. So if you want to go and use that one, or you can make your own in Excel. 6. Table Panel - Part 1: Let's have a look at a panel that controls the table. I'm going to go to the winter menu and I'm going to go down to the Table option and across to Table over there. And this little panel, and I'm going to move mine just a little bit out the way over here so that you can see this properly. This little panel has got a number of controls for our table. I'm going to just select the table quickly. Now, the fast way to do it, even though I'm in the move tool is just double click and that then converts you over into the Table tool. Now let's start off with the frame option along the top. You can see you can open and close these little options here, this frame, this stroke and fill cells, rotation, vertical position, and baseline shift. Sorry, Baseline Grid. Now, let's start off with the fill. If I were to select my table over here and I go to fill, and I know this is going to sound obvious, but it's filling the whole of the table, not the individual cells, but the whole of that table. It'll make more sense if I do the stroke. You see, if I take that off, so I'll choose none of it there, and let's go to the stroke over here, and I'll put on a stroke color. And to show it properly, I'm going to go to the width and increase the width of the stroke, and you can see that that is on the whole of that table over there. So this is all about the frame that the table is actually sitting in. Now, let's get rid of that one as well. So I'm going to click over there and just choose none. Now we can also inset. So you'll see I've got left, top, right, and bottom. I'm going to unlink them so I can do them individually, and from the left, I can inset my table in the frame. That's really important. Remember, this is all about the table itself, which is inside the frame, not the individual bits of text inside the cells. So that's not terribly useful to be perfectly honest for the moment, because what I want to be able to do is maybe move these across a little bit like that and get a bit of space between the text and the edge of the cell. So let's go down to the next one. So that was frame stroke and fill. Now, the stroke and fill allows me to work on individual cells. So starting over here, I'm going to just click and drag across these three cells over there, and then I can go to my fill, and I can change the color on that fill. Oh, that's awful. Let's try something a little bit more subtle. That, like that blue over there. And then I can go down to these ones here, and once again, I can select them and, of course, change the fill on that. I'm going to use my sampling tool to sample that blue, but then maybe change it so it's slightly darker over there. Now, that's all very well, but what about the lines between them? Oh, by the way, there's a thick line here. As soon as I click off of that, that will disappear, like so. So, let's have a look. I'm going to select these ones here, and I'm going to go along to my stroke and fill over there. And at the moment, the borders themselves, the strokes don't have any lines on them. So for example, here, I've got I can go round the whole of the outside, or I can do the inner insides, or I can do both. Let me show you the outside first. So if I click on that and then choose a cell, and let's make it red, so it's pretty obvious what I'm doing. And I'll increase the size of that. You'll see it only affects the ones that are there. So it's affecting those cells. Now, I don't really like that, so oops. So I'm going to get rid of that, and I'm going to choose none. There. So let's say that we wanted some lines going across like this. Well, in that case, I can go over here. Instead of using these ones, I can go to this border here and I can choose the middle line. So it's inside horizontal, which will be these three. And it does. With these thick lines, it shows you what you're doing. If I clicked on that, you can see it would just be those ones. I'm going to click on that, and once again, I can then go in here and choose a color and, of course, increase the stroke weight just for those. There. Now, I'm going to stop there, so you can try this out. Have a bit of a go and try it out on your table. If you've gotten rid of your table, do another simple table or just bring this one in again and experiment with those, and then I'll take you through the cells and vertical position options after that. And we'll get the text to inset a bit and move to the middle of the cells. Try it out. 7. Table Panel - Part 2: Let's look at the cell options. Now, I'm going to select some of these cells over here. I've just selected those ones at the top, and over here, you'll see I can change the width and the height. Let me adjust the height of those cells over there. If I change the width, though, it will affect everything, even though it's just the top ones that are selected, obviously rarely. I'm going to just change the height a little bit and move that down. I can then select these cells here and I can change the width on just those ones in there. But you'll notice that it's now making this one bigger in here. Remember, you can always select things, right click them, and choose to distribute evenly if they're not quite right, as well. Now, I'm going to go down to insets. So if I select this bit of text over here, I can go to the left inset, and I'm going to unlink them, and this is where I can actually change where the text is sitting in the cell itself. So I can just inset that text a little bit, keeping it nice and lined up on the left hand side. What about the rest of these ones over here? Well, once again, I could go to the right and I could inset them if I wish. Let's move down a little bit over here and I'm going to go to rotation over here. Now, with rotation, if I click on these, it'll rotate 90 degrees the text itself, which is probably not what we want. So for example, if I chose this little cells over there and rotated the text, you can see how it can rotate it all the way around like that. Sometimes you might want your text to go vertically along there. Moving along to vertical position, now, this is really the one that we're after because I'm going to select the text here, and then I'm going to center it in the middle. So I can move it to the center of the cell or the bottom of the cell, or we can have a top and bottom if we've got multiple lines within the same cell. I'm going to put mine right in the middle over there. I'm going to stop there so you can have a bit of a go and try this out. But don't forget, not only can use this, but you can also go along to your paragraph options and change the paragraph options, and I'm going to do that by going to paragraph options there. And for example, here with my top row, I'm just going to go along and centra line them or I can write line them if I wished, as well. Do try that out. Have a bit of a play with it. It's not too difficult. You've just got to know where to find things. And if you're unsure, always try this table panel first, which you'll find in the window menu down there. Have a go with that. 8. Text Color: Let's do something interesting with this. I'm going to select this bit of text here and I'm going to go back to my stroke and fills. And this time, I'm going to remove the stroke that's on those. So remember, it was on the middle ones, I put on a dark color, so I'm just going to choose none over there to get rid of that. But let's take those cells in there and give them a fill color. So once again, I'll just choose a different color in here. I'm going to use a version of this blue, so I'll click on that, but then maybe make that a little bit lighter in there. And let's change the stroke around the edge. There's a really cool effect that you can do. So what I can do is I can take cells, and I'm going to take all of these ones here. And I'm going to go along here to my border, and I'm going to choose all of them. So I'm going to choose all those ones that are crossed over like that, and then I'm going to go to my cell. I'm going to make it white, and then I will then increase the size of that. So let's just increase the size. Then you can see the effect that we're getting over there where all the cells are just little squares with colors in them. Now, what about some of the color for the texts themselves? So if I selected these cells here, you can see the color up there is the same as the color there. How do you change it? Well, you go to the character panel, and that's where you change your color for your text, and I'm going to make those white, and I'm going to make these ones across the top here, white, as well. So let's just change that to white. And we've got a well, a slightly more interesting table. Have a bit of a go with that and just experiment with it and create something really interesting. And 9. Lines & Photo: Et's do a variation on this. I'm going to hold down the Alt key, and I'm going to make a copy of this. So click and drag. Let's do a variation on this. I'm going to select this table here, I'm going to hold down the option on a Mac or the Alt on a PC and just drag a copy of this down here. So this is the one I'm going to work on. Now let's have a look and change this table around. Now, one of the things that I want to show you is that if you select cells like that and then you decide, Oh, I also want to select these cells as well, you'll see that as you select one, you'll lose the other. But what you can do is you can actually hold down if you've selected some, hold down now on a Mac, it's command, on a PC, it's control, and then you can select the other cells that you want, as well. So I could do something like that and then just adjust those. Anyway, I'm actually going to select all the cells here. Going to go up to my fill, and I'm going to choose none for my fill, and that's on all those tables on all those cells, shall I say? And then I'm going to go along to the stroke over here, and I want to change the stroke. So I'm going to select all of them over here, and let's have a look at all of them. So if I just select all of them there and choose none for all of them, over there. Let's have just these ones over here going across this way and that way, so I want to affect the middle ones. I'm going to make them black for the moment. You can see them there we go, and let's make them a little bit thinner to make them a bit more delicate. Now, of course, my text is still white. So if I select everything, I can just go along to my character and change that all to black, like so. So that looks, well, to be perfectly honest, really, really boring. So let us add in a photo in here. Remember this background over here is actually transparent. If I move it over that one, you can see it's transparent. So let's bring in a picture. I'm going to use one of these shapes over here and just make a little frame, roughly the size of that one. You could, if you really wanted to, just go straight over the top of the existing one and do it that way. Let's just do that, for example, and then just make it the same sort of size as this. In there. Now, I like to do it over here because if I'm dragon dropping pictures in, I want to make sure that I haven't actually dropped it onto the wrong thing. So let me go and find a picture. I'm going to go to stock over here, and I've searched, so you didn't have to watch me do it. Pixabay for some cameras because I'm working with cameras here, and I'm going to just dragon drop that straight into the table there. Sorry, into the frame there. Let's move this across over to there, and we're going to go up and send that to the back. So let's go up to layer, arrange, and then we're going to move that to the back in there. Now, of course, at the moment, you can't actually see what's happening because all of this is in black. So if I select everything over there, I'm going to go to my text, the character over there, and I'm going to change my text to white, which hopefully should look a little bit better. So the whole thing now looks like it's just white. But if I pull it over on top of the picture, you'll see that the text will come back in white over there. Let's do the same with all of these little lines. So I'm going to go into my stroke and fill. I'm going to choose just the inner lines over there. I'm going to make them white, and I'm going to make them actually quite delicate. Like so. Let's move that across now. And there you can see the final results. So we've got a photo inside a very corporate looking type of table. Do try that out. 10. Photos in Cells: I I've got some people here, and I've got a list of them and their position in the company and where they're based. And I really want to line them up. So I've got Sarah, Pete, Dan, and Sally, and I really want to line them up with their photos. Now, the photos are all the same size, I brought them in by making a little square, first of all, using one of these and then copying it a number of times and then putting the photos into that. I'll just show you very quickly. So I made a square like that. Held down the chef key, so it's a perfect square, made some copies of that by holding down the Alt or the option key. And then I brought the pictures into there. So they're all the same size. And then, of course, as you know, you can go in there. You can change the scale. Oops, let's try that again. You can scale it up and down and then just move them around into the box. It's going to be very difficult for me to actually try and line them up with their names, so a table will be much better for this. I'm going to go over to the Table tool and I'm going to click and drag a table. Now, in reality, I want four of those rows, and I want two columns like that. Now, once I've done that, I can then just pull this down over there. I think that'll do rather nicely. This is slightly bigger than the picture, but that's perfect for what I want. And then I'm going to go and copy these into there. So let's start with this one. I'm just going to use cut, by the way, which is Control or Command X, so I know which ones I've done and paste that in. Over there, let's do this one here, cut that one, paste that in. Paste and the last one. Of course, if you've got this in a table from Excel, it'll be a lot easier, as well. Let's get rid of that in there. Now, some of these are double, so I'm going to pull those out a little bit like that until they all go on one row. And we'll pull this one over as well. So let's take that back. So it's in a square. I think that looks okay there, but they really should be in the middle. So once again, I'm going to select them all. I'm going to go over to my tables. Over here, and we want to move them to the middle, and we also want to indent them a little bit. So let's have a look at the cell options over here and use insets. I'm going to make sure that it's not linked and that I can use the left to just push it in like that. We can go to the vertical position, and I'm going to use center to center it in the middle. Now, once again, I just keep on getting these into not watching what I'm doing. I'm talking too much. I keep getting those onto double rows, so I'm going to pull that out and move that back across to there a little bit. There we go. I think that works. Okay, now, what about the pictures? Well, that's where it's really easy because all I've got to do is once again cut them or copy them if you want to keep the original. Click in there, put your cursor in there, and paste them straight in. I'll do the same with these ones here, so copy that or cut it. Go back to here, paste it in. This one quickly paste. And finally, this one over here, cut that and paste it in over there. Now, they are up on the left hand side and the top, so I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to select them, and then over here, I'm going to align them to the center. But also, I can then go along to my paragraph options up here. They may be down there, depending on your setup, and I'm going to center them that way as well. And that gives us a really nice little neat hoops, a neat looking table like that. Of course, if you don't want these lines, you can remove the lines. You know how to do that. It's up to you. Anyway, do try that out and see how you get on with that. This is really useful to be able to just get images and text into a table very quickly. 11. Formatting & Saving: Now, if you've made or formatted a table and you think, Wow, that's really cool. I'd really like to use that again, what you can do is you can save that formatted table. I like this formatting here, so I want to save it to use on other tables. So I'm going to go up to the window menu down to table and across to table formats, and it opens up this little window over here. Now, if I click on that table, I can then go to the drop down menu at the top. You can see this little sort of arrow pointing downwards, and I can then save that format into this area here. So I'm going to say save or add format from selection. You can see there it is in there. Now, if I've got another table or I make another table, so I'm just going to go and make a new table here, keeping it really simple over there. And even if it's got or hasn't got some text in it, I'll just pop in a quick little bit of text here. Then if I want to apply that, I can just go and click on that formatted table and it will apply it. You can see it's using the same things as we had here, which is the dark blue on the left, medium blue at the top, and the light blue over here. Really, really useful, try out. 12. Project: Tables - Intro: As I'm sure you know, I love the projects, and this one's no exception. What we're going to do is we're going to create this project here, we're going to be using tables. We're also going to be creating the little characters that are going to go into this project using some shapes as well. So, let's just jump straight in. 13. New Document Setup: For this project, we're going to be creating something for a digital poster. So a client has given us some details, and they've asked us to make a poster that will be displayed on their four K TV in their business. So let's get started, and then I'll show you what the client actually wants. Now, I'm going to go along to file and do a new document. And over here, I'm going to go down to Canvases just in making sure that it's on RGB because this is going to be displayed on screen, so we need RGB. The color profile is going to be SRGB, so it's fairly generic, and so the colors should look pretty similar on screen to what we see on our machines. But then we need to actually put in the size for four K. How do you find that? Well, like everything else, you just go along to Google. So I've Googled four K, and it tells me that it's 384 oh by 21 60. Now, I've got a brain like a sieve. So let's try and remember that 384 oh, so I'll put in 384 oh by a height of 21 60. Over there. Right. Do we need anything like multi pages? No, it's a single page. Do we need margins? No, we're going to get away without them, and we definitely don't need a bleed because it's not going to be printed. I'm going to click on Create Document over there. Now, I don't need my table formats. We're not going to be working with that. If you wish, you could actually go along to the Window menu, go down to your panels, and just reset everything back to the default. Now, let me show you what the client has given us. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to file and place, and it's not very pretty, I admit. But I'm going to go and find that file. So Right, here it is. Over here, I'll just pull it out like that. So this is what the client wants. They want their brand up the top there. We're gonna call it X kids. And then there's going to be two separate little tables over here, one to show what the day visitors to their kids site get and one if they're members. They said that they would supply Excel spreadsheet and there'll be a few more extra ones in there as well. And we've got things like bounce zones, ball pits, sliders, soft plays, et cetera. Just so at a glance, when they look up the screen, they can see that it's probably best to become a member because they'll get more from that. They also said to us, Could you do a little character as well over here that we could use in here. So that's another thing that we need to create. Now, we're not going to work from this. This is just a rough idea, but we'll be doing it very, very similar. So we'll do the kids, and we'll probably do it vertically going up on the side because it'll probably look a little bit better there. And then we'll have these two sheets, if you like, with tables on them. I'm going to get rid of that. Over there. So let's start off with the two areas that we want to create. I'm going to use a rectangle. Remember, all of this can be changed later on. But I think I'm going to use a rounded rectangle because those soft corners are much nicer when it comes to kids. I know they're not going to be touching the screen, but it gives a lovely sort of soft feeling to the whole thing for small children. So I'm going to click and drag one of those in over there. And when it comes to colors, the client has supplied some color values for us, and we'll be changing those later on. But for now, I'm just going to go along to my color down here, double click it and just give it a color to start off with. Let's use a bluish color in there. So I'm going to go with something like that. This will change later on. This is just so we can see easily what's going on. And then we'll need another one of those, as well. So I'm going to hold down the Alt or the option key and just drag another copy over. And while I'm dragging it, I'm also holding down the Shift key so it moves absolutely horizontal with that one as well. And then we're going to put in our character in the middle over here. If you'd like to just get that far, really simple to start off with, and then we'll take this further. 14. Get Color Palette: Now, the client that we've got is not terribly design orientated. So when we've asked for the colors, all they've done is sent us a screenshot of the colors that they use. So how do we sort that out? Well, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go along to my swatches over here, and I'm going to go to the top. And we're going to actually create a palette from the screenshot that they've sent. So I'm going to go to create palette from Image. Over here, we select the image. So I'm going to go and find the image that they've sent us. So that is going to be in my folder. Once again, I've supplied this for you, but you can do it with anything. There we go. Colors for kids project. I'll open that. That's what they screen charted. And you can see straightaway Affinity has made this palette of colors from the colors that they've sent. You can choose how many colors you want from that and just decide on what you need from those. You can see I've got, well, way too many colors in there. In fact, we really only need the first four. So let's just change that to four because we're also going to be using white. Oh. Let's do it this way. Four. I almost had it on four. There we go. We'll just preview that. Those are the colors that we need from there. Now, if they're not absolutely exactly the same, you can go in and tweak them yourself manually later. For now, I'm going to click on Create, and that creates a new swatch for myself with those four colors in them. Now, the pink over here, if I double click on that pink, it wasn't quite as bright as I'd like. So I'm going to just brighten it up a little bit in here until I get the color that I'm after. I think that's pretty much it over there. Oh. Okay. Double click over there, tweak the color. Close that down. Now, let's go and apply this to the document. So I'm just going to start off with these two over here, and they're going to have the bright blue. Now, why hasn't that come up? W because I'm very stupidly on the stroke. Let's get rid of the stroke, go to the fill and make sure we choose the correct color for that. What about the blue in here? Well, we could use that in the background or we can just use it directly on the image itself. But for now, if you'd like to have a bit of a go with that and get some colors either from the image that I've set up or if you've got a photograph with colors that you like in there, you can do exactly the same thing from that. Try it out. 15. Adjust Top & Bottom in Vector Studio: Now, we're going to split this up, so we're going to have a slightly darker part at the top and maybe a little bit at the bottom, as well. And although I've made two of these so far, I'm actually going to delete one. I did two so I could make sure that the sizing that I was using looked okay. But I want to cut this off and darken the top. So I'm going to go along into Vector Studio. And I'm going to move down over here and just take a little shape and put a shape over the top of the area that I want to cut. Now I'm going to change the color of that, not because I want to use this in the end, but just because I want to show you what's actually happening. So select both of those. Over there, you can see I've got two shapes there. I'm going to in the Vector Studio, go along to the shape builder tool, move over the area that I don't want, hold down the altar, the option key, and click to get rid of it. And then we can go in and we can change the color of that top one as well. So I'm going to click on that now. You'll see the rest is still there. I'm going to click on the top one over there and maybe choose the color that I want. So I want to use something like that blue, but maybe a little bit darker. So I've chosen the blue. I'm going to just click off of that color because I don't want to affect it. Double click on the circle up here and I'm going to drag that slightly down to get the subtle shade of blue that I'm after. Let's close that. Now, we'll do the same with the bottom as well. Be really easy. So exactly the same thing. This one's going to be smaller. I think it's just going to be the bottom section over there. Once again, select them both. Use the vector area and the Shape Builder tool, Hold down the old key, and click to remove it. And it's actually remembered the color, so the color is now I might want to use that color again as I'm going through the document. I'm going to go over here to the little plus. Click on that to add it into my swatches. Right, there's the first one. The shapes are basically done. We can always tweak that later on. But if you'd like to have a go, remove one, cut this one up a little bit in vector area, and then you can go back to layout after that. 16. Adjust the Stroke within the Shape: Now, I like the way that these colors are, but I want to make it slightly more interesting. So I'm going to click on the top one here, and because I'm going to be doing the same on both, I may as will hold down the Shift key and select that one as well. And I'm going to go along to my stroke. Once again, if you can't find stroke options, you know where to look in the window menu. And I'm going to increase the stroke width or weight over there. Now, that means that the stroke will come on the outside. I want to change the alignment so it actually aligns on the inside of the shape, which gives us that. And then I can just go along to my colors over here. I'm on the stroke. So in the swatches, I'm going to choose the same blue that I've got for whoops, wrong one for the background. And that gives me a really nice ittle effect like that. You don't have to try and reduce the size of this because if you do change the size physically, the circle won't quite work with that shape in there. So have a bit of a go and use the stroke. The great thing about this is at anytime I can go back and alter the stroke width and just see, oh, maybe it'll look better that way or like that. Anyway, do try that one out. It's a lovely little technique. 17. Place Table: Let's bring in our Excel spreadsheet. We're going to go along to File and Place, and I have provided the spreadsheet for you. Here it is over here. It's an Excel file. So it's the Table project. Let's click on open. And I'm going to click and drag that out like so. So those are the ones that we want in there. Now, let's move that into the right position over here. Brilliant. Right, so we'll have to tweak this table a little bit. But for the moment, I'm going to go along to my table tool, make sure you're back in out mode to do this. As you can see, I can pull out another column over there, or I can actually go along to the settle A, and I'm going to right click on that, and I'm going to say insert a column, and that'll insert it on the left hand side. If you pull it out, it goes to the right hand side over there. Now we can move that around into whatever position we want. If you want to move your whole table around, use your move tool and you can just drag it around to where you need it to go. Anyway, try that out and get a very simple table in like that, and then we'll tweak it like we did in the Table tutorials. 18. Make the Character: A Now, I'd like to size up a bit and there are two options. If I go to the corner to the corner of the square and click and drag, you can see it's changing the size of the table, the table by itself, not the text. If I go to the little blue dot and drag, then it's changing the size of the table and the text and it's scaling it proportionately as well. I'm going to pull that out to make it a little bit bigger like that. I've used the outer dot, not the inner one over there. Now, once you've tried it out, we're going to move across to over here, and we're going to build our little character. The reason I don't want to do any more on that is because I want to build our character, and then I want to take the character's head and use that instead of a little tick in here, and then we'll make a cross on the ones that we don't want or we'll make an unhappy face. There. Now, the character we're going to build is going to be based on the little Lego person. I don't want it to be too close because obviously the client doesn't want them to be sued, they want themselves to be sued by Lego for infringement, but it's going to be roughly that type of character. So let's make a start on that. I'm going to be doing it over here and I'm going to be doing it bigger than I need, and I can always scale it down later on. So we're going to go into the vector area here. I'm going to start off with a little rectangle over here. So this is going to kind of be the body over there, and we're going to change the colors later on. So I'll just go back to one of these sort of different colors. I'll use the yellow there. I also want a little head in there. So this time, I'm going to use the rounded rectangle tool. To make the little head shape over there. Now, while I'm in the head, you can see if I go along to the top, there's a little red dot there. If I click on that dot, I can then adjust the size of the rounded rectangle. What about this one over here? Well, this one, if I go back into there again, is kind of stuck. It's a rectangle in the end, it has to be a square and have square corners. I'm going to just move this across into the middle, and you can see as I'm dragging it to the middle, it lines up perfectly. I'm going to shorten this a little bit over here. Now we need some legs on here as well. Once again, this is going to be really simple. In fact, I'm going to just hold down the alt key or the option key, make a copy of that, make them a bit smaller. I sew, and we'll pop one over there. Hold down the alt or the option key, and do another one. Over there. And I've just left a little bit of a gap between those two, so you can see that they are legs. We'll put some clothes on this just now. Don't worry. What else do we need? We need a neck. It's all very, very simple at this stage over here. And, of course, if I was doing this as a Lego character, then I'd probably have another copy of that right at the top. Maybe something like that over there for the top of the head. But we're not, so I'll remove that. Now for the arms, I'm going to do something slightly different to the Lego characters to make this very obviously different. I'm going to give it doughnut arms. Now, it's not going to be the full doughnut. I go to the doughnut tool and I'm going to click and drag to make a doughnut shape, holding down the Shift key so I get a perfect circle there. And once again, whilst I'm still in this tool, I can then go along to the inner one and I can change the width of those. I can also go to the outer one. By ones, I'm talking about these little red dots and I can then let's make sure I can select that little one there. And I'm going to move it so I can see what I'm doing rather than being right on the outside. Let's go over to here, back to there again and make sure I go to the red one there. If you can't get to it, like I'm having trouble with, use the Zoom til to zoom in until you can finally get to the red dot. And then the idea is that you can then click and drag to any angle that you like. I'm going to do that to this exact half position. Now, this one is going to actually must be a bit less than half the position, so I have to go back to my doughnut tool and just reduce that a little bit over there because I forgot I need to put a hand in still. That's going to go over there. I'm going to rotate in position. I sew, and we're going to have this hand on the side. At any time, you can still go back to the doughnut tool and go. Actually, the arms are a bit too thin. I'm going to make them thicker like that. Now, what about the hand? Well, I can do exactly the same thing with the hand. In fact, I'm going to make a copy of this. So I'll just hold down the alter the option key. This one's going to be for the hand. So back to the doughnut tool, make it a little bit thinner, like that. And I'm going to pull the ends Once again, let's zoom in so I can make sure I click on the right thing that I'm trying to get hold of. There we go. I'm going to pull it round to three quarters like that. If it's not quite big enough, let's pull that out a little bit. Like so. And then scale the whole thing down using the move tool over there. And this will then give us the little hand. I think that's on backwards. Let's rotate that around so the thumbs on the inside. Like so. Anyway, I'm going to stop over there, so you can just have a bit of a go with your character. Don't forget to resize that first of all, but then have a go creating this character. We've got some squares, make copies of them, a little rounded square for the head, and for the arms, it's this doughnut shape, and you just have to do one arm because once you've done that, you can select that, Hold down the alter the option key, make a copy of that, and then all we have to do is to flip that over. But I've already done too much with you at the moment, so I'm going to stop there before I flip that. So you can try this out so far. 19. Add Clothing: Now, let's take this arm and hand. And I'm going to go up to the top, and we've got a rotation, sorry, a flipping option over here. It's called transform. If I click on that, I can then flip things horizontally or vertically. I'm going to flip it horizontally. So if we want to have hands like that, we could do that, or I could actually even flip that vertically so we can move that right up and have the character waving at us. I think that actually looks a little bit better, like so. Once you've got that, we then need to start to put some clothes on this. So let's have a think about some colors over here. I'm going to use the dark blue for the top and same for the sleeves. Over there, we'll have a dark blue in there. Ah, now, this one, I think I'm going to move it to the back. So I'll just move it, drag it down behind the blue body like so. In fact, because it's actually the neck, I'm cheating a little bit here, I'm going to go along to the color. Let's just click off of that and maybe darken it down just a little bit so you can see the difference between that and the head. When you're actually working like this, you'll see these little pink lines are popping in. And if you want to get rid of them, go along to the view menu and go to preview mode because now I can actually see when there's a problem like over here, the arm is not quite joined up to the body. So I'm going to click on that, and I'm using the arrows on the keyboard to just move it in a little bit more. I'll do the same with this one. I'm not moving the hand because it hardly makes any difference. Just go down until that matches up. Right. What about some trousers? Well, let's select those two there. Make a bit of a copy of those. This will be for the shoes. And I'm going to just drag those down and we'll pull them up a little bit like that. Those are going to be my shoes. They're going to be a darkish blue in there. And these ones here will be a lighter blue like that. Of course, if I wanted a little bit more in the webe trousers, I could actually take this one, make a copy of that, pull the copy down, and maybe make that the same blue to get that kind of effect, as well. I'm quite fond of this one here without the extra one. I like that, but it's up to you. Anyway, one last thing before I stop, just close that down. So hair. I'm going to use the pencil tool and I'm going to very roughly draw some hair over here on my character. Now, I could go with that and just leave the hair like that as a Bg old blob. In there. So it's just all done with a free hand. Or if you prefer, you can select both those items and use the Shape Builder tool, hold down the alter the option key, and just click the bit you don't want to remove it. Like so. That's a bit of a Frankenstein look. So I'm going to make the hair a dark blue as well, so it doesn't look quite so Frankenstein. Right. Have a bit of a go with those, move things around, flip them around. Don't forget to flip things. You're using this little option at the top here, flip horizontal flip vertical, move them around, change the color, create your character, and then we'll come in. We'll put in a face and some more details on the clothing as well. Try it out. 20. Add Facial Features & Make Variations: Let's add some eyes and a mouth to the character, and then I'll show you some variations. So I'm going to zoom right in. I'm going to use just a little ellipse over here and draw in a perfect circle. I'm holding down the Shift key to get that perfect circle. And then over here in my colors, I'm going to choose a black fill and the stroke around the outside and none over there. So I think that's probably a bit too big. Let's make it a bit smaller. I'm going to just scale it down a little bit like that. But the eyes are dead being just just black like that. You need a bit of a highlight in the eyes to bring them to life. So I'm going to hold down the alter the option key to make a copy of that. Make a little copy of that, once again, holding down the Shift key over there. Move that across maybe just sort of top left, somewhere like that, and fill that with white. So onto my fill, choose white in there. Now, let me zoom out a bit. I'm going to select that, hold down the alter the option key, and move that one across to there, and then another one. Cross to that side over there. If you think that those highlights are too big, well, you can make them smaller if you wish. Now, with a smile, we're going to do this free hand, so I'm going to use the pencil tool and just draw in a little smile. So I don't want a fill for this. Stroke I'm going to use black. I'm just going to check the size, so it's not too thick for the moment. And I can then draw in my smile like that. Of course, that's a vector line, so you can always in your vector area, get the nodes and adjust the smile. I'm going to make mine a little bit thicker. Like that. That's actually quite a nice nice smile. Anyway, try that out and add in any other details that you want in your image. I mean, for example, you could go in and you could put buttons in there. But try some other versions as well. These are great fun to do, and I kind of got carried away, and I'll show you what I mean here. So I thought I'd do one or two extra or different ones to show you. And then I just kept going with them. And I got down to the chef then I thought, Well, I better stop now and just get back to the course again. They're all pretty much the same thing. I've changed the arms a little bit. You can adjust the clothing slightly. You can try different hairstyles, different faces. I've just flipped the smile upside down to make this angry one over there. And we're actually going to be using an angry head and a happy head on our table, as well. So do try that out. Once again, I'm going to put this finished file into the folder for you, so you'll be able to have a look at those as well if you want. You'll notice that none of these have got strokes around them, except for the ones that are white, and I've just put a stroke on those, and I took both or three of the items. I took that bit, held down the shift key, that one, and that one, and I used the Shape Builder tool. My brain went for a second there, and I just joined them into one like that. So, whoops. So when I put the stroke on, the stroke wouldn't go across the arms over there. Anyway, have lots of fun, make some interesting characters. We just want one really in there and maybe an angry version, as well that we can then use for our ticks and crosses. Have a go. 21. Create Face Icon for Table: Et's go and make a copy of the head. I'm going to select it and then hold down the alter the option key and drag a copy and make it a lot smaller. Now, be careful because it's easy to mis scale, so I'm going to hold down the Shift key while I'm doing it, as well. Now, I do want to make sure that it's actually the right size. So yes, it'll fit in there really easily. The other thing that you might notice is that the smile, the width of the smile is the same width as that smile over there. So this stroke on the smile hasn't scaled. You might wish to go in and actually rescale it if you want. I'm going to actually keep mine just like that. So from a distance, you can still see the smile properly. But there are settings that you can change to make sure that the strokes scale while you're scaling the object. I'm happy with that one, and I want a This is the happy one, so I want a cross one. So I'm going to hold down the alter the option key, make a copy of that. This one is going to be red. So I'm going to go to my swatches and choose a red fill color for that. I'm going to change the hair color as well. Let's try gray, brown black. Black stands out quite well. And then it's still smiling, so I'm going to go up. I've selected the smile. I'm going to go up to the top to the flip vertical and flip that over to make it unhappy. Right, so let's have a look at now putting this in. I'm going to actually fill all of these with the happy face, and then just once I've thought out which one should and shouldn't show, I'll change them to the unhappy one. But I want to show you why this is going to be a problem. I'm going to copy this, and I'm going to go in, like we did earlier in the course, where I showed you how to paste a picture in. So I'm going to go in there and I'm going to paste it in, and look what happens. I pasted in as individual parts. It looks really, really weird at the moment. I'm going to use command or Control Z to undo that. And I'm sure you've figured out what to do with this. If we select it, we'll go to layer and we'll group it together. Arms will group that one while I'm at it, as well. So layer and group. So if it treats it as a group now, it should put in as one piece. Let's copy that go in here and paste it in. There we go it's paste in perfectly. I'm just going to go all the way down pasting in the ones that I want in there. Now, they are over to the side and the top. We will deal with that very, very shortly. But try that out, make it unhappy face or a cross face, and then pop that in into the group version. 22. Adjust Table: I'm going to move these two little people over to that side there so I can continue to use them later. And I'm going to take my person, and I'm going to group it together. And I might even make it a bit smaller because it's a bit on the large side. At the moment, once again, do watch that smile. Look, it keeps the same size as it's scaling over there. So you might need to adjust that. That'll do, and I'll just move it down over here out the way for now. Now, looking at this, we need to start to get these things into the right positions. I want to center these over here and center those as well. And we can experiment with some lines in here too and see how that works. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go along to the Window menu. You remember to go down to the table and table across there. And let's have a look at these options. So first of all, the little smiley faces. Now, I'm going to select them all. I'm in the Table tool. And if I want to sent them this way, I can use the paragraph options and just sent to them with the paragraph options, or I can keep them on the left. I'm going to sent them. Now, everything else over here, including those smiley faces, I'm going to center with the table options. So down here, I'm going to go to the vertical position, and I'm going to choose center in there, and that moves it to the center of all of the little cells. Let's have a look now at bringing some of these lines back, so I'm going to try this one here and see what it looks like. So I'm just going to do the in between lines over there. They're a bit on the thick side, so we go to stroke and just make sure that we've got nice thin lines over there. They look quite good, actually. I'm going to go to color and just experiment and see, does it look better with white over there? Or should I use one of these colors in here. Now, when I click off of that, the white looks. That looks okay. Looks quite delicate. Now, as I'm working here, I've got this pink line around there. I've got the pink line around there. To see what the final result is going to be, I'm going to go over to the view menu and just switch on preview mode so I can see exactly what I'm getting. I'm going to close down my table. And as you can see, I've just put in a little bit of text along the top there. Now, let's make a copy of that. This is grouped together. I have grouped it together, so I'm going to move it out to the side over there, and I'm going to select that whole table, hold down the old key or the option key, and make a copy of that over here. So this is the month path pass. This one is going to be the day pass, so I'm just going to change that today. You see I've used a nice rounded font or typeface in there. And then I can go along and have a look at which things are not going to be included in the day pass. And I think the day pass doesn't include the bounce zone, so I'm going to get rid of that. So I'm going to click in here and just highlight that and remove it. But then I'm going to take the existing one. This one here, you notice I've changed mine from red because I thought red was a bit too extreme and scary for small kids. So I've done I've just changed the color to blue and made the mouth less scary. I'm going to copy that, go back in here, and paste it in there. And once again, they also don't get puzzle, so I'm going to click in there, delete that, and paste that one in for the day pass as well. I think in the month pass, they don't get the story corner, so I'm going to click on that. Once again, go back into my table tool. Delete that and paste that in over there. Now, we've done these, so if I'm happy with that, I can get rid of those. I'm actually going to just move them onto a different page over there. Let's take these ones. I'm going to select them both and move them roughly into the right position over there. And then this character here, I'm going to drag in, and he's going to be standing somewhere over there, but we need to be able to see the text as well. Let me just move that out a little bit, select all of those. Maybe move it across a bit and move him into the right position. So they kind of sort of slightly over the edge of that. Right, if you'd like to just have a bit of a go with that, do a monthly and a daily version, change the little ticks on the various areas. You can choose whichever you want and move your little person into the right position. 23. Adjust Document Size & Export: Some of you might have noticed that my screen was maybe not the size or my page was not the same size as yours, as in mine was a little bit more square and yours was a little bit more oblong. Well, that was a problem on my part, and it was a mistake on my part. So, is it a big problem? Not in the slightest. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to fix it. So if your screen is not correct, you can fix it. If it is, that's absolutely fine. But it's also important to know that you can do this because sometimes a client will change their mind and go, Well, I actually asked for it to be portrait and I want it in landscape. All you need to do is to go to documents setup over there and change it. You can see minus 38 by 3,000, so I'm going to put in 2160, which is the one that I want and click Okay. Now, of course, these ones are not correct. So I'm going to select that. And I'm going to go over. I'm just going to group them for now, make it easier to move everything around. So I'm going to group that, and I'm going to group this one. As well. So let's go into layer and group. My little person's already grouped. If I select this now, I'm going to go down not to the little button in there, because if I do that, you see how the object scales, but not the table, not properly anyway. So I'm going to use the outer dot, that one over there, just on the very edge. And so everything will now scale. I'll hold down the Shift key, and I can get that absolutely spot on wherever I want it size wise. I think it might need to be a little bit bigger than that. There. I'll do the same with this one now, so once again, I'm going to make sure I'm on the very edge dot. Hold down the shift key and scale it, and I'm just going to pull that out until they match up. You see the little red lines appearing so I know that they're exactly the same size. So we can now move those across into the middle my little person can come out and stand over there somewhere, and I think we need to have the name of the company over here, which is going to be kids. I'm going to go along to the text tool and I'm going to put in my kids. It's somewhere over there. Let's just click on that. There we are. So I can see that. But I want to rotate it 90 degrees, so I'm going to rotate it round, holding down the Shift key so it'll snap to that 90 degree point. And of course, that needs to be scaled down as well to fit in this area. So I'm looking at something like that. Now, I also want a background color, so I'm going to take a little shape over here, put my shape in. I think that's actually the right color, that dark dark blue. Let's find out. And I want to send it right to the back, so I'm going to use this, click over there and just say center back. In there. Now, this kids looks a little bit too harsh, so I'm going to select it. I'm going to make it white, but then I'm going to change the opacities so it's barely visible above the background. If you want to bring in any more of your characters, that's absolutely fine. If you need to move these things around. Everything is now absolutely scalable and fully movable, as well. Gonna move that one. Over to there. If you haven't been saving, well, you should have been. And I know I'm the worst person for that, but make sure that you just do your save as and then save again. I'm going to get a file and export it, and I'm exporting it in whatever format the client asks for, be it a PNG or a JPEG file ready to go on their system to be shown on the monitor. So I'm going to use the best quality JPEG over there. The pages. Well, once again, I'm just going to use that current page in there or we could have all pages if you want to print out or JPEG, the other ones with the little characters on them. I'm going to click on Export. You'll see that the size is 3840 by 216 oh. That's correct. Click on Export in there, and I'm going to put this onto the desktop, so I'll call it XKIds Table Project finished. Click on Save and that's done. But if I go with that. Make any changes that you need, add some more characters. You might want three of these month a day and a yearly pass. By all means, you can just copy one of them and change a few bits and pieces around. If you had a vertical version that you needed, once again, you can just change it by doing the document settings and changing it, but don't forget. Always grab it by the dot on the very edge if you're working with a table. I hope you enjoyed that project. Try out some variations. Don't forget to share it with us. And even if you just want to make, half a dozen characters and show us the characters, we love seeing what you're doing. Enjoy. 24. Master Pages - Intro: In this section, we're going to be looking at Master Pages. Now, although they're called Master Pages in Affinity, Adobe call them parent pages. Other packages call them templates, but they're all pretty much the same thing. They're a page where if you put something on it, it will appear on every page. And I want to show you how to build those and nest them and do all sorts of exciting things with parent pages. 25. Why Use Master Pages: I've got a document over here, and if you have a look at my pages in the pages panel, you can see that I've got a cover page here, and then I've got another seven pages, making eight pages altogether in this document. So there's a cover, and then all the rest of the pages look pretty similar like that. But to create this document, I used a master page. Now, over here, you can see I've got something called a Master page. In there, it's called Master A, and all of these pages from page two downwards, have got the Master page attached. So the master page controls various things on this document. Like it controls the picture and the colors on the side here and the color down here and the text, how many columns there are in the text. Let me show you. So I'm going to go to the Master page up here, double click it. And I'm going back from view mode. I'm switching preview mode off over there so I can actually see the build of this. I'm going to click on this picture over here, and I'm going to change the size of that picture frame, so it's going to go up to that color Whoops, up to the color over here, and it's going to go up to this color over there. Now, let's have a look at the document because if I go back to the document, you'll see that all the pages have now been updated as well, the picture goes right the way to the edge of the document. Let's go back to that master page in there. I'm going down to my text in here. I've got two columns of text in the master page, and any text that appears in here will be exactly the same in these pages here. You can see that it says over here. So she set the little creature down, and on every page, it'll be exactly the same text. She set the little creature down. She set the little creature down. So if you've got something like text in a parent page, can you then change the text on the individual pages? And absolutely, we can go to the individual pages over here, and I'll be showing you how to do this later on. But we will actually be able to change the text. At the moment, you can't because it is locked in position, but once I show you how to do it, you'll be able to do it on the individual pages. Now, if I change the frame, and I'm going to go over here and I'm going to choose three columns for that frame, you'll see it updates all the columns in there as well. So we can keep the text all the same fonts, and then just go and change it on an individual page or page by page basis. Now, what about colors and shapes, exactly the same thing. If I go along to this shape in the master page, and I'm going to go over here and just change the color. By the way, sometimes I'll call these parent pages, sometimes I'll call them Master Pages, and they're exactly the same thing. It depends on the software that you're in. So Affinity likes to use the word masters. Adobe uses the word parents. It's exactly the same thing. I'm going to change the colors of those. Let's go with a blue in there. And once again, it's updated it on every single page in the document. So you can see that Master Pages are really useful for longer documents. Although I've only got one master page here, you can use a multiple masters, so you can have different master pages for different sections or areas of your longer document. I'll be showing you how to do that later on. But let's go on to the next lesson and get started with the Master Pages. 26. Add New, Delete & Reorder Pages: I have added this document into your assets so that you can have a bit of a play with it and try out the things that we're about to have a look at now. But let's have a look at the pages panel. Now, if you can't see the Pages panel, and I've just hidden mine again, you go to the window menu go down to Layout, and the pages is in layout. And now, if you can't actually see the pages themselves, these little arrows over there, click on the pages over there, click on the Master to see the master. Now, when it comes to the pages themselves, if you want to add a new page, you can go along here and you can go to the page you want. Let's just double click that page. You can see if you double click the page, you just jump to that page. And if I right click this, I can then say add pages into here. Now, I then have this little ad pages window that comes up and says, Do you want or how many pages do you want? You can choose how many you want? And do you want it to come in before or after page number five that I've clicked on? We can also add in different types of pages. There's flow pages, extended spreads, new spreads in there as well. Now, I'm just going to click Okay with that. And you can see we've now got another page from the master page in there. Let me just do that again. Click on a page or double click it, shall I say, right click Add pages, and then we can just add pages in over here. Now, the type of page that we're adding in, is it going to be from the master page or is it going to be a Nun page? NN page is a totally blank page. If I click on Nun rather than having it to the master, when I click Okay, I'll get a completely blank page in there. Was that one when I did it came in with the master. One last time, right click Add pages over there and you choose do you want from the master or do you want it from a Nun page? In there. Now, if you want to change the order of your pages, you can just drag them around. So over here, I can go to this last page and I can drag it up and you can see I can put on the left or the right side of page number nine. If I put on the left side, then it will go before that page. Let me show you a different one here. If I were to take this page, page three here, and I dragged it up and I put it if I can get there. Over here on the right hand side of the first page, then it'll come in after the first page in there. You just drag and put it on either the left or the right hand side, but put on the left, that will now be my first page in there. So do have a bit of a go with that. You can right click, add new pages in there. If you don't want a page, you can delete it. I'm just going to go down to this page here. Right click on that and delete the page. You've probably noticed that there's duplicate in there as well if you want to duplicate a page and then once again change one. You can do that in there. I'm going to delete that last one. But just have a bit of a go get the hang of these things so that you feel more confident with this little panel. Try it out. 27. Create a Master from Scratch: Let's build a document with Master Pages. I'm going to go to File and New, and over here, I'm going to choose page sizes, CMYK, and just go along to A four. Now, over on the right hand side, we have got our sizes in here that we've looked at before. We've got the color format, CMYK, with an appropriate color profile. I'm going to move down to multi pages and swatch that on. And this then gives me the ability to have facing pages which we'll deal with later. So I will switch that off. And then over here, the number of pages, I'm going to put in four pages, and I'm going to switch on the default master. Now, it really is important initially when you first go into parent pages or Master Pages that you switch facing pages off because it can be a little bit confusing. Once you understand parent pages, master pages, then it's absolutely fine. It's really easy to work with facing pages. But for now, we'll leave that switched off. I'm going to click on Create Document. Just very quickly, let me show you what happens. If you leave facing pages switched on, you'll get a document that looks like that. I'm going to close that one down. We're just going to do standard pages. Now, it's really important when you start working with your master pages that you understand where you are. Because if I double click on the Master page, this is actually the master page here. If I double click on page two, this is page two. If I double click on page one, this is page one. So it's not very obvious where I am, and it's so easy to start building and then suddenly realize that you're actually on a page rather than on the master page or vice versa. So keep an eye down the bottom over here because this tells you where you are. If I double click on the Master page, it says I'm in Master A. If I double click on page two, it says I'm on page two of the four pages that I've got. Double click on page four, it's four of four over there. So it makes perfect sense in there. Now, let's go along to the Master page over here. I've double kicked the master. I have checked that it says Master A, and it's not very obvious, but you can see a little line around that master page over there. And let's add something in to this master page. Now, I'm going to just use a very simple shape. I'll just use a rectangle. I'm going to put a rectangle over the top over there. I'm going to go to my colors. I'm just going to use the standard colors that I've got in there and give it a color fill over there and get rid of the stroke on that. That's actually a little bit too bright. Let's go to something a bit darker. Now I'll just get rid of that stroke around the top. So you can see now that it appears on every single page below that. I'm going to make a copy. Remember, I'm still in the master page, so I'm going to make a copy of that, put it down the bottom. So I'm just holding down the alt or the option key, depending on your MacoPC we'll give that a different color down there. Keep on forgetting and making sure that and checking to make sure that I'm on the fill rather than the stroke. Over there, let's just bring that fill to the front. Now, it appears on every single page. But if you go back to your pages, I've double clicked the pages. So now in the pages, you can see on page one, it is locked down. Let's go back to the master and put in a photo. So once again, I'm going to go over here. I'm going to use a photo frame or a picture frame, and I'm going to draw in my photo. I think I'll just put it across on that side there. And I'm going to go and get the picture that I want on every single frame. I'm going to use something from stock, and as you can see, I've already done a search for surf, so I'm going to bring in a surfing picture into that frame. Let's just move them down a little bit over there. You can use whatever you like over there. In fact, we'll zoom in a bit and just have the top like so. Now, that's going to be exactly the same on every page like that. But then I also want to put a picture in here as well. So I'm going to go along back to my master, double click my master. I'm in the master, go over to my picture frame. I'm going to just draw in a picture frame over there. So each page is going to have a different picture. Once again, when I go back to my document, I'm on page one of four there. This is locked. I can't do anything with it. And by the way, if I zoom out, you will see all the pages in there, as well. So what can we do? Well, if you go to your stock, it's very easy to just drop things in there, even though it appears to be locked. So I can go in here and I can just take that one and drop it in there. Let's do another one in that one. And you can see just how fast it is to build a document like this. Let's get one more. Over there. Very, very quick. But the great thing is that if I then decide, You know what? That pictures really taking over the whole thing, I can go back to my parent or my master. Using the move tool, I'm going to make this a lot smaller and just put it over that color down the bottom. And once again, every single page will then update with that change that I've made. And I've got a nice lot of space here to put in my text. Have a bit of a go with that, make a new document, use a master, and then you can then just add in the pictures, whether it's one to go on all the pages or a picture frame, and then just add them in on the pages as well. The idea here is not to create anything amazingly beautiful, although you can, if you like, but it really is all about just learning how this master page and pages work together. Try it out. 28. Add None Pages & Convert to Master: I let's add in another page. Now, I'd like to have another page in front of all of these pages that I've got. So this will be for my cover page. So I'm going to go and right click on page number one, add pages, and then it says, Okay, do you want this to be a master page or a nun page? I want this to be a nun page, so it won't have any of this on it because I just want to put a picture over the top of everything. And where is it going to go? Well, it's going to go before page number one that I've clicked on in there. I'm just going to click Okay. So now I've got a totally blank page in there, and I can then just bring my picture in onto that first page. Let's just do that. Go and find a quick picture in the stock, and let's find a picture like that. Going back to my pages again, I'd like to put in another page maybe at the end, so I'm going to right click over there, and I'm going to once again, add a new page. Over here, it's going to be a nun page, and that's going to come in after page number five, and I'll click Okay. But then I've realized, hang on a second, I don't want that to be a nun page. I wish I'd done that as a master. Well, all I have to do is to drag my master and drop it on top of that page to get it back as a master page. So you can just drag a Master page onto a NN page. If you want to create NN pages, just right click, add a page, choose none, and you can, as always, move them around. Have a bit of a go with that. 29. Clear Masters: Now, I've got a Master page over there, so if I want to remove it, I can right click and I can just say clear Masters as simple as that. And, of course, I can go to the Master page and I can drag that back on top. But if I had a number of pages that I wanted to put the master on, especially if I'd create a second or third master page, I can click on a page. I can go to apply Master, and over here, I can apply a master to either all the pages or in odd pages, even pages. In my case, I want to apply it to a specific page, which is page number six. But you can see if you've got a master on there and you want to apply a different master, you can then replace the existing master too. Click Okay, and it will bring it back. Try that out. 30. Replace Text from a Master: I'm going to go to my Master page now. I'm going to double click it, check that I'm in my Master page down the bottom, and I'm going to add some text. So let me go and get a text box over here. I'm going to pop in the textbox, and I'm going to add some text to this. Now, I don't want to have to copy and paste a whole lot of text in there, so I'm just going to go to the text menu down to insert, and I'm going to insert filler text, which is just all sorts of weird and wonderful words in there. Now that I've got that, I can go back to my move to moving to the right position. Also decide how many columns I want in there. Now, of course, that's been applied to the rest of my document. When I go back to my document, I'll zoom out a bit. You can see it's in the rest of the document. But of course, I don't want that filler page on this page here. I want to bring in my own text. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to this page. Let me just zoom into it. Using the move tool, I'm going to double click, and then I can just delete the text that's in there and then start adding in my own text. In there like so. You'll see the other pages if I move down over here. This one's still got that text. Double click. Delete the text that's there, add in your own text or copy and paste it straight in. It's a really lovely way of making sure that you've got the same type of text and same style in there. Of course, we're going to do text styles later on in this course. But for the moment, it's a quick way of getting things to look the same. Try it out. 31. Add a Second Master: I'm going to go back to my master. As you'll see, I've changed a little bit. I've just put a picture in the top, another picture there and a bit of text. I've just simplified it so it looks better and easier for you to see what's going on. And the same with these pages, yeah, I've just got six pages altogether, and they've all got this same master on them. Now, I'd like to have a second master for a different section of this document that I'm creating. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to the Master Pages panel here and I'm going to click this little button over there called add Master. Now in doing so, it says, Oh, you want a new master. Okay. You can make a number of changes in here. So I'm going to first of all, it's Master B. I'm going to leave it like that name there. I'm going to keep the document size the same, and I'm going to go over here and just click Okay. If you want to experiment with a few of those bits later on, that's fine. But for the moment, just keep it exactly as the other one was. You can see I've now got two Master Pages, and I'm on the second master page, which is Master B down there. Now, a few things I want to do. I want to actually go back to this master, and I want to copy this little bit of text. And I'm going to go over here and I'm going to go to edit, and I'm going to paste it straight in over there. It's just paste in there. It's just pasted from exactly where it was copied. No, I think on this master here, I want to have a picture down the side, so I'm going to use my picture frame, drawing the picture down the side for this one. Let's just do something like that, and then go and find an image to go in there. So something fairly simple, drop that one. There. Then this is also going to have some text down here. So I'm going to go along to my text tool. I'm going to click and drag, pop in the text frame. This one, I'm going to fill, so I'm going to go to edit. Let's try that sentence again. I'm going to go to text, insert, and I'm going to insert, fill a text on that. But this time, I'm going to use my move tool again. I'm only going to have one column like that, and let's just move that across. It's over there. Remember, I can always change this later on. Let's take that free surf, pop it over there. And if I want a picture, I'm going to do that, so I can get another picture coming in there as well. Now, let's go back to our pages. So now that I've got a second one of those, I could take one of these master Bs and drag and drop it onto page three. And then you can see it just replaces the one that was there. So it's very quick to drag and drop on top of existing master pages to replace them. If I go down to the end, I could also right click and I could say, Well, let's add pages. And I can then choose from my Master A or my Master B. I'm going to choose Master B over there, and I want to put in two pages, and that's going to go after page number six. Let's click Okay. And back to this document here, if I zoom out, you'll see my entire document. Let's just show this in preview mode and you can see all the pages with two separate master pages on my document. And now it's going to be very quick for me to go and put in pictures and just edit the text. And you can really think of master pages almost like templates that you can then apply to your pages very, very quickly. Try it out. 32. Detaching Pages from a Master: Now, one of the things that you'll notice when you're doing this is that if you double click on something, so let's go and have a look at this page over here. If I double click on the picture, I can change the picture, but I can't move it. If I double click on the text, I can get into the text. I can delete what's there, but I can't move it. The same with that. There's nothing that I can do with that. So what about if I want to move these things around on this page? Because I thought on this page here, I want this picture to actually be slightly further across and maybe the free surf on the left hand side. Well, what we do is we detach it from the master. Now, there's two ways you can do this. The first way is you can go to your layers. I'm going to just pull my layers up over there, and you'll see that we've got Master B and then the items which are in that master. If you can't see these, by the way, just click on that little arrow on the side to show them. If I go to a different page over here, once again, we've got a different lot of objects in there. So you can go to a master. You can write, click on a Master, and you can say Edit detached. Now, I won't click on that yet because I want to show you the other way of doing it, as well. So that's one way of getting to detach the images and text from the master or the page from the master. The other way is to go up to the layer menu and go down to Master Pages and once again, choose Edit detached. Now that I've detached it, you can see we've got this big green line across the top here. So I can go to any of these items and just treat them as I would anything else. I'm going to make my picture a little bit bigger, drag her down a bit over there. I'm going to move free surf over to the left hand side, and maybe on this one, I'm going to do this as two columns. Now, it's only I'm going to just say finish there. It's only affected. That page that I was on there. It hasn't affected all the others. Let me do this again. I'll go to a different page. Let's choose this one here. And once again, I'm going to do this from the layers panel. Let's pull that down. I can right click on the master, and I can say Edit detached. Once again, we get the green line across the top, and I can do all sorts of things. I'm going to make that smaller and this one smaller over there. And I think I'll make this a single column in there. So do try that out. It's a way of actually working with a document and changing things around, and then you just click Finish when you're done. The other way to do it is you're only editing the contents of those boxes, but you can't change them. Try that out on yours. 33. Page Numbers: Et's do a new document and add some page numbers. I'm just going to go to File and New. You know how to do this. Do my A four page. And this time, I'm not going to put in too many pages, so I'm going to go to multi pages, and I think I'm going to have four pages over here. And I will just say default master. So we have that basic Master on there. I don't want facing pages on at the moment. I'll leave that switched off. We'll look at that shortly. I'm going to click on create document. So, you know, the score now. I want to go into the Master page so I'm going to double click on the Master, check that I'm in the master at the bottom. Over there and then do what I want in here. Now, what I'm going to do in here is I'm just going to go and use a text tool and I'm going to click and drag a text frame. Now, to put the page number onto the master, it's really easy. We go to text, we go down to not interactive. Let's try that again. Insert Fields. The hardest part of this is finding it, to be honest. After that, it's really simple. So it's text, insert fields, and page number. You can see while we're in here, you can actually do the next frame page number, previous page numbers, total pages. There's so many other options in here. I'm just going to do the page number up there. But, you know, once you've tried this out and you're happy with page numbers, try some of the other ones, you know, date and time created. It's interesting one. Now, I'm going to select what it's put in. What it does, it puts in a little hash symbol over there like you get with a hash tag. And I'm going to make that a bit bigger. The only reason I'm making it bigger so that it's easy for you to see. So I'm going to go across to my characters over there, and let's choose a very large size here. I think something like that. And oh, you can change the font in here if you wish. Let's try that one over there and the colors as well if you need. You do whatever you like. It's just like normal text. Now, you'll see if I look at the pages here when I double click, page one, page two, page three, they just work. And if you go into your pages, and say, for example, I dragged page two in front of page one. Well, once again, they just sort themselves out one, two, three, so you don't have to worry if you drag your pages around, the numbers will still work properly. So do have a bit of a go with that. You have to use your text till first, draw a text frame and then it's straight to text, insert Fields page number. Once you try that out, feel free to have a go with any other bits and pieces in there. And don't forget do this knot, as I'm about to do on page two there. Do it in your master page. That's really important. Try it out. I 34. Multiple Masters: Et's go back to our last document over here, because what I'd like to do is I'd like to put some page numbers on this document, but I can't put them onto one of the masters because I've actually got two different masters in there. I suppose I could put them into one and then copy them into the other one if I really wanted to, but I might prefer not to. So how else could we do it? Well, we can do that by making a third master page. So I'm going to go pan and make a new Master page. It's going to be totally blank. You can call it what you want. Mine is called Master C, or I can just change it to page number. Over there if I wished. I'm going to click okay. And I've now got a new one called page number. Now, let me just make sure that I'm actually in a mode that I can see what I'm doing. I'm going to get my text tool. You know how to do this one by now. I'm just going to put the page number over here. Let's put it right in the middle, so I'll make this the same width as that. I'm going to go up to text, insert fields, page number. I'm going to select that, and I'm going to go over here and choose a typeface for that. I'll just use aerial black. I'm going to make it a bit bigger. Oh, let's go say 24, and I'm also going to go to my paragraph options and center it in the middle. I'm going to even change the color to one of the colors that I'm using. I'm using sort of these C greens, so I'll choose that green over there. Now, when we go back to our document over here and I'll just double click, you won't see the page numbers in there at all. So how do we get them in? Well, what I can do is I can right click on my document, and I can then go and say apply Master. Now, if I were to apply on page two, Master page number. Because replace existing is switched on, when I clicked Okay, it would get rid of the master page that's there. I'll just click Okay to show you. And you can see now my second page has just got the number two in there. It hasn't changed any of the other pages. Now, I'm going to undo that. So I'm using Command Z because I'm on a Mac was Control Z on a PC. So how do we get them onto them both at the same time? Well, by the way, I'm just going to move this down a bit. I realize that it'll probably under the picture if I don't. Um, let's go back again. So all you do is you right click, go to apply Master, and then once you've chosen it, switch replace existing R. When I click Okay, what it will do is it will add the second master on top of the first. In fact, if I hover over these, you can see this master here well, this page hasn't got any master on it. The third one has got a master on it called Master B. This one has got two masters, Master A, and page number master. So it's got multiple masters on it. What I'd like to do is to apply the two to all the pages. So I'm going to just undo what I've done in there, and I can do that by if I can undo it this way, or I can go along, and I can just right click on here and say clear Masters, and then I'll just reapply that first master, I could have dragged and dropped it on. I was Master A in there. So I've just gotten rid of that second master. Now, let's right click that. I'm going to say apply masters, and this time, I'm going to apply the page numbers as I did before. Switch off replace existing, but I'm going to apply it to every single page over here. Or I can say specific pages. So for example, page two to page, I can't remember how many pages I've got. In here. Let me just cancel and just have a quick look, eight pages. So I'm going to apply the master. This will be page numbers from page two to page eight in there, replace existing switched off. Click Okay. And now it should come up on every single page over there. Unfortunately, some of them are actually over the pictures in there, so I might have to just go back there and maybe move it up just a little bit. Like so. It's just double click and have a look now. That's slightly above it. We can move it to wherever we want to be honest. But do try that out. Remember, you right click, you go to apply Masters. Just make sure you know which pages you're applying it to. You're adding your third master page, which is the page number, master, and you're switching off replace existing in there. It's easy to make a mistake here, but you'll see straightaway. And when you go over to a page, you can hover over it and you can see which masters they are. So this one, I can tell that I've got Master B and page number. This one here is Master A with page number as. So have a bit of a go and apply multiple masters to your pages. 35. Page Sections: I've got my cover page here, and I've put in a blank page underneath it, and then the rest of my pages keep going down here. Now, maybe I want the second page here for a Table of Contents. So I really want my page numbering to start on this page over here, which is actually number three. I want that to be number one, so we'll have one, two, et cetera, all the way down. Now, it's actually quite easy to do. All we have to do is to insert a new section. Now, to put in a new section, I'm going to go to page three in the pages panel, right click it, and I'm going to go along to if we can, I'm just going to pull this up a little bit so you can see it. Otherwise it goes off the bottom. We're going to go to start New section down there. And this little window comes up and it says, you want to do a new section, which is going to be applied to page three to nine. And I'm going to say, I want to start the numbers over there at page number one. Now, while I'm in here, I could also change them instead of going from one, two, three to ABC to any of these options, Roman numerals, if you wish. And I'm going to click on close now. And what you'll see now is that my third page has now become page number one, number two, number three. If we look at the pages in the pages panel, that's actually page number three, but in brackets, it's number one because it's number two, because there aren't new sections in there. So do try it out. If you want to put in a new section, so let's say I want a new section on page seven, I can right click in here. Go to and I'm going to have to pull that up again so that you can see it properly. Right click on the page, go to start New section. Over here, I can start a new section at whatever I want. And we can also change the number style. So I'm going to go and do this alphabetically. Click on Close. So now we have Blank blank one, two, three, four, A and B, and C in there. And you can see they've got new section in brackets over there. Have it go, try it out, it can be quite useful. 36. Merge Documents: I I've got a different document that I want to attach to this document. So let me show it to you. I'm going to go to file and open and find it. It's got some pictures, some surfing pictures on it. It's called the Surf Gallery, and it just got two pages like that. Now, this could be something that I created another time. It could be something that somebody else has created. I've just closed it down again. But I want to add it to this document. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to my last page or wherever I want it to go. I'm going to write click and I'm going to say add pages from file over there. Then I can go and find that file. And then over here, it says, Which pages do you want to add? Well, I want to add all the pages. There's only two of them in the document, to be honest, but you could just choose which ones you wanted. And I'm going to say, I want to come after page number nine. And let's click Okay, over there, and you can see it's brought in those last two pages in there. It really is as easy as that, and it means that you don't have to create everything in one great big document. You can have other people working on the same document and then just put them together as and when you need. Create a simple document, just two pages with some pictures on and try it yourself. 37. Facing Pages: Et's have a look at facing pages. Now, I'm going to go to File and New. And in my document, I'm on the page size this year in CMYK. I've chosen A four, and I'm going to go down to multi pages, switch that on, and I'm going to have facing pages switched on this time. And I'm going to put in eight pages and I'm going to use the default master. So now, when I create my document, what we'll have is over here, we've got the front page. I'll zoom out a little bit over here. Then I've got the two inner pages like we'd have in a magazine or a book, over there, another two until finally we get the back page over there. So it means that you can design across double pages like this. Now, in the Master Pages, it's exactly the same. I've got the A Master over here, which is applied to all these pages, and there's a left hand side page and a right hand side page. I'm going to double click on the Master page, go in here, and so that you can see very clearly what I'm doing. I'm just going to use a color. I'm going to put a color across just half of that page there, and let's make that a nice bright blue. And I'm going to do the same on the other side, so I'm going to hold down the lt key and make a copy of that Alt or the option key, depending whether McPC. And we're going to make that one a green color. And you can see straight away with these colors now, the right hand side pages have all got the blue on them, the left hand side pages have got the green on them until we get to the final page. But what about if I had added or wanted to add a master page? I'm going to right click and I'm going to say clear Master from this page over here. Well, I can drag these pages on, and I don't even have to be that accurate. You see, if I drag the right hand side page, they both come with, and if I drop it over there, it understands that this is a left hand side page, so it puts the appropriate page in there. Once again, exactly the same. If I just cleared those ones and I went over to the green page here, you can see it's dragging them both, dropping them on there and dropping them onto both pages at the same time. It's pretty much the same thing as single pages, but you've got two pages together, which means if you're putting pictures across the double page, it's so much easier to design that way. Try it out on a new document. 38. Styles, Baseline Grid & TOC - Intro: This section is all about styles. These are text styles, so you can create a style and a plight to a lot of text. And then when you update the style, it updates all of your text in that document. We're also going to be looking at baseline grid so that you can make sure that your text is perfectly aligned. And lastly, we'll be looking at Table of Contents, so we can get a table of contents based on a style so you can get the page numbers at the beginning of your document. 39. About the Baseline Grid: A little story over here. Well, in fact, it's a synopsis of Alison Wonderland. I have provided the text for you in a Word document, so if you want to use this text, absolutely fine. But I'd like you to have a look at it. I've got one bit of text here and I've got another text frame over there. And I'm going to move these together like that over there. And you can see they fit in perfectly. I can maybe make this one slightly smaller. But let's have a look at what happens here about the text itself. You see, I've got two paragraphs, this one here and that one there, and I've got two paragraphs there and there. Now, what that means is that the text is lining up perfectly. Let's take a guide and put it over here. On the first line of text, you can see that it lines up really, really well. Let's go down a bit over here. The text is the same size. It's got the same font. It's got the same distance between the lines, which is your leading. Now, let's go down to this paragraph over here, and once again, you can see it lines up absolutely perfectly. But what would happen if I then put in another paragraph? So let's say Alice's Adventures in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll, I'm going to change that. So I'm going to say, full stop there. And then I'm just going to take out the and and put in F for first published in there. And this is now going to be a new paragraph in there. So let's have a look what happens now. Once again, I go over here. And pull a guide down and this is looking okay over here. Over there. This is more. That doesn't look right, does it? You can see as I move across, because we've put a paragraph there, this side doesn't look right at all. Now, before I had the paragraphs in the same position, let's keep moving down. The text is way out over here. There we are. It's really out. It just looks awful. We need to now be able to sort this out. So this is where baseline grids come in. Baseline Grids are invisible grids that you can switch on and use in order to get your text to line up. And it could be like here that you've got different paragraphs which cause the text to become unaligned, or it could be that you've actually got slightly different type sizes. So maybe the font size on here is slightly different to the font size over there, but you still want to line up correctly. Now, to do this, what I'm going to do is just deselect those. I'm going to go up to the view menu. And I'm going down to something called the Baseline Grid. Now, we'll switch that on. Now you can see with the Baseline Grid, there is used Baseline Grid and there's show Baseline Grid. Now, if you switch on show Baseline Grid, because we're not actually using it, it doesn't actually show up. But watch what happens the moment that I say use Baseline Grid, the text just jumps onto those. If I just hide that for a moment, you can see we switch it on, switch it off. And now all the text is perfectly aligned in there. Let's just show that baseline grid once again. So switch it off, we go back to unaligned text, switch it on, and it just jumps to the correct side the correct alignment. Now, what would happen if I decided that I wanted this bit of text further down? Will I move it down. Can you see how it's actually just jumping onto that grid? As I'm dragging it down, even though it might be slightly off over there, it just jumps onto that grid over there. And that is so useful, it makes your life so much easier than trying to manually align text. Let's have a look at a few of the options in here. So I'm going to take that to the top once again, and we've got an option for a starting position over here. And if I change that, you can see it can just force the text down to start it slightly higher up or lower down. There. I'll just take this back to zero once again. Then we can decide where the baseline grid starts. Does it start at the top of our spread at the top of the page or does it start at the top margin over there? It's entirely up to you which one you want to use. Now we can also change the spacing of this grid. And if I go in here and just increase the spacing, you can see how it moves that text further apart. And I can keep going with that to move it as far as I want. Remember, this baseline grid is a document grid here. It's not specifically for these two individual text frames. Now, let's make this smaller, and I want to show you something that happens. You see the size that I've got of the leading, that's the distances between all the lines over here. We go and have a look at our options. I'm going to go to character, and I'm going down over here to our leading option, which is set to 13.8. Now, this is set to 15. So if I reduce that to 14, it still works. If I go to 13, 13 is smaller than 13.8. So what it does is it says, Well, we can't do that, so it puts the text on every second line. If you see this where your text is actually jumping to a second line in there, it's just because your grid spacing is smaller than your leading over there. I'll just keep going, making it smaller and smaller. And once again, you can see it's on every second line in there. But it gets to 0.13, 14, and it jumps to those lines. Lastly, we've got the color over there and the transparency of the baseline grid, which you can change in there. Let's close that down. Do try that out with a bit of text in there, I'd suggest very simply two little text frames over there, put in a few maybe paragraphs in there or change the size of the text on one of them and see what happens. You can still do this afterward. So if I went to this bit of text here and I took let's take that whole paragraph there, and I go and increase the size. So I'll just go up here from 12, and I'm going to go to 13. Oh, look what happens there. All of a sudden, it jumps to every second line. And that's because, remember, we had 14 for our distances between the guides. If I just go back again very quickly to show you so let's go to Baseline Grid. You can see that was set to 14 there. But the leading for 13 point text is 14.9. If I reduce this to 14, then it will quite happily sit on that baseline. It takes a little bit of getting used to, but have a bit of a play with it. See how it works. If you're not sure, just come back and watch this video again and then try it again and see how you get on. 40. Switch Off the Baseline Grid: Now, let's go back to the Baseline Grid, and I'm going to switch it on so you can see the whole thing, and let's close that down. Now, I want to move the title over here just down a little bit, but I can't because the moment that I start to move it, it just jumps to that Baseline Grid. So how can I move it without the Baseline Grid? Well, what we can do is we can go along, and I'm going to go to the paragraph options. And let's have a look under spacing over here, and we can switch off align to baseline grid for that. Now, this means that I can move it wherever I want to go. I don't have to align it directly to that grid. I'm just using the arrows on the keyboard to place it wherever I want. Try that out, so you can go along to your paragraph options and just switch the baseline grid on and off if you want to off, if you want to align to something else. Try it out. A 41. Baseline Grid on Individual Frames: I'm going to go back to the view menu down to Baseline Grid, and I'm going to switch it off. So I'm going to say switch off. Use Baseline Grid, so things just jump to wherever they've been put. I'm going to use Show Baseline Grid. I'm still going to leave that one switched on. That's really important, or you won't see the next item. So even if you have got them switched off, just go in here and switch that one on and that one off. Let's click on close. Now, what I'd like to do is I'd like to have the Baseline Grid just on this one here so we can have a Baseline Grid on individual frames. You don't have to have them over the whole document, as I showed you earlier. And to do that, what we do is we go to the Window menu and I'm going to go down to text, and we're going to find our text frame options over here. So rather than paragraphs or characters, we go to the text frame options. So here it is, and you can see right at the bottom, over here, there is a Baseline Grid option. Now, if I switch that on, what it does is it switches on the baseline grid for the particular frame that I've got selected. The options here are exactly the same, start position relative to once again over here, the grid spacing, we can change that as well. And I'm just going to switch that one off like so. So I can go through my document and I can switch on individual baseline grids. Now, to find that, once again, you've got the text frame, which has got the general settings in here. You can see we've got something very similar that we had before, where I said I could actually align things to the Baseline Grid. I can switch that on off. I can also on something, say, ignore the Baseline Grid. So once again, similar type of thing. Try that one out, and it's the Baseline Grid in there, but to see it, you must have view Baseline Grid. You must have that switched on or you won't see it. It's still work, but you just won't see it. Try it out. 42. Baseline Grid in Text Frame vs Paragraph: Et's have a look at the differences between the ignore Baseline Grid here and the align to baseline grid on the paragraph option. Well, if I click on this text frame and I say, Ignore Baseline Grid, you can see it just jumps all the text jumps there. And if I go here and switch align to baseline grid off, once again, it's the same thing. So are they exactly the same? No, they're not. You see, this one here, is about the paragraphs. So I could actually go into this paragraph here. I've just clicked in the paragraph. And if I say ignore Baseline Grid on the text frame, it ignores it for all the text. But if I go over here and say switch off a line to Baseline Grid, it just does it for that particular paragraph. So this is paragraph based. This is on the entire frame over there. They appear to do the same thing initially, but there's a subtle difference between them. Once again, just try it out so that you can understand the difference between those two. 43. What are Styles: I've got a piece of text over here about Alice's Adventures in Wontand, and this is slightly different to the last piece of text because this one has got little subheadings all the way through. I've copied that, and I've pasted it into a new document over here. And what I want to do is I want to now have a look at styles and how we can make styles to very, very quickly style up our text. So you don't have to go through every little bit of text and go, let's choose the font, let's choose the size, all of those things. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the Window menu. I'm going down to text and I'm going to be finding the text style panel. Now, over here, you can see it shows that it's actually open, and there it is the Ts over there, and I'm just going to pull that out like so. Now what we have are a number of different styles in here. So you can see there's two types of styles. There's one with a ittle paragraph symbol on that's kind of like that backward P over there, and there's one with an underlined A over here. These styles here are styles that get applied to the entire paragraph, they call paragraph styles. And these styles here can be applied to individual words or a number of words or a letter. These are called character styles. So the A is character style, the backward P are paragraph styles. Show you how they work. I'm going to go through this first of all, and I'm going to select this paragraph over here. Now, I am going to select it all by just clicking a few times you don't have to, as you'll see in a moment. I'm going to go to my paragraph style, and I can then choose a paragraph style for that. I'm just going to click on body. And you can see it's put in a particular paragraph style in there. Let's go to another one. So this one over here, once again, I can just select a line, choose body, and affects the entire paragraph. If I just click once in this, I've just put my cursor in. Once again, I'll click on body and affects the entire paragraph. You can select multiple paragraphs. Over there, I'll do that and once again, choose body for that and affects all of those. Now, let's have a look at another one. I'm going to go along to my header, and I'll choose this subheader here, click on the word story, and I'm going to try head of one. Not sure. Head of two. Yeah, I'll go with head of two in there. And once again, I can just click on those head of two. You see how easy this is then to style up my document, Head of two on there. One last one over here for Caterpillar. And then the one at the top, I think I'll choose header one for that. Now, what about the individual words? So, over here, Alice's Adventure in Wonderland. I'm going to select just those words there, and then I'm going to go to my character options down here, and I can choose emphasize, which you can see, it's made it italic or this strong, which is bold or strong emphasis, which is italic and bold. You can just pick what you want in there. I'm going to select the word rabbit here and just emphasize that I'll do the same with drink me or just drink and once again emphasize that in there. So once you've got your text up, you can just choose the styles from in here, either paragraphs to affect the entire paragraph or characters to affect individual characters. Now, these are really useful, but the ones they give you are not bad, but the thing is that you'll probably want to make your own, and we'll be looking at that starting in the next video. So you don't have to use the ones they've given you. These are just a starting point, but do try them out so you get a feel for how it works, and then in the next video, we'll have a look at how you can make your own. Have a go. A 44. Make a Custom Style: Et's make our own style. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to just create some a style on this bit of text, not using the text styles, but just purely going into my character panel and my paragraph panel over there. I'll pull these across. Let's move those ones out the way. Now in my character panel, I'm going to choose the typeface that I want to use. So I want my final one to be, I think, something like Times New Roman. Not the most exciting fonts, but it's very, very readable. So I've got Times New Roman there. Size wise, 12 points, I think that looks okay. We can change it later as you'll see. Going down to my position transform, do I want to adjust things like the leading? Let's have a look, maybe just a little bit over there, back to 14. I think that's right. Um, and the color. So I'm going to click on the color up here and let's do that as red over there. Now, I'm happy with that. Let's go to the paragraph options over here, and do I want to center it or do I want to left align it? I'm going to left align it, I think in there. But maybe I want to change the indenting, so I might just indent it a little bit as well. You can see at the moment, I can then actually go in here and I can just say align to baseline grid, or I can switch line to baseline grid off for this. And this will all be part of that style. Now that I've done that, let me move these out the way a little bit. And let's go back to our text styles. I want to save this as a text style. So I'm going to go down to the bottom here to the little backward P, the paragraph icon with a plus next to it. And I'm going to click on that. And it opens up a box. We're going to have a look at some of these options later. I just want to change the name of it. So I'm going to try and describe it. If you just call your styles body text, one, body text two, something like that, it's very difficult to figure out exactly which one is which. So I'm going to call this red body Times. Something like that, so I know which one it is. I'm happy with that. I will click the little plus, sorry, I'll click the O down there. Now, I've got red body Times over there as a style, so I can actually just go in here and say, let's apply it to that, apply it to this. And I can just go through my document applying that style really quickly like that. So superfast then to just get that apply to everything else, but there's more to it. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to my little MO tool and just deselect all of the text. I'm just going to click out over here so no text is selected. And then I'm going to go along because I want to change this text a little bit. And I'm going to go to the Red Body Times style. I'm going to double click it, and you can see in here, I can then go and change things. So I'm going to change the font color, and I'm going to make it, Oh, let's try a bit of a dark green color. And look at that. You can see it automatically updates it. As we're doing it, even though the text is not selected, and it will do it not just here, but it could be on page 200 or page 400, even though you're only looking at page number one or something like that. So I'll do that, and I'll just change the name, I think, to green now as well. I can then go in to some of the other options. Let's go down to position and transform, and I could maybe change some of the tracking or the baseline or the leading. Let's have a look at what the leading's like. Mm, I think that's a little bit too much. Maybe go back again to 14 in there. Moving further down, we've got a number of other options that we can look at. Maybe I'll go along to the spacing, and over here, I can change my left indent because it wasn't big enough, so I can just increase there a little bit, as well. Once I'm happy with that, I just click Okay, and I've then updated my style, which is now called Green Body Times. Now, we're not going to do the headings quite yet. I'm going to show them to you in the next video. But for now, have a bit of a go with that and make your own text style. If you want to make more than one body text, by all means, do so, but don't do the headings quite yet because there's something else I need to show you. 45. Nested Styles: Let's make a style for these subheaders. What I'm going to do is I'm not actually going to do the fonts and colors and things on a bit of text and then make a style. I'm just going to click off of everything, and I'm going to make a style down here right from scratch. So I'm going to click on the little paragraph style button down the bottom, and I'm going to give this a name. So my original was called Green Body Times. So I'm going to call this header times or green head. Times, let's get rid of that one over there. So here is my new header style. Now, what I'm going to do, and I'm in the styles area over here is under the general settings, I'm going to base it on the body style. So it's going to pick up everything that was in the body, like the fonts, the colors, et cetera. But then I can go along to the font here, and I can say, Well, okay, that's all very well using that font, but maybe I want to change the weight of the font so it becomes bold. And maybe I want to change the size. So I'm going to go in here and maybe just increase the size to maybe 16 over there. And I can even go along to the color. Over there and change the color of the font, and I'm going to make this a dark red. Now, that green headed times there. I'm going to keep it being called Greenhead for the moment, and I'm just going to click Okay. Now, let me go and apply it to these, so I'm going to just click in there and apply the Greenhead times. You can see it's picked up everything Greenhead times that I had, including where the text had indented. Over there, I didn't mention that at all. So the thing is that if I went back to my body text, I've gone to the body text now, which is, remember, it's this text here. I go to the green body text. If I make any changes in the green body text, like I go down to the spacing and I adjust the indents, you see it adjusts not just the body, but anything which is based on it like this header as well. So I'm going to just take that down to six and click Okay. But if I go in to the header style over here, remember this is based on the body and I go to my spacing down here, I can then change my indent back to zero again, or I can affect it individually. So if you change the body, it will change the body and anything which is based on it. If you change the header, now the header is based on the body, but it's not going to change anything further up the chain, so you can change things in there without affecting the body. It takes a little while to get your head round it, but it's really useful when you do. I'm just going to click Okay over there. Try it out, make a new style based on an existing style, and try changing one or the other to see what happens. One last thing is once you've done these styles, don't go changing the names of them because otherwise, it can unlink itself to the style that it's nested from or on. Try it out. 46. Remove Nesting: I've just changed my base style back to times, and I want to go over to my header style. So I'm going to double click on my header style. And in the style option here, because it's based on the body style there, if I wanted to base it on something else, I can do that. I can click in there, and I could base it on a header. I could base it on the base style in there. You can choose to base it on anything you like, or you can just say no style at all, and that way it won't be based on anything. With these options here, if you do choose no style, look what happens. My text font has changed. It will just default back to the original font that you had in there. It's not basing itself on the font of another one. So just be aware of that if you choose Oops. Let's try that again. If you choose no style in there, I'm just going to base mine back on the green body times style in there. Have one last look at it, and then we'll move on to something else. 47. Add a Character Style: Now, I'm going to make a new character style. But before I do that, I'm going to make a deliberate mistake just so that you don't have to. I'm going to click on my frame, my text frame. And then I'm going to go along to the character style options. That's a little A with a plus on it. Click on that and make a new character style. Now, you can see that this is pretty much the same thing as the paragraph style. I've got a name in there. I've got based on style over here, and I'm going to go along to the character. The font, I'm going to leave pretty much as it is. But I think I'm going to change the weight to bold over there. And then I might go along to the color over here and change the color to bright red. Now, you can see what's happened I because I had the whole of that frame selected, it's applied it to everything. Don't worry, we can fix that. The style I'm going to call this is going to be bold. Red. And I'm going to click Okay. Now, how do I get rid of this? Well, all I've got to do is go over to my styles and just say, no style to everything, and we go back again. But, of course, with the character style, my style bold red, I can now go in and say, Let me select a word. Oops. Let's just have a word there. And once again, I can apply that there. Let's let's do me as well. And let's have Lewis Carroll. In there. And exactly the same as before, you can apply this throughout your whole document. And then somebody comes along and says, Well, could we change those bold words? It's a little bit too much having them in that bright red? Make sure that you've selected nothing, so nothing is selected. Go to your style. You know how to do this. Just go in and change it, and I can just change the color from red down to, let's have a really dark red over there. Close that down, and it will update it throughout my document. Try that one out. Red useful, not as widely used as paragraph styles, but still a really useful tool in your Affinity layout kit. 48. Update Styles: Now, sometimes you might override the style that you've got and then want to update the style to what you've done. Let me show you what I mean. So if I go along to this bit of text here, this heading, and I changed that type manually not in the style, but actually manually went over here to my character, and I thought, Mm, I'd like to make that 20 points there. And it's bold, so let's use bold italic. Now, how do I update the rest of this? Well, that's really easy because all I've got to do, and you can see it's got a green head times a style on it. If I go to this little button over here, I can click on that, and it will update the whole of that style for me. It's just a fast way of updating the style from something that you've done. There's another little button there. It's exactly the same for the character panel. So if I've changed the character, and once again, I'll go to bold Italic over there, it will allow me to update the character style throughout my document. Have a little bit of a look at those two. These two are for updating. Those two are for creating. 49. Make a TOC: Let's make a table of contents. Now, to do a table of contents, what I'm going to do is just show you the document first before I even start it. So it's really simple and I have included this document for you in your folder if you want to use it or you can create your own. But basically, we've got the intro over there, and then the first page, we have got a bit of text over here. This is body text, and this is my green head times style. Same again over here. This one is my green head times, and that's my body times, green body times over there. Same over here, same over here. So all of the headers have got a specific style on them. So I want to create a table of contents, so I'm going to use my text tool over here to just draw in a little text frame. And then I'm going to go up to my text. And what I want to do is to go down and find the table of contents options. So I'm going to move all the way down here to table of contents, and I'm going to say Insert. Now, just before I do that, have a look over this side here. You'll see I've got the text styles that you used to. I'm going to click Insert. And this opens up a table of contents properties. Now, if you can't see those, you can go and you can find it as per usual. In the window menu, it is in reference and table of contents down there. The second thing I want you to notice is that my text styles have now changed, and it's got some styles here, and the styles, well, they're the same ones that we've had, but they all say TOC one in front of them Table of Contents one. Now, let's have a look and make the table of contents. So starting just at the top over here, we've got a number of options. I'm going to be doing this for the document, not just a section, but for the entire document. Over here, it's going to be a general type of table of contents. Now, what I really should be doing is I'm going to go down here and I'm going to tell it which of those styles that I showed you initially that we created are going to be used for the table of contents, and it's actually going to be the green head times star, remember, that's the one my head is. So I'm going to untick those two, and I'm going to tick green head times. And look at that. It just automatically makes the table of contents for me. And when I click off of that, you'll see I've then glowed table of contents. Let's click the little preview button up the top here. There it is in there. So the story rabbit hole, drink me. They're all the story Rabbit Hole, drink me on the appropriate pages in there. Now, once again, because I've clicked off of this, we've gone back to the standard text styles over here. So have a bit of a go with that. I'm just going to run through it once more, very, very quickly. Use your text tool click and drag a text frame in there. When you want to get your table of contents up, go to text, down to table of contents, and insert. And then the important thing here is to untake the ones you don't want and choose the one that's going to be for the table of contents, which in this case, are the headers. Have a bit of a go with that, and then I'll take you a little bit further with it. 50. Update Pages & Style: Now, if you click on your Table of Contents, this TOC one Greenhead times is different to, and I'll just deselect this one to this one over here. This is my standard one, which I've applied to those ones there. So what about if I want to change the text in here? Well, I'm going to select it so I can get to the TOC green head times. Remember, it's a different style. I'm going to double click that, and I'm going to change it a bit. So I'm going to make the text bigger, so I'll increase the size. Over there, you can see straightaway it's changing it over there, so I want it nice and large like that. I'm going to change the color on there as well. We just make it slightly more of a a red. Why should we go with green O there? Yes, let's go with a darkish green over there. I'll click Okay. So I've changed this table of contents over here. If I go down, you'll see that that one is still exactly the same in there. I haven't updated this table this style. I've just updated the one called TOC Greenhead Times. Now, what about if I go and change some of these things? So I think Drink Me is just seems a little bit too much all in capitals. So I'm going to go along to my page with Drink Me, and I'm going to change this to something lowercase. So I've changed that to drink me, please. Now, let's go up here. And you'll see it still says drink me like that. So what we can do is we can go along to text, table of contents, and you say update to get it to update, and it's updated now to drink me please. It's really easy to just update anything that you like in here. If you go and change your pages around, let's go and change the page order now. So I'm going to take page six and move it in front of page five. So the very final page in my document is White Rabbit, and then caterpillars before White Rabbit. So let's go back here again. So White Rabbit should be on page six, Caterpillar should be on page five. I'm going to just click on there, go along to text, table of contents, update, and it changes them around for me. Have a bit of a go with that, and don't get confused that your TOC styles are separate from your standard document styles in there. And then click on it when you want to update. Try it out. 51. Footnotes, Sidenotes & Endnotes: I've got so many panels up, I'm going to go to the window menu down to my panels and just reset them to clean it all up again. Now, let's have a look at footnotes. Well, footnotes and side notes and end notes, really. They all pretty much work the same. On this bit of text, there's a few things that I want to have explanations about maybe about the rabbit hole, maybe about Alice's real name, maybe about the room that she finds herself in with many doors. So what I want to do is I want to add a footnote at the end of this bit of text. I'm going to click on the text. You'll notice that there is a bit of an indent on there, as well. So that's not important. I just wanted you to notice that this is actually the edge of the text frame. I'm going to go along, and I'm going to go and find the notes, and that's under reference, and it is under notes down here. Now, when I go to notes, it opens up a new panel. And you can see the type of note, we could either use a footnote, which goes below, a side note, which goes at the edge either left or right, and you can choose which you want, or an end note which goes at the end of a story or the document itself depending on where you want to want to place them. Now, I'm going to go to the footnote. So the way it works is, I say, Okay, the rabbit hole becomes a long tunnel, and I want a little one next to the word tunnel so I can actually explain this goes underground. So I'm going to use my text tool and I'm going to click where I want the little one to appear, and I'm going to put it after the L of tunnel. And then up here, we click on the little plus. You can see a one appears and I can type in whatever I want. Like so. And then I want to do another one. So over here, I want to have golden. Instead of with golden, I want another note to say that it was actually ali plastic. So I'm going to go over here, add another note and we'll call this plastic. So I've got number one and number two in there, number one and number two there. But what about if in between there, I thought, Oh, you know what? Over here, this strange underground passage, I need to qualify that. So I'm going to click after passage, once again, do a new note. That now becomes number two. This one becomes number three, and I can then qualify this as well. So they're really easy to pop in. Just make sure you put your cursor where you want them. And if you go back and change and put in a new note, it'll automatically reorder them correctly for you. Now, you'll find over here, if you can see them or not, if you open up numbering, you'll find that you can change the format, so I could have these as ABCD, or I could have them as numbers, any of these options, to be honest with you. And I could start them at different numbers as well, and I could also restart the numbering every frame, every story, or every section or document or book. Once again, we've got some formatting options in here that we can use. We've got some positioning. In my case, I've got it at the bottom of the column over there, and we can have rulers in there. That's what rules are. So I can switch the rule off, and you can see if I switch it on and off, it appears or disappears from there. I'm going to make my rule a little bit longer. Like that. Do you have a little bit of a look at this? If you want to try out the other ones, as I said, there's a side note, and that'll pop it on the side of your document when you put it in. So if I just did that side note, clicked on the plus, you'll see that we then get the note out here. I might have to move it around because it's kind of on the edge of that text frame. Try it out. 52. Project: Big Document - Intro: It's big project time, and this is going to be a big project, and we're going to add all sorts of things into this document. So as you can see on the side, I've got a version of this document. We're going to be having master pages or parent pages in there. We're going to be adding Table of Contents. We're going to be putting page numbers in there, so many things. And we'll build this document, and then we can save it out for print or for screen use. Let's get going. I love these sort of projects. 53. Set Up Document: Oh I've just reset my out space by going to window panels and reset in there, so everything's back to the normal space. If you prefer having other things out, obviously, you can do that. I'm going to go to the far menu and I'm going to new over here. We're going to be using page sizes CMYK. We're creating this document for printing, so we need to have CMYK because that's the standard for external printing. Obviously, photographic printing is slightly different, and you can have RGB for that, but that's not what we're doing here. Let's have a look at the A four document that I'm creating here. So first of all, we've got our sizes in there. That's absolutely fine. We've got a color format, which is Simu K eight. And then the color profile. Now, the color profile will depend on where you are in the world because certain countries prefer certain profiles. For example, the states tend to use the US web coated swap profile, whereas in the UK and some parts of Europe, we tend to use FOGR 39 Foga 27. What the best thing to do is talk to your printers and ask them which profile to use. It's not the end of the world if you get that wrong, but you must have the CMYK correct. Let's move down to image placement. Now, I'm going to prefer embedded files. So when the images come in, they're embedded into the document. They get saved with a document. They're not linked to an external image. Now, this is only 12 pages this document, so it's not going to be too huge if I put a few pictures on each page. But if I was doing a really, really large document, you know, 600 pages, I might prefer to actually link them so I don't have a file which is too big. But of course, you've then got to manage those external pictures. The other time that I would probably want to have linked files is if I'm going to be updating them later, so I can update them very, very quickly. Now, let's move down to multi page over here. By the way, if you can't see it, just click the multipage little slider there. I've got facing pages switched on in mine. We're arranging them horizontally. They're starting on the right hand side, and I've got 12 pages in there. You'll have to put in your own pages. This is just remembered my last setting. And we're also going to switch on a default master in there, so that'll give us a master page. If you create this and you go to the masters and you find, Oh, there's no master page in there, it's because that was switched off. Let's go to the margins. Now, the margins, I would like to make bigger than what I've got here. I want them to be pretty big. So I'm going to go with at least 40, I think, for the margins. I suppose I should have actually made that linked as they all linked when I changed them. I have to just do this manually now. There we go. So I changed the first one, and then I changed the link, so I actually had to do the second one, and then the rest of them changed. But you'll see how that works as you go. The bleed, of course, the bleed itself is going to be 3 millimeters. That's the industry standard. Because we have got facing pages switched on, we then have a bleed which has got inner and outer top and bottom. If facing pages are switched off, then the bleed is left right top and bottom. So that's why if you're wondering why it's suddenly changed, it's because we've got facing pages in there. Just need to check that none of those have changed since I've switched that off as well. So the bleed is good. I'm happy with that. I'm going to click, create document. There we go. We've got all of our pages over here, 12 pages facing each other, and we've got a Master page up there, and we'll sort those out. You can see I've got quite a small area here and a very big margin around the outside. That's just a design decision. There's no right or wrong here. If you want to design your slightly differently, that's fine. You can always have a different margin size. If you'd like to set up your document now, that would be great and then come back for the next video, and we'll take it further. 54. Add Page No & Title Logo to Master: Let's set up some Master Pages now. We've got the one master, which is Master A, and I'm going to double click it. Don't forget. Always double click. I know I go on too much about that, but double click that. Check that you're in the master before you do the next things just in case you're in one of these pages by mistake. And what we're going to do with this masters, we're going to set up the name of our brochure so that it will appear on every single page on the left side and on the right side. We're also going to be putting in some page numbers over here as well. So let's start off with the page numbers to go right at the bottom. We can change this later on. We can move them around. In fact, I think, instead of having them in the middle, I'm going to put them on the edges. So I'm going to go along and I'm going to get my text tool and I'm going to click and drag a little text frame in there, and I'm going to put in the page number invisible, if you like. So I'm going to go to text, insert fields and page number in there. Let's zoom into that so you can see it. So I'm going to zoom right in over there, and it's a little hash mark over there. So that's the little thing that denotes a page number. Now, what I want to do is I want to make that bigger and change the color, so I'm going to go along and find my layout menu and text panels. And I want to have the character panel and the paragraph panel up. Now, I can see that they're there already. So let's go over here. The CH and the PAR are the ones I need. So first of all, with a paragraph panel, I'm going to align that to the left hand side because on the left page, and this one, I'm going to go to the character, and I'm going to change the font to something else. So rather than aerial, let me just go down to something really simple like this all round gothic. I'm going to change the color because we don't be too much. We want to be able to see the page but not be overwhelmed by the page number. So I'm going to make that a palish gray in there. And we'll change the size as well to make it fairly large. Well, now, remember, we can always change this later on. So I'm going to just pop the corner of that onto the corner of my margin. Now, why am I doing that? Well, when I do the other one, what I'm going to do is I'm going to take that one, hold down the alter the option key dependent with your Mac or PC, drag that over. Let's zoom into this one. Over here, and I'm now going to select that using the paragraph options, I'm going to do that as wri lined, and then I'm going to move the box once again until it touches the corner over there. So I know that they're both the same on both sides. Let's just check the pages over here. If I double click over here, you can see I've got my page numbers in there. Now, at this stage, if it's not quite in the right position, feel free to change it. I can go in there. I can select them both at the same time, and then maybe move them down. I'm holding down the Shift key and using the arrow keys to move that into the right position. I know they're both exactly in the same position. Let's go and get some text in here and give this a name. Now, you can choose whatever name you want. Now, for me, I'm doing this all about a painting holiday, so I'm going to go in and put in my name in there. If you want to do it with something else, that's absolutely fine. I'm going to call mine. Art Ampersand chill. So it's art and chill, and then I can change that a little bit. Now, I will fix that later on and get it looking good. But for the moment, I'm going to pop it up there, and I think I want the same on the other side. So I'll hold down the alter the option whips, key, and drag a copy of that across to that side in there. If I change this now, I'll just delete that one and get them to both be the same. But that's perfect for the moment. Let's go back to our document, and you can see on every single page, we've got the same thing in there. You know this already from the course. Have a bit of a go, get your page numbers in, get some text in there, and we'll update that in a second. 55. Save Colors to Swatch & Edit Title: I found the font that I want to use. It kind of looks very art like and hand drawn. Obviously, you can find whatever you want. And I've popped it in, and I've chosen a color. So if I go over to my colors over here, I went round this and looked for a color that I really liked. And I'm thinking because this is all about art, maybe some of the main primary colors might be great, so very, very bright. Type of colors. So how can I find colors that will actually work together in here? Well, a great way is in the colors. Once you've chosen your first color over here, let me say, for example, that yellow. I can go down and I can see things like the tints and shades, which is lighter versions and darker versions. I can find the complimentary colors, and I can find all these other versions of color combinations that work together really well. I quite like this one over here. Now, how do I get those into my swatches? Because if I choose one of these colors, you can see everything changes again. If I click on that one, those all change. So what I can do and I'm going to just go back to the original one to start off with is if I go to my swatches and pull my swatch out, I'm going to create a new panel in here. So I'm going to just go along and add a document palette. So it's going to be document just for this document, not for the entire version of Affinity. So add document palette. I'm going to give it a name, I'll call this art and chill then I can take these and I can actually just drag and drop them straight into my swatches like that over there. Real quick, easy to bring them in. Now the second thing I'm going to do as I've got those colors in there is I'm going to go along here because I want to separate this a bit the ampersand in the middle is slightly bigger and we're going to just use some different colors in there as well. I'm going to go across, find my character palette panel, and let's open that up a bit. So you can see all of these things. In here. I'm going to change the size of that particular bant in there. So we'll just take it up a little bit like that. Now, it's too high up, so I want to move it down. So if we go to our position and transform, if you can't see those options, just click on the little arrow there. And over here, I can use the baseline shift and just shift that E down a little bit into the right position. While I'm here, let me go between the art and the E. And if there's a space in there, that's okay ish. But let's try it without spaces. See how that looks. I want something in between those two. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use my kerning and just push those along. You can see I can be very, very exact about those. Same over here and just push those along. Oops, let's try that to make sure we're in the right position over there and just push them. Out a little bit like that as well. And then anytime you can still go and effect these. I'm going to go to the art, and I'm going to make it purple. Oops. The word chill, I'm going to do purple, and this ampersand in the middle is going to be yellow for now. We can change those colors if we don't like them later, as you know. Now, this one here, I'm going to get rid of that. Hold down the old key and make a copy of that on that side. Like so. And once again, it updates in my entire document like that. Have a little bit of a go with that. Remember, none of this is set in stone. We can always come back and change it as I'm sure we will. 56. Add a Pixel Brush Stroke to Logo: Now, as you can see, I've changed my little logo a bit, and I've made it smaller, and I've also changed the colors, although it might not look like it. I've actually gone with black for the text and this sort of goldish green, yellow color for the ampersand in the middle. But when you look at it like that, it looks like my text is actually pink. If I zoom in a bit, over here, you can see it's almost like there's a pink line around the outside. That will disappear. And the best way to check it to make sure you don't have a stroke on the outside of the text, is to go along over here to your preview button. Now, you can do this from the view menu as well, but it's faster to click on the preview button and that will show you exactly what it looks like. And you can see I've changed mine now to black and this sort of greeny goldy type of color. Now, I like that. I like what I've done, but I also want to have something which looks a little bit more like a brush stroke underneath. And I'm going to do that in the pixel area. Now, first of all, make sure that you are actually in your master. So check that you're in your master down there. It's so easy to do it on the pages. When I was about to show you this, I suddenly realized I was actually my pages, not my master. So I could have done the wrong thing to show you. Anyway, I'm in my master. I'm going to go over to Pixel over here. And what I've done is I've pulled up my brushes. Now, if you can't see the brushes, once again, just go to your window and have a look for them in there. The character panel I don't need, I'm going to close that down. So what I want to do is to show you the brushes here, and the one that I'm going to paint with is going to be using the paint brush tool. Now with a paintbrush tool, I've gone up to my stabilizer, and I have stabilized it using the rope mode stabilization. And this means that when you start to paint, you'll see a little rope will appear like that. So as you're painting, it's just following the rope, and it smooths it right out. So I can change how long the rope is by using this little slider of a day. I'm going to make it actually quite long because I really want to have this as smooth as possible. Then I'm going to choose a brush in here. So I'm looking for something which will look almost like it's painted. That gritty pastel is rather nice. This is dry media. I could go into acrylics or inks or watercolors. Let's try watercolors over here. And, yeah, that's rather a nice one in there. So if I click and start to paint, you can see how I get that watercolor feel to it. Now, as I'm doing this, I might not like the size. So the best thing to do is to double click on the brush, and you can then go in and adjust your size in here to make it bigger or smaller, whatever you want from the brush. So I'm just going to make mine a little bit thinner and close that. We now go to our colors. Pick a color that you want to use. I'm going to choose that red over there, and I'm just going to start and draw that a little line. Like that to go underneath. Now, back over to my move tool, I can then take that and I can scale it down if I wish. I can move it into the right position. I can rotate it if I want something a little bit more interesting over there. We can just have a bit of a play with this until we get exactly what we want from that. Let me do that again. So in pixel mode, find your brushes over there, choose a brush that you want to use. I'm going to test this one now. Pick the color that you want. Make sure that you're happy with the settings on the brush. So go up to the stabilizer, change the settings in there, and then you can start to draw with that. Now, I thought I had chosen the greenish color that I had. In fact, what I did, I'd forgotten that this was selected, so I actually just changed the color of the art and chill logo. So I'm going to use my undo, which is either command or Control Z to undo that. So once again, in my colors over here, I can now pick the color that I want. Whatever that color is, I'm going to go the yellow, I think, and try that out. Once again, down to my brushes over there, pick the sort of brush I want to use. If you don't like the watercolors, try something else. I'll do acrylics this time, find an interesting looking brush. When you start to paint with it, if it's too thick, you can either change it in here by double clicking the brush, or you can just go along, use your move tool and scale it down to the size that you want it to be in there. I'm going to use something like that. Do try it out and see how you get on. 57. Change Layer Order: I've moved my brush underneath my logo over there, and you can do that by going to your layers and just dragging it above or below, depending on what you want. You can also on that brush, go along to your opacity and change the opacity if it's too bright, you just want something a little bit more subtle underneath it. So I'm going to keep mine like that quite subtle. Now, let's go back to layout. Over here. I'm going to just switch back to editing mode rather than preview mode, Zoom out a bit. And these two items over here, I'm going to be using them quite a lot. So I'm going to go up to the menu, and I want to group them together. So let me go to layer and group. I also want to delete the last one, which I've done. Hold down the Alt or the option key and just make a copy of that one over there. You'll notice that mine is moving across horizontally, I'm just holding down the Shift key while I do it as well. Right, let's have a look at the pages now, and, yeah, I think I'm happiish with that. I can always change it later on if it's not quite right. Anyway, have a bit of a go, finish that up, come back to Layout mode, and then we're going to take this further. 58. Add a Master B: Let's make another Master page. I'm going to go up to the top here and I'm going to click to make another Master page, and it's going to be called B Master. You can name these whatever you want if you like. But I'm just going to keep mine on the default of B, and I'm going to go down here and okay this. So now I've got a B master up here. If I double click, I'm in the B Master. Check which master page you're in whenever you do this. So for this master, we're going to have a big picture which is going to go across the bottom over there, and then the text which is going to go in here. I'm going to use the shape for the text, sorry for the photo. So I'm going to go over here, take my photo frame, and just drag it across from one side to the other, not forgetting to go right onto the bleed. That's really important in there. And I think that's how it's going to be. So this will go across two pages like that. And then what about for the text? Well, for the text, I'm going to use the text tool and I'm going to click and drag a frame in here. Now my frame has defaulted to two columns. You can change and you can put as many columns in there as you like. I do like two columns in there, and I can adjust the gutter, the distance between it. So I'll give it a little bit more of a gap like that. Then I'm going to take this, hold down the lt or the option key and drag it across whilst also then holding down the Shift key, so it runs perfectly horizontal to the other side. There. So I think that's it. So these two pages will be pretty much the same, but they'll have one picture between them. Now, we'll also want a bit of text over here in the same position, which will be for our title. So we're going to do a separate text box for the title. So I'll make another text frame over there, and this one is just going to have the one column in there. Same again. I'm going to take that. I'm going to hold down the alter the option key and drag it across to that side over there. So when we go back to our document now, they don't appear. That hasn't appeared at all. Remember, with these master pages, we have got master A applied to all of these pages. If I stop on one, it shows that there's Master A write, master A, master A in there. So I can then take Master B and drag and drop it onto page two. I can drag and drop it onto page three. And you can see now we've got two master pages on page two and three over here. Now, I can take Master page B and I can drop it onto page two and drop it onto page three. And you'll see now, if I zoom out a bit, that I've got Master page B on those two pages. Of course, we don't want just Master page B, we want A and B. So remember, you could always write click and you can then apply Masters over here. So I'm going to apply Master A over there to page two and three. Now, do I want to replace the existing one? No, I don't just want to add it in, so I'll click okay. So I've now got Master A and B on page two and three. Don't worry too much about setting them up. Over there, I am actually going to undo all of that, and we'll put them in properly later on. But have a bit of a go and make your master B, which has got one great big picture frame in there, text columns, and over here, it's going to be for our title. 59. Add a Master C: So let's go and make another Master page. So I'm going to click over here and once again, create Master C. And then I'm going to double click on Master C. But I've realized something, you know, I had if I wanted to, I could use those things over here from Master B and put them into Master C. So I'm going to select those bits of those text frames, and I'm going to copy them, and I'm going to go to Master C, and I'm going to paste them into Master C. So you can copy and paste things from your masters from one into another. Now, we don't want this to be exactly the same, so let's change this a bit. I think I'm going to move that up to the top over there, and I'm going to have a second one down here, so I'll hold down the alter the option key over there for another one. I think like that, maybe move it down a bit. You can use your arrows on your keyboard, and if you hold down the Shift key, it moves it in greater increments. And I think this one here is going to go the same place as that one once again, the smart guides pop into play when I'm doing this, so I know exactly when I've lined it up. I'm going to have a photo on this side, so I'll just use the frame and draw in a photo frame over here somewhere. Let's make it the same height as that text box. You notice that I line things up quite a lot over here, even though they're different objects. It just gives it a little bit more of a professional look, shall we say. And then down here, this one, I want to be slightly different. I want to use a shape or a color. So I'm going to have reversed text. So I'm going to go along to this little rectangle tool. I'm going to draw a rectangle in over there, maybe make it a little bit bigger. Over there, maybe halfway through that in there. Now, that needs to go underneath the text. So I'm going to go along to my layers. Oh, my layers where they are. There they are. And I'm going to move it underneath and make sure it's underneath that text frame. So how do I know which one is which? Well, if I click on this and just move it out the way, you can see that's my text frame down there. If I move that right Oops. I could move it right to the bottom, I suppose, if I wanted, it won't make any difference. And then I'll just move that back into the right position over there. I think I might make that a little bit less on that side of the textbox and on that side of the text box as well. So once again, you don't have to use the layout that I'm doing here. If you want to make up your own, that's absolutely fine. But just do something interesting. Remember, you can always change this later on. Have a go. We want to have three master pages altogether, A, B, and C. Try it out. 60. Save, Save, Save: Now, just a quick interruption to our creation process. If you haven't done this already, I'm going to advise you to do it. Go to File, go down to Save As, and save the document. So I'm just going to call mine art. I don't know whether in the background you can hear Fuji, but he wants to go outside, so I'm going to go and address that as soon as I've saved this. Don't walk away from your computer. If you haven't saved it, it's just too dangerous. 61. Create a Cover: I've gone to page number one over here. And what I want to do is I want to bring in a picture over the whole of that page. So I'm going to go over here and I'm going to create a frame like that. And then I'm going to go to File and Place and find the images that I want to add in here. So I'm just going to go along find my pictures. I've provided these pictures for you, by the way, but I've actually got them from the stock over here. So, I got them directly from the stock library rather than just going through here, but they're the same things that you find in the stock. Anyway, let me go and find the image. I'm in the wrong folder there. And, um, If I can find the folder, there we go. I'm going to find an image where I've got a painter on the outside. I've got a number of different painters. You can choose whichever one you want. I kind of like that one. Oh, well, I like that one there. So I'm going to bring the painter in, and I'm going to move her across a little bit over to there and put my logo up the top there. Once again, we can just do a few things over here, maybe just scale it a little bit and down a little bit. Over there. Watch out for your bleeds that you don't actually get the picture inside the bleed. Make sure it's on the outside. Now, when it comes to that art and chill logo that I had there, you can see it sitting underneath on this page. There's a few ways I can go about it. I could go along and go down to clear masters, so I can just get rid of the master from page one, which will remove it, and it won't be underneath anymore. And then I can go along and I can find the original in the Master Pages. I'm going to go to the Master page, find the original here. We'll copy that, go back to this page, paste it in, and I'm going to resize it a little bit. Over there as well. So it's going to be something like that. And because I can't see it properly, I'm actually going to go in and I'm going to ungroup it and then make that text white. So I'm going to go along to my layer and ungroup. Now, why is that not ungrouping? Well, let me make sure it's selected properly and go to layer. There we go, ungroup all, and then I can go to the text and just change the text color to white, like so. Now, if you do put something onto a page, I'll just do this again on this third page over here, we do that and we can place a picture on top of it. Over there, I just put any picture on here for the moment. If I go along to my layers, now I need to find my layers, which I can't see up at the moment, so I'm going to go along to Window General and find my layers in there. You can see I've got the master page there, and I've got that page in there. If I move that underneath the master, then it will actually pop up on top. So you don't have to do what I've done and delete it. You can just change the order of the master. But if you do it that way, it means you've actually then also got to get rid of the page number because we don't want a page number on our first page. Anyway, whichever way you decide to do it, have a bit of a go, try it out and get your first page done like that. Just a little bit of text somewhere, maybe another bit of text which says, in my case, it's going to say something like painting holidays, something along that line. And I might do that down here where it can be read. Try it out yourself. 62. Bullets & Pixel Edit: I put in a bit more text in here as well. And just to show you where it is, I'm going to select these bits of text here, so acrylic past and watercolor. Just go along to the top, and we've got the option for bullet points over there or number points if you prefer. I'm going to go with bullet points on mine. The other thing that I'd like to do here is because this picture doesn't really jump out at me. I want to increase the color on it. So I'm going to go over to the pixel area and in my layers, if you can't see your layers, you know where to find them. I'm going to go and I'm going to add just above the picture a adjustment layer. I'm going to go down. I'm going to find the vibrance adjustment. And in here, I'm going to increase the vibrancy, so that'll really brighten up some of those colors, maybe bring out the blue of the water a little bit more. You ever feel happy with that, once again, I will just close this down and go back to L out mode in there. You can use any of the other adjustments on your picture, if you want to make the picture black and white or color it up or whatever you like, just do it in pixel mode. Once you've had that, well, once you've done that, shall I say, come back, and then we'll go and we'll put page two, three, and four together. 63. Add a Second Master: Now, page two and three and four and five are going to have a Master page applied to them. So I'm going to go up to the Master page, and I want to use Master B on two and three. So I'm going to right click over here on two and three, and I'm going to say apply Master. I want to bring in Master B. Over there, that's the one with the image at the bottom. I don't want to replace the existing master. I want to add it to that one, and I'll click Okay. Now, on this side over here, we're actually going to be bringing in a table of contents, so we don't need to worry about those bits there. We're going to have some text over here and we're going to have a picture in there. Let's bring in the picture to start off with. So I'm going to go to File and Place and find the image that I want to use. Now, it's entirely up to you what image you want to use. I've got lots of different type of pictures in here for you to choose from, or you can try your own. I quite like that one. It's really bright, so I'm going to go with that one. And place it in there, and I'll just scale it down. Oh, sorry, I'll move it down a little bit. I want to get some of those colors coming through, like so. And for the text, now, we haven't made any text styles yet. We will once we've got a little bit of text in so that you can actually see what it looks like. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to go along to a Word document. If you've got different texts, that's absolutely fine. Once again, I've supplied this text for you. In fact, I got Chat GPT to write it for me so you can get Chat to write your own as well. And I'm going to just select this first paragraph over here. Copy it. Go back in, and I want to paste it into here or place it into there. Now, I'm going to double click, which you'll put the little cursor in there and paste in. The text comes straight into that window like so. Let me do the same. For this one. I'll double click on the heading. Once again, let's go back here and take the headings that one there, copy that. And paste it in over there. Doesn't look great yet, but we're going to tweak this and get a really good style going on. Don't worry too much about this. As I said, page number two, we're going to change this. So, in fact, page three will become page one. This will be the Table of Contents, and our cover will be separately separate, as well. Let's go on to page four and five and see what we can do with four and five. Now, with four and five, I think we'll use the other Master page. So I'm going to go to page four and five in here. So we've got four and five. Right click. Apply Master. So this one will be Master C that we're going to apply and once again, switch off, replace existing click OK and bring it in. And then we'll just bring in a quick picture. Over there, select it and go along to File Place. Find the image that we want to use. Now, this is going to be all about the well, sorry, the first page is about the home, so the second one is about the expert tutorship. So I've got a picture here somewhere of the class, so I'm going to bring that one in over to there. And once again, maybe just move it down a little bit so we can see their heads in there properly. And it's exactly the same. Copy and paste your text in same with the header, text there, header text, and header over there. Have a go and get to that stage. 64. Adjust Master & Edit Detached: Now, the text is flowing to these boxes, but the boxes are too big. All of them are, in fact, because there's less text than box shape. So I'm going to go over to my master, double kick the master, and I'm going to make these boxes slightly smaller. I'll do the same with that one there. And I'm going to go to the other box, this one here, and make these a little bit smaller, as well. That one can be smaller still, as can this one. Over there. And then because of that, I might have to then do something about this one as well. So let's have a look. Now what happens to the text that we put in? Well, when I double click, you can see it's almost perfect in there. Now, this little textbox has got some missing text. If you click on the eye, you can see the word beautiful is sticking out the side, and I can't do anything with that textbox to make it bigger. So what can I do on this page? Well, if you remember that we can always go in and we can unlink the boxes from the linked Master page. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go along on this page here, I'm going to go along to layer and I'm going to go along to Master Page and Edit detached. And this allows me to actually take this one and just pull it down a little bit like that until I'm happy with it. I'll just finish that. So this one's bigger, but the rest of them are going to be smaller again. Do try it out. Have a bit of a go, bring in the text on these pages over here, and then we'll do something exciting on the next two pages, but we'll also make some styles so we can apply the styles to the text that we've brought in. 65. Balance Text Frames: Now, some of you might be thinking that this whole thing that we've done with text seems a bit long winded, having to go back to the Master page and pull this up a little bit just to make sure that the text balances because obviously, if we've got different lengths of text, it's not going to work that well. So the other way that we can do this is you can go into your master. So I've gone over to the master, in my case, Master C. I'm going to select the text frames, the two columns in there, and I'm going to go to the Window menu down to text, and I want to find the text frame panel. Now, in the text frame panel, you have got over here the general panel, so you can open and close that over there. The one that we're actually looking for because we're talking about columns is the column panel here. And right at the bottom of the column panel, it says, Balance text in columns. So I'll click on that. I'll do the same with this one. Balance the text there. And with this one here, once again, we can then just start to balance the text in all of these columns as well. That means that we can actually make those columns slightly bigger. I think I've left out one over here, this one as well. So we can make those text columns bigger if we need, and if we've got more text, that's fine. In fact, I'll just pull this down to here, this one down to there. Let's move that out the way. And then it really doesn't matter. The only issue that we've got is if we've got less text or more text in here with our background color box. So I'll just leave that one like that. Let's go to this last one here and once again, pull down those frames that way as well. Now let's have a look and see what happens over here in our document. I'll close that down. Don't forget it's in columns, under the text frame, under columns, balance text in columns. Back to here again, and let's have a look. You can see, even though the frames are big, the text still balances. And if I put some more text in there over here, let's go and just do a whole lot like that. It's just balancing them as I go. I'm going to undo all of that text that I put in. Anyway, do have a bit of a go with that, as well. I wanted to show you two ways of doing it the long way first, and then the nice easy shortcut this way, as well. Try it out. 66. Make Paragraph Styles: Let's go and do some text styles for this now. We'll probably need three text styles. We'll need one for the header, one for the text itself, and one for the text where it's white on that dark background in there. So I'm going to go and find my text styles panel. If you can't find it, go to the window menu, go down to text, and text styles is in there, as I'm sure you know. I can see mine. It's over on this side here. I'm going to drag it out. Over there, so we can pull that down, and we've got our existing text styles in there. But, of course, we want to make our own. Let's move that out way and bring it up to here. So I'm going to select this bit of text in there, and I'm going to set this text up as I wanted to look. So I'm going to go along and find my character options. Now, I can't see my character up there at all, but don't forget you've got a lot of the character options along the top, as well. So if you can't see your panel, you can change it in here. Times New Roman is okay. It's a very serious font. And this is all about a painting holiday, so it's not going to be too serious. I don't want to go completely wild, but just something which is not quite as really serious as Times New Roman. And I think I'm going to go with Tahoma indie. It's quite a nice. I won't say it's a fun font. It's just something which is not overly serious, and it's easy to read, and that's the most important part is that it's easy to read. I'm going to find a color for it. Now, I could try one of these colors in here and maybe go with a really dark red for it, as well. But yeah, I'll try with dark red. Remember, we can always change it later on. And then any other things that you want to do in here, whether it's actually changing the size, maybe making that just a little smaller if I need, or even adjusting anything else to do with your text. I'll leave it to you to decide what you want to do. Now, I've gone with that, and I'm going to click on the little Paragraph plus button at the bottom to create a paragraph style over there. And if I go to my Styles, you can see I've got the name at the top. It's not based on anything. This is the base style that we're going to work on. So I'm going to call it body and TH four Tahoma. Let's give that a capital. And I think I made mine 11 points, so 11 points in there. The more that you can actually say about your style in here, the easier it is to see at a glance which one it is. I think I'm pretty much happy with that, so I'm going to click Okay. So now I've got a new body TH style in there. Let's make a new style. So I've got this body TH style. I'm going to click on that one over there, and I'm then going to make a new style by clicking on the little paragraph style button with a plus on it. You can see the style name comes up as body TH, blah, blah, blah, one. I want to rename this and call it my header. So over there. And then I'm going to just check if I go to the Styles, you can see because I had it selected, it's based on the body TH style over there, which means that all the rest of the things are being picked up from the body TH 11 points. Now, as far as the font family goes, there are going to be no changes to that at all. I can just go in here and adjust any bits and pieces that I want if I wanted a subtle change on that font. As far as the weight goes, I'm going to go in here and I'm going to say, I want this to be actually quite bold. So we can try bold or we can try black in there. Let's try Black over there. And then we can adjust the size as well. So we've got the font size here, and I'm going to go in and just change it. The original was 11 points, and I'm going to go with 16 points for this. What about color? Well, we can go to color over here and we can adjust the font color. So I want it to be maybe a little bit more interesting, possibly a red, but a brighter red than my text. And I think I'm pretty much happy with that. I'll click Okay. So if I go and click on this bit of text now and select it and choose my style, which was my header style. There it is head there, you can see it's brought in that bit of text, and it's red, and it's exactly the same as this one over here. You know this from the lessons before where you can have one style based on another style. Now, the issue that I've got here is that the header is not doesn't fit on one line. So I might just have to go into my Master page over here and just change the width of these headers. So I'll just do that very quickly, pull it out over there. Let's try all the way across just in case there's really long header for those and exactly the same on the other one, as well. Let's make those a bit bigger. So you can see you can just change things as you go along so easily and update them. So back in here again, if I go down to this one now, once again, I can just click in the text and if I can find it, it seems to have disappeared somewhere. I can then go and find my paragraph style. If you can't see it, remember its windows down to text and your text styles, there it is at the top. I've just spotted it over there, and I'll just change that to my body text and this one over here, I'll just click in it would be my header. Very, very quickly on there. Same with this one, that's going to be the header. This one is body and that one over there is header. Now, what about the white text over here? Because we need a style for this, as well. If I choose this body text style here, you can see it goes black. So I'm going to do another style for my body, as well, exactly the same, but call it white. Let's select that. And then I'm going to go and do a new paragraph style. I'm using the style initially as it is, but I'm also going to call it white. Over there. Now, you can see the font is going to be exactly the same. We're not changing any of this. The only thing we're going to change is the color, and we're going to make that white like so. Let's click Okay. So now I've got that as a white text, and that's the black text, and I can just flick between them very, very quickly. But do you have a bit of a go with that. So for this project, we really do need three different text styles, one for the header, one for the body, and one for the white body, as well. Try it out. 67. Add Full Image & Change Stacking Layers: On page six and seven, we're going to have a picture going all the way across. So I'm going to use my frame picture frame, and I'm going to put the picture in here all the way across everything over there. And then I'm going to bring my picture in. This is all obviously really simple stuff. You've done it before. So I'm going to go and find my picture. We'll use place in here, and I will just choose the image that I want, which is that painting over there. You can put in anything you like. And I think I'm fairly happy with that. But what about if I wanted the page numbers to come in above that. Well, let's go and have a look in our layers. So I'm going to go to the window menu. I'm going to find my layers. They're in the general drop down option there. So layers over there. And then I can just drag my layer with a picture on below the master A over there, and that'll bring those two up there. So very subtle of course, I don't want to ruin this image by having art and chill over the top of those, so I can then go along and I can then just release that master page. I've gone to the Layer menu, Master page and edit detached. Now, why won't this allow me to edit the detached? Well, it's because I'm actually not on the Master. You can see I'm on this picture here. If I click now on the Master, just make sure that, by the way that I'm actually on the move tool, so I don't end up drawing any of those by mistake. I'm on that Master. I'm going to go to Layer Master page, and then I can edit detached. And very quickly, I can then just delete those two from that page, and that gives us the one image all the way across. So have a bit of a go with that. And then once you've done that, what I'd like you to do is to fill up page eight, nine, ten and 11 with some more of these master pages. So eight and nine, I'm going to right click on there, and I'm going to say apply Master, and then I'm going to not replace it, but I'm going to just add in one of these master pages. I'll have that page there. Click Okay. And then the same with this page number ten, I'm going to go over to there, right click that, apply the master. Once again, replace existing switched off, and that will be this master over there. We'll click Okay to replace those. And then you can just go in and add a bit more text in there, apply your styles to that, add some pictures, whatever you want to do on those two pages, but do a full page over here so you actually get used to going to the layer and just editing that detached if you need. Don't forget if it's on top and you can't see it, just move your master below the picture or vice versa. Have a go. 68. Optical Center: I've added a few more pages here. So I've got altogether 12 pages, including my back page in there. You can put in whatever you want. I've just copied and pasted some of the text from that word document that I gave you. I didn't have to use all of it. There's still a few paragraphs remaining. But on my last page, for the moment, I just want to get some text in here, and I'm going to just use a piece of text from here called memories to Treasure. So I'm going to take that bit of text. I want it to be quite big, so I'll use artistic text the artistic text tool, click and drag. Well, let's try that again with my artistic textol, click and drag a bit and paste that in. Now, it's coming quite small. I am going to enlarge it a little bit over here so that you can see. It's got a I think it's got times New Roman, the typeface in there. Doesn't matter what it's got. Fact is that I want to go over here to my text styles, and I want to use the header text on there. Now, when I do that, it gets really small again because remember, this header style has got, in my case, a typeface font, sorry, of about, I think it was 15 or 16. I can't remember exactly, but that was what I chose. So once I put that in, I can then increase the size over here and just scale it up a little bit in there. Now, I'm going to get rid of this. All I want on the back page is just say memories to treasure. So when they close this brochure down, that's all that they're going to see. So I want to remove that and this one. Now, of course, the fastest way to do that would be to go and right click on that Master page and just clear the masters from that. So that gives us our back page. Now, there a little bit of text over here, it's sitting right in the middle. You can see I can center it absolutely exactly in the middle of the page. But then that doesn't always look so good. You see the eye, the human eye naturally moves slightly up a page there. So if I want it to be exactly in the middle technically, then I can put it there. But if I want to be in the middle optically, then you put it slightly above the middle. So this is where your eye would actually see and land on. And it actually looks a little bit better. I'll just switch this into preview mode. It looks slightly better. If you're going ascent to something, put it just above the middle over there, maybe ten to 15% above the middle rather than on the middle itself. It just looks a bit more pleasing. Anyway, do have a bit of a go with that. Do your back page really simple, get rid of the parent page or the master page from there, and then maybe put some text in, move it slightly up if you wish. 69. Add 4 More Pages: We need to add some more pages in. Now, I've got 12 pages at the moment, and remember, if you're going to print with multiple pages, you generally work in sets of four pages. So I'm going to have to add in four more pages. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to my parent pages, my Master Pages over here, and I'm going to drag in the master A. That's the one with the page numbers. And I want them to come after page ten and 11. So if I go to the right hand side of that, you can see where that little line appears. I can just drop that page in over there. Let me do that again, so I'm going to take this one here, drag that over to there, and drop it down the bottom. Now let's go back to page 12 and 13, and I'm just going to switch this little button on so I can see what I've got in here on my parent pages. Make sure I'm on the correct parent page over there. And I'm going to bring in a picture on one side, and then we're going to make a table on the other side. So I'm going to get rid of the art and chill. I'm going to leave the page numbers there. So this one here, I'm going to go to Layer. Going down to my Master Pages and Edit Detached. You know how to do this. I'll just click on Edit Detach and remove that one, and let's get rid of this one as well. The page number, because this is going to be a four page image, doesn't really need the 13 in there. I can get rid of that, as well. I will leave the 12 on this side. And let's say finish in there. Now, just make sure I'm on the correct page. Once again over here. Always check that you are on the right page. You haven't just jumped to a different page. So I'm on page 12 in there. Now, I'm going to bring in a picture, so I'm going to be using my picture frame over there. Draw in a big old frame here. Like that and then place an image in, you can use whatever page you want. So I'm going to go over here to file and place. Find the image that I want to use. I've got a picture of somebody standing with a Oh, that's not quite it. There we are. Standing with his brush and easel over there. I like that one. I'm going to use that and paste him straight in there. Now, I will move him around a little bit so I can just go to the middle and drag him across into the right position, like so. Now I think I want to bring in something else, maybe a paint sloge. Now, I don't have a paint sploge, so I'm going to go to the stock to find one. Now, I've actually changed my search over here to paint blob, and I found a little blob that I like the look of, so I'm going to drag it in over there. It's about the right size. I don't want the background, though. So very quickly now, I can go into Pixel, and I'm not going to use any AI to cut the picture out. I'm just going to go along and use the flood Select tool. This will allow me to click on this white background to select it very quickly, and then I can press backspace or delete on the keyboard to remove that and we can then deselect. The dotted line around the outside. So I'm going to just use Control or Command D to D select it. Now I can take this doesn't matter that the bottom is there still. I'm going to move it down to the bottom of my document. And really, what I'm looking to do is to just unify these two pages by having a picture that goes between the two of them, so it kind of overlaps one to the other. Use any picture that you like, but do have a bit of a go and get something where we can unify these pages together. If you prefer, of course, you can always scale it up if you need something a little bit bigger like that. I kind of quite like that over there. It's sort of almost making a frame for a table to go into. Anyway, do you have a go with that. 70. Liquify & Tone Mapping: Now, I'm in layout mode. I've got my picture over here, and I've clicked on the picture, and I want to show you some of these little buttons over here. We're going to have a look at Liquify and tone map in a second. But if I click on this picture here that hasn't been cut out, you don't get those options. So how could you get to something like Liquify or tone mapping? You double click on the picture, takes you into the picture. And now, once again, we've got tone mapping. We've got Liquify in there. And you can try different things in here. Develop is particularly for raw files over here. K only is just the black and white or just the black channel, shall we say, there. I'll just take that back to full color. Now I'm going to go back to this one over here. I don't have to double click it because because I've done something to it with the transparency, I'm just exactly where I need to be with those buttons. I'm going to click on Liquify to start off with, and this then allows me with a brush size here to just go and like liquid, pull this around. So I'm going to pull this about so we get a bit more of the paint flowing up on this side, maybe down a little bit over there, a bit more up here, and maybe I can pull that bit out as well. Once I'm happy, I'll click Apply. And then I'm also going to go back and I'm going to brighten up the colors. Now, rather than going into Pixel mode and use vibrance there, I can just click on Tone Map, and you'll see that we've got some options down the left hand side, so I could click over here to just get cooler colors or details or black and white over there. The one I want is dramatic down here, so it gives me these very, very vibrant colors. Once again, once I'm happy with that, I've chosen something, I can then just click Apply in there. Wait, do have a bit of a play with those. Try them out. So remember, if you don't see the little buttons over there, you can just double click on the picture to get into it. I'll just show you very quickly this one here. If I click on it, well, I can't see them, so if I double click, I can go in. I'm going to go into Tone Map and just use the dramatic to get some really bright colors on that. Mm, that's maybe a little bit too extreme. Black and White looks actually quite interesting. I'll go with black and white. Let's apply that. Try it out. 71. Build the Basic Table: I've got five different courses that I want to show details of in here. So I'm going to use a table. If I go along to the table tool, I can then click and drag to make my table. I'm just going to go down a little bit, we'll need something along the top over there, and you can see just how many of these I'm getting at the moment. So I've got four of them, so I'm going to go down to four like that over there, and then we can start to adjust the settings in here. Now, don't forget you can always pull this down if you haven't got enough of them in there. Remember over here, we can either change the table size itself scaled like that. Or we can do it proportionately with that outer one. So I'm going to pull this down using that middle one to get my five rows down there, and then the outer one, I'll use to scale the whole thing to the correct size. I'm going to go down a bit further like that, I think. Now, what about the columns over here? I don't need so many columns. I think I just need four columns in there. So, along the top, I'm going to click on that little double arrow over there and change 5-4. Press Enter. So I've now got my four columns, and it's the right size. So get yourself a table going like this. It's going to be five down and four across like that, and use these two. This one here, the inner one to just make it the sort of size that you want. And the outer one, once you've got it to that size, you can then scale it proportionately with that. Do try that out. 72. Create Text Paragraph Styles for Tables: As you can see, I've put in a little bit of text over here, so you can make up your own text to go in. I haven't provided the text for you. Just, you know, put in anything you like. But what I have done, though, is I've made some text styles over here, and you can make your own because you know how to do them so far for the last videos that we've done about text styles. So what I've done here and I'm just going to go back to the text, sorry, to the table tool, select these ones here, and I've made a text style called table titles, so to go down there and across. And this one here, I've done another one over there called table. And they're very, very simple. This one here, the text is slightly bigger and bolder and that's less bold. But you know how to create those, and you can then just apply them very, very quickly. You can apply it to a whole table if you want. So, for example, I can click on head here and apply all of head. I can apply all of the table or I can actually select rows and columns and then apply individual ones to rows or columns over there. So those would be our titles across the top. Anyway, do have a little bit of a go with that. Create your content for your table, and then have a go with some textiles to put on that table. 73. Multi Shapes & Gradients: Now, I'm going to go into my table, and I'm just going to pull these ones apart just a little bit like that. I think that one can come in a little bit Whoops. This one here can come in a little bit closer as well, and the date is fine where it is. And we're going to get rid of all of the lines in between this, so it's just text. So to do that, once again, I'm going to select it, so I've just double clicked with my move tool, which then takes me into the tables. I'm going to go to the top where it says stroke, and I'm going to choose all, which will affect all of the lines around the outside, all the strokes. And now with that, I can go up here and I can just choose none. So I'll go to the thickness. You can see it's affecting all of those and just choose zero in the width, which will then get rid of the lines in between. You'll see if you then show this in preview mode over there, you don't have any lines I'm reasonably happy with that. Maybe they can come a little bit closer together. So once again, back to my table, and I think I'll grab the one at the bottom over here and just pull this up so they get closer together. Now, I want to have this looking like it's actually in a version of a paint palette, one of those plastic ones that you get. They're very often white, and they have got usually watercolors in them. Now we're going to create something really simple like that. So I'm going to start off by creating the outside. By just oops. That's not the one that I wanted. I want to use this rounded rectangle tool over there. Now, yours might come in in absolutely any color, and that really doesn't matter. So once I've created that, I'm going to go to the corner and just pull this out so we've got slightly rounded corners like that, and then I'm going to put a gradient on it. So let's go over to the gradient tool, and I can click and drag a gradient in there. I want my gradient to go from almost white to a slightly ever so slightly gray color. So I'm going to take white if I can find it in my colors here. Otherwise, you can go along to your swatches. And I'm going to take white. I'm going to drag and drop it onto that side over there. Now, because that is pure white, if I click over there, it'll be difficult to see it properly. So what I need to do is to actually change the color to a slightly off white they just about so we can just about see it there. Perfect. Let's take another color over here, and it doesn't matter what color you choose. You can drag and drop it on there. If you don't have a gray like I've got, you can make up your own gray by just changing these. All you've got to do is to make sure that you click on the little circle. You see how that circle is selected now. And now I can go and change the color over there. So let's do two of those like that. I'll just go back to this one here. I want it to be slightly darker. Not too much, just a little bit over there. Now I'm going to make a copy of that, so I'm going to use Control and C or Command and C to copy it, and then Command or Control and V to paste. And what this will do it will paste another copy on top of the last one. You can see I've got two of them over there. This one's going to be slightly smaller than the last over there, and I'll put it right in the middle. I'm going to just spin it around so you can just grab a corner spin it. And that gives us two slightly different shapes because the gradient goes from one side to the other on here and the reverse on the outside. Now, we'll have a look and see what we can do about lifting it off the background in a moment. Now, that's going to be perfect sort of size wise for this table. Of course, the table is behind it. So the easiest thing to do is to go along under general, find the layers, and just move the table above those like that. And I think I'm going to put it something like that in there. Now, that's okay. I think I'll make just a little bit smaller over here. But as I said, I want this to kind of have the feel of a paint palette. So I want to have some little pans that have the colors in over here as well. And this is a trick I want to show you, which is just so cool in affinity. I'm going to take a little shape. I'm using the rounded rectangle tool, and I'll do it up here rather than on top of that. And I'm just going to click and drag the little rounded rectangle that I want to the right size. Now, I'm holding down my mouse button at the moment. And while I'm holding down my mouse button, if I click on the right arrow on the keyboard, you'll see how to put it in the second one there and a third one and a fourth one. And I'll do two more five and six. If I want them to be slightly further apart, don't click down with the arrow, hold it. And you can see as I'm holding it, it'll just move that distance so they go further apart, like so. So there we go. I've now got my little whoops, my little paint palettes. They're all individual items. So I can go in, maybe use a bit of a gradient in there, or maybe just change the colors and have flat colors. It's up to you how far you want to go. I'm just going to go to my swatches and pick a few colors. Let's have some groovy colors over here to go in there. I got my paints. Let's use a brown and that one over there. And these ones, I can then just move down to here. So I've kind of got my paints in there as well. Right, you can always move those around with the arrows on the keyboard to just move them up or down a little bit, as well. It's not a paint palette that we're actually going for here. It's the feel of a paint palette so it doesn't have to look perfect. If you want to try drawing your own paint palette in there, by all means, do so. Anyway, do have a bit of a go with that. So this particular example that I'm showing you here is all about, first of all, making shapes and being able to replicate shapes by using the arrow key. So don't forget with that. You can take any shape you like over there. Hold down the mouse button. Don't let go of the mouse button and use the right arrows to make copies, and then you can use the right arrow by just clicking down on it. I'm still holding down the mouse button to move them further apart. If you press the downward arrow, you can see it will make more versions going downwards and once again, click and hold down to move those further apart, as well. They're all independent items. They're not grouped or anything. You can just move them around as you need. Try that and also have a play with your gradient to create something interesting. 74. Add More Text by Copy & Paste: I'd like to just lift this background piece off the background or away from the background, so it's kind of disappearing on that side. So I'm going to select the background that's the outer shape over there. Let me just hide my other lines there. So it's this one over here with the gradient on it. And I'm going to go down here to the layers and at the bottom to our effects, click effects, and I'm going to put a slight shadow. So I'll just go with an outer shadow over there. Now, you can't actually see it. So I am going to just change some of these settings in here, intensified a little bit. Let's offset that just a little over here, and we can just change some of these so I can adjust the radius, adjust the intensity, adjust the offset in there to get different results from it. I'm just looking for something which is going to be fairly simple. I'm going to change my angle to go the opposite way so the shadow will kind of go on that side a little bit. I don't know whether it'll work. We'll try it out. It's just intensified a bit. And I think we'll take this radius up a little bit more, there we go there. Looks a little bit better, but I don't want to be quite so intense and maybe a bit less. On the opacity. There's no right or wrong here. I'm just looking to find something where it looks like it's actually separate from the background. I'll close that one down, as well. There we go. That seems to work okay. Now let's bring in some text. I could do this in two ways. I could either go to my pages, and I could bring in one of these parent pages, Master Pages again, or quite frankly, I can go to another page, copy what I've got in here and put it across. Now, you can see I can't copy this. Now, I'm sure you can remember I could go to the layer menu and I could then just use the edit detached and copy it that way. Or I can even go into my parent page and copy something from there. So I'll just double click on the parent page. Let's make sure that we can see what we're doing. I can copy those two items. I'll use Control or Command C to copy them. Go back to this page over here, and then paste them straight in. As I said, the most important thing here that I'm really interested in showing you is the fact that you can actually copy things from a master page into your document if you like, and keep them as separate items. So that's going to go there. I'll obviously need to move this up quite a lot. Maybe I think that's about it. Let's Oops. I didn't mean mean to do that. Let me just select this again. Be very careful because it's so easy to select the picture. I will shift click on the photo so it's not selected. I hope that's right. Yeah, there we go. And I can move that one around, like so. And it's just a matter of popping in some text. I'm going to go back to my word document and just take some text over here. So I'll just take that little bit of text, copy that back in here again. I'm going to paste it. In there, you can see it's still got the automatically balancing the text out over there. This bit of text, I'm actually going to cut that let's get rid of that space and paste it in there. And of course, because we've now got these text styles over there, that's going to be my header. I can apply the style. This one over here is going to be my body TH 11 over there, and the style will then match up and you can move it around to wherever you want it to go. So once again, have a bit of a go with that. You don't have to make yours look exactly the same as mine. Just try it out and then move things around to where you want them to be. 75. Add Notes Table: Now we're going to move down to page 14 and 15. And this is a little trick I use. If I've got a document which maybe has only got 14 pages worth of information on, including the back page, but I've got 16 pages altogether. What I do is I go to some of the pages that would otherwise remain blank and just put some lines in it, and then the word notes at the top, so it looks like it's actually deliberately done so people can write notes at the end. But it's just a little trick to fill up a few pages that you don't want to leave blank. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a table over here and I'm going to just start the table at the top. I'm going to swatch on my preview sorry, I'm going to switch my preview mode off over there so I can kind of see where I'm going. I'm going to do something like that over there. This will be for notes. And then the number of columns, I'm going to change that. So I'm just going to make that one column wide over there. And if you want, you can go and change the numbers in here as well. So instead of 46, I could make it, I don't know, let's have 30. Over there. And then all we have to do is to pull this one down to space them further apart like that. I'm also going to put in some text just over the top here that says notes. So I'll go up to that little bit of text there, the header, I'm going to click on the header, copy that, move down to this page, so don't forget just double click on the page to go to it and paste, and that's going to sit maybe over there somewhere saying notes. If you want to remove those, you know how to do that by going to your Master Pages and editing the detached over there. If you prefer, you can always take that and just centra line it like that. We'll just change the word to notes. Oops. This will be notes one, and that'll be notes two. You'll see why in a moment. Let's select that. Hold down the Alt or the option key and the shift key to make sure that you go absolutely parallel, sorry, absolutely horizontal and just make a copy of that, and this will be notes number two in there. Alright, click on that. Let's see what it looks like. That looks okay, but I don't want these lines down the side. So let's just go back again. I'm going to go along to the table. So double click so I can select it. Go up to these options here, where it shows the stroke, and I want to select the outside. And the outside, I want to make sure that there are no strokes on the outside. Now, you can either do it on the other table here or you can just delete it and make a copy. It's up to you. I'm going to do this again. So I'll double click that to select my table, go up to the top. Whoops. Let's try that again. Let's just select my table. Over there, go up to the top. Make sure I'm on the outside and take the stroke down to zero. Let's see how that looks. Back to my move tool over there, switch that off. That works absolutely perfectly. Try that out and do some notes on your last two pages, and then we're going to go right the way to the top, and we're going to create a table of contents. 76. New Section: I've gone to the third page of my document over here. You can see there it is over there. And I'm going to make sure that I click on the third page. So I'll just click a second time until I just selected, not page two and three. I'm going to right click and I'm going to go to Start New section. Now, you can't see it because it's the bottom of the screen here, so I'm going to move that up a bit. Right click and it's start New section over there. So we want to start the new section on page number three. So it's going to be starting in there. And we're going to start the page number at number one. We're not going to continue numbering. We're just going to restart the page number at one. So this one starts at number one. You can see it's automatically changed it. If I do that, it goes back to three. Otherwise, we're seeing that live. It starts at one over there. At this stage, you can change the style of your numbers, so you could use something like ABC. You could use Roman numerals, whatever you wish. If I went, say, for example, to something like that, you can see we've got the double Os in there. Let's just go back to normal numbers there. So make sure you're on the correct page and say restart page numbering at one, click on Close. So now, when I go down, that's page two, three, four, five, six, seven, et cetera. I do want to get rid of this number two on this sorry. Number two, on this page, this is my second page in over here. I want to get rid of the number two. You know what to do. Master Pages, edit detached, and I can just delete that from there. Let's try that again. Layer, Master page, edit detached. There we go. That's better. And I can delete that over there. We'll click on finish up there. So there's no number on that one, no number on that one, and then we start numbering from there. Try that out, and then we're going to put a Table of Contents on this page here. So this is our Table of Contents page, and then we start one on that side. 77. Make a Table of Contents: I've gone to my TOC page, Table of Contents page, which is page two, technically, so a cover page and then the inner page before we start on the new section. And I'm going to zoom into it. So on page two there, I've just double clicked on that page to zoom into it. Remember, it's the second page in, not the one that's labeled number two down there. And what I'm going to do is to use my text tool. Now, we've done this before. So I'm going to use my text tool and I'm going to click and drag a text frame in there. And then I'm going to go to my Table of Contents, and I'm going to insert a Table of Contents over there. Now, here's my Table of Contents panel. I'm going to just move that over there a little bit. I think let's put it in that side. And as you can see, the text styles, we've done this before has changed a little bit to show the Table of Contents styles. No, I want to go down here, and I want to use the header style. Remember, all of these headers are the ones I want to pick up. So all you need to do is to untick the two that are there and click on the head. So it's next to the head where the little tick is, and you automatically get your style coming up. Now, if you want to change the way the text looks, just double click on the head in there. You can go in here and we can change this. So the font, I could go into the font, and I could change the size, for example, to just get a bigger size or a smaller size in there. I can go to my character and I can change the font character. So, you know, you can go wild like that or something more simple. Use a typeface, which you've probably been using in the document already, and I've been using Tahoma, so that's the one that I'm going to go for. But I think I'd like that to be bold as well. You can see that it's a little bit tight on there, and it could be that you've actually been using some options before. So I have so mine, if I go down to my spacing, I can actually change the spacing so I don't have an indent in there. But if you want an indent, by all means, pop one in. I'm going to remove that indenting over there. And if I'm happy with that, I think I will change the color over here a little bit. So let's click on the color and I'm going to make it black. Like that. I'll click Okay, and there it is. Now, I might need to pull this out a little bit over there so we can get all those onto one line. I think that works Okay, there. Let's move that over. So you've got something like that. And then don't forget, check it out in your preview mode to see how it will actually look. And all of these relate directly to the headers that we put in throughout the document as a style. Do try that out. See how you get on with that, create something interesting for your document. Remember if you need to go in and change it. I can always double click in here to get back into my Table of Contents. I can select everything if I wanted to. I'll just select all of those. I can just go in and change my header style. And remember, it's the TOC that I might be changing and change that to something else. I'm going to take bold off and just go back to regular over there. So it kind of matches everything else. Try it out. 78. Export for Print & Screen: Now, at this stage, you can go and tweak your document and add and subtract a few bits and pieces, whatever you like. As you can see with mine, I've added in a few pictures in the background, so I went and search for the word watercolor in Pixabay, and I've just dragged in a few pictures, and I've made sure that in my layers, I've moved them right to the bottom. So I've kind of got a watercolor picture there. There's another watercolor behind that. I've changed this because I didn't really like that other picture. And once again, same over here. So pictures, another picture, another one behind that. Even my notes, it actually looks quite cool if you've got something which looks like paper underneath them. And finally, there's my last document in there. Sorry, my last picture in this document. Now, once you feel happy with this and you want to export it, I was about to say safe, but you should be saving as you go along. And if you haven't had a crash from Affinity, it's well, it's just a matter of time before it happens. I've got to be honest. While I was recording this, I've had two crashes from Affinity. It's actually been when I've changed from Pixel Bay to Pexels, and for some reason, it crashed it out. Yours might be something completely different. So please, please, please, please, please save as you go along. If you don't save, if you've done at least one save, but you don't save as you go along, Pixel Affinity crashes and you reopen it again, it should ask you if you want to recover from the last TEMP document. It saves a TEMP file as you're going along, as well. So it's not the end of the world, but as long as you've saved at least once that's really important. Anyway, I'm going to go to File. I'm going to go down to Export over there, and I'm looking to export this for the printers. So what would the printers require? Well, they would probably like more than anything like a PDF document. Over there, we've got PDF for print, or there's a press ready option over here. Now, I'm going to go with PDF for print in here and then check out what I'm doing. So the area, I can either do just individual pages, I'm going to do all spreads. And I could then choose how many pages I wanted over there. Into the advanced settings over here, and let's have a little bit of a look. It's just popped up finally. I'm going to just check my Rasta DPI, and this is raster means when things are converted from vector into pixels. And I'm going to make sure that it's set to 300 over there. So that's a high quality setting, which be absolutely perfect for printing. And when you brought in pictures, sometimes you might bring in a really big picture, but you scale it down, so it only looks really small, which means that the effective resolution is probably very, very high, maybe 1,200 or 2000 DPI. So this says we can downsample the images, any image which is above 375 DPI, also known as PPI, by the way. If you see that, you can kind of interchange those two. And it will downsample these huge images to something smaller. You don't have to have that on if you switch it on, sorry, if you switch it off, you could save it with the original huge files in there. You might find that your document is just a bit too big. And we're going to allow some JPEG compression with that, but we're going to keep the quality really nice and high. I'm going to make sure that I have embedded the ICC profile. This is our profile for the screen use or sorry, for the printed use. And india it says, use the document profile. But if you're not sure, the best thing to do is to talk to the printers and ask them what ICC profile you should be using. I can't really say because it depends on the printers, and it also varies from country to country. But if you really are unsure and the printers are not being very helpful, just try something like a generic CMYK profile. Now moving down over here, do you want to include layers in this final document? Well, if nobody's going to be making any changes to it, we may as well just switch them off. It will save a little bit of the size. Including a bleed, absolutely. This is going for the printers, so we're going to include the bleed and we're also going to include the printers marks as well. Those are the crop marks, the registration marks. We'll have a look at those, some color bars as well. We're embedding any fonts that we want to use moving all the way down and do we want any password protection on there? No, I don't think we do. That's absolutely fine. So I'm going to click on Export over here, and it asks where we want it. I'm just putting it on my desktop so I can show it to you in a moment. And it's exporting this out. Let's go and have a look. And you can see it's put in all the printers marks. It's put in the name of the file, the date. In there. There's some little lines and squiggly things over here that the printers use. These ones are where the cropping happens, so they'll use a gillotine to cut up the final printed results. Little ones here, you'll find them on all four sides. These little targets allow the printers to make sure that their plates, the sine, magenta, yellow and black plates, all lined up perfectly as well, and some color bars at the bottom. I I just zoom out on this document, you can see my whole document in there. All of the pages are all sorted out, and you just send that straight off to the printer and they'll be able to work with that. Of course, if you just want to export this for well, sending around to people, emailing around or putting on the website to download, we can go to File, and we can choose Export. And this time, instead of export for print, we'll go PDF digital high quality. Now, once again in here, have a look through all your options. Do you want to do this as all spreads, or do you want the current pages or all pages? I'm going to go with all spreads over there, and we can preview the export over here when it's complete, as well. And then it's just a matter of working our way through here once again and deciding on the resolution. Now, 300 might be a little bit too high for a screen image. If you choose one of these digital small sizes, you'll see that it changes the DPI to 72 rather than the 300 in there. I like to go halfway between the two, so maybe 144. It's not 300, so it won't be too big, but it'll have a bit more quality than the 72. And same over here with images which are above a certain DPI, I'm just going to take that down a little bit. So anything which is above maybe 250, somewhere around there, we will get those two resize down. Quality wise, if the file is going to be emailed around, you might want to reduce the quality a little bit here so it's not too big to email the final size. The color space is going to be RGB because that's what we're going to be using on screen. So we keep that as RGB. And the ICC profile over here, I would suggest using SRGB. That's a profile that most browsers and machines can read. If you choose one, which is maybe a little bit over the top, you might find, for example, like Pro photo. It's a great profile, but not that many browsers can actually read it properly. So stick with SRGB. And once again, moving down, do we need any bleeds and things for this? No, we don't don't need printers marks, so we'll leave those switched off. I think I've got include bleed switched off there. That's brilliant. Right, let's just export that out over here. Once again, I'll put the art, and this is going to be screen. S. I'm just going to save that out, as well. Right, here's my document. I'll just close that down a little bit. Let's zoom out a bit on that so you can see the whole thing. There we go. No printers marks, nice bright colours in GB. All ready to be emailed around. Anyway, have a bit of a go with that. Maybe create your own with your own particular subject, as well. And please do share your work with us. I love seeing what you're doing. And if I can help you with anything, don't hesitate to contact me. 79. Well Done & Thank You: Congratulations. You've reached the end of this course. I'm sure you're creating amazing work. Now, don't forget to leave us a review. It really helps us to help to build more courses for you. I also do courses in Adobe, as well as Canva and Procreate. Don't forget to follow me and have a look at my profile. I'll see you in the next one. A