Working in the Design Industry
2 designer deliverables in a design project
What are sketches and composites (comps)?
A container that is used to edit and manipulate objects in the document.
What is a frame?
The process of adjusting the space between specific pairs of characters (spacing between two letters)
What is kerning?
This panel warns of problems that can prevent a document from printing correctly.
What is the preflight panel?
What is intellectual property?
The process of adjusting the space between specific pairs of characters (spacing between two letters)
What is kerning?
A set of pages viewed together, side by side.
What is a spread?
The vertical distance between the baselines (bottom) of lines of type
This allows a user to show/hide all non-printing items such as ruler guides, hidden characters, frame edges, and hidden characters all at the same time.
What is screen mode?
There is no copyright owner; the author has forfeited their copyright
What is public domain?
An option that arranges the document pages in a spread.
What is facing pages?
Allows you to quickly format graphics and frames across a document
Object styles
This allows a user to quickly change the display settings for the entire document or for individual graphics.
What is display performance?
This is an effective way to gather unbiased feedback for a brochure design.
What is sending draft samples to a random selection of people?
The void area between elements that allows the elements of interest in a composition to stand out and attract the viewer's attention?
What is negative space?
What is Hide/Lock the layer?
A red plus sign in the lower right corner of a text box indicates this.
What is overset text?
The screen mode in which all non-printing page elements aren't visible
What is preview mode?
You are designing the layout of a product page for a clothing website and you're trying to decide which products you should display open this page. These will help you decide which products are best to use.
What is Target Audience and Purpose of the website?
The relative size and scale of various elements in a design.
What is proportion?
The area outside the page content that accounts for inaccuracies with printing or trimming
What is bleed?
An area outside the page content that contains printer instructions that is essentially cut off and discarded after printing
What is slug?
This command ensures that all fonts and linked graphics are included with your InDesign files to hand off to a client.
What is packaging?