Process And Production - Adobe Creative Suite - Indesign Recap

During this tutorial we had a recap on the skills that we had previously learnt to ensure that these were being used correctly; also I had the chance to expand on these skills. 

I was taught how to set up a Table of Contents; and how it can make it easier than manually inputting it (similar to the way of adding page numbers). As well as that I learnt how to add paragraph styles to efficiently be consistent throughout a document. Whilst in 'new' paragraph style you can control the typeface, point size, colour and other features/elements to the type. Once these have been set, you can quickly apply them to your document which makes it faster when setting up the document. You can also set up drop cap, titles, body text. 

Below are some screenshots of me setting up the table of contents; this included editing the typeface, size, density and colour. I experimented with the use of the tab tool which meant I wouldn't have to repeatedly add them in.

These are the finished sections. It shows how all my subheadings are the same as they have all been edited to do so, same with the body text. 

Whilst in the same workshop I was asked to create an article spread to show what skills I have in Adobe Indesign; this allowed the tutor to assess how well I can set up a document, my layout skills, typesetting and headings. We were allowed to choose any topic to base the article, then I were to collect images and use placeholder text to use for the content of the article. 

Once the visuals and text had been collected, I then began to layout the article using my skills, demonstrating what ability I currently had. My chosen topic was Orangutans as I'm quite fond of them. During this task I used the following tools; selection, crop, text wrap etc. I removed the background on some images so that the text would conform to the shape of the image; giving it a smoother appearance. 

Here is the final outcome;