

I first started off making a label for and aluminum can that I was going to use as my main image in the layout. I used illustrator to trace a silhouette of a fisherman. I made the words for the label in indesign. I then placed both the fisherman and the words into photoshop to create a flat label. After making my final flat label I took a picture of an alumninum can and wraped the flat label around. The way I did this was by using the transformation tool and warping the flat label to fit the rounded can. Once I had the label onto the can I used the eraser at 25% flow and opacity. By doing this the shine of the can was able to come through and made the wraping of the label more realistic. After finishing the can I moved into indesign and started working on my layout for the two page spread. I keeped the layout simple and put the can on the middle of the page with the first two columns of text wraping around the can. The second page has three columns of text with a box that contains fishing techniques that highlights what the text is about. I decided I wanted this box so that if someone looking at the article and just glance over and see what the techniques are and then if they want can read the whole article. I used one color of blue and just changed the values of it throughout the spread. I had a slight problem with the text wraping around the can, but fixed that by having two cans. I put one on the page and possisioned it so the text was where I wanted it and then took the opacity down to 0. I then put the second can on the master page and took the text wrap off of it and positioned it so that the drop shadow did not overlap the text. When I put the can on the master page the blue color strip in the background would be ontop of the can so I aslo put that onto the master page. Then everything was where I waned it and it was time to print.
When I went to print I decided that since the size of one page was 8 by 10 I could use the lazerjet printer. I printed out the pages on spearate pages and realized that they had been printed to fit page. I went in and changed the properties to it would print to actual size and printed it again. The size was just enough to see the crop marks so I could still crop the pages to the correct size. The only other problem I had was that for some reason when the pages printed anywhere I had a text box ontop of color the box showed up as being just slighly darker. I'm not sure why this happened because it didn't show up on the pdf file.
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