"Justin, Justin, how to add color?"

"Phoebe what's the correct preset ah?"

"Ah heck this man!"

"Wah Sharen your cover's nice!!"

"Aiyo where's my eraser tool?"

"Mine cannot make it la!"

Add a few helpless groans, aimless cursor movements and plenty of image dragging from Google and it wraps up my relationship with InDesign.

I'm not saying I didn't learn anything new about InDesign today. What I'm saying is that right now I'm like a fish on the beach. Once I find my way into the ocean, my problems will subside. 

The same with InDesign. Once familiar with the layout and functions, I'll be dining and designing! (And not making any more senseless analogies - but if it did make sense to you, then good for you!)

Okay so what did I learn?

Bleeds

Nothing gory, bleeds are alignments that prevent or allow your design to run over the page or keep it within the page boundaries so that upon printing, the design work will run until the edge of the paper or fall nicely within the paper for easy viewing.

Apart from that, I simply experimented on creating a magazine page cover by involving the use of layers, rectangle tool (my personal favorite, for a simple masthead), swatches for color and filling in the page with pictures. May sound simple but… okay it IS kind of simple. I just need to work on my design skills.

And that I will do.

- Gerard