The Class Assignment that is Two Pages Pt.5

       To get started, I need to create the panel layout for my pages.  To do this, I like to use Illustrator.  I have always found Illustrator much easier for working and manipulating things like text and border, as well as quickly changing the size of whatever I am working on.  I am going with the second run of thumbnails.

 The first thing I do is import the image into Illustrator.  I made sure the art board was the same size as the image, and locked it.

From there I used the rectangle tool to create the panels that I needed.  There are in red so that I can see them easier among the scribbles, but it is easy enough to change to black.

I wanted standard, even, 1/4" gutters throughout the page. To help me with this, I created a 1/4 in by 1/4 in box.

This is a trick that I picked up while making my resume in InDesign.  It makes it really for managing even spaces without having to use a ruler.  Like so.

Simple, easy, and no math required.  Then I just save it as an Illustrator file, and copy and paste it to the page in Photoshop as a vector smart object.  

Now on to the drawing.