IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SERIF AFFINITY PUBLISHER
1 Rearranging our content
In our new document we’ve rearranged the graphics and text blocks we want to keep, moving the photographer logo, name and contact information down to the bottom of the document – we’ll treat this as a footer area. Your poster size will depend on the largest size you can print, or get printed, and you can check and change this in the File>Document Setup panel.
2 Adding a photograph
We’ll start with a photograph which takes up the whole of the document area except for our footer area at the bottom. Use the Picture Frame Rectangle tool to drag out a frame from the top left corner of the document down to the bottom right, leaving just enough space for our footer. Now, with this frame selected, we can use the File>Place command to locate and import our image.
3 Creating a title with Artistic Text
We need to add the exhibition title, and for this we’re going to use the Artistic Text tool. What we actually want is a three-deck, or three-line, title, with the word ‘Landscape’ large on the first line, the words ‘photography today’ on the second line and some bullet points about the event on the third line. So in the first frame, we enter ‘LANDSCAPE’ in all capital letters.
4 Resizing and aligning Artistic Text
Next, we create another artistic text frame with the words ‘PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY’ and a third with the words ‘EXHIBITION • SPEAKERS
• WORKSHOP • Q & A’. Now you’ll see the
