I then added the picture of the cityscape underneath and to the left so that when text was added it was clear where you should start to read it from. The picture had to be crop in order to be the right size, in InDesign this can be done by altering the size of the frame over the content.
When this was in place we started to add the text across 3 columns, I chose a font to contrast with the serif font of Palatino, and as so I chose Arial. I filled the 3 columns as much as I could using the copy available around the picture. To make it look more professional I added a pull quote - pulling a quote from the article, and changing the format of it to emphasize the quote and/or break up longer pieces of text. I formatted the pull quote to align to the right hand side, changed the colour to match the header, increased the point size and changed the weight of the font. I also added more space above and below it to make it look less block-y.
Th next step was adding a bird picture, here it was pointed out that we could place Photoshop files into InDesign, meaning that with the file linked that you can continue to edit the image and update the link later on. With the bird image we added a run around or text wrap, creating a border around the image where the text would not enter meaning the two elements would not clash.
The final step of the process was adding finishing touches, such as the page numbers and the lines between the columns of text using the master pages, as well as spell-checking and formatting the text so that it all lined up properly and aesthetically.
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