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Location: Wisconsin | Here is my first attempt at a catalog....pretty much done all in photoshop (which I am no expert). Let me know what you think!!
http://www.muskiemetal.com/Catalog/MMCATALOG2008.pdf
Still working out the bugs....it first shows up at full zoom, so you need to back it down.
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| Cool, think I found a typo the model 1 bucktail must be a beast at 10.8 ounces.................... |
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| Looks good! Just as a suggestion to make your design process a little easier; if you have the availability to try out InDesign, give it a go you will be much happier with the whole process. Its a lot easier to set up layouts and boards and has a lot more arrangement functions than photoshop. And if you can do that in photoshop , InDesign will be a breeze.
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| Thanks, I saw that too. She isnt 10 ounces that is for sure.
I am getting Indesign soon and will work with that. I was trying Quark, but it was getting irritating. Thanks for the suggestions.....!!
Good fishing!
Chad |
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Location: Mayer, MN | I have a suggestion. Your orientation is a little akward. My background is landscape architecture and I work with civil engineers and land surveyors. We spend our days working on plan sheets or construction documents. It is standard throughout the industry to have your text reading in only two directions. Those directions are left to right like all the text on this website and the other direction would be to rotate it counter clockwise 90 deg.
So page 1 looks great.
Page 2 is where it is getting difficult. Two options here:
-Do a 180 on your color/pattern text.
or create a document that want to read longways, your picture formats are screaming to read horizontal and it would match your cover page also, accomplish this by:
-Do a 180 on your color text/pattern text and do a 180 with your price and model number text and rotate your model description text counterclockwise 90 deg.
Let's see it revised.
Good Luck,
Jason |
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| Agree with jason. I find it very difficult to read with the fish and text going so many directions. |
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Location: Wisconsin | Thanks for the suggestion, I am going to rotate the pictures and text to be inline....
I am getting Indesign this weekend so I will work on it...thanks again!!
Good fishing!
Chad
Edited by Muskiemetal 2/19/2008 10:53 AM
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Location: Wheeling, IL. | Chad, InDesign is the way to go. Photoshop is for retouching photo's, InDsign is for page layout and better than the Quark. Having spen my life in Graphic arts, let me know if I can give any other advice. |
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Location: Wisconsin | Thanks guys for the advice, I started changing everything over today in photoshop...I can't wait to get Indesign and start working with that.
Is it easy to move the page over to Indesign from Photoshop (layers) due to it being Adobe ? |
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Location: Wisconsin | Catalog is updated, please take a look and let me know how it looks!! Thanks for the ideas, I think it looks better....still a work in progress..
Good fishing! |
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Location: Milwaukee Wi | Looks fantastic!!!!! |
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| Sadly the layers will not correspond to InDesign however you can just drag the pictures over from the photoshop layer to the InDesign document. Looking forward to checking out the new catalog. Best of luck!
Nate |
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Location: Mayer, MN | Muskiemetal - 2/19/2008 7:51 PM
Catalog is updated, please take a look and let me know how it looks!! Thanks for the ideas, I think it looks better....still a work in progress..
Good fishing!
Looking good! Glad to help. Fun project.
Jason |
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