I fixed the "breathing space" problems the text of the "Harmony" posters were having and I've been concentrating on creating an interesting text box. Inspired by a black and white fashion layout with Christy Turlington and a spiky black fur coat, I knew I wanted an ellipse. Mastering the ellipse in InDesign has been... challenging. First, a full oval with a weird skinny oval layer that would not go away. Second, half an elipse with text and the chest symbiont completing the ellipse. How clever! EXCEPT I could not figure out how to make half an ellipse in InDesign or how to cover up the half I didn't want or to make that band-aid solution disappear when I was ready for the symbiont. So I caved and went back to my first love, Photoshop. I was able to cut and paste the ellipse I had halved and filled with text into photoshop, then manipulated a symbiont. I dropped the whole file back into the right hand side of the spread. There's always a glitch, though, and there is this eternal skinny black bordered box around the whole thing when I save it in .swf AND no luck at dropping in a big W at the head of the paragraph for emphasis like I was able to on the other boxes of text. The final two "Harmony" posters appear in the next spread. I'm very pleased that I got the balance of black and white sorted out in their favour.
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