See the mockup in the previous post.
Original Art:
The drawing of the woman has an interesting history. Originally, I drew the figure from a model in a photography book. At the time I was experimenting in handedness and I worked with my left hand on this one, (I'm right-handed). The medium was Rotoring calligraphy pen and ink. It was a five-minute drill.
I scanned the drawing into Photoshop as line-art, traced it in Illustrator to create a vector graphic and used the live paint tool in Illustrator to add color. I selected the figure in Photoshop and saved the selection as a path in the document.
Genesis of a Mockup:
I've done a lot of document layout with QuarkXPress and I'm currently making the move to InDesign. I've created PDF's with Quark and there have been problems with graphics using paths disappearing from the file, ergo, a page was born featuring a graphic with a path and text wrapping in InDesign. Text wrap determines how the text responds to the graphics embedded path--in this instance I wanted the text to hug the graphic.
My wife wants me to make a template in InDesign for an alumni magazine she designs (and writes, and edits, and lays out, and has printed). I took a few minutes laying this page out to study InDesign from the perspective of her needs, so it's a little more elaborate than was necessary. (Although the page was a study to meet her needs, it's my layout).
I've been fine tuning printing files to Acrobat with custom settings by targeting output. We've put quite a few PDF's up for web viewing and we're looking at changing our press delivery; usually I FTP Quark files to our printer in New York, but the thinking is the PDF's will streamline the process. This page was exported from InDesign as a High Quality Print PDF, which was subsequently rasterized in Photoshop at 300 DPI, resized for my blog, and saved to web as a JPG.