Background
This course is
designed for those working in publishing who do not regularly use design or
page layout programs but need an overview of what these programs do and how
they fit into the process of digital production.
The course will give you increased confidence when dealing with
designers, printers and publishers and will demystify the often confusing
terminology involved giving you a good grounding in the basic principles and
process of digital design and production.
Course Outline
INTRODUCTION
An
overview of the digital production process
Planning a document
How programs work together
AN OVERVIEW OF PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING SOFTWARE
What do QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign actually do?
How are they different?
Creating a simple page layout
Importing text from a word processing program
Importing an image
Using the basic text features
An overview of Illustrator and FreeHand
What does Illustrator actually do?
What does Freehand actually do?
Creating text and images
FONTS
Everything you wanted to know about fonts but were afraid to ask
AN
OVERVIEW OF PHOTOSHOP
What
does Photoshop actually do?
Scanning an image
Cropping an image
Exporting images from Photoshop
Demystifying terminology
Different file formats – EPS, TIFF, PDF, PICT etc
An introduction to image resolution
What does digital proofing mean?
What does Adobe Acrobat do?
What are pixels and vectors?
What is a clipping path?
Estimating production time
