Typesetting Assignment
TypesettingAssignment
TypesettingAssignment
The world of Photoshop and InDesign felt foreign and overwhelming. Things seemed to have their own language and the layout wasn’t anything like what I had used before. Even the amount of lessons an time spent exploring felt overwhelming, but I am glad to have emerged with at least the most basic understanding of how […]
For the first InDesign assignment, I was instructed to add Headlines Subheads Bylines Body text Photo cutlines Pull quotes Dividers Jump Line to a pre-populated document. I started this assignment without having seen all of the lynda.com instructional videos and that was not the best decision. Some of it was pretty logical, like how to […]
TypesettingAssignment
Well, this is the first bootcamp where I have survived! Over the past week we had to become PRO’s (not really) in Photoshop and InDesign while watching video tutorials as well as following along with some instructions in class. I… Continue Reading →
This past week I survived, but did not thrive, in InDesign and Photoshop bootcamp. Bootcamp consisted of watching several hours of tutorials over these two programs, completing some typesetting and newsletter formatting assignments and writing a few blog posts. We started off the week by creating a fake newsletter with all the right elements and … [Read more…]
This week’s content included a lot of online tutorials and “challenges” to complete for practice. I found that by watching the videos, taking some notes, then completing the challenges for practice was the best way to learn h0w to navigate Adobe Photoshop and Indesign. I learned a lot about using both of them. I didn’t … Continue reading “Reflection”