Ex 3 (first-timers)

InDesign Layout 1 (lay out a practice page, using different layers for background, text and images)

Follow the tutorials we started in class last week. You will need to schedule time to use the computers in A405, unless you happen to have access to your own copy of Adobe CS3.

From the page that first introduced the assigment, last week:

[T]he assignment is to design a one-page practice document, using text (including headlines and body text), images (including photos and/or other illustrations), and a background (which may have a watermark, shading, guidelines, etc.).

I'm leaving the content of the page unspecific, other than asking you to demonstrate something you have learned so far in EL200. You can a poster advertising some event (historical or imaginary); a mockup of a page from a magazine or newspaper, or a spoof in the tradition of The Onion.  You are free to re-use any of the materials you have written so far for this class; you may also use text somebody else wrote, as long as you have permission from that author. So, you might want to lay out two or three peer profiles

You may work with a partner as you learn the software, but I will ask each student to submit a separate one-page practice document. (If you and your partner use the same text, that is fine; just make sure your layout is completely different.)

Submit your work by emailing a PDF of your document to me. (The process of converting your CS project to a PDF is described at about the 7:30 mark in the second tutorial.) 

Our goal for this initial exercise is

1) basic familiarity with the tools and file formats
2) gaining experience in learning from a screencast tutorial
3) respecting deadlines (you will have to plan, on your own time, to finish watching these tutorials and carry out these steps in Adobe CS3)