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Intro to CS3 InDesign
Watch these tutorials (created by the University of Houston-Victoria), and follow along. You will have time to start during class, using the copy of CS3 (Adobe Creative Suite 3) installed in A405.
(If you have installed the YouTube app on your iPad, I recommend that you put the video on your iPad, prop it up next to the screen, and follow along. You may also call up the video on one desktop screen, and you and a partner can fire up computers on either side of the video, and you can follow along together, pausing the video as needed.)
Next week, the 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.)
Next week, the 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.)
