INDESIGN LESSON

InDesign is a program that is used for doing page layout when you have completed the graphics and other placement objects in Photoshop or Illustrator. The following lesson deals with the basic parts of the program which will allow the user to create a simple layout. This lesson includes placing text, images, styles and tabs which should give the user the basic idea of how to work the program. This lesson can be completed in one class and you should be able to then work on the next project which will integrate all of the creative programs that we have used up to this point.

This is a podcast to load it click on the small circle in the top left corner of the title. This podcast was created by Terry White who is an Adobe Certified Expert.

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Picture Assignment (The Romantic Landscape)

Nineteenth century Romanticism was a loose movement spanning many of the arts. In painting. it exalted the beauty of nature particularly wild landscapes and used it to inject feeling and significance. Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School showed the northwest Unites States as grand and inspiring, while in Germany, Caspar David Friedrich showed bleak and mountainous landscapes that somehow conveyed a feeling of hope.


Take a picture of a landscape that is in the style of the above description. You may want to do some research on this type of photography to get an idea of what type of style you will be using.

Creative Web Assignment:

There are approximately 6 billion people in the world today, but most people would be shocked to find out that there are 30 billion web sites, and this is a lower estimate of the number of web sites that are available. The web is growing every day, and as a student you should be using this technology. Knowing this, many people find it very difficult to keep up with the new technology that is available, and this is the idea of this project.

The outcome for this assignment is to find interesting and creative content on the internet and create a written review of a new web site that will enhance our use of design. As part of this assignment you are required to show the web site to the class and explain it’s features.

Fixing Global Problems in an image

This is a tutorial that goes through the steps how to fix common global problems that occur in almost all photographs. These steps should be used before you pass in any files.

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