Lynda - Design a Newsletter

Size: 776 MB | Duration: 2h 48m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15&30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner | Language: English

Creating a successful newsletter means spending less time on repetitive tasks and more time creating your design. In this project-based course, Nigel French shares effective design and production techniques by taking you from start to finish through the process of designing a newsletter. He uses Adobe InDesign—with some help from Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop—to craft an eye-catching and impactful design. Nigel covers how to set up a document, work with text, and choose and manipulate images. Plus, he shows how to create both a print-ready PDF and a screen PDF of your finished newsletter.

Topics include:

* Planning a newsletter

* Choosing a color palette

* Using a template and library items

* Placing and cleaning up text

* Creating and applying styles

* Working with images

* Evaluating, choosing, and placing images

* Working with inline images

* Preflighting the document

* Creating a print-ready PDF

* Creating a screen version of the newsletter