Creating Newsletters with Adobe Creative Suite
Course Objective: Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to use Adobe® Creative Suite products and other tools to create a professional-looking printed newsletter, as well as a digital version for email or publishing to a website.
Target Student: Newsletters are a common and effective way of connecting companies internally and with clients/customers. Adobe® Creative Suite provides robust tools for the creation of professional quality newsletters. This class will also provide the skills necessary to create other promotional materials such as fliers, posters and postcards.
Prerequisites: To ensure your success in this course, you should be familiar with the functions of your computer's operating system such as creating folders, launching programs, copying and pasting objects, formatting text, retrieving files, and saving files. No previous experience with Adobe® products is needed.
With our extensive knowledge of the different software currently on the market, including all Microsoft and Adobe applications, ON-TRACK Corporate Training Ltd. has a diverse and flexible schedule that can be customized to your needs – we offer group course (both public and corporate), one-on-one training, and on-site training options. We also have easily accessible on-line training videos available.
Duration: 1 Day
Outline
- Pre-planning
- Newsletter best practices
- Basic layout and design guidelines
- Pre-planning and project management techniques
- Image copyright guidelines and sourcing
- Font guidelines and sourcing
- Raster editing in Photoshop
- Manage image elements and formats
- Manage selections and layers
- Crop, move, and straighten images
- Image repairs
- Layer adjustments
- Saving images for web and print
- Other raster editing tools outside of Photoshop
- Vector creation and editing in Illustrator
- Draw and customize basic shapes
- Draw and modify paths
- Flow text along a path
- Distort text with text envelopes
- Import and link graphics
- Alter the appearance of objects - stroke, fill, gradient, styles
- Prepare images for layout
- Layout in InDesign
- Create a new document
- Create master pages
- Add and format text
- Add and format graphics
- Link and manage repeating content
- Apply colours, swatches, gradients
- Create and apply styles
- Data Merge
- Proof, edit, and revise
- Preparing a Document for Delivery in InDesign
- Print a document
- Package a document for review and commercial printing
- Export files for the Web
- Review options for web publishing
- Proof, edit and prepress review in Acrobat