An exploration of desktop publishing and page layout programs that enable designers to execute fine control over type and graphic placement. QuarkXPress has become the industry standard among design professionals who use Macinstosh computers for desktop publishing. Adobe has introduced InDesign that has many of the features and capabilities of QuarkXPress as well as the familiarity of Adobe tools and palettes. Students will acquire the knowledge and practical experience necessary to use these programs effectively in a production environment. These programs enable designers to create and manipulate digital images and incorporate them into publications quickly and easily.
Students explore in depth the capabilities of the programs through demonstrations and assignments.
Adobe Photoshop allows designers to perform extremely sophisticated digital manipulation of scanned photographic images. Using Photoshop, graphic artists can retouch, modify, clone, and paint scanned photographs. With Adobe Illustrator, students learn the skills needed to create illustrations electronically, to manipulate images with ease, and to combine digital images with text. Utilizing sophisticated web page creation software, tables and frames can be added to web pages along with PDF, QuickTime and Shockwave files, creating dynamic web sites. An introduction to multimedia production using MacroMedia Director.