& welcome to our blog!Students, please answer the following questions as a comment to this post:
1. What do you hope to get out of this class?
2. Are you familiar with Adobe InDesign?
3. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being none and 5 being expert, rate your skill level with Adobe InDesign.
4. If you could request to learn one task or skill in this class, what would it be?
5. What is your favorite font?
I hope to gain from this class a working knowledge of InDesign so that I may create my own books, photo page layouts, paper designs and more. I'm new to InDesign, but know my way around Photoshop, so it's very familiar. On a scale of 1 to 5, I'd rate myself at a skill level of 1. I don't yet know what one skill I'd like to know by end of class. I don't have a favorite font. I like to change my fonts based on the theme or "feel" of my layouts.
ReplyDelete1. What do you hope to get out of this class?
ReplyDeleteI hope to get inspired to make books! I'd really like to have one book completed by the end of the class. When I was an undergraduate, 10 years ago, I took a bookmaking class. We made all of our books by hand and I loved the process of creating bindings. In future books, I want to mix the digital page creation with hand binding. I also hope to find someone in this class who would like to collaborate on a book together.
2. Are you familiar with Adobe InDesign?
No, I've never used it. However, I have used Adobe Photoshop which makes me a little more comfortable with the software.
3. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being none and 5 being expert, rate your skill level with Adobe InDesign.
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4. If you could request to learn one task or skill in this class, what would it be?
Ways to format text - this is something I know very, very little about
5. What is your favorite font?
Helvetica - but mostly because it's beautiful AND there's a documentary about it
1. What do you hope to get out of this class?
ReplyDeleteThe course description is a perfect match with what I want to learn. It even described some things I didn't know I wanted to learn!
2. Are you familiar with Adobe InDesign?
Not one bit, I knew I needed Acrobat to view certain documents so I downloaded it, but that's really it...
3. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being none and 5 being expert, rate your skill level with Adobe InDesign.
Definitely an uno...
4. If you could request to learn one task or skill in this class, what would it be?
To be able to create a down-loadable book/e-zine sorta product. I would like to create a story and make it directly available to others, perhaps skipping a publisher all together...
5. What is your favorite font?
Comic Sans...
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1. What do you hope to get out of this class?
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to gain a better understanding of how to lay out a whole book with InDesign, because I'm aiming for a career on the production side of publishing, where those skills will certainly be necessary.
2. Are you familiar with Adobe InDesign?
I've used it briefly before, but since I don't own it, I haven't had much time to fool around with it. I'm familiar with Photoshop, so a lot of things are similar.
3. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being none and 5 being expert, rate your skill level with Adobe InDesign.
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4. If you could request to learn one task or skill in this class, what would it be?
I'd be interested to learn how to do interior page layouts on grids, especially with chapter titles and running heads/feet, etc.
5. What is your favorite font?
In metal type I really like Bodoni Book and Goudy Oldstyle, but I don't like how either one transfers digitally. Aside from those, I tend toward typewriter fonts or Helvetica for display purposes.
1. I'd like to be able to be more creative with the design elements of the coffee-table type books I have in my head.
ReplyDelete2. Not at all familiar with InDesign. I work with Photoshop on a daily basis so the tools and concepts are not foreign to me, but I've never used InDesign.
3. Definitely a one.
4. I'd like to become more familiar with layers and transparency in order to get the visual effects I'd like.
5. Depends on the content.
I would love to learn how to design all elements of a book using InDesign. I have never used InDesign, so my skill level is 0 (it doesn't even reach a "1"). As for my favorite type--Helvetica--and only because I've seen the movie.
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