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Hannah!

Mon, Feb 12 2007, 12:14 pm

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withhumor

Mon, Feb 12 2007, 1:59 pm

Do you have the Microsoft Office Software (Word,Excel, etc.)?

Hannah!

Mon, Feb 12 2007, 2:08 pm

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withhumor

Mon, Feb 12 2007, 2:14 pm

Industry standard software is the Adobe line of products. With Adobe Photoshop you can digitally edit your images or create new graphics. With Adobe illustrator, you can draw easily using the drawing tools, and twisting around your fonts.

Then, you use Quark Express to bring the two together (your text, and images). Quark is the most often used program for doing everything, from brochures to publishing textbooks.

Adobe has an online program where you can purchase ’lessons’ for any of their software. The lessons are accessible from any computer online, and are self paced. Once you finish it, you can also purchase an ‘exam’ to get yourself certified, so it’s really cool.

If you’re past the basic Microsoft ‘fun’ programs, you should consider learning Adobe Photoshop. Welcome to my world.

http://adobe.elementk.com/

LikeMeDoes

Mon, Feb 12 2007, 3:00 pm

That sounds good. I'd love to learn Photoshop so I'm going to look into it.

I use Microsoft Publisher fairly proficiently but for some things it's just not good enough.

I just heard that there's a course I could take but it's a 14 week course and I'd need to get a babysitter. So...this might be easier and even cheaper.

Thanks!

withhumor

Mon, Feb 12 2007, 3:03 pm

I’ve been using the Adobe products for ten years so I purchased the test’ and as soon as I have a moment to take it, I’ll be an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) .

Hannah!

Tue, Feb 13 2007, 8:56 pm

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Imaonwheels

Wed, Feb 14 2007, 3:24 am

withhumor wrote:

This is outdated. The newish Adobe CS (creative suite) incorporates photoshop (images), In design (graphic text design), GoLive (web) along with Bridge and Album. There is absolutely no need to go out of the CS for any job, including prepress. My designer used indesign to make my invitations. Quark is around because offices are either trad mac or not ready to upgrade. Adobe is the most common and advanced for PC.

http://www.adobe.com/print/

http://www.layersmagazine.com/

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Imaonwheels

Wed, Feb 14 2007, 3:29 am

There is also a site that I found that has free tutorials for every thing, Not stolen copywritten material but people upload their own work. I will try to regoogle it. I do not think if you need such a prog then you won't find it intuitive. Also there are several magazines dedicated to adobe that come with disks for practice using the various features. This is what I by as I have never taken a graphics anything formally. Is that ACE real? It would look good on a resume and I need a real job... sigh.

withhumor

Wed, Feb 14 2007, 9:51 am

ACE is real…. And CS is the new way to go. I love it. Thank you for the information above!

yOungM0mmy

Wed, Feb 14 2007, 10:37 am

Imaonwheels wrote:

There is absolutely no need to go out of the CS for any job, including prepress. My designer used indesign to make my invitations. Quark is around because offices are either trad mac or not ready to upgrade. Adobe is the most common and advanced for PC.

How do you do multiple pages in Adobe besides saving each one as a separate file?
I make a 28 page full colour magazine 4 times a year. I use Adobe PhotoshopCS2 for all my graphics, and import into Quark, where I have the whole magazine as one document. I didnt think I could do that in Photoshop, and wouldnt such a file be beyond massive?

Imaonwheels

Wed, Feb 14 2007, 1:52 pm

withhumor wrote:

ACE is real…. And CS is the new way to go. I love it. Thank you for the information above!

Did you notice they have an ad for CS3! Too soon in my opinion for another major upgrade.

Imaonwheels

Wed, Feb 14 2007, 2:11 pm

yOungM0mmy wrote:

Imaonwheels wrote:

Definitely not in photoshop. PS is only for creating finished images and retouching photos. You create a PDF which can be sent around to staff and accumulate comments, jointly worked on w/permission, etc. Acrobat is the program. Not the free reader you download. Most printing houses here prefer to recieve PDF files. You can also play with differing ways of arranging the order and sheet size, etc for your pages and such visually.

The best part of CS is that everything is linked and you can move files from one section to another. Images in PS, if they need to go on the web compress and optimize them.

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