Design Your First Newsletter with Adobe InDesign CC

Erica Gamet

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1 Class Introduction 03:41

2 Set up the Document 12:15

3 Add Structure with Guides to the Document 11:14

4 Edit Master Page for the Document 15:41

5 Add Text to the Document 15:43

6 Add Text Styles to the Document 17:29

7 Work with Color in the Document 18:12

8 Edit the Header, Footer & Columns 16:03

9 Work with Images in the Document 27:09

10 Export the Final Piece 13:57

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Class Description

Laying out your first publication—whether it's a newsletter, flyer, or poster—can be a daunting task to the newcomer. This beginner-friendly class will cover all the basics you need to create layouts that involve text and imagery. Erica Gamet is an Adobe Certified Expert and she walks you through the process for creating page layouts from start to finish.

She’ll cover:

Setting up document preferences and panels, and setting guides
Margins/guides and master pages
Saving and Exporting documents
Placing image and text files
Color and Swatch panel basics

Design page layouts that impress, no prior experience necessary.

Software Used: Adobe InDesign CC 2017

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Erica Gamet

Erica Gamet has been involved in the graphics industry for an unbelievable 30 years! She is a speaker, writer, and trainer, focusing on Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, Apple Keynote and iBooks Author, and other print- and production-related topics. She is a regular presence at CreativePro Week’s PePcon and InDesign Conferences, and has spoken at ebookcraft in Canada and Making Design in Norway. When she isn’t staring at her computer, she can be found exploring her new homebase of Seattle and the greater Pacific Northwest.

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Reviews

karlafornia

There are a lot of excellent instructors on Creative Live, but I think Erica's teaching style is the best. She is very easy to follow, completely thorough and methodical, and very pleasant to watch and listen to. Everytime I watch one of Erica's classes, I am inspired and feel confident to create something with the program tools she explains so well.

R. Best

Love classes like this. Straight to the meat of the topic so that I can get started on a project right away. Now I feel comfortable enough to tackle a newsletter from scratch! YAY. Erica explains things in an easy to follow style that is perfect for my style of learning. I don't have to weed through minutes of dialogue to get to points that I need to revisit! THANK YOU!

Marsha

Tons of info and she presented it in a manner that without ANY knowledge of InDesign I was able to follow along and felt I could design a newsletter myself! Erica is a fantastic instructor and I will watch any class that she offers! Thanks to CL.