Creating a successful newsletter means spending less time on repetitive tasks and more time creating your design. In this project-based course, Nigel French shares effective design and production techniques by taking you from start to finish through the process of designing a newsletter. He uses Adobe InDesign—with some help from Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop—to craft an eye-catching and impactful design. Nigel covers how to set up a document, work with text, and choose and manipulate images. Plus, he shows how to create both a print-ready PDF and a screen PDF of your finished newsletter.

Topics include:

• Planning a newsletter
• Choosing a color palette
• Using a template and library items
• Placing and cleaning up text
• Creating and applying styles
• Working with images
• Evaluating, choosing, and placing images
• Working with inline images
• Preflighting the document
• Creating a print-ready PDF
• Creating a screen version of the newsletter