Creating a successful newsletter means spending less time on repetitive tasks and more time creating the design. In Designing a Newsletter, graphic designer and Adobe Certified Instructor Nigel French teaches effective design and production techniques. He uses Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Bridge to create an eight-page newsletter that's eye-catching and impactful. Nigel establishes an efficient workflow using multiple programs, examines the aesthetics of integrating text with images, and teaches best practices for outputting a final document. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

• Identifying the common parts of a newsletter
• Working with multiple stories and images
• Placing, scaling, and cropping images
• Using various typefaces and formatting text to fit the message
• Establishing efficient workflows with paragraph styles, character styles, object styles, and master pages
• Designing mastheads, footers, and tables of contents
• Preflighting and proofing documents
• Creating print-ready PDF files

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