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Introduction to Adobe InDesign

Course 1 - First Steps: Presentation

By Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer

Editorial and Typeface Designer. Campanet, Spain.
Joined November 2015
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About the video: Presentation

Overview

“In this first lesson I will explain all the steps that we will follow in this first course. Briefly, I will show you the most important of each lesson to finally tell you how all this knowledge is applied in a proposed practice.”

In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 1 - First Steps. Introduction to the software, its interface, and the main tools.

Partial transcription of the video

“Hello, my name is Javier Alcaraz and I am an editorial designer and typographic. I already have another course in Domestika about InDesign, but in this Basic we'll see the main features of the program. In this first lesson, let's see a bit about what InDesign is about, what are its main features, how it is inserted into a workflow with other Adobe applications and how to create a document to start to work on an editorial project. learn to configure that document with columns, rules, guides, grids to then create layers and start to work with the text tool. And we will finish with a practice ...”

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Course summary for: Course 1 - First Steps

  • Level: Beginner
  • 14 students
  • 9 units
  • 12 lessons (2h 27m)
  • 4 downloads

Javier Alcaraz

Javier Alcaraz
By Javier Alcaraz

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Editorial and Typeface Designer

Javier Alcaraz is a graphic designer specializing in Typographic Design and Art Direction for Editorial Design. He began his design career for Argentina newspapers and worked on developing publications and institutional communication in Ecuador. In 2004, he left Argentina for Mexico, where he worked for important publishing houses like Grupo Media and Expansión.

In 2011, he founded elcerezo, a studio that works on editorial design, branding, and typeface design for clients in Latin America and Europe, including Google, the Mexican Ministry of Culture, TetraPack, and Forbes. He currently resides in Spain.


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Course 1 - First Steps

By Javier Alcaraz
Editorial and Typeface Designer. Campanet, Spain.
Joined November 2015
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