Introduction to Adobe InDesign
Course 1 - First Steps: What is InDesign?
By Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer
About the video: What is InDesign?
Overview
“I will explain to you for what purposes InDesign was intended within the Adobe ecosystem, what uses you can give it and how it works in "team" with other applications of the developer. I will also tell you about a couple of tools that are key to editorial work.”
In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: What is InDesign?, 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
“In this lesson I will explain what InDesign is and how it works with other Adobe applications. In addition, I want to tell you what are the other resources that Adobe has to work with InDesign for an editorial workflow. Let's start Adobe InDesign is an application for digital page composition Designed for professional layout designers. This means that it offers tools To design compositions with different graphic resources: photos, texts, tables, colors, like other files created in different applications, such as photographs, vector illustrations, video, audio or even databases in XML format...”
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Course summary for: Course 1 - First Steps
Javier Alcaraz
By Javier Alcaraz
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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