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Software Skills
General
- Proper project file management
- File naming
- Versioning
- File organization
- Content strategy
- Gather text
- remove all text formatting by saving each item in .txt formatting
- Photography
- Gather all needed photography from provided stock sites
- No Google images…
- Rename photo files contextually
- Organize all photos in Finder by purpose/intent
- Research & plan illustration style
- Gather text
InDesign
- Parent pages
- Based-on Parent pages
- Primary text frames
- Threaded text frames
- Style sheets
- Paragraph styles
- Character styles
- GREP styles
- Nested styles
- Lists
- Bullet lists
- Number lists
- InDesign table of contents
- More to come…
Illustrator
- Use basic drawing with shapes
- Use the Pen Tool to draw paths
- Good layer management
- Apply colour consistent with the project artwork
- Work in a print-ready workflow
- Save vector art in CMYK for print.
- Illustrations would be submitted as their own assignment
- More to come…
Photoshop
- Proper resolution for photography
- At least 1 photo composition comprised of 5 photos
- Name all layers contextually
- Use Smart Objects
- Adjustment layers
- etc…
- Photos need to be placed in InDesign
- at 100%
- in .psd format
- with only one layer
- transparency allowed
- Photo files would be submitted as a free-standing assignment
- More to come…
