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Overview
- You will need a copy of Adobe InDesign CC 2018 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
- No previous design skills are needed.
- No previous InDesign skills are needed.
- 76 lectures 5+ hours of well structured content.
- You'll learn to design a flyer, newsletter, brochure, annual report & business cards.
- Learn how to create PDF files ready for printing.
- You will get the finished files so you never fall behind.
- Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet.
- Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.
- Techniques used by professional graphic designers.
- Professional workflows and shortcuts.
- A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.
- No previous InDesign experience is necessary.
- This course is for people completely new to InDesign. No previous design or publishing experienced is necessary.
- This is a relaxed, well paced introduction that will enable you to produce most common publications. Only basic computing skills are necessary - If you can send emails and surf the internet then you will cope well with our course.
Course duration 6 hours 20 mins + your study.
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
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Transcript
Alright, so exercise files. As part of this course, they're free, you can download them from a link, just here. As part of this course, as an addition to the exercise files, I have something called the completed files. It just means that at the end of every video, what I do is I save where I'm up to, and upload it to every video, so you'll see a link on the page somewhere for that. You'll be able to download it, and its helpful for you. If you are doing the same video and yours is just not coming up the same, and you're like "How do he do that?" or "Why is mine different?" you can open up my file, compare it with your file and just see what the differences are, they're called completed files.
The other thing you can do is, there's lots of-- they're not called homework, with the kind of things you can do by yourselves, I set some tasks, I'd love to see those projects. Depending on where you're watching this video, it might be the comments that you push, put a JPEG in of what you've done. There are some places that have special places for projects. Any which way, social media, I'd love to see what you are making.
The last thing I'd like to do, it's a bit early I know, but, a review. Reviews and likes are things that really help me while I'm doing these courses. Help my business, and help me grow, and make more courses. A review, once you're happy with the course, even if you're not happy with it, feedback would be great. So, leave a review at any stage. Now, could be a good time, maybe later.
