Magazine Design Training Course with InDesign
Last week saw a return to an old client – the department of life sciences at the University of Nottingham to deliver a two day training course using InDesign to create and layout magazines. As part of their course the MSc students on the Biological Photograpy and Imagine Course put together a magazine /book containing their work over the past year. This includes interviews, articles and, of course photography – which is where I come in to show them how to work with the InDesign software.
This particular InDesign Course has evolved over the years and today the students learn not only how to use InDesign but also how to build their magazine from scratch incorporating a brand (which they create during the two days), a typographical style and image placement among other things.
Steve Galloway - Life Sciences Photographer & Educator
InDesign Software Training
This part of the InDesign course takes two days. I work closely with the students and on day one we look at functions in the software which mainly takes the form of demonstration and hands on exercises covering:
These are:
- Master Pages for Accurate Layout and Placement of Type & Images
- The Adobe Typekit so students can select an appropriate typeface
- Styles to establish consistent type throughout the magazine
- Colour Sampling & use of Pantone colours
InDesign Students
And finally a tweet
InDesign Course Testimonial
hank you for the two wonderful days training you did with the students. They learnt a lot and they really could not praise you enough.
David McMahon, Director of Photography & Imaging
Biological Photography & Imaging MSc & BSc, University of Nottingham
The Biological Photography & Imaging course runs at the University of Nottingham and for anyone interested in the course you can find out more at Biological Photography – Uni of Notts