9-Week Make a Greeting Card Class: Layout

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9-Week Make a Greeting Card Class Layout From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing You've selected your graphics and fonts, now it's time to arrange, rearrange, and arrange them again. Software makes it easy to try out a multitude of arrangements. This is Lesson 7 in the weekly Create a Greeting Card Class. If you did not receive or lost a previous lesson, retrieve it here: Missing Lessons Definitions Where to Put It While the software makes it easy, where you put things is governed by certain rules and principles of good design. If you really want to learn a bit more about graphic design, dig into the bonus material on this page. Instruction Grid It! Even something as simple as a greeting card can benefit from a grid - an underlying structure holding the design together. Learn how a grid can help you arrange and align text and graphics. Assignment Move It Around Your assignment this week is to try out as many different layouts as possible. Move your text and graphics around. Resize them. Try eliminating one or more pieces of clip art or try a different font. Here's where you can really have fun and learn the page layout capabilities of your software. Extra! Extra! This lesson has some extra assignments. Look at a variety of greeting cards and critique the font and graphics selection and the layout. Consider what you might do differently and why. DTP Classroom Come on into the classroom forum and post your greeting card makeover suggestions for the extra assignment projects. Having trouble changing the layout in your software? Ask for help. This email is written by: Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com '9-Week Make a Greeting Card Class' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement