Desktop Publishing For the Beginner.
Textbook Link
http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078729133/
http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078729133/
What is Desktop Publishing?
Desktop Publishing is the process of adding both text and graphics to a page to enhance the message; the use of word processing software or specialized desktop publishing software on a personal computer to create a document in which graphics and text enhance the message.
Through this web site you will learn:
Through this web site you will learn:
- useful DTP vocabulary
- about typography, the way text can improve your document.
- the importance of typography in print publishing
- the spacing options available for print type
- learn the punctuation of desktop publishing
- how graphics can be used to display or enhance your message
- about the use of images in desktop publishing
- about the drawing tools available in print publications
- about the special effects that enhance your documents.
- how picture placement will enhance your overall project more than flashy pictures
- what techniques are used to create satisfying designs
- about design techniques use in desktop publishing
- how in the business world quiet is better than flashy and you can’t use every aspect of the picture to show off your skills
- to apply business standards in print publications
- to consider readability in print documents
- to use the question of audience to determine your choices in print design
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