Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Advisory: MAT 110 and MAT 170
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Lecture 2.50 hours, laboratory 1.50 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall

This course introduces students to Adobe InDesign, the page layout software program used by professional graphic designers to publish ads, business cards, brochures, postcards, newsletters, magazines, books, and more. It involves considerable hands-on instruction and projects similar to those faced by today's designers. Students learn how to prepare documents for professional publication, how to format type, import images, use styles, generate tables, create swatches, and apply shortcuts. Students learn typographic and publishing techniques, basic design principles, and how to apply spot and process color. Students examine, troubleshoot, and package digital files for output to a commercial press and for the Web.