Learning Outcomes

I learned a lot throughout this course. I feel in the long run I will remember the ways we learned in this course to prepare a file in InDesign in order to print it. Things have become a lot easier to manipulate in InDesing, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Besides just learning in class, the book was very valuable as well and helped me understand things like types of fonts and colors. Resolution also plays an important part in printing things. 75dpi is fine for screen but 300dpi and up is needed for good quality prints. Fonts should be kept in a font manager because it takes up a lot of space when you have all fonts activated. Font managers don't just keep fonts activated or deactivated, but also work out duplicates, or any fonts with errors. Some might think that making sure rotating in the native software is a hassle, but this ensures that the quality of the image does not get altered. Bleeds have become very important as well, they pretty much give you a little bit of breathing room if someone is bad at trimming. Also if you don't have a large enough margin then some people might place type or work to close to the trim line, and nobody wants that. It might be a bit time consuming to constantly have to do thumbnails, roughs, and posting on the blog. However, these steps have instilled a good process that you should go by when designing or creating anything. These are also things that you need to know when you print and/or create anything.