Desktop Publishing

Introduction
Over the years computers have become an integral part of the office environment. Aspiring professionals in any field need to understand the basics of computers. In addition, they need to acquire some basic skills to solve common work-related problems and enhance their productivity.
Common activities performed in an organization involve maintaining documents, analyzing financial data, storing and retrieving records, and sharing presentations in business meetings. These tasks can be done quickly and easily by using appropriate tools, such as Microsoft Office. This course enables a student to use Microsoft Office software for creating, managing, analyzing, and sharing information.
To create images, logos and various other art assets for website/web pages, you need to have a complete knowledge on an imaging tool. Photoshop is one of the best imaging tool that is in demand, which is used for creating the arts assets for the web.
You will use the different features in Photoshop for selecting parts of images and identify the need for having layers in a Photoshop document. You will also organize the different components of the design as layers with the layered Photoshop document thus created; you will apply layer effects and other special effects in order to enhance the appearance of the design. Once the design is finalized, you will save images in both print and web formats.
In addition, InDesign provides you with many time-saving tools and features for the creation of high-quality printable documents, Paragraph and character styles that help you to format huge volumes of text uniformly, the image placing feature that allows you to select and place any number of images simultaneously, various panels that enable you to work easily with both text and graphics, are a few tools and features that enable you to create multi-page documents easily By examining and applying the tools and features InDesign provides, you can create and work with printable documents with complete ease.