Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

Digital Publishing Suite for Mobile Devices Evening Courses 2012

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Evening Digital Publishing for Mobile Devices & Tablets Course

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Course Name: Evening Digital Publishing for Mobile Devices & Tablets Course
Course Code: INDD-DPSE
Level 2: Intermediate to Advanced
Prerequisite/s: Adobe InDesign Essential Skills (INDD-DPSE), or relevant work experience.
Course Classification: Evening, part time or day course available
Duration: 45h (evening course) 48h (day course)
Times: Thurs – Fri 9:00am to 4:00pm
Dates : Contact us for upcoming courses
Please contact us for details : info@friendsofdesign.net

Above: Mercedes Benz uses digital publishing for advertising

Intro

Are you a Traditional Print or Graphic Designer looking to migrate to screen design for tablets an mobile devices? Or are you in the Book or Magazine Publishing or the Advertising industry? Learn how to export your InDesign Layouts to devices such as the iPad or Blackberry Playbook, creating stunning and readable content that reaches out to your target market in an richer and more interactive experience via richly designed and interactive layouts or structured ePub and .Mobi formats.

Description

From creating the layout design itself, to publishing it onto the mobile device, Friends of Design will guide you through each step, and ensuring you deliver your best material to your target market.

Learn how to prepare digital assets for rich media content that wows your readers, without any application development. With automated extras such as the InDesign CS5.5′s Overlay Creator and Folio Bundler and the Desktop Content Viewer,  you will be outputting and testing rich media for devices in no time at all. Explore simple workflows from .folio file creation to testing and bundling to final distribution of your files as ebooks, newspapers or digital magazine. Understand he positioning and application of ePub and .Mobi formats and publishing for readers such as Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle.

Enjoy many professional examples of digital content already in distribution, get to grips with best practices for editorial and advertising layouts for each device, learn about current design and technical standards, choose from online distribution marketplaces and export your layouts to tablets and mobile devices such as the Apple iPad and Blackberry Playbook with ease and efficiency. Adobe’s new Digital Publishing tools will allow you to create a new genre of content for yourselves and your clients, whilst keeping the design and layout integrity of your original print publications.

Above: Project Magazine Ipad app cover

What our students say about us

“The Adobe DPS training with Eva of Friends of Design was very informative. It was in-depth, intensive and practical, with up to date software. It was an excellent experience!” – Oladimeji Tolulope, Creative Designer, IDS Africa (Nigeria)

“The DPS training was Insightful, interesting and educative. It has given me a whole new outlook to working with design tools and spurs me to design more. Great work Friends of Design!” – Ekaete-Cathey Ebong – IDS Africa (Nigeria)

“Awesome! Can’t wait to put this all into practice. Very good to be on the cutting edge of a fledgling industry!” – David Hecker – Freelance Designer (July 2011 Digital Publishing Suite Course)

“It was a great experience!” – Danie Jansen van Vuuren – Owner, Flame Designs  (July 2011 Digital Publishing Suite Course)

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**All courses are intended for experienced layout artists who have worked with Adobe InDesign CS5**