Essential Desktop Publishing Skills for Photographers
with Niall Benvie
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Course Description
If you think desktop publishing apps aren’t for you, think again. These specialized programs are ideal for showing off your work—the difference between turning up with your prize prints in a tatty old carrier bag or laying down an elegant leather-bound portfolio.
Adobe InDesign and the low-cost, no-subscription Affinity Publisher are tools that allow you to present your work at its best, whether in slides or e-books, fliers or newsletters.
Niall Benvie walks you through all aspects of Affinity Publisher, helping you determine your audience, hone your concept, and establish a hierarchy of information. You learn how to map and lay out each section using rulers, grids, and baseline guides, as well as integrate your work with other Affinity apps.
In addition to choosing, editing, and embedding our images, we cover the basics of color management, typography, and export settings (not to mention basic troubleshooting).
Between engaging in regular assignments and exploring templates that help you fast-track your progress, you broaden your creative practice and gain confidence in packaging your digital files in forms that impress viewers.
Come hone the skills you need to design beautiful PDF e-books and newsletters, information-rich JPEG slides, and eye-catching, press-ready fliers—all the things that allow your work to shine.
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What You Should Know:
Good computer navigation skills are required, but no experience with desktop publishing software or apps is necessary.
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Niall Benvie grew up in eastern Scotland where his parents were berry farmers. He ran and worked the farm until it was sold in the late 1980s then studied geography and contemporary European studies at Dundee University for his honors degree. But his first love has always been the natural world – and image making. He began his creative career in 1993. He has been at the center of several of the largest outdoor photography initiatives of the last 15 years including Wild Wonders of Europe, Meet Your Neighbors and 2020VISION. He was a Founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers and has published seven books and hundreds of articles. He now lives in the Morvan in central France with his wife Charlotte with whom he runs Food and Photography Retreats Ltd and claims hoopoes and turtle doves, nightingales and golden orioles as his neighbors. His new book, Kamerakunst (Camera Art) was published in Germany in the summer of 2023.
Website: benvieart.eu
Instagram: @niallbenvie
