Video Summary

Technical Training Video - Summary and Critique

1. GO TO: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/

2. Watch the following videos under Adobe InDesign CS3:

- Making Selections

- Working With Text

- Working With Text Styles

3. Describe what you learned from the videos.

I found these videos to be really useful especially since I have no previous experience with InDesign. I found Making Selections and Working With Text Styles to be the easiest of the three videos to follow. Working With Text is going to be useful, yet figuring out and learning how to work with actual shapes and distortion and resizing is something I feel is essential to the program. Also, learning how to set up your text how you would like and learn about presentation of text is very important as well.

4. Which video was most helpful? What do you think of the different presenters?

As mentioned before, I found video One and Three to be most useful I believe mostly because of the presenters. I felt the presenter in working with text just dove right in and went too fast for me. I think he would be a great presenter for people who have maybe had previous experience with the program, but I definately prefer to go a bit slower. I think the first video, Making Selections, will be most useful to me. I think since I am just starting out, learning how to simply work with my shapes will be most important. In conclusion, all of the videos were certainly helpful and will aid in my self portrait.