Well, here it is...the end of yet another course getting me closer and closer to my degree. My final for Digital File Prep is a Pocket Calendar for 2012. I forgot to mention a few key things in my last post about my final. My target audience is males and females, ages 10-70 years old. The call to action that I'm using is my blogger address, which is of course: lindshaddan.blogspot.com. I got it printed today and I was so happy with it! The final printed size measures 10.875 x 4.25 inches. The paperI used was 12 point stock, which is glossy on one side and matted on the other. I also changed a couple things about the calendar after getting feedback during our on-screen critiques. Instead of one of the front panels saying "Two Thousand & Twelve", I have changed it to a list of important dates. I also took out the black squares for each month to make it appear cleaner. It was also required that we get the price of one printed proof, as well as a fictional 1000 copies. When I had mine printed, since it was so small, it printed 3 calendars onto one sheet of paper. That cost me $1.44, so for 1000 it would cost me a whopping $1440.00! Glad my grade doesn't depend on 1000 prints! I've included some pictures of my final official printed proof.
Outside (glossy side)
Inside (matted side)
As I mentioned, I am very happy with the way this project turned out. You could almost say I was "proud". I believe all of the previous projects in class helped me tremendously with my final. I'm not going to lie and say this class was a piece-of-cake; it was a headache at most times but I'm very satisfied with the skills I acquired. Now I know how to properly package files and send them to be printed. At the beginning of this course, all I did was ask questions because I had no idea what I was doing! And finally during the making of my final project, questions were hardly asked! I learned how to avoid having errors in InDesign. To avoid most problems you have to make sure that all images are placed at 100% in their native software and rotated in their native software. If you see an error, you must open the file in the native software and fix it so that it will be corrected in InDesign. Although I do not plan using this in my future of professional photography, I did find it educational and rewarding once the proof was printed. I had fun designing and creating things and was proud of the projects that printed, for the most part.
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