Help and suggestions needed on what apps to use...

[daniela12673811]

Hi everybody, I've been using adobe apps for a long time but haven't used all of them in the last years. I'm a teacher at the primary level and I need to create something interactive for my school project.

I'll be using InDesign to create a how-to booklet about fishing lure building and one of it's section is about painting. Instead of using coloring pencils to make their design, 'd like to have the kids to use the computer to select colors (pre-defined one's) to color the spoons and blades. By clicking on a blade image or part of it, it would color it and maybe have the option of applying some scale patterns over them too. Once the design done, we'd have to be able to print it.

Is there a way of doing it without having any Adobe app installed on the student's computer. The laptops in our school don't have any Adobe licenses, except mine.

Thanks in advance.

Daniel

[Barb Binder]

Hi Daniel:

You asked this question on the InDesign forum, but InDesign isn't the solution for your project. If you want to work with Adobe products, I would suggest taking a look at Adobe's free Mobile apps, and perhaps Illustrator Draw would be the place to start. I'll move your question to that forum so that you can ask additional questions from those who use it.

Adobe Illustrator Draw (mobile app)

Adobe mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, Android | Adobe Creative Cloud 

Adobe Illustrator Draw | Drawing and vector design app

[Derek Cross · Accepted solution]

Assuming you have the Creative Cloud Plan but you don't have in-depth knowledge of programming, I don't think you can produce a document with the interactivity you describe. You could though produce with inDesign a booklet with text and photographs about fish lures and with some attractive animations and hyperlinks links to more information, and to YouTube videos and so on, and use Publish Online to publish it. The children would be able to view this booklet on any device with a browser and they could download (assuming you set it up to do so) a PDF version which they could then subsequently print out. This could include spaces for them to write their own information and add drawings etc.

[Derek Cross]

Hi Daniel

Let me know if you want me to expand on my suggestion of how you might use InDesign to produce your project.

Derek