Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 260 pages
- Published by: Sybex December 12, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0782144454
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0782144451
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Book Dimensions:
9.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Description
- With its intuitive interface and seamless integration with other Adobe software, InDesign is rapidly gaining ground on QuarkXPress in the page layout and desktop publishing market
- The only InDesign book that shows designers step by step how to produce amazing effects and cool tricks that they can immediately incorporate into their own work
- A stunning full-color guide that offers a highly visual, spread-based interior design
- Includes cross-platform Mac and Windows coverage
Back Cover Copy
Make Complex Effects a Snap The strength of InDesign's layout and design capabilities already make it a top choice among professionals. But even experienced users will be amazed by the visual and text effects that are possible entirely within InDesign. Using step-by-step instructions and engaging examples, expert author Ted LoCascio shows you dozens of breathtaking effects that you can make a vital part of your everyday work, including:
- Making images pop out of their frames
- Creating 3D looks like spheres, shadows, and text wraps
- Designing cool effects with transparency and blending modes
- Using Feather to add highlights and shadows to InDesign illustrations
- Creating and applying custom gradients—even within text!
- Adding glow effects to editable text
- Jazzing up mundane layout elements such as sidebar heads and bursts
- Skewing type on a path
- And much more!
Includes Coverage of Effects Newly Possible With CS2
These stunning, easy-to-achieve effects will help users of every level tap the full creative potential of InDesign.
Visit this book's companion website (www.wiley.com/go/indesignfx) to download all the materials you'll need to complete the book's projects.
Reader ReviewsI dislike giving any book a negative review but this book is really misleading in subject matter. It should be titled along the lines of: How to use InDesign where Photoshop will do the job as well if not better. The vast bulk of the book is taken up with producing artefacts (buttons, icons, text, etc) that are much more commonly fabricated in Photoshop. In the Introduction the author states that he has "always been a Photoshop guy". Ok I can live with that, but then he adds further down that "the book does not contain any page-size projects such as sample brochures or mock advertisements". Sorry, I can't live with this. I bought the book because I assumed that it would help me do layout with text and artwork for just these kind of jobs. If your needs are similar to mine (learning InDesign rather than QuarkXpress), this is almost certainly not the book of first choice.
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