Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 560 pages
- Published by: O'Reilly Media
- Edition: 1st Edition January 4, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0596529767
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596529765
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Book Dimensions:
9.6 x 7.9 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 2.8 pounds
Product Description
Nothing speeds up learning like personal training from a skilled tutor. With
Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One, you get the equivalent of private lessons with author Deke McClelland, a world-renowned expert on digital graphics and design. Deke offers you DVD video with more than two hours of professional instruction and advice to accompany the book's easy-to-follow text. The book itself includes 600 full-color images, diagrams, and screenshots to illustrate every key step.
This highly popularly learning approach is quite simple: "read the book, watch the video, do the exercise". Each chapter has corresponding video lesson that demonstrates the techniques covered. The combination of text and video instruction is uniquely effective. You proceed at your own pace and work on relevant, real-world projects as you master fundamental and advanced concepts, theories, techniques, and best practices for making the most of InDesign.
This comprehensive multimedia training solution teaches you how to:
- Create professional-looking documents with InDesign's powerful text and graphic tools
- Import text from a word processor, move and scale existing text frames, and check spelling
- Use the line, pen, and geometric shape tools to draw complex graphic objects
- Apply fill and stroke, specify process and spot colors, and design custom rules
- Use Adobe Bridge to organize and manage your digital assets
- Import and modify layered artwork from Photoshop and Illustrator
- Create inline graphics and anchored objects that move automatically with your text from one page to the next
- Create, edit, and link paragraph styles, complete with nested character styles
- Apply a sequence of style sheets to format an entire document in one operation
- Build object styles with embedded paragraph styles in order to format entire frames at a time
- Use master pages to automate repeating page features
- Automatically generate a table of contents
- Compose a fully interactive document -- with bookmarks, hyperlinks, buttons, sounds, and movies -- and export your creation to a PDF file that can be played on most computers
Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One puts you on the fast track to becoming a real InDesign expert. Once you're finished, you'll use InDesign smarter, faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible.
Reader Reviews
After trying out the cheap yet disappointing, glorified user manual entitled "Indesign CS3 For Dummies", I decided to give Deke McClelland's more expensive option a try. I am thrilled with this book! If one knows nothing about InDesign, then this book is recommended to provide a jump start on using the program. The book is accompanied by a DVD which provides great video introductions to every chapter. The premise is to show the user what they'll be learning, and then walk them through each step required to obtain the results shown in the video presentation. Right away, the author instructs the reader to install the provided lesson files on their hard drive and open up InDesign. This is a "learn by doing" book and well worth the money.
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