InDesign Masterclass: Text Techniques

by Pariah Burke

Unlock the power of InDesign with Pariah Burke’s InDesign Masterclass: Text Techniques—a treasure trove of 150+ step-by-step tutorials and advanced techniques. This book is crafted to transform how you handle text, characters, paragraphs, tables, and more in InDesign, making it the ultimate companion to InDesign Masterclass: Type & Tables.

From essential workflows to show-stopping visual effects, Text Techniques gives you the tools to elevate every project. Whether you’re an InDesign novice or a seasoned designer, you’ll find techniques to improve efficiency, automate processes, and add unique stylistic touches to your documents.

Inside You’ll Discover:

- Recipes for text effects like character and paragraph stylization, custom tab and leader designs, and advanced table formatting.
- Practical tricks to streamline your work, from automatic numbering and GREP styles to unique cast shadow effects and side-head setups.
- Advanced table formatting techniques, including alternating fills, header rows that change between pages, and innovative cell shapes.
- Expert-level tips to make every aspect of your text work shine, from consistent brand styling to dynamic text designs.

Diane Serpa, an InDesign pro, says, “This is the recipe book for InDesigners of all levels. Pariah’s style is both funny and informative.”

InDesign Masterclass: Text Techniques isn’t just a book; it’s a hands-on toolkit for mastering InDesign’s text capabilities. Put these powerful recipes to work and watch your projects reach new heights!

211 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 7, 2024

About the author

Pariah Burke is a creative professional trainer and a design, publishing, and digital publishing workflow expert and consultant whose passion is empowering, informing, and connecting creative professionals around the world (http://workflowCreative.com). Pariah has over 20 years’ experience as a graphic and publication designer, is an Adobe Community Professional, and was the trainer and technical lead for Adobe’s technical support teams for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, and Photoshop. A prolific author, Pariah literally wrote the book and the curriculum for learning and teaching digital publishing from InDesign, ePublishing with InDesign (http://iamPariah.com/books), wrote the first book for experienced InDesign users, Mastering InDesign for Print Design and Production, has authored and co-authored other books on epublishing, Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, and QuarkXPress, and has published more than 450 tutorials and articles (http://iamPariah.com/articles). He is the co-author of InDesign, InCopy, and Illustrator Adobe Certified Expert exams, the tests Adobe administers to gauge the skill levels of InDesign and Illustrator instructors and experts. Pariah is also the host of a series of digital publishing, epublishing, and the business of design webinars (http://iamPariah.com/webinars) and the publisher of a network of websites for creative professionals, the Workflow: Network (http://workflownetwork.com). When not traveling, Pariah lives in the greater Boston area where he writes (a lot) and creates (many) projects and publications Empowering and Informing Creative Professionals™.

Reviews

[William · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

Detailed reading on learning Indesign. In depth explanations. Easy to read and fun to read. I would highly Recommend this book for someone wanting to learn In design.