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InDesign CS3 One on One
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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.
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.
560 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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November 27, 2008
I'm kind of on the fence about this book. On the one hand, McClelland is giving lots of useful tips, and I'm learning things I didn't know about the program.
On the other hand, the dude is obsessed with keyboard shortcuts that, as far as I can tell, don't really do all that much time saving.
In one of the videos, he was talking about ways to deselect a text frame, giving about three different keyboard "shortcuts" to do so, when all you really need to do is click anywhere else on the page or on the pasteboard.
I had to roll my eyes a little at that one.
Anyway, as with all of these types of books, use it as a springboard for finding your own way to do things, rather than taking it as gospel.
Like most programs these days, there are 50 million ways to do one simple task.
On the other hand, the dude is obsessed with keyboard shortcuts that, as far as I can tell, don't really do all that much time saving.
In one of the videos, he was talking about ways to deselect a text frame, giving about three different keyboard "shortcuts" to do so, when all you really need to do is click anywhere else on the page or on the pasteboard.
I had to roll my eyes a little at that one.
Anyway, as with all of these types of books, use it as a springboard for finding your own way to do things, rather than taking it as gospel.
Like most programs these days, there are 50 million ways to do one simple task.
November 12, 2010
Great guide. McClelland does an excellent job of breaking InDesign into manageable pieces and then weaving them back together for an overall picture.
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