InDesign CS3 One on One | 
| Author: Deke Mcclelland
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 12453
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Dvdr
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0596529767
Dewey Decimal Number: 652
EAN: 9780596529765
ASIN: 0596529767
Publication Date: January 4, 2008
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bClick here/b ifor the complete DVD content that accompanies this title./ibr / br / Nothing speeds up learning like personal training from a skilled tutor. With emAdobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One/em, 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.br / br / 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.br / br / This comprehensive multimedia training solution teaches you how to: ul liCreate professional-looking documents with InDesign's powerful text and graphic tools/li liImport text from a word processor, move and scale existing text frames, and check spelling/li liUse the line, pen, and geometric shape tools to draw complex graphic objects/li liApply fill and stroke, specify process and spot colors, and design custom rules/li liUse Adobe Bridge to organize and manage your digital assets/li liImport and modify layered artwork from Photoshop and Illustrator/li liCreate inline graphics and anchored objects that move automatically with your text from one page to the next/li liCreate, edit, and link paragraph styles, complete with nested character styles/li liApply a sequence of style sheets to format an entire document in one operation/li liBuild object styles with embedded paragraph styles in order to format entire frames at a time/li liUse master pages to automate repeating page features/li liAutomatically generate a table of contents/li liCompose 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/li /ul emAdobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One/em 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.
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Great Training Tool December 1, 2008
I am a technical writer. A client asked me to update some of the instructions he sends out with his products. However, the documents were created in InDesign, and they needed to stay in that format. I had a copy of InDesign CS3 but I needed to learn the basics of how to use the program in a very short time. br /br /I read the reviews on Amazon, and Deke's book got the most glowing reviews. Now I'm adding my own glowing review.br /br /I bought Deke's book (and CD-ROM). After a long weekend, I was able to create a template, a workable layout, and a functional style sheet. The nice thing about Deke's training approach is that he provides all the practice files for you. Following his step-by-step instructions, I was able to add a few "extras" to the documents including running heads with variable text, anchored graphic frames, and autonumbering captions for those graphics. You might be tempted to skip the first chapter, where Deke shows you his way of setting up the interface. My advice: take the time to do it Deke's way. He knows what he's talking about, and it pays off in the long run.
a very helpful tool October 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
a very helpful tool for the novice. Index helps located area that is creating a logjam when your are trying to complete a piece. Essential for anyone not enrolled in classes.
A Working Book October 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the sort of book that you hold with one hand while running the program with the other. Well written (utilizing the CS3 software!)and entertaining, the book is laid out in an easy to understand format and the included CD makes learning clear, easy - and fun. This is a great place to start if you're new to CS3 - and there's enough depth that people familiar with the software can learn quite a bit as well!
 good September 24, 2008
Good book, but i was disappointed that the text depends upon the cd. If you are looking for a book to look up tools and how-to's, this may not be the book for you.
One-On-One Really is September 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
br /While there are a number of quality tutorials (both written and video), Deke McClellen's teaching skills make this book a cut better than average. Chapters are organized logically with enough info to grow the novice and challenge the intermediate user. I especially appreciate McClellen's videos. They are neither too slow nor too fast and assume the viewer is starting from scratch. The book itself also serves as an excellent template or model for someone venturing into book publishing.
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