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.

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - VERY WORDY!
I do agree with the other reviewers that Deke is a good teacher and his instructions are easy to understand. BUT, they are way too wordy. He goes into so much detail that it takes about one hour to do something that could actually take fifteen minutes.

The lesson files have doc's all set up for you. I would have wanted a from scratch lesson in the beginning.

I like the InDesign Quickstart guide much better because, well, its quick.

The reason I am not getting ... Read More
Rating: - Entertaining and Thorough Training Manual and CD
This book covers everything you need to know to use InDesign, with lots of illustrations and complete explanations of topics, and humor to keep your attention. Each section has a video introduction and then a practice exercise. He gives many, many keyboard shortcuts as well as a few of his own that you can load from the CD. Fun way to learn InDesign CS3!
Rating: - Great book to learn InDesign
This is a great step-by-step book to learn Adobe's InDesign CS3.It is like taking a class from your own computer at your own pace.I admit that some of the information covered is basic stuff (if you are proficient in multiple computer programs), but you can just skim over the steps that are too basic.Overall I really like this book though, it teaches you everything you need to be proficient in InDesign CS3.If you already know InDesign CS3 then you will probably find much of this redundant (though ... Read More
Rating: - Great Training Tool
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.

I read the reviews on Amazon, and Deke's book got the most glowing reviews. Now I'm adding my own glowing review.

I bought Deke's book (and CD-ROM). After a long weekend, I ... Read More
Rating: - a very helpful tool
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 anyonenot enrolled in classes.